Mother's Day tag

 I have made a tag for mother's day, using distress inks and glimmer mist over a stencil. I embossed the sentiment and stamped the butterfly twice, first on the tag and then a second time on watercolor paper so that I could colour it and glue it on top of the stamped image on the tag to get some dimension. 

Challenges:

Stamping sensations - Wings and tails
Path of positivity - Family
Creatalicious challenges - A/G
Happy little stampers - Watercolor
A perfect time to craft - A/G
Crafting happiness - A/G
Crafty animals - include an animals
Country view challenges - Mother's Day
Critter Crazy - A/G
We love stamping - A/G, add stencil
Allsorts - handcoloured or paperpieced image
Sweet stampin - Girly, no pink

🎄ABC Christmas February ☃️

 I have been asked to join the Design Team at the ABC Christmas Challenge blog and being a Christmas kinda gal I jumped at the opportunity. Thank you ladies for having me! 

So, here is the challenge for February: C is for Clean and Simple and D is for Distressing. And with a little prize from Wilma for a lucky winner.

I made two contributions:

A CAS tag with a background made with alcohol inks and just decorated with a silver snowflake.

And a card with a computer generated sentiment where I crumbled the paper and distressed it with distress ink Old Paper. 

I'm also entering the card in the following challenges:

The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge - A/G

Crafting Happiness - A/G

Sparkles Christmas challenge - Use some gold

CHNC - A/G

C.R.A.F.T - Winter

Happy little stampers - Christmas

Crafter's Cafe - CAS (the gift tag)

A bit more time to craft - AG

Allsorts - A/G

The sisterhood of crafters - anything feminine, include flowers

Baby bunny tag

 I'm on a roll here, just finished a tag for a new baby. Sentiment is a print and cut I made in Silhouette studio. 

I use a really inexpensive roll of tape that is used by painters to cover door frames and such. It is transparant enough and is very easy to remove from the paper or cardstock, I love it. 

That way I can stamp the image first, then mask it and use distress inks for the background, and finally colour the image. 

Challenges:

House mouse monday - AG, anything but a card

Allsorts - for a child

Critter crazy challenges - AG critter focus
Crafty animals - AG

A bit more time to craft - AG

A perfect time to craft - AG

 

A challenge entry - first in ages

 Well, I haven't entered any challenges in ages but when I saw that there's a new challenge blog on the block - well, not exactly new since it's the "old" Penny Black and More-blog, but in co-operation with the Chocolate Baroque, who has the loveliest stamps, I just couldn't resist. 

Their challenge this month is Things with wings or anything goes. So I made a couple of gift tags for Christmas - it's closer than we think ;) - and used one of the birds from the Wise Owl set. I stamped one in black and one in rich cocoa and distressed the edges with distress ink Vintage Photo, die cut the tag (masking of the tail of the bird) and mounted the tag on kraft paper. The cardstock for the sentiment is coloured with distress ink Festive Berries. 

So here it is, my challenge entry for We Love Chocolate Baroque. 

🍭Allsorts - Summertime 🌞🕶️⛱️

It is once again my turn to introduce this week's challenge at Allsorts. And since we're entering the month of July I thought it suitable to set the theme to Summertime 🌞🕶️⛱️. 

I made a gift tag with die cut flowers, cat tails and butterflies. It's a bit different to have the flowers fairly flat cause usually when I use the daisy die from Sizzix I put at least two flowers together and curl the petals a lot but this worked fairly well also 🌼. Looking at the photo I regret not using a more brown cardstock for the cat tails to make them pop but they're securely glued on so it can't be remedied 😇

For a lucky winner we have a gorgeous stamp from our sponsor this week:

                                          

Chocolate Baroque is a small independent art and craft company, based in the historic market town of Barnard Castle in County Durham in the North-East of England and is owned and run by Lesley and David Wharton. 

Lesley will be sharing a new and very exciting collection of stamps on Hochanda TV on Tuesday 7th July at 10am and 3pm, these are something really different and you won't want to miss out.

We design our own range of natural rubber art stamps from Sue's hand drawn originals, complemented by old original drawings and typography from Lesley.  The rubber stamps are made in house, by David, to our very exacting quality standards. And nothing gets past his eagle eye!

Allsorts - black and white only

Just came home from Catania, Sicily yesterday. Been there a week with my Erasmus project partners at school. Weather was less fun than expected (last week they had very warm, the next week they will again, but this week was cloudy, rainy and cold - of course...) Oh well, we got lots of work done, saw lovely sights and views and had a wonderful time together.

This week at Allsorts Wendy wants us to use black and white only on our creations, you can still use images cause skin colours are ok, but apart from that it's black and white only.
I made a tag using a new text stamp set I got from e-bay recently. It took a couple of stampings to make the word YOU really black. So glad I made my own stamping buddy. The big butterfly is actually a placement card meant to be put on a glass, I bought a whole pack cause I liked the lasercut wing.

Baby gift tag

Showing off a gift tag I made for the February challenge at Scraphuset where they want creations in red or pink. A Lili of the Valley image, coloured with distress inks, some scrap paper, roses and a ribbon that is not at all the salmon colour it looks to have on  the photo :)

Allsorts - Sparkle

The theme at Allsorts this week is Sparkle. A great theme but always really hard to take good photos of, I'm sure you can all relate to that :). If anyone has a great solution, please do tell!
I made a gift tag using the cute Magnolia baby and with lots of bling all over. Hopefully some of it shows at least. It's a double tag with a sentiment and space for a personal greeting on the back one.