Rain rain go away!

How much more rain can we have? I'm waterlogged now and it's affecting my dog walking routine. Never mind I guess I'm indoors more and get to craft more (remember Look on the Bright side!)
Any way I' made these two cards the week before last. I have seen them somewhere on a blog or gallery but not sure where.
I masked off an area on a piece of Whisper White card stock. I used Garden Green chalk to colour in the unmasked area then daubed a bit of Garden Green ink around the edges. This was then matted on Garden green card stock and put on the base card. I used one of the stamps out of the retiring hostess set - Oh, so lovely in Close to Cocoa just on the left edge of the chalked area. I added Chocolate chip Taffeta (Yum yum), added a greeting and Bob's your Uncle! a really quick and easy card that could be used for loads of occasions and would look good in different colours too.

I added a Sizzlet photo corner to this one.

If you have a go at this technique post a link to a photo of it on your blog or public gallery so we can all have a look. I'm going to have a go in oranges and yellows next I think.

Come on Linz and carol it's a challenge!!!


Happy crafting!

Louise x

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Water Colour Wonder crayons

Hello again!

Here's a card I made for my Mum's birthday on Saturday. There's a tutorial on SCS here to make the spring card. I used Earth Elements Water Colour Wonder Crayons directly on to the stamp, then added a little water with a paint brush to give the water colour effect. We were shown this technique at the Stampin' Up! experience tour last week. I think it looks great with this stamp set - Mixed Bouquet.

Thanks for looking.

Louise x

Summer by the Sea

The next 4 cards were created using Stampin Up! set Summer by the Sea and Earth Elemnts Water Colour Wonder Crayons. The crayons are just lovley to use. I'm really impressed with them.





All Supplies Stampin' Up!

Card 1 - Cheers and Wishes stamp set, Always Artichoke, Mellow Moss, Very Vanilla cardstock, Chocolate chip ink pad, Soft Subtles brad, Very Vanilla 1/4" Grosgrain ribbon.

Card 2 - Cheers and Wishes Stamp set the stem from the Mixed Bouquet stamp set (for Background), Always Artichoke, Mellow Moss,

Very Vanilla Cardstock, Chocolate chip Ink Pad, Jumbo Pewter Eyelets, Distressing tool, Certainley Celery Grosgrain 5/8" Ribbon.

Card 3 - Cheers and Wishes stamp set, Very Vanilla, Old Olive cardstock, Certainly Celery 5/8" Grosgrain Ribbon.

Card 4_ Night of Navy, Brocade Blue, Whisper White, Creamy Caramel cardstock, Basic Black ink Pad, Pewter Jumbo Eyelets, soft Subtles Brads, Bashful Blue Taffeta ribbon, Distressing tool.

Organised Tuesday

Cor! How organised am I today posting this early!!

I combined a couple of challenges here over the weekend. The Papertake weekly challenge was to make a large box from two sheets of card stock. I used Basic Grey, Oh Boy! and Bazzill to make my box.

I then decided to make 5 cards to go inside the box to give as a gift. I again used Basic Grey papers, Bazill card stock, prima flowers, ribbons and magnolia stamps.

The Limited use challenge on Friday over on SCS was to make your own DP. I used Faber Castell pencils, low odor thinners and a stump to make my PP. Not sure how well it actually shows up on this photo. May do a close up if I get time this morning.

My own challenge was to not use my nestabilities! I lent them to Linz and panicked at the thought of not being able to use them for these cards! But I managed with rectangles, cut using my paper cutter.

Splitcoast challenges

I'm trying to complete as many challenges as possible at the moment and did quite well last week with these three. They're all made entirely with Stampin' Up! products too.

I'm also going to try and update my blog at least twice a week with the challenges. Yeah, I know you've heard it all before!!!

This card was made for Sketch challenge SC169 on SCS.
Using the So Lovely Hostess level 1 set I stamped the poppy in Chocolate Chip onto Very Vanilla card stock. I used water colour pencils and my SU Blender pen to colour the image. It was then mounted onto Regal Red and Chocolate Chip Cardstock. I stamped a piece of Creamy Caramel with Choc Chip ink and Sanded background stamp, then onto a Choc Chip mat and wrapped some organza ribbon around, warming it up with the heat gun to distress slightly. I inked up the positive side of a Cuttlebug folder with Choc Chip to get the effect on the Regal red card stock. The Old Olive was stamped with the Sanded stamp in Choc Chip. Both were matted on Choc Chipto complete.

This card was done for to Challenges. Sketch Challenge SC168 and Colour Challenge CC158.
I've used Very Vanilla, Creamy Caramel, Sage Shadow and Orchid Oppulence Card Stock. Te image is from Summer by the Sea set and Sanded was used on the two coloured cardstock pieces(think you may have to click for close up to see.) The image was stamped in Basic Black ink and the greeting in Choc Chip. THe image was coloured using watercolour pencils and a blender pen. It was then covered in UTE and frozen to create the cracked glass vintage effect. THe card stocks were layered up and ribbon (not SU) was playered on top. The greeting has chlak round the edge to give it a vintage look and layered using a Marvy punch and Sizzix circles.

For some odd reason As I've been typing my third card has disappeared!! So will try uploading that again another time.

My little crafting bud Linz has actually launched her Blog so take a quick look if you can.

Happy crafting!
Lou x