Addicted to Stamps & More -challenge 42 Make your Mark

Morning everyone and welcome to a new challenge here at ATSM and it's Make your Mark. So using your pens, pencils, watercolour markers etc we'd like to see your wonderful creations!
 Last week was a bumper one and the DT are going to have a major struggle to choose the top 5:)

This week we are once again sponsored by the fabulous Heather Ellis.

http://www.heather-ellis.co.uk/

Heather will be giving our Top Addict two digis of their choice from her collection

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I have to confess to not being enamoured with "colouring in" but you can do as little or as much as you want. Come and see what I came up with:

I've used an old Papermania stamp that has several parts that you build the flower with. I coloured it with PM's and added some glossy accents. The EF is called Manhattan Rose I think! I added some liquid pearls to the centre.

Do pop over to the blog and check out the rest of the DT who have used some of Heather's digi's and  their cards are gorgeous:)

Looking forward to visiting your blogs to see what you come up with.
Oh and before I forget, a big wave to Darnell who has become a new follower, hi Darnell!!

Less is More week 114-CASe it

Hi everyone are you enjoying the lovely weather at last! We are off to Portsmouth next weekend and hoping for good weather but Charlie enjoyed himself yesterday on Portsdown Hill with daddy:)

 A very happy little man who loved watching the birds and getting dizzy!

This weeks challenge over at Less is More is to CASE either Chrissie or Jen's card. 

This week we are having a challenge not previously employed at "Less is More".

We have only two sample cards this time as we would like you to choose one (or both if you feel so inclined)  and CASE IT/them.

There could be a variety of ways that this could be achieved... ie use of the colours, the layout, the subject matter, technique or the complete card. Please state the inspiration for your CASE.

  

I decided to have a go at Chrissie's technique but may come back later to case Jen's card as I love the label with the banner:)

Anyway come and see what I came up with:

I used SU Everything Eleanor stamps (my favourite) with grey versamark and Su Perfectly Plum. The letters are a sizzix die cut. Three pearls to cover up a tiny splodge!!

Thanks for visiting me I love to read your comments:)

A brown study in moody blues!

Hi everyone I was having a little play this afternoon with some new stamps that I got at Ally Pally and realised that It would fit in with this weeks challenge over at Make My Monday. The theme is to use Blues and Browns and the stamps I used are the tiny Majestix ones from Card-i-o, come and see what I made:

I also used the birdie footprints and banner that came free with a Debbi Moore magazine.

Thanks for taking the time to visit and hopefully leaving a comment:)

Addicted to Stamps & More #41 Anything Goes

Morning everyone and welcome to week #41 at ATSM where our challenge is "anything goes". Once again our sponsor is

                                          

http://www.heather-ellis.co.uk/

Heather will be giving our Top Addict two digis of their choice from her collection

I can't wait to see what you all come up with it's great to be able to indulge in whatever it is that floats your boat:)

I love cards that have unusual folds or are a bit quirky so come and see what I came up with:

Here is a template that you can use to make the flowerpot:

I cut mine freehand but this is a good template. I created the insert before stamping and cutting out all the pansies. The stamp is one of the first I ever bought and I tend to use the flowers individually as it is a large botanical wooden stamp. I coloured them with PM's and arranged them on the insert with a few leaves for interest.

Please check out the blog for the DT inspiration, there are some lovely cards using Heather's images.

Less is More week 115-one layer

Well here we are again at Less is More with the dreaded "one layer" challenge only this time there's an evil twist!! Chrissie and Jen have surpassed themselves with this one, here's what they want:

This week we have a fun challenge for you.

It must be 

ONE LAYER

The subject of your cards this time should be inspired by

A FILM

Any film will do, but preferably one that most people will have heard of.

We'd obviously like you to tell us the title of your film and not keep us guessing.

I had several ideas but they didn't look right as a card and eventually this is what I came up with:

My husband got it right away but his mind isn't always in tune with everyone else:)

 It's A Clockwork Orange, a Stanley Kubrick film starring Malcolm McDowell and released in 1971. I don't think I have to explain how I created it but the stamp is an old freebie from Craft Stamper. Oh just to say that to get the blank clock face I used the image on the acetate panel it came with, cut out the centre and placed it in the centre of the stamp before I inked it.

I made one more card  using a freebie from a Creativity magazine and the crown is one of the stamps that came with the Anna Griffin self inking stamper. Can you guess the film this time?

It's The Queen starring Helen Mirren, released in 2006.

I'd just like to welcome Bev as a new follower and thanks to anyone else that takes the time to visit and hopefully leaves some feedback:)

ps: just found out that Create & Craft is starting on Virgin tomorrow, hooray!! 748 if anyone's interested:)

The Limette Lovlies on a day out!

Well here I am, almost penniless after a great day out at the Big Stamp and Scrapbooking fair at Ally Pally! The best bit was catching up and lunching with Chrissie(Lady Lim), Jenny (crafting in the Country), Anne (Stargroves) and Sylvie(Gibmiss). We had a photo but Sylvie was missing at the time so I added her in:)

And here are the results of my purse, which refused to stay shut!!!

Here's hoping the weather improves soon, it's very wet here.

Wish I was there!

Morning everyone and welcome to this week's challenge at Addicted to Stamps & More. Once again and for all of this month we are sponsored by the wonderful Heather Ellis.

http://www.heather-ellis.co.uk/

Heather will be giving our Top Addict two digis of their choice from her collection

This week we have a photo challenge for you and here is your inspiration:

Wouldn't you just love to be there? Come and see how I was inspired :)

Recipe:

Square base card

House Mouse stamp coloured with PM's

Old SeeDee sentiment

Fiskars punch

Dry embossing

I do hope you'll join in and for more inspiration checkout the rest of the DT on the ATSM blog.

Good luck:)

Less is More week 114-colour

Morning everyone I'm back again this time with my card for this week's LIM challenge which is:

a colour challenge.

For this month our colour choice is 

LIME & BLACK

We are delighted to have a new sponsor, 

Stephanie 

from 

Clearly Besotted Stamps

Such a striking colour combo but I was struggling to find anything remotely lime and I didn't want to go the digital route so here is what I came up with:

Recipe:

DL base card

Marianne matching stamp and die

Lime Green Promarker

Memento black ink

Black paper pen

Black ribbon bow

Wow sentiment

Not so sunny today but the barometer is staying up and it's not so cold:)

Thanks for visiting and hopefully leaving me a comment so I can visit you:)

Woven page

Hi everyone just a quick post to show my latest dictionary page for the ALPHA challenge over at The Craft Barn. The letter this week is R and I chose RIBBON as my word. I missed the last letter but my M page is on the wall of fame at Craft Barn, woo hoo!!
RIBBON is defined as:

I applied acrylic paint over both pages and when it was dry I added some distress inks and on the left side I added strips of ribbon woven and stamped flourishes over the page. I also used paste on a stencil and added glitter and some glimmer spray.

I took two different backing papers, cut them into strips, wove them together and cut a heart out of the finished weave.

Sorry for the cropped photo but otherwise my thumb was in full view:)

We had a beautiful day here today and it was so nice to feel the warmth of the sun. Didn't stop me booking a week away in sunnier climes though:)

Thanks for taking the time to visit and I love to read your comments. I'll be back tomorrow with my LIM card:)

Scallops!

Hi everyone, hope you all had a good Easter break and didn't over indulge:) Although it was cold it was bright and Tuesday was up to 8 deg! Today we have snow, what is going on? Anyway it was nice to get back to my craft room after a very bust weekend. Keir, Lara and Charlie came on Thursday evening and my sister, Karen, and her husband came on Saturday and we had an open house buffet lunch for 14! We had lunch out on Monday which was nice not to have to cook anything:)
I threatened you all with photos of Charlie but I was so busy playing with him that I forgot!

So back to the reason I started this post and that is this week's  LIM challenge which is SCALLOPS. My first thought was shellfish and then realised it was a shape that Chrissie and Jen were looking for:) 

So come and see what I came up with:

Recipe:

Waltzing Mouse stamps

SU inks, Marina Mist and Soft Suede

Hobbycraft sentiment

Candy made by me

Scallop scissors used to cut around stamped images.

I also had a New Home card to make for my best friend who moved yesterday. We have lived next door to each other for 35 years and our children grew up together, definitely the end of an era. She has only moved about 3 miles away to a retirement flat and we will still see each other as we go to Rock Choir together and socialise regularly:) Our houses are part of a small terraced block of 8 Victorian Town houses and I took a photo of her house and created a paint and pen effect in Craft Artist.

I embossed core'dinations paper with a Tim Holtz brick EF and sanded it back. I added ribbon and some branches and a bird from the SU punch. The text was added in Craft Artist.

Thanks for taking the time to visit I love to read your feedback:)

Addicted to Stamps & More-CAS

Morning everyone, here we are again with another challenge at ATSM. I hope you all had a wonderful Easter weekend and I will no doubt be boring you all with photos of Charlie on my next post:))
This week we are sponsored by the wonderful Heather Ellis who is offering 2 digis of their choice to our Top Addict!
Heather's images are gorgeous and wonderful for colouring and or paper piecing.
Our challenge this week is to create a CAS card, so not too many embellies and lots of white space. Here is what I came up with:

I used some gorgeous paper that came with a Debbi Moore magazine and cut a piece to attach over the spine and punched the edge with an Anna Griffin punch. The stamps were part of a set that came with the magazine and I stamped with Chocolate Chip and Early Expresso SU inks. I love the birdie footprints as it made a great frame:)
I hope to see lots of you entering this week so that I can visit your blogs. For more inspiration check out the ATSM blog for the rest of the DT cards and good luck with the challenge.

Addicted to Stamps & More-colour

Hi everyone and welcome to another challenge at ATSM. This week it's a colour challenge:

Although these are SU colours anything near it will be fine! Come and take a look at my card which i have managed to post on time this week:)

I stamped a panel using a stamp from a Papermania oriental set and added a scored line top and bottom and popped it up on the base card with foam pads. I decoupaged some of the blossoms and added liquid pearls for a little dimension. The sentiment is a WOW one.

We had an amazing amount of entries for last week's challenge, using markers is very popular! Hopefully you will participate this week as well and if you are looking for inspiration pop over to the ATSM blog and check out the wonderful DT cards.

Less is More week 112-recipe

Hi everyone from a very cold London town! I can't believe we are a quarter way through the year and it's still freezing. We have had snow but nothing like up north!! That's more like Canadian winters with houses covered in snow drifts. Anyway back to this week's challenge over at LIM towers. The criteria is to use BEADS somewhere on your card which didn't appear that difficult but I spoke too soon:) Definitely less is more and my 2nd attempt was more to my liking, come and see:

I stamped an SU Christmas bauble and a blossom from Bright Blossoms with Paris Dusk. I stamped the bauble again and cut the bottom straight for a vase effect. I popped it up on silicone glue and added 3 sprigs of pearl beads. The sentiment is a WOW one.

Now for my first attempt which is a tad over the top!!

The stamp is a magazine freebie and I added seed beads for her stole. They seemed to get everywhere and the card grew larger than I wanted and my idea, which I thought was a winner, was not! One to be de constructed and used elsewhere methinks:):

Addicted to Stamps & More

HELP!!! There I was bragging about how far ahead I was with my DT cards and then I forgot to post it!!!!! So please check out the ATSM blog as it tells you all about our fabulous sponsors for the next few months and our revamped challenges. This week it's Make your Mark and here is my belated card:)

I cut an aperture in my base card with the large Fleur di lis die then cut it again in purple card and set it into the card. The topper is a very old stamp, one of the first I bought and I stamped and embossed it in gold and coloured with PM's, fussy cut it and popped it up on foam pads. The sentiment is a SeeDee one.
Apologies for being late but we were at a funeral all day yesterday and didn't get home till late.

Make My Monday-Monochrome

I'm on a roll today, I've made 3 DT cards, an Easter card and this one which is for the MMM Monochrome challenge and as it incorporates a frame I thought I would enter a 2nd card to Less is More!

I scored a frame on the base card, not visible I'm afraid and stamped this image from Darkroom Door's Lovely ladies in black versamark. I stamped it again and cut out the central panel and popped it up with foam pads. I cut a piece of card to fit the frame and sponged the edges with Black Soot and again popped the whole topper up on pads. The sentiment is a WOW one and I added some pearls with a Paper Pen. This creates the most amazing pearls and is so much easier to use than liquid pearls.
Thanks for taking the time to visit and I hope you leave a comment as you know how much I love to read them:)

Less is More week 111-theme

Wet,wild and cold brrr.... Hi everyone where is the lovely spring weather eh? We had a quiet weekend after the excesses of Mother's Day and Charlie's birthday weekend and had great fun this morning with the arrival of our new furniture:) Living in a Victorian town house poses problems with the delivery of furniture, but luckily our semi basement window comes out and just as I was worrying that we were in possession of 3 sofas, 3 armchairs and 2 very large footstools, the charity shop boys arrived to take away the old suite. So I am writing this from the depths of one of my new sofa's and very nice it is too! Anyway time for a new challenge over at Less is More and this week it's a THEME:

Whilst keeping your card Clean and Simple we would like you to

Frame it!

Some part of your design should contain a frame of some description, it could be stamped, drawn,  doodled, die-cut or whatever your imagination dictates.

Here is what I came up with:

I cut a distressed frame with my Silhouette and on a piece of card stamped the hares, a freebie from Craft Stamper and added some foliage with a CI stamp. I dusted some blue ink for the sky and attached it behind the frame and popped it onto the card.

This is also cut on my Silhouette and I loved it but thought it probably wasn't CAS enough. It was a white linen base card and the cut out is white card which shows up a different tone. Butterfly stamped and glittered with white/silver embossing glitter.

I'd like to welcome Bev as a new follower and thanks for choosing me! See you soon for the new ATSM challenge on Wednesday:)