Wedding Card

In honour of Wills & Kate getting married, Easy Craft Projects challenge this week is to make a card inspired by the Royal Wedding.  I'd already made one wedding card  for the  Friday Mashup this week, in case you hadn't heard I made it to the design team over there! 

Anyway back to the post, I'd also posted a Mother's Day card with a difference this morning so decided to make this wedding card along the same lines.

Because the front panel is very simple, I hope it also qualifies for Less is More and Crafty Creations challenges as well.

and here it is opened

So this card goes into the following challenges, although the inside may not quite qualify for Less is More or White Space!  the outside does...LOL

Easy Craft Projects ~ Challenge # 37 Card inspired by the Royal Wedding 

Less is More ~ Week 13 Lucky Dip - Congratulations or Thank you Card.

Crafty Creations ~ Challenge 116 - White Space

Blue and Purple Butterflies

I'm still playing with the pieces of cardstock I coloured with the Shaving Cream Technique a few weeks ago and this is my latest effort

Concord Crush, Marina Mist, Naturals Ivory....simple combo of very pretty colours.  I spritzed the background with Champagne Mist shimmer paint prior to adding the oval and butterflies, it has such a lovely shimmer that doesn't show up well in photos.  

I've dragged out a retired stamp set and stamped it up with stazon to water colour it.  The picture doesn't do it justice though as it looks a little faded, that's probably the flash as I've taken this picture at night.

This is my entry into the Easy Craft Projects Challenge this week.

Easy Craft Projects ~ Challenge # 35 Sketch

Friday Mashup ~ #1  Butterflies with Dimension

Green, Green and more green!

It seems that there are a lot of challenges around for using green.  I suppose that makes sense as St Patricks day is just around the corner.  I've departed from the St Paddy's day theme though and done an early Mothers Day card!

I've used the retired Sage Shadow here as the base with mats of Handsome Hunter also retired, then using glossy card stock and some reinkers, I've created my own Designer paper with Sage Shadow, Handsome Hunter, Taken with Teal and a drop of Baja Breeze, the photo shows this a lot 'bluer' than it is.  

I rumaged around in my stash of flowers and found some greens and greenish blues to add to the card and have used the filagree brads from Stampin' Up!  I also sprayed the Silver Foil Smooch spritzer onto a white flower,  it turned out quite a dark antique silver in colour, which looks quite nice against all the greens and brighter slivers of the embossing and bling.

This little Cherry Tilda is so cute, I think this is the thrid card I've made using her.  I don't often join in the Magnolia challenges as they scare me!  I don't turn out the masterpieces that I see entered on the site so I'm being very brave here!  

This card is entered into the following challenges...

Just Magnolia ~ Sketch

The Shabby Tea Room ~  Use Green

Easy Craft Projects ~ Use Green

I'd love to know what you think, and if you have any tips for colouring with Copics, please feel free to share them with me (I can use all the help I can get).

Vintage Valentine

This colour combination appealed to me to mix with the Vintage challenge this week at Pals Paper Arts so again it covers off a number of challenges and I'm really happy with it. Lots and lots of shimmer paint used, this time I used a sponge dauber to dab it directly onto the stamp which was inked with Pink and I just love the look it gives.

This card was made specifically for the following Challenges...

Friday Sketches ~ Sketch # 141

Friday Mashup ~ Be My Valentine

Pals Paper Arts ~ # 80 Vintage

Play Date Cafe ~ # 68 Colour Challenge

It also ended up being my second entry in these challenges...

Just Add Ink ~ # 55 Just Add Love

4 Crafty Chicks ~ Valentines

Easy Craft Projects ~ # 31 Love

Hearts and Flowers Shaker card

This is my first attempt at a shaker card. Not sure I like them actually, the hearts won't go where I want them to! LOL

When I looked at the list of challenges that I covered off here I was pretty stunned 9 of them. woah! But then this close to Valentines it was bound to be easy.



4 Crafty Chicks ~ Valentines

Colour Create ~ #64 Chocolate, Strawberries and Cream Colour Challenge

Crafty Creations ~ #105 Three Little Words

Crazy 4 Challenges ~ #73 Valentines Card

Cute Card Thursday ~ #151 Hearts and Flowers

Easy Craft Projects ~ #31 Love

Just Add Ink ~ #55 Just Add Love

Some Odd Girl ~ Hearts, Hearts, Hearts

Stampin' Royalty ~ #58 Hearts, Hearts, Hearts

Black n White elegance

Just love the elegant look this card took on, I started with the sketch and thought black and white then it just grew from there, there is dry and heat embossing and lots of bling! In the photo above, you can just see a slight glimmer of the dazzling diamonds that I mixed with the clear embossing powder, I never use black embossing powder it's soooo unforgiving, I always stamp my image in black ink then clear emboss. Works a treat!





There is lots of texture in this card, I punched out 1 inch circles from embossed and shimmered whisper white and made the scalloped edge, then layered black which had been embossed and shimmered too, then why not add more bling wiht the square lattice embossed white on top! But wait, there's more.......bling for the accents on the butterflies and the bottom design element of the sketch.

Hope you like it as much as I do.

Crafty Creations ~ Heat embossing

Easy Craft Projects ~ Black and White (entry number 2)

Fussy and Fancy ~ Valentine - No red or pink (entry number 2)

Sweet Stampin ~ Sketch

Masculine

The theme of Masculine is not that much of a stretch, because while I tend to have a romantic feminine style I do quite like to do textures and monochrome on my cards. I am combining three challenges for this card.

The black card has been spritzed with Champagne Mist Shimmer paint which gives a rich sparkle without being to prissy for a 'boy person' card. Then I've layered textures added a bit of paper piercing and a double ribbon, taffeta over grosgrain to make it wide enough for the little buckle to fit, this also highlighted the white edges on the taffeta ribbon.



Totally Stampalicious ~ Masculine

Easy Craft Projects ~ Black and White

Unscripted Sketches ~ Sketch with a piggyback of Masculine

Thanks for stopping to view my art. Feel free to leave a comment.

Happy Crafting

Kasey

Fabulous Flowers

I forgot how much I liked this Fabulous Flowers stamp set until I went looking for a set to use for the Easy Craft Projects challenge to use only your old stash. I thought a retired stamp set would fit that bill beautifully.

This card also uses the sketch from Card Pattern Sketch #97 and a colour challenge over at Crazy 4 Challenges.

I'd seen a turorial in a recent newsletter from Splitcoaststampers and thought I'd try that technique as well. So I've stamped the fabulous flower on Early Expresso three times in White Craft ink, then, because I'm just a tad impatient, I heat set the ink so I could get in there with the chalks and add come colour.

I also dragged out a not often used wheel that gives a marbled effect and ran that over the Pink Pirouette DSP to create this interesting back ground paper, I've also sponged the edges with Melon Mambo and Early Expresso then matted it on Sahara Sand

I've cut out the flower in three layers to give it some more dimension and taken some of the SU pearls and dabbed a hot pink copic over them to change the colour, which really makes them pop.

Enjoy and Happy Crafting!

4 Cards - 5 Challenges!

I've just spent a lovely couple of hours in my craft room creating challenge cards. I've made four cards covering off 5 challenges.... I just hope I link them all up right!

First off is the Mojo Monday Round or Square challenge combined with Colour Lab Challenge #22

Next comes a second entry in the Colour Lab Challenge #22 combined with a Stamping 411 sketch #183 I love this Blueberry Crisp and it fitted in perfectly with the Colour Challenge of course once again, Butterflies feature in this card and it was hard work not to use them in the other cards I made this morning!

So then it was time to try the Curtain Call Act 62 colours and this also used the sketch #51 from Stampin' Royalty (Opps too late, entries have closed!) I'm not one for murky greens, so while I'm reasonably happy with the end result, it's just not me.

Then it was across to Easy Craft Projects for this challenge, which I altered by using flowers instead of Flags, but then that's what the challenges are all about, taking artistic license with the sketches! I don't normally reach for Yellow but figured that it was a nice contrast to Rich Razzleberry, I've spritzed this all in Gold Glow smooch and embossed the sentiment in clear mixed with Dazzling Diamonds, if that wasn't enough bling, then I've added rhinestones to the centre of the flower brads as well......I had to stop myself adding them to the punched out flowers too as I thought that might be taking all that bling a little too far!