Wednesday already!

Hello!

I can't believe it is Wednesday already...the week is definitely getting away from me.  Anyway, I have found time to make cards to play along with a few of my favourite challenges:

This card features lovely floral stamps and a sentiment from Clearly Besotted Stamps.  I have coloured the image using distress inks and water.  Some splatter and a few sequins to finish.  I will link this up with Less Is More's Challenge to feature watercolour on our card along with Clearly Besotted's Anything Goes Challenge (just!).  I can also link up with Keep It Simple's Challenge to use splatters.

My next card was inspired by the code word at Addicted to CAS - Sun:

 

I have used circle stamps from Uniko Studio and a sentiment from Mama Elephant.  I popped up the stitched tag for added interest.  I really like this very CAS look :)  I will also link up with Simon Says Stamp's Wednesday Challenge where Anything Goes. 

 

I best dash as the link ups close on a few of these within the hour!!

 

I hope you like the cards - thanks for your kind comments :)

 

Sarah x

Float My Boat

Hello! 

I hope you have had a sunshiney Saturday :)  Just a few simple cards from me today:

 

Here is a card that I have made to play along with The Card Concept's nautical theme using (new to me) Lawn Fawn stamps and dies.  I have put some wink of stella on the sails and used the negative edges of a scallop border punch for my waves.

 

I made my next card playing around with these lovely border sentiment stamps from Simon Says Stamp.  I coloured and glittered some wood veneer stars as embellishments.  This was a super quick card to create :)

 

 

My final card today is playing with my new Uniko Studio butterfly stamps which are gorgeous.  I gold embossed them and used my current favourite stencil from Simon Says Stamp.  The middle panel looked a bit stark so I added some gold splatters.  The sentiment is from Mama Elephant.  I love black and gold as a colour combo....I do come back to it time and again.  Because my card features splatters I will join up at Keep It Simple's current challenge to use splatters :) and at Simon's Wednesday Challenge which is to make cards for friends.

 

 

Three cards in one post?  I will have to go and have a lie down :)

 

Hopefully I will have something more to share tomorrow if I can sneak back for more playtime in my craft room - should be easy with the world cup distracting my boys!

 

Thanks for your visit - stop by again soon :)

 

Sarah x

 

 

One Layer Cards

Hello!

I hope you have had a good week....it feels like it has been a long one!  I am looking forward to a lazy weekend :)

I ran out of time to play along with Less is More this week but did make a few one layer cards with my new floral stamps from Waltzingmouse Stamps.  I do like them and they are easy to mask and layer up to create some dimension on a one layer card.  Here is what I came up with:

 

I combined the florals with a sentiment from Hero Arts Messages with Flourish.  On my next card I masked a strip and stamped a sentiment from Avery Elle.  I love the fonts of these sentiments :)

 

 

Although I missed Less is More, I did really want to play along with CASology's challenge this week where the cue card is Celebrate.  This is their 100th challenge - woot!  The CASology challenges are so fun and I always love the creations from the super talented design team :)

 

That's it from me tonight...hopefully I will have more to share over the weekend.  Thanks for your visit and kind comments :)

 

Sarah x

 

Hello Sunshine

Hello!

Just a few cards that I have made using stencils - they are pretty bright....do you have your sunglasses on?!

 

Here I have just inked through a journaling card to create a bold greeting.  I have used picked raspberry, mustard seed, spiced marmalade, scattered straw and squeezed lemonade distress inks.  Love this summer colour combo!  It was inspired by Jocelyn Olson's card in this week's Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge.

 

 

I have used my new (to me) Uniko Studio Flower Power stamps on this card.  The background is stencilled using a Simon Says Stamp stencil - this will get lots of use!  The sentiment is from Altenew's Label Love. 

 

As the Uniko stamps are new I will join up with Darnell's fab Never Before Used Schtuff Challenge:

 

 

along with Simon Says Stamp's Wednesday Challenge to use stencils and Time Out Challenge with a summer theme and optional twist of flowers.

 

I hope you are having a good week - see you again soon!

 

Sarah x

Happily Ever After

Hello!

A quick post from me with another anniversary card:

I made this card with the lovely heart shaped hot air balloons from Clearly Besotted Stamps and one of the fab sentiments from Winnie and Walter.  I used some cloud shaped dies to stencil the background.  A few sequins and some glitter tape to finish.

I will link this up with a few challenges including CASology which has a cue card of anniversary, Simon Says Stamp Wednesday's challenge to use stencils and Addicted to CAS which has a transport theme.

There is also an Anything Goes theme over at the Clearly Besotted blog too so I can join up there!

I hope you like it!  Thanks for stopping by :)

Sarah x

Bokeh Stamping

Hello!

There is a new challenge over at A Blog Named Hero to use bokeh stamping:

I had lots of fun creating these cards using the circle stamps from Hero Arts!  All I did was stamp first and second generation circles of various sizes to give the look of the beautiful blur that you get when photographing lights.  I used lovely soft colours to accentuate the bokeh effect - and that was the perfect excuse to use my new Hero Arts ink daubers too.  They were great to use on stamps.

 

Have you also noticed the great flair buttons that I have used on both cards?  They are from Finding Nana and are just great!

 

Go and check out what the DT have created - their designs are wonderful!

 

I hope you find time to play along with the challenge.  Remember that there is the chance to win a prize from our fab sponsor:

 

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

 

 

 

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A Tag At Last!

Hello! 

I hope your weekend is going well!  World Cup Fever has taken over in our house so I am taking refuge in my craft room :) 

I have been wanting to play along with Virginia's latest challenge over at Virginia's View.  I was a bit stumped as I am not one for making tags and there is the added requirement to use something recycled.....

After much messing about, this is what I came up with:

 

I swooshed each of the tags through distress stains diluted with water and love the backgrounds this created.  Each of the tags features Hero Arts stamps - I spritzed the ferns with water to get a softer look.  The recycled item on the first two is text from an old dictionary that I had saved for die cutting.  There is nothing recycled on the last one, I was just having so much fun making tags!!  I really enjoyed getting inky - thanks Virginia!

 

We are off to visit my father in law for Father's Day - best wishes to all of the wonderful Dads out there :)

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Sarah x