FIRST ANNIVERSARY AT ADDICTED TO CAS!

Hello lovely bloggers - many thanks for popping by!

Our new challenge at ATCAS is a rather special one - the Code Word may give you a hint!

 Yes - we would love you to help us celebrate the FIRST ANNIVERSARY of Addicted to Clean and Simple! It's one year since our wonderful leader, Kylie, started the ATCAS challenge blog, and I'm sure you will agree - she has done an amazing job! 
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Your Hostess this fortnight is the fabulous Marie ,  and because this is a special occasion, there will be some extra gifts for our CAS Perfectionist, plus 3 sheets of digis from our generous Sponsor, Deedee's Digis.   Your card design can be for any kind of anniversary, as long as it's CAS, with lots of "white space".  Full details HERE.

 and here is my DT card -

Recipe ~
Indigo Blu "Tree-mendous" stamp
Kaleidacolour  Fruitcake ink pad
SU sentiment - Memorable Moments set
SU red Glimmer Paper and Woodware heart punch plus hand-drawn "string"!
Pin-pricked border.
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We are also starting a new feature at ATCAS - a new Guest Designer will join us each month, and our first Guest Designer is the very talented Bonnie Klass ... welcome to the team Bonnie!

Look forward to seeing you all at the Anniversary Party!

VINTAGE SEW-N-SEW!

Hi lovely friends and bloggers - I hope you are well, and enjoying warm weather wherever you are.

I have been stamping and inking today, to create a card for the

Sew-n-Sew challenge at Fashionable Stamping.

Stamps used:-

Crafty Individuals sewing sets - CI-328 and 322.

Indigo Blu crackle background. 

A beautiful stamp from the Flonzcraft Gibson Girl Collection, which was my fabulous winner's prize from Fashionable Stamping in the June "Tag Time" challenge. I cut out the stamped image, added some lace and attached her with silicone glue to add dimension.

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Other items:-
A small brass oval frame, coloured with Gesso and DI.
The "reflection" in the mirror was created by inking the stamp and rolling a brayer over the inked image, then transferring it onto a piece of card.  Image softly coloured with Copics and trimmed to fit the frame. 
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Copics to colour the main image.
Distress inks and Archival Coffee.
Machine stitching.
Buttons and cotton thread.
Spellbinder's Fancy Tags Two.
Brown lace from stash.
Cardstock - SU Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake and Chocolate Chip.
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I would also like to enter the Vintage (or Old) challenge at 
Simply Create Too.

A warm welcome to my latest followers - Michal, Chris, and a mysterious lady who is sitting out the back - would love to know who you are so I can pop over and leave you a comment!
Love and Hugs ~

RED POPPIES AT LESS IS MORE......

Hello lovely peeps - just squeezing in before closing time at Less Is More, so a very quick Post as I am also preparing for my Saturday card-making class. I do hope the "splash" of red isn't too much for the challenge. 

Chrissie and Jen would like to see black and white with a suggestion, a dab, or a patch, of colour. Here is my card.

(Please scroll down if you are looking for my In The Pink post).

I created an aperture and a "frame" with Nestie square dies.

The Indigo Blu "Wild Meadow" image was stamped with Black Archival ink on the die-cut square and adhered to the inside of the card.

The Cuttlebug Poppies were cut from SU Red Glimmer Paper, and the tiny

words are from DoCrafts Chatsworth set. 

Thank you for popping by, and a warm welcome to my new followers - 
Marilyn, Svetla, Viera, Astrid and Pia.

Happy Crafting - Hugs, 

CHALLENGE #4 at IN THE PINK - EMBOSSING!

Hello lovely bloggers and Pinkie fans - hope your week is going well! I have been AWOL in blogland this week, searching for the sun, so this Post is scheduled.

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We had some amazing entries in the "Anything But Square" challenge, and once again Christine and I had a difficult task choosing the Perfect Pinkies.  

Huge thanks to everyone who entered - we truly appreciate your enthusiasm and support.

If you pop over to IN THE PINK  you will find out who the Perfect Pinkies are!

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So - onto this fortnight's Challenge, which is EMBOSSING, and it can be either  

HEAT EMBOSSING or DRY EMBOSSING.  Please  make sure that you also have plenty of PINK on your creation!  

I decided to go with Heat Embossing for the black grasses and Butterfly. 

I also used the resist technique - inking over the images with Distress Inks - Spun Sugar, Tattered Rose, and a little Bundled Sage. 

The butterfly was shaped by using an embossing tool on the reverse.

The scene was created on a rectangle of white card, covered with the pink inking, and spritzed with water.  

The sentiment and Dandelions were "second-stamped" with the black ink, but not embossed.

I pleated the seam binding, and attached with DSST.

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Items used:-

Black Archival ink

Stampendous Detail Black embossing powder.

Indigo Blu stamp set - Wild Meadow (WM 1)

SU Pink Pirouette cardstock for the base card.

SU Basic Black card layer.

Rose Petal seam binding - WOC .

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Look forward to seeing more of your fabulous creations ~

Love to all  and huge thanks to my new followers.

CHOCOLATE BAROQUE AT FYI ....

Hi there my lovelies!  Many thanks for popping by, and a warm welcome to my new followers.   I hope you are all having a happy week. 

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It's time for another challenge at FYI   and here is this week's amazing inspiration photo ~

For my DT card I have taken the blue sky, green grass and the white building  as my inspiration - OK I know my choice of blue is not the same as the pic - but hey - we can interpret the photo in any way we wish!

So here it is, and I hope you like it ~ (the detail is clearer when you click the pic.)

Recipe:-

The blue panel is Basic Grey Granola - a very old snippet which was lurking about in my paper stash, distressed around edges with scissors.
The gorgeous flower and grasses are from the Chocolate Baroque Fantasy Meadow set -  
the flower was stamped with Jet Black Archival ink then painted with Distress Inks - Weathered Wood, Faded Jeans and Peeled Paint.
The grasses were randomly stamped, and second-stamped, with Peeled Paint.
Edges of the oval softly inked with Weathered Wood and Faded Jeans.
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The Ornate Frame die is from Sizzix . The white frame was stamped with the Indigo Blu Crackleglaze background stamp, using clear Versamark ink which was brushed over with Pewter Perfect Pearls to reveal the "crackles".
Machine stitching,  and a sentiment from Hero Arts.
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Hope you will join in the fun at FYI ~ you have two weeks to create your project!
Love and hugs ~ 

MIDSUMMER NIGHT, A BIRTHDAY, AND A MORNING AT A&E!

Hello lovely friends and bloggers - I intended this card to be included with my FYI Design Team post, which was scheduled for 7.00am this morning, (and can be found if you scroll down to the previous post), but last night was a bit of a disaster as Malc (my hubby) had a fall at home, resulting in a rather nasty head injury, so all crafting was out of bounds after 10.pm last night, at which point my card was only partly made.  

We spent this morning at Leeds General Infirmary, whilst Malc had the wound dressed, and various tests carried out.  Fortunately he is OK, thank goodness, though somewhat bloody and bruised.

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We are going away tomorrow for a few days, whilst 101 year old FIL is in respite care for a while, and boy do we need it!  It's also a birthday treat as I am 21 (again) on Sunday!!

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Soooooooooo - onto my card! (If you are still with me)lol !
PS: it looks so much better in Wide-Screen - just click the pic!!

I particularly wanted to enter this into the challenge at Make My Monday  because I love fairies!, and the theme is "A Midsummer Night's Dream", and that just happens to be my Birthday (24th June)!!

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Recipe:-

Fairy - LOTV, stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black. 

The main background created with Distress Inks - Bundled Sage, Peeled Paint, Antique Linen, Weathered Wood and Faded Jeans, and a touch of  SU Night of Navy.

Grasses - Indigo Blu.

Image coloured with Copics.

The Fairy words and the stars, are from Lavinia Stamps.

Backing paper - Prima Madeline.

Machine stitching.

Lace from stash.

Glitter - SU Dazzling Diamonds.

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I would also like to enter my card into the following challenge ~

Try it on Tuesday - Anything Goes.

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I will see you all next week - in the meantime, have a wonderful weekend,.

Update - June 27th - awarded a Top 3 Badge from Make My Monday - thank you ladies!

Lots of love ~ 

THREE STAMPS AT LESS IS MORE, AND HAPPY 60th BIRTHDAY DEBBIE!!

Good evening lovely bloggers - life has got in the way of blogging this last week or two, so I'm happy to be back in crafting mode again, and sharing my LESS IS MOREcard for this week's challenge., which is ................. the one we all love - A ONE LAYER CARD!!!  The fabulous Chrissie and Mandi would also like us to use THREE  stamps (not 2, not 4, but THREE)!!

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I would also like to wish my lovely "For Your Inspiration" teamie Debbie  a very Happy 60th Birthday!

Yes - you can't keep it a secret Debbie - the whole world now knows that you are 60 years young on May 13th!!  So peeps, please pop over to Debbie's lovely blog and leave her some lurve, and wish her a Happy day!

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Update - June 6th - my card was included in the Winners list at St. Lukes Charity Cards.
Thank you ladies!

I have used THREE stamps from the "Wild Meadow" Indigo Blu set. - the sentiment, the Dandelion Clocks, and the Grasses border stamp, inked with Archival Coffee. 

Brayered Distress Inks -  Spiced Marmalade and Mustard Seed.
I would also like to enter my card into the following Challenges:-
PILE IT ON - "Clean and Simple".
ST LUKES CHARITY CARDS - "One Layer Month".

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A huge welcome to my new Followers.

Love to all - have a very happy week ~

GREEN TREE-MENDOUS !

Hello lovely bloggers - hope you're keeping warm, dry and safe in this wet and windy UK weather.

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A short post today, with my offering for the GREEN challenge at LESS IS MORE.

The image is Indigo Blu "Tree-mendous", inked with Versafine Spanish Moss, Color Box Moss Green and  Color Box Olive. I applied the inks to give a slightly darker shade towards the tree trunk.

The layers of cardstock are left-overs  of River Rock (love this colour) from SU, and a dark green from Bazill (no idea what it's called)!

The heart is punched from a snippet of red glitter card which I LOVE.

Ribbon from stash

Sentiment from a fabulous set by Layers of Colour Art Stamps.

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I am also entering this card into Jules' Snippets challenge at Always with a Heart
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Hope you are all ready for Christmas now, with cards made, cakes baked and all that jazz - 

have a great weekend - love to all ~

BLING IT ON ............

Hi there lovely bloggers - hope the week has started well for you. 

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Before I post my card for this week's LESS IS MORE CHALLENGE, for anyone visiting Harrogate, (in Yorkshire) a new branch of Samuel Taylors opened 8 weeks ago on Commercial Street. I found it quite by accident on Saturday, as it's a street I don't often go down - but of course I will now!  Maybe I'm the only person in the area who didn't know about it, but I thought someone out there might welcome the news!!

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OK - down to business - the Lovely Mandi and Chrissie have asked all Limettes out there to use BLING on their cards this week - yaaay how could anyone resist ! 

So peeps - when I popped into Samuel Taylors in Harrogate on Saturday (ha-ha)! I just couldn't resist buying this fabulous Indigo Blu stamp - she is called "Rebecca - Snow Queen". 

Ink used - Ranger Archival Jet Black.

Soft touch of Weathered Wood Distress Ink on the background applied with Cut 'n Dry foam.

Sentiment - Anna Griffin

Pale pink and blue gems from stash (they are much more sparkly in real life)!

Cardstock from Stampin' Up.

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I would also like to enter the following challenges:-
Glitter Fairies - "Non-Traditional Christmas"
Craft Your Passion - "Tis The Season"
Dream Valley - "Sparkle".
Stamptacular Sunday - "Anything Christmas" (with a stamp).

Have a great week everyone ~