Annabelle Stamps Birthday Celebration

Annabelle Stamps is celebrating its second birthday with three fun challenges and some great prizes. You can check out all the info here.

The first challenge has three parts. Use a new stamp, use die cuts or punched shapes and use bling.

I used Annabelles All Squared stamp set, which is brand new (for me) and I used a circle punch for my hearts and a little bit of bling.

I stamped the hearts with dye ink and covered them with glossy accents for some nice shine and added ribbon in co-ordinating colours.

The second challenge is to make a card using blooms or flowers and once again I used the All Squared stamp set.

The flowers are stamped in black on watercolour paper that I coloured with Twinkling H2Os. I used a second generation stamping slightly offset of the first stamped image to give the flowers some depth and movement and the background stamp is from Hero Arts and can be found here.

Well I'm off to find out what the third challenge is. Thanks for stopping by!

Simon Says...

...there's a lot of celebrating going on this month!

Simon Says is having all sorts of fun to celebrate STAMP-tember with blog hops and prizes! Check it out here.

For this challenge "Anything Goes" so I pulled out some trusty Hero Arts stamps for my card.

I white embossed the Delicate Leaf Cluster image onto Sticky Back Canvas and used different Distress Inks to colour the canvas. For the background I used the Designer Woodgrain stamp, added a banner sentiment and some brads.

Also, Annabelle Stamps is having it's second birthday with lots of challenges and prizes.

You could win some stamps if you drop by the blog and grab a blinkie!

Wishing everyone an inky day!

Colouring with White Ink

I decided to play along with Papertrey Inks challenge this week which is to colour with white ink. Here is my project.

I stamped the Background Basics Text Style onto kraft cardstock with Versamark. Ontop of that I inked a butterfly from the Butterfly Kisses set with Versamagic Chalk Ink and coloured over that with PTI Fresh Snow Ink. I really like the dreamy softness that the white ink gives to the butterfly. I coloured the flower centres with a Stardust Pen, drew in some antenna and added some pearls.

For the bottom part I stamped an image from the Background Basics Retro set with Versamark and added a sentiment from the In Bloom set.

Wishing you an inky day!

Just A Splash...

...of colour that is. That's what the challenge is over at The Play Date Cafe this week. Make a black and white card with a splash of colour.

For my card I went with a splash of yellow to pop against the black and white.

I inked Hero Arts Classic Fabric Design with Versamark, stamped it on white paper and coloured over that with black Pan Pastels. These are  artist quality chalk/pastels that are very pigmented. To see more posts about this product click here. This was mounted onto white cardstock run through the Cuttlebug with Kassie's Brocade embossing folder.

I punched out a Martha Stewart butterfly and covered it with glitter and added my ribbon and Hero Arts sentiment from Classic Messages.

Wishing you an inky day!

Card Camp Finale

Here's my last project for Card Camp using this weeks colours.

I love how these colours look together.

The flower and sentiment are from Hero Arts To/From Petals stamp set. The flower was inked with a Kaleidacolor pad in Caribbean Sea and the background was done with Hero Arts Designer Woodgrain stamp in Memento Summer Sky.

It's been a fun four weeks of Card Camp!

Card Camp Week 4

It's the last week of card camp and with it a new colour combo.

Love these colours together. I used them along with one of Kristina's card sketches as inspiration for my card.

For this card I used one of Papertrey Inks Impression Plates for the background and a Beautiful Blooms die for the flowers.  I also ran the flowers through my Cuttlebug with the Swiss Dots Embossing Folder.

The light blue panel was stamped with Hero Arts Flourish Background withVersamark and the sentiment is from the To/From Petals set also from Hero Arts.

Thanks for stopping by!

Card Camp Week 3

I can't believe it's already week 3 of Card Camp. Time sure flies! Here are this weeks colours.

This was another challenge for me as I don't really use colours in the brown family very often. Thank goodness I got to use some red!

There's not much stamping going on here, just for the sentiment. Instead I decided to play with Papertrey Inks Beautiful Blooms II #3 dies and layer them using this weeks colours. I really like how the flowers pop on the red background!

Thanks for stopping by!

Card Camp - Week Two

Well it's Week Two of Card Camp and here are the colours we have to play with.

Very fun colours but I had a hard time incorporating all of them into my project.  I think I was a little over ambitious mixing all these colours and patterns.  I find this card a little "busy".

I made a rainbow of scallop borders that I stamped with Hero Arts Envelope Pattern, to add a bit of texture. I used Versamark on the kraft c/s with Hero Arts Antique Flower Background and Distress Inks on the flower and leaf from the Dots n Flowers set, also from Hero Arts. I added some lace (first time using some on a project) and a wavy banner.

Thanks for stopping by!

Card Camp Part Two

I really enjoyed playing with the colour combo from Summer Card Camp, such vivid and happy colours.

And here's my second card.

I just love these dotty butterflies from Memory Box. I clear embossed them for some shine and mounted onto a card base stamped with Hero Arts Woodgrain stamp. The greeting is a stamp from the Stampin Up set called So Happy For You.

Wishing all Canadians a happy Canada Day tomorrow!

Summer Card Camp

I'm enrolled in "Summer Camp" with Jennifer McGuire & Kristina Werner. This is not your average summer camp. It involves papercrafting, getting inky and learning some fun techniques.

Here is this weeks colour combo.

Not colours I would think of putting together but that's what this is all about. Trying new things, and I really had a fun time with these vibrant colours!

I used some pigment ink and a stamp from Outlines Rubber Stamp Company to create my card. I added some paper piercing and used Kassie's Brocade embossing folder on my cardbase.

Thanks for stopping by!

A Card for Dad

Here's the card I made for my dad for Father's Day. Simple and clean. Nothing fussy for my dad.

For my card base I used Cornish Heritage Farms Weathered Wood Background stamp. Love the crackly goodness of this stamp. I used Twinkling H2O's on watercolour paper for the background for Memory Box's Cattail Birds stamp and I used Fun Flock to make the cattails fuzzy. It adds such fun texture on a card!

Wishing you an inky day!

Least Favourite Colour

Yesterday there was a Scramble Challenge over here at the Hero Arts Flickr site and we had to make a card with our least favourite colour. 90 minutes to make and upload a card seems like a lot of time, it really isn't, but it's a fun way to get the creative juices flowing.

I had a hard time picking a least favourite colour but came up with yellow. It seems to be one of the colours I don't use very often.

I stamped the Definition image onto some yellow vellum and white embossed the flower twice ontop so I could layer my flower. I used one of my favourite Hero Arts stamps, Antique Flower Background with yellow ink and added my sentiment and some pearls.

I really like how this turned out, simple with a touch of elegance. I think I'll be using yellow a little more often.

If you're interested in playing in the next Scramble, it's on Saturday June 11th 2pm EST, 11am PST. I will be hosting this challenge and offering a small prize. The only requirement is that you use at least one Hero Arts stamp or digital image on your project. You can find out more info here.

Hope to see you there!