Papertrey Ink Quilled Elegance birthday card

 

Hello everyone and I hope you are well. Welcome to the new Birthday Challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More.

I used some old stamps from Papertrey Ink called Quilled Elegance for a CAS design and I really like the modern look these little hearts give.

I stamped and embossed the image and then coloured it with Copics before going over it with a glitter pen and die-cutting a stitched rectangle around it. It was too plain, so I impressed it with a PTI Linen Impression Plate to add some texture.

The sentiment is from the same stamp set and the scalloped rectangle is from one of the MFT Blueprints die sets.

I'd like to play along at

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #234 - anything goes

Crafty Calendar July Challenge - add a sentiment

My Time to Craft #538 - CAS

Simply Clean and Simple July - use hearts

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs,

Carol x

Concord & 9th Festive Corner and Spellbinders Christmas card

 

Hello everyone and welcome back to another challenge at ABC Christmas Challenges.

Fabliola is our lovely host this time and she has a gift voucher for the winner:-

Our themes this time are 

N for No Stamping

and/or O for Off the Edge.

I came up with this card that has no stamping

I used my NBUS Concord & 9th Festive Corner dies; the sentiment is the Stylish Merry Christmas die from Spellbinders.

As always, my talented DT friends have lots to show you over on the blog and you can link up your entry over there too.

I'd like to play along at 

NBUS Challenge #64 - the Concord & 9th dies are NBUS

Daisychain Challenge #87 - Christmas in July

Merry Little Christmas Challenge #57 - anything goes

12 Months of Christmas Challenge #112 - anything goes

Thanks for stopping by,

Hugs

Carol x

Pinkfresh Studio Happy Holidays Circle Frame Christmas card

Hello crafty friends, I hope you are well and happy on this wet and dismal day in Manchester! I know we are renowned for our rainfall, but this is getting very boring and I'm keeping my fingers crossed for a dry day on St Swithins Day on Sunday lol! I'll stop complaining now because at least I'm getting a little more time to play in the craft room. We are back with a new challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More and this time we are looking for Christmas cards.

 

I came up with this card.

I used my NBUS Pinkfresh Studio Holiday Circle Frame stamps, dies and stencils for all the elements and placed them on a scalloped rectangle from My Favorite Things which I inked with red ink. 

I decided to do the stamping with Distress Ink and I like the effect it gave on the flowers and leaves but it doesn't give the crispest look on the sentiment.

You'll find lots of inspiration over on the ATSM blog and you can enter your card over there if you decide to join us this time.

I'd like to play at 

Daisychain Challenge #87 - Christmas in July

Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge #67 - anything goes

Stamping Sensations July Challenge - Christmas in July 

Dragonfly Dreams July Challenge - Christmas in July

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs

Carol x

Clearly Besotted Thinking of you card

Hello everyone and welcome to the next challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More. 

I'm back from my hols and finally got some time to spend in my craft room to make a card for our Make Your Mark Challenge.

I used the lily stamp from the Clearly Besotted Thinking of You stamp set and embossed it in black ink. I coloured initially with Copic markers and then added coloured pencil shading and added the dots with a brown fine liner pen. I kept the layout simple - I just cut the panel and scalloped rectangle with some dies from the MFT Blueprints sets.

This is one of those cards that can be useful for several occasions depending on what you stamp inside, so I think I'll keep it in my stash until I need a sympathy or get-well card.

Over on the ATSM blog, the DT has lots of inspiration for you, and you can post your entries there too.

I'd like to play along at

Lil Patch of Craft Friends #232 The Paper Shelter - Anything Goes

We Love Stamping June Challenge - Fabulous Florals

Stamping Sensations June Challenge - anything goes 

Thanks for stopping by,

Hugs

Carol x

Penny Black New Day watercoloured any occasion card

 

Hello everyone and welcome to the new challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More

This time we have our Any Occasion theme and I came up with this card:-

I'm very inexperienced with watercolours and tend to go with my Zig brush markers when I want that look but I decided it was time to stop being chicken and have a go with the real thing. I pulled out my Kuretaki Gansai Tambi watercolour pans and watercolour card to colour this lovely stamp from Penny Black called New Day.

I used a Penny Black stencil to ink the rectangle around the image after seeing Jill Foster do this on YouTube, and I really like that look. The simple sentiment on the front means that I can use the card for many occasions by adding a birthday, get well, thank you etc greeting on the inside.

My talented Teamies have lots of inspiration for you over on the blog and I hope you'll join us this time.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs

Carol x

Penny Black Basket of Flowers Sunny Smiles birthday card

Hello everyone and welcome to the new challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More.

This time we have our birthday theme and I created this card using some older stash. 

The frame dies are from the Papertrey Ink Mix and Mat Postal die set. You cut the outer die and then imprint the inner one to give an embossed frame look. I inked the centre of the frame before adding the basket of flowers made with the Penny Black Sunny Smiles Cling Stamp set. These were stamped, simply coloured and fussy-cut. I sliced a slit in the basket with a craft knife so I could slide the flowers into it.

I'm determined to use more of my older stash again after rediscovering some little used, and even unused sets, whilst reorganising my stamps into categories rather than manufacturer names. I'm at the stage where everything is a mess and I'm wishing I'd never started lol! I'd welcome advice from anyone else who has done this - what categories did you use and did you ever break up stamp sets with some images and lots of sentiments? 

As always, there's lots of inspiration for you on the ATSM blog and we'd love it if you decide to join us this time.

I'd like to play along with 

Make My Monday Challenge #225 - Florals

A Place To Start - May 24 - for a lady

Inspiration Station Prompt #61 - I was inspired by the lovely basket of flowers

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs

Carol x

 

First Edition Nativity Dies manger Chistmas card

 

Hello everyone and welcome to another challenge at ABC Christmas Challenges. This time we have 2 choices

J for Jesus 

and/or 

K for Kings,

and this is the prize for the winner

I came up with this card which combines the two:-

I took a square piece of card and masked off a circle in the centre before inking in blues and purple towards the centre. I then masked off the inked part and removed the circle mask so I could ink the centre in shades of yellow. I die-cut a large circle from the centre when the ink was dry.

I die-cut the stable from some hessian using the First Edition Nativity dies and added the Nativity figures. I heat embossed the sentiment in white onto a banner die cut and added it to the top before cutting a few more circles to raise the image above the background.

It would be lovely to have you join us and you can link up your entry on the ABC Christmas Challenges blog before the 8th June.

I'd like to play along at

Colourful Options May Challenge - Royal Blue - blue and kings

The Little Red Wagon Challenge #755 - create your own background

Peace on Earth Challenge #63 - anything Christmas goes

The Outlawz Festive Friday Challenge 3rd May to 6th June - Christmas

Thanks for stopping by,

Hugs,

Carol x