Shades of Autumn

Welcome

I recently won at I Spy with My Little Eye,

and was offered a guest design position for this months challenge

I Spy With My Little Eye - Shades of Autumn

I started with the orange base and gold rectangles, but placed a snippet of card in the centre, that had been lightly sprayed with gold mica spray.  I did some faux gold stitching around the corners that showed to match it to the gold die cuts.

When I know when/how I will use this card, the sentiment will be adhered across the centre of the card.

I had been 'playing' with my large maple leaf stamp, embossing it and then painting it with watercolours, and very lightly spraying with more mica sprays.  

These I mounted over the gold rectangles with foam dots for a wee bit of dimension.

I also stamped in Versamark ink, and covered with copper Perfect Pearls, my small maple leaf around the plain orange corners - a very subtle detail that is not obvious until the light catches them

The third large leaf was adhered to the left hand side of the card

And some small leaves stamped on the corners of the liner and 'coloured with perfect pearls again

The envelope was stamped with the small stamp in various inks, and then loosely painted with the same (diluted) colours.

The stamps are both from small New Zealand companies, one of which is now defunct, and the other is transitioning to a new internet platform, so I cannot link it at the moment.

I am linking this to:

Stamping Sensations October Challenge - Autumn Colours

Word Art Wednesday Challenge Weeks #617 + 618 - Anything Goes

Pammie's Inky Pinkies Challenge #2341 - Anything Goes

A Place To Start October Challenge - Anything Goes

Rabisco Challenge #50 - Anything Goes

Sheepski Designs October Challenge #79 - Autumn or Halloween Colours

The Crafting Challenge - Autumn or Halloween

Creative Crafter Challenge #69 - Anything Goes

Make My Monday Challenge #211 - Autumn Colours

The Four Seasons October Challenge - Anything Fall (Inspiration photo)

(I took the orange colour)

Mood Board and a Butterfly

Welcome

*Please note: We will be announcing some challenge changes, so please make a note to check our new challenge post on 5th November.

This post is the first of two today - both DT cards... This post is for the mid-month reminder for 

We Love Stamping, where we have a mood board to inspire/challenge us.

Once again I have gone with the colours, there is also a picture of a Bird of Paradise flower that reminded me of a butterfly, so this is the resultant slider card.

As you can see, the recipient is (has just turned) five.

Again I started with some more of the mica sprayed background of gold with a tad of violet in it.

I die cut the channel for the slider butterfly, and stamped, embossed and coloured the image before fussy cutting it and sorting out how to make it slide - I was rather rusty on the technique, but You Tube came to the rescue.  The stamp and die were part of a magazine freebie set, as was the sentiment in the channel, which was also gold embossed on a snippet of the background paper.

I added gold embossed butterflies to the base panel, and also a few wee purple and orange flowers 

I decided to use them to hide an 'oops'. 

The number was die cut from purple sparkly card

Two butterflies adorned the inside panel

And three butterflies fluttered up the side of the envelope.

I am linking this to:

Simon Says Monday Challenge - Text it

Stamping Sensations October Challenge - Autumn Colours or Anything Goes

Digi Chooseday Challenge Week #41 - Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday Challenge Weeks #617 + 618 - Anything Goes

Pammie's Inky Pinkies Challenge 32341 - Anything Goes

Classic Design Challenge #10 - October - Anything Goes

Crafts Galore Encore October Challenge #116 - Anything Goes

Creatalicious Challenge #269 - Anything Goes 

A Perfect Time To Craft October Challenge - Anything Goes

{Pin}spration October Challenge #306 - Birthday and Orange

(Inspired by the theme and the colour)

Sparkly Ballerina

Welcome

I recently made this card for a young girl who loves dance and gymnastics.

I started with a piece of paper that had been in my spray box, that was mainly Lindy's Magicals in 

Get a Guy Gold... and it was delightfully sparkly... 

I then saw the lighter coloured piece on my desk, a snippet from a piece which had also been sprayed, but not fully used, with some of the same gold spray. That was placed on the the middle of the card,

I stamped and fussy cut the image (from an older Rosie's set of stamps)  I added the gold strip for a stage, and some brown for a shadow, but it didn't quite work out how I envisaged it... 

The dress was then stamped on a snippet, in Altenew inks from the Shades of Purple set of mini ink cubes, and fussy cut, painted very generously with WoS, and layered over the profile of the dancer,

I positioned the completed dancer on the centre panel of the card.

The 'stage' was then framed with snippets of lace to form curtains, tied back with fine gold cord.

The sentiment was gold embossed on the background paper, some of the sparkle in the paper can be seen in this above photo.  The stamp is from a now defunct company, and was one of my originals some 20 years ago, or more!!

The inside was finished with a strip of the background paper

And the envelope with lace and the gold tape, as I was hand delivering it!

I am linking this to:

Word Art Wednesday Challenge Weeks 617 + 618 - Anything Goes

Snippets Playground Challenge #465 - Anything using snippets goes

(Snippets of card used for part of the background, the dancer and her dress, 

snippets of lace for the curtains)

Pammie's Inky Pinkies Challenge #2341 - Anything Goes

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge #216 - Anything Goes

Polkadoodles Challenge Week #41 - Anything Goes

Crafty Catz Challenge #654 - Anything Goes

The Crafty Addicts Challenge #6 - Anything Goes

A Gem of a Challenge Week #21 - Anything Goes

Jan's Digi stamps October Challenge - Anything Goes

Ally's Angels Challenge #75 - Anything Goes

I Have the Bauble Blues...

Welcome

Some months ago, I won a year's supply of new release stamps from Uniko!  To say I was excited was the understatement.  Today's card uses the Mid-Century Modern Baubles set that was in the July/August release.  I was inspired by one of the DT cards, by Steph Mortimor, but also made it my own when I CASE'd it.

I used the elongated ornament to form a mandala, then one of the tiny stamps in the set to form the flower chain through the of the mandala, all stamped in Memento Danube Blue

When I cut the resulting mandala out of the white sheet of card, I tapped a cotton bud/q-tip on the ink pad and inked around the edge of the design to 'hide' the white edges.

It was mounted over a panel I had been experimenting with making backgrounds on.

The sparkle strip is one from a pack I was gifted by a friend, and the sentiment came from a small

New Zealand firm, Montarga

The inside was finished with a trimming from the background panel, and I also inked the edge of the panel in the ink.  (Sorry about the fuzzy image, but the card was long gone before I realised)

I am linking this to:

Word Art Wednesday Challenge Weeks #617 + 618 - Anything Goes

Ally's Angels Challenge #75 - Anything Goes

Paperminutes Challenge #816 - Handmade Background

Digi Chooseday Challenge Week #40 - Anything Goes

Pammie's Inky Pinkies Challenger #2340 - Anything Goes

Elliebelles Crafty Wednesday's October Challenge - Anything Goes

Little Red Wagon Challenge #726 - Who Wants To Live Forever/Birthday

A Place To Start October Challenge - Anything Goes

Jan's Digi Stamp Designs October Challenge - Anything Goes

Stamping Sensations October Challenge - Anything Goes Option

Steampunk Mona Lisa!!

Welcome

As soon as I saw the main image on this card at Gecko Girls, I knew who would appreciate it on a card. The freebie image was for their September Steampunk Challenge, and is no longer available.  I couldn't show it then as it is was a September birthday, and the recipient sees my cards... 

I started with some Kraft card and stamped this Graffiti Texture Background  in 

Lawn Fawn River Stone ink as the base for the card.

The image was sized and printed, and I ran the edges over the grey ink before mounting it 'off square' on some silver cardstock, that was them mounted on an angle on the base.

The cogs were die cut from the same silver card.  The dies are very old Marianne ones, and I think discontinued.  You can just see the sparkle in the silver on the right edge of the card.

The diecuts were mounted as shown, and the greeting stamped on white in the same ink, layered onto some more silver card and adhered using some silver split pins

Some more cogs and a bit of a cheeky sentiment for the inside.

The theme continued on the envelope with another (unmarked) cog diecut

The recipient enjoyed the card :)

I am linking this to:

The Crafty Addicts October Challenge #6 - Anything Goes

Creative Knock Outs Challenge #505 - Punches, Die Cuts, Stencils

Creative Fingers Challenge #263 - Anything Goes

Pammie's Inky Pinkies Challenge #2340 - Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday Challenge Weeks #615 + 616 - Anything Goes

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge #215 - Anything Goes

We Love 2 Create Challenge #9 - Anything Mixed Media Goes

PolkaDoodles Challenge Week #40 - Anything Goes

A Gem of a Challenge Week #20 - Anything Goes

Allsorts Challenge #789 - Vintage

Playing with Colour

Welcome

I was playing with colours, particularly autumnal tones, recently, and this is the result.

I stamped and embossed the tiny maple leaf (discontinued) on some snippets,  watercoloured them. then wondered where to go from there.... 

I found this NBUS Memory Box die, (Forest Tree Frame, apparently discontinued) cut it from another larger white cardstock snippet, trimmed off the frame and then used Lindy's Magicals to paint it

which gave it a very subtle glimmer, which matched the gold embossing

The background was brushed using a Uniko Cloud 9 stencil , and a piece of torn paper for the 'hills'.

The sentiment was a magazine freebie, gold embossed.

I decided to mount the focal panel to the top left of the background layers, rather than centrally.

I continued the colours on the inside with some gold floral washi and a wee strip of darker card

I stamped and loosely water coloured the leaves on the envelope, using the same inks I had stamped with - I had already addressed it before photographing it, hence only the decorated edge is shown here... 

I am linking this to:

The Paper Funday Challenge #58 - Anything Goes Opt use yellow, orange and green

LeAnne's World 101 Challenge #65 - Anything Goes

Dream Valley Challenge #301 - Any Occasion other than Birthday

Jan's Digi Stamps October Challenge - Anything Goes

Digi Chooseday Challenge Week #39 - Anything Goes

Pammie's Inky Pinkies challenge #2339 - Anything Goes

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge #215 - Anything Goes

Dragonfly Dreams Challenge - Autumn

Snippets Playground Challenge #464 - Anything Goes Using Snippets

Allsorts Challenge #748 - Autumn Trees, Leaves and Berries

Crocus Sympathy

Welcome

I love the way this card came together, as I was more than somewhat challenged with the 'mood board' that is the inspiration for the new October challenge at We Love Stamping.

In the end, I simply used the basic colours of purple and orange

The sentiment, from Divinity Designs, was gold embossed

The Crocus stamp is a Uniko one, I also gold embossed it, and painted it with watercolours. 

What the camera has picked up as blue is actually a soft purple.

I  masked the image and sprayed the background with a Mr Huey colour mist -  Sorbet.  Again the camera has not shown the true colour, which is more orange than the yellow as it shows. 

The base I adhered the focal panel to is also a soft purple.

A solid gold strip of Washi on the inside, to match the two snippets of gold under the corners of the main panel

The image was repeated on the envelope, stamped using markers on the image.

The prize this month has a wonderful collection of elements,

          

Do come and join in the fun, as there is always an Anything Goes option to the challenge.

I am linking this to:   

A Gem of a Challenge Week #20 - Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday Challenge Weeks #615 + 616 - Anything Goes

Pammie's Inky Pinkies Challenge #2338 - Anything Goes

Polkadoodles Challenge Week #39 - Anything Goes

Krafty Chicks Challenge #683 - All Occasions

Tic Tac Toe Challenge #228 - Top Left - Bottom Right

(free, orange, embossing)

Pattie's Creations September Challenge #210 - Anything Goes with a coloured image

Crafty Catz Challenge #352 - Anything Goes

Creative Fingers Challenge #262 - Anything Goes

Happy Little Stampers October Watercolour Challenge - Anything Water Coloured Goes