Inkspirational #172

G'day everyone! Today starts the new challenge over at Inkspirational. I am actually the hostess for this challenge and decided to choose the following - Use Vellum!

Here is my card -

I started with a decent piece of vellum and sprinkled two different lots of embossing enamel. I heated from underneath and ended up with a beautiful embossed piece that I die cut my butterflies from.

I die cut the butterflies again in black cardstock to overlay them on.

I hope to see you over at Inkspirational!

I would also like to enter my card into the following challenges -





Thanks for popping in :)

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HLS July Watercolour Challenge

Welcome everyone! How are you? July?? Where did you pop up from?

July is actually my birthday month and we have a very fitting theme for our new watercolour challenge over at Happy Little Stampers!

Well, anything goes really but you may like to join us with our optional twist :)

Here is my card -

I had actually looked around pinterest and found a card that I loved and wanted to CASE it. Now I can't find the link for it because I made this card some time ago but it was a lady from PTI.

I die cut my panel and embossed my stars with clear powder. I used my zig markers to scribble colour and wash it out with a water pen. I embossed the sentiment from Dandelion Wishes on a smaller panel that I had watercoloured the same way.

Supplies:

HLS Dandelion Wishes

I hope you will join in with us over at Happy Little Stampers!

Our winner for this challenge will receive a $20 coupon to spend at the shop! Check out all the details HERE.

IF YOU USE STAMPS BY HAPPY LITTLE STAMPERS AND YOU ARE OUR RANDOM WINNER, YOUR PRIZE WILL BE DOUBLED!

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CAS on Friday Guest Designer

Hey everyone! I was very lucky to be chosen as the winner over at CAS on Friday for my Smile card and am now the Guest Designer for the new challenge starting now :)

The theme for this challenge is Splash - Make a card with Watercolours.

Here is my card -

I used my Zig Watercolour pens to create my background by scribbling one colour, blending it with water, then drying it with my heat gun. Then I would add the next colour. I also spritzed the panel a little to fade out the edges. 

I die cut a butterfly from a leftover watercoloured piece then overlayed it with a coordinating die using Vellum. 

I decided to use something new in my stash that I had ordered from blitsy. Crushed Glass! I added some glossy accents and sprinkled the crushed glass over my butterfly. It looks awesome!

My sentiment is from the Happy Little Stampers Dandelion Wishes set which I embossed in gold.

Thank you for taking the time to pop in today and a big thanks to the girls at CAS on Friday for having me as their Guest Designer :)

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Starry Birthday

Hi everyone! I have been working a lot lately and apart from some scheduled posts, I haven't been able to fit in any crafty time at all. So, today once I finished doing a few hours at work, I played with some new goodies that I had ordered from Blitsy. 

I love this new die from Penny Black. I can see a lot of potential for different uses. I made a very clean and simple card inspired by the sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch.

I used the die a second time on Gold Glitter Foam to inlay some of the stars.

The sentiment is from the Happy Little Stampers Dandelion Wishes set.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges -

Always Happy Birthday - Anything Goes

Sheepski Designs - Embellish OR Clean and Simple

Hopefully you may see me later after I had some more play time! Thanks for popping in. :)

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HLS May Watercolour Challenge

Hello and welcome to May! The first of the month is the start of a new round of challenges over at Happy Little Stampers. We kick off with our Watercolour challenge :)

Anything Goes but you may like to play along with our optional twist.

I masked and embossed my butterflies and coloured them with Zig watercolour pens. I fussy cut them out and popped them up on my card panel with foam tape.

Once dry, I put an overlay of glitter using a clear glitter pen.

I think this gives the colours much more depth.

Supplies:

HLS Butterfly Birthday

HLS Dandelion Wishes

Our winner for this challenge will receive a $20 coupon to spend at the shop! Check out all the details HERE.

IF YOU USE STAMPS BY HAPPY LITTLE STAMPERS AND YOU ARE OUR RANDOM WINNER, YOUR PRIZE WILL BE DOUBLED!

I hope to see you over at the challenge blog!

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HLS April CAS Challenge

Hello again! Yes, it is time again for a new CAS challenge at Happy Little Stampers.

We would like you to use Chevrons on your Clean and Simple cards.

Here is mine -

These chevrons came home with me all the way from England. While over there for the HLS Craft Retreat, I was able to stay with Sarah P and was able to raid her stash of dies :)

I coloured the strips with Sharpies and covered them with glitter using my Spectrum Noir glitter pen.

Here's a close up of the sparkle -

The sentiment is from the new Dandelion Wishes set and the sequins finished it off.

Supplies:

HLS Dandelion Wishes

HLS Multicoloured Sequins

Our winner for this challenge will receive a $20 coupon to spend at the shop! Check out all the details HERE.

IF YOU USE STAMPS BY HAPPY LITTLE STAMPERS AND YOU ARE OUR RANDOM WINNER, YOUR PRIZE WILL BE DOUBLED!

Thanks for popping in today and I hope to see you playing along at the Challenge Blog.

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Guest Designing for Less Is More

Hi everyone! I am very happy to be Guest Designing for this channge and sponsor for the month at Less Is More.

This challenge is a CASE challenge and the amazing Aileen has a beautiful card to inspire us.

Here is Aileen's card -

Here is my card -

I decided to use the blue colour for my background after embossing my dandelions (from the new release set Dandelion Wishes). I smooshed Turquoise Brusho onto my panel, drying in between smooshing.

I die cut my sentiment out of sliver glitter paper. A few blue sequins finished it off.

Happy Little Stampers is the sponsor this month!

I would like to thank the girls over at Less Is More for having me and I hope to see you over at the challenge blog.

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