Final Post of the Weekend - Inspired by My Pending Summer Holiday!

So this card is working with the colours of my last card...Real Red, Tangerine Tango, Daffodil Yellow and Olive Green.  They just shout SUMMER to me which is the theme over on the Allsorts Challenge!

I've made this user Summer Silhouettes with a greeting from Flower Patch stamp sets, both from Stampin' Up!  The photo has a lovely shadow cast from my blind that I hope you can ignore!

I was going for another one-layer card so I made a clear line across the card with Post-Its and started stamping my flowers and foliage.  I added the stems, blended the green around the bottom of the leaves and added the greeting.....using an acrylic block I'd just cleaned....and left a splodge just below the sentiment, hence the carefully placed butterfly from the Beautiful Wings Sizzlits :-)

This is a close up of the flowers, finished with a touch of glamour dust (as usual). So, as the card was no longer one layer, I cut it down, matted it to Real Red before sticking to a card blank.

Now here's the question:  What does One-Layer mean to you?

Does it allow for embellishments, matting and glitter or is it as the name suggest strictly ONE-LAYER?

I'd be interested to know what you think :-)

In the meantime, I'm also entering this in to the following challenges:

Little Tangles  {Birthday}

Addicted to Stamping  {Anything Goes}

Happy Little Stampers CAS Challenge  {Masking}

My Time To Craft  {Recipe: 1 Die Cut (Butterfly), 2 Images (Flowers and Leaves), 3 Flowers (3 Red ones, 3 yellow ones) }

Thanks for looking.  Feel free to leave me a link in my comments to visit your pages!

Linda

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One Layer Madness

Inspired by Less is More yesterday I've been making more one layer cards this weekend....and just before the light dies, I've managed to get (hopefully) decent pictures.

This card is for the One Layer Simplicity Challenge: Strip Down! Yes!  I've been crafting in my underwear :-)  Not really!

The challenge is to create a strip down the side of the card.  I masked my strip with Post-Its and then used the flowers and leaves from Garden in Bloom (masking those where necessary) to create a pretty pattern on the left side.  I added the greeting and the butterfly (also from Garden in Bloom) to finish it off...not forgetting scribbling liquid pearls in the centre of the flowers.

I'm also entering this in to the following challenges:

Happy Little Stampers August CAS Challenge   {Masking}

CAS-ual Fridays   {Pretty Patterns}

Addicted to Stamping  {Anything goes}

Thanks for looking

BFN

Linda

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Sunshine!

Last card for the weekend!  I've had it in my head for the Sunshine and summer challenges around. So using my new Garden in Blooom stamps from Stampin' Up, I've made.....

.....another row of flowers!! YAY!

I'm entering this in the following challenges:

Friday Mashup {Sunshine}
Wags n Whiskers {Birthday}
Simon Says {Furry Friends - bees are furry, right?}
Sisterhood of Crafters {Birthday}
The Shabby Tearoom {Sweet as Sunshine}

And now I'm off to bed!

BFN
Linda

Paranoid Owl!

Evening all

I've had this card in mind for a while now, inspired by my door hanger. So I made a template and using the colours from the Playful Color Me Challenge, I thought I'd give it a go!  Interesting colours, btw!

I used Elegant Eggplant, Wisteria Wonder, Baja Breeze, Pumpkin Pie and Whisper White all from Stampin' Up!

So here's my cute door hanger.....

and here's my card!  

Not so much cute as Paranoid Insomniac!  I think I need to work on it, but I do like the colours together! I'll give a more traditional card a go next time.

I'm going to enter this in the Less is More Challenge too.  Owls definitely have two legs...his are just tucked up :-)

BFN

Linda

Something Different?

So I've been stalking The Other Fickle Pixie again and she has entered rather a lovely bokeh effect card in the Happy Little Stampers Sketch Challenge.  Please nip over and leave her a comment :-)

This is the sketch on Happy Little Stampers May - so just sneaking in (hopefully) in time!  It's 3:30am!

Recently I've been spending my time zentangling.  It takes hours - it's very addictive!! But it takes me away from my card making sooooo....this is my first attempt at combining the two!

Zentangle Card

It's different, don't you think?  Maybe I need a few more Zentangling Yoga sessions to add a bit more interest, but I think there might just be hope here:-)

Hope you like it!

BFN

Linda

A Flowery Challenge

Flowers are always a favourite!  I love stamping and punching them as you might tell.  Well, flowers and butterflies....oh and the occasional dragonfly.  Let's face it...I like stamping and punching :-)

I made this card with the  Paper Shelter challenge in mind (Flowers!) but still using the colours from the Color Throwdown Challenge I entered earlier:

So I'm going to enter this in both challenges :-)

Petite Petals

This is using the Petite Petals and Woodgrain stamps from Stampin' Up.  

It's a 5x7" card which is slightly bigger than the woodgrain background stamp so I've hidden the join with a cunning border which turned out to be a handy place to hang my sentiment :-)

I've glammed the flowers up with perfect pearls and a bit of glamour dust, just to add sparkle.

Hope you like it.

BFN

Linda

Another Colour Challenge - Subtle!

Just one more....before I throw my mask away.  This time I went with the challenge over on Colour Me Card Challenge.  Their theme is....subtle!

This is what I have:

I added a bit of glamour dusk for sparkle too!  Maybe a little too subtle :-)

BFN

Linds 

One Layer Cards

Another simple card....but I'm liking it.  It' a Sympathy card for 4 Crafty Chicks.

The picture doesn't do it justice I don't think.  I've brushed Crushed Curry, Melon Mambo and Elegant Eggplant through a mask  on to plain card and stamped the flowers from Stampin' Up's Too Kind set.

And so as to finish on a happy note:

I've changed the theme of this card to a "Happy Birthday" and used the colours from the challenge on CAS Colours and Sketches

I think this technique is so effective!  Hope you like them!  

BFN

Linda

Flowers!

Morning!

A quick post before we're out to the garden centre again!  We're determined to have thegarden sorted for summer!

I've used Petite Petals and Gorgeous Grunge from Stampin' Up to make these CAS cards.  I'm entering this card in the Flowers Challenge over on Wags n Whiskers.

Melon Mambo

I may have hit the grunge a little hard on the first one (above) so I laid off it for this one.  I took the sentiment from Butterfly Basics.  It's a good size!  I'm entering this card in the Space Challenge on Inkspirational.  

Cajun Craze

Right - off to garden centre!

BFN
Linda

New Start!

OK - here we go again!  It's been a while since I did any challenges so thought I'd ease into it with a "Anything Goes".  I love 'em!

It gives me an opportunity to use the Six-sided Sampler and punch from Stampin' Up.  I bought the punch to make honeycombe for a special ordered card....haven't really used it since!!  I struggled with the question...."why hexagons on a birthday card?"  but I think these work :-)

Six-sided Sampler

This has a vintage look to it....so I also tried some brighter coloured ones.

Island Indigo

Rose Red

I'm going to enter these in the Anything Goes challenge on Addicted to Stamp.

Thanks for looking

BFN
Linda

My New Silhouette!

So I’m getting to know my new Silhouette Cameo!  How time-consuming is that! But I love it!  I spent ages making cutting templates for this Yorkie card for my dad-in-law (he has a little Yorkshire Terrier…FYI).

But now I can make loads of these….er….if I need another Yorkie! LOL!
BFN
Linda
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Here comes the Sun–hopefully!

Back to late night blogging and semi-gloomy pics again! *sigh*

Although I have taken a tip from Susan Goetter on how to brighten pics up (without the much loved Picasa).  Check out her tutorial here.

So here’s today’s card:

It’s a bright and cheery Cheers card using my Cheers to You stamp set from Stampin’ Up! 

I’ve tried my hand at a bit of resist stamping to create m own background for the card.   To do this, I’ve stamped cocktails all over some Daffodil Delight card using Versamark, and then heat embossed it with clear embossing powder.  I’ve then inked it with Cherry Cobbler ink to give it a sunny and hot look and finally polished it off to bring out the embossing.

I’ve stamped the cocktails using a mask (and my trusty Stamp-a-ma-jig – how did we manage before that cool invention!!)  I’ve stamped the two front cocktails first, then masked it by stamping them again on a post-it note and cutting them out.  I’ve then stamped the tall cocktail over the masks using my Stamp-a-ma-jig for perfect positioning. I’ve coloured them in with gel pens to give them the glassy look and added the sentiment across the corner. 

Now, no card is complete without a bit of ribbon, but in this case I didn’t have the correct colour.  So…I’ve cheated.  I’ve coloured Whisper White ribbon using my my Daffodil Delight marker to get an exact match!  Cool, aye!

Now I’m entering this into the following challenges:

Papertake Weekly {Here comes the Sun}

Creative Craft Challenges {Make your own backing papers}

Everybody Art Challenge {Anything Goes}

I just hope I’m not jinxing this good weather that is suppose to be on its way for the weekend!  Fingers crossed!

Thanks for reading.
BFN
Linda
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I’m combining a couple of challenges

Nice and bright!

A nice easy card today…but how fancy does it look!  This is the popular double easel shape made from a DL card blank.  To make it score the blank as normal, then on the front half  mark and cut a perpendicular across the middle.  Score each of these sections diagonally from top outer corner to bottom inner corner and you’re ready to start the matting and layering.  Let me know if you need a template and I’ll email it to you.
I’ve matted and layered this using DSP Pattern Stack paper in Melon Mambo and Daffodil Delight card stock.  I’ve inked the edges using matching Melon Mambo ink and trimmed it with ribbon.  Now how about this for a tip…..having only whisper white ribbon, I’ve coloured it using my SU Daffodil Delight marker…you’d never have guessed, would you .
Hope you like it!
BFN
Linda
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