magic

 hello crafty stampers!

The lovely ladies over at Just Us Girls challenge have a new challenge this week - Trend Week and they have chosen for us to create a shaker card.

I was reading and watching a few youtubes about the edge to edge shakers and thought that would be fun to try.

I started by heat embossing the sentiment from Darkroom Door in white, then blended distress oxide inks over and around the embossing. A few white ink splatters were added too, then the edges of the panel were inked in black. The clear plastic was placed over the panel and glued onto the back then the little sequins added and the last edge sealed up. Lastly the card was adhered to a black card base.

Such a fun technique and a Christmas card for my stash too! 

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congratulations

 hello lovely stampers!

The girls over at the Just Us Girls challenge are celebrating their 600th challenge.  Wow! So I thought a congratulations card was in order 😊 The challenge this week is JUGS#600 - 6 of anything.

One of my favourite dies is the Altenew Leaf Mix die set which I don't use nearly enough but I thought I'd use it on this card as the leaves look beautiful lined up in a row. 

Leaves were cut from a rainbow (well, 6 😁) of cardstock in various leaf shapes and mounted on a black card base. The sentiment from Altenew Ornamental Bliss was heat embossed in white on black card, layered up 3 times and glued over the leaves.  The card was finished with a few 'dew drops' from Stampin Up.

Great work, ladies, and keep the challenges coming! 

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**Edit: I am so thrilled to be chosen as Chic of the Week for my card. Thank you so much!

talking

 hello lovely stampers!

I was lucky to be chosen as queen last challenge with the snarky sisterhood so I have the honour of being the guest designer this fortnight. The challenge is #193 P is for Paper Piecing.

Okay so I'm fessing up - never done this before! But how hard can it be right? Turns out it's brilliant! Especially for people like me with no copic markers and not a whole lot of drawing skills.  Girls, I have your back!

Stamped the bird from Darkroom Door Garden Birds using Memento tuxedo black ink, onto several coloured Stampin' Up papers and then fussy cut out each body part and glued them together to get the finished bird. Stamped the leaves from Altenew Beautiful Day onto the leftover reverse of the papers and die cut them with the coordinating die. Fussy cut the conversations from the same papers, black inked the edges using memento tuxedo black and glued them onto the card. The leaves were glued, bird popped up with foam squares, and the words from Tim Holtz Small Talk was also glued in place. Finally the black card panel was glued onto a paper panel, then glued onto a black card base.

I'll be using this paper piecing technique again now I know it's a thing! lol Come on and join in the fun with the snarky sisterhood!

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happy birthday

 hello stampers!

Congrats to the lovely people at freshly made sketches as they celebrate their 500th challenge! Quite an achievement. I joined in the fun to make a card for this week using their sketch.

 

I wanted to do a happy birthday card and I do love a monochromatic colour scheme so this is my card.

Began by layering the Pool Party card and white card onto the card base. Used a new die from Paper Rose, flying birds and also Altenew leaf mix die using white, shaded spruce and coastal cabana cards. The die cut birds were layered 3 times for dimension, then this panel was popped up with foam tape. Stamped the sentiment from Altenew Ornamental Bliss with Altenew Lagoon and adhered with foam tape and glued onto the panel. 

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cheers

 hello stampers!

The lovely people over at CAS colours & sketches have a terrific challenge this week so I made a lovely card for my friend who just turned 50!

 

Stamped the sentiment with Altenew Volcano Lake using my Misti. Die cut the martini glass from Paper Rose from several cards: white, watercoloured and black, then layered them sandwiching the olive in between. Offset the black glass to create a shadow. Finished it by mounting the card panel onto a Coastal Cabana card base. 

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