Super Hero Twila

I have another new release from CC Designs to share with you today.  This is Super Hero Twila.
And isn't she a cutie!
She's so much fun to colour and there are so many ways to use her too.

I teamed her up with the new sentiment set called Bam Pow Pop.  It has some great sentiments and things, like these buildings, to make wonderful backgrounds.

As soon as I saw her I knew I wanted to make a brayered sky and I was really happy with how it turned out.  I brayered pretty in pink and then razzleberry at the bottom and pool party and turquoise at the top.

I kept it very clean and simple to let Twila really shine :)

Ingredients:

Stamps : Super Hero Twila, Bam Pow Pop
Card : xpress it, slate, black
Ink : memento black, stazon
Other : Brayer, copics

Copics used :

RV 0000, 21, 23, 63, 66, 69

R 20, 30

BG 0000, 000, 01, 09, 11, 72

E 000, 00, 21, 50, 53, 55

W1

I'd like to enter my card into these challenges :
use two stamped images : Deep Ocean Challenge.
anything goes : Ribbon Girl


Thanks for dropping by today :)

Kathy

Super Hero Twila

Bam, Pow, Pop Rubber Stamp

Butterflies

I have a Whimsy card to share with you today and I decided to do some more brayering :)

I used the wonderful SC Design set Fluttering By again for the sentiment.  I have used it a lot already, I love it!  This time though, instead of using the butterfly images that come in the set, I decided to use the Butterfly Border Die also from SC Design.

The butterflies are joined in a row but I just used black card with the die and then cut these 2 butterflies off.
I then glued these on to vellum and fussy cut around them.  I tried not to cut the black butterflies but just the vellum.  Then I coloured the vellum from the back with pink and blue copics, you can use any kind of marker to do this though.  I attached them with a rolled up glue dot behind their bodies so that it couldn't be seen.  So they are very dimensional and the wings can be bent up too.  They reminded me of stained glass windows and I really liked how they turned out :)

For the brayered panel I used a circle cut from a post it note to mask a moon.  At the top I brayered pool party, turquoise and indigo and at the bottom it is wisteria, pretty in pink and razzleberry.

Ingredients :
Stamps : Fluttering By
Card : black, white, subtles and brights dsp stacks (SU), vellum
Ink : versafine black, pool party, turquoise, indigo, wisteria, pip, razzleberry
Other : Butterfly Border Die, brayer, pool party ribbon, copics

I would like to enter this into the challenge at A Creative Romance - Anything Goes.

Thanks for dropping by today :)
Kathy

Fluttering By

I wanted to use the gorgeous new Whimsy sentiment set by SC Design called Fluttering By again, but this time make it the focal point.
I thought the butterflies might look pretty on a brayered sky, plus I've been missing my brayering :)

I brayered the panel using pool party and tempting turquoise inks at the top and wisteria and razzleberry at the bottom.  Then I used Versafine black ink to stamp the butterflies on top.  I stamped twice each time without reinking, thus getting black and grey butterflies.  I decided to use this panel to make a post-it note holder.

Ingredients :
Stamps : Fluttering By
Card : razzleberry, whisper white, black
Ink : razzleberry, wisteria, pool party, turquoise, versafine black

Thanks for dropping by for a look today :)
Kathy

Beach Ball Birgitta

It's new release preview time at CC Designs and I have made a card with a gorgeous new stamp called Beach Ball Birgitta.  She's so very cute isn't she!

It's not exactly beach weather here, we're heading for a top temperature of 15 degrees C. and it's raining too :(  But it has been lovely colouring her and making a beach card and dreaming of sunshiny days :)

To make the scene, I brayered pool party and tempting turquoise inks onto white card for the water. The waves are made using the CC Designs Cutters Heart Border Die.  Hopefully they look like waves anyway, pretty heart waves. And I used cork paper for the sand.

I coloured her with copics and used glossy accents on her sunglasses.

The sentiment is from the Happy Day set.

The Design Team are highlighting the new CC Designs images for June today so please head over to the CC Designs Blog to check out their fabulous cards using this and other new images.  And you could also win a voucher to spend in the store :)

Ingredients :
Stamps : Beach Ball Birgitta,  Happy Day
Card : x-press it, crumb cake, cork paper, pool party, silver glimmer paper, Uncharted Waters (Glitz)
Ink : memento black, pool party, tempting turquoise
Other :  CC Designs Cutters Heart Border Die, subtles dots, glossy accents, brayer, copics

Copics used :

R 20, 30

RV 21, 23, 25

E 000, 00, 21, 50, 53, 55

C 1, 3

Thanks for dropping by today :)

Kathy

Christmas Turtle and Dove

I have another Christmas card for Whimsy Stamps to share today.  And I used another cutie from Crissy Armstrong called Christmas Turtle and Dove.

This stamp is wonderful!  It's very cute, it's fun to colour, and there is no snow in sight!
I do love the look of snow on Christmas cards but we don't get snow in Australia at Christmas time and it's great to be able to make a card that fits our kind of Christmas too!

Hopefully you can tell that they are meant to be at the beach! :)
I brayered pool party, tempting turquoise and island indigo at the top and river rock at the bottom. I used some clear rock candy stickles to make little dots of foam for the waters edge and added some white gel pen to this too.  Then I added some fran-tage for the sand.

The sentiment is from Whimsy too and is a digi stamp called Sentiment for Christmas.  There are a lot of great Christmas sayings in it and you can make them as big as you like of course to suit your card.  That's the great thing about digi stamps.

Ingredients :

Stamps :  Christmas Turtle and Dove, Sentiment for Christmas
Card :  pool party, crumb cake, black, x-press it, Quill galaxy, silver glimmer
Ink : memento black, pool party, turquoise, indigo, river rock
Other : big shot, music ef (SB), cosmic star border (MB), rock candy stickles, star dust stickles, circle nesties, pearls, white gel pen, copics

Copics used :

YG 0000, 01, 03, 13

BG 0000, 000, 01, 05, 49, 72

Y21

YR 14

BV 0000, 00

R 24, 27, 29, 30

C 1 

I would like to enter my card in the following challenges :

Sketch Saturday - sketch

Cute Card Thursday - sparkles

Cas-ual Fridays - embossing

Christmas Turtle and Dove is also available at  Bunny Zoe's Crafts .

Kathy

Beach Holidays

 

My Roar No More card made me a Princess at Freshly Made Sketches this week :)  And in true Princess style, I have done nothing since!  So I thought I’d post another of my Dirty Dozen cards.

The theme for this month was the song Summertime. 

Summertime in Australia of course means long school holidays, the beach and Christmas.

 

Most Christmas stamps are very "snowy" so I decided to try to make a Christmas beach card instead.

I brayered my circle with pool party and turquoise at the top and river rock at the bottom. I also added some dots of white pen at the waters edge for the foam. I used copics to colour the thongs and also added a little shadow on the sand.

I didn’t exactly use traditional xmas colours either, but I was trying for a tropical Christmas look.

 

Ingredients :

Stamps : Sunny Fun, Four the holidays

Card : espresso, white, pool party, calypso coral, everyday enchantment dsp

Ink : pool party, turquoise, river rock, memento black

Other : white pen, brayer, square scallop, big shot, , square punch, copics

 

Kathy

Serenely Distressed

 

I finally got back to doing some stamping this week.  While I have been making cards, they have been my son’s wedding invitations.  I finally finished them and then needed a bit of a rest. I am not real good at mass producing cards, I like the creative side of things much more. (I will post a photo of the invites soon).

So when I saw this great sketch at Freshly Made Sketches I was excited to create something new and play along with them.

 

I brayered the card with pool party and island indigo at the top and lucky limeade at the bottom.

 

 

 

I decided not to add a sentiment to the card, so that I can use it for any occasion.

 

Ingredients :

Stamps : serene silhouettes, distressed dots

Card : white, espresso, pool party, island indigo

Ink : espresso, pool party, white, lucky limeade, island indigo

Other : limeade ribbon (ret), brayer

 

Kathy

Celebrate

 

This is another of my Dirty Dozen cards.

I made the sky by brayering saffron, mustard and cherry and I used a little pool party at the bottom. I also generation stamped a tree and cut out diamond- patterned hot air balloons to create the scene.

 

Stamps : up up and away, perfectly penned, lovely as a tree

Card : Black, white

Ink : stazon, pool party, cherry, mustard, saffron

Other : copics

 

 

 

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Kathy

Forever Young and Happy

 

This week at stilladdINKtive we are featuring the Stampin Up set Forever Young.

This is not a challenge week but we would like you to link up cards that you have made previously using this set and hopefully make a brand new card with it too. 

This will be a great resource where people can get inspiration from what others have done with a set. I think it will also inspire us to get out a set that may not have seen ink in a while and use it again.  I know I have a few sets like that because once something brand new arrives I tend to use that instead.

Anyway here is my new Forever Young card :

I really love the tree in this set.  It is so beautiful!

I brayered a background for it.  I used lucky limeade and pool party at the bottom and pip and wisteria at the top.  I don’t know what I’ll do when SU retire wisteria and (especially) pool party, I use them a lot and they make such a pretty brayered sky.  I think I will just have to continue to use them anyway!

 

Ingredients :

Stamps : Forever Young, Perfectly Penned

Card : white, pool party, espresso

Ink : espresso, limeade, pool party, pip, wisteria, white

Other : big shot, fancy fan ef, delicate designs ef, labels framelits, paper piercing pack, brayer, espresso taffeta ribbon

 

I hope you’ll take a look at the wonderful creations using Forever Young at still addINKtive.  Link up your past cards, make a new one or if you don’t have it, let us show you how much you truly “need” this gorgeous set :)

Kathy

Marina Flower

This week at JAI our challenge is to case Delys.
And this is the card I decided to case, isn’t it pretty!



My next club hostess asked if I would teach them how to make the ribbon flowers I do. So I thought I would case this card and use a ribbon flower rather than the punched flower as Delys has done.



When I was reading Delys’ description of the card, she said her background panel was done using a technique called Crayon Resist Technique.  It didn’t look like what I think of as crayon resist. I thought of the Crayon Resist tutorial done by Danielle Daws for JAI here if you’d like to see it.  So I decided to google the term to see if I could figure out how Delys had created her background. 

I didn’t find it but I did find a technique called Crayon Rubbed Embossing that I had never seen before. I thought it looked very effective and so I decided to try it on my card instead but I have used the same embossing folder as Delys.  There is a Splitcoaststampers tutorial by Lydia Fiedler here if you’d like to try it too. It is a very different way of using your embossing folders.  I really like how it turned out and  now I will be able to teach my club ladies 2 beautiful new techniques this month :)

Ingredients :
Stamps : sincere salutations
Card : white, basic grey
Ink : stazon, marina mist
Other : marina mist satin ribbon, antique brad, white crayon, brayer, finial press ef, bird punch, scallop trim border punch

Please check out Delys’ blog and join us in casing one of her creations.

Kathy

Lovely Challenge

I have made two Merry Monday challenge cards this week. 
It was hard to decide which one I liked better to use as my guest designer card because I liked this one a lot too.



The tree looks very pretty in real life because I stamped it using a combination of artichoke and champagne shimmer paint, it’s sparkly and pretty. I also like this colour combo, the background paper is baja and then I have brayered baja and NQN at the bottom and wisteria and eggplant at the top.

Ingredients :
Stamps : Lovely as a tree
Card : baja, shimmery white, plum, white, subtles dsp stack
Ink : artichoke, NQN, baja, wisteria, eggplant
Other : brayer, champagne shimmer paint, big shot, polka dot ef

Kathy

Merry Dasher

Last week my Merry Monday card was chosen as a winner. Thanks Lesley :)
Which means I get to be a guest designer for this week’s Merry Monday challenge.  YAY!
Here is the wonderful sketch we got to work with.


I decided to use my Dasher stamp for the first time this year.



I brayered the background using mustard and cherry at the top and wisteria and baja at the bottom.  Then I stamped various christmas images over the top of the brayering using crumb cake.
Dasher was then stamped using a mixture of espresso and champagne mist shimmer paint.  He is actually a nice sparkly, rich espresso colour but that was a bit hard to capture in the photo.

Ingredients :
Stamps : Dasher, winter post, lovely as a tree, tiny tags
Card : espresso, crumb cake, white, dsp (ret.)
Ink : espresso, baja, wisteria, mustard, cherry
Other : linen thread, rhinestones, tag punch, mat pack, white pen, big shot, square lattice ef, brayer

Please take a look at what the rest of the design team have created for Merry Monday this week and play along too.

Kathy

Scotty Candy

 

This week at Freshly Made Sketches we have a fantastic sketch by Tui.

 

My girl’s and I saw this cute Friends Fur-ever set when the US Stampin Up catty first came out and it was the one set we all really badly wanted.  When we didn’t end up getting it in the Australian catalogue we were SO disappointed!

So when I saw a competition on Michelle Zindorf’s blog to win it a couple of months ago I just had to enter and amazingly I actually won!   Yay!

My girls have had lots of fun playing with it but I hadn’t used it yet.  When I saw this great sketch I decided to “channel” my inner-Zindorf and create a brayered card with the cute scotty dog.

 

 

I brayered celery then olive for the grass and pool party, turquoise and NQN for the sky. I then used choc chip and olive markers for the tree. I actually used copics for the dog and balloon and also added a little shadow to the tree too.  The dog and balloon are on dimensionals and I made the balloon shiny with crystal effects.

Now that I may have you looking at the balloon you might notice a mistake (like I did after I had taken the photo)!  I had tied the linen thread to the balloon but it had fallen off while I was taking the photo I guess.  Anyway I didn’t realise till it was too late, it is fixed now (but you’ll just have to imagine it’s tied on properly) :)

 

Ingredients :

Stamps : Friends fur-ever, thoughts and prayers, perfectly penned

Card : white, basic gray, black, going grey textured, red

Ink : stazon, memento black, celery, olive, pool party, turquoise, NQN,  choc chip and olive markers

Other : brayer, neutral brad, ret. ribbon, linen thread, copics, white pen, nesties

 

Please take a look at what the rest of the design team have created with this sketch as inspiration.  They are all gorgeous!  Then give this sketch a try yourself.

And I just want to finish by thanking Michelle Zindorf for her generosity.    She is the absolute QUEEN of brayering and freely shares her talents with everyone on her blog.  She has inspired me greatly.  Thanks for the gift Michelle :)

 

Kathy

Field of Colour

 

I was made a ColourQ courtier last week for my Irish violin girl card.  Yeah!

Thanks to the ColourQ team for challenging me to choose different colours.  I know I wouldn’t have put all those greens together myself but I was actually really happy with how it turned out.

When I saw the pretty colour combo they have at ColourQ this week, I decided to take the challenge again and use them for our next club project.

 

The club hostess asked me if we could learn brayering this week so I used the colourQ colours and came up with this:

 

 

I stamped Field flowers in Wisteria and then Razzleberry and they look so pretty in this combination of colours. 

I don’t have Cool Caribbean so I used Pool Party instead. I brayered it and then turquoise at the top and wisteria and then razzleberry at the bottom.

 

Ingredients :

Stamps : Field Flowers

Card : Razzleberry, white

Ink : razzleberry, wisteria, pool party, turquoise, olive

Other : brayer, post it notes, pen

 

Instead of a card, I thought we might make post it note holders.

I even found a turquoise pen for mine :) But they are all different colours in the pack and only one other turquoise. They’re going to have to fight for it :)

Hopefully they enjoy making these.

 

Kathy

Bubbly Mermaid

There is another wonderful sketch at Freshly Made Sketches this week and I just had to play along.








I brayered the circle with pool party, turquoise and NQN and then stamped the splash from extreme elements with white over the top.

My girls’ love this bubbly mermaid card.  It will be a great one to have on hand ready for one of the many  birthday parties my youngest gets invited to :)


Ingredients :
Stamps : extreme elements, cc designs mermaid, so happy for you
Card : pool party, island indigo, white, brights dsp stack
Ink : white, stazon, memento black, nqn, pool party, turquoise
Other : copics, nesties, big shot, tasteful trim, brayer, polka dot folder, square punch, designer printed brads


Kathy

Pumpkin Field

 

This is the last of my Field Flowers cards using this weeks Just Add Ink sketch.

I loved how this one turned out as well.

 

 

I did something a little different to this one.  I stamped the flower in pumpkin and then black but then I decided to colour the centre of the flower in a saffron marker.  After that I made dots on top of the saffron using a white gel pen.

I brayered on celery then olive at the bottom and saffron, mustard and cajun at the top.  The outside of the circle was then sponged with cajun.

I just popped the centre flower up with dimensionals on this card.  Each one I did differently to see which way I like best.  The first card had no dimensionals, the second had 2 and this one 1.  And I still can’t decide which one looked best!  I guess that means it doesn’t matter either way. :)

 

Ingredients :

Stamps : field flowers, kindness matters

Card : black, pumpkin, white, daffodil, neutrals dsp stack

Ink : pumpkin, stazon, celery, olive, saffron, mustard, cajun, saffron marker

Other : big shot, square scallop die, nesties, brayer, white pen

 

It’s wonderful when you find a great sketch isn’t it?  I’m sure I’ll be making more of these cards and using this sketch again.

I’d love to know which card was your favourite?

 

Kathy

Wisteria Love

 

Here is another version of the Field Flower card I made for the sketch challenge at JAI this week.

 

I really liked this colour combo too.

The flowers are first stamped with Wisteria and then with Eggplant.

Then I brayered Pool Party and NQN at the top and Pretty in Pink at the bottom.  I sponged around the edge with NQN and stamped the sentiment with stazon.

I stamped the stems with artichoke and cut out the flowers and popped them up on dimensionals.

 

Ingredients :

Stamps : Field Flowers

Card : wisteria, white, neutral dsp stack

Ink : stazon, wisteria, eggplant, pip, NQN, pool party, artichoke

Other : big shot, square scallop, nesties, brayer

 

I think this sketch just works perfectly with the Field Flowers set.

 

Kathy

Love Field

At Just Add Ink this week we have a really fantastic sketch from Bronwyn.


I decided to try using my “new” Field Flowers set again to see whether I could come up with something.  When the main Stampin Up catalogue came out in September, Field Flowers and Perfectly Penned were my first two picks.  I thought they were so beautiful, but I have tried using these flowers a couple of times and I just haven’t been happy with anything until I tried them with this sketch.



Yay!   I actually made a card with them and I am so happy with how it turned out.  Aren’t those flowers gorgeous?
It was so much fun experimenting with different colours for the flowers and then also brayering different colour combos to compliment them.
I made 3 different cards using the same sketch and I could have kept going and come up with other colours too I’m sure.  I will have the other two cards on my blog over the next week.  I couldn’t even pick a favourite, I liked how they all turned out.  I will have to try making some more.

Ingredients :
Stamps : Field Flowers
Card : white, cajun craze, saffron, neutrals dsp stack
Ink : daffodil, cherry, celery olive, mustard, crumb cake, olive, stazon
Other : big shot, scallop square, nesties, brayer, mat pack, white pen

Field Flowers is a two-step set.  First I stamped with daffodil and then with cherry and cut them out.
I brayered celery and then olive on the bottom of the circle.  Daffodil, mustard and cherry at the top.  I then sponged around the outside of the circle with cherry.  I stamped the stem with olive and used stazon to stamp “with love”.
Please take a look at what the rest of the design team came up with this week.  It really is a wonderful sketch!  Give it a try and please show us what you create :)

Kathy

Reindeer Tag

This week at Just Add Ink we have a wonderful photo to inspire us.


I took inspiration from the gorgeous colours and the trees to create this Christmas card.



For the tag, I brayered on more mustard and then cherry cobbler at the top and baja at the bottom. 
I then used Not Quite Navy to sponge around the edges.
The deer is stamped in stazon and I white embossed the snowflakes from the Confetti set.
The ribbon for the tag is Cherry cobbler seam binding which has been frayed a bit at the top.  It looks gorgeous, I think that is my favourite of all my ribbons at the moment (Oh and I have a lot to choose from! :)  The bow for the button is linen thread which I have coloured with NQN ink.
Can you believe this is my first card using Lovely as a Tree?  I got it for my birthday and now that I’ve used it I don’t know why I didn’t buy it years ago. It is a really beautiful set!

Ingredients :
Stamps : Lovely as a Tree, Winter Post, Occasional Greetings, Confetti
Card : white, NQN, black
Ink : stazon, versamark, baja, NQN, mustard, cherry
Other : big shot, wallpaper ef, subtles button, linen thread, white embossing powder, cherry seam binding

The design team have created some really gorgeous cards this week.  Please take a look and let this photo inspire you to make a beautiful card too.

Kathy