Floral Sympathy cards

 Hi all!  Well our Water Board can certainly stop complaining about shortages, we've had some mad thunder showers these past few days and lashing rain, the type that you think can't get any heavier and then it does!  There's been a bit of flooding throughout the country, but we got off not too bad - we developed a bit of a leak in our roof so it will need sorted and a paint job on our bedroom ceiling to cover the water marks.

Anyway, I need some sympathy cards for Mum's stash, so that's what I have this evening.  I think I need to be getting my daylight lamp out, the nights are drawing in and my cards look a bit dark.

I always love playing along with the MFT Summer School and this one is for their Wonderful Watercolour challenge.  I used some ink pads for my colouring, not something I've tried before.  I must get myself some new white watercolour card as the only stuff I have is this cream stuff that I hate!.

MFT Camp Create - wonderful watercolour

Time Out #193 - I went for the floral element from the inspiration quote

 word Art Wednesday #503/504 - anything goes

This 2nd one uses a real oldie stamp (possibly from Cornish Heritage Farm but I really can't remember).  I've used the same colouring technique as before, leaving the petal tips uncoloured, but this time back in my comfort zone with my polychromos.  I love how it turned out 😁  The image panel is popped up on foam pads and sparkle added to the flower centres. 

Retro Rubber Challenge #164 - anything goes

We love Chocolate Baroque #August - favourite stamp - these little daisies are in my 'go to' pile for sympathy cards and is my most inked stamp ever!

Pinks and purples

Sorry, another quickie post.  No beers tonight ;) but Strictly is on the telly and I LOVE it!   It would be fab to be able to dance 'properly'!

This first card uses a real oldie from Penny Black.  Coloured with watercolour pencils and gloss/sparkle added to the butterflies.  My Martha Stewart butterfly punch is on it's way out, it's a bit of a faff getting these butterflies cut.

• Happy Little Stampers September watercolour challenge - add butterflies
• Penny Black and More September - make it feminine
• Stamping Sensations Sept - beginning with B - bear / butterfly / bling
• Allsorts #484 - bears

And this one uses one of my oldest and most inked stamps ever .. not sure of the make, possibly from Cornish Heritage Farm.   

My colour theme was defined by this strip of dotty DP that's been knocking round my desk for a while.  Flowers popped up on foam pads.   Sparkle added to the petals and gloss to the flower centre. Gold strip and purple bling to finish.  

• Pixie's Snippets Playground #334
• Simon Says Stamp Monday - stamp it on
• CAS on Friday #141 - flowers
• Through the Craft Room Door - anything goes

A Three-fer

Ack I'm stuffed with the cold, and the weather was a bit icky, all dark and mizzly, so it was a good excuse to not go too far and get crafty.  I wanted to have a play with some of the MFT challenges for WCMD anyway!

Card 1 is for their 1st challenge - colours of the rainbow.
My image is from High Hopes, not sure about the sentiment.  All coloured with watercolour pencils and clear gloss added to the sentiment and to the duck's (goose?) beak and legs.  My cloud panel is popped up on foam pads.

Other challenges:

• Just Us Girls #414 - light (as in light as air)
• Crafting by Design October - anything goes

Card 2 is for their challenge: By the Numbers
I've used this stamp from Woodware - paper pieced the numbers and popped the holly up on foam pads.  Clear gloss and glitter added to the berries.
Nice and easy and I love how it turned out :)

Other challenges:

• ABC Xmas: U for Unlimited and V for Vibrant
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - Christmas

And finally, card 3 is for Make and Mail
It's for a friend in work so I'll be posting it tomorrow.
Not sure of the make of this stamp, maybe Cornish Heritage Farm ... it was one of the first stamps I ever bought and is possibly one of the most inked :)


Other challenges:

• Layout from AAA Cards #100
• The Flower Challenge #13  

Flowery Thanks

Well I hit the shops today and got quite a few Christmas pressies marked off my list, so Yeyyyy for Black Friday!  The shops were busy but not hectic and I got some bargains along the way :)

I also had some happy mail today, these lovely MFT stamps that I won recently from Simon Says Stamp :)  My flowers are one of the first stamps I ever bought, I think they were from Cornish Heritage Farm, and they still get inky quite often.  Coloured with watercolour pencils, sparkle added to the petals and popped up on dimensionals.

• Simon Says Stamp Monday - trio-tastic
• CASual Fridays #161 - be thankful
• Word Art Wednesday #258 - anything goes
• Pile it On #121 - thank you
• General layout based on CAS(e) this Sketch #199

Day 25 of the Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge

Floral thanks

A wee quickie card tonight, well, when I say "quickie" ...!
It's based on Michele's beautiful card over at the Muse challenge #164 - on her card she has a circular imprint behind her flowers which I fancied copying.  After I faffed about for well over half an hour and ruined several pieces of card I gave up and decided I didn't need it LOL!

My image is one of the first stamps I ever bought from Cornish Heritage Farm (I think!) - coloured with watercolour pencils and popped up on dimensionals.  Spectrum Noir sparkle added to the petals, and clear gloss to the flower centres.

• Simon Says Stamp Work it Wednesday April - flowers
• Crafting when we Can #118 - add flowers
• Addicted to Stamps #192 - make your mark
• Penny's Challenge #276 - anything goes

Somewhere over the rainbow

Naughty or Nice have an over the rainbow challenge this month and a DT call too, so I thought I'd have a go!

Debby Hughes had a fab watercolouring tutorial over on her blog today, if you fancy having a go with watercolours I'd definitely recommend it.   I used red, blue,green, yellow, orange and purple - think I could have been a wee bit braver with the depth of my colours, it turned out more pastel than I'd planned but I do like it :)
I also added some Spectrum Noir sparkle to the petals, clear gloss to the flower centres and some sequins and bling to finish.

• Naughty or nice #26 - over the rainbow
• Simon Says Stamp Monday - try to resist
• Cute Card Thursday #420 - something shiny
• Simon Says Work it Wednesday - pastels

My 2nd rainbow card uses this gorgeous DP from Taylored Expressions :)

Stamp from Lili of the Valley - coloured with watercolour pencils.  Silver sentiment sticker and silver sequins and bling from stash.  Nice and simple!

• Layout from The Challenge #67
• Tuesday Throwdown #288 - furry friends
• Polkadoodles #14 - floral frenzy

CAS Sympathy

I've had a bit of a run on sympathy cards from my stash, so need to get making these again.  It's definitely easier to make them when you don't know who they're for!

This one uses an oldie stamp from Cornish Heritage Farm - coloured with watercolour pencils and Wink of Stella added to the flower centres.  I added the dotty effect round my image with copic markers ... I decided after I took this pic that the bottom right corner was annoying me, so added a few random dots there too!

• Layout from Try Stampin on Tuesday #254
• CASology #181 - 'clear' (my mason jar)
• 613 Avenue Create #159 - anything goes

Floral Thanks

I still have a few more of these Thank You cards to make.  This one uses one of my oldest stamps, I think it's from Cornish Heritage Farms but it's long since lost it's packaging.  It's also one of my 'go to' stamps, so I've definitely had my money worth out of this one :)

Coloured with watercolour pencils and popped up on dimensionals.  I also added some Wink of Stella to the flower centres and then some clear gloss too.  Background splattered with pink watercolour too.  Clear gems from stash.  I decided after I took the pic to doodle a brown stitched border round the edge but couldn't be bothered to get the camera out again to take another photo ;)

• Layout from Freshly Made Sketches #209
• Colour theme from The Card Concept 
• Sweet Stampin - antiques roadshow
• Penny's challenge #250 - anything goes
• Creative Inspirations #332 - anything goes
• The Daily Marker 30 Day colouring challenge October

Thank You flowers

I've a couple of thank you cards on my list to make this weekend too, this one uses an old oldie from Cornish Heritage Farm (I think!)  It may well have been one of the first stamps I ever bought!

Coloured with watercolour pencils and clear gloss and glitter added to the flower centres.  I stamped my main image another couple of times and fussy cut them to use as my embellies.  Gold gems from stash.  Paper Smooches sentiment.

• Layout from Mojo Monday #418
• Stamp Ink Paper #17 - flowers
• Creative Knockouts #110 - thankful thoughts
• Penny's Paper Crafty challenge #248 - anything goes
• The Daily Marker 30 Day colouring challenge October

Simple Sympathy

This card was inspired by this week's featured stamper over at Splitcoaststampers - bfinlay.  Here's Brenda's original.
I used a different image, used bling instead of sequins and changed to a sympathy card.  Other than that I didn't change very much as I loved her original so much!

My image is a super old stamp from Cornish Heritage Farm (I think) - possibly one of the first I bought and it still sees ink now and then!  Coloured with promarkers.

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - anything goes
Sister Act #75 - anything goes
Creatalicious Challenge #67 - flower power