A Day for Mothers

I do hope those who celebrate it had a lovely Mother's Day yesterday. The weather here in the South of England was beautiful, so we had a lovely family meal by the sea. We also took our new pup who was so well behaved!

Anyway I finally got round to making a card for my own Mum which I can now share with you.

Being short of time I turned to my Tilda papercraft stash. It is so pretty I tend to look at rather than use it!! I used a base card and various decoupaged diecuts. The sentiment was made using individual letter stickers. I'm glad to say that Mum was very pleased with it!

I am also going to enter this card into the following challenges:

Glitter and Sparkle - Mothers Day

Spring is here!

What beautiful weather we had at the weekend here in the South. The sunshine inspired me to create this card for the Handmade Harbour Challenge (on which I am a Design Team member). The theme for the fortnight is Spring -  flowers, birds or rabbits.

I used the paper piecing technique with the digital stamp Flowers on the Hill.

I have to say I am quite pleased with the result!

I do hope you will come along and join us at the challenge!

Other challenges I am entering:

The Crafters Cafe - A Square Card

A Craft Artist!

Well what a week last week was, Lady Luck was obviously looking down on me!  Firstly I won first prize at Crafty Sentiments Design blogs for my wedding card. And then the news I have been waiting for....I am in the Serif CraftArtist Design Team!!

I had sent my second stage samples off and never dreamt I would  be selected!  The kit we had to work with was Woodland Walk. Its a beautiful kit and here are my samples to hopefully inspire you!!

There are more exciting things to come shortly from Serif so watch this space!

Celebrate at The Handmade Harbour

Welcome back to another challenge at The Handmade Harbour. This week the theme is "Celebrate"

I very rarely use such bright colours but I think it fits this digital stamp really well.

I chose Birds and Gift Digital Stamp to create my DT piece. I coloured the images with Promarkers. I then cut the images and mounted them separately onto the card, using foam pads to give dimension to some of the squares.

I do hope you will come and join us for this challenge!

I am entering this into the following challenges:

Crafting By Design - Anything Goes

Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

Paper Make Up Stamps - Anything Goes

Make It Monday

Wedding Love

With such a gorgeous stamp set from Papercraft Inspirations Magazine this month I decided to make a wedding card.

I used a die cut card as the base. Then stamped the bunting, birds and greeting before colouring them in with Promarkers.  I found a perfect sentiment stamp in my stash and that was it finished! I love this card and have already sold a few!!

If you are visiting as a member of the Crafting Cafe Group on Facebook (if you not a member yet, come and join us!) welcome and don't forget to visit some of the other fantastic blogs!

I hope you all have a lovely weekend and look forward to sharing some more with you next week.

I am entering the following challenges with this card:
Crafty Sentiment Designs - Love
Emerald Fairies Challenge - Lets See A Banner
Seema Crafts - Valentine / Love

Emboss it at The Crafting Cafe

At the Crafting Cafe Challenge blog this month we are asking you to show us a card with embossing, be it wet or dry.

The  prize of 6 pots of WOW! embossing powders as WOW! is our sponsor this month.

For my DT piece I created this......

 I used the Cracked Glass technique. I stamped and coloured the butterfly  - a favourite of mine by Anna Griffin - with Distress Pens Then I covered the mountboard with Perfect Medium before applying WOW! Embossing Ultra High Clear Powder. I repeated this three times to get a thick coverage. Then I let it cool before bending the whole piece to give a cracked look. Finally I applied a dark brown ink with Cut N Dry Foam to highlight the cracks.

The papers I selected are the new ones from Docrafts - Madame Payraud which is a great curiosity style collection. I aged the papers further with Distress Inks before cutting them into squares and mounting them onto brown card. 

I would love to see your creations too! So join us at The Crafting Cafe.

Other Challenges I am entering:
4Crafty Chicks - Things with Wings

Handmade Harbour - I'm on the DT!

I have been a fan for some time of the fabulous digital stamps from Wendy at Handmade Harbour. So I was over the moon to be accepted on her Design Team.

My first challenge with the team is to add ribbons.

I chose the Campervan Stamp and coloured in with Promarkers. I added I Love You to the number plates and then added ribbon to the bunting.

I can't wait to take part in more challenges with Handmade Harbour and I hope you will join me there!

Crafting A Scene

Happy Monday everyone! Once again over at Craft A Scene, they are sharing one of my projects I made for my Guest DT spot.

I made the background by swooshing card through Distress Inks diluted on a splodge mat. I then used a stamp from Kanban that I have never used! I used Perfect medium and embossed it with WOW Embossing Powder - Ebony. I added Perfect Pearls to the toadstools and using a Marianne Creatables stamp I stamped the dots and embossed with WOW! White embossing powder.

Why not enter this month's challenge with one of your favourite techniques?

Love is in the air

The most romantic day of the year? Not here in the South it is wet, windy and storm force gales predicted! So I will be enjoying a much needed day of crafting.

As it is Valentine's Day I thought I would share a card I made for my ETSY store using a bargain stamp I purchased in the sale after Christmas.

I stamped the image onto watercolour paper before colouring it with Distress Markers. The sentiment reads "Life is a breeze when love is in the Air"

I am entering this into the following challenges:

Crafters Cafe Challenge - Hearts
Make My Monday - Love
Rhedd and Rosie Challenge - love is in the air

Crafting A Scene

I was asked this month to be a Guest Designer at Craft A Scene. This month they are asking for a favourite technique when creating a scene.

One of my favourite techniques is to create a background using distress ink and silhouette stamping. Above is the first card I created using Distress Inks and Stamps by Creative Expressions.

I hope you will go over and join in with the challenge this month.

Other Challenges I am entering:

Artistic Stamper - Use Distress

Alphabet Challenge - Z for Zesty Colours