Black, white & pink #2 ...

Hello my lovely friends and visitors, I hope your week is going well. I’ve been playing with a another new to me Penny Black stamp and here is the end result …

A 148mm square card

No issues posting this one

All the details

A final look

Created for me and especially for these Challenges

DL Art October 2019 Linky Challenge

Penny Black Saturday Challenge Black, Pink & White

Scrapy Land Challenge #124 AG using dies by companies at Scrapy Land

I used Spellbinders dies 
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Anything Goes

I die cut three rectangles of white stamping card out and then on the reverse of the card I attached them together with some masking tape. I then inked the fuchsia with my Spectrum Aqua pens and lightly sprayed the stamp with water before stamping once, I dried the stamp then moved the card over a little before I inked up the stamp and sprayed it with water before stamping a second time. I adhered the white die cuts to black card and trimmed them with my steel edged ruler and a craft knife. I die cut and coloured the sentiment and put the card together – simples lol! Thank you so much for taking the time to visit and comment. I really do appreciate it and I hope you get some time to do what you love to do soon ttfn Karen x

Tools

Stamp:

Penny Black 2931K Brush Fuchsia stamp

Die Cutting Machine & Dies:

Sizzix Big Shot Plus die cutting machine

Spellbinders Nestabilities Rectangles

Miscellaneous Tools:

Tim Holtz stamping platform; spray water bottle; heat tool

Supplies

Card &/ Paper &/ Substrates:

148mm square card

Snippets: white stamping card; matt black card; fuchsia card

EP Ink/Paint/Pen Colours:

Spectrum Aqua pens

Embellishments:

Sequins

Adhesives/Mediums:

Collall all purpose glue

Golden light #2 ...

Hello my lovely friends and visitors, I hope your week is going well. I’ve been playing with more paper and another of the Snip Art Shaker Frames along with a few other bits and bobs and and here is the end result …

An A5 Christmas card

I will have to hand deliver this card

All the details

The beautiful shaker element

A final look

Created for me and especially for these Challenges

Crafty Hazelnut’s Christmas Challenge #461 Anything Goes

Snip Art Challenge #55 Light

For this card I did exactly the same as I did for the last Snip Art card that I blogged here.  I coloured my frame with an Antique Linen Distress ink pad and then added a layer of gold Imagination Crafts paint over the top. I added more sequins to the shaker frame this time. I trimmed the patterned paper to size (it’s an A5 card) and edged the card and the patterned paper with Barn Door Distress ink pad. I coloured a piece of card with gold Imagination Crafts and traced around the shaker frame so that I could glue it onto the shaker frame and then mounted the whole thing onto my card, without the sequins falling out.

I added a Tim Holtz chipboard sentiment, WOC flowers and Prima Blooms to finish. For a change no extra sequins were added to the card because there are quite a lot in the frame lol!  Thank you so much for taking the time to visit and comment. I really do appreciate it and I hope you get some time to do what you love to do soon ttfn Karen x

Miscellaneous Tools:

Paintbrushes; water pot; paint palette; ink blending tool & foam

Supplies

Card &/ Paper &/ Substrates:

A5 card

Craft Box: A4 Christmas Tale patterned paper

Snippets: white stamping card (for the back of the shaker box)

EP Ink/Paint/Pen Colours:

Distress ink pad: Antique Linen; Barn Door

Imagination Crafts Starlights paints: Gold

Embellishments:

Snip Art: Frosty Moments Shaker Box

Tim Holtz chipboard

WOC roses

Prima blooms

Ribbon

Sequins

Adhesives/Mediums:

Collall all purpose glue

Collall 3D glue gel

Trees ...

Hello my lovely friends and visitors, I hope your week is going well. I’ve been playing with stamps, snippets and very old stash and here is the end result …

A 7" square card

Good to post

All the stamped detail

A final look

Created for me and especially for these Challenges

Crafty Hazelnut’s Christmas Challenge #461 Anything Goes

Crimbo Crackers Challenge #196 Anything Goes

DL Art October 2019 Linky Challenge

Winter Wonderland Challenge Merry & Bright

I started this card by stamping the Christmas sentiment mutliple times down the right hand side on the length of the cream card. Once I had stamped all those details I inked up and stamped and embossed the trees across the card. I edged the card using Broken China ink pad and ink blending tool and foam and added the blue flowers and brads to finish. Yipee!! One more Christmas card done for our box. Thank you so much for taking the time to visit and comment. I really do appreciate it and I hope you get some time to do what you love to do soon ttfn Karen x

Tools

Stamp:

Lavinia stamps: Celestial Tree; Spirit of Christmas; Snowflakes

Miscellaneous Tools:

Tim Holtz stamping platform; spray water bottle; heat tool; ink blending tool & foam

Supplies

Card &/ Paper &/ Substrates:

Card blank

Snippets: cream card; Kraft card; patterned paper

EP Ink/Paint/Pen Colours:

Distress ink pads: Faded Jeans; Broken China

Silver embossing powder

Green embossing powder

Embellishments:

Ribbon

Fabric flowers

Brads

Gem Brads

Adhesives/Mediums:

Versamark IP

Collall all purpose glue

Collall 3D glue gel

Foam pads

Black, white & pink #1 ...

Hello my lovely friends and visitors, I hope your week is going well. I’ve been playing with some new to me stamps as well as some older tools and this is the end result …

A 5" x 7" card

Not a problem posting this one

All the details

A final look

Created for me and especially for these Challenges

Allsorts Challenge #543 No Designer Papers 
Die Cuttin’ Divas Challenge #444 Anything Goes

DL Art October 2019 Linky Challenge

Penny Black Saturday Challenge Black, white & pink

Scrapy Land Challenge #124 AG using dies by companies at Scrapy Land

I used Spellbinders dies

Stamplorations Challenge October Stencil

The Corrosive Challenge October Anything Goes

I used my Spectrum Aqua pens to ink up the stamp in black and with the deep pink and then I lightly sprayed the inked stamped before stamping onto a die cut circle. I created the background by attaching the stencil to my 5” x 7” card and then inked with my black Archival. I need to get a black dye ink pad, lol, but until I do my Archival does the job just fine. I coloured the die cut scalloped circle with my Worn Lipstick Distress paint, I’m trying to use that up! But I coloured the die cut sentiment with my Spectrum Aqua pen. I love the look and how graphic in style this card is because of creating a black background which is something that I do not normally do but will do again some time. As per usual I used three sequins as a finishing touch. Thank you so much for taking the time to visit and comment. I really do appreciate it and I hope you get some time to do what you love to do soon ttfn Karen x

Tools

Stamp &/ Stencil:

Penny Black 2827K Song Bird stamping

Stamplorations Foiled Again stencil

Die Cutting Machine & Dies:

Sizzix Big Shot Plus die cutting machine

Spellbinders Nestabilities Large Classic Circle & Large Scalloped Circle dies

Crafters Companion sentiment

Miscellaneous Tools:

Tim Holtz stamping platform; spray water bottle; heat tool; paintbrushes; water pot; paint palette; ink blending tool & foam

Supplies

Card &/ Paper &/ Substrates:

5” x 7” card

Snippets: white stamping card

EP Ink/Paint/Pen Colours:

Spectrum Aqua Black & Blossom pens

Ranger Archival Jet Black IP

Worn Lipstick Distress paint

Embellishments:

Sequins

Adhesives/Mediums:

Collall all purpose glue

Masking tape

Foam pads

Pretty pink and green ...

Hello my lovely friends and visitors, I hope your week has started well. I’ve been playing with a stencil and a beautiful newish stamp and here is the end result …

A 5" x 7" card

Good to post

All the details

The pretty flower

A final look

Created for me and especially for these Challenges

Allsorts Challenge #543 No Designer Papers

Colour Crazy Challenge #42 Anything Goes

Penny Black & More Challenge Pretty in Pink  

Penny Black Saturday Challenge Anything Goes

Stamplorations Challenge October Stencil

The Corrosive Challenge October Anything Goes

I have to admit that I really love the effect of the stencilling on the background and then the stamped topper – that flower is so pretty and the background uses my all time favourite stencil. I used several snippets of coloured card to die cut the sentiment and the butterflies from. I coloured the flower using my Spectrum Noir AquaTints, watercolouring the flower and then I added a shadow of grey around it. That’s something that I need to practice but it was on the whole a joy to create such a light and summery card. Thank you so much for taking the time to visit and comment. I really do appreciate it and I hope you get some time to do what you love to do soon ttfn Karen x

Tools

Stamp &/ Stencil:

Penny Black 40-610 Summer Glow stamp

Stamplorations Foiled Again stencil

Die Cutting Machine & Dies:

Sizzix Big Shot Plus die cutting machine

Crafters Companion: Happy Birthday die; Flit & Flutter dies

Miscellaneous Tools:

Tim Holtz stamping platform; spray water bottle; heat tool; paintbrushes; water pot; paint palette; ink blending tool & foam

Supplies

Card &/ Paper &/ Substrates:

5” x 7” card

Snippets: white stamping card

EP Ink/Paint/Pen Colours:

Tuxedo Black Versafine IP

Green Apple Color Box IP

Spectrum Noir AquaTints: Perfectly Primary

Grey Spectrum Aqua pen

Embellishments:

Sequins

Adhesives/Mediums:

Collall all purpose glue

Bokeh Christmas ...

Hello my lovely friends and visitors, I hope your weekend is going well, I’m back with another post as I have a few projects I’ve not gotten around to sharing on my blog that I created for Challenges and because Christmas is coming lol! I’ve been playing with the beautiful snowglobe stamp set again, lol, and here is the end result …

A 5" x 7" card

Not too deep

The beautiful snow globe

Some of the beautiful shimmer from the Lindy's sprays

Created for me and especially for these Challenges

Allsorts Challenge #543 No Designer Papers

Country View Crafts Challenge Bokeh

Crafty Hazelnut’s Christmas Challenge #461 Anything Goes

Crimbo Crackers Challenge #196 Anything Goes

Stamplorations Challenge October Stencil

Winter Wonderland Challenge Merry & Bright

The background for this card was created by spraying the card with Lindy’s Stamp Gang sprays and once dry I added white ink through a dotty stencil. I applied the ink heavily because I wanted it to look like it was snowing on the background. Then I started working on the stamped globe and scene. I used a mask that I put in the sky to create a moon and then I coloured the sky by adding Distress ink. I then heat dried the sky before adding white dots of acrylic paint to make it look like it’s snowing. I used my own masks to create the snowdrifts then stamped the trees in the background. Then I stamped the wee children on the sledge and throwing snowballs. I fussy cut the snowglobe out this time because I made a major error on the background to it.

I added white streaks of acrylic paint either side of the globe to try and make it look three dimensional and attached it onto a die cut square which I coloured with Stormy Sky Distress Oxide ink pad. My final touch was to add sparkle to the moon and to the snow at the front of the globe so I added a layer Spectrum Noir Sparkle paint in the clear overlay – I love that product for adding shimmer and shine! Thank you so much for taking the time to visit and comment. I really do appreciate it and I hope you get some time to do what you love to do soon ttfn Karen x

Tools

Stamp &/ Stencil:

Claritystamp: Snow Globe stamp set; moon mask

Snip Art stencil

Die Cutting Machine & Dies:

Sizzix Big Shot Plus die cutting machine

Spellbinders Nestabilities Lacey Squares

Miscellaneous Tools:

Tim Holtz stamping platform; spray water bottle; heat tool; paintbrushes; water pot; paint palette; ink blending tool & foam

Supplies

Card &/ Paper &/ Substrates:

5” x 7” card

Snippets: white stamping card

EP Ink/Paint/Pen Colours:

Versafine ink pads: Tuxedo Black; Olympia Green

Distress ink pads: Broken China; Faded Jeans; Picket Fence

Distress Oxide ink pads: Stormy Sky

Lindy’s Stamp Gang:

Scattered Straw Distress Stain

Clear Overlay Spectrum Noir Sparkle Paint

White acrylic paint

Adhesives/Mediums:

Collall all purpose glue

Foam pads