Paper Piece Spots

Hello there. I'm very behind in posting all the cards I've been making, whilst I've been staying at our beach house. 

I fell in love with these 'Quirky Birds' from Aall Create Stamps and decided to use a sponged stencil background I found in my stash.

I used various stencils and punched circles to make the sponged background with Distress Inks.  I stamped the birds on the background and fussy cut and then again on the card base.  I hope you can make out the spots.

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(flying = freedom)

One Cool Chick

Hi there. I have another card to share for this month's Time Out Challenge.

The cute birds are from Winnie & Walter and the sentiment is from Hero Arts.

Images were coloured with Zig Markers.

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CAS WATERCOLOUR CHALLENGE

Special Event

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DARNELL!!

                         Please join us in celebrating Darnell's Birthday!!

One more part to this special event.

The team has made special cards for Darnell's birthday,

along with our Guest Designer Leslie,

and several Featured Designers (friends from the retreat).

During our retreat, Darnell (Dolly to us) was up early one morning

and decided she wanted some frozen blueberries.

Some how she spilled almost the whole, Costco-sized bag of

blueberries all over the floor.

Bonnie snapped these pictures.

See the swipe of blueberries on the right photo??  We couldn't find a broom so we grabbed

a large piece of card stock to pick up the berries.  As they thawed, the blueberry juice

"smooshed" on the cardstock in a lovely design that looked perfect for card making.

Well, without Dolly knowing, we kept that piece of blueberry smoosh and cut it up.

Each Designer has used one piece in making Dolly's birthday cards. :)

I wasn't at this retreat myself, but I'm so thrilled to be taking part in this fun event and to share a piece of Darnell's 'abstract art' as the background in my card:)

The bouquet stamp is designed by the incredibly talented Danielle Donaldson for Stamping Bella.

I coloured with Zig Markers and Daniel Smith Watercolours.

I enjoyed this so much, I decided to try to recreate Danell's art myself and made a Twofer!

We have some fabulous Guest Designers joining us to celebrate Darnell's birthday, so I hope you'll pop over to the  CAS Watercolour Challenge Blog to get some inspiration and see what the others have done with Darnell's 'art'. Looking forward to seeing your bouquet of flowers in our gallery:)

Stencil & Pearls

Hello again:) I have another card to share today. I originally made this card for the CAS Stencil Challenge, but decided it wasn't CAS enough.

  I started with a piece of coloured card stock, sponged Versamark Ink through a stencil and then brushed various colours of Pearl-Ex over the ink. Next I sealed it by spritzing with water, followed by a Fixative spray.  Then stencil is from ARTplorations, called 'Bloom Factory'. The flower die is from Memory Box and the sentiment is from STAMPlorations.

                                               I'm adding my card to the following challenges:-

One Layer Flower & Spots

Hi there. I've been admiring a stamp I've seen a lot in 'the blogasphere' - it's from Visible Images and is called 'Creative Chaos'.   I got to play with it the other day at a friend's place and have now added it to my craft wishlist :) It's a great stamp for Mixed Media, but today I've used it in a CAS One Layer card.

I coloured the flowers with Zig Markers and added lots of Wink of Stellar, so it's very shimmery. 

The sentiment is from Altenew.

I added some more spots with splatter:)

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I'm really looking forward to making more cards with this stamp set.

Wine O'Clock?

Hi there. I had fun playing with a 'new to me' stamp set. I can see many possibilities with this set:)

I used various colours of Zig Markers to colour the images and the bottle and glass have been fussy-cut and mounted with dimensional tape.  This stamp set from Simon Says Stamp is called 'Time for Wine'.

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CAS Christmas Card

I nearly forgot to share this card that I made for this month's CAS Christmas Card Challenge.

I love this cute reindeer from Whimsy Stamps called 'Rudolph'. I coloured him with Zig Markers and Gold Wink of Stellar.

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use 'RED & GREEN'