Silver Bells and Yellow Hummingbird

That sounds like an odd combination! It's ok, I have 2 very different cards to share...

  

This card was inspired by the graphic below. I stamped the Hummingbird and flowers from Pretty Posh Pink and coloured with Zig Markers and added shimmer with Wink of Stellar. The black border is from Mama Elephant. I've recently 're-discovered' this set and You'll see more stamped borders in the future! 

The sentiment is from The ton Stamps.  

Since this has to be one Layer, I couldn't add sequins, but I did add dimensional dots in the centre of the Petunia. 

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Make it Colourful

My next card is for this month's CAS Christmas Challenge. The theme is BELLS.

 

I was inspired by this card made by my friend Shirley. I Coloured the bells with Distress Stain (Pewter) and my Silver Wink of Stella.  The ribbon was coloured with Zig Markers. The stamp set is Stamplorations Holiday Sketches: Christmas Bells. The die is from Penny Black.

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CAS MIX UP reminder

We're halfway through June (eek 6 months till Christmas!) so I have another card to inspire you for this month's CAS Mix Up Challenge.

 Susan is our host and she wants to see 'Embossed Vellum' on our cards. There are various ways to achieve this, including heat embossing, using a stylus and/or using an embossing folder.

I have included heat embossing and also used a stylus on the flower petals.

I stamped the old Hero Arts background and embossed with Pearl embossing powder. The flowers were stamped and white embossed. I added shading with Copic markers and shaped the petals with a stylus.  The flowers are from Concord & 9th Wildflower stamp set. 

We have the lovely and creative Bonnie as our Guest Designer this month. You can see her card and inspiration from the rest of the team at our blog.

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Masculine Mixed Media

Hey there! Another week has begun and I'm just sneaking in another entry for the SS Monday Challenge.

I tried to make it a bit Mixed Media and a bit grunge, inspired by the design team, but it still looks fairly CAS! I guess I'm just a clean & simple gal at heart!

I stamped the circle border with Antique Linen and a touch of Spiced Chai and then stamped the newspaper script in dark brown.  I'd previously made the leaf die-cuts, by watercolouring and heat embossing with a new purchase, Distress Embossing Glaze Powder (Cracked Pistachio).  The sentiment is a tape which I outlined with Sepia Marker. 

At my beach house I have a box of old Scrapbooking ephemera, that I rarely use these days  and I found the wood clock face and a button.  I inked up the clock face with Distress Inks.  

To finish I mounted this panel on a black card base. 

Stamps:- Papertrey Ink 'Circle Borders'; Kaisercraft 'Newsprint'

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Carved Flowers

Hi there. This is a card I made last night , just for the fun of it and because I needed to break out a beautiful stamp set designed by my friend Shirley.

I stamped the flowers from Stamplorations 'Carved Flowers' with Zig Markers and the leaves with Distress Oxide. The vase is from Altenew 'Versatile Vases'.  I used my Nuvo Shimmer Gloss pen again for a touch of blending and shimmer.

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Rainbow of Daisies

NB: I'm having some glitches with Blogger. Please let me know if you have an issue.

I was reminded of a fun Uniko stamp set (which was waiting to be inked), when I saw Darnell's gorgeous Twofer cards!   So out it came and I decided to use one of the smallest stamps in the set and started stamping with as many different colour inks as I had to hand! This is the result...

I also thought it was about time to use this Simon Says die!  I used Memento Dye  and Simon Says Inks.

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Next time I'll have to use the bigger stamp for a sun, like Darnell did with her Papertrey Ink stamp.

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Pink and Blue Watercolour Flower

I've had such a lovely week at our beach house, crafting, walking and pleasing myself! The days have been so sunny and still and the nights have been very cold, so I've snuggled up in front of the fire to watch movies! 

I now have a stash of cards, which I'll have to share over the next week orso. This card was inspired by TaeEun's amazing card ...

The stamp set is Altenew 'Wallpaper Flowers' and I used Daniel Smith Watercolours and Zig Markers. I then blended the leaves with my new fave Nuvo Shimmer Gloss marker and added white highlights with a gel pen. 

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(I hope it's ok to use a Kraft card base) 

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Waddle I do?

Hi there.  I pulled out the very cute 'Penguin Pals' stamp set from Uniquely Creative to make a quick card for a couple of challenges.

This was quick and easy to make. I coloured the images with Copic Markers and stamped the sentiment and snowflakes with Memento Ink.  The window die is from MFT. 

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