Floral Bliss

Hi friends!

I named this post "floral bliss" because that's how I feel about this Adore you- stamp set by Altenew! I just got it and immediately made two cards, these flowers are just heavenly to color in with Copics! I'll share the second card in a couple of days. 

In this card I used the middle color palette of Seven Hills Crafts May Challenge . This is my second entry to the challenge -in my first one I used the color palette on the right. 

In addition to the flower stamps from the set I've used a MFT wonky stitches border die (thanks Milla for borrowing it!) + patterned paper by Lawn Fawn, it's a wonderful paper pad with water color look papers. I've also used a STAMPlorations stencil for the bg behind the flowers. This stamp set is so wonderful and the amount of different flower cluster you can make with it is endless, all you need is some masking... And a bit of patience with the masking! :)  

In addition to Seven Hills I'm also entering:

STAMPlorations May CAS Challenge

Simon Says Monday challenge: the great outdoors

Simon Says Wednesday challenge: a hint of pink

Thanks for popping by! 

My First Post as Less Is More Design Team Member!

Hello friends! 

I have extremely exciting and fun news to share with you! I am one of the three happy crafters joining the Less Is More design team from today on. The other two are

Izzy/ Izzyscrap 

Trina/ My Crafting Closet

and I'm sure Izzy and Trina are as excited as I am!  Less Is More is one of the greatest and most popular CAS challenges around and I can't describe to you how happy I am to join this team. I've been happy dancing several times since knowing about it! When I begun blogging I was still struggling to find my style and exactly Less Is More Challenge made me realize I'm mostly a CAS girl! And now I'm part of this dream team myself... It's hard to believe it! 

Now let's take care of my new DT duties and tell you about the current challenge! :) 

Our challenge this time is to use the color combo of grey and yellow. One of the LIM DT members, Anita, is having her birthday tomorrow and she has had the honor of choosing the color combo for you. Happy Birthday Anita! 

My first card, above, is made with stamps by STAMPlorations (flower + hello-word) and My Favorite Things (friend-word). I used a simple straight paper mask for masking off the bottom of the flower stamp: I wanted the flowers to "grow" out of the sentiment like the sentiment was a vase or something so I wanted the bottom edge of the flowers to be very sharp. After stamping I covered the flowers by masking off the top third of the card and brushed grey ink to the bottom of the card. I then colored the sentiment and flowers with Copics and added white gel pen accents to the flowers. The friend-word is heat embossed with white powder on black card. This was originally supposed to be a one layer but let's just say stamping can be hard sometimes -even if you have the MISTI! ;)

My second card, below, is a Christmas card with a Finnish Christmas sentiment. I wanted to see if I could make this non-traditional Christmas color combo work for Christmas and I like the results! I chose very pale yellow and very dark grey card + heat embossed the sentiment with silver powder -it's kind of grey, isn't it! The star of this card is the die cut snowflake by Joy Crafts. I'm repeating myself, this is an old design from 2 years ago... But it's still pretty! :)

Now it's your turn to share your yellow & grey cards with us! The LIM designers have wonderful inspiration for you in the challenge blog HERE. Don't forget to follow our guidelines and you could win a prize from our May sponsor, Uniko Studios! 

I'd like to enter my first card to STAMPlorations May CAS challenge

New Challenge at Inkspirational!

Hi friends!

We have a fun new challenge for you at Inkspirational, a photo inkspiration challenge:

The photo can lead you to many direction from using lamps, circles or feathers to simply following the color palette of the photo. I went with colors and feathers...  And circles too! :) The focal point of my card is a wonderful dream catcher die cut (Spellbinders) which I cut both from pale gold and white card and added the white feathers to the golden piece. I used a W+9 die for making layers for my card -I don't really know why I wanted my card to have so many layers, I normally tend to be so CAS these days, but I do love this card and all the dimension it has (yep, fun foam and other 3d adhesive was used too). The sentiment (Freshly Squeezed Stamps, unfortunately not in business anymore) is heat embossed with gold, I think it fits the dream catcher pretty well. 

Now it's your turn to show us where the photo leads you! Click HERE for more DT inspiration. Happy crafting!

May Christmas Challenge at Happy Little Stampers

Hi friends!

I'm here with my DT card for May Christmas Challenge at Happy Little Stampers. Our challenges are always Anything Christmas Goes but there is an optional twist on offer too. This time we are looking for cards with masking and I went for the twist myself. I masked a simple snowbank and inked a sky using 3 shades of distress inks. I then stamped "snow" with white pigment ink and Marianne Design splatter stamp. The sentiment is Finnish for Merry Christmas. This card is pretty much a re-make of a Christmas card I did some weeks ago but I loved the look -just went with different colors, different sentiment stamp and non-one layer this time. :) There's many wonderful samples in the HLS DT blog, don't miss any of them, click HERE. Thanks for popping by!

I'd like to enter

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: Hint of Pink

ABC Christmas Challenges: K= Keep it Simple

Christmas Cards All Year Round: Precipitation

TIME OUT Challenge Reminder

Hello friends!

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

Flowers with the Optional Twist of Kissing

Are you familiar with the kissing technique? In this technique you use a solid stamp + a detailed stamp for forming one image -you transfer the detail to the solid stamp by "kissing" the inked solid stamp with the inked detailed stamp before stamping your design on the paper. In my card I've used solid flower and leaves stamps from PTI and altered them with kissing them onto a Kaisergraft grungy grid- style stamp before stamping on paper. I absolutely love how different these flowers look after the kissing! You can barely believe it's the same, clean-lined, solid PTI stamp! 

My card is a simple one layer. I've masked a curve and inked it lightly with grey ink before stamping the images. The sentiment comes from Happy Little Stampers, who are sponsoring our challenge with a 15£ voucher to their store, randomly drawn for one "twister". Go ahead and do some kissing then, right! :)

Click HERE for more inspiration from our DT members.  

I'd like to enter CASology: Flow

The wavy curve adds flow... And so does the stamped, continuous, pattern!

I'm also entering the Paper Players: Tic Tac Toe, my 2nd entry

(pink, flowers, leaves)

Addicted to CAS: Grunge

(I've grunged up my flowers with the grungy grid-stamp!) 

City Crafter Challenge : You Can Do It (Make your own bg)

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: A hint of Pink

Hello Lovely!

Hi friends!

I'm here to share my first ever card using the Concord &9th Hello Lovely stamp set. I've had this set for about a month now but I've been intimidated to stamp and color it -the big flower is not exactly easy to shade! I did enjoy coloring this a lot in the end and I think it's now easier to use this after I've had my first go with it! I colored the image with Copics and added white gel pen dots here and there. 

My color inspiration comes from the May color challenge at Seven Hills Crafts Blog. I chose the color palette on right. My Copic coloring ended up being a bit brighter than the colors in the photo but I hope it's ok! I managed to use all 5 colors which was fun and also helped a lot in choosing colors for this quite large image.  

I'm also entering:

The Paper Players: Tic Tac Toe

(pink, leaves, flowers)

Simon Says Monday Challenge: The Great Outdoors

AAA Cards: Bright and Beautiful

Thanks for popping by!

May CAS Challenge at Happy Little Stampers

Hi friends!

We are in May already... Summer holidays are just behind the corner! :)

The May CAS Challenge at Happy Little Stampers is rain.

Our winner for this challenge will receive a $20 coupon to spend at the shop! Check out all the details HERE.

In my card I'm using a sentiment from HLS Rainy Days stamp set. I've heat embossed it with white powder on my grey, textured card base. All the card stock I used in this card has some sort of texture for adding interest to this super simple design. 

Now I hope you'll head on to Happy Little Stampers and have a look at the wonderful DT samples. After that it's your turn to make a CAS card related to rain! Happy crafting!