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!

Brushos and Embossing

Hi there everyone. I have a card to share with you today that was inspired by one I received in the mail from the wonderfully talented Sarah (Sazzle Dazzle). It has been sitting proudly in my lounge room for weeks and weeks. I absolutely loved it - you can see her card HERE.

As well as CASEing Sarah's card, I decided to do a video tutorial as well. Unfortunately when I went to download the files from the card... well... they weren't there. Bugger. Will have to refilm it again tomorrow. So for the time being, I just have the card to share with you :)

Sarah created her brusho panel using yellow, red, and orange (I think) and the colours were amazing. I wanted to go wth a blue panel. I embossed the butterflies onto watercolour paper first. I also decided to emboss some circles for a bit of extra fun. I 'smooshed' my cardstock into three different colours of brushos (drying in between each smoosh) - Turquoise, Cobalt Blue, and Grey.

I die cut the word Smile 3 times in white cardstock and and glued them all together. The last diecut was in gold glitter paper and glued on last. This gave the sentiment amazing dimension. The sentiment was stamped onto a strip of card and then cut to size. The glitter dots finished it off.

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

Cards and More #169 - Watercolour

Creative Knockouts #164 - Embossing

Cardz for Galz #33 - Use at least one die

Die Cut Divas - Emboss

Here are the HLS Products I have used on this card -

          

Thanks again to Sarah for the inspiration!!

See you next time :)

HLS June CASE the Designer

Hi everyone!

It's so good to be blogging again. I have been so busy with the house move and just life in general that it has taken most of my time and my mojo with it.

Today starts a new challenge over at Happy Little Stampers. We have a brand new designer to CASE!

We are CASEing Rahmat this month!

and here is my card -

I have heat embossed my entire card! I don't do that very often. 

The circles from the Mix Mash set were heat embossed in white and then the circle outlines in silver.

I used Distress Ink to create an ombre effect over my panel.

I heat embossed the flower from the Doodled Flowers set and fussy cut it out. The leaves and sentiment were also heat embossed. I used vellum for these elements.

The last step was to add a glitter enamel dot in the center of the flower.

Using Rahmat's card as true inspiration I really only changed a few bits and pieces of my card.  Thanks for the inspiration!!

I hope you will join us over at Happy Little Stampers. 

Here are the products I used on my card -

 

See you there!

Pink and Grey Flowers

Hi! I hope you aren't sick of seeing my new Doodled Flowers set from Happy Little Stampers. I am having lots of fun coming up with new ways to use them every time I get them out. This time I wanted to create a fancy border using the stamps.

I have also found that because they are so easy to create masks for, it is something I am incorporating on all of my cards so far.

This time I've also combined them with the Mix Mash set. The colours over at Inkspirational really helped me along with this one.

I started by creating my base card with grey cardstock. Then I cut a white panel the same size as my card front. I used a Lawn Fawn border die as a guide by tracing a line at the bottom third of the white panel. I stamped my three flowers first using the pencil line as a guide. I created a mask so I could start stamping the circles. I also made a mask for the largest circle. 

Once I had everything stamped and coloured in, I fussy cut along the bottom edge of my stamping and up to the pencil line I had created. Once cut, I erased the line.

I mounted the panel onto my card base with foam tape. I decided it was missing a little depth so I used a white gel pen around the bottom of my fussy cutting.

A few enamel dots finished it off.

Here are the HLS products I used -

         

Here are the challenges I am entering -

613 Avenue Create

Anything Goes (no twist for me)

One Stitch at a Time

Fancy Borders

Time Out

Easter and/or Spring with the optional technique twist of masking.

(I hope you girls aren't sick of my but I'm loving this challenge!)

Thanks for popping in :)

Stamping and Colouring on Black Cardstock (Black Magic Technique)

Hi everyone!

I was having fun creating a couple of cards using the Black Magic Technique. This is new to me so I decided to create a video tutorial.

I love this technique. It is really fun to see the colours come 'alive' from the black background.

I would like to enter my card into these challenges

Time Out

Easter and/or Spring with the optional technique twist of masking

My Time to Craft

Flowers

HLS Doodled Flowers and HLS Enamel Dots

    

Thanks for swinging by :)

Stamping with Gelatos

Hi there everyone.

Yesterday I had a play with my Gelatos and created a video tutorial on how to use them with your stamping.

I love the effects they have and there are so many ways to use them!

I would like to enter this card over at

ABC Challenges - B is for B - you pick

HobbyKlubb - Butterflies

I would like to enter this card over at -

613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes (no twist)

Moving Along with the Times - Things with Wings

Please check out my video tutorial on how to stamp with Gelatos :)

Thanks for stopping by :)

ATCAS #80 - RED

Hi there!

I have a couple of reasons for making this card today. 

I was really inspired by Hazel's card HERE that I wanted to CASE it. I had some left over smooshed panels that happened to be red and that was perfect for the challenge over at ATCAS that went live a couple of hours ago. PLUS Happy Little Stampers is the sponsor of this challenge!

I made a few little changes to the design of this card compared to Hazel's. I added a butterfly as the die cut instead of the 'Happy'. I also have just got in these new enamel dots at HLS and couldn't wait to break them out.

I haven't had much time in my craft room lately but got to have a quick play tonight. Even though it is after 8pm and I have a rule for not taking photos of my cards at night, I really wanted to get this one done and dusted. I used my phone and it worked out quite nicely. Not my usual style of photography but it did the job :)

I used the following products from Happy Little Stampers

                

My background was created by smooshing Brushos (Scarlet) into watercolour paper. There is a touch of gold Perfect Pearls in there too.

I embossed my sentiment and the butterfly.

Here is the challenge at ATCAS

I would also like to play along at

Stamping Boutique - Use Die Cuts Punches

Southern Girls Challenge - Anything Goes

and just a reminder about the current CAS challenge at Happy Little Stampers

Thanks for popping in xx

Inspired by HLS Video Crew

Hi!

I was again totally inspired the HLS Video Crew. Ingrid shows us a wet on wet technique for watercolouring using the Butterfly Birthday set from HLS.

Here is my card 

I virtually CASED Ingrid's placement of her butterflies. My panel was larger so I added the sentiment on that panel too. A few little glitter enamel dots, some black acrylic paint splats and I was done. The difference with mine is I used Mixed Media paper and Ingrid used watercolour paper.

The Distress Inks I used are Victorian Velvet and Dusty Concord for the butterflies. The background is Salty Ocean.

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

ABC Challenges - Y is for Your Choice

The Mixed Media Card Challenge - Beginnings (I feel butterflies symbolise a new beginning)

Products from HLS

        

Thank you for popping by :)

Christmas Overload!

Happy Monday. I hope your weekend was fun and full of crafty time.

I am frantically trying to get my Christmas cards done. The last couple of days have been very productive with me making at least 20 cards. More to go, though...

I wanted to share with you a few that I have made. I'm very happy with how they have turned out.

Here is my first card -

This is super easy to create. I made a little triangle template and then randomly stamped the outline circles from the HLS Mix Mash set. The tiny dot is the 'full stop' from the HLS Bold Birthday Sentiments. The sentiment is from the HLS Mixed Christmas Sentiments.

I coloured the circles in with WOS pens.

       

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

Time Out Challenges has this cool photo for inspiration. I love the circles!

Fantasy Stampsers - CAS Christmas

Christmas Cards All Year Round - Keep it Simple

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My next few cards use non-traditional Christmas colours -

This card was made using watercolour paper. I smeared my Festive Berries distress ink pad onto my craft sheet, misted it with water then smooshed my cardstock through the ink. Once it was dry, I did the same with Brillliance Galaxy Gold but just pounced the cardstock onto the ink to get various splotches.

I stamped the sentiment from the HLS Everyday Sentiments set and added some HLS Glitter Enamel dots.

    

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges

Card Mania - Christmas

The Artistic Stamper - Christmas

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My next card has LOTS of gold and sparkle -

For this card I tried my Brushos, Starch and Cling Wrap technique on Mixed Media paper. It didn't work as well as watercolour paper. Well not for me, anyway. I still got a good impression from the cling wrap. With the brushos, I added some perfect pearls to see how it would turn out. This was quite the experiment. It really does look pretty in real life.

Once it was all dry, I used a stencil and texture paste for the stars. Once they were dry, I replaced the stencil and used a sponge to add the gold. 

The sentiment is from the HLS Mixed Christmas Sentiment set.

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

ARTastic Challenges - Use Gold

Crafty Catz - Sparkle and Shine

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My next card was made VERY quickly. Brushos on the craft mat misted with water and then smooshed Mixed Media paper through the ink.

The sentiment is from the HLS Everyday Sentiment set. The Enamel Glitter dots finished it off.

    

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

Love the blue in this photo!

Thanks for sticking with me to the end! I hope you have a lovely day.