Hello friend

Hi everybody....it's been a while!  

I really haven't had much time in the last year as most of my spare time is spent looking after my dad however he has a care package in place now and getting on well so I feel I have some time back. I've also had tennis elbow for a few months which has spread to my wrist so holding a pen or pencil and typing can be painful....but now that we are in lockdown I have been able to rest it a bit so thought this would be the perfect time to get back into it so thought I would start by making something that is familiar to me....and fairly easy.

I bought this stamp a few weeks ago although I didn't realise it was so big, but I think it looks quite funky hanging a bit off the card.  I stamped and white embossed (my favourite technique) and then coloured with water colours.  Once the colour was dry I added some little squiggles of gold leaf, some splodges of colour and some sequins.

Hope you like.

challenges:

Stamping Sensations - Somewhere over the rainbow

Colour Crazy Challenge - Anything Goes

products used:

The Ton Transformation stamp

The Ton Basic Labels stamp

Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers

Sequins

Gold Leaf

Fi

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Fabulous...

Hey all...I was super excited to get this card made after my new goodies arrived.  I spotted a card on Pinterest which was pretty similar and to where I got my inspiration for this one.

I used the stripe stencil for the background ...I masked it to a piece of watercolour card and lightly coloured it with blue and grey watercolours and once dry I added some splats.  I die cut the image, then stamped it up with versamark ink and white embossed.  I then coloured with the same watercolours and when dry layered it with sticky fixers. I stamped the sentiment and also white embossed the word "fabulous"...finished with some sequins.

products used:

Altenew Handpicked bouquet stamp set and die

Altenew Watercolour stripes stencil

Altenew Watercolour palette

white embossing powder

versamark ink

black archival ink

sequins

watercolour card

challenges:

Cute Card Thursday- anything goes

Try it on Tuesday - Splatters and Splotches

Fi

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Thanks...

Hi folks, here I am with a wee card I made last night.  I ordered some new crafty bits so needed to put them to use straight away!

I stamped up the image and white embossed on to watercolour card and then watercoloured using just 3 colours.  I added some splashes of colour, stamped the sentiment and then added some sequins to finish....oh I also forgot i doodled around the edges too!

products used:

MFT Flowers in Bloom stamp set

Altenew watercolour paint palette

sequins

black archival ink

watercolour card

challenges:

Cute  Card Thursday - anything goes

Fi

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Squishy cats...

Happy Sunday everybody!

Well last night I made a start on colouring this little cute stamp, was trying hard to get the shading right but then I could hear the lovely Faye shouting at me to stop...so I did.

the stamp is from Stamping Bella and I coloured with copics.  I found a little paw stamp in my stash which was good luck and I die cut the hello.

hope you like.

challenges:

Allsorts - clean and simple

Crafty Catz - anything goes

Papercraft Challenge - anything goes

Fiona

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Well, well, well...

Well, well, well...its been a long time since I posted or even made a card...life has just got in the way for a bit and most of my spare time is now spent looking after my dad but I had a little me time at the weekend and I feel I need to get practising...not as good as I wanted it to turn out.  Hopefully it will all come back to me soon!

Products used:

Simon Says Stamp - sketch lotus flowers

Zig Clean Color brush pens

Sequins

archival ink

challenges:

Simon Says Stamp - anything goes

Some sweet succulents...

Howdy folks!

I am still trying to get my mojo back and when I saw there was a wee competition on the My Favourite Things Card Blog, I thought it would give me something to get stuck into...

The first card is for the Clean & Simple Genius category...

First I inked up a couple of the stamps using black memento ink, onto the panel and then added some splodges too.  I stamped one of the stamps and pots onto a scrap piece of white card and coloured using copics.  I then fussy cut and layered them together and layered onto the panel using sticky fixers.  I stamped one of the sentiments and white embossed then die cut using the pennant die.  I then fixed to the panel.  I layered onto black card and then onto the blank card.  I finished with some sequins.

Products used: MFT Sweet Succulents, MFT Distressed Patterns and MFT Stitched Pennants

The second card is for the Colouring Virtuoso category...

I had to make this card using my favourite technique...white embossing and watercolouring!

First I white embossed several of the images, but I did mask each of them so I could overlay them.  I then added colour using my zig clean color brush pens (which I love), I added some shading around the images.  I then added some splodges and sequins.  I also doodled around the edges and added the stamped sentiment.

Products used: MFT Sweet Succulents, MFT Distressed Patterns and MFT Stitched Pennants

Hope you like my entries!

Fi

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