Your Next Stamp Sketch and Colour Challenge #56

G'day folks!

Have you checked out the latest Your Next Stamp challenge over on the Your Next Stamp blog?  I had a play with one of my favourite sets - Silly Monsters, together with the matching dies:

This time I used both the colours and the sketch but you can choose to use just the colours or just the sketch to be in with the chance of winning a YNS Store gift ceritificate. 

Hope you get the chance to get inky!

Claire x

A Touch of Gold

Hello again,

Quick card for this week's Freshly Made Sketch which I've combined with CAS-ual Friday's latest challenge to use gold:

I love blooms with detail like Altenew's Hennah Elements -  I think they look so pretty when they're embossed in gold, especially on elegant cream and black.

Hope you have a fabulous week!

Claire x

Your Next Stamp - Hearts Feature Day

Hello folks!

It's time for us to get all loved up over on the Your Next Stamp blog. With Valentines Day just around the corner we've been asked to create a card including at least one heart:

I used Cool Backgrounds for my card and added three sparkly die cut hearts smothered with white glitter. The sentiment is from the new Love Birds set, released earlier this month.

As always, you have the chance to comment and win over on the blog.  One commenter will be picked at random to win the stamp set of their choice.

I'm also popping my card over to The Card Concept challenge where they have an inspiration pic to inspire. For my clean and graphic card, I was inspired by the square, patterned cushions, the vibrant pinks and oranges and the red cup on the bedside table.

Thanks for popping by!

Claire x

It's Time to Check...

Hello folks!

It's the 17th of the month which means it's the CAS-ual Fridays' Calling all Sistahs Blog Hop - this is a timely reminder for all us girls to check their boobies for any abnormalities. You can read how the hop started here.

This month the lovely folk over at Pretty Pink Posh have donated some of their gorgeous sequins to those of us who have joined in with the hop. These are now available exclusively at CAS-ual Fridays Stamps as part of the Calling All Sistahs range.

Living in Australia does have it's drawbacks, one of them being Australia Post. It would be quicker mailing something via carrier pigeon quite frankly. Needless to say my sequins failed to reach me in time but luckily I already have some PPP sequins so I used them instead.

I also used the Calling All Sistahs set for my card - this set has lots of great phrases to help those fighting breast cancer and to remind our sisters to check their breasts each month. I die cut a variety of circles, blended some pink distress inks (with a touch of yellow thrown in), then added the sentiment in bold black. No avoiding what this card's reminding the recipient to do! Don't forget, 50% of the profits from the Calling All Sistah's range of stamps and dies go directly to NBCF.org to aid research into this insidious disease.

Of course with every hop there's a prize - make a comment on any of the blogs below and you could win one of two CAS-ual Fridays Gift Certificates. next on the hop is Kelly so make sure you drop by to say hi:

CAS-ual Fridays Stamps

Rahmat Gouse

Penny Ward

Gwendolyn Estrada

Vicki Dutcher

Ceal Pritchett

Kara Stainbrook

Sue Nagata

Kimberly Rendino

Susan White

Shona Chambers

Lori McAree

Nora Noll

Melissa Miller

Lori Kobular
Lydia Evans
Sandi Pressley

Lisa Lahiff

Mary Moisan

Kelly Griglione

Theresa Knopf

Jeanne Jachna

Heather North

Hope you have fun hopping and don't forget to check those boobs!

Thanks for stopping,

Claire x

Adorable Elephants

Hi there bloggers!

I combined the latest sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches with this week's colour challenge over at My Favorite Things using their sweet Adorable Elephants set:

I created a Bokeh background and after much faffing decided to put it against black card stock instead of my usual CAS white.  I'm hoping that's allowed under the MFT rules! The little scene I created just didn't work with the column so I stuck to my old rule: if all else fails, stick it at a tilt! 

Hope you have a fabulous week!

Claire x

Your Next Stamp: Sketch and Colour Challenge

Hello, hello,

Have you checked out Your Next Stamp's latest Sketch and Colour challenge? There's the chance to win a gift certificate if you join in:

Don't forget, you can use the colours or the sketch for your YNS project, or even both together. I almost managed to to use the colours as well as the sketch but thought the little cow from Funny Farm Crew could do with a pink nose! 

Hope you get the chance to have a play this week!

Happy stamping!

Claire x

Time Out - Wintry Reminder

Hi folks!

I've had the honour of being this month's Guest designer over at Time Out this month so here's a second card to remind you to get your entries in for their latest challenge. The theme is Winter with the optional twist of  White on White:

This week I chose to do the optional twist and used PTI's Lovely Layers to create a snow white Winter bloom. I smothered a couple of the layered die cuts with white glitter, then alternated the layers with vellum and white cardstock. The Pretty Frame Die is another PTI purchase...I love the layered look you can create with it. 

Go check out the talented design team's creations won't you and if you include a card with the twist, you'll be in the running for a gift certificate from Uniko!

Happy Stamping!

Claire x