Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: anything goes and Avery Elle

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: anything goes and Avery Elle.
I have one Avery Elle stampset and it's Let it snow.
Some Avery Elle storage pockets and Pigment ink, so.....

Used the little birdie from the stampset as a light bulb or bunting.
Drew some strings and stamped the bird on them.
The sentiment is from Sizzix and I stamped that with pigment inks, some overlapping and the green p.e. is made out of two colours to make it the bright citrus green like colour.
Coloured the bird "lamps" with Spectrum Noir alcohol markers in the shades of the sentiment.
mounted the panel with foamtape.

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Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: thank you

Simon Says Stamp  Monday Challenge: thank you.

this wasn't my first card, not even going to show you what my sleepy brain came up with at 6 am ;-) no..don't ask...no..lol it was a good idea using the Simon Says stamp thanks on a line, just the execution was a fail, for me anyway, my boyfriend likes it.

Anyway went back to think. I thought to use this bold  (Dutch for) thank you die. Firstly just a plain cut out with glitter paper behind, but then I wanted to make my own patterned paper, so I used Crate paper die "confetti" to inlay the flowers and leaves.
then die cut the "bedankt" out and raised it with black foam.
Mounted the flower panel onto cardstock also with black foam.

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AAA cards Challenge #40: for the guys

AAA cards Challenge #40: for the guys.
Because Father's day is coming up , I came up with this card.
Made a panel with different daddy names and foiled it with Deco foil.
raised the panel with some foam tae to give interest, but still keeping it cas.

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Less is More Challenge #225: use some metal

Less is More Challenge #225: use some metal.
For my metal I used something from the hardware store...sticky back aluminium ( i think) tape, commonly used with laying floors ( i think)..I don't know I just got it because it was pretty and shiny ;-)....

I've embossed the tape to get the flowers in there, taped it to the cardfront ( you must be careful doing this or it wrinkles) added some washi tape and a diecut hello from the same stuff.


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The Friday Mashup Challenge #210

This week the Friday Mashup Challenge is butterflies and lace.

I have the one butterfly die and I used it to make a mask.

I stamped th butterflies with pigment ink to fill the cut out. I then traced the outline with black and added some grey shading with alcohol markers to give depth and anchor the butterfly.

I was trying to  make all the small butterflies look like lace,  I think that might have worked if I had used one colour...not sure maybe i'll try it on black with embossing powder one day ;-)

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CAS Colours & Sketches Challenge #125: Colours

 CAS Colours & Sketches Challenge #125: Colours.
I don't have Stampin'up products, so I used my Distress inks as watercolours and I think they're a very close match.
I traced the stencil in the corner of some watercolour paper with a Sharpie and filled the shapes in.
I used some Iridescerent medium from Windsor & Newton to dilute the Distress inks so it has a nice shimmer.
Don't  think it shows up well on the photo though.
Simple but fun font greeting from Sizzix.

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Inkspirational challenge #82: recipe

Inkspirational challenge #82: recipe use at least 3 of these: flowers, embossing, pearls, distressing.
I've used embossing paste, perfect pearls powder, pearls as embellishments, and Distress inks for the background and banner.
On my first attempt at this card I've used embossing powder to cover the flowers, but..yuck...

On the final card I've used embossing paste through a stencil and dusted the wet embssing paste with perfect pearls. I hope you can see the shine.

Had to wait thill this stencil I ordered came in, Ive only partially covered it with embossing paste to get the drifting feeling...

I don't have many colored embossing powders so had to make due, but I can't say I love it, I like it, but I don't love it, so discarded this one.


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