Blue & Purple for Lindsey

 

Hello Crafters,

We are deeply saddened to share the news that we lost our treasured friend and teammate, Lindsey, last week, following her hard-fought battle with cancer. Lindsey was well-known for her amazing creativity, witty sense of humor, and immense capacity to support and encourage her design team members and challenge participants. The crafting community will miss her shining light.

Today The Seize the Birthday Team is playing along with their Sister Challenge-Color Hues where Lindsey was also a Design Team Member. This challenge was to be hosted by Lindsey, so the Design Team wants to honor and celebrate her beautiful, creative life by sharing "Lindsey Inspired" projects using her Blue and Purple combination, along with things she loved the most, as inspiration. We hope that you will join us as we pay tribute to our dear friend and teammate.

Here are a few of her favorite things:

humor, cats

gardening/flowers

love of reading

friendship

wine

tea

*If you are a regular at Color Hues and/or Seize the Birthday you might also know that Lindsey loved Clean and Simple cards too.

We would love for you to join us and you can find all the details along with inspiration from both of the Design Teams over at the Color Hues blog.

Supplies:

Dies: Pink Fresh Studio floral squares; Crafts 4 U stitched rectangle; Memory Box stitched square layer die embossed with a rubber mat.

Distress oxide inks; Hero Arts Find Joy sentiment stamp set; versafine clair nocturne ink & clear ep.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x

Under the sea monochrome

 

Hi everyone, I'm using a few goodies that I bought recently, although I think they have been around for a while!

I diecut the sea corner and the sentiment from a piece of card smooshed in a few distress inks.

Before gluing to the card I put some painters tape along the edge and blended on some distress inks with a makeup brush.

I inked the sentiment with versamark and clear embossed it although it's a bit hard to see the shine in the photo.

I'm linking up to these challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday, anything goes.

AAA Cards

Addicted to Stamps & More

Krafty Chicks, all occasions

Outside the Box, water element challenge

The Male Room

Supplies

Memory Box dies deep sea corner and posh thank you; distress inks.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x

Metallic Watercoloured Butterflies

 

Hi everyone, I had some butterflies left after my last card and thought I'd create something more CAS for CAS Mix Up Challenge

I painted some cardstock with metallic watercolour paints then diecut the butterflies.

There's a vellum layer under the wings to keep them looking delicate.

The stamp is one I received when I bought some second hand Stampin Up stamps so not sure of the brand. Inked in Versafine clair nocturne and clear embossed.

I'm also linking up to these challenges.

Happy Little Stampers watercolour challenge

Mix It Up Challenge Blog, anything goes with the option of Clean & Simple.

Word Art Wednesday

Supplies:

Memory Box glade butterfly die; metallic watercolour paints; sentiment stamp brand unknown; versafine clair nocturne ink & clear ep; vellum; hammered card base.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x

Purple blue and green for Seize the Birthday

 

Hi everyone, it's time for a new challenge at Seize the Birthday and Colleen has chosen a colour challenge, purple, blue and green.

You can always play along with our anything goes birthday option too, it's a great way to add to your stash of birthday cards!

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

I used some metallic watercolour paints to colour some cardstock, then diecut the floral border and the new to me butterfly. I layered the flowers on a black diecut (was originally going to put this onto a black base but hubby liked the white one better lol!) I cut a vellum layer for the base of the butterfly.

Here's a closer look at the shimmery paints.

I'm linking up to these challenges:

Double D Challenge, also purple blue and green!

Krafty Chicks, CAS

Addicted to Stamps & More

Happy Little Stampers anything goes with dies

The Sisterhood of Crafters, butterflies, dragonflies and bees.

Supplies:

Dies: Memory Box fairytale flower border and glade butterfly; Metallic watercolour paints; unknown sentiment stamp (possibly Stampin Up) versafine clair nocturne ink & clear ep; hammered cardstock.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x

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