Tags ~ Colourific

Happy Colourific Thursday

This week I am sharing with you my Brusho tags

I have used  Stamp Sets

Art of Life (contains 4 stamps)

&

Campervan ~ For Sentiment (contains 22 stamps)

I punched out 3 tags and chose my Brusho colours

do love these backgrounds

I then grabbed my newspaper and stamped flower heads and did a few rips , coloured these with matching Distress Oxides

Stamped the flower onto the tags

Painted up the leafs

I stuck on the newspaper bits leaving a little border so I could colour black for a shadow effect

I stamped on the sentiment

and doodled around the edge of the tags 

Using a couple of random stamps I carried on with the background

Thank you for stopping by today

Love to Create ~ Tag

Happy Sunday to you all

I am happy to be back sharing another mixed media piece with you
This time I have created a tag

I started off with a manilla tag and added some sprinkles of brusho's
I added a spritz of water and then dried with my heat gun

I then used some Distress Oxides and covered my tag, taking out a little colour with some water, dried that off .

I used a brick stencil and randomly placed that around.
Then doodled around the edge

Then my lovely Polkadoodles Stamps came out to play 
I have used a mixture of
Doodle Dragonfly Stamp Set
Tall & Spiky Stamp Set
Daisy Friends Stamp Set
I used Ecoline Brush Pens for colour

Thank you for stopping by today
xx
I would like to enter this into
Alphabet Challenge ~ N is for Nature
Colour Crazy Challenge ~ Anything Goes
Crafty Catz ~ Twist of Autumn Colours
Creative Artiste ~ Mixed Media

Let it Snow-Well I Never - Simply Cards & Papercraft

Yepidoodle this time last week was that time of the month , 

the time I start stalking my postie for my delivery of *Simply Cards & Papercraft Magazine*

I adore reading it from front to back, skipping through first off, stroking the freebies and then later a nice long read through

However this month things did not go to plan, I was skipping through and when I got to the readers page , I thought ohhh I made a card very similar to that, rubbed my eyes, looked again that was my card !! Star Letter Ohhhh Wowser I was absolutly chuffed to bits 

You can see my original post here

I then had to tell everyone that would listen

Now I love all the freebies that we get but this month's Let it Snow absolutly lush

What did we get ?

The most stunning embossing folder (6 x 4)

The most beautiful snowflake die

A stamp set containing 6 stamps

Now I described last months free gift Santa Claus is Coming to Town as pure magical, could I do it again and use the same description? You bet I could, these adorable little snowflakes, the most beautiful sentiments, If you have not seen the magazine this is a must have.

Soooooo after all the excitement, what did I make?

I decided on a Christmas tag, (I enjoyed making it so much I ended up making three)

I used Memento inks throughout for my stamping and Distress inks for the edges

Main Snowflake cut in coordinating card

Finished them all with some matching ribbons and little gems.

Inks - Toffee Crunch & Black Soot

Inks - Toffee Crunch & Tumble Glass

Inks - Toffee Crunch, Angel Pink & Spun Sugar

Scatty's Top Tip

Before I finish today's post please do not think Snowflakes are just for Christmas , just take a look at the negative from the die! How pretty is that , it would look fab as a mask simply used with some Brusho's or similar - I can see lots of ideas

~Thanks for stopping by today ~

I would like to enter my tags into

A Gem of a Challenge - Snowflakes

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas - Anything Christmas

My Time to Craft - Distress It

Crafty Catz - Anything Goes/Snowflakes

Creative Fingers - Anything Goes

Really Reasonable Ribbon - Tag Your It

Simply Papercraft - Anything Goes

Winter Wonderland - Add Ribbon

Crafty Ribbons - Anything Goes with Ribbon/Lace

Creates and Makes - Anything Goes (Ribbon)

Craft Stamper - Anything Goes

Anything Goes - Polkadoodles Crafting

Happy Friday Everyone!

Here today for 

Polkadoodles Challenge

*Anything Goes*

or

*Add Texture*

I had lots of fun making these simple trio of cards. I used two of the lovely stamps from the Daisydays collection The Butterfly and the Sentiment. For my texture I used embossing folders

I made some 6 x 6 card blanks

And a matching cardstock to ink for each

With a different embossing folder per card
Using two dies

For the red card I used Memento Love letter Ink - Ost Red Brusho's and Ruby Red Liquid Pearls

For the Orange card I used Memento

Tangelo - Orange Brusho's and chestnut Liquid Pearls

For the Blue card I used Memento

Bahama Blue - Ultra Marine Brusho's and Royal Blue Liquid Pearls

Thank you for looking

xx
I would like to enter into
Digi Choosday - Anything Goes
TTCRD - Anything Goes
Addicted to Stamps and More - Make Your Mark
Creative Moments - Anything Goes
Fan 'n' Funky - Anything Goes
Inspiration Destination - Anything Goes
The Crafty Addicts - Anything Goes/Use Diecuts

The Hummingbird Collection

Happy Sunday , It's a little dull here in the South West but very, very humid!

I have Simply Cards & Papercraft delivered each month

and when it was delivered the other day I could not wait to play

What a stunning Hummingbird collection we were well and truly spoilt

I am very afraid of frogs in real life but this little chap was yelling at me to use him

I decided I wanted to use nice fresh colours of green and yellow with white

I started with a 6 x 6 white card blank

Using the freebie embossing folder which is 5 x 5

Cutting a hole in the center

Mounted onto some fresh green cardstock

I added in some bakers twine and adhered all to cardbase

With a slightly smaller die , cut another smaller circle

and then the stamps came into play

I stamped the frog and the sentiment using Memento ink Bamboo Leaves

Using Water paints to colour up
(using blue I flicked about for some effect - not much I'm not that brave!)

I then used the fern stamp around the edge

and attached with foam pads

For the Flowers I stamped them twice, the underneath flowers are painted as are the leafs

For the top flowers I used Brusho's Yellow and lemon 

added a few tiny pearls once dry and a little yellow stickles

Finished of with some faux stitching, a few fern leafs from a fern die and a button

Thank you for looking have a great day

xx

I would like to enter this into
Glitter 'N' Sparkle - Anything Goes
Great Impressions - Anything Goes
Penny Black and More - Anything Goes with a stamp
Love to Create - Mixed media
Just us Girls - Water Colouring
My Time To Craft - Embossing
Thats Crafty - Zesty Zing
The Crafty Addicts - Anything Goes/Friends
Sisterhood of Crafters - Close to Nature
Word Art Wednesdays - Anything Goes

Messy Crafting - Polkadoodles

A very Happy Sunday

On my crafty road I have discovered Brusho's, I have dabbled with them in the last few weeks, using them on flowers and such but not on a big scale.

Soooooo here goes...Big Girls knickers pulled up and all that....

I made a trio of cards all trying Brusho's a slightly different way - I most definatly adore them. These are all on watercolour card

For all cards I used a mixture of the Daisydays Stamps and also Summertime Stamps collections. I used Memento Inks.

Card 1

I used Ultra Marine Brusho's and Blue water colour paint on the flowers. I used quick sprays of water on the Brusho's

(You can tell by card 3 I was more adventurous and was'nt bothered about spraying more that a dribble of water)

Card 2

This one I used Scarlet, Lemon and Yellow Ochre Brusho's with slightly more water than above

I used lemon and Orange water colour paints on the flowers

Card 3

This one I used Brusho's Turquoise, Lemon , Orange and Coalt Blue and soaked with water. The yellow circles I did with Pan Pastels . And painted flowers using a dull yellow , a grey and then a grey mixed with white.

Thank you for stopping by 

xx

I would like to enter into

Creative Fingers - Anything Goes

Fussy and Fancy - A walk in the garden

Thats Crafty - Bright & Zesty (card 2)

Creative Moments - Anything Goes/Circles (card 3)

Inky Chicks - 5 or more flowers (card two)

Get Creative - Lots of Blue (card one)

Stamping Sensations - Anything Goes

Penny Black and More - Anything Goes with a stamp

Love To create - Mixed Media

Pretty Little Flowers - Birthday Cards

Happy Monday Everyone, those weekends sure do fly past.

I made a couple of cards yesterday very similar but I think they look so different

I made the pink one first - In the photo it looks more red but its actually bright pink!

I used a lovely 6 x 6 Embossing folder , mounted onto pink cardstock and popped a ribbon on and adhered to a white card base

I die cut a pink center and a plain white circle

Then the fun part I stamped the swirls ( I just adore this stamp ), Sentiment and tiny hearts

which I coloured to match

The flower petals are very easy and you can make them using a small circle die or punch, a couple of folds and there done

I dusted round with pickled rasberry distress ink 

Popped them on the card with 3 little gems.

I loved the effect so soon got an idea to make another, made exactly as above but using black cardstock. I used Brusho's on the petals this time , Scarlet, Lime Green with lemon  and Orange

and kept these in clusters of 3's.

Thank you for looking

xx

I would like to enter into

Card 1

Creative Fingers - Anything Goes

Crafty Ribbons - Pink & Girly

Creative Knockouts - Birthdays

Card 2 

Penny black and More - Must Stamp

Stamping Sensations - Stamp and Ribbon

Seize the Birthday - Bold and Bright

Pink and Blue Happy Birthday

Happy Wednesday Everyone

I have been a busy bee making a couple of Birthday cards

One I can't share until next week

but it's a cutie I promise!

If you saw my post yesterday , you will have seen that I used my new little love Brusho's - such cute little pots of coloured magic.

I made a simple card from Blue and Pink cardstock - I love these colours together

Then I brushoed (is that even a word?) up my flower layers 

I have only just become addicted , so I havent got the full set...........yet *watch this space*

So that  red colour was the nearest match I had to the pink cardstock

Waited patiently for them to dry .......could not wait too long so finished of with my heat gun 

Shaped them up 

Glued them together and popped a pretty pearl in the center

Thank you for stopping by 

xx

I would like to enter this into

TTCRD - Anything Goes

Tuesday Throwdown - Favourite Embelishments ( I am addicted to flowers with Brusho's at the moment)

Unicorn Challenge - Make it Pearly

Creative Moments - Anything Goes

Fresh Brewed - Birthdays

Grandma and Felicity get crafty

Last week I had my 6 year old Granddaughter Felicity to stay for a few days

We always have so much fun 

We even managed a trip to the beach which she loved

She has always enjoyed crafting and often gets bits to take home with her 

But the older she is getting its so much fun when she gets a chair and sits beside me at my craft desk making her own little projects.

I had a little card I needed to make and as we had ,had such a sunny day, my mind was in yellow mode..... Can you tell?

I cut the card on my portrait and once assembled I decided it needed a flower.

So I cut one out and then used Brusho's on it ( I love using them , but am still learning)

Stuck a pearl in the middle  and voila my flower had bloomed.

All finished and sat there admiring my flower when Felicity pipes up *ohhhhh Grandma thats so beautiful*

Well Thank you Felicity , hmmmm I then notice she did'nt mean my card but the negative scrap of paper from where I had spritzed my flower!!

I agreed this was too pretty to throw away . She had previously mentioned she needed bookmarks - this would be perfect . So I cut out a bookmark shape , mounted it onto matching yellow cardstock and Felicity chose some stamps and away she went, I loved the way she only part stamped the butterflies. After the first one I showed her how not to stamp onto Grandma's desk but have some paper underneath hahaha . Once finished I laminated it, used my crop-o-dile for the hole . Added a tassle - A genius little project for her from a scrap of paper, She was utterly as proud as punch and was carrying it around like it was gold and very breakable .

Thank you for looking

xx

I would like to enter  into

Artistic Inspirations - Anything Goes

Craft-Dee Bow - Handmade Bow

Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes

The Crazy Challenge - Summer Fun

Great Impressions - Anything Goes
Pile It On - Favourite Colour
The Corrosive challenge  - Nature