Retro Mixy Matchy

I love the Retro Sketch this week and couldn't wait to make a card with it! I wanted to step a little bit out of my comfort zone and picked some bold patterns, inspired by Moxie Fab World Mixy Matchy Style challenge. I picked two old favourites, BG pb and j/Picadilly and the HA Antique Butterflies for the A Blog Named Hero Fave Stamp challenge.

Ingredients:
Cardstock - Neenah Solar White
Paper - Basic Grey pb n j and Piccadilly
Stamp - Hero Arts CL661, Antique Flowers and Butterflies
Ink - Ranger Archival Jet Black
Dies - MFT DieNamics Layered Labels, HA Antique Flowers and Butterflies
Others - White gel pen, enamel dots from My Mind's Eyes

Done in 60 minutes

I had the pleasure in participating in the Hero Arts Flickr Group 90 minute scramble on the weekend. I've missed the last two as I have been away. The challenge was to make a card with 'Filler stamps' (the ones that we usually don't use), add stitching (faux OK) and handwrite the sentiment. I had to read the instruction more than once before it clicked. I first got out all my HA stamps and picked one with the Four Dolls (there are lantern, fan and flower filler stamps) and wanted to hang the pretty lanterns with twine. The lanterns were stamped onto the cardstock as well as patterned paper and cut out. I made a flower with die cut scalloped circles from 2 patterned papers and edged them with distress ink and scrunched them up before assembling the flower. The sentiment and faux stitching was done with a white gel pen. This can be either a Birthday or Anniversary card. I had the whole card completed in 60 minutes! Thank you to everyone for the lovely comments on Flickr when this card was uploaded yesterday. This card has been submitted to HA July Flower challenge and Moxie Fab World Birthday challenge.

My previous post had over 400 visits in one day, thanks to Jennifer McGuire's re-tweet! It was also picked as a CAS Favourite in Splitcoast Stampers with over 270 views and favourited 7 times in one day! Thanks for the support! It really made my day yesterday!!

This is the Hero Arts stamp set - I've used the dolls and the border stamps but have never touched the 'Filler' stamps, until now!!

Challenges:

Hero Arts - July Flower Challenge

Moxie Fab World - Happy Birthday

Ingredients:

Card - American Craft Cranberry, Neenah Natural white

Paper - Basic Grey Picadilly

Stamp - Hero Arts CL297

Inks - Ranger Archival Jet black, Tim Holtz Distress Tea Dye

Dies - Nestabilities Scallops, MFT Fringed Perennial 

Others - Kaisercraft Brad, white gel pen, Red/white Christmas twine from Kikki.K

HA June Sketches

Back again with a couple of cards I made from the current Hero Arts June sketches. It is so good to combine one of them with a challenge from A Blog Named Hero (colours challenge). The first card is pretty straight forward and easy. I made a second one with the same sketch as I wasn't too happy with the washi tapes I used for the first one. I only used one tape in this one as I wanted to feature some of the colours in the patterned papers from BG Picadilly.

The second card is a also from the HA June sketches. I spent a bit of time with this picking out the papers and then decided to add a bit of stamping, washi tape and fussy cut a flower from the BG Plumeria paper. This one will be submitted for the Embellish Collage Colour Trends challenge. Details of the two cards and the challenge details are below. 

I will not be posting anything until next week as I will be going to Brisbane on Friday to attend Tim Holtz's Workshop and the Brisbane Scrapbook and Papercraft Expo on the weekend. I will write a blog when I get back. I will be posting on twitter if you want to see what I get up to. Looking forward to a crafty weekend in sunny Queensland! Thanks for dropping by!

Challenges:

Hero Arts June Sketches

ABlog Named Hero - Colour Me a Hero

Embellish Magazine - Collage Color Trends Challenge

Ingredients 

- Banners Card

Cardstock - Via Vellum Kraft

Paper - Basic Grey Picadilly

Stamps - Hero Arts Big Ticket, Hero Arts Antique Flowers and Butterflies

Inks - Hero Arts Pool and Green Hills

Others - American Crafts Brads, MME Indie Chic tape

- Collage Card

Cardstock - Neenah Natural White

Paper - Basic Grey Plumeria

Stamps - Hero Arts Friends Definition, HA Many Sentiments

Ink - Ranger Archival Jet Black

Others - Washi tape, LemonDrop twine from The Twinery, Hero Hues Dots

Aussie Scrap Source

I was so excited to get a Flickr mail from Chris Millar a few weeks ago asking for permission to show two of my cards on Aussie Scrap Source. Please find the link here. Pop over and have a look. Both my cards have been previously featured on my blog: - Butterfly HA sketch - 3 Butterflies I'm posting this blog as we enjoy our nice long weekend in Jakarta. This is my first trip to Indonesia, really enjoying the hospitality here and looking forward to attending my friend's wedding tonight with over 800 guests tonight!! Will post some photos when I get back! Thanks for dropping by!

Sweet Birthday

Back again with another card using the Sweet Sunday Sketch 157 and the colours of the Hero Arts May challenge - Pool, Green, Yellow, Orange and Chocolate. I also wanted to try using sentiments as a background for the current Topsy Turvy challenge for A Blog Named Hero.

I kept the background plain as I wanted the main stamping to be the hero of the card. I white embossed a series of sentiments and then overstamped with all the colours of the the HA May challenge. I initially tried to do velveteen stamping, but the effect was not as good. At the end I was quite happy with the result! It is so good to challenge myself and go out of my comfort zone!!

Challenges:
Sweet Sunday Sketch 157
Hero Arts May Colours Challenge
A Blog Named Hero - Topsy Turvy
Simon Says Stamp - Happy Birthday
Ingredients:
Card - Via Vellum Kraft, white card for stamping
Paper - Basic Grey Picadilly and Life of the Party
Stamps - HA CL272 All Occasion Messages, CL519 Many Dots
Inks - Versamark Watermark, HA Cup O'Joe, Pool, Butter Bar, Green Hills, TH Gathered Twigs
Others - HA Hero Hues Dots, White embossing powder

Spring Flowers in Autumn!

We had a sunny and warm Autumn weekend in Melbourne on the weekend.  I wanted to tackle the third HA April sketch - the one with a tag. I also love the colours of the current Play Date Cafe Challenge - Daffodil...Hydrangea...Kiwi...Cherry and decided to combine the two.

This card gave me the opportunity to use my new HA stamp sets (Four Flowers and Be Happy) and also the lovely new papers from the Basic Grey Picadilly collection. The washi tape (yes, I need to mention that my sister got it from Japan...) made an appearance too. All colour elements in the Play Date Cafe 127 are present. Thanks for dropping by! I am also submitting this card to the Simon Says Stamp challenge - April Showers bring Spring Flowers, most appropriate card for this challenge. By the way, this is my tenth blog post since I started 4 weeks ago, I'm really enjoy all the feedback I have been getting! Thank you for stopping by!

Ingredients:
Stamps: Hero Arts CL606 CG290
Paper: Basic Grey Picadilly, coloured vellum
Card: Kraft, Tim Holtz Distress series
Embellishments: Washi tape, Hero Hues gem (blue) and Kaisercraft gem (pink)
Inks: Ranger Archival Jet Black, Versamark embossing ink (White embossing powder)

Another CR84FN Challenge

Another challenge this week after setting up the Blogspot. I wanted to participate in the CR84FN50 challenge with Pink, Orange and Yellow. I was waiting for my new MFT butterfly dies for this card as I thought it would be really pretty to have the three different coloured butterflies. I then saw the Simon Says Stamp Challenge this week with the Bingo challenge and I decided to combine both into the same challenge. I decided to pick Charms/Die Cuts/Twine. I've been using the coloured twine that I ordered from The Twinery with most of the cards I have made recently - love them!! I also used the lovely patterned papers from Basic Grey Picadilly collection.