Tag You're It Challenge #15

Hello folks,

I have a new Tag You're it Challenge. 

For this challenge we have this Donna Mikasa's beautiful and colourful watercoloured  fish card as the inspiration. So create a tag or a tag card using Donna's card as inspirations.

I love the watercoloured images paired with a dark colour cardstock.

 Here is my take.

I have used Ice Cream Dream stamp set on my tag. I stamped the icy poles in black and watercoloured them in shades of pink and purple. Then tying the purples in the icy poles with a purple scalloped frame. I simply stamped the sentiment, trimmed and used foam adhesives to adhere. I love the simplicity of the tag card with emphasis on the colours.

Check out Tag You're It Challenge Blog for more design team and guest designer inspiration.

Come and play along with me!

A Blog Named Hero Challenge - Small Scale!

Welcome to a new challenge from A Blog Named Hero - Small Scale!

What this means? we like you to use a small section of the card, smaller sized cards, using smaller embellishments and tags. So any thing smaller in scale.

Here is my card for the theme.

I have used a smaller section of my card to showcase the watercoloured poppies. I heat embossed the poppies from Hero Arts called Delicate Blossoms, then watercoloured using distress inks. Then trimmed the cardstock and adhered using foam adhesive on the card front. The sentiment is from Clearly Besotted stamp set called Fabulous Fushsias. Clearly Besotted is our collaborating partner for this month.

Here is a closeup of the watercoloured poppies

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Jumbo Love!

Hello folks

I am loving the baby elephant trend in stamp sets at the moment. Baby elephants are so adorable.

I have this super cute stamp set from Penny Black called Jumbo Love. It has three super cute baby elephants in it. I have used one of the images from the set to make my card.

I tried my hand in watercolouring without the outline. This is also a trend at the moment. It is super hard I tell you. But failed big time. I don't have a lot of patience and with a number of disturbances, it just did not work. So I watercoloured the image by stamping it using Black Soot distress inks and just water brush to dilute the black into grey on the elephant. I like this better because of the defined edge. For the balloon I coloured with Worn Lipstick distress inks. Then once everything was dry, I colour washed the background with Spun Sugar distress ink. I also let the black bleed a bit outside because it gives a little shading and depth. Pretty happy with how this cutie turned out.  Here is a closeup where you will see how the black soot outline is used to both colour the image as well as to add depth by shading on the outside.

Of course, all my cards have to be finished with Pretty Pink Posh's sequins. Here I have used Sparkly Clear 4mm and 6 mm sequins.

Here is the Penny Black Jumbo Love stamp set.

See you soon with another watercolour card!

It's y(our) Special day!

Share a very elegant card today I gave my hubby for our 16th Wedding Anniversary!

I really love this set from Clearly Besotted called Eastern Delight. it is a building set and the fonts of the sentiment is so pretty and coordinated with the rest of the images. I basically stamped and built the image using green and blue pigment inks. Stamped the sentiment in silver. The Sparkly Clear sequins from Pretty Pink Posh is my favourite of all the colours because they coordinate really well with any colour stamped image.

I wanted to cross out "y" in "your" to make it "our" if my hubby remembered about the anniversary in the morning. As usual he forgot about it totally in the morning. I sneaked the card into his office case. So it was a surprise when he saw it at work. He came back with this cute pendent and earring set from Swaroski. Off to have a lovely dinner.

See you tomorrow with a card for a challenge :)

Virginia's View Challenge - Shaker card!

Second post for today. HERE is my first post.

I am excited to guest design along with Pretty Pink Posh's design team members for Virginia's View Challenge. 

Here is challenge #12

It is Shaker cards. 

Paulina from Pretty Pink Posh is offering one of the prize for this challenge's top 10 favourites.

This is my shaker card for the challenge.

I have used Simon Says Stamp TV Shaker Craft Die using the birch wood paper for my shaker card. Inside the shaker, I have used Blush Pink, Pink Peonies 4mm sequins and Silver Shimmer beads from Pretty Pink Posh. I put the TV on the stand on the wall using stamps from To Thine Own Shelf stamp set from Simon Says Stamp.

I love shaker cards. There are many ways to make one. I have just shown one way of it. I cannot wait to see how you make yours. Come and play along!