Underwater mermaid.

 

Hi everyone, it's time for a new challenge at Seize the Birthday and Lindsey has chosen the theme, create a scene.

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

The design team and our party guest, Carol have scenes galore to inspire you, so hope to see you in the gallery!

I used a brushos background for this underwater scene.

Brushos are a pigment powder that explode into colour when you spritz them with water!

You never know what sort of effect you'll get and if you aren't happy with it you can keep spritzing with water and smooshing it on a craft mat to get the effect you do like!

The mermaid was stamped with versafine ink, clear embossed, fussy cut and painted with opal paints.

Hard to capture the shimmer, so here's a closer look.

I added a mat of silver glitter card as the little girl this was for loves sparkles and mermaids!

I'm linking up to these challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday, favourite technique.

Creating inky backgrounds like this is one of my favourite techniques, as is fussycutting!

Addicted to Stamps & More

Happy Little Stampers watercolour Challenge

Always Fun Challenge, anything goes.

 Supplies:

Stampin Up magical mermaid stamps; versafine clair nocturne and shady lane inks, clear ep; Art Alchemy opal magic paints; sentiment sticker; Couture Creations silver glitter card.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x

Anniversary Hearts.

 

Hi everyone, I'm using up some scraps from my project box and found this panel made with red acrylic paint scrunched with cling wrap on top. You set it aside to dry and when the cling wrap is removed there can be loads of texture and dimension.

There's not a lot of definition from the cling wrap in this piece, but I love the variation it's given the red.

I must make some more of these panels. It's a lot of fun!

I'm linking up to these challenges:

The Card Concept.

I was inspired by the red of the raspberries, and the chocolate hearts, yum! My card is clean and simple in style.

Simon Says Stamp Monday, hearts or love.

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday, love is in the air.

Watercooler Wednesday,

Happy Little Stampers CAS Challenge.

Supplies: 

Mpress heart dies; red acrylic paint & cling wrap; Mama Elephant bountiful blessings stamp; versafine clair ink & clear ep; Craft Concepts stately embossing folder.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x

Birthday heart.

 

Hi everyone, it;s time for a new challenge at Seize the Birthday and Nancy has chosen hearts as the theme.

Of course anything birthday goes too, and if you need some inspiration, have a look at our party guest and the DT's wonderful cards!

I had stamped and fussycut a heart from a retired Stampin Up set Groovy Love, then decided it didn't go with the colours in the sentiment!

I turned the heart over and coloured it with oxide inks and embossed it with a tiny hearts folder,

I liked that better lol, although I think you can just see some of the heat embossed dots from the other side peeking through.

(It adds texture :)

The sentiment is also coloured with oxide inks and clear embossed for some shine.

Here's a closer look.

I'm linking up to these challenges:

AAA Birthday

Simon Says Stamp Monday, love or hearts

Adicted to Stamps & More, 

My scripty birthday die is new so I'm visiting Darnell's NBUS challenge

Supplies:

Stamps: SU Groovy Love heart; Spellbinders sentiments (no set name)

Inks: Versafine clair nocturne; distress oxide ink Salty ocean, tumbled glass, blueprint sketch.

Other: clear embossing powder: Mama Elepahant scripty birthday die; Crafts 4 U stitched rectangle die; Cuttlebug Love language embossing folder.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x

Christmas treat!

 

Hi everyone, 
it's time for a new challenge at CAS Christmas, and Susan has chosen the fun theme of cats or dogs.

Our guest designer Jane and my team mates have some wonderful cards to inspire you, so I hope you can play along.

I don't have many cat or dog images, other than my Katzelkraft ones, and I thought this pup looked like he was begging for a Christmas bone treat!

The dog and presents are stamped in versafine clair, clear embossed, fussycut and coloured with Prismacolour pencils.
The pressies are coloured with zigs.

The Merry die was inked with versamark and embossed with ranger blue tinsel embossing powder.
I glued the bone to the silver cord with glossy accents, thought I'd better cover the bone with it too since I'd made a mess lol!

Here's a closer look.

I'm linking up to these challenges:

Merry Little Christmas Challenge, anything goes.

Allsorts, 4 legged friends

Supplies:

Katzelkraft dog stamp; Simon Says Stamp Merry Christmas die; TH mini crazy things stamp; prismacolour pencils; zig markers; versamark ink; Ranger blue tinsel embossing glitter; versafine clair nocturne ink, clear ep; christmas sticker; Crafts 4 U stitched rectangle die.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x

Coneflowers just for you!

 

Hi everyone, I've been colouring with Inktense pencils and a water brush again.

Love how vibrant the colours are! Perfect for cheering up a friend.

I have a few flower stamps but tend go go for these coneflowers a lot, fussycutting them in my lunchbreak at work is very therapeutic!

I'm linking up to some challenges:

Happy Little Stampers watercolour challenge, anything goes.

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday, anything goes.

Watercooler Wednesday, occasions.

Supplies:

Stamps: Stampers Anonymous flower garden; Art Stamps Australia sentiment.

Other: Inktense pencils; Crafts 4U stitched rectangle die; watercolour paper; versafine smokey grey ink: versafine clair nocturne ink & clear ep.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x

Butterflies on vellum.

 

Hi everyone, it's time for a new challenge at Seize the Birthday and Ashwini has chosen vellum or transparencies as the theme.

Of course, you can always play along with the anything goes birthday option too!

Our party guest Julie and my team mates have some wonderful ideas to inspire you, so I hope you can play along.

I diecut a vellum tag for the sentiment as this doesn't interfere with the embossed background.

The butterflies are stamped with versafine clair nocturne ink, clear embossed, fussy cut and coloured with Inktense pencils and a waterbrush.

 I've used double sided tape on the vellum under the butterflies to secure the tag to the card.

I'm linking up to some challenges:

Always Fun Challenge, use your favourite product.

Apart from butterfly stamps, I love my Inktense pencils!

Let's Squash It, use a named embossing folder and add an animal.

Mix it up Challenge Blog, anything goes, without the optional bleaching this time.

Supplies:

Hero Arts antique engravings butterfly stamp; Annabelle Stamps sentiment (retired); versafine clair nocturne ink & clear ep; vellum; MFT tag die; Couture Creations entangle embossing folder; Inktense pencils (amber; sienna gold and dark aquamarine).

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x

What bonfire?!

 

Hi again, I'm back with the grumpy bear and the birthday set of stamps!

Think I got carried away with the stencilled clouds but I'm having fun lol!

The sky is stencilled with distress ink and the grass with oxide ink using MFT stencils.

The bear is coloured with Prismacolour pencils and I coloured the hat with Zigs. (Love the fine tips)

I masked a sentiment from the Just Sayin retired Stampin Up set so I got a clean speech bubble and popped a sentiment sticker in there.

I'm linking up to some challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday, layer it up.

Watercooler Wednesday,

AAA Birthday

Addicted to Stamps & More

Stamplorations stencil challenge, anything goes.

Supplies:

Taylored Expressions Grumpy bear and birthday stamps; distress ink & oxide ink; versafine clair nocturne ink & clear ep; Prismacolour pencils; Zig watercolour brush markers; MFT clouds and grass stencils; Stampin Up Just Sayin stamp & speech bubbles die; sentiment sticker; Crafts 4 U stitched rectangle die.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x

Grumpy Valentine!

 

Hi everyone, I received this grumpy bear and some matching stamp sets for Christmas.

I love the look on his face lol!

I stencilled some glass bead glitter gel coloured with oxide ink through a heart stencil, then stencilled some grass.

The bear is coloured with Prismacolour pencils.

I thought it needed something else so added some diecut sparkly heart balloons.

I'm linking up to these challenges:

Just Us Girls,

Happy Little Stampers Stencil Challenge

Make My Monday, something new in your stash.

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday, something new.

Supplies:

Taylored Expressions Big Grumpy bear stamp & die and Big Grumpy valentine sentiment: MFT hearts and grass stencils; Paper Smooches balloon die; Crafts 4 U stitched rectangle die; Distress oxide inks; glass bead glitter gel; versafine clair nocturne ink & clear ep; Prismacolour pencils; red glitter paper.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x

Snowy Birthday.

 

Hi everyone, Happy New Year and welcome back to Seize the Birthday!

Barb has chosen a snowy background as our theme this time,

or, you can play along with the anything goes birthday option.

My team mates and our party guest Julie, have some wonderful cards to inspire you, so I hope you can play along.

I haven't seen much snow since we emigrated to Australia from Scotland when I was 6!

I just remember it was cold, very cold! 

So I may have created a blizzard as a background lol!

I used brushos spritzed with water to create the background then stamped the Katzelkraft guy onto it. I stamped another image, coloured him with Prismacolor pencils, and fussy cut part of him to paper piece over the other stamped one.

I stamped the Hero Arts warm thoughts sentiment then

 lightened the ground with a white prismacolour pencil and added a streak of snowtex to ground the character.

I tapped a white posca paint pen over the card for snow drops.

I'm linking up to these challenges:

Addicted to Stamps & More,, brushos, prismacolur pencils and posca paint pen.

Happy Little Stampers Watercolour Challenge, brushos.

Simon Says Stamp Monday, use a new or unused product.

This Katzelkraft sherlock set is unused, and my posca pen was new!

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday, something new.

Supplies:

Brushos prussian blue; Katzelkraft Pabos Sherlock stamp; Hero Arts Find Joy stamp; versafine clair nocturne ink; clear ep; DecoArt Snow tex; Prismacolour pencils; white posca paint pen; birthday sentiment sticker.

Thanks for visiting,
Cathy x