May Flower

Hello there!  It's the first Saturday of May and that means it's time for a new Penny Black Saturday Challenge.

As always, the theme is Anything Goes, with a twist. The Optional twist this month is to use your favourite Penny Black Stamp - how easy is that?!!! Umm, well choosing one favourite could be a problem, so you can make a few cards if you like:) Here is one of my very fave PB stamps...

I used the Tim Holtz stamp platform,  Zig CCRB Markers, a paint brush and a mini mister to create this card. The stamp platform makes it so easy to keep adding layers. The stamp is PB Gentle Whisper. Sigh... just love it! The frame die is from Stamplorations and the sentiment die from SSS. I added some mica beads to the centre of the flower.

So now it's your turn:) You can pop over to the Penny Black Saturday Challenge blog and see what the rest of the Design Team have created and then you can enter your card here.

ETA:- I'm also entering this in the Craft Stamper Take it, Make it Challenge.

CAS Mix UP Challenge

Hello there. Pinch and a punch and all that! Yes it's the 1st of the month and I'm very excited to be a Guest designer for the CAS Mix Up Challenge this month!

The theme for this month's challenge is Gelatos & Crayons and I had soooo much fun! I love a challenge that gives me an opportunity to pull out my old neglected supplies and have a play.

I laid a piece of Bristol card stock over a stencil and rubbed over it with a white (wax) crayon.  The I smeared some Gelatos on some yupo and using a dense damp sponge, picked up the colour and wiped it over the stencilled card stock. The I stamped some text in a few places using the Gelatos directly on the stamp and brushing with a bit of water. The bird has been coloured with Caran D'ache Neocolour 2 (water soluble) crayons. The sentiment from Stamplorations was stamped with Memento Ink. The background die is from Stamploration and the bird and leaf dies are from Memory Box.

Here is a link on the resist teqhnique and there are more video links over at CAS Mix Up.

I hope you like my card and if you would like to play in the challenge, you can get some inspiration from the rest of the talented Design team and enter your card here.

Please follow the challenge rules:

• Cards only
• CAS design (clean and simple) - definition on sidebar
• Include all three components listed on challenge badge
• Include link to challenge in your entry post
• Enter up to three (3) times

Prayers

I've been making some sympathy and get well cards to have in my stash and this is one of my favourites...

I used an old favourite  stamp set from Stamplorations - just love these feathers! 

The sentiment is from Avery Elle.

I'm entering the following challenges:-

Never-ending challenge

More Spring Flowers (in Fall colours, because it's Autumn here!)

You still have time to play along with this month's Penny Black Saturday Challenge. It's so easy - the theme is always Anything goes with an optional twist. The month's twist is SPRING FLOWERS.

The stamp is called Softly. I heat embossed the stamped image and coloured with Maimeri Blu

Watercolours and Zig Markers.

You can enter the challenge here

Mixed Media (Alena Hennesy style)

I started an online class this week with Alena Hennesy and it is so wonderful. I could watch her create and listen to her commentary all day - so relaxing and inspiring!  Here is something I made based on her teaching.

I have used Ampersand Aquabord for the this project and it's beautiful to work on. For the background, first I wet the board to activate and used various acrylic inks and high flow paints with brushes and fingers! When it was dry I added the decoration using stencils, stamps and freeform. The dragonfly stamps are from Stamplorations, designed by the talented Shirley Bampton. As well as inks and paints, I've used Posca Markers, Zig Wink of stellar, Jacquard pearlex powder and gold leaf.
I've used split-complimentary warm colours and these are colours I would normally never put together, but I love the drama of the constrast. The first sizing glue didn't go tacky so I used another one, but it's a textural glue an I forgot to squish it down, so the gold looks like blobs:) That's ok - it's a happy accident!

I'm entering the following challenges:-

Let's doodle (leaves )

Watercolour Pelican

Life has been crazy busy and I haven't had any time to make cards since Easter. However I do want to share a card i made while I was at Queenscliff.

I went for a walk each morning and one day I was lucky enough to get fairly close to a pelican and quickly snapped it with my phone, before it decided I was too close! Coincidentally I had recently received a new stamp set from Inspired by Stamping, which had a Pelican stamp, so of course I had to may a card to imitate life! I noticed the CAS Watercolour challenge had 'Birds' as their theme so it was serendipitous! I was planning to make a 2nd card a bit more CAS, but as I said I haven't had time.

I used Maimeri Blu watercolour paints and I must say they are really yummy!
The sentiment stamp is from Altenew (thanks Loll!).

Mythology/Inspired by story

Mine is inspired by an aboriginal Dreamtime story 

Goolay-Yali 

Penny Black Saturday Challenge (April)

It's time for another Penny Black Saturday Challenge! The theme as always is ANYTHING GOES, with the optional theme being 'SPRING FLOWERS'.

I adore magnolias and I've got several Penny Black magnolia stamps so of course this was the perfect opportunity to make yet another magnolia card:) This stamp is called Magnolia Rhapsody and I took a bit of poetic licence and went extra bright!
I used Zig Markers and a bit of distress ink.

You should definitely jump on over to the Penny Black Saturday Challenge Blog and check out the amazing creations from the rest of the DT and I do hope you have the chance to join in. if you do, you can link up your cards here.

I'm entering the following challenges:-

Theme - Say it with Flowers