Sunday Stamps: Colourful Mask..

Hey,

I cut it close, but I made it!!

I really wanted to play along with the current Sunday Stamps challenge.

I made Top Cup at the last Sunday Stamps challenge, which was awesome and I was super pleased, this is one of the reasons I wanted to play along again. It's always nice to play along after a win or a mention, that's what makes the challenge community so nice.

The colours and the image really spoke to me and were a perfect match for one of my fave stamps sets - Mardi Gras by Avery Elle.

I heat embossed the mask onto purple paper, weirdly I thought I had some darker purple in my stash..I don't - mental note to buy more purple paper lol. I love Liquid Platinum embossing powder by Ranger, it is my fave - you get such a smooth finish. I die-cut the feathers out of gold and green glitter paper.

I have seen a lot of people recently creating backgrounds using strips of paper, so I thought I'd give it a whirl. I didn't want too much gold, so used more black strips.

I decided to add a Tim Holtz sentiment strip and I think it worked out really well.

I am pleased with the end result, it came out exactly as I pictured it.

Cx

Snarky Sketch: This Could be Vodka..

Hey,

It's so nice to be home and back at my desk.

I thought I would combine two challenges today. I loved the idea of the Sunday Stamps sketch and tag challenge combined with The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers 'C is for Cat'.

I thought my newish papers by Craft Sensations would work really well with the sketch and I love tags and thought it would be great to use one of my all-time fave dies - Lil Inkers dotted tag die.

I really like The Cat's Pajama's stamps and the set I used here 'It could be Vodka' always makes me smile. I stamped the cat onto the tag and coloured it using copic markers. I stamped the cup again onto a scrap of patterned paper and die-cut it and arranged it so it hangs slightly off the tag.

I keep ALL the ribbon that I get on gifts, this particular piece was from my Christmas gifts from my in-laws 2 years ago.

I love the sentiment - I mean who knows what the Cat is sitting in!

Cx

Challenge from London..

Hey,

So we are back from Lisbon...

More about that later in the week, right now I am just trying to focus on working :)

I really wanted to enter Sunday Stamps Challenge again and the current theme inspired me..

I really loved the colours and the soft tones of the photo..

So before we left for London I made a card..

I stamped the starburst from Stampin' Up Kinda Eclectic, it reminded me of the dandelion. Then I die cut it using a Simon Says Stamp stitched circle die.

The sentiment dies are by Hero Arts.

I wish I had embossed the background looking at it now :( But it still works and the little bits of bling and white perfect accents lift the whole thing.

Hope you are having a great Monday.

Cx