Artist Flower

 At one stage brown was quite "in" ... brown & pink, brown & turquoise ...

And it's back again.

Playing with my NBUS die Artist Flower No3. I was originally going to go very CAS and use plain colours, but I think the pink I used was too intense (see the second card - which is the first one I made).

Which one do you prefer?

My entry to ...

... Just Us Girls #665 : Color Week

... Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge : Fun with Dies

... NBUS #47

... CAS on Friday #250 : Ink Splatter

... The Flower Challenge : Use your latest stamps or dies

... Colorful Options : Pink

Cozy Time

CASology Challenge is coming to an end. Melissa has given us 10 wonderful years of inspiration and fun. All good things come to an end, but wish her all the success in her future plans. 

It was where I discovered my love of CAS designs and so I could not miss playing in the last challenge.

I masked the books to keep it a one layer card.

My entry to ...

... CASology : Cozy

... CAS on Friday : Black & White and one colour. Had to pick blue!

... Inkspirational : Imagine

Stencilled Blossoms & Diamond Frames

Playing with the Altenew Hill Blossoms stencil & Fine Frame Diamond dies and the Spellbinder All the Stars stencil.

I've done it in 3 different colour combinations, and used different techniques with the dies ...

• as an embossing folder, 
• as a panel and 
• as a frame.

I started with my favourite colour - blue of course! The die was used as an embossing folder using the rubber mat, then I masked it and distressed around the edges to give some depth. 

My second has turquoise flowers. Kept the die cuts together to create a panel. The flowers didn't flow as I wanted, so I cut off the top 2 and tucked them behind the panel.

Third option I really wanted to use the Altenew Sugarplum and Nature's Wonder Ink sets. I used just one of the frame dies and inked it with the same ink so that it would match the flowers.

My entry to ...

... Addicted to Stamps & More : Die Cuts and Stencils

... Addicted to CAS : Layered

... AAA Birthday : Favourite Technique These layered stencils are fast becoming one of favourite techniques.

... The Flower Challenge : Use a Sentiment

Watercolour Hydrangeas

So happy so receive my latest order from Pinkfresh Studio - the Hydrangea and Rose Stamp, die and washi tape set.  I started by doing some water colouring with the stamp set. The sentiment is from Simply Graphic - the Hello set.

My entry to ...

... Celebrate WCMD with Pinkfresh Studio : Anything Goes

... Seize the Birthday : Clean & Simple

... Divas That Die Cut : Watercoloring

... AAA Birthday : Favourite Technique. Love doing some no line watercolouring.

... Just Us Girls : Clean and Simple

... NBUS #43