Shades of Purple

I just love the current A Blog Named Hero's Tone on Tone Challenge. This week, I used the sketch from CAS(E) this Sketch and used a few shades of purple from Distress Ink to Hero Arts Mid-tone Ink to Ranger Dye Ink to pull it altogether! The coloured card and sentiment are from Hero Arts, the stencil is from Tim Holtz and the flowers are from Altenew. I'm also adding this card to this week's Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Say it with Flowers. Thanks for dropping by!

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She's 16!

I can't believe that our youngest niece is turning 16 tomorrow! She lives in Sydney and I made this card on Mother's Day, in between running a few errands! I wanted to use a stencil so that I can enter it into this week's Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge. Can you see the stencil in this card! I used the Flash creative screening from Winnie and Walter for the background using two distress inks to colour. I then overstamped with images from The Party stampset. The '16' was diecut with MFT Dienamcs Big numbers dies and glitter foam which I picked up from Lincraft recently. Of course the card would not be complete without a bit of Wink of Stella on the balloons and a sprinkling of sequins. Thanks for dropping by!

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to all the crafty Mums! I have a card to share for the current Fusion Card Challenge and the Simon Says Stamp Mother's Day/Flowers challenge on Flickr. The stamped images from Simon Says Stamp were coloured with Distress Inks (Tumbled Glass, Candied Apple, Mowed Lawn and Spiced Marmalade) on watercolour card. The inspiration is based on the Fusion sketch and colours. Hope you all have a great day! Thanks for dropping by!!

Tone on Tone

I've got a card to share for the A Blog Named Hero Tone on Tone Challenge this month. I used shades of Hero Arts mid-tone inks to ink up the layering orchid stampset to create this card - Two layers of Pale Tomato and one with Royal Red. The stem was inked with the Hero Arts ombre ink pad. This post is for the A Blog Named Hero's Facebook Fan Page.

A wedding card

I have a wedding card to share for a wedding I attended yesterday. I used the Altenew Vintage Roses with Hero Arts mid-tone inks to ink up the flowers and leaves. The background pattern paper is from Kaisercraft. Some sequins and a clear Wink of Stella was added to the flowers. I'm adding this to Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Anything Goes challenge. Thanks for dropping by!

Hydrangea in blue

I'm back with a very simple card for the A Blog Named Hero's Clean and Simple challenge. I was inspired by a doona cover I saw at Laura and Ashley on the weekend. I stamped the Hero Arts Hydrangea flower with blue Memento ink on two cards. Cut both cards down to two different sizes (after lining them up of course) and coloured in the smaller stamped image with Copic markers in two shades of grey. I only coloured in the background, leaving the flower and leaves in blue and white. I then later coloured in the flower with clear Wink of Stella. I decided not to add a sentiment as I wanted the flower to stand out against the white. I'm also adding this to Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - Anything Goes Challenge.
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Sympathy Card

This week we lost two people both related to work colleagues. Both of them died on the same night at my hospital. One was a ex colleague who left over 10 years ago but still keeps in touch - she lost a very short battle with cancer. The other is a nephew of a staff member who was involved in a fight on the weekend and died under very tragic circumstances. I made two cards exactly the same on the one night. I stamped with my MISTI using Distress Inks and rotated the design. After masking, I re-stamped again with different shades of Distress Inks (Seedless Preserve, Mowed Lawn, Chipped Sapphire and Stormy Sky). I then coloured in with water and added a bit more colour. After drying, I then coloured in the background with Tumbled Glass. I sprinkled droplets of Seedless Preserve and Chipped Sapphire and added the sentiment from Hero Arts. I didn't want to add any sequins but added some dots with some dimensional paint in silver. I mounted the card to Hero Arts layering paper before adhering to the card base. This post is for A Blog Named Hero's Fan page on Facebook. Thanks for dropping in!