Belated

I had a little play earlier as I wanted to see if I could come up with a card for the 'Less Is More' challenge.  The problem is, I don't have any geometric stamps except these which I hope will be acceptable.  The stamps are from Hero Arts and I have randomly stamped and heat embossed them having first masked off the area.  I then drew two lines with a promarker.  I finished off with a stamped and embossed sentiment.  With hindsight, I should have used stronger coloured inks for the stamping.

Challenges

Less Is More - One Layer/Geometric

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Winter's Butterfly

Challenges

ABC Xmas - Girl Or Guy

Forever Friends (59) - Dies/Punches

Anything Goes (90) - Metal (Silver Metallic Card)

C.R.A.F.T. (202) - Xmas

Card Crafters Circle (70) - Dies

Winter Wonderland - No Red Or Green

Here is a card I made last year but didn't get to show you.  I made the background by stamping with Versamark and applying cosmic shimmers.  The sentiment has been stamped and layered with nesties.  The snowflakes have also been die-cut and gems added to the centres.  Hope you like it, thanks for looking.

Card Recipe

Stamps - Hero Arts

Gems - stash



Get Well Soon

Challenges

Less Is More (21) - Sketch
One Stop Craft (137) - Get Well soon
A Spoonful Of Sugar (158) - Get Well Soon
Simon Says - Lemon/Lavender

I will be the first to admit that I am definately NOT a minimalist but I have had a go with this get well card (get well verse inside). I hope it can be classed as 'clean & simple' as I do struggle to get it right... Anyway I have used a white 5" x 7" base card and added a punched strip of lemon cardstock. I then stamped the sentiment directly onto the base card. Next I found a scrap of lavender patterned paper in my rather large scrapbox and stamped the flowers onto it. Once I cut the flowers out I simply attached them with foam pads. I even resisted adding glitter to the flowers, had to tie my hands behind my back though ha! ha! Hope you like this deviation from the norm, thanks for looking.

Card Recipe

Flower Stamp - Hero Arts
Sentiment Stamp - Hobby Art
Paper - Scrapbox

Fancy Folds

Challenges

The Creative Cottage (10) - Fancy Folds

I don't know what sort of card you would call this but it was in a friend's kit so I thought I would see what I could come up with. The bit from the kit was the fancy fold card and some other bits of card with silver flowers on it. As you can see I used some of the floral card to add to the bits in the middle. For the front I simply made up a bouquet of white flowers and added a punched butterfly from sparkly hologram card. On the other side I stamped, embossed and layered a sentiment and added a couple of punched butterflies from white pearl paper. Considering neither of us knew quite what to do with it I think it came out quite well.

Card - Create & Craft
Stamp - Hero Arts
Flowers - Stash

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Boo!!!

Challenges

Delightful Sketches (9) - Sketch

Cute Cards (82) - Spook Fest

One Stop Crafts (51) - Halloween

Stamp With Fun (29) - Halloween

Cupcake Craft (61) - Things that go bump in the night

What a great sketch to work with and fun themes. I've tried to keep it fairly simple by using plain card rather than mixing patterns of paper. The main image has been coloured with MLP pens. The sentiment is computer generated and the little spiders are stamped.

Card Recipe

Digi Stamp - D.A.I.S.I.E.

Spider Stamp - Hero Arts

Paper - The Creative Cottage

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Simon Says Challenge (16)

The Simon Says Challenge this week wants 'Anything BUT A Card' so I am entering this little Seed Packet Holder that I made. I folded the green card and held it in place with a couple of eyelets. I then stamped the sentiment (Hero Arts) and layered it using nesties. I added some flowers and leaves and popped a packet of seeds inside.

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Glitzy Windy Tree

Challenges

Sketch & Stash (13) - Sketch (Stamp)

Secret Crafter (37) - Pink & Green

Charisma Cardz (24) - Diamonds are a girl's best friend

My friend came around yesterday with some new stamps and let me have a play with them and this is one of them. As soon as I saw it I thought of putting gems on it and doing it in pink & green, one of my favourite colour combos. Another bright card again.......

Card Recipe

Stamp - Hero Arts

Paper - Summertime Designs

Gems/Brads/Flowers - Stash

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Crafty Creations Challenge (17)

This week's challenge is 'Butterflies'. I made this card a little while ago using an image from a friend. I used glitter pens to colour the image and layered it using my nesties. I stamped a greeting onto strips of card and then added some flowers to finish it off.

Card Recipe

Stamps - Hero Arts/Friends Stamp

Paper - Making Cards Freebie

Flowers/Brads - Stash

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Meow!

Challenges

Friday Sketchers (49) - Sketch

Colour Create (13) - Orange/Green/Brown

Charisma Cardz (17) - Thank You

Rainbow Lady (58) - Four Legged Friends

Here's another one using this lovely soft orange coloured card. I think this kitty is so cute. Another stamp belonging to my friend Sue, forgot to look who made it, sorry. All I did was to stamp it in brown, colour the eyes green and add diamond glaze to highlight them and add a ribbon bow. I also sponged the edges with ink and added punched flowers and brads. Having stamped a sentiment at the top I just added some fibres and foam letters.

Card Recipe

Stamps - Hero Arts & borrowed from friend

Papers - Daisy & Dandelion

Everything Else - Stash

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Friday Sketchers (41) Challenge

I decided to try something different for this card by not using a 'stamped' image, shock! horror! You see I went to The Range yesterday for some bits and bobs and came across a lovely flower punch which I just had to have, like you do. Anyway, onto the card...

First I covered the card with design paper and added a ribbon across the bottom. I then cut two rectangles of white cardstock and two larger ones in purple and layered them. On the first one I stamped and embossed the sentiment. On the second one I doodled some flower stalks with a MLP pen. I then used the punch to cut the flowers out of handmade paper. I coloured the edges of the petals with a MLP pen and added pearls to the centres. I then placed three at the top of the stalks and added a bow to the bottom. I finished off by placing the remaining flowers at the bottom of the card.

Card Recipe

Stamp - Hero Arts
Punch - Xcut
Everything Else - Stash

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Thinking Of You/LOTV Challenge (16)

I was asked to do this one for my son to give to a friend who is having health problems at the moment, I hope it cheers her up a bit.

I used the 'masking' technique to create the two flowers. I diecut the slider using a cuttlebug die.

Card Recipe

Stamps - Woodware, Hero Arts and Studio G
Papers - Summertime Designs
Brad - Stash

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A Spoonful Of Sugar Challenge

I have made this card using the sketch from the Cutie Sunday challenge and combined it with A Spoonful Of Sugar challenge which this week is 'paper piecing'. The stamps I have used are Hero Arts and all the papers are Dovecraft. The brads are from my stash.

I must admit I am not keen on this one, perhaps it isn't bright enough!

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Mini Card Set

I have now completed the cards and envelopes to go in the 4"x4" Pizza Box that I made earlier. I'm afraid it is not a very good photo due to poor lighting.

I have done six cards and envelopes all using paper from K and Company. The greeting stamps are Hero Arts and are layered using my nesties in the cuttlebug. Gems, brads and prima flowers are from my stash.

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Santa came back today...

WooHoo! Santa came back and brought these Whimsey stamps with him, can't wait to try them out.

They are my prize from the Stamp Something Challenge Blog (thank you ladies) where the theme was 'red, green & gold'. I made the card shown here using a freebie background paper. I then cut a bottle shape out of green mirri board and used the foil from my dairy spread (recycled) for the top of the bottle. I then cut out a label shape and stamped and embossed it with part of a Hero Arts stamp. The greeting at the top was stamped using a Studio G Clear Stamp. To finish off I die cut the numbers on my Cuttlebug using gold pearl board. Thanks for looking.