Showcase Week 167

What gorgeous examples of Shadow Stamping we had!

It made the ShowCASe choices really tricky, but here they are and splendid they all are too!

Jane

Linda

Marianne

We're sure you'll agree that all these are great examples of wonderfully effective shadow stamping!

Please take the showcase badge ladies and we hope to see everyone tomorrow for our new challenge!

Week 167 One Layer

We have another 

ONE LAYER CARD

challenge for you this week!

The proviso for your cards this week is to have evidence of

Shadow Stamping.

There are several ways of doing this, using emboss resist, re-stamping without re-inking or simply stamping the same image in a lighter shade.

Let's see what you can come up with!

Chrissie

For this card, I masked a vertical section using Post it notes and then inked the background with sponge daubers, using Antique Linen and Old Paper Distress inks.

Each Inkadinkado image was stamped in SU Early Espresso ink and then stamped a second time without re-inking the stamp. The sentiment is from Lili of the Valley.

I made two cards for this week's challenge before I remembered that it is One Layer Week! I'm sure they'll come in handy for something!

Anne

 First card uses Card-Io tapestry stamps to make a floral wreath, the twigs, flowers and leaves are all stamped several times without re-inking.  Some of the flower centres have Stickles added.  I haven't added a sentiment to this card, though it's meant to be an Easter wreath, I felt it was looking quite busy enough.

Jen

I've kept my card simple for this week and used clear stamps from Clearly Besotted's April release for my card.  This set is Pretty Petals Plus and I first stamped in Hero Arts Unicorn ink and then used different colours of Hero Arts shadow inks to add some colour.  The Sentiment is from Waltzing Mouse.
I'm off work this week so finally will have time to catch up on live after a hectic few months.

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Colour Week 166

It's a new month and that means a new Sponsor and a new colour challenge

It also means a new Designer!
Many of you commented on how nice it was to have Anne join in whilst Chrissie was on holiday and you said how much you enjoyed her comments, so she is now part of the team.
Welcome Anne!

Thank you too to Jan for all her hard work commenting on your entries for her Guest Designer spot last week!

This month our sponsor is The Ribbon Girl

The colour challenge this month is

A Touch Of Turquoise
Please remember to keep your submissions 
CLEAN AND SIMPLE
Rather a lot of layers have been creeping into submissions... so please don't forget to leave that 
WHITE SPACE 

in evidence.

Jen

For this week's card I used the Gorgeous Grunge set from Stampin' up and did some generation stamping in both tempting Turquoise and Island Indigo.  It's finished off with and embossed sentiment also from Stampin' up. 
I'm at Sincerely Yours show at Leigh (North West) demonstrating Die Cutting at The Craft Bug today if you are there make sure you pop over and say hello!

Chrissie

For my first card this week I have done a little emboss resist with shadow stamping.
I began by stamping the daisies with Versamark and clear embossing. I then sponged the background colour over it, then stamped the image again, slightly offset, using the same background colour. To make the white flowers pop, I simply cleaned the surface of them with a baby wipe.
Stamps from Stampin' Up.

This one was just using a scrap of card that I had been experimenting on with some new stamps from Visible Image. I thought it looked too nice to throw in the bin, so I die-cut a portion and added a tiny butterfly.
The sentiment is from Tattered Lace.
Anne

My first card was cut with my Portrait,  the sentiment is Simon Says Stamp

My second one was stamped using the Inkadinkado Stamping Gear, the sentiment stamp is by Different Colours,  I simply added some bling and some twine.

Anne and I will be going to Ally Pally on Sunday 13th April, so if any of you can manage to go too, just let us know, it would be great to meet up!

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ShowCASe Week 164

Three ShowCASe cards for week 164

THREE

We had some great cards and we would like to thank all those of you who visited other participants to give a comment. We hope that you will be able to keep this up as it was one of the things which Mandi and I wanted to promote when we first started this blog.

Here are the ShowCASe choices for this week!

Deepti

Great design, perfectly executed!

Loll

Three rectangles in a stunning arranged to perfection!

Christine

Such a delicate effect!

Thank you everyone, we haven't checked to see that these crafters commented on three other blogs, we trust that they fulfilled that part of the challenge!

Thank you so much ladies, here is our Showcase badge for your blogs.

Do join us again tomorrow when we will have another colour challenge for you!

Lucky Dip Week 165

As March is another five Saturday month, we have the additional 

Lucky Dip Challenge.

It also means that we have a Guest Designer, which this month is 

Jan

LTC

The theme for your cards this week is 

ROUND and ROUND

You may interpret this as you wish, but we must be able to recognise the connection!

Jan is a faithful LIMette, submitting wonderful cards each week and leaving comments for many other participants.

Thank you for your dedication to our challenge Jan!

Here she has used circles as part of her Zentangling technique.

Do please visit her blog and leave a cheery comment!

Chrissie

Back from a fabulous holiday in Australia, with profuse apologies for my lack of commenting over the last few weeks, but accessing WiFi wasn't always easy!
At this point I would like to acknowledge the wonderful contribution given by Anne whilst I was away. She made sample cards for each challenge and was tireless in her commenting on submissions!
THANK YOU ANNE!
It is greatly appreciated by me and also I'm sure by all the people whose blogs she visited!

A simple card from a couple of dies purchased from Simon Says Stamp!

With intricate dies like these, I add some double sided tape to the back of the card before running it through my Cuttlebug. Then all I have to do once the card is die-cut, is to peel and press!

I love to add frames to highlight images. Here I used a circular Nestie to cut this frame for an emboss resist Stampin' Up image. The sentiment is also from SU!

There are a few more cards on my personal blog!

Jen

firstly, I'm sorry I never managed a card last week due to one thing or another.  hope this week goes to plan.
This weeks card uses fabulous stamps from Clearly Besotted as well as one of the new word dies. I have used shadow inks for the circles and they give a lovely finish.

Thank you so much all those people who left comments for fellow participants last week, it would be great if you could do it again this time, even though it's not part of the challenge... it's just a lovely thing to do for others!

So... let's see what round and round means to you!

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ShowCASe Week 163

Time once more for our ShowCASe and what an amazing bunch of cards we had to choose from!

Stencilling certainly is de rigeur at the moment with gorgeous cards in evidence!

So without further ado here are our choices for our masking and stencilling challenge!

Sherry

Look at this fabulous creation!

Sarah

What amazing gorgeousness!

Linda

Super masking and stencilling from Linda!

Couldn't resist one more...

Tara

What a super background!

All wonderful!

Thanks you ladies, please take our Showcase badge top pop on your blogs!

Tomorrow we have a new Guest Designer for our Lucky Dip week...who will it be?

Join us to find out!

Showcase Week 162 Spring Flowers OLC

Showcase Week 162 Spring Flowers OLC

There were some fabulous creations for our one layer week and as always there were loads of fabulous submissions, making the selection process extremely difficult.

We're sure you'll think that our choices are rather spectacular!

Sarah



Linda



Janet

With so many wonderful submissions it was difficult to limit the selection to just three!

Congratulations ladies!

Please take the ShowCASe badge with our thanks!

Join us tomorrow as usual for our One Layer challenge.. how quickly those weeks come round!

Showcase Week 161

Showcase Week 161 green & yellow

Sorry we are a bit late this week, was a tough one for the LIMettes last week and but there were loads of fabulous submissions, making the selection process extremely difficult.

We're sure you'll think that our choices are rather spectacular!

Margaret



Anita

Ardyth

With so many wonderful submissions it was difficult to limit the selection to just three!

Congratulations ladies!

Please take the ShowCASe badge with our thanks!

Join us tomorrow as usual for our One Layer challenge.. how quickly those weeks come round!

Week 161 - Colour

For our colour challenge this month we have chosen real Spring colours

YELLOW & GREEN

LIMettes always come up with such imaginative creations... we can't wait to see what appears!

Don't forget to keep it Clean and Simple and remember that white space!

This week's challenge does not necessarily have to be a one layer card, although we are always  happy to see them in any of our challenges.

Jen

I have a couple of cards for you today using the same ingredients, this is a fabulous stamp from Stampin Up called Blessed Easter and I have simply stamped it onto watercolour card and then coloured them in using Stampin Up Re-Inkers. I've stitched them using my trusty sewing machine.  I also made them in a couple of other colour ways and you can see these later in the week on my blog.

Chrissie

The use of this week's colours in this card is subtle to say the least! The delicate daisies were stamped and masked and a second stamping applied.

The colouring was done using Iced Spruce Distress Ink and a water brush with  a couple of Copics used for additional shading. The sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp. There is a little yellow in the centre of the daisies ... honest!

This one is a digi image from Fred She Said. It's coloured with Copics and the sentiment was computer generated using Pea Roxygirl font. The border was cut with a Fiskars border punch.

Anne

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