i made this for the first challenge at the Keep It Simple! blog, a weekly challenge blog, “designed to help you create beautiful, stylish, quick and simple cards in 30 minutes or less.” this week’s challenge is to make a red and green christmas card, which actually was a challenge for me because i like using non-traditional colours. i’m also submitting this for the Paper Sundaes’ christmas in august challenge. the sentiment is a stamp from JustRite ® Stampers. thanks for popping by.
i made this for two splitcoaststampers‘ challenges: sunday’s challenge is fun because you get to browse through the featured stamper’s gallery and case a card, but also change two or more items on it; this month’s fan club theme challenge is fabulous in faux. thanks for popping by.
i used my hedgie wedding couple sticker and hedgie hugging couple stamp for recent pbsc challenges, so i’m interpreting this week’s penny black saturday challenge of summer lovin’ loosely. the image is watercoloured with distress inks and stickles were added in spots. thanks for popping by.
this is for splitcoaststampers’ inspiration challenge and sketch challenge and the flutterby wednesday challenge, which is an open theme this week. the butterfly is a hologram peeloff that i painted with twinkling H2Os and the strip was embossed, sanded and attached. thanks for popping by.
i made this for two splitcoaststampers challenges:
Friday’s Queen For The Day Challenge, where stampers case a card from the Queen’s gallery and congratulate and honour a fellow stamper that gives each of us inspiration, supportive comments and a great sense of being a part of her life. i was inspired to use this striped ribbon i bought last summer, but it hasn’t worked with anything until today.
this is also for Friday’s Free 4 All challenge to “think snow…man!” i distressed the edges, sponged them with gold ink and did the same to the snowflakes – one is felt and one is punched. a gold dew drop was added to the centre. i added stickles to the trees and ground and added the ribbon. the sentiment is a peel off. thanks for popping by.
i literally followed this week’s card positioning system sketch 181 to create this card, one of those rare ones where i didn’t watercolour it. the image was stamped and just the one tree was glittered with stickles. thanks for popping by.
i used a new penny black betsy bluebell stamp to create this card for penny black saturday challenge #115, which is a sketch challenge that i rotated and flipped. instead of adding three items, i separated the balloons from the image using the out of the box technique, which is a bit trickier with watercolour paper. thanks for popping by.
i made this 3 by 3 inch card for the august caardvarks challenge to create a new Holiday gift tag or mini card that incorporates stamping. this was also for two challenges at splitcoaststampers: the inspiration challenge and the monthly christmas card challenge. thanks for popping by.
i love seeing all the different interpretations of the sketches over at Card Positioning Systems. i created this card using this week’s sketch, number 180; although i thought it might be a bit early for a halloween card, i see a couple there already. besides, this is a new penny black stamp that i couldn’t wait to ink up and watercolour with distress inks. thanks for popping by.
this week’s Penny Black Saturday Challenge, Feeling Fruity, did not require my imagination to work overtime; i’m not even sure what kind of fruit it is, but it’s some kind of berry. the image is watercoloured with distress inks. thanks for popping by.
i created this summer card for the lili of the valley four seasons challenge and the flutterby wednesday challenge, which is open-themed this week. the image is watercoloured and matted. thanks for popping by.
i created this for two challenges: the first Flourishes Bring Back Beautiful Challenge is to pick your favorite medium, which was easy since i watercolour almost every card – it helps me to momentarily escape from my grief journey; the second, the Simon Says Stamp! Challenge, which is summertime blues. thanks for popping by.
the Penny Black Saturday Challenge 113 was very challenging because i have no beach type stamps, but i did have a PB wedding sticker sheet so i used one and doodled in the sand for a beach wedding. the sentiment is from a PB clear set. thanks for popping by.
this is my submisison for the second monthly Penny Black At Allsorts challenge, which is glitz and glitter, and because they are looking to add some new faces to their Design Team. this is also for the Flutterby Wednesday #116, to use your favourite colour; mine is green, and for the CAS79 garden theme challenge at splitcoast. i watercoloured the image with distress inks and added stickles to the bee, butterflies, flower centres and border. thanks for popping by.
i used the Italian Style colours of The Play Date Café Challenge 41, the CAS plus masculine theme of Pals Paper Arts Challenge 54, and the Stamptacular Sunday’s Challenge 71– to create a card or project that is just for boys. the shell was masked and stamped three times on patterned paper; i used coloured pencils to add a bit of colour and highlights. thanks for popping by.
i made this for Lili of the Valley Challenge 59, another lovely sketch by DT member BEV. the image is watercoloured, the pink strip embossed and the yellow strip punched. thanks for popping by.
i made this for Card Positioning System’s Sketch 178 and of course i interpreted it quite literally; i think i’ll just need time to work on that. and, even though it’s very CAS, i did run the cuttlebug snowflake die through 16 times to get the tiny stars, plus i watercoloured them one at a time. thanks for popping by.
this is my first time participating in the The Play Date Cafe Challenge. PDCC40 is black and white with a hint of green. i love this magenta flower stamp; it makes for a quick CAS card. thanks for popping by.
this was another of the final projects i completed for the dare to get dirty challenges at splitcoaststampers. i found this magnetic 3 inch wooden monogram at michaels and covered it with the label from the Mistletoe Memory Box paper package. thanks for popping by.
this week’s stamptacular sunday challenge is out of this world! and i’m not waiting until the last minute to submit a card. this is also the last of my cards/projects for the dare to get dirty challenges at splitcoast, which means i completed all 33 challenges. whew! the image is watercoloured with distress inks. thanks for popping by.
i made this card for another of the dare to get dirty challenges at splitcoaststampers. as usual, it’s watercoloured and the base is heat embossed in two corners with clear embossing powder and versamark. thanks for popping by.
this is my second submission for the Stamptacular Christmas in July challenge. i also completed another of the Dare to Get Dirty challenges at splitcoaststampers. the polar bear is watercoloured, stickles were added and it’s popped on foam dots onto a 3″ x 3″ card. thanks for popping by.
it’s christmas in july at Penny Black Saturday Challenge and i almost missed it because a new challenge will be posted on Saturday already. i’m also submitting this for this week’s Stamptacular’s Christmas in July challenge. the hedgie was watercoloured and layered with circle nestabilities. just to make it look more like winter, i added stickle snowflakes and some punched white snowflakes to the designer paper. thanks for popping by.
i combined 5 splitcoast dare to get dirty challenges plus this week’s flutterby wednesday challenge to create this circle card. the image is heat embossed, watercoloured and die cut with circle nestabilities. the base was embossed and then die cut also. thanks for popping by.
this is my second card for the splitcoaststampers Dare To Get Dirty Challenge week. the snowman is watercoloured, stickled, die cut and popped on foam tape. i embossed and sanded the blue strip and die cut and sanded the snowflake. two of the smaller die cut stars were added to the snowflake and the tag. thanks for looking.
this is my first time participating in the annual Dare to Get Dirty Challenge week at splitcoaststampers. i combined six challenges to make this card. the cherry blossom stamp is one i picked up for 75 cents at a garage sale and i haven’t inked it up until now. i heat embossed the image, watercoloured it and added stickles. the butterflies were punched twice, glittered and pearls were added to their bodies. i stamped the coin, cut it out and coated it with several layers of clear embossing powder. both the image and coin are popped on foam tape. thanks for popping by.
this week’s challenge is anything but a card so i made a corner bookmark from scraps, following Beate Johns’ tutorial on splitcoaststampers.
this week’s FBW challenge is to use three or more layers and i’ve used sketch challenge 289 from splitcoaststampers. the butterfly is heat embossed, watercoloured and layered up; of course i had to add stickles to the dots. in real life, the purple is a little warmer, but i couldn’t photograph or edit it to match. thanks for popping by.
this is for the first Penny Black at Allsorts Challenge – A Burst of Summer Colour. i watercoloured the mice and flowers with distress inks, sponged in the sky and ground and popped the image on foam tape. stickles were added to the flower centres. thanks for popping by.
sketch challenges usually intimidate me, so one of my goals this year was to do more of them. this is the first time i’ve participated in the CPS sketch, a CAS card, which just happens to be my preferred style. thanks for popping by.
this is for a sketch challenge by Dawny, a DT member of LOTV. this image is the reason i started buying LOTV stamps. i used this teddy for the first time when i created a card in loving memory of my son in my splitcoaststampers’ gallery. because nothing seemed to fit in the space above the sentiment, i decided to add an edge to the lawn. thanks for popping by.
the challenge this week is a sketch by DT member beth. the hedgies are watercoloured with distress inks and popped on foam tape. i had a difficult time choosing the embellishment and finally decided on a vellum flower. thanks for popping by.
the flutterby wednesday challenge just started up again after taking the month of june off and this week’s challenge is an open one. i watercoloured the flower and butterfly and added stickles to all the dots and hearts. thanks for popping by.
the PBS Challenge this week is red, white and blue – very challenging. happy 4th of july to my friends south of the border! i watercoloured the image, matted it and added stickles to the flowers. the background paper was splattered with a dot background stamp and a flower was punched from it. thanks for popping by.
this week’s LOTV Challenge – is a sketch challenge by DT member Dawny. i love these teddies! my son passed away a year ago and they remind me of his drawing style; all his characters were so animated. the teddies also remind me of a stuffed teddy we “rescued” from the store shelf.
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