HLS September Watercolour Challenge

Hi everyone! Woah, September already?? It's a big month for me - Father's Day on the 2nd and my dad's 60th birthday on the 11th. I am also starting to plan my grandson's 1st birthday party which is in November - can you believe he is nearly 1????

Over at Happy Little Stampers we kick off a new month with our Watercolour Challenge.

Anything Goes but you may like to play along with our twist and use a butterfly or two or three...

Here are my cards (yes I made two lol) -

For my first card I placed a stencil on watercolour card, sprinkled turquoise brusho, misted with water, then lifted the stencil. I used my heat gun to speed up the drying process.

I stamped and die cut my butterfly from some left over card that I flipped the stencil over and pressed the ink on to it. 

I rounded off the edges of this card for a bit of interest.

I would like to enter this card over at -

My second card was created in the same manner but I used orange and yellow brushos.

Supplies Used

HLS Butterfly Birthday

HLS Smile!

HLS Perfectly Succulent

MISTI

Brushos

Here is a video tutorial that I created a while back to show you how to use your watercolours with stencils.

I hope to see you over at the challenge blog!

Light up Christmas Cards

Hello! I hope you are all well? I've made a couple of fun Christmas Cards that I would like to share with you :)

Card 1

I ordered a couple of Paper Artsy Stamp sets and decided I wanted to use a couple of images from the Zinksy ZA19 set and create light up cards using my Chibitronics kits.

I coloured him with my Spectrum Noir markers which have been idle for quite some time! I had fun colouring again :)

Using my Chibitronics kit, I created my circuit so when the sentiment is pressed, his buttons would light up.

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

CRAFT Challenge - Christmas

Through the Purple Haze - Make it CAS

The Holly and Ivy Challenge - Anything Goes

Card 2

This little fella was screaming to be lit up!

I created it so, once again, when the sentiment was pressed, the lights would activate. This time I wanted his antlers to light up.

I coloured him with Spectrum Noir sparkle pens.

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

Sweet Stampin' Christmas - Anything Goes

Christmas Crafts all year 'round - Use Warm Colours

Christmas with the Cuties - Add some sparkle

Always Fun Challenges - Let it Sparkle

Supplies Used:

HLS Let it Snow

HLS Mixed Christmas Sentiments (retired)

MISTI

Chibitronics

Thanks for popping in today and I hope to see you soon :)

HLS July CAS Challenge

Hello! Yay, it's time for a new CAS challenge over at Happy Little Stampers. We have a fun theme for you this month!

Here is my card

My Zebra and sentiment are stamped from the Born to be Wild set. I framed this handsome boy with a frilly frame. I'm sure he won't mind :)

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 like to enter my card into the following challenges -





Sunny Day Crafting - Any Animal

Thanks for popping in today! xx

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 :)

Guest Designing for AAA Cards

Hi everyone! I am delighted to be the Guest Designer and sponsor for the new challenge over at AAA Cards. We would like you to create a CAS Ombre card :)

I have embossed the snowflakes and sentiment from the new HLS Let it Snow stamp set. I used Broken China distress ink to create my ombre effect by layering the colour using a sponge tool.

Supplies:

HLS Let it Snow

MISTI

Happy Little Stampers is giving away a gift voucher to the store to one lucky entry.

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

My Time to Craft - Monochromatic

Monochrome Magic - Anything Goes

Thanks to the girls at AAA Cards for having me xx

Light Up Snow Friends

Hi there everyone. I am lucky to have my mum with me for a quick visit so we had a great day playing in the craft room yesterday. Mum wanted to learn how to create a light up card using the Chibitronics sets.

Mum ended up making 2 light up Christmas cards and one more standard Christmas Card. She had fun! I decided to create a light up card myself!

Sooo cute!!

Here are the products I used to create this card -

            

        

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

2 Crafty Critter Crazies - Anything Goes with a Critter

One Crazy Stamper - Christmas/Winter

Christmas with the Cuties - Christmas Animals

Christmas Card Challenges - Anything Goes

Thanks for popping in today :)

HLS October CAS Challenge

Woo hooo! Time for another CAS challenge over at Happy Little Stampers. This month we want you to create One Layer Cards!

I have made three cards for this challenge as I find one layer CAS is very easy to create.

Card #1

I embossed my balloon and sentiment with silver powder onto Watercolour Paper. The balloon was coloured with a pink Zig Watercolour pen. I added a few silver sequins as well.

Card #2

I stamped my circles randomly onto my cardstock then coloured them in with Sharpie Markers. 

Clear Wink of Stella was used to add shimmer.

Card #3 

I embossed my butterfly and sentiment on Watercolour cardstock then sprinkled Brusho powder and spritzed it with water. A few sequins finished it off.

One layer cards are perfect for mailing! 

Here are the supplies that I used to create my cards - you can find them 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.

Thanks for popping in today and I hope to see you join in over at the challenge blog.

Snowy Christmas

Hello everyone! I managed to create a card over the last two days that I would like to share with you. Why did it take me two days? I had an attack of vertigo today which slowed me down considerably. If you haven't ever had vertigo, it really isn't fun :( Anyway, I am off to bed soon so would like to show you my card -

I have some new goodies to play with that have arrived at the Happy Little Stampers shop. Decorative Snow and Fantasy Snow - how cool!

I can only dream of a White Christmas (it is stinking hot here in Australia at that time of year) and I really love making these sorts of cards.

Last night I did cut my HLS Christmas Tree dies. I pressed each die cut onto my versamark pad, sprinkled WOW! Mint Macaroon powder, then heat set the powder. TIP - I heat set from underneath to start with so there wasn't too much 'fly away' of the embossing powder.

Next came the Fantasy Snow. It has all these chunks and balls of glitter through it and it is really fun to use! I just wanted to add the snow to the branches of the trees so I used a small palette knife. I left them overnight to dry.

Today, I created my layout. The back panel used the Decorative Snow and a stencil to create my snow background. The Decorative Snow has glitter and is so cool!

It is a shame I wasn't able to capture how sparkly this is.

The sentiment is from the HLS Christmas Joy set and I added some HLS Blue Sequins right at the end.

I would like to enter my card into these wonderful challenges -

Sweet Stampin' Christmas - Anything Christmas

Mod Squad Challenge Blog - The Heat is On - Embossing

Christmas Card Challenges - Anything Goes + option (no option for me)

Mixed Media World - Anything Goes

Just before you go, you may like to check out the STAMPTEMBER Celebrations over at Happy Little Stampers!

Thanks for popping in today and will see you soon! xx