Stencil Water Colour Background

I'm trying a new technique (for me) using water colours and a stencil. I was inspired by Betsy Veldman on the recent MIM challenge to make this card. I don't have many PTI stencils and decided to use one from the Garden Gate kit. As the watercolour panel was quite big, I was able to make two cards with it.  Here they are! Thanks for dropping by!

Materials:
Stamps - PTI A Sweet Life
Stencil - PTI Garden Gate kit
Inks - PTI Simply Charteuse and Pinfeather, Altenew Blush, Rouge and Ruby Red
Paper - Neenah Desert Storm, Arches Watercolour card

Fusion of two challenges

It's so nice to have time to make cards... (not looking forward to working full-time)! I tend to make multiples every time I'm doing a design now, as it is easier to ink up two images and then you can pick the better one to post.  For this card I've used the inspiration photo from Fusion Card Challenge and the technique from PTI Make it Monday Challenge #235 - Adding colour to the stamped image. For the flowers, I stamped with Hero Arts midtone inks and then removed some of the colour by using the Copics blender. I actually did have enough to make two cards out of it! The first one is for the Fusion challenge. Thanks for dropping by!

Layered stamping on Kraft

Having a little play with layered stamping on Kraft using white the the background colour. The inks I have used are Ranger Dye Inks with Hero Arts Unicorn white and Mid-tone inks. The stamp sets are from PTI. I loved how they turned out! Here is the link to how it is done! Thanks for dropping by!

A Rose for Mother's Day

Here is another card I made for Mother's Day. I used distress inks to colour wash the background, then die cut a stitched square. I added a rose and the embossed sentiment on vellum. The last finishing touches included some sequins and pink Wink of Stella. I'm adding this card to this week's CAS(E) this Sketch #120 and Papertrey Ink's April Blog Hop (inspiration photo below). Thanks for dropping by!

Colourful Card Corner

This is my late entry for the Papertrey Ink Make It Monday #196 - Colourful Card Corners. I followed Danielle's video, but used distress inks (Tattered Rose, Picked Raspberry, Seedless Preserve, Bundled Sage and Mowed Lawn) instead as I don't have a big range of PTI dye inks. Here is my card, the card corner is flipped to the bottom (accidentally placed the stamp the wrong way up). I used a combination of three PTI stamp sets for this card, and I'm not sick of water colouring yet! Thanks for dropping by!

PTI July Blog Hop

When I saw the inspiration photo for this month's PTI Blog Hop, I had many ideas going through my head and was almost not going to make a card. I was determined to challenge myself and come up with a card. I combined some colourful washi tape (didn't have exactly what I wanted to match the photo... a girl can never have enough washi tape!!) with some stamping and a Wink of Stella. Here is my card and I'm looking forward to see what other ideas fellow crafters have come up with!

PTI May Blog Hop

I've had a crazy last couple of weeks. I spent 4 days away to attend a wedding in Malaysia and caught up with some of my cousins I have not seen for over 40 years! Then when I came back, I finished my last two weeks at work and there were lots of farewells, lunches and dinners! I'm now on a three week break before I start my new job at The Children's Hospital. I've been too busy to make any cards over the last couple of weeks, but I was very tempted by the current PTI Make It Monday and the May Blog Hop. I've decided to combine the two challenges.  The theme of the May Blog Hop is Aqua and Melon. I don't have these colours in my limited range of ink pads. The closest I have is the distress inks and I picked the closest colours I could to fit the theme. I also had fun with the water colouring! Please excuse the poor photo, my speed light didn't quite recover from a bad fall last week! Thanks for dropping by, can't wait to see the other cards in the Blog Hop!!

Ingredients:

Card - Neenah Solar White, Watercolour card

Stamps - PTI A Sweet Life, Happiness In Bloom

Inks - Tim Holtz Distress Inks Evergreen Bough, Peacock Feathers, Dried Marigold and Spiced Marmalade, Ranger Archival Jet Black

Others - Studio Calico sequins and Washi tape from Typo

Today and Always

This has been a really busy weekend catching up with friends from overseas. I did manage to sneak into my craft room (after all the housework was done of course) to get this card done for the Fusion Card Challenge. I missed the deadline for the last challenge! Boo! I love the chalkboard technique which I used for the first time here. The difficulty with embossing on black cardstock is that you have to pick one that is not too absorbent. The first time I tried this, the embossing was terrible! Then I tried different card stock (the backing paper for scrapbooking) and got a lovely effect. Recently I was at the local Art and Craft store and spotted a stack of pre-cut papers for $3 and there was a lot of black cards in the stack. I was hoping that it would work and it did! Phew! My card is below with the Fusion trigger below that. I'm also submitting this card to Moxie Fab World Birthday card challenge, City Crafter's Polka Dot challenge (Thanks Lyndal!) and Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Make the Cut.. Thanks for dropping by!

Ingredients:

Neenah Desert Storm and Solar White, Black cardstock, My Minds Eyes The Sweetest Thing Honey, PTI Boutique Borders Birthday, PTI A Sweet Life, Versamark, Versamark white chalk ink, HA Bubblegum, PTI Plum Pudding, White EP, MFT DieNamics Fishtail layers STAX, Hemp from Hemptique, white gel pen (Molotow)

PTI July Blog Hop - Fruits of Summer

A last minute card for the PTI Fruits of Summer Blog Hop. I had stamped a few roses a few nights ago and had not finished my second card for the Blog Hop. My first card has already been posted here. Thank you for all the lovely comments so far! This card is made using this week's Retro Sketch. I'm also submitting this to Moxie Fab World Birthday Card Challenge. Check out the PTI Blog Hop, there are some really beautiful cards there!
I had a fun day at the Craft and Quilt Fair yesterday and attended a 2 hour workshop in Freeform Fibre Art with Prudence Mapstone. I will blog more details another time.
Thanks for dropping by!

Ingredients:

Neenah Solar White card, My Minds Eyes Indie Chic Saffron and Sweetest Thing Honey, Sizzix Tim Holtz EF, PTI A Sweet Life and Boutique Borders, Hero Arts Bubble Gum, Green Hills and Field Greens, PTI Plum Pudding, Strawberry Twine from The Twinery, Kaisercraft Gems, MFT DieNamics Fishtail Layers STAX and PTI dies.

Saturday Sketch in Tangerine

This is my first ever entry for Chupa's Saturday Sketch and it happens to be her 100th sketch! As I have been following her on FB, she announced that she will be posting her sketch on Saturday night, so I decided to play along. I wanted to use the colours from Moxie Fab World Tuesday Trigger Scene in Tangerine, this will be my second card, the first one was blogged here. I decided to mask the card before stamping and used my PTI roses. Here is my card and thank you for dropping by!
PS - I'm also adding this card to ColourQ challenge#197!

Ingredients:
Cardstock - Neenah Solar White
Stamps - Impression Obsession Gradation, Papertrey Ink The Sweet Life and Boutique Borders Birthday
Inks - Hero Arts Butter Bar, Green Hills and Field Greens, Tim Holtz Distress Inks Ripe Persimmon and Spiced Marmalade, Ranger Archival Jet Black
Dies - PTI The Sweet Life
Others - Enamel dots from My Mind's Eyes

Mr and Mrs

I've had a really great crafting weekend this weekend, the creative juices are still running! I made 2 more cards last night for a publication submission and submitted them way before the due date (this is a record for me)! I had so much fun doing them last night that I forgot I was going to do one for the Papertrey Ink May Blog Hop this weekend and it is due in less than 3 hours! Yikes! So first thing this morning, before a shower or breakfast, I made this card with a cup of tea by my side! I also based the sketch on the current Fusion challenge. Thanks for dropping by... I'm off to have breakfast and a shower!

Ingredients

Cardstock - Neenah Natural White, Solar White

Paper - Basic Grey True Love 12x12

Stamps - PTI The Sweet Life and Big Bold Wishes

Ink - PTI Winter Wisteria, Autumn Rose, Lavender Moon, Simply Chartreuse and Pinefeather

Die - Doily Dies English Tea Party

Others - Kaisercraft rhinestones