Twofer - Greenery and purplery

Good morning
I found myself with a little more time recently so wanted to enter a few challenges. I've missed entering as it's fun to join in, get feedback and see other people's cards but it's also inspiring to try out different styles and learn new techniques. 

So here we go with the Twofer challenge which encourages us to use the same stamp (die or stencil) in two different ways. 

My first card makes use of the smooshing technique plus dabbling into watery ink to fill in the gaps. I love the green and orange together. 
Heat embossed the leaves, I then painted in with Perfect Pearls for some shimmer. 

This one is for our 52CCT November Technique Challenge:

The next one is much more CAS. I simply stamped and embossed the branch twice and painted in with inks and the obligatory Perfect Pearls on the berries. I find in annoying when things which are actually straight look squint.

I liked it so I made two more quick cards as my stash is running low. 
I had a design in my head but finding sentiments to fit wasn't that easy. The answer is obviously to buy more sentiment stamps change the design to fit your stamps so one card has the sentiment stamped direct which works for that stamp. 

 Green and purple

 Purple and pink

Green and pink (my favourite).

The stamp is from a recent Creative Stamping magazine and is a Pink Fresh set. I love them.

Thanks for visiting, enjoy your day. x

Also popping into Pixie's Snippets playground as I have used some tiny snippets plus a few and a really old card base on the first card. 

Purple and white

Good morning. Welcome to our colour challenge at 52CCT. 

This week they are slightly unusual but you will have lots of fun:

I chose to use this snowflake die which I recently got with Die Cutting Essentials magazine. 

I cut twice and then joined the two die cuts with a craft knife in a (nearly) straight line. I could have chosen a simpler design to begin with but you know how it is when you get an idea in your head!

The background is made with Wilted Violet Distress Oxide ink and water. A combination of smooshing and spritzing. There is a little Perfect Pearls as well. 
I used a few of the cut out snowflakes and some gems to finish. 

Thanks for visiting, enjoy your day. x

November Sketch

Our first challenge of the month at 52CCT is always a sketch to here is our challenge for you this month:

Looking very Christmassy so hopefully it will inspire plenty of cards to add our gallery.

I often struggle with sketches and sometimes it helps to turn them round and look from different angles. That's what I did here:

I used stamps from the latest Creative Stamping magazine. I love these, you'll have seen me use them over the last few weeks and I've also made a birthday card which I have not yet shared. 

I stamped and embossed the leaves and painted in with Brushos. Then did the same with the flowers. The berries are pained with Perfect Pearls again. They have been on every card I've made recently. Love that shimmer.

Thanks for visiting. Enjoy your day. x