One Card - Five Challenges

Hello inkers,

This little card started off for the Less is More challenge,  to use a tag,  but after struggling how to place it I had a helping hand from Freshly Made Sketches:

 

It took me longer to work out where to put the sentiment than it did to make the card. A stamper can never have too many sentiment sets but I couldn't find a single one that would work on the die cut flag. So I've used artistic licence and put it elsewhere! 

I used the pretty colour combo from The Card Concept and and as I think it's clean and simple I'm popping it over to Addicted to CAS' flower challenge and CASology's Botanical challenge. 

Incidentally, those blooms are from Stampin' Up's Eastern Blooms which was one of the first stamp sets I ever bought. The leaves are MFT.

Happy stamping!

Claire

AAA Cards Birthday Challenge

 Hello inkers,

AAA are celebrating their 8th birthday with a Moodboard inspiration challenge

I kept it to a minimum, using the colours from the ink blends on the top right pic and the image of a balloon from the pic below. I blended a trio of blue/green distress inks, stamped and die cut a balloon from Whimsy Stamps Happy Everything then covered them with a very liberal sprinkling of holographic embossing powder. The sentiment's from Waltzingmouse. 

Happy stamping!

Claire

MFT Colour Challenge #188 and Friendship

Hello inkers,

A couple of cards for different challenges - the first for MFT's colour challenge using Sweet Christmas Wishes (retired) and a sentiment from Bitty Holiday Wishes:

 

The second one is for Addicted to CAS' 'friendship' challenge. I've used a heap of CAS-ual Friday's products including Bubbly Stencil, Scallop Tag and 'hello' sentiment. 

Covid's hit our household yet again - second time in 5 weeks but at least we don't all have to isolate this time.  When will it ever end...

Happy stamping!

Claire

Paper Players Sketch Challenge

Hello again,

I made things difficult for myself with this CAS card - I liked the sentiment placement in this week's sketch challenge over at The Paper Players but really struggled to work out which stamps to use. Add a pastel colour palette from Sunday Stamps and it really had me stumped! In the end I opted for some pretty blooms from Ink to Paper:

I added some simple stencilling with embossing paste and a sentiment from Poppy Stamps, then painted the edges of the blooms with some Wink of Stella to add some sparkle. It looks far more sparkly IRL!

Happy stamping!

Claire

Floral Fusion

 Hello folks!

The pretty, layered sketch over at CAS on Friday really caught my eye this week and it's definitely one I'll reach for again, I used it with the fresh, Spring colours over at Fusion:

We had a holiday weekend here in Australia so it was a good opportunity to organise some of my stash - when the boys were little the big bloke hand built an amazing Lego station for them. It's made out of some beautiful, native woods with 33 separate drawers. I've been threatening to steal it from my boys for ages as they haven't touched their Lego in months so that's exactly what I did over the weekend. 

In doing so it made me realise how many once loved stamp sets have remained unlinked for years like this pretty bloom from Stamping' Up's Flower Shop. Drawing inspiration from the silver bunny in the Fusion pic, I embossed it in silver, coloured it with Copics and added a variety of stamped leaves and die cuts.  The sentiment's from Altenew. 

This one's also going over to Time Out where they have a Spring-themed challenge happening. 

By the way, I still have a few drawers sitting empty which gives me the perfect excuse to go shopping and fill them doesn't it?

Happy stamping!

Claire

MFT Colour Challenge #187

Hello inkers!

Time for a new set of colours to play with over at MFT :

 

I love the fresh, Spring-like colour palette which made me think of the saying 'April showers bring May flowers' so I inked up the very sweet Rain or Shine - I added Stitched Cloud Die-namics, some stencilled grass with the Grassy Edges Stencil and a selection of MFT designer paper. The sentiment's from Itty Bitty Basics. 

Spring is an ongoing theme in blogland at the moment so I'm also linking up to Time Out's new 'Spring' challenge.  Simon Says Stamp's Monday challenge has a 'whatever the weather' theme happening so I'm throwing this one in the ring over there too. 

It's Autumn here in Sydney but it's literally not stopped raining for the entire Summer. And rained. And rained. And rained some more. In fact, I'd almost say it's been worse than a UK Summer - which is really saying something!

Hope it's bright and sunny wherever you are,

Claire 

Altenew - April 2022 Challenge

Hello, hope you had a fun and choc-filled Easter!

Here's a card for Altenew's current inspiration challenge:

 

I used Handpicked Bouquet - I love this set as it's one large stamp that can be cut down and arranged so it has an entirely different look. I white embossed and watercolored, then added a few leaves from Beautiful Day.  The background is the Dotted Lines Debossing Cover Die - the die is so intricate I felt as though the blooms were a little lost and looked like they were floating in mid air so I cut out a centre panel and matted it on black card stock using dimensional tape - a sentiment from Tiny Sentiments: Hello and a scatter of sequins and it was done. 

Happy stamping!

Claire