up, up and away...

...in my beautiful, my beautiful balloooooooon.


I needed a quick card for a male birthday (yes it's today and I had forgotten)
I decided to make this as the person it is for has indeed been on a balloon ride, and anyway who doesn't like the idea of hot-air balloons?

I made the background using my article in craft stamper magazine, but using tumbled glass, stormy sky and chipped sapphire inks, then over stamping Great grandfathers letter (0504-Q ) from the frantic stamper in stormy sky. I then stamped the Med balloon(116-03-1) also from the frantic stamper over the top with black ink and again onto patterned paper which I cut out and mounted on 3D foam

I am entering this for Papertake Weekly's "just the one challenge" as I have only used blue
and secret crafter's Clean and simple challenge

Pink, green and flowers

that's the theme at the secret crafter challenge, So I thought I would enter this card which is actually for next weeks forever friends challenge, which is "spring"
At the forever friends blog we will be having a design team call, so if you are interested don't forget to visit on monday.

All the papers for this card are by basic grey and the card is finished with spring flower soft.

saturday's workout and secret crafter

The Saturday's Workout challenge is peeled paint backgrounds. Which I have done using two shades of green acrylic paint. I have made this ATC using the sketch from The secret Crafter challenge. The main image is from the stampsmith's "Isn't she Lovely" plate. so I am featuring it on the stampsmith blog.

Quick Knit along project

The wonderful Marie Greene has a little knit along project on her blog for a dream pillow, but she showed me another way to use it as a bag, so I knitted one up. I love the stitch pattern, it's so easy to follow when you get the hang of it.

I have entered this for the secret crafter "pretty packaging" challenge, I hope knitting counts!!

catching up with challenges!

I've had a couple of days off stamping, and look how far behind I've fallen with all the challenges, so I decided today to catch up with as many as possible in one piece!
The background of this ATC is created with Alcohol ink dripped onto glossy card. All the stamps are by PaperArtsy
created by hand blobs and splatters.
Wednesday stamper orange
Theme Thursday hats or crowns
Lots to do Lets Face it
Saturday's Workout Make a collage
Secret Crafter Flowers

is that really an Inka stamp?

I think it's rather obvious from my blog how much I love Inka's stamps, and how much I love being on the design team. One of the reasons for this is the sheer variety of stamps and collage images available to me. I think this stamp sums that up. I can even do "cute" with Inka's stamps. This is Zina, and isn't she adorable? I've made this card to fit 3 challenges, sketch saturday, Secret crafters,where the theme is recycling (I've used corrugated cardboard from an amazon delivery) and Cute Card Thursday where the theme is metal (I've used gold zoomz and some green wire).

The patterned papers are by Papermania, and Zina is coloured with a combination of derwent colour soft pencils and sansodor with a hint of whispers pens and a bit of paper piecing.

sketch card 1-2-3

I needed a baby boy card, so I decided to have a play with a sketch, I found a lovely one on sketch saturday, and decided to use it with the free craft stamper pram stamp that I doctored some time ago

This was going to be a nice clean modern card, but some how that got lost along the way and I ended up vintaging it up a bit, ah well!

I am also entering this for the Secret Crafter challenge to use 1 Image, 2 papers and 3 embellishments! (I'm counting the buttons and ignoring the ribbon, lol)

2x4 valentine with lace

I'm covering 4 challenges. I love Kelly's 2x4s and was really pleased that they are the theme at theme thursday, so I had to try them. I have turned mine landscape to go on a card. I also love the lace theme at Wednesday Stamper, so I added a bit of lace to this piece. There are also heart challenges at Created by hand and secret crafter


All images and stamps are by Inka