Birthday Leaves - Just Us Girls Challenge #748

It's time for another challenge with Just Us Girls, where I'm guest designer for this month. Our theme this week is

I love the colours of foliage at any time of year, especially during my favourite season of autumn, but to celebrate it being spring here I went with bright, fresh rainbow colours and blended three shades of ink for an ombre effect. 

Materials used:

• dies - Foliage Shaker (Pinkfresh Studios)
• inks - distress inks and Altenew inks
• other - Big Shot, gems, Dimensionals, craft foam, blending brushes, Wordies sentiment sheet (Creative Expressions), rainbow alcohol ink paper (Etsy)

You'll find more samples over on the Just Us Girls blog and if you are inspired enough to create, we'd love you to share and join the challenge.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Kerry

The Card Concept #205 - Spring Has Sprung

While we look forward to cooler temps here in Australia, the northern hemisphere is warming up and loving all the beauty nature brings with it in Spring. Spring Has Sprung is the theme for this month's inspiration challenge at The Card Concept and what a beautifully sweet mood board we have for you.

The birds, florals and colours all inspired my shaped layered card.

There are three layers of the 'hello' die for depth and I cut the little bird from the reverse side of the DSP to perch there. It's the perfect size and isn't it adorable? This card is 14cm tall and just 10.5cm at its widest point, so fits in a regular C6 envelope. 

I repeated some of the papers on the inside and left space for a handwritten message.

Materials used:

• card - boho blue, basic white, Flight & Airy DSP (all Stampin' Up)
• dies - hello script (stash), Bird House A2 cardbase (Honey Bee Stamps), Essential Arches (Spellbinder)
• other - Big Shot, blending brushes, Dimensionals, sponge dauber

Check out what my fellow team members have created to inspire you over on The Card Concept blog, and thanks so much for stopping by.

Cheers

Kerry

The Card Concept Challenge #195

As usual with every second challenge, this week The Card Concept offers two inspiration pics for you to choose from as a jump start for creativity. Here are Floral Spring and Garden Birds.

  

As I adore having birds in my garden, it wasn't difficult to chose that option as the inspiration for my mixed media card.

Once I'd chosen all the bits and pieces I was planning to use, I began with blending some oxide inks on my background and added a few water splatters. Next I applied the rub on flowers, die cut birdhouse and fence before adding the quote chip, small bird and extra flowers. Lastly came the bird in flight and some white paint splatters before everything was mounted on my card base.

Materials used:

• card - basic white, boho blue (Stampin' Up)
• Tim Holtz products - oxide inks in shabby shutters, bundled sage, speckled egg; Quote Chips - Labels; picket fence distress paint
• Stamperia Welcome Home collection - rub ons, ephemera
• other - blending brushes, rub on tool, paint brush, craft foam, Dimensionals, water spritzer

I hope you'll be inspired to create with our mood boards and share in our gallery. Do visit The Card Concept blog to see more samples made by my team mates, and thanks for calling in.

Cheers

Kerry

Hello Spring (say what now?)

Confused over my blog post title? Lol. Well, it's just that I've made a card entitled Hello Spring, yet it's Autumn here in Aus. Could be I'm 'ahead of my time' (yeah, nah 😂) or more likely I've just gotten so used to challenges based on the northern hemisphere seasons! As long as I don't start actually thinking it's Spring here, it's all good, yeah? 🤞

Anywho, today's card was created for three challenges:

• Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - add texture
• Color Throwdown #737 - pink, green and rust
• Freshly Made Sketches #580

 

And here's my card

The texture is in inking techniqes (smooshing, splatters and layers of colour from different mediums), heat embossing and dry embossing. 

I had so much fun colouring and assembling all these little pieces - it was certainly a most enjoyable way to spend a cool and rainy autumn day!

Materials used:

• stamps - Entomology (Tim Holtz), Bitty Buzzwords: Seasons (Honey Bee Stamps)
• card - very vanilla, cinnamon cider, watercolour, vellum
• distress inks and crayons - spun sugar, kitsch flamingo, shabby shutters, peeled paint, rusty hinge
• dies - Curio: Spring Findings (The Greetery), Bitty Buzzwords: Seasons (HBS)
• other - Versamark ink, antique linen embossing glaze, heat tool, pinewood planks embossing folder (SU), sponge dauber, Big Shot, Dimensionals, water brushes, craft foam, water spritzer, tweezers, cajun craze marker (SU)

I hope you get to spend some fun time creating this long weekend too! Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Kerry

The Card Concept Challenge - Spring Garden

Hello and welcome to another challenge with The Card Concept. Here's our inspiration pic to get your creative juices flowing:

My card has a vintage vibe with lots of layers and was inspired by the overall garden theme. I really wanted to create a soft, almost ethereal ambience, so have featured rose gold embossing with pastel tones of pink, green and linen.

Materials used:

• stamps - Floral Outlines, Field Notes, Label Frames (all Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous), Butterfly Brilliance (SU)
• card - watercolour, very vanilla
• distress inks - tattered rose, antique linen, shabby shutters, brushed corduroy
• other - Dimensionals, MISTI, aquapainter, heat tool, rose gold embossing powder, embossing buddy, stitched rectangle die, Big Shot, craft foam

Be sure to check out the gorgeous cards my fellow DT members have made to inspire you over on The Card Concept blog. As always, we'd love you to join us by taking part in the challenge.

Thanks for dropping by.

Cheers

Kerry

Spring Flowers - CAS on Friday Challenge #225

Hi all! It's time for another clean and simple challenge and this time around at CAS on Friday we're celebrating Spring Flowers.

I've yet to experience a spring here in my new home but back in the Blue Mountains it was always wonderful to see those first buds (usually freesias) pop up to tell you the cold days were numbered and the warmth and freshness of Spring would soon be on its way. One of the flowers I loved having in my garden was lavender, not just because it was a low maintenance plant and drought tolerant (very important here in Australia), but because it bloomed in mid Spring and gave us glorious colour and scent all through Spring and Summer. 

I’ve featured lavender on my mini slimline card.

Materials used:

• stamps - Flowers in Bloom (MFT)
• card - very vanilla, watercolour
• dies - Wildflower Stems 2 (Tim Holtz)
• distress oxide inks - villainous potion, milled lavender, dusty concord, bundled sage
• other - mounting tape, white bakers twine, V15 Copic marker, aquapainter, paint brush 

We would love to see your creation in our gallery if you choose to make one, and do pop over to the CASOF blog to see what lovely cards my team mates made to inspire you.

Thanks for visiting.

Cheers

Kerry

Simple Beauty - CAS on Friday Challenge #200

Welcome to my blog! You've arrived just in time for another clean and simple challenge with CAS on Friday. 

This is challenge #200 and our theme is SPRING.

I couldn't resist using some gorgeous paper absolutely abundant with Spring flowers. 

And a whimsical part of me liked using a small daisy as the tittle (dot) over the letter 'i'.

Materials used:

• stamps - Tiny Text (Tim Holtz)
• card - whisper white,   Emma's Shoppe Collection designer papers (Crate Paper), polka dot paper (unknown)
• other - Alphanumeric stretch lower dies (TH), craft foam, small daisy punch, shaping mat and shaping tool, Big Shot, stitched rectangle die, Stamparatus, glimmer enamel dot, alcohol marker, blending brush, mini glue dot, Dimensionals

You'll find tons more inspiration from my fellow team members over at the CASOF blog and, of course, we'd love you to join in our Spring challenge.

Thanks for calling in.

Cheers

Kerry

Paper Crafters Sampler - The Potting Shed

In the Northern Hemisphere they are celebrating Spring and the season of growth and rejuvenation. It's time for getting down in the dirt to weed the gardens and plant fresh petaled pretties.  

This month the Paper Crafters Sampler celebrates the flowering season with 'The Potting Shed".  In this issue you'll find beautiful paper floral creations.

Here are some sneak peeks at the projects in The Potting Shed:

If you are interested in joining us for the April issue, head over to the blog HERE to sign up - you get full instructions with plenty of photos to help you recreate these seasonal beauties, as well as access to the template of the month, which for April is a garden trowel.


Thanks for dropping by.

Cheers
Kez