get well soon

 hi there stampers!

I was on a roll today and found so many lovely leaf stamps that I had to keep making cards. The challenge at AAA cards this week is:

The ginkgo leaves from Stampin Up Loyal Leaves were stamped with distress oxide ink, masking between stamping to overlap the 2nd leaf. The mask was then put on the 2nd leaf and the x marks stencilled using Paper Rose Mark Maker stencil and distress oxide ink. The sentiment from Kaisercraft was stamped on a white strip, layered 3 times and glued over the images. The panel was adhered to a panel that was blended with the same happy yellow distress oxide ink around the edges.

I do love the fresh green and happy yellow together and thought they would certainly give some cheering up to a friend who is under the weather.

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missing you

 hello crafty stampers!

I found a challenge I hadn't entered before so thought I would brush up on my CAS skills. The lovely people at Addicted to CAS have this week's challenge with the code word: leaf.

I recently received a new stencil from Paper Rose and had to try it out on a card. New for me, and so many ideas were swirling in my head. I do find it difficult to come to rest on just one idea, and especially for a CAS card, so many possibilities, so little time.  lol

The splash stencil from Paper Rose Mark Maker was blended with distress oxide inks to give an ombre effect using 2 colours and the top fading to white. The leaf was die cut from Altenew Leaf Mix die set and also blended using the same colours, and the same technique. The sentiment from Stampin Up Loyal Leaves was lastly stamped onto the panel. 

So many people I haven't seen recently with our rolling Covid lockdowns, I have a feeling I'll be sending out a few of these type of cards.

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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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