Travel - Vintage Style

Good morning everyone, it's the start of another week so we have a new challenge for you over at Make My Monday. It's the last of Val's fabulous Vintage challenges and this week the theme is Travel.
For my inspiration I decided on a very vintage style of traveling about - travel by bicycle. Hands up those who are now singing the song going through my head - you can probably guess it's Bicycle by Queen!

 I stamped the background paper starting with the swirl image from the Oxford Impressions steampunk set with Archival coffee stamping on 4 sides. I then inked the paper with Shabby Shutters Distress ink and stamped on the Hobby Art harlequin design with Crushed Olive. I then inked round the edges with VersaColor cinnamon ink and distressed the edges with an emery board, inking with dark red.
I stamped the vintage lady cyclist with the same coffee ink and coloured her with inks and Promarkers before cutting her out and adding her to the background panel with foam tape. The final touch was to stamp the London text from the steampunk set with the coffee ink.

I'm hoping this post pops up as scheduled as I'm now rushing around making the hopefully final preparations for a workshop I'm running this morning making Christmas cards which I'll be sharing my examples for later this week.
Have a great Monday.
Hugs, Fliss xx

Some challenges for my card:
Stampin' Sisters In Christ - Something Handmade (my background paper)
Allsorts Challenge - Inspired By A Song

She Was Born To Dance

Hello folks, hope you're all having a good weekend with some sunshine which we had here although there is a distinct Autumn chill in the air now so I'm all layered up so I don't have to put the heating on.
Today sees the start of a new challenge over at Fashionable Stamping Challenges and this fortnight our theme is Alter Something so I took the opportunity to transform a white washed wooden heart that I bought on a trip to Arundel in one of my favourite shops called Sparks Yard. I also wanted to use a set of stamps by Lindsay Mason that I acquired when I went to The Craft Barn in June - her Off The Wall collections are really quirky and I fell in love with this one as well as another which will be appearing on here very soon.

The pic underneath shows the before and I painted the heart with several coats of pink acrylic paint before stamping on it with my Millefiori Stamping Technique (link on side bar) using pink and lilac inks with the Rubber Stamp Tapestry summer mums set of peg stamps.
I then stamped Arabella, the butterfly and text from the set with black ink on white card and coloured the images with various Promarkers. I cut them out to leave a narrow white border.
I used a Paper Artsy stripe stamp and black ink to make the striped border, colouring the white spaces with a lilac Promarker and glued this to the heart with a black lace border created with the Tim Holtz vintage lace die set.
I added some Marianne Design die cut flourishes cut from black and lilac card and coloured the text with a blossom Promarker.

The Design Team have made some absolute stunners for your inspiration so do hop over for a peek. The results for the last challenge will be out on Tuesday and I have to say we've had some amazingly creative and gorgeous entries proving the good things definitely do come in small packages.

Have a lovely Sunday.
Hugs, Fliss xx

Some challenges for my Heart Hanger
Stampin' For The Weekend - Feeling Floral
Totally Papercrafts - For A Child
Little Miss Muffet Challenges - Anything But Square
Inky Impressions Challenges - For A Child
Anything But A Card Challenge - Anything But A Card

Dreaming of a White Christmas

Hello everyone, has my title got you singing lol. This week the challenge over Polka Doodles is Inspired By Song Titles and because I'm still in Christmas card mode at the moment, I decided on my favourite Christmas song for my inspiration. It usually is dreaming too as being right on the south coast we never get that much of the white stuff.
Here's the card I have to show you which has another snowman as I'm a big fan of these rather cute chaps.

This lovely chap together with the tree, sentiment and gorgeous grungy snowflake paper are all on the latest Polka Doodles Here Comes Christmas CD.
I inked the edges of the paper with the rather appropriate Polar Blue VersaColor ink and added to the card with a white panel embossed with the Cuttlebug snowflake folder, some blue glittery card and some snowflakes in various sizes punched from white glitter card. I inked the edges of the sentiment which I die cut with a Papermania die and the edges of the snowman and tree after cutting them out.

Hoping that you all have a great day and a lovely weekend.
Hugs, Fliss xx

Challenges for my card:
Paper Crafting Journey - My Sentiment Exactly!
Paper Play - Choose A Holiday

Meet Mr Frosty

Hello everyone, I hope you're all having a good week so far and I'm here today with a little cutie to show you that really is very easy to make and could either be a card for a special someone or a Christmas decoration if you can't bear to part with him after you've made him up - that would be me I think! He's my project for today over at the Studio 12 Creative Team blog as he's made from the gorgeous image on the Studio 12 Picknix Collection 2 CD - Gingerbread Twist.

To make Mr Frosty, all I did was print out the gorgeously cute snowman his actual size (he's about 19cm tall) on sturdy white card. I printed him once as he is and the flipped the image in Photoshop Elements to make the back.
I cut both of the snowmen out leaving a tab at the top of the front one's hat to attach him to the back. I then printed out a couple more images on thinner card and then decoupaged his head and clothing from one and just the hat, scarf and carrot nose from the other. All elements were attached with foam tape and I then inked the outer edges with a smoky blue ink.
How easy is that!

Don't forget to catch Dee on Create and Craft on Saturday where you'll find loads of inspiration as well as a chance to get your hands on a copy of the fabulous Studio 12 Picknix Collection 2 CD - Gingerbread Twist.
Hugs, Fliss xx

Linking up to some challenges:
Creative Craft Challenge - Anything Goes
Try It On Tuesday - Anything Goes
The Cutie Pie Challenge - Shaped Cards

Little Angel

Hello folks, Monday is here again and hope you all had a lovely weekend. I'm here today with news of the next of Val's Vintage challenges over at Make My Monday which this week has the theme of Vintage Childhood.
I've gone rather girly for my inspiration with a gorgeous collage stamp from Crafty Individuals.

The sweet little angel is CI-062 and I've stamped her with Archival coffee ink and coloured her with Promarkers and inks.
I made a background paper with Crafty Individuals background stamp CI-258 stamped several times with Victorian Velvet Distress ink and then sponged with Tattered Rose. I tore the edges to distress them and rubbed them with Old Rose VersaColor ink.
I used a scrap of a further handmade background paper made by stamping a Clearly Inspired Stencil Flowers image with pink and green ink, sponging with Antique Linen and spraying with pink and gold  glimmer mists. I tore the edges and inked with old rose as before.
I inked a doily with pink ink and assembled the card as you see, adding some text cut out from the background stamp, stamped with coffee ink.

The Design team have made some gorgeous creations for your delight so do pop over for a look. We had some fabulous entries last week and can't wait to see what you create this time.
Have a great week.
Hugs, Fliss xx

Challenges for my card:
Jellypark Challenges - All About The Children
Sugar Creek Hollow - Pretty In Pink
Scrapper's Delights Paper Crafts - Make Your Own Background Papers
Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes
Joanna Sheen Challenge - So Sweet

A Joyful Christmas

Hello folks, the weekend is here and don't know about you but I had a very busy week with family stuff this time.
I had an SOS call from my sister who had a nasty bite from an unknown bug which got infected and made her arm swell up (her youngest said she looked like Popeye after the spinach!!!) and she ended up in hospital having intravenous antibiotics to clear it. She also ended up on the geriatric ward (the only space available) so I went to visit her to try and cheer her up. She's home now thank goodness and catching up on lost sleep.
I also had to sort out my younger daughter who hasn't yet gone back to uni after she had emails and phone calls from her tutor and the head of the fashion department at Kingston as the 2 girls from Cape Town needed looking after. You may remember her trip there earlier this year and these are the girls who won at the South African end. She went up to Kingston on Thursday and was lucky enough to go behind the scenes at London Fashion Week yesterday and is off to the Burberry show on Monday!!! I've gone an alarming shade of green lol
OK, excitement over and I have a card to show you today which I actually made for a couple of challenges just before my internet crashed so I wasn't able to post it in time.

The sweet little bird is one of my new Christmas stamps and is called Winter Bird and by Stampendous (isn't he gorgeous!). I stamped him with Archival coffee ink, coloured with Promarkers and then added snow with the DecoArt snow writer and sprinkled it with glamour dust.
I made a stripy background paper with my favourite Hampton Art scratch pattern stamp and Barn Door, Peeled Paint and Aged Mahogany Distress inks. I then made a red and a green holly paper using my quick inking technique (see sidebar for tutorial link) with Barn Door, Crushed Olive and Peeled Paint inks. The holly is by Art Impressions.
I assembled the card as you see, added a kraft card doily made with a Marianne Design die and the sentiment is from the Tim Holtz Mini Holidays set - stamped with Aged Mahogany, cut out and sponged with Barn Door.
I was aiming for my favourite vintage look and think I've achieved it - or I hope so!

Have a lovely day,
Fliss xx

Challenges for my card:
Christmas Stampin' All Year Long - Snowy
Raise The Bar - I Believe I Can Fly
Crimbo Crackers - Vintage
Just Keep On Creating - Christmas
Stampin' For The Weekend - Starting Christmas Early

Ice Cream Colours

Morning folks, a quickie from me here as I'm really busy this week but must tell you about the new challenge over at Polka Doodles today which is to use Ice Cream Colours in your creation.
As my favourites are coffee ice cream and raspberry sorbet, I decided it would be the perfect opportunity to add to my Christmas card collection and here's what I made:

The sweet little robin and all the other papers and elements are from the Here Comes Christmas CD. I pinked the edges of the main background paper and central border and did a bit of matting with some toning glitter card for a bit of glitz.
Very simple and as I did say - quick!

Hope you have a great day and a lovely weekend.
Hugs, Fliss xx

Challenges for my card:
Cute Card Thursday - Christmas In September
Paper Crafting Journey - My Sentiment Exactly!

Gingerbread Bunting

Hello folks, I'm back again today with another project I made for Nikky as part of the Studio 12 Creative Team using the new and gorgeous Gingerbread Twist CD which is the second in the Picknix Collection.
This time I've made a Christmas decoration in the form of bunting (so trendy at the moment) which can easily be made longer to fit the space available and if like me you use pre-cut bunting blanks, it really is very easy.

My pre-cut bunting pieces came from that handy shop The Range (and only cost £1!) though it's quite simple to make your own with a template or even a die if you have one.
I made a template for the paper pieces I've covered the bunting with and was able to get 2 out of each of the papers I chose.
I then chose some of the pre-coloured gingerbread ladies and men from Nikky's gorgeous Studio 12 Picknix Collection 2 CD - Gingerbread Twist then printed them out and cut them out, adding them to the paper covered bunting with foam tape.
I then threaded the bunting on to some red and white seasonal bakers twine with red buttons in between to add a bit of texture.
How about that for a festive make!

Have a great day.
Hugs, Fliss xx

Always and Forever

Hello again everyone, I'm back asd promised with my post for this weeks' challenge over at Make My Monday which is a day late due to my internet problems plus a bit of head scratching as not doing many cards of this sort, I couldn't think what to do.
The theme continues as Vintage and this week, Val has challenged us to make Vintage Wedding cards. The rest of the Design Team has made some gorgeous inspiration so do pop over for a look - I'm still not too sure about my creation so do tell me what you think!

The lovely image I've used is part of my new large stamp called Lydia's Journal by B Line Designs. I stamped with Archival Coffee and then coloured just the image part with a mix of Copics and Promarkers and cut her out. She does look a little like a vintage bride with her bouquet of flowers don't you think?
I then covered my card blank with a couple of Polka Doodles paper scraps from my bits box, trimming the leafy one with a Martha Stewart border punch and the grungy one with a daisy corner punch (Woodware) before embossing with the Cuttlebug Textile folder.
I made a panel for the image with cream card embossed with the Crafts Too vintage flowers folder, trimming the top edge to shape and swiping with beige ink.
I finished off with some pretty rose lace, a Polka Doodles die cut sentiment and some heart flourishes die cut with a Sissix die from some homemade lace paper (I made this by scanning strips of crochet lace with brown card behind and printing out on to parchment paper which gives a lovely textured look.

So there you have it and I'll be round to catch up as soon as I can - it's amazing how much you miss with even a few days without internet!!!
I'd also like to say a HUGE thanks to Jellypark Challenges as my cinnamon tea shadow box from a week ago made the top 3 of the Quench Your Thirst challenge - I'm chuffed to bits!
Hugs, Fliss xx

Challenges for my card:
Stamp and Create - Anything Goes
The Pink Elephant - Wedding/Anniversary
Dream Valley Challenges - Something Old, Something New (the paper scraps and Cuttlebug textile folder are the old and the stamp and rose lace the new)

Autumn Hedgerow

Hello folks, you might have been wondering where I've been the last few days and I've had a very frustrating time as our internet crashed on Friday and my hubby discovered that the router had lost all its' settings. It's played up since he restored them as our provider also had problems - technology is great until it stops working!!!
I'm here rather late with my project of this fortnights challenge over at Fashionable Stamping Challenges with the theme chosen this time by Claire, being Good Things Come In Small Packages which gives lots of scope for interpretation.
I decided to make a small canvas (10cm square) with an Autumn theme as the weather is definitely starting to head that way and I do love that time of year being an Autumn girl by birth.

I painted the canvas with olive green acrylic paint and then stamped on a design from the Artistic Outpost Serenity stamp plate with Archival Coffee ink.
I then stamped the blackberries and leaves from the Joanna Sheen Gordiano Bird and Berries stamp set several times with the coffee ink. I stamped the La Blanche bird with the same ink and coloured everything with Prismacolor pencils and blended the colours. I cut them all out and assembled them on the canvas with double sided tape and foam tape to make a hedgerow scene.

I'd like to say a quick thanks here to everyone who entered the last challenge with my chosen theme of Floral and/or Handmade Flowers which had a staggering amount of gorgeous entries.

Our sponsor as always is Marina of Cottage Crafts and please do remember that it is a stamping challenge so no digital images are allowed. Hope to see you there!

I shall be back tomorrow with my also late DT post for the Make My Monday challenge (on a Tuesday - oops!)
Hugs, Fliss xx

Challenges for my mini canvas:
Anything But A Card Challenge - Anything But A Card
Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes
Gingerloft Challenge - Birds of a Feather
Stamptacular Sunday - Anything But A Card
Paper Crafting Journey - Anything Goes

Little Robin Redbreast

Good morning everyone, the weekend is nearly here and I certainly need mine after some wrestling with a very nasty VAT return this  week as well as having to do 3 others!
I did have a little respite though as it was lovely and sunny yesterday so I went to Arundel with my daughter and had a great time browsing the antique markets then had tea and cake at a tearoom where we saw a fat little robin eating someone's leftover scone.
This brings me neatly to my vintage card for this week's challenge over at Polka Doodles where our theme is What's the Word Bird? This is one of the samples made for Nikky for last week's Create and Craft shows and is the one I was most pleased with. So without further ado, here it is!

The papers and all elements on my card are from the new Studio 12 Picknix Collection 2 CD - Gingerbread Twist which has the most beautiful papers, images and gorgeous script too.
A little serendipity came in here to as I printed out the holly frame using a new pack of my usual smooth card only to find that 2 days later, the ink was still wet as when I sponged on the Distress inks it smudged rather badly. Inspiration struck so I printed it out again and added clear detail embossing powder and heated - problem solved! I inked the frame with Distress inks in Shabby Shutters, Crushed Olive, Forest Moss and Pine Needles then cut it out and dry embossed the centre with the Cuttlebug holly sprig folder. I then rubbed Forest Moss over the raised areas.
I printed out the little robin, cut him out and rubbed Black Soot Distress ink round all the edges to make him really pop and added him to the frame with foam tape.
I added the holly panel to a red glitter card panel then assembled the card with panels of paper from the CD together with backing paper to which I added a brown faux stitched edge. The final touch was a sentiment border made by dropping the gorgeous script text into a Word document, printing it out and trimming the edges then inking them with Vintage Photo Distress ink.

Have a great weekend.
Hugs, Fliss xx

Some challenges for my card:
My Mum's Craft Shop - Anything Goes
Anything Goes Challenge - Early Christmas
Deep Ocean Challenge - Things With Wings
Tuesday Alchemy - Anything Goes
Crafty Cardmakers - Winged Things

Vintage Fashion

Good morning folks, hope you all had a lovely weekend. Mine was rather busy as we had my parents in law's celebration for their Diamond Wedding Anniversary which will shortly be taking place and we all went out for a family lunch as my mother in law hasn't been too good health wise lately.
I'm here today with my DT contribution for the first challenge at Make My Monday after our August break. The September theme is Vintage chosen by team mate Val (I'm sure you know how much I love this!) and this week the theme is Vintage Fashion.

The lovely image I used is a stamp by Kanban and was stamped with Archival Coffee ink on white card then sponged with Antique Linen Distress ink before adding colour with Promarkers. I then cut the panel out with deckle scissors and added Vintage Photo DI round the edges. I attached the panel to a die cut mat of burgundy card.
I made my background paper with Victorian Velvet, Crushed Olive and Frayed Burlap Distress inks using the Julia Andrus mottled paper technique and then stamped on the rose corner design by Viva Decor with Memories Delicate Rose Chalk ink. I then added a little colour with a pink Promarker and the lettuce Adirondack marker.
I added the paper to a kraft card 8x8 blank and then embellished with a die cut corner (Marianne Design Anja), a scrap of doily from my bits box inked with Antique Linen and a stamped B Line Design butterfly coloured with Crushed Olive Distress ink.

I know I'm going to love the challenges this month as I so love vintage and it was a real breath of fresh air for me to create something which is totally stamped. The Design Team have made some lovely creations to inspire you and I can't wait to see your entries.

Have a great week,
Fliss xx

Some great challenges:
Simply Create Too - So Old/Vintage
Digi Doodle Shop's Best - Vintage
I Love Promarkers - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Cinnamon Tea Anyone?

Hello folks, hope you're all having a great weekend. I'm here today with news of yet another giveaway over at the Studio 12 Creative Team blog to celebrate the launch of the Studio 12 Picknix Collection 2 CD - Gingerbread Twist and if you haven't guessed from the name, it's all about Christmas!
The CD launched yesterday on Create & Craft TV and was a massive success as always - if you were watching you might have seen my creation below so do read on if you'd like to know how I made it.

I started off with a blank shadow box which I painted with blue acrylic paint. I then printed off one of the gorgeous holly design papers on to tissue paper. If you haven't done this before, it's quite easy as all you need to do is dry iron a piece of white tissue paper around 3cm all round larger than A4 then attach this to a piece of thin card, wrapping it round the back and securing with tape. Just be careful about getting it as flat as you can so it doesn't catch in the printer.
I attached the printed tissue to the frame with Ranger Glue and Seal and rubbed paint round the edges.
I then printed out a variety of the images inspired by the sentiment which says "Come to my table and share with me gingerbread, cookies and cinnamon tea" - I think this is just lovely and perfect for the kitchen.
I covered the inside of the frame with some of the gorgeous distressed look gingerbread man paper then added the cut out embellishments which I rounded out with an embossing ball tool before adding with foam tape.

The Creative Team have more really gorgeous creations to show you so do pop over and enter the giveaway, there's always a fabulous prize and it's very easy to try and win it.

Have a great day and see you tomorrow with news of the first September challenge at Make My Monday as we're back and raring to go after our Summer break and you're going to love the new challenge theme!
Hugs, Fliss xx

Challenges for my shadow box:
One Stop Craft - Time For Tea
Jellypark Challenges - Quench Your Thirst

Flowers Feed The Soul

Good morning folks, it's my turn to post today over at the Studio 12 Creative Team and my project is an idea for a special gift to make for a friend which is really easy to do. It's something which the recipient could easily add personal mementos, photos or little notes to and could be hung up in the kitchen, bedroom or craft room (those lucky enough to have one lol)

The base for my project is a pretty wire frame painted cream that came from The Range.
I made some little square collages to fit in the clips by resizing some of the pretty papers from the Heavenly Garden Kit on the Studio 12 Picknix Collection 1 CD down to 5cm. I then dropped them all into a Word document along with some hearts from the Welcome Home Kit on the CD also resized to fit on the paper squares. I printed this all out on to linen card for texture.
I cut everything out and made the elements into mini collages, embellishing with pressed flowers and leaves from my stash and inking all the edges of the squares with brown ink.

I added a pretty grungy sentiment from the Heavenly Garden Kit and made an embellishment by gathering up a piece of cream scalloped cotton lace to make a flower shape and fixed it to the frame with a jewelled brad through the centre.

Hope you're all having a good week so far and that you have a lovely day.
Hugs, Fliss xx

Challenges for my creation:
Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes
Robyn's Fetish Challenge - Anything But A Card
Allsorts - It's A Gift
Everybody Art Challenge - Anything Goes

Vintage Floral

Good morning folks, hope you're enjoying the long weekend (those in the UK anyway) and yesterday's rain has given way to lovely sunshine at the moment.
There's a new challenge over at Fashionable Stamping Challenges today and this time it's my chosen theme of Floral - and/or Handmade Flowers as I really love making my own flowers.
My FSC team-mates have really risen to this challenge so do pop over to the catwalk for some totally amazing creations - thanks so much for these ladies!

My own inspiration is a vintage style card with loads of texture and I decided on soft colours too.
The floral background paper is made with Ranger Weathered White embossing powder on top of tan ink and I rubbed some of the powder off before heating for an even more shabby chic effect.
I added this to my card with some coffee coloured shimmer card embossed with the c-Art-us roses folder.
I stamped the lovely June by Scrollswork stamps with Archival coffee ink and coloured her with Promarkers. I cut her out then added to a die cut oval of buff card embossed with a floral folder. I added this to the card with a central lilac border cut with a Martha Stewart punch and decorated with pearls.
I made my layered flower with the Nestabilities carnation die set, cutting flowers from lilac and mauve card to layer up with a metal brad centre and inked the edges with violet for definition.
I finished off with some textured Prima leaves and a die cut Hobby Art sentiment then added a pearly flower to the lady's hat.

You have the next fortnight to enter the challenge and please don't forget that you must include stamping to be eligible for the prize or top 3 and no digital images are allowed.

Have a great day.
Hugs, Fliss xx

Challenges for my card:
Craft Your days Away - Anything Goes
Anything Goes Challenge - Make Your Own Background
A & T Emerald Faeries Challenge - Punches/Dies
LEJ Designs Challenge - Vintage
The Crazy Challenge - Anything Goes
The Pink Elephant - Embellishments - Create Your Own 

All Stitched Up!

Good morning folks, you're probably wondering where I've been with no blogging over the last few weeks and it's because I'm in the middle of a huge craft sort out as I've got to the stage of not being able to find things!
As well as this my mojo seems to have gone missing too so if any of you see it could you please send it home lol
It's time for a new challenge over at Polka Doodles and this week the theme chosen by shell is Stitching - Real or Faux. I had to cheat slightly with mine and use one of the samples made for Nikky's latest and gorgeous Here Comes Christmas CD as it has stitching on it.

A fairly simple design here but with lots of texture and my favourite kraft card too. The cute angel is coloured with Promarkers and detail added with Prismacolor pencils and glitter on her wings. Don't you just love the sweet little robin! I die cut the panel and added a mat of kraft card.
I used a piercing tool and a brown fineliner pen to add faux stitching on the background paper then added die cut hearts, one from hessian for texture and another with faux stitching done the same way.
One of the lovely borders from the CD, some buttons tied with thread and a sentiment coloured with Promarkers and also tied with thread complete my card.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend and as this post is number 600 (!) there will be some candy very soon so keep an eye out for it!
Hugs, Fliss xx

Challenges for my card:
Paper Crafting Journey - Anything Goes
Crafting For All Seasons - Stitching
Divas By Design - Anything Goes

Celebrating

Hello folks, hoping you're all OK and I'm now back from my holiday in gorgeous (also mostly very hot and sunny) Switzerland. I'll be posting some of my pics over the weekend once I've finished all my chores - washing etc!
Being Friday, we have a new challenge over at Polka Doodles with the theme chosen by teamie NJ who, with the end of the Olympics looming fast wants to see a CELEBRATION project. I decided on a general theme for my card using one of the lovely Emma Canning digital images available from the Polka Doodles shop. Here's what I made:

I've gone for a pretty pink and brown colour scheme, printing out the cute Millie - Birthday image and colouring her with various Promarkers before adding a little more detail with Prismacolor pencils. I then die cut the image and inked the edges with pink ink. I added this to a die cut mat of cross check paper from the Sugarplum Daisy CD.
I covered my card blank with brown polka dot paper from the PPC3 magazine kit and added a central border of lace from the Studio 12 Picknix Collection 1 CD.
I then printed out some of the pretty digital flowers from the Sundae Of Seasons CD, coloured these with Promarkers, cut them out and made them into an embellishment with punched leaves and pearls.
I finished off with a sentiment from the Sugarplum Daisy CD, die cut and coloured with Promarkers then embellished with pearls.

Have a great weekend everyone!
Hugs, Fliss xx

Here Comes Summer

Good morning all, it's Monday again and this will be my last post for a bit as I'm off on my long awaited holiday very early on Wednesday morning. It will be a case (or so my hubby thinks!) of climb every mountain (I don't think!) as we're going to Switzerland on one of our favourite lakes and mountains holidays - I'm not a sit on the beach person, I much prefer scenery.
Talking of holidays, we're all taking a break for the month of August over at Make My Monday so this is the last challenge until September. This is mostly because Jacqueline has family commitments and I'd like to wish her well with everything she has to cope with.
The challenge is the last of Mynnette's Colour Wheel Themes and this week it's Split Complimentary Colours and in particular - Yellow, Bright Green and Fuchsia.
I've again used one of the lovely images by our sponsor for July, Priyanka of My Heart Pieces and here's my card:

You might recognise the yellow polka dot paper here as it's actually the piece leftover from making the frame on my beach themed card from last Friday and was the perfect fit for this card - how lucky is that!
I printed the image out 3 times and coloured with Aquamarkers, then cut out and decoupaged various sections for a 3D look. I die cut the main image with a similar shape to the dotty paper.
I next did some DIY washi tape using Stazon inks and the technique from a recent Craft Stamper. I stamped on the tape with a grid stamp and dark brown ink.
I added some fuchsia pink polka dot paper with rounded corners to the card blank and assembled it as you see, adding a stamped butterfly (Hobby Art) and a die cut Polka Doodles sentiment from the Sugarplum Daisy CD, both coloured with Promarkers.

Hoping that you can enter the challenge as you have a whole month to do this and we will be picking the winners at the end of the month.
Have a great week and will see you when I get back, refreshed and hopefully raring to go!
Hugs, Fliss xx  

A Little Bit More Fashion

Hello again folks, I'm back with my second post today and this one also features sewing. Don't know about you but my crafting, whether it be stitching, paper crafting, altering etc, always acts as a stress buster as some days it's the only thing that keeps me sane lol
I have a vintage style card to share with you which is part of our monthly share at Studio 12 Creative Team and there's candy in the offing - yes indeed, I did say CANDY and here's what you need to do to be in with a chance of winning some:

"At the end of each month, Nikky has kindly agreed that there will be a competition/giveaway for one lucky person and this month is no exception. So what do you have to do to win some gorgeous Polka Doodles/Studio 12 goodies .... not at all hard we promise ......

1] become a follower of the Studio 12 blog
2] put a note somewhere on your blog about the Studio 12 giveaway. Could be in your sidebar or in a post .... the choice is yours.
3] leave a comment on the end of the candy post.
4] if you are already a follower (mwaaahhhh to you), just do points 2 & 3

This giveaway will last until the end of the month, when a winner from amongst those leaving comments will be chosen by random."
How easy is that!

Here's my creation and you'll have to let me know what you think.

The card has my first foray into the world of digital crafting as I'm currently trying to get to grips with Photoshop Elements with the help of my younger daughter, who does layering all the time because she likes designing prints for her fashion degree projects.
I layered the gorgeous frame from the Welcome Home kit on the Studio 12 Picknix Collection 1 CD on to the lovely grungy striped paper from the All Sewn Up kit on the CD. I printed this out and added it to an 8x8 kraft card blank.
I then printed out the mannequin and some of the gorgeous sewing elements from the kit by dropping them into a Word document (I resized the mannequin first as the original is quite large), printing on to smooth white card. I then cut these out and inked the edges with brown ink (tip - you can colour those bits you can't reach with a brown Promarker in a similar shade).
I added some more colour to the mannequin and then added a lace frock made with leftover pieces of some of the gorgeous lace from the kit. I added pearly floral buttons as embellishments.
I resized the sentiment to fit in the frame, printed it out on buff card, die cut it and inked the edges. All the embellishments were added with foam tape for dimension.

Nikky is currently working on the next collection and we can't wait to see it! I'm sure you can't either!

Thanks for looking and hope you're having a lovely weekend.
Hugs, Fliss xx

Stitched With Love

Hello folks, I'm here at this early hour (scheduled tee hee as not up!) to wish Fashionable Stamping Challenges a very Happy First Birthday. I can't believe it's now a year since the challenges begun so it's true that time flies when you're having fun!
To celebrate our challenge theme for the fortnight is Anything Goes and I actually found this more difficult than having a set theme. However, I was looking for something the other day and came across a background I made a few months ago and inspiration struck.
Here's the result which is an altered shadow box.

The background I made uses a technique I learnt several years ago from the lovely ladies of Magenta and it gives a look similar to Florentine Bargello embroidery. I made strips of decorated paper using Distress inks (too many to list here!) and then stamped on them with more Distress inks and various floral, leaf and dot design stamps. I then assembled the strips into the pattern you see and added stamped splatters for an aged effect. The design was inspired by a patchwork quilt I saw.
I then painted a grungeboard flourish with orange acrylic paint and stamped on a grid design with Stazon Pumpkin ink. I die cut a Tim Holtz dress form from kraft card and stamped a Kanban lace design on the body section with Archival Coffee ink. I dry embossed some ridges for definition and inked with umber ink.
I die cut a shaped mat for the dress form with the Tim Holtz baroque die and Sissix Tim Holtz Kraft Core card. I embossed the shape with a Sissix rose folder and then sanded some of the raised areas to expose the kraft core.
I stamped 3 lace corners (Personal Impressions) on white card with the coffee ink and then inked these with Antique Linen Distress ink and cut them out. I stamped the text (Creative Expressions) on kraft card and die cut this with a Papermania label die.
I painted the box frame with avocado acrylic paint and then stamped with a button border and green ink.
I assembled it as you see embellishing with various buttons, pearls and a ribbon flower. I was aiming at a rather retro/vintage look so hope you think I've achieved it here.

The entries for the messy and inky challenge were amazing and we can't wait to see what you come up with for this one. Don't forget to stamp though, as this is what our challenges are all about. You also should check out the Design Team inspiration as my DT sisters have made some stunning creations.
Have a great Sunday.
Hugs, Fliss xx

Challenges for my altered shadow box:
Simon Says Stamp & Show - Hey Girl (inspired by my fashion designing daughter)
It's All About Vintage - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
Sarah Hurley Challenge - Alter Something
Crafty Creations - Buttons

Summer At The Beach

Morning folks, it's still rather hot here today but is muggy as it's cloudy at the moment so I hope the sun will come back soon. You may need sunglasses for my card here as it's rather bright! This is because the theme for the new challenge over at Polka Doodles today is Summer something we haven't seen much of this year but we can live in hope!
Here's my card and you'll now see what I mean about the sunglasses!

I made the card blank by using a large Go Kreate die offset slightly at the fold to make a pretty shape and then made a frame for the front using yellow polka dot paper from the Sugarplum Daisy CD with the same paper in blue underneath.
I used the beach hut and ice cream images from the Sundae of Seasons CD (rather appropriate don't you think lol) with the bunting from the Studio 12 Picknix Collection 1 CD. The cute image is Taylor - Camping Day by Emma Canning but I decided to imagine her heading for the beach with a parasol and wellies for wading in some rock pools. Everything was coloured with a mix of Aquamarkers and Prismacolor pencils which I love to add detail with - do you like the stripes and dots on the bunting?
I finished off with a sentiment from Sugarplum Daisy, die cut with a Nestabilities scalloped circle die and coloured up to resemble the sun.

You'll have to let me know what you think and hope you like my bright and sunny creation.
Thanks for looking and have a great day.
Hugs, Fliss xx

Challenges for my card:
Crafts and Me Challenges - Anything Goes
Whimsy Inspiration - Summer Fun
Creative Craft Challenges - Summertime
Die Cuttin' Divas - Summer Fun

Analogous Colours at MMM

Good morning folks on a glorious and warm sunny day which I hope you have too as it feels like Summer at long last. We probably need to make the most of it too as the weather is so changeable at the moment.
We have a new challenge for you today at Make My Monday where we are continuing with Mynnette's colour wheel theme for July and this week the theme is Analogous Colours with the chosen hues being Light Blue, Turquoise and Dark Blue.
This immediately brought the seaside to mind for me and I broke out another of my Michael Powell stamps for my card.

The background paper for this was made using the same mottled paper technique as my last card and Distress inks in Tumbled Glass and Stormy Sky. I then stamped on the Hampton Art distressed stripes with Chipped Sapphire and Memories Mermaid Teal.
I stamped the beach hut scene with VersaFine Majestic Blue on thick smooth cartridge paper and coloured the image with Aquamarkers in shades of blue.
I added a dark blue mat to the cut out image and a Papermania sentiment stamped with the same dark blue ink. Simples!

The Design Team have made a huge variety of samples for your inspiration so do hop over to see how many ways to interpret the challenge.
Have a great day.
Hugs, Fliss xx

Challenges for my card:
Crafting When We Can - Monochrome
Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge - Monochromatic

Very Inky And Messy

Hello folks, hoping you're having a lovely day of sunshine as we have here with a brief appearance of summer and hoping it lasts a bit.
I'm here today with my rather late DT piece for Fashionable Stamping Challenges current theme - Let's Get Messy & Inky which I couldn't do last weekend due to my sinus troubles (which have decided to come back too!) but this time I decided to just get on with what I have to do.

I made the background paper for my card using a Julia Andrus mottled paper technique from her lovely book Paper Transformed and although I couldn't make it do exactly what Julia's sample did (hers was a lot more mottled) I'm quite pleased with the effect I did achieve. I used Shabby Shutters, Victorian Velvet and Wild Honey for the technique and added Crushed Olive round the edges afterwards.
I stamped on the flourish style flowers (Kanban Birds of Paradise clear stamp set) with Memories Delicate Rose.
I then die cut the cage and bird by Tim Holtz from thick white card. I inked the cage with Frayed Burlap Distress ink then with embossing ink and embossed with Stampendous Frantage Aged Silver Embossing Powder (I think this is just gorgeous!).
I coloured the bird and wings with a mix of Promarkers and Distress inks ad added him to the card with the cage.
I die cut a flourish with a Marianne die from white card and inked this with the rose ink to finish off my card.

If you haven't yet entered the FSC challenge you still have a few days left so why not give it a try - I can't think of anything more fun craft wise than getting inky!
Hugs, Fliss xx

Challenges for my card:
Samuel Taylor's - Die Cuts
Crazy Amigo's Challenge - Free Theme
Simon Says Stamp and Show - No Rules!
Stamptacular Sunday - To Die For (2 or more dies)

Christmas In July

Hello folks, hope you're all having a lovely weekend with some sunshine as we've had here today. I'm here to share a card I made with the brand new Polka Doodles CD, Here Comes Christmas, which has had me well and truly glittered up lately as I've been making samples for Nikky.
This CD is just fabulous and I think the best of all the Christmas ones as it has a vintage feel to it and if you caught the show this morning, you might have caught sight of this card on the table at the front - it's my favourite of the creations I made and I hope you'll like it too (I actually didn't want to part with this one!)

I made a centre step card for this one, adjusting a template I found on the internet as I wanted to make it from an entire piece of A4 size card (if anyone would like the one I did please let me know and I'll send it to you as it's quite easy to make up)
I printed out the gorgeous snowman using the coloured image (largely because I coloured up the black and white digi and then had an accident with some double sided adhesive film which I thought was clear but turned out to be white - as I wanted to glitter the snowman I'm sure you can see why I was a bit annoyed here!!!) and added extra colour and some glitter. I die cut the image with a Papermania die and inked with Tumbled Glass and Crushed Olive Distress inks then added him to a mat of red glitter card cut to the size of the central panel.
I covered the rest of the card with one of the very pretty bright plaid papers and added some stitched ribbon to the bottom step.
I made some snowflake embellishments using white card - the large one is the Cuttlebug snowflake cut and emboss die and the small ones a punch. I inked them with Peeled Paint and Fired Brick Distress inks and embossed them with crystal glittery powder. I added jewels to the centre and finished off with 2 sentiment tickets which I coloured with a Promarker and distressed a little.

I'll have more to show you over the next week but for now, bye and see you later!
Fliss xx

Challenges for my card:
Cardmadfairy's Digi Days - Christmas in July
Delightful Challenges -  Christmas in July
Paper Play -  Christmas in July
Die Cuttin' Divas -  Christmas in July
Hooked On Crafts -  Christmas in July
Lollipop Crafts -  Christmas in July
There She Goes -  Christmas in July

Go Green and Recycle

Good morning folks, hoping this post appears as scheduled as I'm at the hairdressers at the moment having my trim up as my hair always seems to grow like it had fertiliser put on it lol
A new challenge starts today at Polka Doodles which is actually a Team A one but I had to hijack it because the theme is Go Green & Recycle which is a favourite of mine.
Here's my creation which is a vintage style card this time.

I've once again used the Paige "Wedding Day" image which I think is my favourite of Emma's cute girls and this time I've turned her dress into an evening gown. I printed again on thick cartridge paper and coloured with (you've guessed it!) Aquamarkers to give her a blue dress and dark red hair.
Here's a pic of some of the recycled items I used on the card:

I die cut an oval of the grey board and painted this with a couple of coats of dusky pink acrylic paint then stamped on the flourish flower from the Daisy Doodles stamp set with Stazon brown ink.
I made a mat for the cut out image by die cutting a smaller oval from the yogurt carton wrap which I then embossed with the c-Art-Us roses folder.
I stamped the flourish flower in the corners of a square of kraft dotty paper from the A Double Sprinkle of Kraft CD and made 2 central borders, one a scrap stamped with the same flourish flower and the other a piece of the lovely patterned tea box card.
I added a layered flower with a metal button centre and a sentiment from the Sugarplum Daisy CD to finish.

Nikky will be on Create and Craft tomorrow at 11am and 4pm with the brand new CD called Here Comes Christmas so I'm sure you can guess what I've been doing lately - it really has been Christmas in July and I'm all glittered up to prove it! The CD has the most gorgeous images yet and a HUGE amount of papers and I'll be back tomorrow to show you my favourite of the samples I made. Do watch the shows if you can as you'll love the CD!

Bye for now,
Fliss xx

Challenges for my card:
Digi Doodle Shop's Best - Anything Goes
Divas By Design - Anything Goes
Little Red Wagon - Pretty Packaging
The Paper Shelter - Anything Goes
Stampin' Royalty - Anything Goes

Shabby Chic Floral Brooch

Morning folks, I'm still coughing and spluttering here and have to say the current weather doesn't help. I think I need some sunshine to shift my cold but probably not much chance of that at the moment.
I just popped here to let you know that I have another project today over at Studio 12 Creative Team and this one is a bit different. Have a look at this.

Bet you didn't know you could make something like this from what's on a CD! If you'd like to find out how I made it, hop on over to Studio 12 and all will be revealed.
Hope you like my idea and please do let me know what you think.

Hope the sun is shining where you are.
Hugs, Fliss xx

Complimentary Colours at MMM

Hello folks, my Make My Monday post is here a bit later than usual as I woke up on Saturday to find that my dear hubby had generously given me his recent cold which went straight to my sinuses and I've felt so yuck that crafting went out of the window!
I managed to finish off my card for the third of Mynnette's July colour challenges which this week is Complimentary Colours - Yellow and Purple.
My card features another of the cute images drawn by Priyanka of My Heart Pieces who is our sponsor for the month and the winner will receive 5 digital images of their choice.

My patchwork design uses some scraps from my leftovers box - the deeper yellow paper was inked and stamped with a floral design, the lemon and lilac card I embossed with a c-Art-Us rose embossing folder and the lilac polka dot paper is Polka Doodles from the Sugarplum Daisy CD.
I printed the image on to thick cartridge paper and coloured her with Aquamarkers. I die cut her into an oval and stamped flowers round the edge with yellow and purple inks.
I assembled the card as you see, adding a computer generated sentiment.

The Design Team have made a variety of cards for your inspiration and do pop over for a look as the different styles are amazing.

I'm off now to catch up on some more of my DT commitments which have got rather behind now!
Back soon, Fliss xx

We're Hopping At Polka Doodles!

Good morning folks, hoping you're all having a good week and sorry for the lack of visiting - I'm up to my eyes in various stuff at the moment and there aren't enough hours in the day to do everything! I have matchsticks propping up my eyelids!
Over at Polka Doodles this week, we have a Blog Hop combined with the challenge as we're celebrating the Olympics being held in Britain at the moment (the torch is coming here very soon too) so we would like to see your creations in Red, White and Blue with a British theme to them.
Here's what I made:

I've used another of the cute Emma Canning Downloads and this one is called Paige - I Love You, perfect for all those love themed cards so mine is a special celebration one. I coloured her with Promarkers using Prismacolor pencils to add some detail then die cut her into an oval and inked the edges.
I used red dotty backing paper from Nikky's Britannia kit and hearts (I glittered the red one) from the Welcome Home Kit of the Studio 12 Picknix Collection 1 CD. The union jack heart is also from the Britannia kit and was coloured with Promarkers.
I added a piece of pearly blue card embossed with a Cuttlebug hearts folder, then embellished with a flower, bow and some red heart flourishes die cut with a Sissix die. A sentiment from Sugarplum Daisy finished off my card.

Now for the hop details as you need to do both this and the challenge to have a chance at the fabulous prizes - we have a Studio 12 Picknix Collection 1 CD for the winner and 2 runners up will receive an Emma Canning Download.
You should have arrived here from the lovely shell's blog and you need to head on next to the lovely

Claire - Happy Days

but don't forget to leave me a comment so that we know you've been to visit.  If you get lost along the way, just hop back to the challenge blog to be set on the right track. Good luck!

Hugs,
Fliss xx

Secondary Colours at MMM

Hello there everyone, hoping that you all had a good weekend despite the very wet weather and my commiserations to anyone involved in flooding. All we had here was a small one nearby as the rain water drains couldn't cope and flooded the road round the corner from me resulting in me having to drive through it to pick up my daughter from work. My wheel arches got a good wash!
Monday is here again and we have another of Mynnette's Colour Wheel challenges for you over at Make My Monday and this week the theme is Secondary Colours - Orange, Green and Purple so you may need sunglasses for my card as it's rather bright!

I've used one of the sweet images from our sponsor for July, Priyanka of My Heart Pieces and printed her out on to thick cartridge paper then coloured her with various Aquamarkers and cut her out. I set her on an oval mat embossed with the Cuttlebug dots folder.
I then dug out some paper scraps in the challenge colours and layered these up on my card blank, adding some stitched ribbon for texture.
I assembled the card as you see, embellishing with a layered flower and a wooden butterfly coloured with a Promarker to add colour (I was really pleased to see that the wood grain still shows through from underneath). I finished off with a computer generated sentiment, die cut with a Papermania label die, coloured with a Promarker and embellished with pearls.

We had some gorgeous interpretations of last weeks' Primary Colours challenge and can't wait to see what you come up with for this one. If you're stuck for inspiration, the Design Team have some very varied creations to get the creative juices flowing so do pop over for a look.

Have a great day,
Hugs, Fliss xx

Challenges for my card:
Sentimental Sundays - Bingo (Pearls, Flowers,  Stamp)
That Craft Place - Anything Goes

Cherish

Hello folks on yet another wet and dismal day and at this rate I think I'll soon have webbed feet as I'm sure it's only the ducks who would like this much rain!
I have a card to share with you made with one of the gorgeous and cute Emma Canning digital images that Nikky now has available for downloading at Polka Doodles.
Two of my younger daughter's friends are getting married very soon so I have some wedding cards to make and decided to get a head start.

The image is called Paige Wedding Day and I printed her out then coloured her with Promarkers adding detail to her hair with Prismacolor pencils to give some texture (largely because I'm not that great at doing this with the markers lol). I then cut her out.
I covered my card blank with some of the elegant rose paper from the Love & Cherish CD and added crochet lace and some subtle glittery Laura Ashley ribbon.
I embossed the gorgeous frame from the Sissix Roses & Frame set on to some pearly silver card and then cut it out. I added a central white panel cut to size and embossed with a Cuttlebug hearts folder. I added the image with foam tape and embellished her frock with a silver dotty bow.
I die cut a sentiment with a round Nestabilities die to finish off my card.

I also have a bit of great news to share as my Strawberries card from a week or so back won the Craft Punked Strawberries & Cream challenge - I was thrilled to bits with this and would like to thank Steph and the team for picking my creation. Here's the fab badge I just received.

Thanks for looking and hope you all have a great weekend.
Fliss xx

Challenges for my card:
Paper Pretties - Any Occasion Card
Ruby's Rainbow - Emboss It!
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
Sassy Cheryl's - Anything Goes

Rose Cottage at Studio 12

Morning folks on a rather dismal day yet again and with no let up on the horizon at the moment apparently.
Just a quickie from me to let you know that I have another project today over at Studio 12 as my inspiration from the Picknix Collection 1 CD.

All the instructions on how I made the card are over at Studio 12 and you can see how easy it is by clicking HERE.
It's definitely worth your while to pop over as we have CANDY up for grabs at the moment and it's as easy as leaving a comment and giving us a shout to spread the word. There will also be more candy when we reach 200 followers so if you're not yet following, now would be a good time to join!

I'd also like to wish our American cousins a very Happy 4th July and hope you have a great day of celebrations.
Thanks for looking,
Fliss xx

Papercraft Inspirations

Evening everyone, hoping you're all having a good week so far despite the rather wet weather at the moment.
Before I tell you my news, I'd like to say a very warm welcome to my lovely new followers - it's great to have you all on board and I look forward to getting to know you.
Now I have some rather exciting news to share (for me at least that is lol) as I have a card featured in the August issue of Papercraft Inspirations magazine which came out today. This is because of Enfys of Going Buggy who is a regular contributor to the mag and I'd like to say a huge thanks to her for thinking of me.
Here's the card for you to see and if you'd like to see how I made it, if you click HERE you'll be transported over.

That's all for now folks but I'll be back tomorrow with another project for the Studio 12 creative team to share with you all.

Thanks for looking.
Hugs, Fliss xx

Primary Colours

Good morning folks, hope you all had a good weekend. I had a fabulous day yesterday dodging showers to watch all the wonderful demonstrators at The Craft Barn Extravaganza and particularly enjoyed watching Jean Hardy (and having a chat with the lovely Malcolm about Brighton), Lindsay Mason, Leandra Franich and Andy Skinner. I also met up with Claire (Happy Days) from the Polka Doodles DT and Alison (craftytrog) which was really lovely. Apologies to Helen Chilton too as I was going back to watch her demo when she was less busy but ran out of time!
As it's Monday and also July, we have a new monthly theme for the challenges over at Make My Monday and chosen by Mynnette the overall theme is the Colour Wheel. This week the challenge is to use Primary Colours, Red, Yellow and Blue. Here's what I made:

The flower is from a Hero Arts set and I stamped it repeatedly on white card to build up a floral scene - I was thinking meadow here in case you're wondering. I then coloured them with various yellow Promarkers and sponged on Stormy Sky Distress ink.
I stamped the B Line Designs butterfly with black and coloured this with red Promarkers then cut it out.
I assembled the simple card as you see adding a sentiment on a red card mat.

Here's Mynnette's first colour wheel interpretation above.

 
We are lucky enough to be sponsored this month by Priyanka of My Heart Pieces who is offering a prize of 3 digis of choice to the monthly winner. She has generously given the Design Team some gorgeous images to work with and my creation for next week will feature one of these.

Challenges for my card:
Dream Valley Challenges - Things With Wings
Dutch Dare Card Challenges - Flutterby Butterfly

Have a great day.
Hugs, Fliss xx

Oriental Delights

Hello folks, the last fortnight over at Fashionable Stamping Challenges seems to have grown wings and flown away as today we have a new challenge for you. The entries for the Nature challenge are awesome so the Design team will be having a very hard time choosing the winners.
Our new theme for the next fortnight is Oriental and I had a bit of trouble with my offering for this one as I started my project 3 times before I was able to make something I'm reasonably happy with. You'll be a bit surprised as I've gone for a very bold colour scheme partly because of the image I used and partly because of the scrap of Japanese paper I found when looking for something else.
Here's the result:

The main image is a stamp I've owned for many years and I can remember buying it the year before 9/11 as there were lots of American companies at the London stamp show and after the attack many of them were too afraid to fly. I think I bought the stamp from Stamp Francisco as they always had masses of unmounted stamps - quite unusual in those days. I stamped the rather psychedelic image with black ink, coloured her with Promarkers, die cut her into a circle and sponged Squeezed Lemonade and Mustard Seed Distress inks round the outside.
I made the red background paper by inking card first with Mustard Seed and then Barn Door Distress ink and stamped on a flower from the Papermania oriental set with the red ink. I then stamped the Japanese serenity prayer by Oakhouse Studios in black in opposite corners.
I made the deep blue background paper by sponging first Stormy Sky then Chipped Sapphire Distress inks around just the edges of a piece of white card cut to size then stamped on another flower from the oriental set with the darker blue ink.
I stamped the large fan from the set with black ink and coloured with Tumbled Glass Distress ink and Promarkers then cut it out.
I assembled the card as you see, adding the square of found Japanese paper and a gold card mat to contrast with the deep blue paper.

The Design Team have made some absolutely stunning projects for this challenge so do pop over and prepare to be inspired.

Challenges for my card:
Chocolate, Coffee & Cards - Anything Goes
Try It On Tuesday - Anything Goes
Incy Wincy Design - Anything Goes

Thanks for looking and have a great day. I'm off to The Craft Barn Extravaganza so will see you later!
Hugs, Fliss xx