Natalie and Amy's Challenge - All things new

It's time for a new challenge over at Natalie and Amy's and this month's theme is 'All Things New'. This was a bit of a challenge for me as I've just moved house and found that everything I wanted to use was packed in a box somewhere. It took me nearly half an hour just to find the plates for my big shot - no idea why I hadn't packed them together!

Anyway, I went for new stash for this one as I don't need any new house/baby/year cards at the moment (I'm good at building a stash of unused cards!)

I used:
New 6x6 card blanks (so hard to get here, my mum brought me a packet when she came over a few weeks ago)
Authentique paper
Co'redinations card
Don and Daisy Winter stamp
Darice embossing folder
New Crafters Companion Die'sire fence
New Nellie Snellen Trees
New snowflake embellishments

A bit late for Natalie and Amy's challenge this month - oops!

I completely forgot to post this a couple of week's ago for Natalie and Amy's September challenge 'Things with Wings'. It was an absolute nightmare to photograph so I gave up and then forgot that I hadn't posted it. Then my computer refused to upload it and then I couldn't find it once I finally managed to upload it! Finally, here it is...

Things from Natalie and Amy's

Local King Peacock rubber stamp

Violet Pearl embossing powder

First editions New Bloom paper

Natalie and Amy's July challenge - die cuts and flowers

Time for another challenge over at Natalie and Amy's and this month it's to use die cuts and flowers. Please pop over and take a look and join in. As always, there's a great prize up for grabs.

I thought I'd have a play with some acetate for this card, something I've not done before and I'm pretty happy with the result although I need to work out how to stop it bending quite so much.

I took a 6 x 6 card blank and used the Memory Box Cosmo Border right at the fold. I then cut a piece of acetate to 6 x 6 and embossed it with the Spellbinders Lovely Lattice M-bossabilities plate and stuck it in place with some double sided tape. I used a Spellbinders Labels die to cut out the shape for the sentiment and stamped the words from Sheena Douglass - Silhouette Grasses. The flowers are Joy! die cuts and the branches are CC Designs and they are fixed with white brads topped with diamond stickles on top.

Natalie and Amy's challenge: Summer

It's time for a new challenge over at Natalie and Amy's and this month our theme is Summer. Hopefully summer is on it's way soon; it's been fairly warm here but still a bit rainy and chilly at times. Here is my card.

Ingredients:

Stamp-It Australia - Dragonfly delights

First Editions - Summer Breeze

StazOn Brown

Creative Expressions Pearls

Diamond Stickles

Lace

Doilies

Natalie and Amy's challenge - rubber stamping

Time for the next challenge over at Natalie and Amy's and this month it's rubber stamping. 

I made this card for my cousin's twelfth birthday. He loves skiing and skating so I thought this was a very apt image. He is a Marianne Design stamp called Don and Daisy Winter. I coloured him with Cool Grey 1 - 5 promarkers and a touch of black. I created the hills with a piece of torn paper and some very dead black distress ink a la Barbara Gray and then brayered the sky with the same dead ink. The trees are from woodware and stamped in black versafine. I created the Polaroid simply by cutting a square out of a piece of white card and edging it with strips of black card.

Natalie and Amy's challenge - Embossing

The challenge over at Natalie and Amy's this month is 

Embossing - dry or heat

Check it out, there's a great prize up for grabs and I love looking at all the entries.

I decided to go for some heat embossing for this challenge. I started with a piece of paper from First Editions - Summer Breeze and decided to multiple stamps and heat emboss in different colours. I used the Sheena Douglass A little bit oriental Sakura set and Gold pearl,  Violet pearl and metallic copper Wow embossing powders. The ribbon and feather are from my stash.

I decided to keep it quite simple as I didn't want to cover all of the embossing up. In real life the ribbon and the violet pearl embossing are the same colour but my camera didn't pick it up very well.

Cherry blossom - Natalie and Amy's challenge

I'm hoping this post has gone live automatically when it should as I shall be over in England when it's due. I've coincided my trip to fall over the Coleman's craft warehouse demo weekend so I will hopefully be going to that tomorrow - very exciting! They do not have good craft shops in Sweden so I intend to stock up and am looking forward to seeing all the demos.

Anyway, here is my card for this month's challenge over at Natalie and Amy's. The challenge this month is flowers.

This card is made using the images and sentiment from the Sheena Douglass A Little Bit Oriental Sakura stamp set. I stamped the tree in Rich Cocoa memento then drew round the outline with an Almond promarker. I then dotted the leaves with a gold promarker and diamond stickles. For the background I cut my card to size and then repeatedly stamped one of the small cherry blossom stamps from the same set round the edge and coloured all the gaps with the almond promarker. I used a CC Designs Leafy Branch die to cut the sprigs and Joy Crafts Flower die to build up the flowers. The brads are from my stash.