Bingo - Daring Cardmakers DT

Happy Friday!

The Easter holidays are in full swing and despite the odd shower here and there we've happily been making the most of it.  In fact we're off on a day out today complete with picnic so hope the rain stays away!

Dawn has set a great challenge over on the Daring Cardmakers this week.  Her Mum recently celebrated a big birthday and she loves Bingo so she made up a Cardmaking Bingo Board.

Below you'll see the Bingo Board and you have to use any 3 elements from a line or use everything for a full house!  Isn't it fun?!

I went for the far left column and used sequins, stamping and made a clean and simple card.

For my creation, I used a favourite Time for Tea Designs stamp set together with the co-ordinating stencil set.  I used distress oxides through the stencil in a couple of colours and added silver sequins.  It took me longer deciding and placing the sequins than it did making the rest of the card!  Mad isn't it?!

The mermaid was coloured in using Chameleon pens and colour tops to blend the colours.  I actually made the card for my niece who celebrates her birthday later this month.

I do hope you'll join in with the challenge and you can see plenty of inspiration from my team mates HERE.

Have a wonderful weekend - we have a birthday party to go to so it should be a fun one for us!

Shabneez

Products Used:
Time for Tea Designs Mermazing Stamp Set
Time for Tea Designs Wonderful Waves Stencil Set
Ranger Distress Oxide Inks
Chameleon Pens
Chameleon Colour Tops
Versafine Black Ink
Everything else from my stash

CrafTangles January Challenge Inspiration - Countryside Paper Pad

Happy New Year!

My first blog post of the year and I'm showcasing a stunning paper pad called Countryside by CrafTangles.  I just love the beautiful colours and designs, don't you?

I've used a selection of the papers and added a few elements as they need so little in my opinion.

For my first card I've added a die cut border, doily and a wooden sentiment to a couple of the papers from the pad.

For my next card, I cut out rectangles from one of the sheets of paper and added a dark brown backing.  On one of them I stamped a sentiment and I stuck them on in a random fashion.  I just love that leaf backing paper.

For my final card, I matt and layered a selection of card and paper finishing with an oval aperture.  I added a fussy cut element, some twine and a sentiment to finish.

This post is inspiration for the first of CrafTangles Monthly Challenges and you can find more information on it HERE.  The theme for this month has been kept simple with 'Anything Goes' so I hope you'll join in!

I hope you have a great weekend and see you again soon,

Shabneez

Products used:

CrafTangles Countryside Paper Pad

CrafTangles Celebrate You Stamp Set

Docrafts Bakers Twine

Docrafts Wooden Sentiment

Dovecraft Mini Doilies

Versafine Ink Pad

Everything else from my stash

Masked Magic - Daring Cardmakers DT

Happy Friday!

A hot off the press creation to share today.  I'd done the stamping on Wednesday but smudged the ink as I couldn't wait and as I was at work yesterday I had to start all over again this morning!

Natty has set the challenge over on the Daring Cardmakers today and she's asked for masking of some sort.

I quite like the use of a stamp and die set to mask an image.  You basically use the die cut as a mask and then lift it off and stamp the image in it's place after you've created your background.  In my case I stamped lots of 'Bams' then added some distress ink to make the superhero pop a little.

I very rarely do one layer stamping but I think with the masking of the image it doesn't look so flat.  I may do more of these as my youngest has many birthday party invites..........

Right, I had better get on as I have a number of projects to complete along with a backlog of washing.  Oh and the dishwasher is being fixed today - Hooray!!!!!

Have a wonderful weekend!
Shabneez

Products Used:
CrafTangles Super Boys Stamp and Die Set
Tim Holtz Distress Ink
Versafine Ink Pads
Kuretake Zig Clean Color Brush Pens

I'd like to enter this card into the following Challenge:
Less Is More Challenge #363 Cute