Happy Little Stampers CAS Challenge - September 2017

Hi there, it's time for this month's challenge over at Happy Little Stampers CAS Challenge and here's what we're looking for ... 

As we are fast approaching that 'Autumnal Season' I've gone with a Halloween Theme on my card.

I started with an inky blended panel of distress inks to create a night sky then added some silhouette pumkins, from Clearly Besottedm masking as I went along. The sentiments are from the same set. 

I don't send too many Halloween cards but my nieces and nephews enjoy a little trick or treating so this will be heading their way soon. 

Our challenge is sponsored by HLS and one lucky person will win a $20 certificate to spend in the online store HERE so why not join in - there's a whole month to do so!
You might even like to link up to some of the other Happy Little Stampers challenges and all the details are on the blog HERE
Do remember to follow our guidelines below and I hope you enjoy the challenge. 

Don't forget to pop along to the CAS Challenge blog HERE where you'll find all the links and designs from my fellow teamies ... you're in for a treat!

Thanks as always for visiting my blog today and catch up soon!

Less is More #298

Hi friends are you ready for another challenge over at Less is More?

It's our THEME week and we've chosen 

Incy Wincy Spiders or Insects!

Now there's no need to go Halloween on this one but in the absence

of suitable insects and particularly spiders other than in Halloween 

sets I decided to go with that occasion. Fortunately my nieces and

nephews are still of an age where they'll accept Halloween Cards!

I think!!! Especially the sort with spiders!

This one uses the stitched filmstrip die by Pretty Pink Posh 

and I've re-cut it in the orange, green and purple (typically for Halloween)

to add my spiders web and spiders to each aperture. The card looked

a little bland when I'd finished so I decided to grab a stencil I've just

purchased by Tim Holtz and ink it through with Hickory Smoke Distress ink.

I still wasn't happy to decided to go full on distressing up the edges instead

then adding a few extra webs. The Happy sentiment is by Happy Little Stampers

and the reset of the images are by Clearly Besotted 'Halloween Spirit'

The theme over at CASology this week is 'Spooky' so I'd like to pop this card in there!

This one uses the 'In Print' set by Clearly besotted but couldn't resis

adding googlie eyes to the fingerprint spider! The sentiment is from

the Out of This World set also by Clearly Besotted and I was attempting

to CASE one of Jennifer McGuire's recent techniques shown HERE but

think I've not quite got my spacing right ... more practice needed!

So that's all of mine but please head over to the main blog HERE 

where there's links to my fellow teamies blogs and cards.

I'm sure they'd love a visit and they've worked their usual magic on 

the theme to inspire you!

Have a fab week and as always thanks for calling by my blog.

Less is More #280

Morning LIMettes are you ready for the Less is More challenge? It's that dreaded one ... ONE LAYER CARD!
Hopefully you won't find this one too bad though ... the theme is Splatters

Once again using goodies from STAMPlorations and this time it's a

specially designed stencil featuring 'splatters' specifically for our challenge.

I decided to go spooky and grungy and although it's nowhere near

Halloween I decided the splatters work perfectly in gory black with spiders!

I started out by creating a watercolour wash with my Gansai Tambi watercolours 

in a slimey green colour! Followed by the stencils inked in Distress ink Black Soot.

The spiders and webs are from Clearly Besotted: Halloween Spirit with the 

sentiments also from Clearly Besotted: Boo To You. To finish I added glossy

accents to the spiders just to make them more scary for my nephews when they 

receive this one later in the year.

It's a Father's Day / For a Guy challenge at Simon Says Stamp: Wednesday Challenge

this week so as this card is for my 2 nephews and it's a pretty grungy masculine

card with not a pretty feature in sight I'm going to try my chances at SSS.

I'd also like to link up at the STAMPlorations: Anything Goes challenge.

This one is a little more cheery and bright and uses the same stencil

but in rainbow colours as a border. It's still one layer but I've followed 

the sketch from this week's CAS(E) This Sketch Challenge so I'd like to 

enter it there plus it's a 'sunshine' week at CASology so I'll pop over there too.

The sentiments and sun are from the WPlus9 set called Sending Sunshine.

I've added wink of stella plus glossy accents to the centre of my sun which

IRL glistens and sparkles but it's not obvious in the photo.

  

Hopefully you'll have visited the main Less is More blog and checked out

the fantastic splatter creations from my fellow teamies!

Thanks for calling in and go have fun with your splatters and make some mess!

I'll be back very soon with posts featuring the latest release from Uniko

and this fortnights challenge at Addicted To CAS so hope you'll pop back then!

AAA Cards #51

Morning friends it's time for the latest challenge over at  AAA Cards CAS Challenge and we are going with Halloween - 4 Everyone! It's an 'all styles game' so we can't wait to see what you come up with. Here's my card and I'm a CAS girl at heart so still couldn't bring myself to slap on lots of layers and patterns. This one's for my niece and nephew so hope they'll love it and their mum will just love me for reminding them about pumpkins!

I started out by stamping and embossing my pumpkin / sentiment stamp

from Clearly Besotted then inking and blending with distress inks in

Mustard Seed, Fossilized Amber, Spiced Marmalade and a little Black Soot.

For some added detail I've spritzed it with perfect pearls, die-cut the panel

using MFT Die-Namics Pierced Rectangle Dies, mounted on 3d Foam 

with a wrap-around of coordinating bakers twine to finish.

I hope you feel inspired to play along and please head over to the

AAA Card Blog HERE as there's more wonderful creations from

my fellow teamies ... and here's a little photo inspiration to spur you on!

I'm also heading over to Timeout Challenges with my card, where the photo inspiration is also on a similar theme. I've focused on black, white and orange plus pumpkins! Oh just noticed another regular challenge I like to enter; Simon Says Stamp - Wednesday Challenge and the theme is 'wrap it up' - what a bonus I used some twine! and one more challenge featuring Halloween, pumpkins, owls etc is Inkspirational so I'll be hopping across there too with my card! Thanks as always for calling in today and have some crafty fun with this one!

Addicted to CAS #75

Morning friends it's time for a new challenge theme at Addicted to CAS and we have Ceal hosting for this one. In true Halloween style she's chosen 'spooky'
Here's my card using the Halloween Spirit set by Clearly Besotted  to create what I hope passes for 'spooky' in a mini frame die cut  from MFT Die-namics. The background is inked in Dusty concord,  Seedless Preserves and Black Soot with some glossy accents for added interest.

Our lucky winner for this challenge will receive 4 digi stamps

from Sweet Pea Stamps store

There's more spooky-fun-halloween cards created by my 

fellow teamies at ATCAS HERE and we also have a super

talented guest designer; Joyce from Cards By The Sea.

If you've never visited Joyce's blog you are SO missing a treat!

I hope you feel inspired to play along and thanks as always for 

calling in today. Catch you soon and have fun.

AAA Cards #50

Morning friends it's time to announce the latest challenge for the next 2 weeks over at AAA Cards and as we've skipped into October we are looking for CAS Halloween cards Here's my card - I'm hoping my young nephews will appreciate this one!

I've used a fairly new set from Clearly Besotted: Eye on You, with the spider

from CBS: Halloween Spirits. I've also added a little Landscape type stamp

from Lawn Fawn: Gleeful Gardens and I'm hoping it ties in with the sketch

for this month's Happy Little Stampers Challenge as I'm heading over there.

I hope you feel inspired to join in and don't forget to check out the  awesome designs from my fellow teamies over on the AAA Cards Blog HERE and here's a little photo inspiration for you. This is the October sketch from Happy Little Stampers so if you fancy  playing along there too it's open for the whole of the month! Thanks as always for stopping by and I'll be back a little later with a re-visit post for Uniko so hope you'll pop back then.

SCARY LEGS

Hi there, I'm zipping by with a quick card for you to celebrate Halloween.

Here's one I've made for my eldest niece ... don't you just love those tights!

The colour scheme is from this weeks Simon Says Stamp challenge so   

I'm heading over there plus I've water-coloured the image using my

Derwent Inktense Pencils with 'winks of stella' instead of water

so hoping that counts over at Addicted to Stamps this week too.

  

I've also used several snippety bits from my stash so I think

I'll pop in at Pixies Snippet Playground too for a little trick or treat!

Card Recipe:

Image: Free Digi from The Alley Way Stamps

Sentiment: Clearly Besotted - Sweet Little Sentiments

Dies: MFT Die-namics - Photo Frame & Sentiment Banners

The 'BOO!' & 'TRICK or TREAT' stamps to the background

are from my fabulous American Crafty Auntie

To finish I've added some twine from my stash and glossy accents

to make those boots shimmer even more!

Ok that's all for me today, thanks for stopping by.