Tickled Pink

 

What do you do with a mop-up panel full of pinks?  Stamp a flamingo, of course!

(I didn't think to take the photo till after I'd cut it out!)

I stamped the leaves from the same set (Colorado Craft Company - Tickled Pink Flamingo) onto my card base using spritzed Distress Ink, then added the flamingo, the flower posy and sentiment.

I'm entering this into Just Add Ink - Just Choose Two.  I chose Feathers and Petals.

A Card, Some Reminders and Some News

First, the card.  I'm playing along with Just Add Ink where the challenge is cards for males.  I've used an NBUS set from Craftwork Cards, and mixed a bottle green from Pine Needles and Forest Moss Distress Inks.  The sentiment is from STAMPlorations Party Time.

Next, some reminders.

You've still got a week to enter the Craft Stamper Take It, Make It challenge - pens and pencils.  A randomly chosen winner will get a stamp plate from Chocolate Baroque, and the winner chosen by the Design Team will get their project published in the magazine, a winner's profile in the mag and on the blog, and a guest design spot.  Click here for all the details.

Some offers at STAMPlorations:

Some news:

Starting in September, I'm thrilled to be part of the Design Team for A Sprinkle of Imagination!

And finally...

Pop back tomorrow for the launch of my new stamp set, PartyDresses, with a mini blog hop.

Mellow Yellow

Today's card is brought to you by the colour Yellow.  Or more precisely, the colours in this challenge at Just Add Ink:

Then we have the joint challenge at CAS(E) This Sketch and Fusion:

And bringing up the rear we have The Paper Players' 200th challenge, where we can choose to revisit one of the challenges selected by the Design Team.  I chose Jaydee's clean and simple watercolouring:

I smooched some Distress Inks (Mustard Seed, Iced Spruce) onto an embossing folder (Craft Concepts, Grunge Stripe) and took a print, sloshed some Iced Spruce around the edges of the base card, grabbed the good old credit card and added some distressed lines.  Stitched a piece of cotton tape to the panel, stamped a butterfly (Uniko Studio) onto spare card and sloshed some colour on, then fussy cut and stuck it onto the tape.  And added a sentiment (Hero Arts CL646 Happy Birthday).

I'm in a Yellow phase at the moment, after having done Pink to death.  More yellow tomorrow.  It must be all the sunshine we're having :)

Two New Stamps

I've been playing with new stamps.  Or to be more precise, I've been playing with my Teresa Collins Stampmaker and I've been making new stamps.  I bought the machine last November - it was going to be a birthday present but I changed my mind before my birthday, thinking I probably wouldn't use it.  But then it was on offer and I managed to get 35% off, so I decided I needed it after all.  And there it's been, Darnell - languishing in the NBUS department.

Before I get to the detail, (and before I forget!) I'm entering this into Darnell's NBUS challenge which is a friendship theme (there's no sentiment on mine, but flowers are a token of friendship) and Time Out Summer Flowers.

 

So. Two things prompted me to have a go with the machine:  

This fabulous creation by Ruth which was the winning entry in the Craft Stamper Take It Make It potato stamping challenge.  Ruth used gingko cookie cutters, I've drawn some flower shapes and made stamps from the images.

Ruth's card - isn't it fabulous?

The other thing that prompted me was that I wanted a walking boots stamp for male cards and I couldn't find one.  Not one to take the easy route, I decided that I would create my own stamp from a photograph.  Got walking boots, got a camera, got a stampmaking machine.  Easy, right?  Almost. I couldn't fade out the background completely so in the end I printed it out then traced over the photo to get my image.  The quality of the stamp isn't brilliant because I printed the negative on the wrong setting, but I actually like the roughness of it, reminds me of a charcoal drawing.  The photo on the left is what I traced, and the image on the right is the stamped image rather than the traced image.

 So here are a couple of cards I made with the stamp:

I'm entering this first one into One Layer Simplicity Challenge where the theme is I've Been Framed and Keep It Simple, where it's Splatters.

And I'm entering this second card into Simply Less Is More where it's a One Layer Off The Edge challenge, and Just Add Ink where you've to use three out of the five colours.

The HB2U stamp is part of the new release from STAMPlorations.  Look out for our birthday blog hop coming soon!

Sorry it was a mega post but two of the challenges are closing today and it was easier to combine into one "new stamp" post.  Thanks for sticking with it to the end ;)

Fun Birthday and Tim Holtz 12 Tags of 2014 - May

You won't be surprised to read that I've been playing with Distress Inks again.  I inked the cloud stencil (TCW) with Tumbled Glass, Broken China and Stormy Sky, spritzed and laid onto my card base, with the lower portion masked off so that I could add some Salty Ocean and Antique linen for sea and sand.  Added some splashes of water for a ..erm, water effect, and some stamped images from a magazine freebie set.  The sentiment is from the new release at Winnie & Walter.  I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

Just Add Ink - watercolour

Winnie & Walter - Join In To Win

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

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Continuing with Tim Holtz 12 Tags of 2014, here's his tag for May:

The idea is to use all those bits of TH ephemera that you're holding on to (which assumes that you bought some in the first place).  Actually I have some of those genuine nibs somewhere in my attic from my pen and ink drawing days.  But they're in my attic.  So I used what I had to hand.  I love the shadowpress panels but the sales blurb mentions that they are specifically for use in just about every machine bar Cuttlebug.  Anybody tried them in a Cuttlebug?

A pale imitation of the master's, but it's all about having a go.

Anniversary Wishes

I made this card from stuff that was just hanging around my desk.  The stencilled panel has been lying around since I did the Stencilled online class, the leaves are spares from a card I made in January, and the birdcage has been in my stash for too long.

I coloured the kraft birdcage and heart with a gold brush pen, sponged Bundled Sage Distress Ink onto the stencilled panel, stamped a sentiment banner, then put it all together with the help of a pearl and some wire.

I'm entering it into the following challenges:

Just Add Ink colour challenge:

Simply Create Too Shopping Your Stash

Paper Smooches SPARKS Anything Goes

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge Anything Goes With Pearls

Stamps: Paper Smooches Reflections, Stamping Bella Happy Anniversary

ETA:  At Kimberly's suggestion, I'm also entering it into Unscripted Sketches

Happy Stripes

I managed to get my sticky little mitts on a set of The Big, The Bold and The Happy by Winnie & Walter before they sold out (again).  I love the BIG words and there's a really good selection of complementary words to make your own sentiments.  W&W have got a little blog linky going for people to share their W&W creations too.  And they've also got a lovely little blinkie :)

I've created some stripes by pressing masking tape into Distress Inks then sticking it onto the card panel, re-inking, re-sticking (different strip for each colour), so I'm entering it into Just Add Ink's challenge, Just Add Stripes

And I've used three of the colours (and a neutral) from the Just Us Girls colour challenge

It's a masculine card, so I'm also entering it into the masculine card challenge at Less is More.