Natalie and Amy go mono

Before I get to my card for this months challenge ...Do you want to join me for a crafty getaway this year? It is in October you get a great goody bag to play with and get to meet and craft with other crafters and bloggers. If that sounds good to you there are still spaces and you can find more details <a href="http://acraftyweekend.blogspot.co.uk/">HERE</a>

 Now onto this months challenge we want you to create something in mono :D I LOVE my colours so this is always a challenge for me.

For my card this time I have used 6 x 6 Kraft card, Spellbinders resplendent rectangles, Hansa Yellow pan pastel  that are all available in our shop. The main image is from Local King Rubber stamps and there were a few happy acciendts involved in the making of this card. First I stamped my image and die cut him then put the lid from the ink pad on him so got a mark at the side :( Not to be defeated I then made some more similar marks all the way round and added the panpastel to give it a more worn effect. Trouble is then I went to seal the pastel with hair spray but grabbed the spray and sparkle but accident so they endded up sparkley! Despite all of that I quite like this card and I even like the sparkle lol.

I am entering this card for the following challenges:

Stamp something for Marinanne D

This month at MDD we are making it super simple as STAMP SOMETHING

You can stamp whatever you want there are loads of Marianne D stamps out there and we would love to see you using them if you have them so show us what you can do.

We have great prizes up for grabs again..

The first sponsor is Cuddly Buddly
with this amazing prize :D

This is the first month that the the wonderful new DT members are joining us so please drop by their blogs and leave them some love :D

For my card I have used Eline's Huis Clear Stamps Let it Snow EC0133 and Eline's Huis Clear Stamps Jingle Bells EC0132 from Marianne D. I have stamped the main snowflake in versa mark then masked it and stamped over it with the music note stamp. To add even more layers to my stamping I have stamped more snowflakes round the edge. Then I used PanPastel starting with ultramarine blue tint to go over everything then the darker ultramarine blue to go around the egde and pick out the main snowflake. Next I added some gems and Star dust stickles to the middle snowflake so it shines. Finished it off by framing everything with liquid pearls in baby blue and opal white.

More PanPastels play

***First ever Natalie and Amy's challenge started now theme is anything goes***

I just could not resist getting all chalky and trying to step out of my comfort zone for this one. I still need a LOT more practise as you can see but it was such good fun to play with this technique. For this card I used VersaMark to stamp out this beautiful poppy image from the Herb Garden stamp set over the bottom of a piece of white card. Then I took a light green (Permanent Green Tint) and went over the whole piece of paper using one of the angle slice round sponges. I don't think I will ever get bored of how the image just appears when you do this. Then I went back in with red (Permanent Red) and put some on the flowers and bits in the background too to try and make it look like a whole field of them. I used another one of the sofft tools for this the Knife and covers 4. Now if I was doing this again I would save the red for last as once the red was on I thought it was too dark for the light green so went back in with a darker green (Permanent Green) over the stems round the edge and bits over the light green to try and give more depth. Then I added some yellow (Yellow Ochre) to the centres of the flowers. The darker green has muddied the red a little in places that is why if I did it again I would do the red after the green but over all I am happy with how it has turned out. I then used very cheap hair spray (tesco's value about 30p a can!!) to set it all so it won't come off all over the person I give it to :D

For a touch of sparkle I added some diamond stickles to the centres of the flowers and then I just layered it up.

 

 

I am entering this card for the following challenges:

The Paper Girls - Get messy

Truly Madly Crafty Challenges - Summer fun (this makes me think of sitting in a field of wild flowers in summer)

Cupcake Craft - Flowers



Birthdays at Crafts and Me

It is my turn to play host for this weeks challenge at Crafts and Me. I have gone with a birthday theme as I seem to know a lot of people who have birthdays next month so could do with getting some made up :D

The prize this week is 3 digital stamps from our very own Crafts and Me.

 

The DT has some wonderful inspiration for you again this week and we have some gorgeous new stamps to show you that will be released in the shop very soon including this beauty "Roseilee" by Sara Burrier coming soon here.

I have coloured her with a mix of promarkers and Spectrum noir pens then added some touches of white with a sakura white souffle pen. For my back ground I had a lot of fun playing with something new to me. I got some PanPastels!!! I have got a whole load of them available now in my shop if you want to give them a try yourself and will put another post on here later with more about them and another card I have made using them.

 

I am entering this card for the following challenges:

Anything Goes Challenge - Make your own background

Everybody-Art-Challenge - Anything goes

The Stamping Boutique - Anything Goes with the birthday twist