Cactus

 

Hi everyone, these orange colours are warming me up,

 it's been freezing here lately!

Back to work in the school office on Monday, so making the most of my craft room until then!

I stencilled the sun with some distress oxides in mustard seed, spiced marmalade and ripe persimmon.

The tall cactus was cut from some scraps of smooshed blue/yellow cardstock, 

then I sponged on green distress inks to consolidate the colours. The short cactus was coloured with distress inks as were the flowers.

I'm linking up to these challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday, make your own background.

Mix it up Challenge, anything goes + optional clean & simple.

Happy Little Stampers anything goes with dies challenge

Tic Tac Toe Challenge

I've gone with CAS, birthday and diecuts.

Dies R Us, anything goes (used a Sizzix die)

Supplies:

Sizzix Funky cactus dies; MFT circle extraordinaire stencil; oxide and distress inks;

 Paper Smooches sentiment sampler stamp; versafine clair nocturne and clear ep; Crafts 4 U stitched rectangle die.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x

The joys of aging?!!

 

Hi everyone,

 I bought some new to me Art Impression stamps recently and thought I'd have a play.

This sentiment cracked me up!

Stamped in versafine clair inks, clear embossed and coloured with prismacolour pencils and zest it.

I'm linking up to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon, make me laugh (hope this isn't too cheeky!)

Addicted to Stamps & More

Darnell's NBUS Challenge, my new stamps

Bizzy Bec's Store Challenge, anything goes

Supplies:

Art Impressions Sit Back Laugh Lines stamps; Stampendous birthday fun stamp;  versafine clair inks; prismacolour pencils; Zest It pencil blend; Crafts 4 U stitched rectangle die.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x

Metallic for Seize the Birthday

 

Hi everyone, it's time for a new challenge at Seize the Birthday and it was my turn to choose the theme...metallic.

You could use foiling, foil cardstock, gilding flakes, metallic embossing powder, metal sheet or add some metallic embellishments.

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

My team mates and our party guest have some wonderful inspiration for you, so I hope you can play along.

I used some silver cardstock, embossed it with this new to me 3D folder, then pounced on some alcohol inks in pitch black, slate and rust.

The diecut sentiment was inked with versamark and embossed with liquid platinum embossing powder.

I layered it up onto some black for a bit of shadow to help it stand out.

Supplies:

Memory Box tools 3D embossing folder; silver metallic cardstock; alcohol inks; Creative Expressions sentiment die; versamark ink and Ranger liquid platinum embossing powder.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x

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