Back from my Hols

I am indeed back from my Summer Holidays and ready to Blog!

I notice my last post was at the end of June, I have not been on Holiday since then more's the pity, but here I am back in Blogland with a new card to share from.... dah dah DAAAHHH! ... a different stamp company, Mama Elephant to be precise. Their last release had such an adorable set called In My Heart, it had to be mine!

Their current challenge is to use water colour on your card, so after a few attempts at water colouring clouds with not much success , I watched a few You Tube Vids and managed something resembling a skyscape...

My camera seems to have picked up a lot of the ambient background colour (ooh get me!) so it doesn't look quite so yellow IRL but hey... not bad eh?!

I used Dylusions inks to water colour the background and promarkers to colour my stamped image.

Here is a link to Mama Elephant & Me's current Challenge

Thanks for visiting today!

Nikki x

A Few cards with Simon Says

Hello Hello!

I made a few cards with some of the recent Simon Says Stamp card kist recently and I thought I would share them with you here.

I've really been trying to use those kits but sometimes they're just to pretty to break into!

Here's one with the May 2014 Kit

And another with the June 2014 Kit

Hope you like them!

Nikki x

More Stars and Stripes

Hello hello!

I saw a very cute star-shaped card on Blogland the other day and so I decided to have me a go.

It's quite a mini card because my star dies aren't very big but I managed to incorporate some stripes (this is my second entry for the Lawnscaping challenge) and a few trendy bits such as sequins and neon. I think the neon trend in crafting has gone rather quiet recently and you will not believe how big my pot of glitter is, so I'm bringing it back! Lol!

I even managed to pick up some glitter and shine on my camera!

Here is my card

Thanks for looking today!

Nikki xxx

Stars and stripes

Hello there

I'm joining in with the Lawnscaping Challenge again this week which is to incorporate Stars and Stripes into your projects.

I wanted to make a little card to pop in with a return of some duplicate items I got sent by mistake recently. You've got to support those small businesses who provide all that lovely stash to play with, we wouldn't want them closing down now would we? Far too much of that happening at the moment, more's the pity =(

This is my card

I really wanted to have a go at no lines colouring after seeing a fab tut on the Lawn Fawn blog recently, I'm quite pleased with how that cute little ducky turned out!

Thanks for looking today!

Nikki x

A Lawn Fawn Teacher Card

Good Afternoon!

Wow, it's so dark and dismal here right now, we are experiencing some really heavy showers and all the lights are on in the house, the clouds are so black!

As a result I have struggled to get a decent picture of my card for the lawnscaping challenge this week.

I used the new-to-me Science of Love set from Lawn fawn to make a teacher thank you card along with the banner tag from the stitched Journal card set and sentiment from #awesome. The hexagons are heat embossed along with the sentiment and the little calculators face (I used my embossing pen to do this, I was surprised it still worked, it must be atleast 7 years old!)

Wanna see?

Thanks for visiting today!

Nikki xx

Card Sketch with Make the Day Special

Hello!

My Lawn Fawn obsession continues as we head towards father's day on June 15th so I decided to get ahead of the game by making a few cards for all the fathers in my life.

For the first one I used the challenge sketch from Make the Day Special and was inspired by this fabulous mini card from Vanessa's Blog. She really does make some gorgeous cards!

The second was for the last Lawnscaping challenge 'Distress it' but I didn't ever get round to entering it.

My post is short, as is my time but I will be back soon with another Lawn Fawn card (natch!) for their latest challenge x

Nikki x

Hand stamped background Birthday cards

Hello there!

Are you ready for some more Lawnfawn loveliness? Well I hope so 'cos that's what you're getting!

This week's Lawnscaping challenge was to create your own background. Well, I enjoyed it so much I did it twice! My DS2 has been invited to a birthday party this weekend so I made 2 cards because the party is for twins.

I started by stamping a chevron border to make a continuous pattern then layered the cute banners from the birthday tag set over the top and coloured them in, I also did some inking around the edge of my stamped panel. I used the same method for both cards and just changed up the designs slightly, I hate to do the same card twice so it's a good job the twins are not identical!

It's a shame you can't see the sparkle on the unicorn, I used stickles for her horn and heart and sakura clear glitter pen on her mane and tail. There's no glitter on the yeti, I don't think boys 'do' glitter unless they're spreading all over the living room ;)

I would like to enter my cards for 2 challenges

Make the Day Special a colour challenge (I used orange, blue and grey)
Lawnscaping make your own background Challenge

Thank you for looking today!

Nikki xx