Something New

Happy New Year everyone! This is my first post for 2018! I've had a very hectic Festive period and had not had much time to make any cards. This is my first card this year. I had to attend a funeral yesterday and ran out of Sympathy cards. I used the sketch from CAS(E) this Sketch #253 and got out my new Distress Oxide inks for the background inking.
I'm adding this to
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Something New.
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Something New
Less Is More Purples Challenge
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Materials:
Stencil - Hero Arts
Stamp - Altenew
Inks - Distress Oxides Wilted Violet and Faded Jeans

Challenge me a Christmas Card with Michelle Lupton and Friends

I'm very excited to take part in Michelle Lupton's Christmas challenge this year! Michelle challenged me to make a 'Purple' Christmas card. Make sure you pop over to her blog to see what she made! Here is my interpretation of the challenge. I used the die from Concord and 9th to create a stencil and added some droplets of water and clear drops to decorate the tree. The sentiment was embossed with various embossing powders.

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Stencil Flowers

I have a  quick card to share using a Hero Arts stencil and some distress inks sprayed with Perfect Pearls. I was inspired to get out the distress inks after watching lots of videos on the new oxide inks - can't wait to try them out!! Thanks for dropping by!

Materials:

Stencil - Hero Arts Bold Floral

Stamp - Hero Arts Happy Stamp and Cut

Inks - Distress Inks Picked Raspberry, Wilted Violet and Seedless Preserve, Perfect Pearls.

Big Floral Stencil

I have another card to share using Hero Arts Big Floral Stencil. I sponged with rainbow colours with distress inks and spritzed with some water before removing the stencil. A stamped bold sentiment with some sequins and enamel dots to finish off the card. Simple and quick! I'm adding this to Virginia View's All About Colours challenge and Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - Anything Goes Challenge. Thanks for dropping by!

Materials used:
Hero Arts stencil and sentiment
Distress inks - Mustard Seed, Carved Pumpkin, Candied Apple, Wilted Violet. Broken China and Lucky Clover

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A Large Flower Stencil

I would like to thank Michelle Lupton for giving this Hero Arts Large Flower stencil! I'm still a bit of a novice to the art of stencilling! I decided to add rainbow colours to this stencil and I really did not wanted the colours to be so strong (reminds me of batik). As I was blending to get a smooth coverage, the colours intensified. I added a spray of Perfect Pearls to give it the glittery translucent effect. I then left this to dry for a couple of days before I decided what to do with it. I decided to glue a panel of the background onto the inside of a card and the same panel was cut from the front of the card. I then cut out 3 'Happy' dies - one white and two black. The diecuts were then adhered together onto the front panel of the card and the sentiment and some sequins added. I'm adding this card to Virginia View Challenge - All About Colours. This post is for A Blog Named Hero's Facebook Fan Page.
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Materials used: Hero Arts Large Flower stencil and Happy Stamp and Cut
Distress inks - Mustard Seed, Carved Pumpkin, Candied Apple, Wilted Violet. Broken China and Lucky Clover

The inside of the card!

Something Blue

I'm still having fun with my Altenew inks! This card is for the Fusion Card Challenge - Something Blue, Addicted to CAS - Petals Challenge and the CASology - CAS challenge. Thanks for dropping by!

I've used Altenew Painted Flowers and inks (Glacier Caves set), Tim Holtz stencil, Ranger Texture Paste, MFT Dienamics stitched rectangles die.

Another Card for Virginia's View Challenge

Some good news to share - my baby Kingsley card for CASE Study #186 challenge got Top 3! Yay!

I normally don't jump into a new Craft trend so easily. During our craft retreat, I got to try out a few stencils and I'm starting to embrace this new trend! When I came back, I realised I don't have many stencils at all until I went through the goodies bag Joy gave me and found a butterfly stencil in there. So here is my first inking with this stencil. After sponging with distress inks, I overstamped with Hero Arts Leafy Vines in black before removing the stencil. I added the sentiment in black, matted with a black card stock, added some accents with a gel pen and matching sequins. I'm adding this card to Virginia's View Challenge #2 Stencil.

Ingredients:
Card - Neenah Solar White, black cardstock
Stencil - Heidi Swapp
Stamp - Hero Arts CG509 Leafy Vines, CL498
Inks - Tim Holtz Tumbled Glass, Shaded Lilac and Picked Raspberry, Ranger Archival Jet Black
Others - The Twinery Twine, Sequins, white gel pen

Casing Lyndal

I've just come back from a 4 day Craft retreat with 10 other awesome crafters. One of the cards I wanted to make was the current Muse challenge. I'm also adding this card to the Winnie and Walter's Playdate No 1 challenge as the background paper goes well with the inspirational photo, the current STAMPlorations Stamps and Spring challenge and Moxie Fab World's Styling with Stencil challenge. Two of us at the retreat made cards for the Muse challenge and we were very lucky to have Lyndal, the actual Muse with us at the Retreat! We shared a lot of our craft collections on the weekend and I borrowed this stencil and the Winnie & Walter stamp set from Lyndal to make this card. Here is my card and some photos taken on the weekend.

Lyndal's Muse Card

Winnie & Walter Playdate#1

9 of the Crafters at dinner on Friday night

L-R Joy Taylor, Michelle Lupton, Jenny Martin, 'Chupa' and me!

Ingredients:
Neenah Solar white, Vellum, MME Cut and Paste, Memory Box Butterfly Drifting Stencil, Winnie & Walter The Big The Bold & The Happy, Versamark, White EP, Tim Holtz Distress Inks - Iced Spruce, Evergreen Bough, Salty Ocean, Faded Jeans and Chipped Sapphire.