MFT Sketch #580

Hello fellow inkers!

I love the colours over at Colour Throwdown this week so I used them for the latest MFT Sketch:

I made a square version and gold embossed MFT's Marble Background stamp (now retired),  inked with some Cracked Pistachio and Salty Ocean. The sentiment's from Essential Sentiments, one of my all-time favourite sentiment sets.

It looked a bit bare with a plain white heart in the middle so I drew some inspiration from Michele at I Card Everyone who's guest designer over at Time Out.  Do check out her card as it's an absolute stunner -  I love how she's placed the tiny heart in the sentiment so I CASed it and die cut a gold heart with a coat of glitter, placing it into the negative space created by my larger die cut heart. 

Hope you get time to join in with a few challenges this week!

Happy stamping!

Claire

Tic Tac Toe!

Hello again,

I love a good Tic Tac Toe challenge so had to join in with The Paper Players this week:

 

I've gone for the diagonal with this one featuring some pretty blooms and birthday sentiment from Ink to Paper and a Cheery Lynn flourish die cut which has been used so often now, I surprised it's not blunt!

This ones also going over to Time Out again for their quote challenge and I've used the colours from Sunday Stamps. 

Happy stamping!

Claire

MFT Sketch/Time Out #206 - Friend Quote

Hello inkers,

Time Out's inspiration challenge is based on a quote about friends so I've combined it with MFT's sketch challenge #578 and used Bring Out the Sunshine:

I didn't find it an easy sketch to work with and ended up flipping it upside down and using some Stitched Clouds to frame my image.  

I think the sentiment's very appropriate for the challenge and I do like to think that my friends also overlook the broken fence, dead flowers, huge number of weeds and overlong grass which is the current the state of my garden!

Happy stamping!

Claire

The Paper Players - Sketch Challenge

Hello folks,

Here's a simple masculine card for The Paper Players using their current sketch:

 

I can't even remember when I last inked up this WMS set - My Kind of Guy. There's so few good masculine sets and I loved this when it came out. I added a touch of Glossy Accents to my guy's monocle and the debased backgrounds from Altenew. Other than that it's nothing but stamps!

Happy stamping!

Claire

Freshly Made Sketch #519

Hello inkers,

It's been a while since I played along with Freshly Made Sketches but after colouring in this sweet little oldie from MFT's Old Friends using their latest challenge colours, I realised it was just the inspiration I needed:

I white embossed City Block Background against black card stock and added some layered frames and a strip of dp from one of MFT's older patterned paper pads. The sentiment's from Festive Friends.

Happy stamping!

Claire

Fifty and Fabulous

Hello folks,

I've lost count of the number of friends turning 50 this year. Since I live on the opposite side of the world to most of them, I forget that we're all ageing and it's come as a bit of a shock that all the friends I was running around with in my teens, are turning the big 50:

This card was inspired by the pic on The Card Concept but since I've just had a lovely few days away with a friend I seem to have lost all track of time and missed linking up. So, I'm just posting it to Sunday Stamps, having been inspired by their 'split in two' sketch above.  I've used CAS-ual Fridays WTF to get the message across!

Happy stamping!

Claire

January Altenew Inspiration Challenge

Hello again,

Quick post for Altenew's January challenge - my mind's just not on card making at the moment and even with some gorgeous new Altenew goodies I just don't seem to have the mindset to put ink to paper. I did manage to pull this one together though, using their pretty Lotus set. 

I did a touch of stencilling for the background with the Grid Stencil and framed it all with the Simple Frame 3D Embossing Folder.

Happy stamping!

Claire