A Thank You Rose

Another new stamp in the post-Christmas sales.  Reduced from £9.99 to £1 - look how much money I saved!  On LOTS of them ;)

This rose image is quite versatile.  I've already made birthday cards with the rose in various colours - pink, red, peach.  And it makes a really elegantly understated sympathy card when stamped in pale grey.  But I'm not showing you that yet, you never know when it might meet the criteria for a challenge.

So, this version is coloured with Tombows directly onto the stamp, then spritzed from a great height (ok, from about 2 feet) to get a water droplet effect, then stamped onto white card, and mounted onto base card.  Easy peasy.  The image stamp and sentiment stamp are both Penny Black.

The challenge at CASual Fridays is to make a CAS thank you card.

CFC84: Create a Clean And Simple Thank You card

The cue word at CASology is

New flower (bud).

The challenge at A Blog Named Hero is

New stamp (yay!)

A Teeny Tiny Wish

I love Runway Inspired Challenge but it always stretches my creativity!  I know, I know, that's what challenges are about, and that's why I like doing them.   I love that chartreuse and blue outfit for the current challenge.

The stamps are both from Penny Black, a little post-Christmas treat in the sales.  The challenge at Simon Says is NEW SOMETHING, so for me, it's new stamps.

One Martini, Two Martini...

Cheers, everyone!  It's that time of year, so it's inevitable that we have drinkie challenges, and I'm always up for a drinkie challenge!  I was relieved of driving duties on Christmas Day so I took full advantage and drank champagne all day.  Which may be why you haven't heard from me for a few days...

One Layer Wednesday, hosted by Karen, is

Cheers -create a card with some kind of drink on it.

Less is More is DRINKS.

CAS-ual Fridays have teamed up with 10 Minute Craft Dash holidays theme

Time taken?  Just less than a minute.  It took me longer to get a usable photo, and even then, it's not brill (and that's after editing!)

Christmas Thank You

This is my second post today.  Click here or scroll down for Gingerbread Star.

The challenge at Paper Smooches SPARKS is to use these colours, so I thought I'd make this deconstructed poinsettia thank you card.

Paper Smooches Reflections and Sentiment Sampler.

Edited after Maria's comment to add: I used Brilliance Rocket Red, Versacolor Split Pea and Dauber Duos in Canary.  (And Versafine Onyx Black for the outlines and sentiment.)

Gingerbread Star

I've had this stamp for years, and never used it, but it's perfect for these challenges, so it just goes to show - never get rid of any of your stamps :)

The cue word for the challenge at CASology is STAR:

The colour challenge at colourQ is:

And this month's theme at The Ribbon Carousel is:

The Holidays

Not easy to tell in this photo, but the red on the gingerbread is a different shade to the red heart.  Image stamp is from Anita's and the sentiment is from Penny Black.  The icing is coloured with a white gel pen.

Christmas Cake, Anyone?

I made this card a few days ago when I was in border-doodling mode.  It's a great way of tying images and sentiments together, especially on a one-layer card.  And I like how the image and the sentiment can overlap the frame, which isn't as easy to do if you are matting layers of card.

The codeword for Addicted to CAS is Sweet:

And the challenge at Simon Says is:

MERRY CHRISTMAS !! :-)

Anything Christmassy :-)

The sentiment is from Paper Salon, and the Christmas Cake stamp is from Stamposaurus Stamps.

Celebrate With a Glass or Two

I love using this image stamp for engagement, wedding or anniversary cards, and appropriately the challenge at Less is More is for anniversary cards (which don't need to feature the word anniversary on the front.  Phew.)

I usually do it in silver, but the challenge at Dynamic Duos is Gold and Black with a music option.

The image is from Judikins Wedding Cube, gold-emgossed onto black card, and the sentiment is from Paper Smooches Sentiment Sampler.