I'm Back with a Challenge Duo

Back again having rifled through my photos - knew I had this one somewhere!

So I'm joining the wonderful, generous and super fun Darnell's

NBUS challenge with this one using my Clearly Besotted Bon Voyage

stamp set as it's 'new but (so far) unused schtuff'! The image and sentiment

are heat embossed for added shine and to allow for easier ink blending.

In true Autumnal style I've blended distress inks in reds, oranges and yellows

to create either a sunset over London or a re-enactment of the great fire!

So Darnell has a magnificent bunch of sponsors with prizes at NBUS #5 and 

I'm heading over to Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge with a second entry!

There's loads of prizes there too if you fancy playing along in the blog hop.

   

Thanks as always for stopping by my blog and I'll be back tomorrow 

with the latest challenge details at Less is More and Addicted to CAS

Bye for Now!

BIRDS OF A FEATHER

Hi there hope you are all well and looking forward to the weekend!

It's half term for me next week but sadly not much crafting

as I'll be away in York - one of my favourite UK cities!

I had a little time yesterday so trying to enter a few challenges to

make up for next week's absence.

No doubt In a few weeks we'll all be 'Christmassed-out' but 

I've still plenty of cards to make so can't pass up any opportunities.

This one is for a couple of challenges:

Simon Says Stamp - Wednesday Challenge: 

GET CRAFTY AND USE KRAFT

Timeout Challenge:

 'Birds of a feather flock together'

(although there's no feathers I couldn't resist using these 

little wooden cuties from my stash)

Clearly Besotted - Christmas!!!!

(if I can sneak in before time's up with a 3rd entry).

Card recipe:

Clearly Besotted: Christmas Word Die

'Greetings' sentiment also CBS from the Signature Christmas set

Branch / Tree die also CBS from the Paired Up die set

MFT Die-Namics - Photo frame die

Crafts Too embossing folder

Gems from my stash for a touch of bling!

   

Ok that's all for me today but I'll be back tomorrow

with a new Less is More Challenge.

Thanks for stopping by and have a fun day.

                                                            

SILVER & GOLD CHRISTMAS

Hello there, just posting a very quick card today 

and fingers crossed I've still time to join this week's

Paper Player's Challenge 

where the the theme is Clean & Simple with Gold or Silver

I decided to use both metallic colours and it's another 

Christmas card for me which means I've made 

one third of my cards for this year!!! Whoopie!

Just noticed this card is also Clearly Besotted heavy so if there's still time 

to play along I'll be heading over to add a 2nd entry to this month's challenge 

 where the theme is Christmas

Card Recipe:

Clearly Besotted: Christmas Sparkle Tree

this has been heat-embossed in WOW silver sparkle EP

Clearly Besotted: Merry word die & Christmas

sentiment from the Rockin' Robin set

To finish I've added a bit of bling using gold and silver pearls.

Thanks for stopping by today and I'll be back soon.

                                                              

CHRISTMAS DUOS

Whoopie it's Saturday!

Don't you just love the weekends?

So are we all 'Autumned' out after last week's 

Less is More Challenge?

You certainly created some super-duper creations and I do love the colours

I've had terrible trouble with blogger commenting this week so
if I didn't get to you... apologies ... it certainly wasn't through lack of trying
but a techi issue that hopefully gets sorted quickly.

So onto this week's Less is More Challenge and it's a

One Layer Card - showing 2 of something

I've gone into a Christmas frenzie BUT

(I seriously need to get some Christmas cards in the bag)

and especially as I received some new goodies from the Clearly Besotted release 

that I simply couldn't wait to ink up ... so here goes 

Cute as a button (don't you think) the Rockin' Robin set from CBS 

which consists of mini building stamps to create different looks.

The images are inked with Memento Inks with some extra inking for shadow

The spotty red tummies are 'winked' with Stella and I've added

fluffy stuff and glamour dust to the branch to give it that snowy effect.

I'm also linking this card up to the latest Clearly Besotted Challenge,
where the theme is Christmas...I mean with all these gorgeous CBS products
used in this post it would be rude not to!

For this one I've used a technique by Jennifer McGuire seen here called

Partial Stencilling using a 'wave' stencil from Memory Box and 

a Sizzix Framelit Triangle die; inked with TH Mowed Lawn.

 To make the snow mounds I've used Mama Elephant: Landscape Trio dies 

to create a mask and inked with TH Salty Ocean.

 The Sentiment is Clearly Besotted: Sweet Little Sentiments

and to finish some glamour dust and gems from my stash. 

Next up is another Clearly Besotted creation using the

Signature Christmas stamp set and sentiment from Christmas Sparkle.

The baubles are embossed in metallic silver sparkle EP from Ranger,

hand-drawn strings and a few gems for added sparkle.

Ok lovely crafty people it's your turn now and I can't wait to drop in 

on your blogs to check out your creations.

Have a fun and crafty weekend and thanks for stopping by.

                                                           

OOOOH DEER

Hello all and a happy Sunday to you.

Can't believe we've got another sunny day here so just

had the dog out for a brisk walk up to Kendal Castle and back in the sunshine.

Gorgeous stretching views and he just loves running about and getting filthy!

Anyway I'm here with another 'Autumnal' ish card to enter

a few challenges so here goes:

Apart from the card base everything is from my snippety bits box

so I'm taking this cute deer over to Pixies Crafty Snippet Playground this week.

I think he's rather cute and cuddly so I'm hoping that'll qualify to 

drop him in at Addicted to CAS this week where the theme is 'Cuddly'

I've used a whole array of Clearly Besotted products:

Stamps: Woodland Pals & Sweet Little Sentiments

Dies: Woodland Pals, Landscape, Grass

so it's another entry to their Autumn Theme challenge

And last but not least the theme at CASology is 'Grass'

so I'm going to drop in there too.

 

 

Here's a little picture of the castle this morning but Cookie's hiding!

Thanks for stopping by my blog and hope you'll be enjoying some crafty time today.

                                                            

AUTUMN IN THE WOODS

Evening All!

It's a bit late in the day I guess for blogging so it'll be brief! 

I've made a cute little woodland scene using both the Woodland Pals stamp

 and die set along with Autumn Flowers, both from Clearly Besotted Stamps.

The Scalloped edge die is also CBS along with the sentiment from Fresh Flowers.

The landscape dies are Mama Elephant - Landscape Trio: Creative Cuts

So onto the challenges I'd like to enter:

Clearly Besotted #13 - Autumn / Halloween Theme

Simon Says Stamp - Create your own background

Pixies Snippet Challenge - just because I've used lots of bits!

That's all for today and thanks for stopping by.

                                                            

GOLDEN FLUTTERBY

Happy Sunday

Apologies if I've missed commenting on some of your blogs but I've had a crazy week with guests turning up, coming and going, and some staying into next week. Adding into that the lack of one bedroom and bathroom it's been a bit mad! Thankfully this time next week I may be considerably further on with the bedroom renovations as my units, skirtings and 2nd fix plumbing should be going in (fingers crossed).

As a result I've not had much time to craft but here's a card for a couple of challenges:

Card Recipe:
Clearly Besotted: Elegant Butterflies & Congratulations word die -
both heat embossed in gold and Winked with Stella.
Uniko: Background Builders Vines
Doodlebug: Sequins
Sizzix: Mosaic embossing folder
Gold metallic cord from my stash

Challenges:
Clearly Besotted: Anything Goes
CASology: Celebrate
Fusion & CAS(E) This Sketch: Combined
Pixies Crafty Snippet Challenge


   

So thanks for stopping by, have a fabulous day and any feedback is much appreciated if 

you've time to leave a quick comment.

Many thanks

WATERCOLOUR MANIA

Happy Saturday ... yeah!

It's 8am and time for another Less is More Challenge! This week we'd like to see watercolouring on your creations and judging by what I've seen over the last few weeks it shouldn't be a problem. I know many of you have done the online courses so I'm hoping to learn some great techniques from you.

So here's my cards and I've decided to go for water-coloured backgrounds 

rather than water-colouring an image itself.

For this one I've used water colour pencils in shades of yellows, oranges and reds then added water to create a night sky.  The city skyline die cut is from Paper Smooches 

and I've covered this in Wink of Stella to make it a real city night-life scene.

The sentiments are from Clearly Besotted: Going Places and Blast Off 

with a couple of Doodlebug sequins for some added sparkle to finish off!

I'm going to head over to the CASology challenge with this card where the key word is 'Celebrate' and the team are certainly celebrating with 100 challenges under their belts.

For this one I've created a panel using distress inks which I've blended together then spritzed with water.

the panel at the bottom has some twine wrapped around for added detail then mounted on 3d adhesive. The upper panel is mounted flat to the card with a wrap around piece of vellum, heat embossed with another sentiment from Clearly Besotted. 

Finished with a couple of Doodlebug sequins.

I'm heading over to the Timeout Challenge with this one where it's a photo inspiration this week from the wonderfully talented Donna Mikasa. 

I'm hoping my blended colours will be fit as my inspiration from Donna's card.

 

Ok over to you now and I'm excited to see what you come up with during the week.

DOLLY MIXTURE SHOWDOWN

Hello All

Bit late in the day for posting so going to be quick.

I've NOT been watching football (basically I'd rather watch paint dry) and I'm happily sat in a room with no TV! I can just about hear the shouting and jeering from the other room where hubby and daughter are glued to the box!

So enough of that ...

Here's my card for the latest CASology Challenge where the theme is Anniversary

                                    

I've used a 'dancing couple' die-cut which must be a freebie as I don't own the die but I thought it fit perfect. It's mounted on an embossed Rounded Tag die from Clearly Besotted with sentiment and hearts also Clearly Besotted 'Paired Up' set then finished with some metallic cord from my stash.




Next up is for the following challenges:
CAS Colours & Sketches
Color Throwdown
Clearly Besotted: Anything Goes
Addicted to CAS: Theme Transport
Pixies Crafty Snippet Playground

This Used:

Clearly Besotted: Going Places Stamp & Die Set, Sweet Little Sentiments, Landscape Die

MFT Die-namics: Snow Drift and Pierced Rectangle Stax

Promarkers, Gems from my stash

      

Last but not least is my entry to this week's Freshly Made Sketches Challenge and as Football is so 'popular' right now I couldn't resist giving the card a 'footie' twist. Another gents card for the depleted box of handy to have in cards.

Card Recipe:
Card & Papers from my stash
Sizzix: Retro Circles embossing folder
Sentiment: Clearly Besotted - In the Frame set
Stars and Circles Nail heads - Josy Rose



Ok that's me done for tonight ... a quick tidy up and off to bed.

Thanks for stopping by and see you all soon.

MAD ABOUT FLOWERS

Hi All

Pretty hectic week this week so sorry not been around much and I'm just flying in with a really quick post as I'm off out in a minute.

It's a card to enter a few 'floral' challenges which seem to be the rage at the moment so here it is:

Card Recipe:

Image & Congrats word Die: Clearly Besotted (Bridal Bouquet stamp & die set)
Uniko - Background Builders Vines for the mini dots to the flowers
Papers: Papermania textured card
MFT Die-namics: Snow scene border die
Twine from my stash

Challenges:
Simon Says Stamp - Monday Challenge: Botanical
Clearly Besotted - Colour Challenge
The Paper Players: Florals

     

Thanks for stopping by it's much appreciated and sorry it's such a rush.