STAMPlorations Monthly Challenge Reminder: Stamps and Inks!

HI friends!

I'm here to remind you of our current monthly challenge at STAMPlorations: Stamps and Inks. I made a sweet little one layer with one of the latest sets: Trendy Butterflies. I've stamped my butterflies partly with black Versafine and partly with Versamark -the Versamark ones are embossed with clear powder. I then sponged the center panel with some DI:s through a die-cut mask. I think I managed to use quite a lot of inks here! :) Please join us in our January challenge... All the information and plenty of DT inspiration here. 

Photo Inspiration at TIME OUT Challenges!

Hi friends,

It's time for the first TIME OUT Challenge of 2015!We are beginning with an extra special Home Sweet Home photo inspiration: Uniko Studios sponsors our challenge with two prizes! One 15 £ voucher is drawn between all the entrants of our challenge and another 15 £ voucher is drawn between all of you who leave a comment on Uniko blog during our challenge. Please read all the details from our challenge blog where you'll find fab DT inspiration as well! Our GD this time is Chrissie. Many of you know her from Less Is More Challenge. Chrissie is a talented, inspirational card maker -do visit her blog and leave her some love! 

My inspiration from the photo is pretty obvious: I picked the wooden bg, chose orange from one of the pillows and went for floral theme. The sentiment is of course inspired of the photo too! The flower stamp I used is from an Uniko set called Pure Florals: Chrysantenium. The sentiment is from STAMPlorations, you'll find it here . I stamped the flower on a die cut tag (thanks again, Sarah!!) and colored it with Copics. The background is patterned paper. A very simple card! 

I hope to see you joining our first challenge of 2015! Take some TIME OUT and craft, people! :) 

First Ever One Layer Christmas Cards Challenge!

Looking for my CASology GD card? Scroll down or click here.

Hi friends! 

This is already my second post for today... Busy day at Runaway Cards! :)

You might have noticed the new DT badge on my sidebar: I'm very happy to be part of the design team of a new challenge blog called One Layer Christmas Card Challenge! We have 2 challenges for you every month. The challenges are always anything goes with an optional twist -this time it's "red". If you follow the twist you have a chance to win a prize that's drawn once a month!  

I created the ornament in my card by first sponging pink ink through a die cut aperture. I then placed a Simon Says Stencil on top of the sponged ornament (my die cut mask still in place) and stenciled flowers with darker red ink. The string and bow are stamped with stamps by Papertery Ink... And the sentiment (heat embossed with Ranger Liquid Platinum) comes from STAMPlorations set Christmas Flower. Several of One Layer Christmas DT girls used this flower in their cards by the way, don't forget to check them out here! I'm very excited to be in this new design team with all these talented ladies. I hope to see you joining us and playing along!

I'd like to join these challenges:

http://virginiasviewchallenge.blogspot.ca/  Clean Slate

http://dreamvalleychallenges.blogspot.ca/ Christmas

Guest Designing at CASology!

Hi guys!

I'm very honored to guest design at CASology today. CASology is one of the coolest challenge blogs around and I can't believe I won there a couple of weeks ago. Thank you so much Melissa for inviting me to join this week's challenge and Happy 2015 to everyone in CASology design team!

I wanted to have a go with stenciling in my card. I used a bold patterned Simon Says Stamp stencil I hadn't had a chance to use yet -my goal was to try to make the big patterns work in my CAS design. I figured that if I use the patterns sparingly and stick to a simple color palette I might make it work!

I die cut the tag out of a bigger piece of card I had previously sponged with 3 red inks (combo of DI:s and Mementos) and water stamped with the same stencil. That turned out nice! The silhouette stamp in my card is from the Ever After set by STAMPlorations and the sentiment is from a PTI set.

In the card base I masked a strip from the edge and sponged the stenciled design with black Memento ink. The tag is attached with 3d foam stickers for dimension. I only added a piece of ribbon to keep the embellies at minimum.

I hope you think I succeeded in making the bold patterns work for CAS... And I can't wait to see the different interpretations on the DATE- cue card! Thanks again Melissa and CASology DT for having me!

New Sketch at STAMPlorations!

Hi guys!

We are back with our challenges at STAMPlorations! I love the first sketch for 2015 and hope to see you playing along! Our guest designer is Kim Makortoff from Art Keeps Me Sane. Kim is one of my favorite bloggers, she is so talented and a lovely person... Do visit her blog if you are unfamiliar with it!

All the challenge info is to be found here. We offer even more guest designer spots than before so it's definitely worth playing along now. Don't miss the fun! :)

In my DT card (sketch is flipped by the way) I've used stamps from Sugar Rush and paired them with patterned papers, doily and twine. My inspiration for this card was an American Diner... How did I do? My coloring is done with Copics and there's also some extra "frosting" with sparkly embossing glitter (WOW).  Have a nice week everyone and I hope to see you at STAMPlorations!

Thank You Card for Sarah!

Hi friends!
Here's a thank you- card I made for Sarah, one of my teammates at TIME OUT Challenges. If you don't know Sarah, do visit her blog Funky Fossil Designs -she makes super stylish cards! Sarah very kindly sent me the tag die I used in this card as Christmas present (along with a Wink of Stella pen and some beautiful sequins!) so I wanted to send her a card as thank you, using the fun die. :) I used stamps by Avocado Art and Simon Says Stamp falling snow stencil with embossing paste in my tag. The sky is inked with DI and my penguin is colored in with Copics. I opted for a very simple layout.

I'd like to enter these challenges:

http://showcasechallenge.blogspot.fi/2014/12/showcase-your-style-challenge-5-theme.html Use a die cut



http://houseofcardschallenge.blogspot.fi/2015/01/january-challenge-use-glitter-andor.html Colors of the inspiration photo

Word Prompt "Note" at Inkspirational!

Hi friends!

It's time to start the first Inkspirational Challenge for 2015! It's a cool word prompt: note. The DT has been very creative with this one... Take a look here. I'm also excited about our GD Marika, a very talented card maker who nowadays happens to be my friend IRL as well! I found her blog here in blogland and we have met several times already -we happen to live in the same town. I actually loved Marika's take on the word prompt so much I asked if I could have the card and I got it! I paid with coffee, home made juice out of pineapple and oranges, warm sandwiches (made and served by hubby while we chatted!) and some store bought donuts. ;)

Anyways, to my card... I used one of the delicious stamps from STAMPlorations: Sugar Rush and colored it with Copics. The sentiment comes from Avocado Arts. I also used a die cut "piece of music" which I've received as a gift -if I remember right our team member Pia sent it to me for my birthday last year. :) Do you agree, Pia, was it you? 

That's all from me today. I hope to see you all playing along at Inkspirational and Happy New Year 2015!