CAS Christmas

Hi there,

It's been a tough day today, I knew it would be. I have been at a funeral for my best friend's mum - the first funeral I've been to since my own mum's earlier in the year. So, yes, definitely a tough one - hence the late post today.

We have a brand new challenge at Cardz 4 Guyz and this week I chose the theme and kept it simple with a 'CLEAN & SIMPLE CHRISTMAS' theme. Here's what I made (very quickly) for my DT inspiration ...

Very clean and simple - some kraft card and my little snowman and sentiment are stamped in Vintage Photo distress ink. I used a water brush to drag out some of the colour, then added some white gel pen for my snowman and a little glitter to highlight some of the snow. I did say it was quick!

Hugz, Jan xx

One of Everything!

Hello again,

Well, that's my Easter break just about over, but I sure did enjoy it. Back to school on Monday for another six weeks.

I'm back with my DT inspiration for my challenge blog at 

'FANTASY STAMPERS' 

which sees a brand new theme of 

'CLEAN & SIMPLE'

start today - here's what I made ...

So, I chose a DL size for this one to accommodate the stamp. I took one piece of white cardstock, one stamp, one distress ink, one Promarker, one sentiment stamp and one aurora adhesive crystal for the centre of the main flower. Now that's a lot of ones!

I began by masking out an area in the centre of the card using sticky notes, then used my inkduster to add some Picked Raspberry distress ink down the left hand side, fading it out to the right. Next I stamped the 'Poppy Panel' from Inkylicious over the top in black ink and coloured the detail with my Rose Pink Promarker to highlight the flowers and leaves.

I stamped the Clarity Wordchain sentiment at the bottom using black archival ink and finished with a little hand doodled border around the box.

Why not pop over to the challenge and take a look at what my design team made too.

Hugz, Jan xx