Twinchie Series 1

Having joined in the Twinchie Challenges on Show us Your Twinchies Challenge Blog, I've got hooked on these little beauties. And it's the perfect way to use up all those little bits of cardstock, pp, backgrounds I've created. So I'm hoping to reduce this pile of bits and pieces and work in progress ...

by making lots of these :

Love Twinchie

For the Love is in the Air Twinchie Challenge. I had this piece of card had done some stamp kissing - thought it would make a good background for a love theme. Added glossy accents to the hearts.

Floating Butterflies

Using little stamps for the Clean & Simple 2 Online course.

These colours are the palette for the February Chain Card Challenge. This is not my card for the challenge (that will be a secret until it has reached it's destination), but I couldn't resist these colours. Don't you want to join in to send and receive a real card?!

Shadow Stamping

For Clean & Simple 2 Online Class. 

love U

For the Hero Arts Masculine valentine's challenge, CAS-ual Fridays Love letters challenge & die-cuts CAS card for homework on the Clean and Simple 2 online course.

Coloured the "love" letters and added glossy accents. Die cut the heart (stamped with HA Zig Zag stamp) and a white and black letter u. Added glossy accetns to that too.

 This was my original design: 

(PS. Amazing how the brain works .... Shari talked of a Masculine valentine's card, and my brain got stuck on that! In fact the Hero Arts challenge this month is Love and Lace.)

Kraft & Kreme

Lots of white space for Clean & Simple online class and for Less is More Kraft and Kreme Challenge.
For a very special friend who will be celebrating 50 this month. She loves lace and vintage.

I ♥ U

Using diecuts and washi tape for the bonus day of Clean & Simple 2 online course.

Also for Hero Arts Love & Lace February Challenge, and CAS-ual Friday Love letters challenge.

Inspired by Maile Belles ... Heart was die cut from white cardstock stamped with Large Canvas stripes in red and wet cement. Red with white spots washi tape. Brackets die cut from grey scraps.

Warm Wishes

Using the single row of knitting of WPlus9, Hero Arts sentiment and the gradient technique ...

Gradient Stamping

Jennifer showed us how to do gradient stamping with a border stamp. I decided to use the CAS-ual Fridays circle border. It looked a bit bare, so added tiny Hero Arts stamps too.

Thought the faux ribbon could do with a little stitching ...

Lots of Mess .. & Happy splashes

I loved the sketch from the Less is More blog. It's got lots of white space, so also works for Day 4 homework for Clean & Simple 2 class.

But I missed the deadline, because I was avoiding this ....

So many unfinished bits and pieces; too much on-line shopping. It's like my mind works too fast for my hands! I get into making backgrounds, to playing with different techniques and then don't get around to using them. Anyone else have this problem?

But I will enter it for Simon Says Stamps Anything Goes challenge.

I've done a number of these splashes using the Distress Stains. So much fun. 

 I restamped the sentiment on white and punched out 3 of the circles, and mounted them on foam dots. I highlighted the 2 black circles by using glossy accents.