Retro Rubber Challenge #158 Tic Tac Toe...

Hey,

Welcome to another fun Retro Rubber challenge.

This time we have another Tic Tac Toe board by our very own Jan.

I chose the middle horizontal line - Cake-Heat Embossing-Flowers.

I love this set by Flora & Fauna 'Birthday Day' I have had it since 2019 and it was perfect for this challenge. 

I heat embossed it onto watercolour paper and watercoloured the cake and the flowers, the flowers are actually watercoloured with metallic paints, so IRL have a great shimmer to them.

I felt that the background paper was 'floral' in a loose way, and added a die-cut piece of vellum to lift the image off of the paper.

This card feels vaguely bridal..

Which row will you choose? Be sure to pop over to Retro Rubber and get inspired by the things the DT have made.

Challenge ends May 21st.

Don't forget to tell us the age of your stamp, that is part of the fun of our challenge, and please only enter 10 challenges including Retro Rubber.

Cx

Stamping over a background..

 

Hey,

Happy Friday!

Well, I don't know about you, but I am glad that the first week of work is over and passed easily, now I get to enjoy the weekend.

I got this great Spellbinders stamp from Jenn Shurkus' destash last year. But as you can see it is quite big! So I decided I would stamp over some fun backgrounds.

Creating the backgrounds is simple. I used a zigzag background stamp I have, inked it up using distress oxide's and spritzed it with water, I laid my watercolour paper down on the stamp and then dried it and repeated the process until all the ink was gone. You only need to ink the stamp once.

As you can see when you stamp over it, the zigzags show through, but the majority of that is hidden once you colour in the stamp. I kept the colouring simple and used Copics for the bigger areas and Sakura Gellyroll Starburst gel pens for the smaller areas to add a bit of sparkle.

I ended up with a bunch of fun cards.

Have a great weekend, I will be watching NFL wildcard weekend, trying not to be too sad about the end of the NFL season.

Cx

Unleash the Kraken!

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Happy Monday!

I hope you had a fun weekend.

I unexpectedly went to see Billy Idol and Bryan Adams in concert, which was surprisingly awesome!

I am a big fan of the Kraken myth and when I saw the great Legendary stamp set by Avery Elle, I knew it had to be mine.

I stamped the Kraken and then masked him off so I could add the clouds, using my fave Dutchdoobadoo stencil.

Sadly as I started colouring him, one of my Copic's belched and did this -

Ugh..I mean ugh. There was no way that I was going to redo this entire thing... So I decided that my Kraken was bringing a cake to celebrate 'your' birthday. Nice save, even if I do say so myself!

To finish my card, I mounted it onto a white card blank, then I used a Lawn Fawn wave die to die-cut the top of my embossed 'sea' panel and added the cake and the sentiment.

Fun card, much more Kraken based cards to come.

Cx

Retro Rubber Challenge #111...Tic Tac Toe...

Hey,

Welcome to another fun Retro Rubber challenge.

We have another great Tic Tac Toe board created for you by Jan.

Tic Tac Toe is so much fun, I love seeing what other people create with the same row as me!

I chose Cake-Flowers-One layer Card.

I pulled on my big girl pants and stamped STRAIGHT onto my card blank, so this would be a one-layer card - I NEVER do that. But it worked and I could stop sweating for a moment.

I coloured the cake - which is by Concord & 9th and one of my fave of all time stamp sets 'Happy Day', I used to borrow it from my friends all the time until I think Cheiron had, had enough of me pilfering it and sold it to me last year!

I am so pleased at how pretty the flowers came out - coloured with Promarkers and Spectrum Noir sparkle pens.

I added a sentiment and my card was complete.

I really need to be braver and make more one layer cards!

Which row will you chose? Pop over to Retro Rubber and get inspired by the things all the DT have made.

Challenge ends May 31st.

Don't forget to tell us the age of your stamp, that is part of the fun of our challenge and please only enter 10 challenges including Retro Rubber.

Cx

Weird Piggies...

Hey,

Happy Black Friday to you!

If you are in America, I hope you had a great Thanksgiving.

I had a great day, hanging with Hubby - basically watching him cook :) He is the best ever. I made a chocolate cake which is fave and there ends my contribution to the full Turkey dinner. We also watched all the NFL on offer and caught up with my parents and gave Boscat a mini Turkey dinner treat - which she LOVED.

Today, I am showing you a few little panels I made a few weeks ago. They did actually become fun cards, but guess what..I forgot to take photos of them before I sent them out! UGH.

Anyway...

The stamp is awesome and by Paper Artsy and was a gift from Cheiron. The minute she gave it to me I knew it would work really well with my current fave thing - Andy Skinner dots stencil.

I stamped the winged piggy and then masked him off and used distress oxides through the stencil over him.

I totally love the bright, fun, slightly weird end result and I'm going to mimic it, in my art journal.

Have fun today if you are shopping. I did most of mine in Vegas (which was so much crazy fun, I can't even begin to explain) and online. Today I will be just hitting a couple of local stores that I like to go to.

It's been a great week of vacay, sad to go back to work on Monday, but it will be nice to catch-up with the ladies.

Cx

CASE it...

Hey,

So I wanted to show you a couple more cards I made using this great masking / blending / stenciling idea that JT and I CASEd recently.

The main card today uses some new birthday booty that I bought from MFT using money given to me by my in-laws.

You are familiar with my love of Monsters and I couldn't resist the new 'Monster Sized' set and the 'Sassy Pants Best Friends' set made me laugh a lot and so I needed to own that. The sentiment used on this card is hilarious and true of many of my friendships.

For both of these cards I used this awesome stencil by Andy Skinner - I am literally overusing it right now, it's so fun.

The next card uses more birthday booty - the amazing Cake stamp is by Sweet Stamp Shop and the sentiment is by Scrapbook.com - they do this awesome range of stamps and I loved 'have cake for breakfast' - I mean YES!!

I really need to use a different technique, I'm so hooked on this one, it makes card backgrounds super easy and fun.

Cx

So much cake...

Hey,

I am heading to Philly today to hang out with my friends.

Yes, I am still waiting for the pesky work permit, so I am going to hang with my friends in an attempt to stem the stir crazy..

Today's card was a fun experiment and I can't wait to make more of them.

The balloon background is by Bugaboo and when I saw it, I thought it would work perfectly with a myriad of physical stamps.

To test my theory, I used one the coloured and cut MFT Bears that I had on my desk from the colouring challenge.

I love the final card, the background adds so much and I really love the sentiment that came with the MFT bear set, I just had to add the 'Happy Birthday'

Cx

Newton Loves Cake..

Hey,

Happy Friday!

As you know I am GDT this week over at CASology...

I loved the cue card CAKE so much, I made another card :)

I love this cute set by Newton's Nook 'Newton Loves Cake' - funny that so do I!

I kept the card super simple and added a nice anchor point with the needle point frame (by Memory Box). The sentiment is my fave from the set.

I don't think you can see how sparkly the cake is in my photo, but all the icing was coloured using Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pens..I didn't love these at first, but they have grown on me.

Have a great weekend, I am going to be chilling and watching NFL with Hubby..Yay!!

Cx

CASology #266 Cake: Guest Designer..

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Happy Tuesday to you.

This is my second post of the day and I am super excited to be Guest Designer over at CASology today..

I was so pleased to win my first CASology - I have been playing along with them for a while and have been lucky enough to get several Honorable Mentions. I didn't realise my win came with a GDT opportunity, so I am made up!!

This week's cue card is a fave for me -

Cake!! It's like I was meant to be GDT, as I LOVE Cake.

I had a few options for this card, but I decided to go with a something that is reasonably fussy, but minimally coloured, so ends up being quite CAS.

I created the word by stamping Jenny Bowlin outline stamps - top tip when you don't have a '!' use an upside down 'i'.

I added a freebie cakestand stamp that I have had for about 7 years and just added pops of colour to the cakes, so it kept the fussiness to a minimum.

I'm pretty happy with the end result and so pleased I got to be GDT, what a great way to come back after holiday!

Please go over to CASology and check out the awesome things the DT have made.

The challenge ends on Monday 18th at Noon CDT.

Cx

Repeat Resist..

Hey,

So today I am showing you the final card from my playdate with JT 2 weeks ago.

JT had seen this idea of a repeat resist with a watercolour overlay, you can see her awesome take on this technique here - I love the Seahorse that she used for her repeat.

I used an ancient Papermania Happy Birthday stamp for my resist - it is quite long, so I only had to stamp each row and heat emboss them in white.

I watercoloured over the top of the heat embossed text and wiped off the excess with a paper towel.

The cake stamp/die is by Concord & 9th and is one of my faves.

I love resists, you get such awesome results.

I am leaving for London tonight, so for the next 14 days my posts will be scheduled. I have a few days off whilst I am in London and JT and I are having a Margatecraftathon LOL. We have hired a teeny tiny place and are taking a ton of crafting supplies and spending 3 days having a real playdate.

Cx

MAWTT..Still time to play along...

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Just a little reminder that there is still time to play along with the current Moving Along With The Times challenge....

I made a little cake card sticking with the current theme...Birthday Cake.

You have until September 28th (6pm GMT) to enter.

Cx

Moving Along With The Times..Let's Eat Cake...

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Today I am your hostess over at the Moving Along With The Times challenge.

As it is nearly my birthday (well, two weeks away) I thought we would go with a Birthday Cake theme.

Any cake will do, really I'm not fussy :)

I used a fave stamp Brittany the Birthday girl by Stamping Bella, I love her dress, it looks like cake... I coloured her using Promarkers and then masked her off, so I could stencil in the fun background. The stencil is by Dutch Doobadoo.

The sentiment is by Hero Arts for Stamptember two years ago and I thought it worked perfectly here, stamped onto a stray hexagon punch that was on my desk..love it when that happens.

Your turn now to join in the fun, show us your creations, but first hop over to MAWTT and see what the rest of the team have been making.

Challenge ends on Sept 28th (actually my birthday) at 6pm GMT.

Cx

Yummy Cake...

Hey,

Happy Friday...

I had to buy the Eat Cake and Celebrate set by Concord & 9th following Cheiron's great class a few weeks ago.

It is SO versatile, I have played with it a lot.

I roughly CASE'd the card we made in class for this one..

I die-cut a blank panel and stamped the stars and the sentiment from the set using Versamark ink, then I added some super bright yellow embossing powder and broke out my heat gun :)

I love how bright this powder is - it's a WOW! powder.

I coloured the cake using distress inks and an aquabrush, die-cut it out and mounted it using foam tape.

Then the whole panel went onto a yellow card blank.

So bright and fun, I think it will make a perfect kids card.

Cx

p.s I love cake..

Eat Cake....

Hey,

Just popping in today with a quick little card that I made for a friend's birthday.

I bought the cute little cake stand stamp from Unity Stamp Co a while back, this is it's first outing and I love it.

I used Gina Marie dies for the fancy stitched scallops and the pale pink embossed piece was a gift from JT, she has this amazing Houndstooth folder and embosses a bunch of them in various colours for me, so I don't steal her folder...

I decided that I was going to stamp a sentiment onto a Simon Says Stamp scribbly banner, so I went into the envelope to get the die and the sentiment banner you see fell out!!

If I die-cut and stamp things but don't use them, I put them back in the die envelope..it was meant to be here, love it when that happens.

I added some sequins and bling as a final touch.

Another simple quick card to make, I hope my friend likes it.

Cx

Cake and quilts...

Hey,

Hope you all had a great weekend.

I thought today I would share a card I made using some of my colouring from The Daily Marker colouring challenge last month.

It's been a 'let's eat cake' kind of weekend..we went to afternoon tea at a friend's house to meet her new Daughter - who is GORGEOUS!!

I managed to FINALLY finish her baby quilt -

I choose the Parisian Pooch fabric, because my friend and her Husband are big fans of Paris and I like all the baby quilts to have a touch of the parents incorporated.

Finishing this quilt gave me a new found love for my amazing sewing machine and it's super fast speed - meaning I got this bad boy done in under 3hrs...

This was an adventure for me, as I used flannel for the first time, it's a beast to sew, but gives superb results..

Back to my card :) The stamp is a freebie from a UK magazine, I love it, so pretty and versatile. I die-cut it using my new Gina Marie stitched scallop dies and the sentiment is by Simon Says Stamp and Hero Arts for Stamptember 2014. The best bit for me is the ancient paper from a dodgy craft expo that JT and I attended way back in 2012, it came in a huge pack and I am still working my way through it.

I am happy with the finished card and the baby quilt..

Cx

Snowy Sunday

So yesterday was a snow filled day, it snowed over night and didn't stop all day. Which to me meant that I had the perfect excuse to stay home, bake and craft!

The main photo today is the view of my street from the craft room - brrr.

Following Mexican night on Friday (see Facebook for the embarrassing photos) we had quite a lot of defrosted raspberries left over. So I went in search of a recipe to use them and came up with this Raspberry Bakewell cake - yum!

It's really easy to make and here is a photo of my finished cake..

It tastes as good as it looks :) and I will be making it again.

I also started a new project today, I've been nosying around blogs this week and discovered there are a lot of people creating mini journals based on an idea called Project Life. I don't really get scrapbooking, but thought that making a mini journal for 2013 might be fun and as I am about to be a 'lady of leisure' it should keep me out of mischief..

I'll show you how I've been putting the journal together later in the week, but for now here is a photo of the back garden on snowy Sunday.

Cx