World Bee Day

Hi there everyone! Today I am honoured to be part of a blog hop that has been organised by the very talented Milka Gubo. The aim of the hop is to support bees and to raise public awareness of the importance of bees and apiculutral products.

You should have come to me from the lovely Kathy Curry's blog but if you have missed someone along the way, please find the complete list further down my post.

Last December the UN officially declared that the 20th of May is officially "World Bee Day". If you are interested you can see the press release HERE.

I had to improvise for my card as I don't even have anything related to bees in my stash! I will have to fix that :)

I created a honeycomb effect using a die which I placed over a Brusho background. I used yellow and orange brushos, smooshing them and drying in between smooshes.

I created my sentiment by die cutting the letters and then masking a Happy Birthday sentiment so only the Happy was inked up. 

Happy Little Stampers is sponsoring this event as are MANY other sponsors. If you would like the chance to win a prize, you need to hop along with all the amazing sponsors/designers.

Milka Gubo

Alice Wertz

Amy Tsuruta

Barbara Sproatmeyer

Beverly Brown

Birka Reinitz

Kaja Vezensek

Kathy Curry

Kylie Purtell (you are here)

Neha Bhatt

Samantha Mann

Sonja Kerkhoffs

Sue Hastead

Tina Pavlovic

Zrinka Beric

Ksenija Rizova 

Here are all the amazing sponsors participating in the hop (all the prize details can be found at Milka's blog)

Milka is also giving away Jane’s Doodles ‘Garden Friends’ stamp set to two lucky winners.

17 prizes will be given away to 17 winners. 

For your chance to win, hop along blogs of the participating designers and leave comment on each blog hop stop. After commenting, return back to Milka’s blog and add your name to Inlinkz, but prior you do, please read Blog Hop details, terms, giveaway rules and privacy policy which are shared in Milka's blog post below Inlinkz.

Inlinkz closes tomorrow, May 21st 2018, 11:00 PM CEST. Winners’ names will be announced on Milka’s blog next day.

Have fun hopping along!

Inkspirational #161

Over at Inkspirational we have a new challenge for you. We have a photo for inspiration and I hope you will play along.

Here is my card -

Here is the photo -

Hmmm, I know you're thinking.... what??? How did this photo inspire me to create the card that I made?

To be honest, I REALLY struggled with this one. I even emailed teamie Sandie for help. Sandie gave me some great ideas which helped, thanks!

I concentrated on the arch of the tree, stamped and embossed my flowers in the same manner, then fussy cut around them. I had planned on colouring them in pink and greens but once I had finished the card, I quite liked the monochrome look.

Supplies -

HLS Doodled Flowers

HLS Smile!

I would like to enter my card into these challenges -

Time Out Challenges

Monochrome Magic - Anything Goes

Fashionable Stamping - Floral

I hope you will find inspiration and play along over the next two weeks! See you there :)

Inkspirational #160

Hi there everyone. It's time for a brand new challenge over at Inkspirational! 

We have a beautiful colour challenge this fortnight - we would like you to use purple and gold!

Here is my card -

I embossed my butterflies with gold powder and die cut them out. I used Zig Makers to watercolour them. I have layered them over each other and popped up a couple using foam tape.

I also embossed my sentiment. A last minute decision was to add some Aged Wine Embossing Enamel but I'm not sure it was really the right thing to do but after adding the few sequins, I quite like the effect.

This card is going to my Mum for Mother's Day :)

Supplies Used:

HLS Butterfly Birthday

HLS Butterfly Dies

MISTI

HLS Multicoloured Sequins

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

Sunny Day Crafting - Butterflies and other Garden Critter

Eclectic Ellapu - Mother's Day

Thanks for popping in and I would love to see you over at the challenge blog.

HLS May CAS Challenge

Hi everyone! Today is the start of a new Clean and Simple challenge over at Happy Little Stampers!

We have a great challenge for you this month -

Argghhh, I can here you groaning! LOL. I find the easiest way to deal with a one layer card is to just concentrate on stamping. Easy!

Here is my card -

I created a background using a stencil and Antique Linen distress ink. I then simply stamped and embossed my Lion and sentiment.

Supplies Used:

HLS Born to be Wild

MISTI

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

Papercraft Challenges - Clean and Simple

Try it on Tuesday - Stencils, or Die Cuts, or both

Make My Monday - Embossing wet or dry

That's it for me today and I hope to see you over at the challenge blog :)

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!