Floral Bliss

I had some masking fun with an old set from Simon Says Stamp on the weekend. The current WednesdaySSS challenge is to use something old with something new. I've had this stampset since 2017 and have used it a few times. The something new with using Distress Oxides for the blended backgrounds. Love how strong the colours looked against the image. Thanks for dropping by!

Challenge:
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Out with the Old and in with the New

Materials:
Simon Says Stamp Floral Bliss
Tim Holtz Distress Oxides - Worn Lipstick, Seedless Preserve, Cracked Pistachio, Peacock Feather

85th Birthday card for my Mum

During these unusual times, it’s so hard to celebrate special events. Months ago my sister and I chatted about how we were going to celebrate Mum’s special day. My project at work was supposed to Go-Live on the same weekend! Well guess what? My project was delayed by 3 months and we couldn’t celebrate my Mum’s birthday properly. We did however, made the day special for her by getting take-away Dim Sum for her, followed by a visit to her backyard, singing ‘Happy Birthday’ to her. Once we can go out to restaurants again, we will go out for a big family dinner!
This card is an extra large A5 card with a bit of masking and distress oxide inks. Thanks for dropping by!

Challenge:
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes
Materials:
Altenew Stamps
Tim Holtz Distress Oxides
Altenew dies

Easter Cards 2020

Hope everyone is well. I have three Easter cards to share. I stamped all the roses a couple of weeks ago with my Misti and then fussy cut them for a rainy day. Due to still working despite the COVID-19 restrictions, I have been rather busy on my weekends off with some much needed household maintenance and cleaning. I has lucky to have a day off this week and decided to put these flowers to good use! I was inspired by Tim Holtz Facebook Live videos over the last two weekends and decided to use my distress inks and oxides to some good use! All three cards started with some texture paste background, then a mixture of distress oxides and inks and lots of water. I used water colour card stock for the first two cards and Neenah card stock for the last one. I decided to keep the last one CAS with only just a splatter of white paint. I love the different looks of all three cards! Which one do you prefer? Hope everyone is staying home to fight this dreadful virus! Stay safe!

Challenges:
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Add Some Texture
Tim Holtz Instagram Challenge - #TimHoltzDemo

Materials used:
Paper - Bristol Watercolour paper, Neenah Solar White
Stencil - Tim Holtz
Stamps - Altenew and Hero Arts
Inks - Altenew on the flowers, Distress Inks and Oxides on the background, Ranger Archival Ink 

Distress Oxide Background

I have a few distress oxide background cards to share. As most of my crafty friends know, I often make more than one card in the one sitting. It just makes it easier with all the materials out on the table! I blended three colours on each card taking care not to leave finger smudges on them, sprayed them with Perfect Pearls. I then added white die cuts to the card and a bit of stamping. These were quite easy to make and the effect is striking! Thanks for dropping by!

Challenge:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Make Your Own Background

Materials:

Inks - Distress Oxides, Liquid Pearls

Dies - Winnie and Walter and Altenew

Stampset - Winnie and Walter

Peace and Joy

These are the last  of my Christmas cards and I've started giving them out on the weekend. I've use the Simon Says Stamp Tim Holtz Stamptember set to make this series of cards. They were so easy to make in production line with the Misti! I'm adding this to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes. Thanks for dropping by!

Materials:
Stamp - SSS Tim Holtz Stamptember 2018
Inks - Distress Oxide, Versamark, Hero Arts Silver EP, Kuretake Tambi Gansai 

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
Thanks for dropping by!

Materials:
Stencil - Hero Arts
Stamp - Altenew
Inks - Distress Oxides Wilted Violet and Faded Jeans

Casing Michelle Lupton

I had to make a sympathy card last week and as I'm always in a hurry, I decided to use a stencil. When I found the stencil I wanted to use, it reminded my of my friend Michelle Lupton. We bought some Hero Arts stencils together a while back and she gifted me a stencil. I decided to use my newly acquired Distress Oxide Inks for this card with Michelle's CAS designs in mind. After making one, I decided to make another the following night with different colours. I'm adding this to A Blog Named Hero's Copy a Designer Challenge. Thanks for dropping by.

Materials:
Card - Neenah Solar White and Desert Storm
Stencil - Hero Arts Large Flower
Stamp - Hero Arts
Inks - Distress Oxide Iced Spruce, Fired Brick and Faded Jeans
Other - PPP clear drops

An Iris card

I'm sharing a card I made a while ago and have not had a chance to blog it. This card was made with masking followed by sponging with distress oxides and a fine mist of Perfect Pearls to add some shimmer to the background. I'm adding this to Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes.

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Altenew March Inspiration Challenge

Another card made at the weekend Craft Retreat. I was able to try the Altenew Wild Hibiscus stamp set along with the new Tim Holtz Oxide Distress inks to make this card for the current March Inspiration challenge. I'm also linking this to Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - For a Special Lady.

Materials
Stamps - Altenew Wild Hibiscus and Label Loave
Inks - Tim Holtz Distress Oxides - Fossilized Amber, Spiced Marmalade and Fired Brick