Watercolour Flowers

After watching Shari's video yesterday with her watercolour snowflakes, I had chance to make one more card for this months Hero Arts Challenge and was inspired to use her technique.
I have used Distress inks spritzed with water on the Sweet Threads flower, the end result reminds me of fireworks exploding in the sky, perfect for a celebration card.
Looking forward to tomorrow to find out what the challenge for July is! 

CAS Friday challenge #8

Another quick post today, just wanted to add my card for this weeks CAS-ual Friday challenge, this week its " Getting Edgy"

This week we are Getting Edgy! Use your border punches, rip some cardstock, whatever your pleasure to add a fun edge to your Clean And Simple project!

Not a great photo of my card, but here it is and I am now quite enjoying the challenge of making Clean and Simple cards.  The words are from Hero Arts Dictionary Greetings set and I have embossed them in gold, next just added a black punched border with added red ribbon and red pearls.

The sun has been shining here today so we have been trying to clean the tents up after a very muddy time at Glastonbury.  Luckily the sun did come out for them in the end and they both had a fantastic time!

Win some Hero Arts Stamps.

No cards today I am afraid, hopefully I will post tomorrow as I have a day off work, I just wanted to let you know that there are Hero Arts stamps up for grabs over at The Lily Pad Blog here .

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“I became a Member of Lily Pad Cards today! Go become a member for a chance to win a collection of Hero Arts stamps. Contest closes at 11:59 p.m. EST on Friday, July 15!”

Wedding Card

Its an absolutely beautiful day here in Surrey ( about time after all the rain we have been having) and before I go into the garden I wanted to post this card that I have made for the current Hero Arts challenge which is Weddings and Congratulation cards.
For the heart I stamped Floral Brocade with Tea Dye distress ink then I cut the heart shape and added the dots of liquid pearls. Next I have embossed three times with thick embossing powder. The background is made with the Musical Collage Background stamp and Old Paper distress ink.

Hope its a lovely day where you are.

Tiffany Doodles new releases!!

There are two new releases over at the Tiffany Doodles blog today and I have used the Flower Vase image to make two cards.  For the first card I have made a reverse mask of the flower and vase and then stamped the vase with the Lace Background stamp from Hero Arts.  I love Blue and White patterned china and have used this inspiration on my vase.  I have also  masked the flower and Vase as well so that I could stamp the background with the Envelope patterned stamp.The flower has been cut out coloured with copics and then pop dotted to the image. The patterned background paper is from Basic Grey.

For my  second card I have  used  the same masking technique but have printed three images. This time my flowers are coloured with distress inks used as watercolours.

Looking forward to better weather this weekend and more time in the garden, hope you have a great weekend.

Lucy's Lovely Lines challenge 2

 Lucy Abrams has set her second sketch challenge over at the Lily Pad Blog and although I am not a lover of sketch challenges I decided to have a go. ( I always find them a bit daunting and much prefer colour challenges.)

I really love this Flower and Vase digital image from Tiffany Doodles  and knew it would work perfectly if I added another flower image to the vase,  I just copied and pasted the complete image and then reversed it to get the second flower.  I have coloured with copics and highlighted with an Inkssentials Gel pen.

Hope you are enjoying your week, I am hoping the weather is going to improve this weekend as both my son and daughter are going to the Glastonbury Music Festival.  They have both been a few times before and agree that its much more fun camping if its dry.  A couple of years ago Francesca went and it rained hard the whole weekend the mud was so deep in places that it actually went over the top of her wellington boots. It doesn't sound like much fun to me :0(

Two more challenges!!

The challenge over at the Play Date Cafe this week is to use these three fabulous summery colours

Hollyhock...Sky Blue...Orange

I couldn't resist having a go at this and I needed to make a congratulations on passing your Driving test for a friends daughter, what better than to use the cute beetle car image from Hero Arts and make three fun, bright cars!  This was a really quick card to make the only thing was waiting for the Glossy Accents to dry on the windows.  I also got to use up some ribbon scraps from my basket.

This card also fits the current challenge at the Hero Arts Blog, which is "Wedding and Congratulation cards"

I have made another card for the Hero Arts challenge after being inspired by Jacqueline  she has made some amazing cards using the Simple Frame stamp from Hero Arts and after seeing them I immediately added it to my wish list.

 I was lucky enough to find the stamp in a sale at The Glitter Pot, one of my favourite online craft stores, fantastic service, I ordered it on Wednesday evening and it arrived Friday.  I have stamped the frame onto some patterned paper from Prima and then cut it out, I masked the edges and then stamped Hydrangea with distress ink in the frame.  Next I added a mask to the flower and stamped very lightly with the Old Letter stamp.

A few weeks ago I decided to spoil myself and buy a food mixer,  I just thought you would like to see one of my first bakes using it.  My Husbands favourite Raspberry Pavlova.  I am so pleased with the result that theres no stopping me now, I am trying lots of new recipes for cakes and desserts.  My family's only complaint is that they are worried they are going to put on weight!!

Hope you are enjoying your weekend.

CAS Friday Colour Block Challenge

I have found over the past few weeks that I quite enjoy making CAS cards they pose a different sort of challenge for me, I have to hold back from adding too much detail!!

This week challenge over at the CAS-ual Friday blog is "Colour Blocking"

"This week we are Color Blocking: place blocks, or areas of color, next to each other to form a cohesive design on your Clean And Simple creation"

I really enjoyed making this card and ended up making two,  the background is made by inking my acrylic block with distress ink and then spritzing with perfect pearls before stamping onto my card,  the pearls give the background a lovely shimmer.

The single Real Dill flower is from the Hero Arts set called Real Garden Petals, I love this set!

We are having real April showers this week in June, every time I try to weed the garden the heavens open, hopefully the forecast is better for tomorrow.  Hope you are having a better day!.

Kaboodle Doodle Challenge

Another quick card using another image from Tiffany Doodles.  This is the first time I have entered the challenge over at The Kaboodle Doodle blog but seeing that Tiffany is sponsoring it this week I thought I would have a go.

This sweet image is called "flower and vase" and its such a great one to colour.  I have used copics again and then highlighted with my white Inkssentials gel pen.  The image has been masked so that I could stamp the background with the Her Arts Envelope pattern stamp.  For this I have used Old Paper distress ink and have spritzed with perfect pearls to give a lovely shimmer.

Sorry another quick post for me, I will visit a few more blogs tonight!!  Sorry I have been so bad lately!!

CAS "Tic Tac Toe " challenge

It seems ages since I have had time to do a blog post,  I have been really busy at work and not felt like blogging when I arrived home.  I have found  time to have a go at this weeks CAS challenge which is a fun "Tic Tac Toe" idea. My choice is Flowers, Dies and Gems.

I found this fun image over at "Tiffany Doodles" called Daisy and felt it was perfect for a CAS card.  I printed the image twice onto good quality cardstock and die cut, then water coloured the images with distress inks.  I cut out the flower head of one image and pop dotted it to the other.  

The background paper is from BasicGrey.

Hope you are having a fun week, I hope to find time to visit a few blogs soon!!