Watercolor For Cardmakers Intermediate Day two - Pattern On Pattern Card

This is possibly my last card for today, somebody has to clean do the housework and go shopping, eek (forgot about the shopping!). I need more hours in the day haha!

I used Spellbinders A2 Divine Eleoquence and Fancy Framed Framed Tags One. The sentiment is from House of Mouse, Mice Wishes by Stampendous and is stamped with Archival Jet Black ink. The string is from Hemptique.
Purple

Watercolor For Cardmakers Intermediate Day Three - Lifting Card Three

Hi, this is my third card from the lifting class, I have one more panel but I think I want to maybe frame and keep that one...

I used some string from my stash, Spellbinders Fancy Framed Tags One and Archival Jet Black ink to stamp the saying from Hero Arts Birthday Sayings.
Thanks for looking.
Purple

Watercolor For Cardmakers Intermediate Day Six - Dipped Florals Card

These are the quick and easy flowers Jenifer showed us on the last day of class. I wanted to keep the card pretty clean and simple.

I made two cards very quickly.

I rounded the corners with my WRMK Corner Chomper and mounted the panel on an Xcut die cut. I stamped the sentiment from Hero Arts Birthday Sayings in Archival Jet Black ink.
Thanks for taking the time to look!
Purple

Watercolor For Cardmakers Intermediate Day Three - Lifting Card

This was my first attempt at lifting, it's on a paper that colour would lift from if rewet so I cheated lol. I got some Brushos for christmas and had played around with them . . . a lot lol. Anyway I loved the amount of colours in the leaf green one so just made a panel of that and thought hmm wonder what the KaiserCraft stamp and cuts I got for Christmas would look like on that. As a result the precut leaves were sitting on my desk and I thought why not. I cut the branch up and used them as my leaves for this flower. They are stamped with Archival ink.

I also used Distress Ink in Worn Lipstick on a Mpress Sentiment stamp. I used a Spellbinders die and the circles I added to the front of the card are from die as well.
Thanks for stopping by.
Purple

Watercolor For Cardmakers Intermediate Day One and Two - Wet On Wet Card and Varigated Wash

Here is the start of the cards I have made from class :) This one was made from well . . . rejects. I had been testing each of my paper to find one I could possibly do the wet on wet technique with before I got a pad of Arches, none of them worked properly but I was able to salvage some by cutting out the butterflies :)

I used Lifestyle Crafts nesting butterfly dies to trace to make the wet on wet butterflies, Spellbinders lace ovals and Archival ink that I stamped off with a KaiserCraft sentiment.
Purple

A Little Leafy With Cloud 9 and Archival

Hiya everyone, This month at Ecclectic Ellapu the Purple teams theme is Leaves/Foliage. I have had this great stamp set from Cloud 9, called Leaves, for years and it was still brand new in it's packet lol. So basically as you can see I stamped a pretty much random scattering of leaves about using Archival Inks in Viridian, Potting Soil, Library Green, Watering Can, Plum and Leaf Green. It doesn't show to well in the pic but I didn't clean my stamps in between each colour which in some cases made whole new colours and in others gave a nice mottled effect.

I used a Spellbinders Lacey Square die for my sentiment which is from Inkadinkado's Expessions set. I added some more leaves around the words and mounted the die cut with foam tape for some dimension. A nice easy one this time... Stay tuned though because I also have another more feminine card featuring one of my all time favourite stamp sets :)
Happy Scrappin'
Purple

A Little Dylisions Goes A Long Way

So what happens when you spill Calypso Teal Dylusions over your almost finished project? lol. That's what happened to me here . . . I tried to tip some back into the bottle and made an even bigger mess on my floor as well. Thank you Ultra Clean stamp cleaner for getting it off the lino.

I have to say the Ranger/Tim Holtz watercolour paper is the best I have tried. Love love love it. I used some paper towel to blot off the puddle of dylusions and now if I hadn't told you you wouldn't know it was a huge oopsie! The paper can really take a lot of water without breaking down and pilling.

The flowers and elephant are stamped with Archival ink. The flowers are coloured with Dylusions and Glimmer mist. The elephant is coloured with Copics and a lil Atyou Spica for some extra sparkle :) He is also paper pieces to add some dimension.
Happy Scrappin'
Purple

Stretch Your Stamps 2 DIY Stamped Letter Embelishments.

G'day, this is my second card for day 10 of Stretch Your Stamps 2 at Online Card Classes. As I already had the red cs out I decided to go red again lol. Thank goodness for my Ebosser I can tell you, as I didn't have what was used in class to make the letters I had to do the old cut the cardstock four times trick lol. For this card I used stamps from Paper Xtra, Vermillion Archival ink, Matte Accents for all the letter gluing and Xcuts Slimline Alphabet.
Happy Scrappin'
Purple

Stretch Your Stamps 2 Layering Stamped Images

Hi, I have finally arrived at day 10 of Stretch Your Stamps 2 at Online Card Classes. Fot this card I used Stampin' Spots in Gable Green and Green Galore as well as Archival Ink in Vermillion and Versamark. The stamps I used are Heidi Grace Family Traditions, Printworks Elegant Patterns and TPC Studio Floral Collage. I also used Lifestyle Crafts Nesting Circles and Hero Arts White Embossing powder.
Happy Scrappin'
Purple

Stretch Your Stamps 2 Stamping On Dark Cardstock

Hiya onwards and upwards to day 9 of Stretch Your Stamps 2 at Online Card Classes. As I don't really have any suitable floral builder stamp sets I had to hunt for a bunch of random stamps I could use for this technique. I used Printworks' Elegant Patterns, Clearly Wordsworths Comfort Collection, Heidi Graces Family Traditions and The Paper Studios XOXOXO. I also used Archival inks in Magenta Hue, Aquamarine, Deep Purple, Vermillion, Plum, Manganese Blue and Chrome Yellow as well as Studio G in white, Versamark, Hero Arts White embossing powder, an embossing buddy and a Zig Emboss pen.
Happy Scrappin'
Purple

Stetch Your Stamps 2 Watercolour Stamping

My last card for day 8 for Stretch Your Stamps 2 at Online Card Classes and then I best get hopping on projects for the last three days haha . . . I used an itty petal stamp from the See Dee's stamp set and Fired Brick Distress Ink as well as Archival ink for the sentiment from Mpress. This is a super super quick card to make if you're in a hurry and you can cheat and just use a heart stamp if you want lol, I was tempted!
Happy Scrappin'
Purple

Stretch Your Stamps 2 Kissing (I cheated)

I admit I cheated lol, no kissing on my card, that's because I don't really have many graphic stamps and the ones I had were already patterned :). I did like the effect though. Again I have used the Fiskars Shapes N' Such set with Distress Inks in Mustard Seed, Tumbled Glass, Milled Lavender, Spiced Marmalade and Spun Sugar, the sentiment is from TPC Studio, stamped in Archival ink.
Happy Scrappin'
Purple

Stretch Your Stamps 2 Random Patterns

I have to say this card for Stretch Your Stamps 2 at Online Card Classes posed a bit of a problem as I don't really have many graphic stamps but I found Fiskars Shapes n, Such in my stash and it had two patterned squares of differing sizes. I also used Distress Inks in Ripe Persimmon, Antique Linen, Tumbled Glass and Peackock Feathers as well as Archival Black to stamp the sentiment from Kaisercraft. I wasn't wholly happy with this one so stay tuned fo Take two!
Happy Scrappin'
Purple

Stretch Your Stamps 2 Combo Card

Hiya, for this card from Stretch Your Stamps 2 at Online Card Classes I used a combination of Techniques from two differtent cards. I used From the creator as well as a little paper piecing.

For this card I used stamps from Fiskars (alphabet), TPC Studio (elephant), Hero Arts (greeting) and See Dee's (balloons) with Archival ink and Dylusions as well as Distress Ink in Tumbled Glass, Squeezed Lemonade and Pumice Stone. Really need practice doing these, guess I am using too much water, but it's kind of sweet :)
Happy Scrapin'
Purple

Stretch Your Stamps 2 Watercolour Spotlight

Hi we are at the bonus day and the final stretch of Stretch Your Stamps 2 at Online Card Classes. Panicking a bit as I have 6 cards still to make (I wanted to do more but time is of the essence lol) in the next 24 hours lol. Sorry in advance for the glut of close together posts!

So the storu behind this card and the next one is that I had a specific stamp set I wanted to use that I put somewhere so I could find it . . . and promptly lost it lol. I had to borrow some stamps off my friend to do this one, but may after class finishes now that I found my stamps in a spot I looked five times I will make this card with my original vision.

I have used Stazon Jet Black to stamp my stamps, the sentiment is from Kaisercraft and the flowers are freebies off a mag I think but I'm not really sure. I used Dylusions, Tattered Angels Glimmer Mists and a home made glimmer mist as well. Oh and it's on Ranger Watercolor Cardstock, my new fave watercolour cs! I need to get the hang of this technique a bit more.
Happy Scrappin'
Purple

Special 200th Blog Post Mini Easel Card With Drawer Featuring Candy Lane

So for my 200th blog post I thought I would have a break from SYS2 and post my Daughters 11th birthday card. As you can see it has a bit of a twist. It's an Easel box card so that you can put whatever you want in the little drawer that comes out. Here is a link to the youtube vid I watched to show me how to do this. I used two colours however because that's what miss 11 wanted lol.

I used KaiserCrafts Candly Lane 6" paper pad for this card 'cause if you can't tell . . . my daughters favourite colour is hot pink lol. I also used dies from Spellbinders and Lifestyle crafts as well as archival ink for the sentiment and prima flowers nd some resin floers from Ebay.

For the foam insode I just used some that came in something new once upon time. I have a box full of this stuff just for that purpose. She also got a ring and bracelet in this so I cut slots using my Tim Holtz Scissors and my Prima Knife.
Happy Scrappin'
Purple

Stretch Your Stamps 2 Letters As Objects

I am up to day four of Stretch Your Stamps 2 at Online card Classes and this time we are using letters as objects. Today I used Stazon Jet Black, Archival French Ultramarine, Tim Holtz' Umbrella Man from Stampers Anonymous, alhapbet stamps from Fiskars and sentiment from Cleary Wordworths Comfort Collection.
Happy Scrappin'
Purple

Stretch Your Stamps 2 Faux Watercolour Stamping

Another card from day 1 of Stretch Your Stamps 2 at Online Card Classes. I used Stampin' Ups Floral background stamp along with some ink spots I have from years ago, older colours. I used spellbinders and Hero Arts dies in my Ebosser and the sentiment is from whimsy stamps.
Happy Scrappin'
Purple

A Very CAS Birthday With Gelatos

Hi everyone :) Still having computer issues and well to be honest issues with the freezing winter we are having in Aus this year. It's that time again though and this time for the Purples it's ANYTHING GOES at Eclectic Ellapu. Sorry for the glare on my card but I forgot to take a pic before I packaged it up to sell lol.

This was a very easy card to make. Basically I stamped my image straight on to 300gsm white cs that is made so you can work right on it. I got it from a craft show I went to last year and I'm hoping when I go back in November that they have more. I  coloured using Faber-Castell Gelatos I used with a waterbrush straight from the tubes so I could get the intense colour. I made sure not to use too much water so the cs wouldn't warp and the colour wouldn't bleed through.

I went around the edge of the card with blue and smudged it with my finger and then did the same with a Tim Holtz Movers and Shapers Label with a pink gelato. I used foam tape to raise the label for a little dimension. As you can see this was a nice quick card to make and I was trying out another CAS idea. I'm getting there I think lol.
Thanks for stopping by
Happy Scrappin'
Purple

Distress Paints and Cabbage Roses CAS Style

Hiya Just a quick one today :D This is a card I made for someone who wanted some nice simple Thank You cards. The card started with me playing with the first set of Distress Paints when I got my hot li'l hand on them (the rest of the collection should be winging its way across the seas as I write this!) and doing some practicing on a craft tag. I used a Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous flourish stamp all over the tag with Picket Fence Distress Paint. I had used the tag for something else and had about half left so I got the idea to use it up. I admit I have a box full of "Creative Play" type things I need to start using more and this project was perfect for one.

Something I don't do very often is go CAS, what can I say I like to add things lol. But all I had was half a tag and a vague idea. If you know me, you know I love butterflies, so out came some butterfly dies. I chose the smallest from Spellbinders Nested Butterflies Two and Lifestyle Crafts Nested Butterflies and cut a few from my tag.

I then grabbed Tim Holtz' Movers and Shapers Tickets die and what was left of my tag and cut the smallest ticket for my sentiment. For the background I used white cs and the Spellbinders M-Bossabilities Cabbage Roses. I also did something I haven't done before which is to stamp a split type sentiment. I stamped just a note on the front and then on the inside to say thank you with archival ink. I finished it off by adding a bunch of baby pearls.
Happy Scrappin'
Purple

Ps what a beautiful country I live in :)

Calalla NSW Australia