Scrapaholix

Been to my monthly Scrapaholix crop today, what a fantastic kit, papers were from the Chanteuse Collection from Kaisercraft.
 
The kit contained 1 x  Eco and 1 x Soprano double sided papers, 2 x cream, 1 x green and 1x brown bazzill cardstock and some bling.  I also purchased 1 x Staccato and 1 x Rondo die cut paper and the chipboard kit to go with it.  It was nice to meet up with the other members and enjoy plenty of chatter whilst working and it was great to welcome back one of the leaders who has been on a 15 month break to Australia.

My layouts created with the papers :-

Less Is More Challenge Week 17

The challenge this week over at Less is More is to use one of the 5 squares

 
http://simplylessismoore.blogspot.com/2011/05/week-17-recipe-pick-square.html

and this is my what I have come up with

 

I've used a Lilly of the Valley stamp and coloured with my new Prismacolour pencils (birthday present from my girls) first time I've used them and I must admit I am very pleased with the effect.

The patterned paper is from the Pampered Pets range by Andrea Jayne Evans supplied by Docrafts.


The sentiment is from a craftwork cards and I've used punches & gems to make the flower spray, all finished off with a some stickles to add a bit of bling.

Heres a closer look at the coloured image

Hope you like it.

Fabulous Weekend

Well just back from a fab weekend scrapbooking.  Been on a Scrapbook Getaways weekend crop with my Mum and Sister.  It was held at the Broughton Hotel, Milton Keynes.  35 hours uninterrupted scrappin (well apart from some lovely food breaks) and 10 pages completed.

Here's me hard at work

Butterflies

What a great challenge over at Less Is More this week, Butterflies now who doesn't love these, so versitile will go with most ideas, anyway I'm waffling here's my attempt

http://simplylessismoore.blogspot.com/2011/05/week-16-theme-butterflybutterflies.html

I'm really loving these challenges, it's making me think outside the box and taking me away from my comfort zone,  keep it up ladies

To create this I've been playing with my alchol inks, I used 4 different colours mixed for the background, the main image is a paper artsy stamp inked with versafine black and embossed with clear powder.

The butterflies were then stamped ontop of another piece of alchol inked card clear embossed and cut out.

I'm really pleased with the overall effect.





Here's a closer look at the main image

Sketchy Thursdays

Phew just in time to get my entry in for the June sketch challenge over at Sketchy Thursdays.

http://sketchythursdays.blogspot.com/2011/05/june-gdt-challenge.html

I really enjoyed this sketch and think this may be one for my ladies at the Vanilla Crafts Thursday Scrap Group

The patterned papers are from the Desert Bloom range from First Edition Papers and the plain cardstock from Tim Holtz range by Bazzil.

Embossing Take 2

Taking on board some of the comments on my post for the challenge this week at Less is More I decided to have another go :-

http://simplylessismoore.blogspot.com/2011/05/week-15-one-layer-card-embossing_14.html

 I dry embossed the three squares then using a Hero Arts stamp and silver ink I stamped the three images embossing them with clear powder.
The sentiment is done using the same technique.

Plenty of white space so hopefully I've got it right this time.

Embossing

I was so pleased with my attempt at last weeks less is more challenge that I couldn't wait for this weeks to appear.

The theme this week is one layer card with "embossing"
http://simplylessismoore.blogspot.com/2011/05/week-15-one-layer-card-embossing_14.html

The stamps are all from the Tim Holtz urban chic collection by Stampendous, it was my birthday on Saturday and these were a present from my best friend.

I stamped the swirls with versamark and used clear embossing powder, I then added my distress inks, once dry I stamped the bird and text images using archival ink and embossed with clear embossing powder, I then finished with the leaves and vines again using archival ink.



I feel quite pleased with the result.
I'm also going to enter this in the Crafty Cardmakers challenge 46 which is also embossing
http://craftycardmakers.blogspot.com/2011/05/challenge-46-embossing.html