FRESH BREWED AT FYI, AND A CRAFT STAMPER SNIPPET!

Hi there my lovely blogging friends - I hope you are all having an enjoyable week?
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It's time for another Challenge at FYI, and as always, Steph has provided us with a beautiful inspirational photo. 

This one is quite dark and brooding, with wonderful shades of green and orange, but you can interpret the picture any way you wish.

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As it's the first challenge of the month, there will be a prize for the winner of the Challenge, of three digi images from our generous sponsor - Fresh Brewed Designs. 

The DT have also been given some of their fab. images to work with.

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I have used the "Ladybug Teapot" digi, coloured with Copics, cut out and

slightly curved, then attached with silicone glue onto two oval Nestie layers. 

A sprinkling of Glamour Dust on the flowers.

The gingham is a Wendy Vecchi rubber stamp from the Nature's Art set (love this stamp).

All cardstock from Stampin' Up.

The tiny "party" stamp is from the Papermania Chatsworth set.

"You're Invited" stamp from K andCo.

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Finally, here is a little snippet from my project published in the June issue of 

~ Craft Stamper ~

sending love to all ~ 

FLOWERS AND NEUTRALS!

Hope you are all well my lovelies. I have some flowers for you today - 
some neutral, some vibrant!

Firstly the neutrals, which I have popped on my card for this week's
LESS IS MORE CHALLENGE.

 The Lovely Mandi and Chrissie have asked us to use NEUTRALS

on our projects - anything from off-white to black, and shades of beige, brown, and grey in-between.
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Recipe:-
Punched layers and base card  - SU Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake and Early Espresso.
Paper snippets and an EK Success Flower Punch ~
 (the gingham is a Wendy Vecchi stamp inked with Staz-on Timber Brown).
Stems created with a pin-pricking tool.
Tiny bow - SU Linen thread.
Sentiment -  Penny Black.
Very old metal press-studs for flower centres.
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My card is also entered into Di's Snippets.
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OK - onto the vibrant flowers -  I wonder if anyone can tell me the name of the blossom tree in these photos I took on holiday in Tenerife? The large flowers are the most lush, vibrant orange, the petals tipped with yellowy-white, and at the side of each flower is this strange but wonderful "banana-like" growth. 
CLICK THE PICS. TO ENJOY THE COLOURS. 

Any ideas peeps??!!
Love to all ~

FOR YOUR INSPIRATION .......

Hi lovely bloggers - hope you are all having a happy day. My fingers are inky, so I have definitely had a happy day!!

I  recently discovered a fabulous challenge blog called FYI   - FOR YOUR INSPIRATION, where the challenges are to work with photo inspiration - here is the current challenge photo:- 

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So peeps - here is my take on the above picture:-

Recipe:-

Orange card from Stampin' Up (sorry - not sure of the name of this shade).

Backing paper from a very old 6" Basic Grey pad - "Sublime"

Image from the beautiful Chocolate Baroque "Fantasy Meadow" stamp set, inked with Coffee Archival.

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Distress inks used - 

Antique Linen, Mustard Seed, Wild Honey, Spiced Marmalade, 

Old Paper, Bundled Sage, Crushed Olive, Peeled Paint. 

The flowers were coloured with Distress Inks and Ranger Cut'n Dry pen nibs.

Sentiment from Wendy Vecchi's "Nature's Art" stamp set.

Machine stitching around edges.

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I would also like to enter my card into the following Challenges:-
Make My Monday - Flowers and Leaves (week 33).
One Stop Craft Challenge - Stitching, Faux or Real.
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Update, 31st January - Placed in the Top 3  at Make My Monday - thank you ladies!
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A warm welcome to my new Followers - Jean and Aileen.

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~ Love to all ~

LESS IS MORE - 1,000 ENTRIES???? (CARD 2)!!

Hi lovely bloggers - this is card no. 2 today (yes - two in one day - that has to be a first for me)!, so please scroll down if you would like to see the 1st one!
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At LESS IS MORE Chrissie and Mandi now have 1,000+  Fab. Followers, so someone suggested it would be fun to aim for 1,000 entries into this week's challenge! PHEW!! Hence my two cards being posted separately!

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As from tomorrow, I won't be around for a couple of weeks, as hubby and I are going in search of that big orange thing in the sky! So I am wishing Chrissie and Mandi good luck in advance, oh and if any of those Blog Candies in my sidebar are coming my way - please hang onto them ladies - I will be back to collect!!!

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Recipe:

Very Vanilla cardstock from Stampin' Up.

Postcard stamp - Crafty Individuals.

Sentiment - Wendy Vecchi Nature's Art set.

Vintage Photo DI.

Flowers coloured with Wild Honey and Spiced Marmalade DI, applied with a

Cut-n-Dry Nib. A soft touch of Crushed Olive on the leaves.

DI applied with Cut-n-Dry foam onto Sequin waste (found this in the kiddies' craft section at Boyes store - very cheap)!

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Hope you will all join in - as long as your card is Clean and Simple, Anything Goes!
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See you soon - love to all ~

LESS IS MORE - 1,000 ENTRIES???? (CARD 1)!!

Hi lovely blogging friends - hope all is well with you today? 

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This is the first of two short posts - both of them for this weeks challenge at LESS IS MORE.

The Limette Divas, Mandi and Chrissie now have a very well-deserved 1,000+ Followers, and someone suggested that it would be fun to see if we could

help them reach 1,000+ entries into this weeks challenge - Wow!

I am posting separately to help the cause! 

The challenge by the way is: "ANYTHING GOES", as long as it is CAS.

I think Mandi and Chrissie may have writer's cramp by the end of the week!!

So, here is my first Card.

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Recipe:- 

Wendy Vecchi stamps from the Nature's Art set.

Base butterfly coloured with Copics.

Black Glaze pen on the top layer dots.

Swirl - freee-hand doodle!

Embellishment - an old press-stud.

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Hope you will all join in the fun!
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SENTIMENTAL SUNDAYS GOES GREEN!

Hi lovely Bloggers - hope you are having a relaxing weekend, and some sunshine in your part of the world.

S0 - another Sunday, another Challenge, and at  Sentimental Sundays this week we would like you to Go Green - either use the colour green, or recycle something (or both)! As always, there are prizes to be won, and freebie sentiments too. Pop over to SS for all the details and some fab. ideas from the DT.

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The challenge immediately brought to mind images of green fields and wild flowers, which is quite a happy coincidence as I bought this Hero Arts "Blooming Meadow" stamp recently (plus a few other things!), when I spent the voucher I won from
The Stamp Man (Thanks so much Jill and the DT).
Recipe:-
White card from Stampin Up.
The beautiful digi sentiment is from Ann Vento at Raindrop Echo Designs, printed directly onto the card.
The flower panel was created by stamping the image twice onto a separate peice of white card, using Versamark Ink, then heat embossing with White powder, which creates a "resist" when inks are applied over the image.

The top edge was roughly torn, then Distress Inks were applied with a Tim Holtz Blending Tool - colours: Peeled Paint, Crushed Olive and Mustard Seed.
The piece was then spritzed with a mixture of water and Green Patina Perfect Pearls (which doesn't show up in the photo)!!
The flowers were wiped over with kitchen tissue to remove excess ink , and the panel was attached to the base card.
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Linen twine (from SU) was added, and a small butterfly which was created with a Wendy Vecchi butterfly stamp (from "Natures Art" set) stamped with Olive Green Staz-on onto white shrink plastic which had firstly been inked with Spiced Marmalade DI.
After shrinking, and curving it whilst warm (nearly burnt my fingers off), I coloured butterfly edges and some of the spots, with Cadmium Orange Copic then added a teeny bit of Glamour Dust.
I would like to enter the following challenges:-
Meljens Designs - Green,
Update 21st March - my card won 1st prize at Meljens Designs - whoo-hoo!
Sir Stampalot - Spring is in the Air,
Lets Ink It Up - Embossing.
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Did I hear someone snoring"?? Well, it was a bit of a loooong Post today - sorry!!
Love to all, and have a happy week ~