Crafty Calendar May Challenge - Distress It with Peonies from SheepSki Designs

Good morning.  I hope you are having a good day.  I'm a little late posting as I've been busy ironing and packing ready for going on holiday.  I like going away but hate the preparation leading up to it.

We have a new monthly challenge over at Crafty Calendar and the theme is 

'DISTRESS IT'

 For my card I have used:

Peonies Image No.154 from SheepSki Designs coloured with Spectrum Sparkle Pens and then sprayed with water for the colour to bleed and spread,

I used Old Paper Distress ink to colour the edges of the paper and distressed the paper round the edges

I used Old Paper Distress Ink and a script stamp from the Hobby Art Becki's Background stamp set in a couple of  places and added a few splashes of watercolour paint.

Mounted onto black card and finished with a check ribbon, a few sequins and stamped sentiment.

We are sponsored for this challenge by:

SheepSki Designs

Pop over to Crafty Calendar and share your projects is this months DISTRESS IT challenge and check out the gorgeous DT creations using other images from this months sponsor SheepSki Designs.

Thanks for taking the time to stop by my blog and I'll see you when I'm back from my holibobs  x

Lawn Fawn Bugs and Kisses Valentine's Card

Good morning and Happy Valentine's day.  I have a quick love themed card to share today using stamps from My Favorite Things and Lawn Fawn. 

For the card I have used:

My Favorite Things Hearts Entwined stamp heat embossed in white for the background and then covered the paper with water and added some watercolour paint.  Then a few flicks of watercolour over the top.

The images and sentiment are from the Lawn Fawn Bugs and Kisses stamp set.  The ladybugs are stamped with versafine and then watercoloured and die cut.  The sentiment is heat embossed in white.

Thanks for taking the time to stop by my blog, see you soon.  

Crafty Calendar May Challenge - Things With Wings with All Dressed Up

Good morning all.  I hope you are having a good day,  The weather is improving slightly for the bank holiday weekend here in the UK, although I'll be missing it as I head to the airport in a couple of hours for a weeks holiday to Rhodes, hopefully the sun will be shining there as well.

It's the first Saturday in May and we have a new monthly challenge over

at Crafty Calendar.  Our theme for this month is

'Things With Wings'.

For my card I have used:

Flyaway Butterfly from All Dressed Up and this has been coloured with

watercolour pencils.

The DP's is from the Papermania Tilly Daydream paper pack.

Ribbon, butterflies and pearls from my stash.

We are sponsored for this challenge by:

All Dressed Up

and

Wild Orchid Crafts

Pop over to Crafty Calendar and share your Things With Wings projects and check out the gorgeous DT creations,

Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to read my blog.  I'm now off to the airport so I'll see you in a weeks time after a rest and relax.  x

Crafty Calendar Monthly Challenge Card - April Showers/Springtime

Morning everyone.  Hope you are all okay on this April fools day.  It's the first Saturday in the month so we have a new challenge over at Crafty Calendar.

The theme for this month is

April Showers or Springtime.

For my card I have used:

Drops of Love digi stamp from Miss Daisy Stamps coloured with copics.

I created the background using watercolour markers in a range of blues and pinks and copious amounts of water - this was the first time I have done this technique and ended up with a background that I was sort of pleased with I normally I throw the end result away...

We are sponsored for this challenge by:

Miss Daisy Stamps

Join  Miss Daisy Stamps Create & Share Facebook Group to meet the artists, 

share fun & inspiration, receive freebies and special deals

and

Sheepski Designs

Pop over to Crafty Calendar and share you April Showers or Springtime projects and check out the gorgeous DT creations.

Just a short post this month, my card for this challenge is a little bit melancholy which represents my mood because sadly my wonderful mom passed away last month and I'm heartbroken.

She was diagnosed with cancer in February and she sadly passed away the 20th March.

Love and miss you forever mom x

Me and my mom in Bath at Christmas x

Papermania Watercolour Rainbow Birthday Card

Good morning all.  Hope you are well this morning.

I have been playing with my watercolour paints again so I have a card to share today where I have attempted to make a rainbow effect background. 

I stamped the image Papermania Mini Stamp Fox with Archival ink and masked the image with Aquatint Liner.  When that was dry I brushed the watercolour paper with water and then added the different colours of watercolour paint in layers.  I spritzed the image with water to get the colours to blend and merge a little bit more.

When the watercolour was dry I removed the mask from the fox and coloured him with watercolour pencils and clear Wink of Stella.

The greeting is stamped with Archival Ink.  I managed to smudge some ink when I stamped the greeting  so I had to add the orange corner panel to hide my little mistake...

Thanks for stopping by and I'll see you soon.

xx

Crafty Calendar May Challenge Mid Month Card - Things With Wings

Good morning everyone, I hope you are all having a good day.

Just a quick post with a reminder card for our challenge over at Crafty Calendar. 

The theme this month is

'THINGS WITH WINGS'

and you have until the 28th May to enter this months challenge.

For my card I have used:

Butterfly on a Toadstool digital stamp from Angie's Digital Stamps that I have embossed on watercolour card using a Ranger Emboss It pen and white embossing powder and have then coloured using Spectrum Aqua Pens.

I used blue & green watercolour paints for the background, I applied the colour then sponged it to get a softer mottled finish.

The greeting was stamped with versamark ink and embossed with white embossing powder (as you can tell white embossing powder is my favourite thing at the moment).

Mounted onto red and then blue card with 3 card candy in the corners and pearl dots added onto the image using Viva Decor Perlen-Pen

Still need to practise more with my watercolours....

We are have two sponsors for this months challenge so two prizes are up for grabs:

Angie's Digital Stamps

who is offering some digis to one winner

and

Crafty Ribbons

who is offering £10 to send in their store to the other winner.

Pop over to Crafty Calendar to share your 'Things with Wings' creations, don't forget you only have until the 28th May to enter this months challenge.

See you soon.

xx

Crafty Calendar Mid Month Card - Anything Goes

Good afternoon, hope you're having a good day.  Can you believe the weather we're having today,I got up this morning and it was snowing!!! 

Just a quick post with another card for this months challenge over at Crafty Calendar.  The theme this month is "ANYTHING GOES" and is running until the 28th April so you still have plenty of time to enter.

For this card I have used:

Magical Woodland digital stamp from All Dressed Up printed on watercolour paper and coloured with Spectrum Aqua Pens,  (This was my fourth attempt at colouring this image with my Aqua Pens, I really need to practise). 

The DP's are from the Craft Asylum Hello Sunshine paper pack.

The toadstool/mushrooms border I cut with my cricut using an SVG file called Garden Borders from Studio Ilustrado.

We are sponsored for this challenge by

All Dressed Up

and 

Fabrika Fantasy

Thanks for stopping by and I'll see you soon.

Hugs x

Little Meow Birthday Card, Watercolour Pencils and Wink of Stella

Morning all.  Hope everyone is okay this morning.  We've made it to halfway through the week, not long to go to the weekend.  I've been having a go with some different techniques just lately so I'm sharing a card that I have made using Faber Castell Gelatos and Zig Wink of Stella.

The image is from the Little Meow Someone Special stamp set by Docrafts. This has been stamped onto watercolour paper and coloured with watercolour pencils but instead of water I blended the colour using Clear Wink of Stella.

The background is watercolour paper embossed using the Crafters Companion Barkley Embossing Folder - Flowers For You (which was a bargain, I picked this up from one of the hobbycraft shows from the Everycrafts a £1, 12 items for £10 stall).

I then used 3 colours of Faber Castell Gelatos (Watermelon, Snow Cone, Margarita Mix) on the embossed paper and softened and blended the colours using a babywipe.

The cat, flower, pennant and greeting banner have all been cut using Die-namics Blueprints Set #12 and the scallop circle is one of the spellbinders dies.

It doesn't show that well on the photo but the cat and flags have a gorgeous glistening and sparkly effect.

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

Cuttlebug Mania - use a stamp

Party Time Tuesdays - Anything Goes

Loves Rubber Stamps Challenge - Use 2 dies

See you soon.....

Bev x