Fields of Pink!!

Just a quick post because I'm off to the dreaded dentist this morning :0(
I've made a card for the Paint challenge at CASology this week and I was inspired by this beautiful card on Pinterest..... not sure mine does it much justice though!!!

I used Distress ink pads 'smooshed' onto a craft sheet and spritzed with water for the background ..... I really love how random the end result is :0)
The flowers and stems are stamped in DI ink onto the re-dampened watercolour background so they bled a bit too and then more pink 'flicked on' to add distant flowers ...... they went a bit further than I wanted but hey it's art right!!!
Another happy accident is the speckled card for the sentiment..... when spritzing the craft sheet with water a fine mist of colour covers the surrounding area and this piece of card was in the line of fire, along with my white desk and a few tools too!!.... very pretty :0)

That's all from me today, thank goodness it's Friday :0)
Jenny x

A Kiss for the Guys!!!

An intriguing blog post title eh????... well Less is More's Masculine themed challenge this week has got me kissing stamps together to make this rather vintage houndstooth armchair for a guys card :0) I thought it would pair up perfectly with this Paper Smooches sentiment although with the trend for retro nowadays you would probably find this in households of all ages!!!..I wouldn't mind one *wink*

The houndstooth pattern is from a new set by Paper Smooches called Kissables and its inked up in Early Espresso, the chair is inked in Crumb Cake. After the 'kissing' and stamping I reinked the chair with more crumbcake using a dauber so I could select the areas that needed more shadow and then re-stamped over the image...easy to do with solid shapes :0) I'm loving the sentiment... just about the fun side of cheeky I reckon!!! Now I need to decide if I can get away with it for my Mums birthday card this week *wink*...perhaps for the inside!!!

Thanks for stopping by :0)
Jenny x
Stamps used: Kissables 1, Happy Birthday by Paper Smooches and Dad's day by Lawn Fawn

A Love Explosion!!

Hey, did you know it's Valentines Day coming up???? I'm guessing so unless you've been under a stone for the last few weeks...Lol  :0)
Well my card over at Make the Day Special has me getting in the Valentine theme this week using a new Lawn Fawn set in store....

I'm loving the Science of Love stamp set because those geeky birds are just the cutest but the little test tubes had the first inking along with the sentiment which looks so cool in two colours :0) Love how the firework explosions from Happy 4th make a great backdrop for those shooting hearts!!

NEWS FLASH : I've managed to marry up three challenges for this card... YAY!!.... 

                   

...and I've managed to get all three graphics in a line in this blog post... not sure which one I'm more ecstatic about... Lol :0)

Continuing the Love theme... I thought I'd share this card which I had published in Craft Stamper Magazine last month... same idea but using Paper Smooches stamps and dies instead

All this love and excitment... it's too much for a Monday morning!! I need to go and immerse myself in housework and calm down :0)

Thanks for visiting
Jenny x
Stamps used : Science of Love and dies, Happy 4th by Lawn Fawn.  Great Chemistry, Bam Bubble Dies by Paper Smooches

Happy Hour!!

Rainbow colours always catch my eye so I'm betting the gallery at Less is More is going to look spectacular this week...yep they have a Rainbow colour challenge to mark the start of their third year of challenges and Make the Day Special are one of this months sponsors so I just had to play along :0)

Now this card looks much better in real life because the pale blue glasses don't look quite so washed out and the rainbow fruit and straw are shimmery thanks to my Wink of Stella brush pen, definitely a good buy, BUT....... it could just be my rubbish computer monitor :0(
This is the Paper Smooches Free Spirits set and all those small elements just said rainbow too me, its a fun little set that allows you to make your own cocktails in some great shaped glasses.... this set will be in stock soon as it's currently in transit to the store with a large Paper Smooches order :0)

There are numerous guest designers this week at LiM, and a few sponsors too, to mark their third birthday, it is the first challenge I joined in with and I believe the first CAS challenge out there in blogland!!
Thanks to Chrissie and Mandi (LiM creators) for helping me realise my secret love of clean and simple cards and giving me the confidence to create them too, I would love to say that I've played along each week but sometimes life gets in the way of 'me time' but I stop by each Saturday to check out the new challenge and take in the inspiration from Chrissie and Jen, not forgeting to mention browsing the gallery each week :0)

                                                        
I'm also entering this into the anything goes challenge at Paper Smooches Sparks (thanks Jen)...what can I say it was Monday yesterday!!!!

Righty-ho best get this entered and stop languishing on this keyboard...the sun is shining and I have washing that might just dry outside today!!!
Jenny x