Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #239

Hello dear friends and welcome to my blog.  

So pleased you decided to drop by.

So, the Crafty Cardmakers Team is back from holiday and the new Challenge has begun!  Lin is our delightful Host and the Theme is 'It's a Bug's Life'!!  

So, we would love to see some bugs/insects on your creations.

I created an all occasion card for my DT project and here are some close-ups.

The base paper is from a small paper pack by 49 & Market.  To add a touch of colour, I swiped the paper through a little pool of Distress Ink which was left on my mat from a previous project.

I stamped the background with embossing ink and then sprinkled on Sea Foam White embossing powder.  Adds a nice little touch of texture.

Added a small strip from the edge of a sheet of Maja papers and topped that with a diecut and a piece of floral lace.

Topped it all off with a Little Birdie flower and then a sweet little butterfly flew over and settled on my project so, of course, I invited it to stay .. and it did!!  LOL!!

I hope you can find the time to join in!  Would love to see what you create.

For all the details of the Challenge and for some wonderful inspiration by the rest of the Team here is the link

Crafty Cardmakers #239 - It's a Bug's Life!

Thank you so much for stopping by and for any comment you may care to leave .. very much appreciated.

Have a wonderful day!

Take care and God Bless.

Marg xx

Wildflowers and Embossing

Hello dear friends and welcome.  Thank you for stopping by today.

I haven't spent much time in my craftroom lately but I thought I would share a card I made quite a while ago which I haven't shown before.

A few months ago, I purchased a couple of new dies and, after a little experimentation, came up with a simple design using these dies.  I have shown lots of cards made with the Texture Subway die by Kaisercraft (still have more of those to come) but today I thought I would share a card made with the other die I purchased.  This is the Wildflowers #2 die by Tim Holtz.  I have actually only made this one card with that particular die because I was concentrating so much on the other, but, I'm sure I will be using this one again and again.

A few close-ups first.

I've been trying to use up some of my older Kaisercraft papers and have no idea which collection these papers are from. The sentiment was taken from one of their newer collections.

Used a couple of Kaisercraft stamps to emboss the background.

Originally, I cut all of the flower stems from the darker cardstock but didn't like how it looked.  I then tried it again using just the light green but didn't like that either and finally settled for a mix of the two.

Wasn't overly happy with the combination but then decided to add a little colour to the center stem and that made all the difference.

 Voila!!  

 Hope you like my little wildflower card.

Thank you so much for stopping by and thank you for the lovely comments too.

Have a wonderful day and enjoy your crafting!

Take care and God Bless. 

Art Journal Pages

Hello dear crafty friends!  So pleased you dropped by!

I'd like to share an Art Journal page with you today.  I don't do these very often although I'm not sure why, because I really do enjoy them.  I made this one quite a while ago and hadn't got around to sharing it.  Just hope I can remember how I put it together and what products I used, LOL!!

I know for sure that I started with a piece of watercolour paper.  Well, duh!  That one was easy to work out wasn't it??  LOL!

First sprayed the paper with water and then added Lindy's Magicals (Danny Zucko's Denim).  Can't actually remember if I sprinkled the powder onto the paper or if I premixed it and spread it with a brush.  Either way works well.

The splatters were also created with Magicals (Tears on my Pillow Tangerine) and I coloured the ribbon with the same Magicals.  The stamping was done with Archival Ink.

A bit of doodling around the edges with a fine texta and I added a few Prills and micro beads.

Layered on some diecuts, a floral chipboard piece (from Little Birdie), fibre ribbon, ephemera ..

.. and topped it off with a Little Birdie flower which I coloured using the same Lindy's Magicals.

I find creating these Journal pages very relaxing.  I do make a bit of a mess at times when creating the background (I do remember ending up with blue fingers after this one .. LOL!!) and then just toss on some stuff I find lying around .. it can be very therapeutic.
Normally I would glue these pages into a Journal but this one is being gifted to a friend.
Hope she likes it!

Thank you so much for stopping by and a huge thank you to the lovely peeps who left me some sweet comments to read on my last post.  Very much appreciated!!

Take care and God Bless