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

Altenew Just Jasmine many occasion card

Hello everyone and welcome to Make Your Mark week at Addicted to Stamps and More

I've been making more cards that are suitable for several occasions recently, and this is one of those. I find I like to have cards in my stash that I can personalise to the person and occasion depending on what I stamp inside.

For this card, I used my new Altenew Just Jasmine stamps and die, along with a sentiment from the same set. The oval die is from Mama Elephant and the rectangle is from MFT.

This was a quick card to pull together and would be easy to mass-produce.

You'll find lots of inspiration from the team over on the blog and I'd love to see how you make your mark this week.

Thanks for stopping by and stay safe.

Carol x

Pack of CAS cards

Hi everyone,

Back in January I followed an online card class for making Clean and Simple Cards because it is a style I have a lot of difficulty with as a lover of buttons and ribbons and bows and dimensional flowers and hardware and..... you get the idea. Well I thoroughly enjoyed the class but I got behind and didn't manage to fit in all the assignments in time. One of the assignments was to make a pack of cards and as I usually never make more than 2 copies of any card, I wanted to give it a try. As you know, my daughter just turned 30 and so of course did a number of her friends. She wanted to give a couple of her friends, 30 gifts to open on the day and she commissioned me to make a couple of packs of cards to go in the pile. This gave me the incentive to get busy and this is what I came up with:-

a selection of ribbon banners for the sentiments

a mixture of bright flowers

set of stems for the flowers to sit on

a little mat and a 'thank you' sentiment

another mat and a 'just saying hello' sentiment

a handmade box, lid and bellyband

the finished product.

I put some music on and got on a roll with the die cutting and stamping and had a lovely time making the 2 packs of 6 cards.

Thanks for looking.

Hugs

Carol x

Zipper die card

Hello everyone,

Welcome to Ellen who became a new follower this week. I hope you had a good weekend and are ready to plunge into another week. We went to a really good concert on Saturday to celebrate International Women's Day. It was hosted by the St Petersburg Society and was called Ties of Friendship (between Manchester and St Petersburg), and I had no idea that there was such a large Russian community based in Manchester. I heard my first Balalaika orchestra and there were lots of people in traditional Russian dress. Then last night I hosted my friend's Hen Party which was a hoot and I've now got tons of photos to edit and pass along.

I'm still waiting for the latest parcel from Papertrey Ink to arrive but I bought the zipper die and stamp set from a seller on eBay and couldn't wait to try out an interactive card.

I don't know if you have seen this before but the die cuts a strip along the cardstock (the white loopy bit) and the little arrow says 'pull me'. When the recipient pulls the zip away, a message is revealed underneath. Of course I forgot to take a picture of the message which on this occasion says 'a wonderful day' and I couldn't unzip it to show you or I wouldn't be able to send the card!

I stamped the base card with flowers from Beautiful Blooms 2 in Raspberry Fizz ink  and used the same, larger flower on the pink panel but this time used versamark ink and embossed it with white embossing powder. The Wishing You sentiment and little arrow was from Movers and Shakers Sentiments. The white ribbon and little bow along with few gems to bling it up a little finished everything off. I can't wait to make another of these and next time I'll remember to take a photo of the hidden message!

As I've not followed any challenges for a while, I thought I would enter this one into this weeks Make it Monday challenge, the  Let's Craft and Create, challenge which is to use bows or buttons, and the Simon Says challenge which is to make a card for a Mother or a special girl.

Thanks for looking.

Hugs

Carol x

Cas card Day 6

Hi everyone,

I'm still having problems with Blogger - am I the only one? When I click to look at the comments I just get a blank page and can only view them via the dashboard. Still having problems leaving comments too.

Oh well, I'm still enjoying the CAS card class and here is my offering for Day 6. We were shown how to make a flower out of 6 circles of patterned paper:-

I clear embossed a heart roller stamp that had never seen ink down the left side of the card

Thanks for looking and I hope you are having a good week.

Hugs
Carol x