New stamps make me happy!

 Hello, good morning and happy weekend. 

Today sees the start of a new challenge at Sweet Stampin', 

the theme for this fortnight is CAS. It came at a good time for me as I succumbed to temptation recently and bought a couple of Lavinia stamps that I've had my eye on for a while. It's a first outing for the bees and these beautiful flowers, a simple one layer card with a masked off panel of stencilling and a stamped sentiment. The bees and flowers coloured with watercolour markers. 

My lovely teamies have been busy creating some wonderful CAS cards, so please do take the time to check them out. Hope you'll be inspired to join in, just follow the theme and remember to include some stamping- digital stamps are fine! 

Thanks for stopping by, enjoy the weekend.

Chris

x

Challenge entries:

asyoulikeit -I like to create a variety of styles but am always happier with the more CAS ones.

CAS on Friday #307

scscards April (atg)

paperfunday #75

addictedtostamps #491

stencilfun April Challenge

mmm #250

Favourite colours

 Good morning, it's time for a new challenge at Fab'n' Funky and for this fortnight our lovely N'Eva would like to see your favourite colours.

Greens and blues are favourites of mine so I've combined both in this card. I cut a rectangle from a previously made inky background, and added some stencilling here and there. I worked out where I wanted to place the die cut circles, then stamped my images using a selection of Lavinia stamps. The flowers were stamped onto white cs coloured, and fussy cut, a little glitter and bling added to each one.

As always there's more inspiration from the rest of the team over at The Challenge blog- we hope you can join in this fortnight.

Thanks for visiting

Chris

x

Challenge entries:

daisychain #95

letscreate #218

paper-rocks-scissors #3 (flowers are fussy cut)

creativecrafters #87

conjurerofdreams #7

unicorn #108

mmmchallenge #250

welovestamping #April (favourite stamps- Lavinia)

Cups and Books

 Hello, I'm back again with my second post for today.

This is my DT card for this fortnight's challenge at Crafty Catz,

 the theme is as always

 Anything Goes and Billie has chosen the option of Feminine Birthday for anyone who would like to use it.

our sponsor for this challenge is Last Minute Manda

I made an octagonal easel card using a pretty sponsor image,

 Shabby Chic Cups and Books, the image is greyscale so very easy to colour- I used my Copic markers.

I die cut the image using an octagonal die and matted it onto a larger purple layer, for the base I embossed the smaller octagon and added the die cut sentiment.

Thank you for stopping by today,

I hope you have a lovely Easter weekend.

Chris

x

Challenge entries:

ilovepromarkers #581

lilredwagon #803

thepapershelter #634

aperfecttimetocraft #4

beautifulblossoms #28

classicdesign #4

daisychain #95

girlzrebelchallenge #39

There are always flowers

 Good morning and Happy Easter. I have two posts today. First up with my DT card for our mid month reminder for our April challenge at Stamping Sensations, 

the theme is Anything Goes with an option of  Nature/Flowers/ Birds/ Animals.

 There are two prizes of Lavinia stamps and stencil (photos not to scale). 

I made a fairly CAS card, blending distress inks onto a rectangle of white card and adding a little stencilling using the same colours. The flower stamp is Tim Holtz, the little bee is Lavinia, and the sentiment is part of an old set of Hobby Art stamps.

For full details of the challenge and lots of inspiration from the rest of the team head on over to Stamping Sensations.

Chris

x

Challenge Entries:

creativeinspiration #25

Ellibelles Garden Party April Challenge

kraftychicks #764

paperfunday #75 (Bee)

avenue613. April Challenge

allsorts #821

Violet

 Good morning, there's a new challenge beginning today over at Fab'n'Funky, it's my turn to host and choose a theme so I went with an easy one- Think Spring- so anything to do with spring- flowers, birds, baby animals, Easter etc.

Hasn't our spring been lovely so far, so much sunshine and beautiful blue skies, makes me feel glad to be alive!

I used a previously made background, blended distress inks and a leafy stencil, it has a lovely shimmer as I've added something like Pixie Powder or Nuvo shimmer powder- made it a while ago so can't remember- but it's very pretty!  I stamped the violet (A&C) directly onto the background and then again onto a scrap of ink blended card which was left over from another project, die cut a circle containing the flower heads, coloured with water-colours and adhered in place. I die cut the frame from purple cardstock, stamped the sentiment in purple to match. 

I hope you can find the time to join in with this challenge, if you need inspiration there are some lovely creations from the rest of the team over at Fab'n' Funky Challenge Blog.

Thanks for visiting

Chris

x

Challenge entries:

Allsorts #820

creativecraftinguncles #63

do-allkreatives #100

letscreate #218

papercraft #116

theflowerchallenge #101

thefourseasons April challenge

Reasons to be happy

 Good morning, the April Challenge at Stamping Sensations begins today, the theme is 

Anything Goes with an option of Nature- flowers, birds, animals etc.

There are 2 prizes of Lavinia Stamps to be won.

I have used stamps from Aall and Create, stamped onto one of their ready made backgrounds, coloured with water colour pens.

Please hop over to Stamping Sensations to enjoy the beautiful creations from the rest of the team and for full details of how to join in.

Thanks for visiting -enjoy the rest of the weekend.

Chris

x

Challenge Entries

allsorts #820

mytimetocraft #557

CRAFT #752

ellibelles garden party #1

beautifulblossoms #27

tripleb April challenge

18th Birthday!

 Good morning, today sees the start of our April Challenge at Crafty Calendar, 

the theme is FEMININE. 

There's a lovely prize of  a Heffy Doodle stamp set for our lucky winner.

I'm sharing the card I made for my niece's 18th Birthday which was back in November. The image is a digi stamp from Polkadoodle, printed onto a square of white cardstock, coloured with copics and then masked. I printed the large numerals onto copy paper, cut them out and used them to mask over the already masked image...if that makes sense... then used a Lavinia stencil with pink and green distress inks to create the background. The dots are Nuvo Stone Drops, which have a pretty shimmer. Finally I added the large die cut sentiment. 

As always there's some lovely inspiration over at the Challenge Blog, hope you have the time to check it out.

Thanks for visiting

Chris

x

Challenge entries:

creativefingers #298

kraftychicks #762

digichoosday #3

stencilfun. #April Challenge

seizethebirthday #302

Fairy dreams

 Good morning, today sees the start of a new Anything Goes challenge at Crafty Catz.  

There is no sponsor or prize this fortnight, we're playing just for fun, but still an opportunity to win one of our Top 3 badges for anyone who joins in. 

I indulged in a bit of colouring therapy to make this card, the gorgeous image from Aurora Wings is coloured with copic markers, lots of sparkle added- which of course doesn't show up! I kept the design very simple, added a stamped sentiment and some sparkly gems. Please check out the challenge blog for some lovely inspiration from the rest of the team.

While I'm here a quick heads up for a great new challenge coming very soon- something a little different 

Here's the link https://tag-alongandatc.blogspot.com/

A new challenge blog is always good news!

Thanks for visiting

Chris

x

Challenge entries:

craftygalscorner #265

ellibelle's crafty wednesday April Challenge

conjurerofdreams #7

mirtillamente #42

morgansartworld #87

creativecrafters #86

aplacetostart - fairy tales

aaabirthday #72