Pink Profusion

Hello inkers,

There's a profusion of pink around blogland this month for obvious reasons so I've taken that as my cue for both these cards. The first is for Lavinia Stamp's Creative Challenge where the theme is 'what brings you to my humble abode?' Lots of Lavinia products on it including Zen Houses coloured with pencils:

 

The second is a very simple card for MFT's sketch challenge featuring some copic coloured cupcakes and an embossed Garden Flourish background.  I've used the pink hues from the Colorful Options mood board and one of my cupcakes features a sparkly heart which is the topping over at Seize the Birthday. 

I'm afraid Valentines Day is a very underwhelming affair in our household - a card and a box of half-price Maltesers is about as romantic as it gets and both myself and the big bloke woke up and forgot it was Valentines Day! 

Happy stamping!

Claire

Altenew November Inspiration Challenge

Hello inkers,

Altenew's November Inspiration challenge has a lovely Christmassy palette but unfortunately I haven't got a single Altenew Christmas stamp so I reached for this Precious Peony set instead:

I coloured the image with alcohol markers then added a few more outline stamped images in kraft coloured ink. At the top and bottom I used the same ink to stamp a dotted border from Halftone Squares. The sentiment's from Craft Your Life Project Kit: Fragrant Florals. 

This one's winging its way over to Colorful Options as well as the colour palette is red. 

Happy stamping!

Claire

 

MFT Colour Challenge #209 - Sunday Stamps Sketch

Hello folks,

Time for another Christmas card for MFT's Ready Set Christmas challenge. There's a very cold colour palette for their latest colour challenge - perfect for polar bears:

I've used BB Christmas Selfies, with a sentiment from Bitty Holiday Wishes and some DP from the Feelin' Festive Paper Pad. 

I'm also popping this one over to The Paper Players - I love a good Tic Tac Toe challenge.  I've gone for the diagonal and added some sparkle using holographic glitter on his hat with some sparkly crystals in the background, a Selfie Square die cut and a dry embossed snowy background panel. 

Colourful Options colour for the month happens to be blue so it's going over there too!

And I completely forgot that the whole point of doing this card was to use the lovely, layered sketch over at Sunday Stamps!

Happy stamping!

Claire

Altenew Inspiration Challenge - February 2023

Hello bloggers,

Here's my take on this month's Altenew challenge using Nostalgic Florals again - can't get enough of this set!

 

I had a play with some alcohol inks on yupo, then stamped and embossed the blooms in black. I've tried this before on yupo - it's hard to avoid the yupo buckling in the heat so I think next time I'll have to stick the yupo on card stock first so it maintains its shape. 

Because it buckled so much I had to cut the blooms out and then stick them on the card stock to make them more rigid. I used glue to stick them down but it seemed to react with the embossing which then started to rub off! So it was definitely a bit of a learning curve trying to make this one but I'm happy with how it turned out!

I'm also popping this one over to a new challenge (at least for me) called Colorful Options which has a pink theme for February. Thanks for the suggestion Makira!

Happy stamping!

Claire x