Sketch Saturday #438

Hey,

So I am super pleased to be posting my first card as a part of the DT for Sketch Saturday!!

Whoop Whoop!!

I am so pleased to be joining this very talented group of ladies.

This week's sponsor is Simon Says Stamp who are offering a $25 voucher to their store.

Here is this weeks sketch -

I LOVE Simon Says Stamp and so I thought it would be fun to break out two of their cardkits for this challenge.

The November kit has all these amazing papers and so I used one of those and used it to choose my colours. The blue triangle and the tan panel are scraps from my scrap boxes.

I stamped two sentiments from the October and November kits and for a finishing flourish I stamped and fussy cut a squirrel from the October kit.

I love the wood dots by Teresa Collins and the use of them is seriously rationed!!

Your turn to join in the fun - go over to Sketch Saturday and be inspired by the rest of the DT makes.

Challenge ends 18th November 7pm GMT / 5pm EST.

Cx

Distress Techniques....

Hey,

Happy Saturday to you all!

I am probably landing as you are reading this...

Right after the loft art retreat I used the left over tags from our project to practice some of the techniques that Jenn had taught us.

It's taken me until this week to get round to making cards with them!!

Here are the 3 tags I started with, I have labelled them with the technique I used, just enlarge the photo to read the details.

The main photo is the first card I made and I love the Studio Calico wooden word bubbles. They are a lot of fun. This year I have used a lot more wooden items, I used to be daunted by them.

I die-cut the friend using a Mama Elephant die and I die cut it out of Kraft card twice and layered them, to make it studier. I added a couple of orange enamel dots to finish it off.

I really like it, its fun and really shouts fabulous to me.

The next card uses Lawn Fawn wooden words and stars and to make it a bit different I coloured a Tim Holtz Gum Drop using Orange Alcohol ink and covered the tag hole with it.

Fun cards and the orange card blanks really make the elements pop. I made the card blanks myself using the cardstock from my latest Simon Says Stamp cardkit.

Have a great weekend, I'll be hanging with my family and the animals...

Cx

Wooden Letters..

Hey,

Happy Sunday!

I had a fun playdate with Cheiron yesterday. I am MOST envious of her amazing craft room..one day..

I'll show the makes from yesterday tomorrow.

Oh and I saw that I got the Rockstar over at Retro Sketches for my Magic card for RS #213 - Yay!!

Today I wanted to show you a fun card that I CASEd - but here is the rub, I can't find the card anywhere..If you recognise your card when you see mine, please reach out so I can show you some love and credit you.

The card had a giant letter U on it..So I bought a wood U from Michael's and painted it with Navy acrylic paint.

Because I wanted the U to be the focus, I kept the colors simple and the rest of the sentiment was as minimal as it could be,

I am getting lots of mileage already out of the happy die that JT bought me :)

I love this, I need to make some more of them, they really work for 'man' birthday's.

Cx

Heating up background stamps..

Hey,

Happy 2016..

Back to work for me today - sigh..can't really complain as I have been off for what feels like forever.

It has been a lot of fun, but not a lot of desk time and I leave for London on Friday, so I'll be chomping at the bit to finally get some time at my desk in about 2 weeks..

I did manage to squeeze in a couple of sessions and today's cards are from a brief play at my desk on Saturday afternoon.

I love Hero Arts background stamps and I saw Kristina Werner use the one on the card below and really wanted it. I finally managed to get my hands on it a couple of months ago in a sale.

Kristina had created a watercoloured background and heat embossed over the top of it..so I thought I would try that out too.

I also had a great moment when Jenn Shurkus sent me her Hero Arts background stamp that I had admired, seen on the main card today. How sweet was that?!

Both of these cards were really simple to make and I had a couple of heat embossing blips that I managed to cover with the wooden embellishments.

I coloured the wood embellishments using Distress paints - the main card uses Candied Apple and the second card used Picket Fence (it didn't photograph that well). The sentiments are by Tim Holtz.

Close-up the heat embossing is really cool, the watercolour backgrounds really pop.

Have a good day back at work..try not to overdo it :)

Cx

Wooden it be nice..

Hey,

Happy Saturday!!

Its pretty rainy and windy here in NYC due to Hurricane Joaquin, perfect excuse to stay in and play at my desk.

I came across the Shopping Our Stash challenge during the Summer when I was on a challenge hiatus..but that is over now, so this is my first time playing along.

The theme for this week's challenge is 'Wooden it be nice' - essentially use wood on your project.

The minute I saw it, I thought 'Now I can use that pair of glasses that have been sitting on my desk for 4 months...'

I thought they would go really well with the Hippo from an Avery Elle stamp set (Hipsterpotomus) and I think I was right :) I coloured the hippo using Promarkers and added the glasses using UHU.

The sentiment is from the small talk set by Mama Elephant.

I decided to keep him nice and CAS.

I love him, I can't wait to send him to someone and its given me some ideas about some other wooden items hiding in my stash.

Cx