PLG #24

Hello and welcome to another great photo inspiration challenge from the Paper Lovin' Gals.  This week we have this gorgeous photo to inspire you to create.

I've tried to recreate the weathered fence by using both the woodgrain and weathered background stamps from SU.  Then I've done the Elements of Style SU stamp set flowers in Copic Markers.

There is more inspiration for you over at the Paper Lovin' Gals blog.  Hope to see you playing along with us.

Cheers.
Kasey ~ in Oz

Double the fun!

Hello and welcome to Paper Lovin' Gals challenge number 4!  Gosh how time flies when you're having fun.

We also welcome our new Design Team members.  Please stop by their blogs and wish them well in their artistic endeavours with us.

Wendy Getting Started

Linda The Stamper's Touch

Monique Stamping with Moni-Q

So now on to this week's challenge, I'm soooo happy that we are over Halloween!  One can only take so much of black and orange and pumpkins!  LOL

 

 This lovely picture has inspired me to create two totally different projects and I asked the DT girls which one to post, they all voted for both so here goes...

I was inspired by a local Magnetic Island artist and I must apologise as I didn't get their name, however this is my CASE on some beautiful hangings I saw in a gallery while over on the Island recently with my lovely friend Theresa and her daughter Kelly who were visiting me from Canberra.  This beautiful hanging is now at my kitchen window so it helps me cope with the washing up!  LOL

My card was inspired by the floral bedspread and the colours in the picture.  It doesn't show in the photo but the flowers are painted with twinkling H2Os and then the blue panel is spritzed with Champagne Mist shimmer paint so it's all sparkly.  The sentiment is a rub on.  I tend to forget I have Rub ons and remembered them when I was trying to decide on the sentiment here.  I must remember them more often!

Now hop on over to the Paper Lovin' Gals challenge blog and check out the other inspiring projects that the Design Team have for you.  Can't wait to see what you come up with.

Cheers,

Kasey ~ in Oz

Distressing Mother!

Well not really distressing mother herself, but the card to give her!

This colour combination came to me as I was searching through the colour coach and couldn't quite settle on any of the suggested combinations so I've used Soft Suede, River Rock and Elegant Eggplant.  All inked and distressed and the soft suede is also spritzed.  

I have a feeling that I've overdone the pearls on the tag...Oh well, hang the expense Mum is worth it!

This card goes into the following challenges.

4 Crafty Chicks ~ Distressing

City Crafter Challenges ~ Mother May I? - Mother's day card

Truly Scrumptious ~ Challenge #56 Sketch

Online again

Hi all, just back online today.  I've posted new pics of my new creative space while I'm still in the process of unpacking, most of it's done.

I'm still unpacking a lot of other stuff though so not much time to craft.  Although I did make these lables for my baskets and drawers in the craft room.  Not sure when I'll be back posting new cards.  Hopefully this weekend.

I'm Back!

I've had a wonderful 5 days visiting Canberra, I had to go down for a three day training course and extended the trip slightly to allow me to catch up with some friends. I LOVE Canberra, the change in seasons, rugging up in winter woolies, the activities that are on and of course the wonderful friends I've made there. Still, North Queensland does have its attractions too. Maybe I can work a split....winter in NQ and summer in ACT....hmmm now that IS a thought! LOL yes I do dream a lot.

Anyway while I was in town the very first person I caught up with was Monique, I signed Mon up as a SU Demo about a month before I left town! At least she knew I was going to be 3000 klms away when she signed on. Mon's Mojo has been missing a bit lately but go check out what this talented girl has done building storage for her craft space! Amazing stuff.

Saturday morning was a visit to Bron, we were lucky enough to be provided with a special limited edition Brayering class which was just sensational and THANKS Bron, I think I need to practice a bit more before I publish any efforts in that area. Bron was working with glossy card stock, that inspired me to drag some out for this card.

Saturday arvo was spent visiting one of my special customers, Penny to give her a big shot lesson, so waiting for her to now have time to create and post to her blog.

I got out the re inkers and rubbing alcohol and made the background paper using the Colour Throwdown colours Not Quite Navy, Baja Breeze and Pink Pirouette. Then I stamped the flower cluster from Elements of Style in stazon black ink and cut it out with the scallop square bigz die.



The sentiment comes from Occasional Quotes Hostess set, add a ribbon and a few pearls and you're done.

Southern Girls ~ Brads, Gems, Dewdrops

Stampin' 411 ~ Sketch

Colour Throwdown ~ Colour combo Not Quite Navy, Pink Pirouette, Baja Breeze

Red and White

Oh How exciting! Ramdom winner on Southern Girls challenge.

With a post surgery enforced inactive and no work couple of weeks stretching ahead of me, I'm blurfing. What on earth is 'blurfing'? I hear you ask. It's blog surfing! and I'm slowly moving from the computer to the craft room to the couch and back again, still a bit sore and sorry and not able to settle in one spot for long....anyway it's all good, well on the road to recovery.

So while I was blurfing I found an Aussie/NZ site for challenges where this week's challenge is for dry embossing, so I decided to make a card for it, if you've been following my blog, you know I use dry embossing quite a lot in my cards. This sketch from Cute Card Thursday seemed to fit the bill also. When using dry embossing, I like to keep the colours simple and I don't usually use DSP with a lot of patterns or colours either as this seems to be overkill and muddy up the waters.

Here I've used textured cs for the white card and the first large panel of white. I've used SU embossing folders Vintage Wallpaper, Perfect Polker Dots and Square Lattice for the dry embossing, the square lattice can give this tapestry or cross stitch look to an image which adds a lovely touch.



I was playing around with the sentiment and decided to go with oval to match the scallope oval and then looked outside the norm for attaching this and the ribbon. Really happy with this as it is so different and I think it just looks fantastic and adds what we all look for in our creations a unique and unusual element to our designs. Of course no project of mine is complete without butterflies or bling so I added both! LOL

Thanks for stopping by, please take a moment to say Hi and leave a comment, these walls are going to drive me crazy pretty soon. Ok I'll admit, that is one very short drive!


Cute Card Thursday ~ Sketch

Southern Girls ~ Dry Embossing

Shabby Chic

Thank you to Stampin 411 for selecting this entry among the winners in Stampers Showcase #188 PLUS

This card also won at 4 Crafty Chicks in challenge #22

I did up this crumb cake embossed piece a few weeks ago and lost what I was going to do with it, so it's been sitting on my desk amongst the pile of UFOs (unfinished objects) and in looking at the challenges this week, I found the inspiration to use it.


I did have a little bit of a Oh No moment when trying to fit the green into the design as part of the colour challenge from 4 Crafty Chicks....lol I have just a tiny teenie bit peeking out from under the sentiment. whew! What I like most about this card is the Shabby Chic look.

This card seems to qualify for a number of challenges so here is the list...

4 Crafty Chicks ~ Colour Challenge

Crazy 4 Challenges ~ Shabby Chic

Paper Pal Arts ~ Bows

Pile It On ~ Love is in the Air

Some Odd Girl ~ Scallops Galore

Stampin 411 ~ Sketch

Back again!

Looks like another creative night! The watercolouring on this card was drying when I posted my last challenge card, it came together a bit more quickly than I expected so I'm back posting again tonight.

LOL ... The Mojo will dry up soon and it will be weeks between posts.

This card is an entry in Curtain Call's latest colour challenge Act 64. This one threw me a bit at first, I went with Cherry Cobbler and Always Artichoke for the flowers and had in mind Marina Mist taffeta ribbon in a bow....then as I was trying to figure out how to incorporate the Pacific Point, the border mat came to mind then threading the ribbon instead of a bow.....then there was bling, that HAD to be added.....LOL and of course a sentiment. I love the square lattice embossing folder and how it gives a tapestry effect to this stamp from the Elements of Style set.

Tapestry Roses

Finally!  My preorder arrived and the embossing folder that I've been dying to get my hands on is now mine, I love this texture and here is my first use of it. 

I love the olde worlde look to this that you get from the textrue.

I've used,  Bravo Burgundy, Naturals Ivory CS.  Early Expresso, Rose Red, Pretty In Pink, Pear Pizzazz, Always Artichoke inks  Old Olive ribbon.  sponged Sahara Sand and Old Olive ink to 'age' the canvas.

I've also used the scallop square die in the big shot.  What do you think?

Elements of Style

Soft Romantic florals are a feature of the Elements of Style stamp set, and I'm a sucker for romance!  I've used the floral stamp twice here and to stay in keeping with that romantic feel I've added soft satin bows....Hope you like them.

Working with the crispness of black and white this card just came together with a minimum of fuss.  Perfect Polka Dots embossing matted on Basic Black.  Adding a soft bow with the Satin and Organza ribbon.  I've used the new Modern Lable punch and Word Window punch for the sentiment.

I've stamped the flower bouquet around the card front to make a stunning backgroun in Rich Razzleberry ink.  The ribbon here is Rich Razzleberry satin ribbon and I've used an Antique Brad to secure the bow and then glue dots to adhere it to the ribbon strip.  Sentiment comes from Short & Sweet and I've added just a bit of Bling with a couple of small stick on Rhinestones.