Concord & 9th Butterfly

Hi friends, Happy Easter!

Easter means free days from work and extra time for playing with stamps from my SSS haul a couple of weeks ago... I restrained myself from buying craft goodies from the beginning of January to the end of March but I don't think if it necessarily was a good thing -3 long months to have a look of everything you WILL buy when you shop again. ;) Anyway, the gorgeous Butterfly Beauty stamp set by Concord & 9th was one of those sets that found it's way to my shopping basket and today is my first time using it in a card. I used all the large 3 butterfly stamps on top of each other. The two bottom layers I stamped with Distress Inks and water (using MISTI let me stamp as many times I wanted to build up color) and the top layer I did with white pigment ink for a short of "ghosted" look. I added white gel pen dots. The splatters are made with DI:s, splatter stamp and water -I find this much easier and faster than using paintbrush. The sentiment is from the same stamp set. Do click the first photo larger to see all the details of the butterfly. She is very pretty, what a stamp!

I'd like to enter:

Where Creativity meets C9: One Layer. Flat cards (where one card panel is glued to a card base like in my card) also allowed! 

CASE This Sketch

Addicted to Stamps and More: Make Your Mark

(white gel pen)

Thanks for popping by!

CAS One Layer

Hello friends! Here's my weekly offering for Less Is More: One Layer Week: Curve

I'd also like to enter the Merry Monday Christmas Card Challenge: Create a Scene

My scene only involves a snow bank an a night sky so I do admit it's on the boring side when it comes to scenes... Just remove my card from the gallery if this is way too simple! I hope to come up with a better scene before the challenge closes. :)

Anyway, I made a very quick CAS card:

-masked the snowbank using a SSS snowbank die

-sponged three shades of blue and green inks for Lapland inspired night sky

-added some extra texture to the sky part with Marianne Design bg stamp using white pigment ink, barely visible in the photo but nice, subtle look IRL

-die cut the stitched curve with the matching SSS die

-gold heat embossed the Finnish Christmas sentiment 

No embellies, no nothing. :)

Thanks for popping by! 

March CAS Challenge at Happy Little Stampers

Hi friends!

I'm here tonight (or today, depends where you live!) with my DT card for Happy Little Stampers March CAS challenge. Our theme is "dies". I hope to see you playing along! Our DT has fab samples for you HERE, don't miss any of the cards!

I used pre-made die cuts that I had made ready already earlier, sometimes it's good to put that stash in good use! Actually I think the cloud is a gift from my friend Sandie if I remember right. I made the sky with a Marianne Design bg stamp + blending ink behind the die cuts to "ground them". My sentiment stamps (heat embossed with Ranger liquid platinum powder, my fave!) are available at Happy Little Stampers, the set is called Simply Said and you can have a look at it HERE. 

I've been loving the clear sequins lately, I know I'm super behind in this trend but I do understand why people use them so much... They don't look so distracting as colorful sequins which I find hard to use... And they add beautiful sparkle to your card. The set I bought for myself for X mas has 4 different sizes of sequins which makes it even easier to use! If I remember right it's a mix from Pretty Pink Posh, I got it from SSS. 

Thanks for popping by and I hope to see you joining us! 

New CAS Challenge at Happy Little Stampers!

Hi friends!

We have a new CAS challenge for you at Happy Little Stampers. Click HERE for all the challenge details and fabulous DT samples!

When I made my card I didn't yet have any HLS stamps to use (now I do own one fab set!) so I played with some of my other favorite stamps. You don't have to use HLS stamps to play along but we sure like to see them used! :)

My boots- and sentiment stamps come from STAMPlorations. The bg is stamped with various of my favorite bg stamps by Prima, Marianne Design and Kaiserkraft. I love love love these smallish stamps that are so fun to work with! My card is a simple one layer. Nothing fancy, just basic stamping -I did mask a small strip from the bottom of the card to give the boots a "flat" surface to stand on. :) Love how this turned out! 

Hope you like and I hope to see you playing along at Happy Little Stampers! 

I'd like to join:

STAMPlorations: February CAS challenge (no twist)

STAMPlorations: Anything Goes Challenge

CASology: Youth

Who doesn't know about teen age blues (or angst!) ... And yes, shopping helps! :) 

The sisterhood of crafters: Simply made (One Layer Cards)

TIME OUT Challenges Reminder!

Hi friends!

I'm here to remind you of our current theme challenge at TIME OUT:

Winter 

with the Optional Twist of

White on White

If you twist along with us you could win a 15 £ voucher from Uniko. Do not hesitate to play along! More DT inspiration in our challenge blog! This time our GD is the fabulous Claire whose style is just wonderful and varies from CAS to more detailed makes with great coloring. 

I decided not to twist this time because of my new STAMPlorations CUTplorations tag dies that I wanted to use... I did some ombre sponging with my fave DI colors and after that stamped some "snow" to the tag with white pigment ink and a Marianne Design bg stamp as well. The white card base is dry embossed with a snowflake-folder and I've also used my die cut machine for the MFT thanks-word. Love this die! The Lawn Fawn snowman, colored in with Copics and white gel pen and die cut, finishes of this simple card. 

It always makes me happy when I end up with a simple looking card that needed quite a lot of effort... I'm funny that way! :) It's hard to define CAS sometimes and this definitely is on the edge of not CAS... But I think the overall look is still clean and simple and nothing is really super busy when you look at the card. To my eye at least. ;)

I hope to see you playing along at TIME OUT!

I'm entering:

1) STAMPlorations January Theme&Sketch Challenge

(stamping, sponging, die cutting, Copic coloring, dry embossing)

2) STAMPlorations January CAS card challenge (no twist)

3) Less Is More Color Challenge: Ombre 

4) Mix It Up Challenge #27 Anything Goes

5) http://justusgirlschallenge.blogspot.fi New (new tag die)

New Challenge at Inkspirational!

Hi guys!

Welcome to a new challenge at Inkspirational! Our challenge this time is "chill" -such  a fun word for this time of year and very appropriate for those Christmas cards many of us are in need of!

I went with "chill-cold-cool" kind of thinking process and made a simple card with Lawn Fawn stamps. I masked the snowbank and sponged the sky and then stamped some snow with white pigment ink and a background stamp by Marianne Design. I colored in my arctic critter with Copics, die cut it and added a sentiment. Love my frame dies by MFT too! A couple of die cut snowflakes finish off this little card.

Please head on over to our challenge blog for inspiration from our DT and guest designer Teresa. Loved her winter scene, so pretty! Thanks for popping by and I hope to see you joining us! 

I'd like to join:

http://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/ Christmas critters

http://sevenhillscrafts.blogspot.fi/p/blog-page.html Inspired by Christmas song (Baby it's cold outside) 

Sparkly Dragonflies!

Hi friends!

I'm here with a quick post with a quick card I made. :) The cute dragonflies come from a Lawn Fawn set Critters of the Woods. I'm happy I found use for this tiny stamp -so often I neglect the small stamps from the sets I have and it's a shame! The bg is made with a Marianne Design stamp. Sentiment also by Lawn Fawn. I colored the dragonflies super simply and quickly with Copics and added Sakura Stardust pen and Wink of Stella for shine. Tiny rhinestones finish up this card. This was such a quick make that I'm not sure yet if I like or not but you tell me what you think! :) Thanks for popping by! 

I'd like to enter the current Lawnscaping Challenge: Sparkle it up