Sunny Flower time

Morning all and hope you are crafting happily  with some sunshine ... it's just peeping through the clouds where I am! Anyway I've a card to share for the latest  The Challenge #35 It's a photo inspiration with sunny yellow flowers although mine are a little orange. 

I inked up a piece of watercolour card using Mowed Lawn DI

spritzed with water before die-cutting to make a BG in place of the stems.

Using some embroidery thread I've wrapped it around the green panel then 

added my Uniko Studio Beautiful Blooms II with 3d foam. 

The sentiment is also Uniko Studio from the Simply Said: Birthday set.

Flowers are coloured with Stabilo Markers and Wink of Stella for added shimmer.

Here's the photo inspiration

That's all for now but I'll be back tomorrow with a  quick reminder of the latest Uniko Studio Challenge. Hope to see you then and thanks for stopping by.

The Challenge #33 - Guest Designing

Hello Friends and Happy Bank Holiday if you are in the UK Hope you are having fun. I'm happy dancing today as I was lucky to come in the Top 2 at The Challenge last week and it was my first time of entering  ... AND I was asked to guest design for this week's challenge! So double celebrations! It's a sketch challenge this week and to be honest it freaked me out to begin with as I haven't done a layered sketch card in a while. In fact I made 2 but the first one isn't blog worthy! Here's my card followed by the sketch.

Card Recipe:

Altenew: Henna Elements heat-embossed in WOW sparkle EP

MFT Die-Namics: Stitched Square dies

Clearly Besotted: Say it in Style sentiment

and Stand Alone elegant butterfly die

Here's the sketch for you to follow and of course 

Enjoy and have some fun!

I'd also like to play along at Addicted to CAS

with my card as the theme is White, Black and Gold

Just hope it's 'CAS' enough for ATCAS!!!

and Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Quick Edit: Thanks Loll for suggesting this card would fit

at Happy Little Stampers CAS challenge - dies & punches

I hope you get chance to play along at 

The Challenge

and there's more fabulous inspiration from the design team

so have a little mooch HERE first before you head off to craft.

It's always a pleasure to know you've stopped by my blog and thanks so much.

Less is More #222

Hi there, it's Saturday ... Yippee What's more it's a bank holiday weekend in the UK! so a little bit more crafty time - and I'm MEGA excited!!!
WHY? ... I'll tell you .... 
Super duper A* talent Jen (ex-LIM DT) and I have arranged a  first time meet up and crafty session this weekend!
I cannot wait! I'm hoping to learn some tricks and tips and  so looking forward to watching a complete pro at work.
Ok ... back to this week's challenge over at  Less is More
It's colour week this week and we'd like you to use opposites on the colour wheel; here's my cards.

 

I've completely stepped out of my comfort zone here as I would

never put Orange and Turquoise together but I love it!

Card Recipe:

Uniko Studio: Paradise Humming Bird

It's heat-embossed in Black then water coloured using DI in Spiced Marmalade

Memory Box: Wave Stencil inked in Salty Ocean & Broken China DIs
Card-io: Oriental Whisper & Sakura blooms stamp sets
(incidentally, I've NEVER watched Create & Craft TV until 2 weeks ago
when I heard Card-io were being featured and having met Wendy at a couple
of craft shows I simply had to watch ... and buy of course!)

I'd like to enter this card over at CASology - theme 'Flight'
and Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

   

My second card is one for the Christmas box stash ... 

you guessed I've gone with traditional red & green!

Card Recipe: Clearly Besotted: Joy to the World - dies Autumn Flowers stamps & dies Stamplorations: Christmas Flower (believe sentiment) MFT Die-Namics: Basic Stitched borders Ranger Enamel Accents and Doodlebug Sprinkles to finish Polka dot DP is from Pink Petticoat
I'd like to link this one up at Merry Monday and The Challenge

Thanks as always for stopping by and don't forget to  head across to the Less is More blog HERE to see what the other  DT members have been up to, as well as Anita from Neet and Crafty who is our Guest Designer again this week so hope you'll leave  her lots of lovely comments.

A Little Sunday Trio

Happy Sunday all and hope you are enjoying a sunny crafty day. I've 3 cards to share and I'm not entirely sure about them ...  I'm struggling with toothache which hasn't helped my mojo today but as I've made the effort I'm going to drop them in for a few challenges.
So first up is for a new challenge to me; having seen a fair amount of red, white, black and umbrellas in blogland  I had to check out what was going on!!!  
Here's my first play over at The Challenge #31

Card Recipe:

Stamplorations: Vignette - Ever After

Clearly Besotted: Je T'aime, Baby Shower & Notebook die

(I didn't have an umbrella small enough so accented the card with red

hearts from the baby shower set & Doodlebug Twine)

My Favourite Things: On the diagonal stencil - tone on tone

to add little interest to the card base.

I've also linked this card up at the never-ending

Anything Goes Challenge at Stamplorations

Next up is to enter the Merry Monday Challenge

sorry ladies I missed last week as I couldn't find vintage

Then I found this little artpad from Lili of The Valley!

So I'm using one of their gorgeous images including a little dog.

He looks just like my own dog but mine has more black and white.

The sentiments are from Uniko Studio: Simply Said Christmas

and Peace on Each stamp sets

Design paper is American Crafts

Last one for today is a second entry to Inkspirational

where it's a space theme.

I couldn't resist inking up this 'Blast Off' set from Clearly Besotted

on a moon effect circle created with distress ink in faded jeans

then spritzed with water and perfect pearls to make a shimmer-effect.

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I'd also like to link this up at Simon Says Stamp - Wednesday challenge

where it's Clean and Simple this week.

Ok, thanks as always for stopping by my blog

and I'll catch up with you again soon