Lily Pad Cards April CCC & Colour Palette Challenges

My card today is for Lily Pad Cards and it fits two of their challenges.  The colours I used are from of Kathy's Lily Pad Palatte Challenge

It is also for Lily Pad Cards' April CCC - Card Chain Challenge and I have used their sketch. 

If you have never taken part in their card exchange, then I would encourage you to look out for their exchange next month as the one for April has already ended.  It is a lot of fun sending the card you make to someone (in my case, usually to the other side of the world) and also receiving another one in the mail.  I have been able to get to know some wonderful people through this exchange.

Here is my card.



I also entered this card in the MyGrafico Challenge - Buttons and Bows #125. 

Supplies:
Ink: Black Versafine 
Stamps: HA envelope stamp
Sentiment: Computer generated
Cardstock: yellow, pink, lime green, black
Other: ribbon, pink flowers, button, The Twinery twine, pearls, Cuttlebug floral screen embossing folder

Thanks for stopping by and for your comments.

Take care,
Angela

Challenges over at the Lily Pad

Over the past couple of days I have wanted to take part in the challenges at Lily Pad Cards.  For some reason I ended up leaving it to the last minute, but I did make it in time. 

My first card was for the Lily Pad March Card Chain Challenge.  Not so many entries this time.  It is fun to take part in this challenge because you get to receive a card in the mail.  If you like to send and receive cards, I would encourage you to take part next month.  Here is the card I made.

This card shows my third attempt at the Velveteen Stamping technique which is one of the technique of the month for the Hero Art's March Challenge.  This time I remembered to blot it once I had stamped the flowers, but it hasn’t turned out as well as some of the cards I have seen, so perhaps it is just because it is old ink.  I think I will need to eventually invest in some new white ink. 

I stamped the background in white ink with the branch background stamp. Once this was dry, I stamped the flowers in pink and yellow.  I framed this with the hot pink card, added the twine and then I attached this to the white card which I had sponged with pink ink around the edges. 

The sentiment is computer generated.  I also framed this in hot pink card. I added my other embellishments – buttons, pearls and gems.

Ink: Archival Brilliance Aurora (used the pink and yellow), White pigment ink,
Stamps: Hero Arts 4 flowers (CQ290), Branch background (CG122)
Other: Pink and white twine from Bakers Twine, buttons, Pearls, Pink gems,

Cardstock: Hot pink and white









 
My second card is for the Kathy's Lily Pad Palette Challenge sponsored by Purple Onion Designs.  I really like this colour palette with the browns and pinks and I went out last weekend to buy some card especially for this.  I think I will use this colour combination again soon.  I am also entering this in the Penny Black and More March Challenge - Spring time.




I cut my light brown card to size and dry embossed it with my new plaid embossing folder.  I love the texture this creates.  (It will be a good background for male cards too.)  I added the twine and then mounted this on the chocolate brown card.  I white embossed the flowers onto pink card, cut them out and mounted it onto the card, curling the petals inwards a little (although hard to see in the photo).  I added small pearls in the centre of the flower.  I also white embossed the sentiment, cut it out and used my corner punch to round the edges. To finish it off, I punched some butterflies, and attached them to the card with glossy accents and added pearls to them too.

Stamps: Hero Arts 4 Flowers (CQ290) Hero Arts Happy Birthday
Ink: Embossing ink

Other: Sizzix plaid embossing folder, detailed white embossing powder, pink and white twine from Bakers Twine, pearls, butterfly punch, corner punch, glossy accents
Cardstock: Light brown, chocolate brown and pink

Thanks so much for your comments.  I do really appreciate them.


Have a great weekend.


Blessings,
Angela

Time for cards again

It is nice to be able to post again as it has been couple of weeks since my last post.  I have been busy as my younger daughter turned 1 on 16th February.  We had a family BBQ in the weekend following her birthday and then a morning tea with a few mums and their children on Monday last week, so I haven't had much time to do any cards, until today. At the end of my post I will show you the cake I made for her birthday.

The card I made today is for the following challenges:
Lily Pad Cards - Simon Says Stamps Presents a Kissing Challenge - using the technique of kissing two stamps together
Penny Black Allsorts -February Challenge - Colour bingo. I chose the line that had the colours yellow, white and black.

I have two versions of my card.

Here is the first one:


Supplies:
Hero Arts Four flowers stamp CG290 & Envelope stamp S5507 using the kissing technique.  To find out more about this technique, click here.
Hero Arts Little Greetings Happy Birthday C5594
Cuttlebug folder - Floral Screen
Black and white twine
Rhinestones - coloured with black copic marker
Butterfly punch (used in the second version)

Here is the second version:

After taking the first photo, I decided it wanted to add a little more to the card, so I added some butterflies.  This second one is the one I am entering into the challenges. 


And here is the cake I made for my daughter's first birthday.  She has a small Hello Kitty soft toy she really likes so I decided to make that the theme of her cake.



Last week (after making this cake) I started a night course for 6 weeks on cake decorating.  Hopefully I will learn lots of new things and some tricks of the trade to help me with future cakes!

Thanks for dropping by and for your comments.

Angela

Lily Pad Creations

Hi,

Last weekend I took part in The Twinery Blog Hop.  After seeing so many great creations using twine I decided to make some cards myself using twine.  I had received some twine a while ago along with the Lily Pad CCC card I was sent, but I hadn't used it yet.  Now was my chance to put it to good use.  (Thank you Jeane).  These were the two creations I came up with.

The first card is for another Lily Pad card challenge exchange for November and December - CCC.  For this card I decided to make a Christmas card and use the sketch.

I gold embossed the ornaments from The Craft's Meow (The Merry Best set) onto a circle cut with spellbinders, edged in a red circle to make it stand out.  I added the swiss dots embossed background for texture.  The sentiment is also from The Craft's Meow from the Season's Greeting set.  I also added some twine.


For my second card I used a different sketch.  This one is also for a Lily Pad Card challenge.  It is The Craft's Meow Presents a Sketch Challenge. 

(Sorry I don't seem to be able to download the sketch.  I will try again later, but you can view it here)




I masked the HA writing stamp so it would only stamp on the right side of the card and added the sentiment on the left. I used my cuttlebug to emboss a strip of purple card with some texture and added the twine for effect. Lastly I added the butterflies (kindly sent to me from Betty) and added some rhinestones.

Thanks for taking a look and as always, I really appreciate your comments.

Angela

Sparkle, Shine & Texture

I haven't had a lot of time to make cards recently, but I did enjoy making this card. 

The image "Every Flower" is from Designed 2 Delight.
The flowers are coloured with copics and I have added kindy glitz.

I have added the swiss dots embossed background, rhinestones and flowers for texture.

This card is for the following challenges:

The Crafter's Cafe - Sparkle and Shine

Lily Pad Cards - Texture

Thanks for stopping by.  I greatly appreciate your comments.

Angela

World Card Making Day - 1st October

Hi and Happy World Card Making Day

Today is World Card Making Day and there is a blog tour list here that you can visit to see who is taking part in this big celebration.  Here in New Zealand the day has nearly ended and I have just had enough time after a busy day to made a quick and simple card to celebrate this day.  I had to make a card even if it meant making it at 10:30pm before I went to bed.!






I have used :
Spellbinder Labels
Faded Jeans Distress Ink
HA Happy Birthday Stamp
Pink rhinestones
Blue ribbon
White gel pen for the faux stitching

I am entering this in the following challenges:
CAS-ual Friday - Feeling Loopy CFC22

Lily Pad Cards - Simon Says Stamp Presents a Bling Challenge


And Simon Says - Anything Goes  They are trying to reach 1000 entries, so please feel free to take part!

Thanks for taking a look a my cards and for your comments.

I hope you too are having a wonderful World Card Making Day too!

Angela

Party Hat Bird

Hi,

Today I have made a card which fits a few different challenges. 
I am entering this in the Play Date Cafe Challenge. PDCC99

I didn't have any lemon/light yellow card, paper, or ink, so this was the closest colour I had.

This also uses the Lily Pad Sketch.

And I am also entering in the Simple Scrapping Crafts - style challenge - clean and simple

And lastly as Wee Memories Challenge #68 - No pattern paper WMC68




Image: Tiffany Doodles.
Stamp: Swirls - This is rubber stamp, but sorry I don't know where I got it from
Ink: wild honey distress ink, pansy impress ink and a clear embossing pad
Embossing powder: white
Sentiment: Hot of the Press - Tiny words & images (HOTP 1020)
Other: Spellbinder circles, Pen nibs (to colour the bird using the inks)

Thanks for dropping by.
 
Angela

Autumn Colours

Today's card uses some autumn colours, even though here in New Zealand it is the start of spring.  However we have not had much spring weather this past week - lots of rain and wind.

This is for the following challenges:


Lollipop Crafts - Use eyelets or brads. 
Simply Scrapping Crafts - September Challenge - Distressing
Lily Pad Cards - Simon Says Stamps Presents a Resist Challenge
The Stamping Boutique - Birthday

The background is made by stamping wild honey and fired brick distress ink onto an acrylic block and spraying it with water.  I then stamped it onto card and let it dry.   After that I stamped my swirl stamp in chocolate brown over the top.  I mounted this onto brown card  and added the dragonfly brads.  Then I mounted it onto the beige card.  Before mounting it onto the white card, I added the brads in the corners.  I do seem to like making cards with lots of layers!

To finish off I added the Hero Arts Cling Flower which I had embossed onto white card with white embossing powder and coloured with fired brick and wild honey distress inks with my blender tool and then cut out.  Lastly I added the sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by.  Have a great week.

Angela

Very Exciting News!

Last week was birthday and I got some new  inks and stamps which I have been looking forward to using, but I haven't been able to as it has been a rather busy time.  Finally today I was able to make something which I will show you below.

Five days after my birthday was my son's, so last week I was busy organising his party with his friends.  He turned 7.  The party went well, but then I got sick this week with tonsillitis.  I am starting to feel better again.  The antibiotics are helping. 

Today I got some very exciting news!  I got an email to say I was the winner of the amazing blog candy at The Crafter's Cafe. Their blog is http://crafterscafe.blogspot.com/  I am new to their website, but so glad I joined.  Take a look and see all the wonderful they have to offer, tutorials, challenges, social groups etc.

Last week for the first time, one of my cards got recognised in a challenge.  I got an "honorable mention" - "the cream in our coffee" in the Play Date Challenge 97 - A splash of colour.  You can see my card here.  And I have just had a look at the Simply Scrapping Crafts blog and one of my cards has been chosen as the Fab Four. 


Today's new card - Autumn Leaves.



The card I made today uses distress inks.  I stamped walnut stain, wild honey and fired brick onto an acrylic block and sprayed it with water and stamped it onto card.  I tried this a few times to get slightly different colourings and I have more card to use later.  When it dried I stamped it with a leaf stamp and cut it out.  I mounted this onto my card.  The background is stamped in chocolate brown ink using my new HA background word stamp (Old French Script).  And I added an embossed card strip too.

This is for the following challenges.
Lily Pad Cards - Chain Card Challenge
Simply Scrapping Crafts - Distressing

Thanks for stopping by.

Angela

 

Lily Pad Cards & CAS-ual Friday

Lily Pad Cards had a sketch for this challenge sponsored by The Greeting Farm, and CAS-ual Fridays had the challenge Stuck on You.  I decided to make a kid's card which included both.  This card uses Penny Black stickeroos.

Angela

Kathy’s Color Palette

Here is my card is for the Lily Pad Cards Kathy’s Color Palette Challenge.



I initially struggled to work out what to do with this colour palette.  In the end I used chocolate brown to stamp the swirl background on the cream card.  I stamped the fern image and birthday wishes onto some light brown card, mounted these and mounted it onto the blue card.  Finally I added the brown ribbon.  It is a fairly simple card, but quite effective.

Hope you are having a great day.

Angela