Pink Christmas

Hello crafters, 

This fortnight, I am hosting the Allsorts challenge and chose the optional theme as "Christmas". As usual, you can also enter with an "anything goes" theme.

Pink is unusual for Christmas cards, but, I was inspired by our Allsorts leader Brenda's gorgeous card and had to try it for myself!

The focal image is from a freebie set included in Simply Craft and Papercraft Issue 237 (Winter Woodland). I simply inked it with different shades of pink and left it at that for a CAS look.

But I did have to mat the image with several layers of die-cuts to fill some of the A6 card size (14.8cm x 10.5): the white and the blue shapes are from now defunct 🥹My Favorite Thing, Blueprints 13, the postal shape is from the AALL & Create  #87 Quirky Post die set.

Finally I stamped the sentiment with a very old magazine freebie set.

And voila... a vision of Christmas in pink! It will not be my go-to colour for the holidays but I think it will feature occasionally!

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And...I have a bonus make for you as I finally got around to make a Christmas décor piece!

I made this on the reverse of my Autumnal panel and you can read the details for the wooden base here.

  

The paper is a freebie from magazine, die-cut with AALL & Create #39 - Infinarty die set. The sentiment is from Tonic Studio and, as it happens, one of the prizes on offer at Allsorts this fortnight! 

The berries, acorn and leaves are made with the Stamperia Woodland Mushrooms mould and I added some pine die-cuts from a number of dies.

I gave all my embellishments some "snow" with white paint, flock and some sparkles (Stamperia).

A closer look :

I am entering this make (with Tasty Berries...)  in the Outlawz Saturday challenge

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Hop over to the Allsorts challenge blog to see all the DT inspiration and upload your projects. There are two prizes of stamps, stencils and dies pictured below for lucky winners, all Christmas themed!

Thanks for coming by,

 Craftyfield   I am entering the pink card in the  Lost Coast Designs, Outlawz,

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Leafy Trees

Hello crafters, 
This fortnight, the Allsorts challenge optional theme, chosen by Val is "Trees/leaves/plants". As usual, you can also enter with an "anything goes" theme.

The focal image is one of the stamp from the Crafty Individual CI-429 'Trees Galore'. I do have a lot of tree stamps, especially from Crafty Individuals but not only. The most difficult was to choose!

I am using the AALL & Create #93 Woodsy Vibes die set and this is its first public outing. Obviously it will feature a lot in Autumn makes but today it's perfect for our Allsorts theme. I die-cut the frame first in brown and then in the green paper (Paper Artsy Chatsworth...) snipping the leaves only. 

When I bought the die I didn't realise the the die cuts both the outside AND the inside of the frame which means that you need to layer the frame onto a base card. I kept the negative (the "innie") and stuck it to the base card with the branches so it would all be the same colour.

The second die in the set cuts a slightly smaller mat and I used that to create the focal image.

I used a polymer plate and Distress inks to create sky and grass and then stamped my trees in several colours of inks using both inkpads (small ones) and brush pens.

Hop over to the Allsorts challenge blog to see all the DT inspiration and upload your projects. There are two prizes of 2 stamps sets pictured below for the lucky winners!

Thanks for coming by,

 Craftyfield   I am entering the Polkadoodles and Creative Moments challenges

Blooming Branch Blues

Hello crafters,
A CAS card with beautiful blooms today:

All stamps and stencils from the Altenew Dynamic Blooming Branch.

A lot of white space for that clean look! Hope you will like this one.

Thanks for coming by,

 Craftyfield   I am entering the Stamping Sensations, Addicted to stamps & more , 

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Autumn is coming

Hello crafters!
I am feeling inspired by the fast approaching Autumn season with the changing colours of the Autumn leaves... My starting point for this card was a fairly recent die-set that I bought especially for Autumn makes!

I first inked the background with Distress inks and pieces of card for the shape of the hills.

I stamped all the elements of the scene before die-cutting with the inside mat of the Woodsy Vibes die  set.
I die-cut the frame from brown cardstock and die-cut an additional piece for the leaves side of the frame from multicoloured cardstock I had prepared with Distress Oxides .

Then all that remains to do is to stick down everything on the card base, a sunny orange coloured  piece of card.

I have to say I have been using AALL & Create die sets, for nearly every card I make recently, and I think it's because these sets are big enough to serve as base and have unusual shapes.  

Supplies:

All stamps from Lavinia

- Scout LAV859

- Moon LAV431

- Tree scene LAV219 

- Forest Moss LAV857

- Forest Mushroom LAV564

- AALL & Create #93 Woodsy vibes die set

Thanks for coming by,

 Craftyfield       I am entering the, Addicted to stamps, Polkadoodles, 

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                                                           Outlawz Festive Friday (Colours of the Season), 

                                                           Outlawz Tuesday Color and Outlawz Challenges 

Birthday Car

Hello crafters, 
This fortnight, the Allsorts challenge optional theme, chosen by Brenda is "Birthday". As usual, you can also enter with an "anything goes" theme.

The focal image is from the Old Crock set (BK-HA008) from Butterfly Kisses.

I coloured it with a mixture of coloured pencils and alcohol markers.

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Hop over to the Allsorts challenge blog to see all the DT inspiration and upload your projects. There are two prizes of 2 stamps sets pictured below for a lucky winner!

Thanks for coming by,

 Craftyfield   I am entering the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge

Flower and Butterfly

Hello crafters, 

Another feminine card with this stamp from Crafty Individuals, sadly missed since the closure of their rubber stamp business.

Supplies: 

- CI-521 'Fragile Butterfly' (Crafty Individuals)

- Dye based brush markers (to stamp with)

- Coloured pencils (the blue of the butterfly)

- AALL & Create #91 Film Drip

- Cream and black cardstock

Thanks for coming by,

 Craftyfield   I am entering the Addicted to Stamps, 

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Cup of roses birthday card

Hello crafters, 

a blast from the past today! I pulled out that lovely STAMPlorations floral stamp to make a birthday card.

I stamped the image with white pigment ink and coloured with pencils on Kraft paper to get a no-lines effect. 

Supplies:

- A Cup of Roses (STAMPLorations)

- AALL & Create #87 Quirky Post die set

- Sentiment die from the Everyday sentiments set (also STAMPLorations).

- coloured pencils

Thanks for coming by,

 Craftyfield   I am entering the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday, and

                                                         We Love Stamping challenges

Santa is coming to town

Hello crafters!
Today I have a first inspiration make for our Country View Challenge held in the Facebook group. This month the theme is "Silhouettes " hosted by Carol . 

I am not normally one for making "Christmas in summer" but it seemed appropriate as I haven't had the chance to use the  Sizzix/Tim Holtz Vault Christmas Magic die set (666718) very much so far.

I used paper from my stash for the sky and ground.

The sentiment is an old stamp, also from my stash, and I added some iridescent stars with So Soft paint in White Pearl for some shine with the Tim Holtz Mini Layering Stencil 43 (THMST043)

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To enter the challenge, hop on to our friendly group here and upload your project to the challenge album. You could win the Tim Holtz inspired bundle pictured belowfrom the Country View Craft shop.

Thanks for coming by,

 Craftyfield       I am entering the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge  

Mother Elephant

Hello crafters, 
This fortnight, the Allsorts challenge optional theme, chosen by Helen is "Animals". As usual, you can also enter with an "anything goes" theme.

The focal image is Imagination crafts Art Stamps inked with Kaleidacolor "Vineyard" inkpad.

The sentiment, stamped with the same inkpad is from the Rubber Dance set Retro Beach.

The background paper is from a Gorjuss pack, die-cut with the AALL & Create #78 Roadways Vistas. matted to black card, die-cut with the matching die in the same set.

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Hop on over to the Allsorts challenge blog to see all the DT inspiration and upload your projects. There are two prizes of Lavinia Stamps, stencil and Stampscapes pictured below for a lucky winner! (photos not to scale)

Thanks for coming by,

 Craftyfield   I am entering the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday and

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For a child

Hello crafters, 
This fortnight, the Allsorts challenge optional theme, chosen by Liz is "For a Child". As usual, you can also enter with an "anything goes" theme.

The stamp is My Favourite Place (CI-449) from Crafty Individuals. I used Archival grey ink to stamp it and masked the figures before stencilling the background with the Visible Image Strobes stencil.

For the colouring I used pencils.

Hop to the Allsorts challenge blog to see all the DT inspiration and upload your projects. There are three Saturated Canary and one House Mouse stamps" pictured below for 2 lucky winners!

 

Thanks for coming by,

 Craftyfield       I am entering the Addicted to stamps  challenge

Have bus pass will travel

Hello crafters!

Today I have another inspiration make for our Country View Challenge held in the Facebook group. This month the theme is "Travel" hosted by Zoe Hillman. 

I have chosen the humble bus for my second trip...

For my background I have used a piece of AALL & Create the Ethereal Expeditions paper (#15) and stencilled the brickwork on top (Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous Mini Stencil Set #28 ). Then I die-cut the background and the matching black mat with AALL & Create Die Set - Climbing Woods (#77).

I die-cut the bus once out of red card and again with mirror and white card pieces to add the details. For the wheels and shadow under the bus I used coloured pencils, for "glass" I used acetate glued from the back. The bus number is peel off stickers.

I used one of the dies in the AALL & Create Die Set Splodazzlers  (#33) to create the silver with a red border circle as a mat for my sentiment.

And since I had the seldom used peel offs out, I added a few stars and balloons, just coz... [must use stuff...]

I had trouble photographing this card due to the reflective surfaces, so here's another look:

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I hope I have inspired you to enter our challenge! To enter, hop on to our friendly group here and upload your project to the challenge album. You could win the Arden bundle pictured below.

Thanks for coming by,

 Craftyfield       I am entering the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge

The call of the sea

Hello crafters, 
This fortnight, the Allsorts challenge optional theme, chosen by yours truly is "Seaside". As usual, you can also enter with an "anything goes" theme.

As this is a favourite theme for me, I made 2 cards, above and under the waves...

The focal image is Penny Black's Escape (40-692) stamped in several colours of inks. (I used both inkpads and markers as I rarely have all the colours in all media).

The base is glossy card, and I added colour with dye inks and a smoothie to the sky, sea and sandy beach.

For the mat I used the AALL & Create #91 Film Drip die set, extending the height by doing 2 partial cuts and finishing with scissors.

The underwater scene has been stamped with Versafine Clair inks (next time I will make sure to use Memento) on watercolour paper.

   

All stamps are from the Creative Stamping issue 97.I stamped first and then water coloured the water and sea floor, removing the sun rays and light areas with a dry brush. 

A final stamp in white pigment ink for the bubbles, which I strengthened with a gel pen.

I finished colouring the turtle, fish and seashells. 

The image and its mat were then die-cut with the AALL & Create #77 Climbing Woods die set.

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I hope I have inspired you to join us at the Allsorts challenge blog to see all the DT inspiration and upload your seaside projects!

There are two prizes to win, of two Sentimentally Yours stamps each from Grafton Crafts , a well stocked bricks and mortar and on line shop offering fee p&p on all orders over £15!

    

     

Thanks for coming by,

 Craftyfield   I am entering the Beach card in the We Love Stamping and 

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City Travel

Hello crafters, 

today I have an inspiration make for our June Country View Challenge held in the Facebook group. This month the theme is "Travel" hosted by Zoe Hillman. 
I have chosen the Sizzix Vault Christmas Magic (666718) die set to drive my muse...

My background has been coloured with alcohol inks using a felt pad and the buildings have been die-cut from a piece of Gelli printed canvas textured card.

The car and lorries are fiddly to assemble because they are small but otherwise the scene was really easy to put together.
To match the naïve look of the die-cuts I used the AALL & Create #32 die set Numberama for my base.

Proof this set isn't just for Christmas!

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I hope I have inspired you to enter our challenge! To enter, hop on to our friendly group here and upload your project to the challenge album. You could win the Arden bundle pictured below.

Thanks for coming by,

 Craftyfield       I am entering the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge

Allsorts challenge Birthday!

Hello crafters, 
This fortnight, the Allsorts challenge celebrates its 16th Birthday! For that very special challenge we have an easy theme... Anything Goes and fantastic prize bundles of AALL & Create crafty goodness amongst others!

So of course I had to showcase one of my latest acquisition from ALL & Create... 

I used a sheet (A4) of the Ethereal Expeditions paper (#15) from AALL & Create with the die Building Silhouettes (#58) to create the card.
Steps: 
1. Place the die on the side you have chosen as the front of the card, bottom right on the long side. 

2. Die-cut 

3. Turn the card to the opposite side (the back) and place the die to the right of the sheet. 

    To get the same effect as I did, with the higher roofs at the back, place the die higher than for the previous cut. I placed mine 2.5cm (1") above.

4. This time you need to do a partial cut, and only die cut the top of the die, otherwise you going to have the back of the card cut off! In addition if you want to write on the inside, try to cut only what is visible from the front so that the rest of the card is without windows! 

After die cutting score the card in the middle and fold. The opened card in the sun gives lovely shadows:

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Hop over to the Allsorts challenge blog to see all the DT inspiration and upload your projects. There are four prizes from  AALL and Create pictured below for a lucky winner....

AND.... three prizes just for our US based entrants:

A $25 store voucher from Lawn Fawn

Three stamps from Colorado Craft Company

A $25 store voucher from Gina K Designs (Worldwide)

Thanks for coming by,

 Craftyfield   

Falling Rain

Hello crafters, 
This fortnight, the Allsorts challenge optional theme, chosen by Sarah is "Inspired by a song". As usual, you can also enter with an "anything goes" theme.

My card is inspired by the song When the Rain Begins To Fall by Jermaine Jackson and Pia Zadora (Youtube here)

The focal image is "Sparkle In the Rain" from Visible image (VIS-SIR-01).

I first stamped the image with black Versafine and masked it. 

The rainbow was then created with Distress Inks and a DIY mask, adding a sun (also DIY mask). 

I printed some of the song's lyrics on vellum and die-cut it with a Spellbinders die.

Finally I added dew drops to the lyrics label to hide the glue that would otherwise show through the vellum and liquid glass for the rain drops:

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Hop over to the Allsorts challenge blog to see all the DT inspiration and upload your projects. There are three prizes of die sets from In2Craft pictured below for a lucky winner!

 

Thanks for coming by,

 Craftyfield   I am entering the Addicted to Stamps & More, 

                                                        Stamping Sensations and Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenges

Double Frame

Hello crafters!

Today I have a first inspiration make for our Country View Challenge held in the Facebook group. This month the theme is "Use a frame(s)" hosted by Sue . There are so many ways of adding a frame to a card... drawing with inks, adding glitter/foil on double sided tape, die cutting frames with 2 sizes of dies etc... 

For my first make I created my frame with Lavinia stamps:

I stamped the cottage first using several colours of ink and masked it before stamping the path.

With the focal image in place, I added my frame by stamping the Fairy Lantern repeatedly around it and coloured them with pencils.

For good measure I added an actual frame that I had intended to cut with 2 sizes of a die set but had to hand cut using all the maths I could muster!

Supplies: 

- Honeysuckle Cottage Stamp (LAV 687)

- Mini Fairy Lantern Stamp (LAV588)

- Fairy Path Stamp (LAV246)

- Versafine Clair inks

- Coloured pencils

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To enter the challenge, hop on to our friendly group here and upload your project to the challenge album. You could win the bundle pictured below of a Crafty by Toni stamp set and a pack of 49 And Market die-cut elements from the Country View Craft shop.

Thanks for coming by,

 Craftyfield       I am entering the Stamping Sensations challenge 

Masculine card with stencils

Hello crafters, 
This fortnight, the Allsorts challenge optional theme, chosen by Val, is "Stencils/Masks". As usual, you can also enter with an "anything goes" theme.

In other news there is a new monthly challenge for tags and ATCs lovers Tag-Along (and ATCs), first challege starts 1st of May.

My stencil inspiration:

The background is a Gelli print I made with a DIY stencil by die-cutting numbers into a piece of card with the ALL & Create die set #33 Numberama (in black) and bits from the #39 Infinarty set. I also used the Ledger (TCW267) from The Crafters Workshop (in white) and Imagination Crafts (MA241) stencils.

I used Paper Artsy for the paints and with the stencils, Prima Heavy gesso (white) and DecoArt Media black gesso.

 

The focal image is AALL & Create Car from the #77 Climbing Wood die set, which I die-cut in pearlescent green (I was going for a metallic paint finish). I added some silverware with foil to the bumper and other accessories.

I cut the Gelli print and a mat with the set #33 Splodazzlers.

Finally I added a clip and a label, both die-cut with the #30 Taggletastic set, also ALL & Create. [Yes I'm a bit obsessed with their dies...] 

Hop on over to the Allsorts challenge blog to see all the DT inspiration and upload your projects. There is a prize from  From Lisa Horton Crafts, Pansy Corner layering stencils with coordinating die and embossing folder as well as a prize of two AALL and Create stencils.... for 2 lucky winners!

 

Thanks for coming by,

 Craftyfield   I am entering the Addicted to Stamps & More and Creative Artist challenge