Stampin' Diva adding ink!

I hope you like my imaginative title for this post, it's all about the challenge blogs rather than me.

This card has one of those oops moments, smarty pants here had used the spritzer tool and spritzed the card base and flowers using the Stamp n Write markers Melon Mambo (lge flower), Tempting Turquoise (med flower) Rich Razzleberry (small flower), then I sat the flowers beside each other and spritzed them with shimmer paint and rubbing alcohol (you know that's one of my favourites) then I put the card together and it looked pretty good but I decided to spritz shimmer paint all over the finished card and well....colours bled.  *sigh* see we ALL make mistakes! 

Just Add Ink ~ Challenge # 65 Add Mateship/Friendship for ANZAC Day
(For those not familiar with ANZAC day the JAI site has an interesting story)

Diva Coffee Break ~ Challenge # 224  Rich Razzleberry, Melon Mambo, Tempting Turquoise

Stamping 411 ~ Sketch Challenge # 200 (WOW! Congratulations Stamping 411)

Wow I'm a Guest Designer!

How exciting!  I applied to Friday Mashup in their recent call for DT members, I figured that the competition would be strong, it would depend on what the team was looking for to compliment the existing members styles but decided to put my 'hat in the ring' so to speak.  

While I wasn't successful at snagging a spot for the next 6 months, I appreciate how hard that decision would have been to make.  I was asked to be a Guest Designer for the rest of April.  I hope you share in my excitement. I'm pretty happy to be asked to participate as a Guest Designer so......

Here is my Mashup of the challenge #2  I've decided to work with both the sketch and the colour combo in this card.  

I've used the Crumb Cake as the card base, stamped this up with the flourish from Friends 24-7 and layered Marina Mist and Cajun Craze to provide a mat for the image, I punched the scalloped edge and was going to go right the way across but quite liked the border effect so left it there, I then stamped the image in Cajun Craze on Crumb Cake.  I painted a small amount of Champagne Mist Shimmer Paint onto the flowers in the image to provide a little bit of POP.

The Marina Mist half flower was a challenge to sort out until I stuck it to a punched out circle and folded that up to slide under the last of the creases, it worked a treat!  I added a small antique brad to the flower and of course, the Champagne Shimmer paint is spritzed all over the card base to provide a slight shimmer.

I then decided to go with another card with this colour combo and made this which is a case of a card I made ages ago.  The stripey background card is just swiped ink pads onto the cardstock, three colours and it looks so fabulous!  Simple weaving of ribbons on a square of cardstock and dressed up with paper daisies sponged with ink.  I've also dragged out the old Pretties kit (retired) and used up a hat pin and some beads from it.  I'm actually entering this second card into the challenge, just to play along.

Friday Mashup ~ Challenge # 2  Colours Crumb Cake, Marina Mist & Cajun Craze.

Mojo Squared

I really liked the mojo challenge sketch this week and originally did the circle one, then thought about it some more and decided to do the square version as well.


So for this one I've gone bright, Elegant Eggplant with embossed flourish from Friends 24 7. Then the So Saffron swirl is stamped with an old background stamp French Flair. I then cut and embossed Tangerine Tango butterflies and gathered the white satin and organza ribbon on the swirl and layerd butterflies to follow the curves. The sentiment is from Flight of the Butterfly


Mojo Monday ~ Sketch Square version

Creative Frenzy!

Friends 24 - 7 and the Friends jumbo wheel make this beautiful soft card. I've stamped the card base in versamark and clear embossed the background on Pink Pirouette then added a mat of Close to Cocoa, a quick run of the Friends wheel across Natural cardstock and spritzed Pretty in Pink and Close to Cocoa inks to add some texture. Ive used the Eyelet border punch and then some close to cocoa ribbon. Stamped the salutation and added a few pink rhinestone brads.



Party Hearty stamp set is great for male cards, I've used Bashful Blue, Elegant Eggplant and Whisper White here, I inked the party hats individually and stamped them randomly in Bashful Blue on the card base, the tore a strip of Elegant Eggplant and adhered this to the Whisper White, added the glitter strip, which is the Blue Fine Supernova glitter mixed with Dazzling Diamonds for a softer paler blue, stuck straight down on a line of Sticky Strip! Stamped the Celebrate You and punched this out with the scallop punch. one very quick and easy card.



These playing cards make for a great masculine card. I stamped them on whisper white, cut them out and then fanned them into a 'hand' and used a black mat on Red Ridinghood card base. The greeting was stamped and then swiped the edges with Red Ridinghood ink. Add a ribbon and a couple of brads and it's another one finished.

Embrace Life card is 'CASED' from a swap I got at convention, it's just a stunning combination of the new In Colour Kiwi Kiss, Elegant Eggplant and Whisper White. Crimped the stamped image and punch out a border, add a ribbon then a sentiment and you're done.

There are more to come but this should keep you inspired.

Cheers for now,

Kasey