Silver Stars Sparkle and Shine...

I think this is a Hero Arts Christmas Tree stamp, although I could be mistaken as it was borrowed from Cecilia when we were away creating. ETA - it is in fact from Artee - an old Australian company, and actually belongs to Jenny LOL!

I painstakingly added little silver sequin stars to some of the silver tinsel embossed star outlines, I LOVE the effect but it was more time-consuming than I had hoped LOL! Added this gorgeous Mama Elephant sentiment also in Silver Tinsel embossing, and backed with American Crafts white glitter paper. 

Love this gorgeous Muse card by Terese - sad to hear she will be leaving Muse soon,

but it does mean YOU could have the opportunity to join the Muse team!

Playing along with Simon Says Stamp Stars,
Just Add Ink Just Add Texture,

Mama Elephant Holiday Cards and Tags, Inkspirational Shine,

Muse, and Moxie Fab World Tree-mendous Tree Challenge too!

Traditional Christmas Tree Shaker Card...

Playing along in the Moxie Fab Word Tree-mendous Tree Challenge - join in before November 30

After so many non-traditionally coloured Christmas cards, I thought I'd bring back some real green pine needles and tinsel red glitter, together with lots of shiny baubles for the tree! As a shaker card of course for my Online Holiday Card Classes Interactive Card Homework Day 2!

Created using the gorgeous LaLa Land tree die cut, together with paper from Kaisercraft Basecoat Christmas, and Red Metallic and Birthday Party (minus the blue and purple) sequins from Neat & Tangled. The sentiment was created by sandwiching American Crafts Red Glitter paper and cardstock together, before die cutting with WPlus9 fabulous new Handlettered Holiday Merry die, and stamping the matching sentiment in Momento Luxe Olive Green. 

When the card stands up, the sequins all fall to the base of the tree - if only we could decorate and un-decorate our tree that quickly!

Layers in the shaker sandwich:

• Pine needle patterned paper on white card base
• Foam sheet with triangle cutout to match the size of the diecut tree, with sequins in the centre of the triangle
• Clear acetate
• Diecut white cardstock with negative spaced tree, stamped with Christmas sentiment
• Diecut Merry sentiment.

Playing along with Virginia's View All Things Metallic, 

Color Q, CAS(E) this Sketch and
Inkspirational Challenge Shine (thanks Loll!)

Moxie Fab W&W World Cardmaking Day...

Inspired by the rainbow of colours and outlined shapes of the Moxie Fab World WCMD inspiration photo (play along til October 12 extended til October 26th!) , together with Winnie and Walter Pattern Play with Shay (play along til October 11). Created using Simon Says Stamp Butterfly Trail diecut and patterned papers from my scrap stash including American Crafts, Pebbles, Echo Park and Bo Bunny, together with this cool Bahama Blue stamped sentiment from Winnie and Walter A Tree for All Seasons.

Also playing along with Seize the Birthday, 
and Virginia's View Clean and Simple too.

This made me smile...

A CAS(E) Study Mixed Media Card...

Reminding you you still have until 25 September to play along with Mixed Media Card Challenge Autumn Colours, with a card inspired by the textures and natural burlap and twine elements from Debby's CASE Study card, layout from this versatile CAS(E) this Sketch, colours and shimmer from Moxie Fab World Fabulous Friday Getting Fancy and theme from Inspiration Emporium Fall is in the Air and Dies R Us Fall Festival . I love this leaf patterned paper background, and created the Lawn Fawn die cut leaves using Luminarte paints on watercolour paper, added the burlap fishtail flag and twine, and Winnie and Walter The Big, The Bold Blessings sentiment stamped in Momento Luxe Lilac Posies.

 

 

CASE Study
CAS(E) this Sketch
Dies R Us Fall Festival
Inspiration Emporium Fall is in the Air
Moxie Fab World Fabulous Friday Getting Fancy

Mixed Media Card Challenge Autumn Colours (Reminder)
NBUS Lawn Fawn die cut leaves, joining in the fun @ 
the gorgeous Darnell's NBUS Challenge #2 too!

This made me smile...

This made me smile too...

Foxie Fab & Patterned Papers!!!

I finally decided to treat myself to some Papertry Ink goodies, and this cute fox arrived just in time for Moxie Fab Foxie Foxes Challenge. Created by paper piecing with patterned papers by Heidi Swapp, perfect for playing along with Virginia's View Challenge #7 Patterned Papers.

Looking forward to playing in my craft room today! 

Hope you are having a fabulous week!

A-very Moxie Fab Clicking Cameras Challenge...

Today's card brings together the two trends that are currently shooting for the stars - 

Cameras, and arrows LOL!

Playing along with Avery Elle's AEI{heart}U Kraft Challenge, together with 

Moxie Fab World Clicking Cameras Challenge, Seize the Birthday, 

and a reminder that there is still time to join in the fun @ KIS Arrows.

Created using Amy Tangerine's Plus One Edition Project Life cards, together with Avery Elle #Smile and Oh Happy Day stamps. The Avery Elle #Smile camera icon is paper pieced and Oh Happy Day "Oh Shoot" sentiment stamped on some very old Basic Grey paper from my stash.

Hope you are having a fabulously krafty weekend too! 

Avery Elle AEI{heart}U Kraft Challenge

Moxie Fab World Clicking Cameras Challenge

Seize the Birthday

I {heart} Scrappy Canary ...

ETA. Playing along with the Moxie Fab World Clicking Cameras Challenge!

I applied late last year to be part of the Polly!Scrap Kits card design team, although Ruth decided not to go ahead with a Card Designer on the DT, she asked if I'd like to join in the fun as a Guest Designer for July, and I jumped at the chance!  In the meantime Polly!Scrap Kits has evolved into Scrappy Canary, with Mandy, still the same fabulous Australian kit club, now with a new name.

There is a monthly kit released on the 15th of each month, and Scrappy Canary often include exclusive products like stamps, letterpress or wood veneers. The June Pocket kit - Tea and Toast, was no exception with a gorgeous scripty sentiment exclusive from Wilna Furstenburg.

The Scrappy Canary blog is here and the store re-opens on the 15th of July, with the VIP Lounge open 24/7.

I was only asked to do two projects, but I had so many fabulous ideas working with this kit, I couldn't help myself! To demonstrate the amazing versatility of Scrappy Canary kits, I created a total of two 12x12 layouts and 6 cards with the June Pocket kit - Tea and Toast, and there is still spare! I loved this kit so much especially the exclusive acrylic sentiment from Wilna Furstenburg, so much fun!

First up a more feminine layout and card!

Inspiration for this layout from Sketchabilities

The 6x6 MME Papers and 6x4 pocket cards were perfect for layering behind my photo, with the 3x4 pocket cards perfect for the offset cluster. I fussy cut the title from one of the 6x4 pocket cards, used some of the pocket cards to back the Jilly Bean camera outline, added the cute "Love You" puffy sticker, cork arrows and fussy cut the polaroid camera to add to my clusters, and little white hearts to add to my title. The base layer black cardstock and 12x12 Pink Paislee Color Wash paper are the only items not from the Scrappy Canary Tea and Toast pocket kit. 

"Birthday Note" This card is one of my favourite, created by stamping and fussy cutting one of the 3x4 pocket cards with this cute butterfly from Altenew, layered on one of the 6x6 MME Wood Necessities sheets, together with "Note" cut from another of the kit pocket cards and "Birthday" sentiment from Walter and Winnie. All papers are from the Scrappy Canary Tea and Toast pocket kit. 

If you want to see my other 5 cards and layout you'll need to scoot on over to the Scrappy Canary blog next week, or you can hop on by and take a look at the fabulous challenges they have on right now...

Playing along with Sketchabilities and Seize the Birthday (Stripes!), 
and Just Us Girls Woodgrain Trend too!

A-very Golden Goose...

Playing along with Avery Elle's AEI{heart}U Challenge #10 Gold. I loved the combination of turquoise and gold in Yana's card, so thought I'd give it a go!

The watercolour background was created by smooching Peacock Feathers, Salty Ocean, Evergreen Bough and Tumbled Glass Distressed Inks on wax paper and spritzing with water, then smooching the watercolour paper in the ink pools. Loving Avery Elle's Simply Said Happy die in gold vellum, stamped So Happy sentiment and Storybook Duck / Goose in gold embossing powder. Die cut the watercolour panel with Stitched Rectangle, and layered with more gold vellum, before adhering to white cardstock base.

AEI{heart}U Challenge #10 Gold

Don't forget there's a few days left for Keep It Simple Lots of Turquoise!

Playing along with Virginia's View Challenge #5 Die Cuts, and 

Moxie Fab World Wonderful Words Challenge: Word Dies too!

Keep It Simple - Watercolour...

Watercolour is all the rage at the moment. I'll be joining in the fun with the Online Classes Watercolor for Cardmakers starting on Monday. Co-incidentally this fortnights Keep It Simple Challenge is... Watercolour, so hope you get a chance to play along!

Believe it or not, this card started out as a panel of watercolour paper dry embossed with Stampin' Up poppies! I filled in the poppies with watercolour paints and Twinkling H2Os, before overspraying with Sunflower Gold to add highlights and spread the colour.  I didn't LOVE the panel as a standalone panel, but I thought it would create a cool background to fill the negative space behind my diecut bird, which I then popdotted and added a Lil Inkers Stitched Rectangle. The Memory Box Woodland Branch was diecut from watercolour patterned paper. The Papertrey Ink Wet Paint "Happy" sentiment was inked with Distress Inks Wild Honey then misted with water before stamping, similarly the "Birthday" sentiment was inked with Distress Inks Barn Door then misted with water before stamping, as the smaller letters ran quite a bit, I overstamped the "Birthday" sentiment so it was easier to read.

Remember to stop by the blogs of the Keep It Simple DT for some more 

FABULOUS watercolour inspiration.

Anni

Christine

Mia

Tanja

Tenia

Love to see how you are inspired this fortnight!

Also playing along with Simon Says Stamp Anything Goes, Seize the Birthday,

Moxie Fab World Hip on Handwriting Challenge, with this handwritten style font,
and Virginia's View Stitching Challenge too.

This MFW Shout Out made me smile...

Trust Your Wings...

Had a fabulously messy time on Sunday morning creating this mixed media piece at an Artified Getting to know Gelatos class taken by Naomi Cox. It was amazing how much variation in the finished pieces was achieved by everyone, even following the same instructions! I love how the spotted texture stamp ended up looking like Autumn leaves swaying in the breeze. At one point I thought I had absolutely ruined my piece when I added texture paste over a musical notes stencil and it did not dry properly before I tried to add the next layer of colour - but luckily I was able to just grab a wet wipe, remove most of the texture paste, and build up the colour layers again.  That's the FAB thing about mixed media - if you don't like it, you can always change it!

Also playing along with Moxie Fab World Hip on Handwriting Challenge, 

with this Autumn Leaves Typewriter Font Hand Drawn,
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Anything Goes, and
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Not so Mellow Yellow.

Head Over Paws Sequin Shaker...

Can I tell you how much I'm LOVING Mama Elephant - and judging by how much they were "borrowed" when we went away, there are many new Mama Elephant fans too :)

Playing along with this months Mama Elephant Photo Inspiration Challenge, I drew my inspiration from the fabulous jars of potions, combining circles and glass/transparent elements to create a "love potion" sequin shaker. Just right for joining in the fabulous Pretty Pink Posh Sequin Shaker Blog Hop too. This super cute Mama Elephant Pandamonium panda tumbles "head over paws" when you roll the shaker card along the table.

Created using a die cut cardstock circle base, layered with two die cut craft foam donut circles glued together to form the sides of the shaker. I also cut two small semi circles of craft foam to fill the void behind the front layer of cardstock, just so the sequins would not all "disappear". The shaker is filled with a combination of red and gold sequins, including these gorgeous teddy bear sequins from my local $2 shop, together with some red and gold glass beads from my stash. The sequins shaker is sealed with a die cut circle of transparency sheet, topped with a cardstock donut circle. The front panel is created using circle die cuts and Mama Elephant Landscape Trio stitched cloud die, stamped with Mama Elephant Sketchy Letters, and hand written "over", highlighted with red Mama Elephant Pandamonium hearts.

Joining in the fun with Mama Elephant Photo Inspiration Challenge,

Paulina's Pretty Pink Posh Sequin Shaker Blog Hop

and Moxie Fab Hip on Handwriting Challenge.

 

Keep It Simple Bright Spark Challenge

Happy Easter with Stencils...

 

 

Created the background of these two Easter cards using this gorgeous Studio Calico mask and Distress Inks in Squeezed Lemonade, Spiced Marmalade and Picked Raspberry for the bunny card and Salty Ocean, Mowed Lawn and Tumbled Glass for the sheep card. As a rule, I like to stamp my baby cards and Easter cards in brown rather than black inks, and this is no exception - stamped in Hero Arts Cup O' Joe using Hero Arts Happy Day Animals, and the sentiment combines Happy Day Animals and Lawn Fawn Happy Easter. The papers are from Lily Bee Designs.

Playing along with A Blog Named Hero Build Your Own Background, 

Virginia's View Stencil Challenge, Moxie Fab World Styling with Stencils Challenge, 

and don't forget you still have time to play along with Keep It Simple Stencil Challenge too!