Saturday, 13 August 2016

Camp Create cards

Apologies, long post ahead ... !
Yipppeeeeee, a whole week off work for me, looks like the weather might be looking up too :)
I had a nice crafty evening in the kitchen, just me and the Olympics (which I'm loving!), so I thought I'd get caught up with the MFT Camp Create sessions.  It was one of my New Year's Resolutions to be more adventurous and try new techniques, so these are great for me!

Card 1 is for Divine Dry Embossing.  I've used this sweet little snowman from Eat Cake Graphics:
1193-J Snowman (assembled)

I've coloured him with watercolour pencils, and added Spectrum Noir sparkle and clear gloss to his hat band and scarf.
For my BG, I used an MFT embroidery stitched rectangle to cut out a template, chalked with blue and green, and then embossed the same die.  I don't know if it shows up in my pic but I slightly missed my edge for the embossing, but I like how it turns out anyway.  I also added some
sparkle and clear gloss to my snowflakes.


Card 2 was for the Camp Create bonfire challenge - single layer savvy
I followed Stephanie's fab card layout and copied her dotty ground idea.  
My farmyard critters are from MFT - coloured with watercolour pencils.  Spectrum Noir sparkle added to the haystack and to the horse's mane and tail, clear gloss added to the cow horns and their hooves.  Little star sequins from Taylored Expressions.

And finally, card 3 is another new technique to me - stunning shadow stamping.
I found an old mostly dried up white ink pad at the back of the cupboard, so used it with my one and only coloured ink pad - Memento Rose Bud.  The pink base is a much nicer shade than it looks here, but I can never get it to photograph right!  My flowers and sentiment are both from Simon Says Stamp (I think).  Bling from Taylored Expressions again.

So that's me with my 6 camp badges for the week!  I'm so pleased I managed to play along as there were a few of the sessions I thought "I'll never be able to make that!" :)


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Wednesday, 10 August 2016

30th Birthday fun

This card is for a friend's daughter - she is full of fun, and I think this image is just perfect for her!  
She's from Eat Cake Graphics:

I coloured Daisy with watercolours and added some stickles to her flower centres.  I chalked some clouds in the background, but they're almost invisible in my photo :(  
I used some die cut sentiments - I double mounted the '30' and then added some clear gloss and glitter so that it really stood out. 

This card is also posted over at A Sprinkling of Samples and Techniques blog, where you'll find lots more loveliness from Eat Cake Graphics

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Embossed Thanks

Just a quickie visit to blogland tonight ... Versailles is on telly and it's the last episode.  There's a lot of 'unnecessary' sexy bits, but the plot is brilliant!

This card is my effort for today's session over at MFT's Camp Create ... Remarkable Resist.  I had a snippet of this pretty DP left, so coloured my BG to match.  I only have one coloured ink pad and couldn't find my distressing-thingy, so I used watercolours instead.
I don't have many solid stamps (I don't buy them as I don't have coloured ink pads!) so used these leaves from a Simon Says Stamp set; my sentiment is from Eat Cake Graphics:
8225-D Thanks (text)


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Tuesday, 9 August 2016

An ombre Birthday Bunny

Awk, what a horrible dark photo - the evenings are drawing in already, and it's definitely NOT a summer's day out there!  There's rumours of a heat wave coming (when I say 'heat wave' I mean mid 20s!) but we'll see if it gets this far ;)

Today's project over at MFT's Camp Create is Awesome Ombre.
There was a LOT of faffing about with my BG - I'm I'm not overly happy with how it turned out, but this is about effort #5 and it will have to do!  For such a CAS card it took maybe over 2 hours to make LOL!
I watercoloured some scrap card with the ombre effect for my sentiment die, and then used the same pink in the bunny's jumper and for some splatters on the BG.  Bunny from MFT - popped up on dimensionals.  Silver stars and pink heart from Taylored Expressions.

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Monday, 8 August 2016

More dogs and fishies

I'm still playing with my new stamps, it's great to have some mojo back!

MFT Camp Create is back and today's theme is Monochrome.  I copied Stephanie's glitter border idea ... I've just spotted some blue glitter on Greg's face, maybe I was a bit over-enthusiastic LOL ;)  I also added glitter to my bubbles and to the top fish's eyelids, and then some Spectrum Noir sparkle to their fins so it's nice and sparkly.  Background stencilled with chalk using a Simon Says Stamp stencil
I copied my sign/hook from Sandy's card here.


I'm so pleased I got these Tim Holtz stamps, I'm in love with every dog in the set!  I've paired this one with a little bark sentiment from Eat Cake Graphics:

My watercoloured background was inspired by the gorgeous pic over at Addicted to Stamps - for the 'do what you love' element I added some splatters, coloured enamel dots and a doodled border :)
Dog coloured with watercolour pencils and popped up on dimensionals; clear gloss added to his eyes and nose.
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Sunday, 7 August 2016

A doggy calendar and a silly fishie


 So here's August's calendar page hot off the press ... yes I know it's already the 7th LOL ;)
I was very lucky to win a Simon Says Stamp challenge a few weeks back, and the TH Crazy Dogs set was one of my choices.  I reckon you'll be seeing quite a few more cards starring those fab doggies.  I've coloured (or not!) this one to look like Ruby-doo and gave her a nice red collar.  Clear gloss added to her eyes and nose.  Usual wonky hand written calendar, one of these days I'll figure out how to write in a straight line.  I've also used some new coloured Ranger enamel accents which I'm lovin, the red one has a pinky tinge to it, but that's OK.  For my background, I used some green watercolour paint and just kinda splodged it on roughly.  And of course, a doodled border ;)

My second card also uses some new goodies from my win - Avery Elle's 'That Bites' set.  I've coloured my fish with watercolour pencils, added some splatters, added clear gloss to his eyes and teeth and then Spectrum Noir clear sparkle to the rest.
I die cut some waves and then covered most of them up with my stitched circle ;)




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Monday, 1 August 2016

Your Number's Up!

No, it's not a threat, it's just the name of the new challenge over at Naughty or Nice ;)
Hope you'll play along, there's a fabby prize up for grabs this month! .... play along with your naughty or nice 'numbers' cards and you'll be in the draw for a set of Artist Impressions stamps (don't link more than 5 challenges to be eligible for the prize though!)

My card is for a friend of my sister - she LOVES her pizza with ham and pineapple topping, so what else would I put on her birthday card ;)

My little chef is an oldie from High Hopes - coloured with watercolour pencils and popped up on dimensionals; Spectrum Noir shimmer added to his gloves and hat, and clear gloss and sparkle to the 'ham and pineapple' on his pizza!
I kinda misjudged my spacing on her name, it's a bit squished, but I think I just about got away with it ;)


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