Silhouette floral

 

Hi everyone, I finally succumbed to buying this floral silhouette die.
 I've admired it from afar for so long lol!

I had a smooshed oxide ink background in my stash to experiment with and was happy with how it looked.

I'm linking up at the last minute to the challenge at Simon Says Stamp Monday,

something beginning with S. I chose silhouette.

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday has a clean and simple challenge

AAA Birthday

Happy Little Stampers anything goes with dies

Krafty Chicks Challenge, all occasions.

Supplies: distress oxide inks; Sizzix flower field die; sentiment sticker.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x

Summer road trip for Seize the Birthday

 

Hi everyone, it's time for a new challenge at Seize the Birthday and Barbara has chosen Summer activities as the theme this time around.

Of course, you can always play along with our anything goes birthday option too.

My team mates and our party guest Lorraine have some wonderful cards to inspire you, so I hope to see you in the gallery.

We get a lot of bike riders visiting our area in Summer as they seem to love our winding roads!

I bought this bike stamp ages ago as I loved the sentiment!

This is it's first inking. I've used versafine clair inks and blended on some distress inks for colour.

I'm linking up to these challenges:

CASology

Darnell's NBUS challenge

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday, clean and simple

Unicorn Challenge Blog, monochrome

Supplies:

Crafts 4 U stitched rectangle and Spellbinders circle dies: The Project Bin stamps; distress inks; versafine clair nocturne and blue belle inks and clear ep.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x

Baby train!

 

Hi everyone, I bought this new to me die recently and thought it would look good in primary colours, with a splash of black!

I paired it with an older MFT cloud die and some scraps of shimmer paper.

I'm linking up to these challenges:

Just Us Girls colour week, blue red yellow and black is my extra colour.

Happy Little Stampers anything goes with dies

PoppyStamps

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday, add a sentiment

CASology

Supplies:

Dies: Poppy Stamps choo choo train (from 2016 so may be retired); MFT cloud trio; Crats 4 U stitched rectangle.

Other: Papertrey Ink bundle of love stamp; scraps of coloured and glitter card; versafine cloair nocturne ink & clear ep.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x

Favourite Technique for Seize the Birthday

 

Hi everyone, it's time for a new challenge at Seize the Birthday and Ashwini wants us to use a favourite technique for our birthday cards this time around.

You can always play along with our anything goes birthday theme too.

Our party guest Lorraine and my team mates have some wonderful inspiration for you over at the blog, so I hope you can play along.

One of my favourite techniques is die cutting. (If that is a technique!)

If it's not then there is stencilling and wet embossing, which I've also used on this card.

I must thank Chrissie from Simply One of a Kind for enabling me to buy this horse die, she finds the best dies!! As well as making fabulous cards with them.

Supplies:

Dies: Crafts 4 U stitched rectangle; Charlie & Paulchen horse dies; Stampin Up winter woods die;

Other: Tim Holtz star stencil; gold ink; Happy Little Stampers doodled flowers sentiment.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x

Stencils for Seize the Birthday

 

Hi everyone, it's time for a new challenge at Seize the Birthday and Vicki has chosen stencils as the theme.

You can always play along with our anything goes birthday theme too.

My team mates and our guest Lorraine have some great inspiration for you, so I hope you can play along. All of the details are on the blog.

I seem to be stuck on a shimmer and shine phase! Will try and move on soon I promise :)

I used a new to me product (been around for quite a while I believe though) through my stencil.

Nuvo crackle mousse in russian white. Love the colour and love the crackle!

The sentiment die was inked with versamark and embossed with rose gold ep, while the butterfly was embossed with Lindys chateau rose ep.

Here's a closer look.

I'm linking up to these challenges:

Addicted to Stamps & More

I've used both diecuts and a stencil.

Allsorts, celebrating their 13th birthday with an anything goes birthday challenge! Congratulations!

Alphabet Challenge, D for diecuts

Happy Little Stampers stencil challenge

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday, anything goes

Supplies:

Dies: Memory Box birthday cursive script circle; Poppystamps stitched butterfly trio; Crafts 4 U stitched rectangle.

Other: Gina K art deco stencil; Nuvo mousse in russian white; watercolour paper; Wow rose gold and Lindy's chateau rose embossing powders; versamark ink.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x

Faux or real stitching for Seize the Birthday

 

Hi everyone, it's time for a new challenge at Seize the Birthday and Shirley wants to see some stitching on our cards. Faux or real, it's up to you

Of course, anything goes with a birthday sentiment is always fine too.

Our guest this time around is Lorraine and she and my team mates have some wonderful cards to inspire you, so I hope you can play along.

I've gone with stitching from diecuts.

I used a stitched rectangle die and then taped the blossom border metal die in place to cut the floral strip from the rectangle. Lots of stitching on that too.

The background is one of my last scraps from some inka gold smooshed on paper. Need to make some more!

Here's a closer look at the shimmer.

I'm linking up to these challenges:

Addicted to Stamps & More

Bizzy Bec's Store Challenge

Happy Little Stampers anything goes with dies

Little Red Wagon, make it bloom

Supplies:

Crafts 4 U stitched rectangle die; Paper Rose blossom border metal die; inka gold paste in gold and jade; sentiment sticker.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x

Gingham for baby

 

Hi everyone, I was asked for some baby cards recently so had a play with some old stash and new patterned paper!

The embossed base is a retired Stampin up folder called square lattice which came in handy for lining up the gingham squares! Glad I had my glasses on lol!

The baby icons and from some very old Quik Cutz cookie cutter dies called Baby Shapes ( a $1 bargain at Spotlight years ago). I coloured them with some Artnic ink cubes and a finger dauber, and popped them up on foam squares for dimension.

The patterned paper is from a pad by MFT petite gingham and I used a 1" punch to get my squares.

The stamp is an old one from Papertrey Ink bundle of love, no date on the set but I've had it for about 10 years.

I'm linking up to these challenges:

Retro Rubber

I've used pattern paper, dry embossing and both punches and diecuts.

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday, anything goes

Happy Little Stampers anything goes with dies

Krafty Chicks Challenge , all occasions

Let's Squash it, geometry and repeating patterns

The Male Room

Supplies:

Sizzix Stampin Up square lattice embossing folder; 1" square punch; Quik Cutz baby shapes dies; Papertrey Ink bundle of love stamp; versafine clair nocturne ink & clear ep; Artnic ink; MFT petite gingham dp.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x

Butterflies or hummingbirds for Seize the Birthday

 

Hi everyone, it's time for a new challenge at Seize the Birthday and our wonderful leader Nancy has chosen butterflies or hummingbirds as the theme.

Of course you can always play along with our anything goes option as long as it's for a birthday.

My team mates and our guest Deepti have some wonderful inspiration for you, so hope to see you in the gallery.

I've been making glitter paste cards for a 21st birthday in purples and blues and had a reject piece sitting on my table. I thought I'd see how it would die cut and was pretty happy with the result. I traced around the butterfly die to fussy cut a vellum layer too.

Here's a closer look at the sparkle.

And here's the stencil it was cut from, Funky Fossil brand but not sure of the name.

The sentiment was snipped from the Birthday cursive script circle.

I love the font on this die but didn't want the circle part for this card. I inked it with versamark and clear embossed it for some shine.

I'm linking up to these challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Monday, wild and wonderful. My take is wild colours!

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday, anything goes

Addicted to Stamps & More

Allsorts, something beginning with B...Butterfly!

Outside the Box, 

Supplies

Dies: Crafts 4 U stitched rectangle; Memory Box birthday cursive script circle; Sizzix scribbly butterflies.

Other: Bo Bunny glitter paste; Funky Fossil stencil; versamark ink & clear ep; happy sticker; vellum.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x