Bold Background

I'm still working my way through new supplies. This time I'm trying out the Ixora embossing folder from Altenew.

It's so unlike me but I picked a dark green cardstock as the starting point. Then I swished over it with White pigment ink and let it dry. Decided it needed another colour. Started with Spun Sugar Oxide ink, but it was too pale, so then added Picked Raspberry Oxide ink. I gave it a splatter of white acrylic paint, tied some cord and mounted it on cardstock distressed with pink (in fact I didn't even add any new ink to my blending brush - just used what was leftover).

My entry to ...

... NBUS #43

... Altenew October Challenge

Soft Blossoms

Soft blues for the these lovely blossoms, with water splatters. Popping out the frame to give some interest.

My entry to ... 

... Inkspirational : Favourite Monochrome.  

... Addicted To Stamps : Birthdays

... NBUS #40

Everything's Beachy! Take 1

Living on a tropical island, it was a must to get Ellen Hutson's Everything's Beachy stamp set. I used the man with surf boards on this card.

Now it's the ladies' turn!

First on the beach (inspired by Carissa Wiley's card) but I went with the beach colours of beach sand and turquoise sea. I added the white edge of the waves with a gel pen.

This view is more from the sea towards the beach.

I wondered what it would look like from the beach looking towards the sea ... I'll do another card soon.

My entry to ...

... Time Out Challenge : Tropical

... Just Us Girls : Photo

... Seize the Birthday : Summer Activities

... Make the Card : Any Shade of Blue

Ink & Spritz 2

This time I'm mixing the ink and spritz background with my new Stampin' Up flowers (Flowers of Friendship) coloured with Copics. I used Distress Oxides (Twisted Citron & Tumbled Glass) on the background paint splatter stamps.

My entry to ...

... Freshly Made Sketches #540

... Addicted to CAS #222 : Dots

... Colour Hues #43 : Blue & Green

... Seize the Birthday #240 : Favourite Technique

 ... NBUS #39

Welcome Little Baby

 It's great that even in these crazy times, we still get the joy of celebrating the arrival of sweet little ones.

My entry to ...

... Just Us Girls #574 : Animals

... Less is More #438: Baby

... Addicted to CAS #192: Animal

... Addicted to Stamp & More #400 : Die cuts & Stencils

Simple Daisies

Daisies are so lovely and light, thought I'd keep it simple with a touch of blue on the background to signify blue skies!

The Nuvo Crystal drops give wonderful dimension.

My entry to ...

... Colour Hues : Yellow & Blue

... Time Out Challenge #182 : 7th Birthday

... The Paper Players Challenge : Sketch

... Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge : Anything Goes

Puzzle Card

 I have a friend who loves puzzles, so I wanted to make a puzzle card for her especially as it was a big Birthday - her 70th!

Here's the card with the puzzle made up.

I gave it in a little bag.

I tried my hand at a little Japanese gift wrapping.

My entry to ...

... Just Add Ink #543 : Sketch

... Seize the Birthday #208: Create a Scene

Shades of Blue

Now that I'm getting back in the swing of creating, I'm trying to use some of my NBUS supplies.  And I've now realised just how much I have! I'm going to be busy.

I have the new Altenew Swirl Motif die and thought it would be fun to see how it would turn out with some distress graded cardstock. I did the base in pale blue and the outline as darker on the edges and lighter in the middle.  Not so easy to see.

Although the die as it is supposed to be used is lovely, I couldn't resist the negative cut!

My entry to ...

... Just Us Girls #567 : Color Week

... NBUS Challenge #22

... Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge : Make your own Background

Beautiful You

It has taken some time for me to get into the creative mode. There was a challenge (that I missed the deadline) with a theme of "city", and as I was going through my stencils, I spotted the city skyline. And it had yet to be inked! So a good place to start.

My entry to ...

... Just Us Girls : Use a Stencil

... Time Out Challenge : You

... Less is More : Fashion / Accessories

... NBUS Challenge #22 -New stencil