Thinking of you

Another ombre card! I really liked the effect created by blending the 3 colours of distress ink so I made another card for the Inkspirational Ombre Challenge.

Materials used:-
Distress inks - tumbled glass, broken china and salty ocean
Inkylicious duster brush for blending
Archival black ink
Stamp - Stampendous Agapanthus Cluster
Sentiment - Woodware

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Muse card

This week's Muse, Marion Vagg, has created a lovely CAS card to inspire us.  I particularly liked the effect of the white embossing on the turquoise card and I tried to replicate this in my card. I used distress inks to create an ombré effect.  My apologies for the photo - the colours are brighter in real life.

I am also going to enter this card into Inkspirational #74 where the challenge is ombre.

Materials used:-
Stamps - Uniko Studio Background Builders Lattice set
Distress inks - tumbled glass, broken China and salty ocean
White embossing powder
I used Kaleidoscope blue breeze to ink the sentiment
Inkylicious ink duster

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Special friend

This week's theme on Less is More is Friends so I used one of my favourite stamp sets, Mackintosh Windows, to make this birthday card. I love Charles Rennie Mackintosh designs! I stamped the image in black and then embossed this to make the watercolouring easier.

I am also going to enter this card into the following challenges:-

• Uniko Studio #17 challenge which is Love and Friendship
• CASology week 130 where the cue card is Friend

Materials:-
Stamps - Chocolate Baroque Mackintosh windows and sentiments
Inks - archival black and various distress markers
Card - Sheena Douglass white stamping card (great for watercolouring!)

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Hello

This card was inspired by the photo at the Time Out challenge 22 - I tried to recreate the wood effect and the pattern on the cushions in my card.

I am also going to enter this card into the following challenges:-

• Darnell's NBUS challenge #3 as I hadn't used the Chocolate Baroque stamps before
• CASology week 129 where the cue card is NBUS

If you haven't heard of the term NBUS you will need to look on Darnell's blog which is very entertaining!



Materials used:-
Stamps - Chocolate Baroque "Waterlily Mandala" and Hero Arts "Artistic Windows"
Card - Stampin Up crumb cake and vanilla
Inks - Versa craft poppy red, Versa color paprika and white
Memento ink - desert island and bamboo leaves
Die - Lawn Fawn "Scripty hello"

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New baby

I am very late with this entry for Less is More this week - my apologies for the poor photo. It has been so dark this week that I had to resort to artificial light with the result that the colours are not true. The LIM theme is New Beginnings and it is One Layer Week! I used a Uniko Studio set for this very CAS baby card! I like the effect of the teddy sitting on the letters.

Materials used:-

Stamps - Uniko Studio Sweet Baby set
Inks - SU Brocade Blue, Archival Potting Soil
Distress inks for the teddy - Vintage Photo and Wild Honey

Blogger tells me that this is my 100th post - I can hardly believe that I have made so many cards (and a few scrapbook pages) since March. Thanks to my followers and everyone who visits my blog.  I really enjoy reading your comments.

You're a star!

This week's challenge on AAA cards is to use some gold.  As I'm still on holiday I have limited supplies so was pleased when this design worked out!

Materials used:-
Star stencils and stamp set - Simply cards and Papercrafts magazine
Gold embossing powder - Stampendous
DI - peacock feathers and mustard seed

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LIM colour challenge

This week's colour challenge on Less is More is to use black, metallic and one other colour. This is the card I made using the stencil and stamp set from Simply Homemade magazine. I really liked the feathers stamps. I used silver embossing powder for one feather and black ink for the others.

Materials used:-
HOTP stencil and stamp set from Simply Homemade magazine
Silver embossing powder - Stampendous
DI - broken china

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