Autumn Leaves

 Hello lovely crafters

It's time for another challenge at Shopping our Stash and this one perfectly reflects the season change here to Autumn.

SOS 480 Leaf me alone -

Create a project featuring a leaf or leaves. 

Of course there is no need to have an autumn theme, check through your stash and use any leaf  products you can find and join in the fun. 

I did use Autumn colours.

I used my very favourite technique of iron off embossing. I chose a Hobby Art Set of leaf stamps and stamped and embossed in clear, on a strip of watercolour paper. 

Then I spritzed the whole card and dropped Brushos on in brown, yellow and orange. I used a brush for a small amount of 'helping' and left to dry. 

When dry comes the fun part. Place the card between sheets of clean paper and iron on hot. The embossing powder melts onto the paper leaving you with the gorgeous inkiness. 

In the end I didn't add a greeting as I wasn't sure what occasion I'll be using it for. Of course it doesn't necessarily need one but it's good to have multipurpose cards in stock.

I think white on black when I do add one.  

I'm skipping over to Just Us Girls with this one. Checkout all the gorgeous leafy cards. 

Thanks for visiting, enjoy  your day. x

Summer wreath

 Hello lovely crafters.

I hope everyone is well. We're at a change in the season here. So hot a few weeks ago and now actually chilly on occasion!

Here is a recent fun card I made. I don't need much encouragement to get out my Card-io stamps and I saw some inspiring cards on the card-io Facebook group so off I went. 

As usual I pencilled in the circle and used that for the rough shape. I stamped the flowers first and then the leaves and greenery. 

The colours were so soft that I thought Thinking of You was best. At first I wasn't so keen on the darkness of the butterfly but I've got over that and think it's ok. 

You can see I added some Pearl Effects to the centres. Not too blobby 😁

I'm sending this one over to Mrs A's Butterfly Challenge. 

As usual no fancy folds here. I just used Wisteria and Wild Blue Yonder colours, and the butterfly, of course. 

I'm off to a craft fair next week where I'm sure I will buy more. 

Thanks for visiting, enjoy your day. x

Watercolour wreath

 Hello lovely crafters. 

A quick post from me as I really should be doing something else right now.

Here is a Christmas card I started before we moved all the furniture around. Progress is being made but I'm still travelling from room to room looking for things. 

I stamped this wreath on watercolour paper then 'painted' in the leaves and berries using water with some Perfect Pearls. 

Looking for a greeting, I found this on which seemed perfect for the CAS Christmas Card Challenge this month. Sparkle and Shine. So I stamped and embossed with green embossing powder for some extra shine. It's quite subtle but there is definite sheen. 

Thanks for visiting, enjoy your day. x

Happiest of birthdays

Hello lovely crafters. 

We are in a state of flux here. Buying some new bedroom furniture lead to us moving what seemed like, every piece of furniture we own from room to room. Think we are settled now with just all those odd bits and bobs to put away or throw away. 

The good news is that my crafty corner has been reinvented and, I think will be better, when I've finally sorted it out! And I'm promising myself not to put back all the useless stuff and to be sensible 🤣🤣🤣

So this card was finished, against the odds, with half the stuff in one room and half in another. 

My latest card for our Shopping our Stash Challenge. Dig through your stash and see what you come up with for:

Challenge 479 - Sept 13 Hey (h)Ombre - Use ombre on your project (patterned paper or create it yourself with inks and stamps).

I created my background during and inky session, I think I inked the card with distress oxide inks and then used a wet stencil on top. I did try out quite a few things that day so it might not have been that at all!

I think it looks like fabric. 

To finish the card, I used some die cuts I found in a box and coloured them yellow. A few more leaves were cut from inky paper. The sentiment ( Lisa Horton) is stamped on snippets, of course, and uses two more ovaledie cuts behind to raise it. 

Finally a few gems. The flower and leaf dies are tattered lace. 

I hope you like it, thanks for visiting, enjoy your day. x