Anything Goes at Addicted to Stamps and More!

Anything Goes, everyone's favorite, that's our theme this week at Addicted to Stamps and More! I decided to practice on my CAS skills since I think that's my weakest style in card making -mainly because I keep adding stuff and there goes the CAS style! :) ATSM has a sister blog, Addicted to CAS, their theme this week is glitter so I decided that glitter is what I need!

I started with masking the square with post-its, sponging the area with two shades of Distress Inks and giving it a mist of Fuzzy Navel Peach Stardust spray. I keep forgetting that I have these sprays and it's a pity -they give a really beautiful shine! After my square was dry I removed the post-its and stamped the Hero Arts chandelier with black Versafine, embossed it with sticky embossing powder and poured black glitter on top of it when the powder was hot. I think the chandelier looks stunning and the glittery effect is amazing but I can also tell you that I had to vacuum my craft-room afterwards... I ended up having the black glitter everywhere! It was also quite difficult to get the excess glitter out of the card although I had used an embossing buddy before starting, just to warn you off if you want to try the technique. :) To finish off the card I stamped the LOTV sentiment with my two DI:s -it's not completely straight but I decided not to mind. I'm trying to learn how to be merciful with small mistakes. :)

I hope I'll see you at ATSM Anything Goes Challenge! As always, there's plenty of DT inspiration  in the challenge blog and you'll find all the challenge rules and details there too. MelonHeadz sponsors the challenge. Happy crafting!

I'd like to enter the followiing challenges:
http://glitternsparklechallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/ Clean and Simple
http://www.addictedtocas.blogspot.com.au/ Glitter

Birthday Party at Tuesday Throwdown!

Hi friends,
do you agree with me that she is dressed for a party?!? You are looking at Lovely from Saturated Canary, they are generously sponsoring our challenge this week at Tuesday Throwdown. I hope you'll feel like making a birthday card and joining us! I left the sentiment out since to me it was so obvious that she is going to a party. :) I really enjoyed coloring her with my Copics -it took some time and many practice versions though. I noticed that in coloring this type of hair (for me) it was better to have a bit more contrast between the marker number codes and not have the ones that are exactly next to each other. I believe I used E57, E33 and E31 or E30 (can't remember anymore!) -normally I would have used E57, E35, E33, E31, E30.

I hope you'll now head on over to our challenge blog ans see what the other DT members did with their Saturated Canary images. You'll find all the challenge rules an details in the blog too. Happy crafting!

I'd like to enter the following challenges:
http://saturatedcanarychallenge.blogspot.fi/ Glamour and Glitz (I used Stickles in her rose and she is full of glamour I think!)
http://artisticinspirationschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/p/challenge-rules.html Celebrations
http://www.creativecreationschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ Anything Goes
http://createdwithlovechallenges.blogspot.fi/ Anything Goes
http://eurekastamps.blogspot.fi/ Anything Goes
http://blog.markerpop.com/2013/07/22/markerpop-challenge-27/ Hair coloring
http://stampwithfun.blogspot.fi/ Celebration
http://www.tammyscrapincorner.com/ Use a digi

Time for Dinner!

Hi friends,
It's the 5th Monday of the month so in the House of Cards Challenge we have a photo inspiration for you. This week you don't have to follow a specified card making style, your card can represent what ever style you wish, any card making style will do! Normally we give you a style to follow every week: Fun & Cute, Clean & Simple, Classic & Elegant or Vintage& Shabby. But as this is the 5th week of the month, you can choose your favorite style, yay!

Me, being in the Fun & Cute DT, have made my card to represent that style. At first I had hard time figuring out how to turn this photo of a classy dining room into something funny, but then it hit me... Dining room needs dinner and my Henry the Mouse from WOJ has just done some grocery shopping! This is my favorite Henry stamp -I just love that look on his face. I colored the image with Copics and searched for cute papers with orange hues. The sketch is an old sketch from Deconsturcted Sketches, I really love it. There will be new DT inspiration every day this week at House of Cards, I hope you'll visit the blog and join us in the challenge! Happy crafting!

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

http://arandomthursdaychallenge.blogspot.fi/ Anything Goes
http://www.southerngirlschallenge.blogspot.fi/ Animal Antics
http://crazy4challenges.blogspot.fi/ Picnic
http://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/ Summer Food/Drink -I hope these picnic style groceries will do!

Anything Goes at Digi Sketch!

Hi guys,

I'm sure you'll enjoy hearing that for the next fortnight we'll have an "Anything Goes" Challenge for you at Digi Sketch! You can use whatever sketch you want, what ever style or theme -well, anything goes!

Our sponsor is Digi Darla's and I was lucky to get to work with their beautiful Sunny Bouquet image. The color inspiration of my photo comes from Color Throwdown and the coloring is done with Copics -as always. :) I hope you'll now head on over to the  challenge blog for more DT inspiration and all the challenge details. Thanks for popping by and happy crafting!

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

http://colorthrowdown.blogspot.fi/ Color Throwdown

http://rubysrainbow.blogspot.fi/ Layer it up

http://craftsandmechallenges.blogspot.fi/ Anything Goes
http://arandomthursdaychallenge.blogspot.fi/ Anything Goes
http://deliciousdoodleschallenge.blogspot.fi/ Summertime
http://craftingwhenwecanchallenges.blogspot.fi/ Floral
http://scrapbitzcopics.ning.com/group/cmccopicchallengegroup Anything Goes

Two Butterfly Cards for Jackie Rockwell's Challenges

Jackie Rockwell from Rockwell Designs is having a really fun color challenge -or 10 color challenges actually! Jackie has posted 3 of them so far and I believe she will post a new challenge every week from now on. All the challenges run until 22nd of September. Click here for all the challenge rules and details and learn more about the prize -it's a free blog header! I would soooo want to win that so fingers crossed! :) I'll try to make a card to all of the challenges and here are my two first cards.

The card above is for the Nectarine Challenge. I stamped the image (Stamp it Australia) directly on design paper and used kraft card base and some black gems. I'm quite pleased with how pretty this looks and with so little effort! I'd like to enter this card also to:
http://craftsandmechallenges.blogspot.fi/ Anything Goes
http://onestitchatatimechallenge.blogspot.fi/ Use a favorite (collage style stamps)

The card below is for Jackie's Tender Shoots Challenge. My card base is again kraft, I used grey as my accent color (neutrals are allowed) and a die-cut butterfly as my focal point. The sentiment is from a Penny Black set. This was another super easy card but I used more time figuring out my layout. I'd like to enter this card also to:
http://alotarubberstamps.blogspot.com.au/2013/07/challenge-111-butterflies.html Butterflies
http://fashionistachallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ Wings
http://www.platypuscreekdigitals.blogspot.fi/ Things with wings

That's all from me for now, thanks for popping by!

Sure Was Good!

Hi guys!
As my regular visitors and followers maybe remember, I recently started in a design team of House of Cards. HOC is a very fun and a bit different challenge, this is what the blog owners tell us about the concept:

Here is how our challenge blog works--we will have a monthly color palette or sketch and then each week we'd like to see a different card making style using those parameters.  If there is a 5th Monday in the month, we will have a photo inspiration and you can create using any card making style you'd like!  We'll also have a super fun photo inspiration challenge/blog hop that will happen at the beginning of December 2013.  The challenge will run from December 1st through December 15th and will also be a blog hop with a chance to win a prize package.  If at that point you feel so inclined, we'd love to have you enter our DT call that will be running at the same time!

The different card making styles are Fun & Cute (my DT group!), Clean & Simple, Classic and Elegant + this weeks style, Vintage & Shabby. The inspiration photo is seen below my card -I used two reds, the greyish white + blue as my accent color. The sweet vintage image is from Nicecrane -if I remember right, the collage sheet set is called "Born To Be Wild". Totally cute!

My sketch inspiration comes from Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge -I altered it a bit so I totally understand if I'm removed from the linky -I just had to leave the whole doily to the card, I couldn't cut part of it off! :) That's it from me now, I hope you enjoyed my card and thanks for popping by!

Photo Inspiration at Addicted to Stamps and More!

Hello friends,
time for another great challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More! This week we are having fun being inspired by a picture, seen above. I didn't have any candle-related stamps so I had to think a bit with this one! For a moment I thought I would make a CAS card with rows of flowers but in the end I went to a completely different direction with stamped vintage image and sponged background. I'm pretty certain I saw a similar card in a quite recent Craft Stamper issue but I'm not completely sure! :)  The colors are inspired by the picture and so is the sentiment. I used glossy cardstock in my card -it made the sponging a bit difficult but the colors are glowing beautifully -I used Adirondrack inks this time. As always, ATSM Design Team has done amazing projects -head on over to the challenge blog for all the challenge details and DT inspiration. We are happy to have MelonHeadz continuing as our July sponsor. Happy crafting!