Two Birds with One Stone

No - not literally, I wouldn hurl stones at the two birds here (or any other birds for that matter)!! This week the challenge on Make My Monday is to 'add a charm' and as I also have two Quintiles to make on a Valentine theme for the Chocolate Baroque February swap I've managed to combine the two themes on this one.  The background is a beautiful love letters download from CB printed onto gold lustre paper; the heart is a CB stamp which I embossed and then coloured with twinkling H2Os; the 'love' word is one of their stamps also.  The bow was cut from some of the left over backing paper using a die-namics die; birdcage charm was from my stash and the little lovebirds were cut using a Memory Box die.  Do take a look at the MMM challenge blog to see what their design team have offered us for inspiration. I'm now working on another Valentine themed quintile so that I can pop them both in the post to meet the deadline.

Getting Inky

I had a lovely time yesterday getting inky and making the background for this card using distress inks and water stamping with the addition of some Twinkling H2Os.  Once dry there was some overstamping with versamark, embossed with glittery silver also used to emboss the stamped flowers which were coloured with H2Os and cut out.  This was inspired while watching demonstrations on C & C by Sheena - I just knew I had some flower stamps (from Tanda) which could produce something similar to one of her demonstrations.  I really can't recall when I last used the H2O paints but it was good to bring them out of retirement and I was pleased to see they've not deteriorated at all in storage.

Blue Flower

Today's card incorporates a technique shown in the current Craft Stamper magazine using Tim Holtz fragments (little acrylic fragments) to make an embellishment. The stamp used is by Anita and has been coloured using H2Os. I'm looking forward to getting some of the charm fragments to try the jewellery idea as well.

Chocolate Orange

Chocolate Orange is the theme of the Tanda Teaser this week. I'd been asked to make a card with flowers for a birthday so here is my take on the theme. using Tanda floral stamps, Twinkling H2Os and an embossed frame from Craftwork Cards which I sponged with orange fluid chalk ink. I may or may not add a personalised message - I will see how it looks.

Pushing Daisies

The Tanda Teaser this week is Pushing Daisies and the brief was to use complimentary colours. I have used masking technique for the daisies, resist technique with Versamark and brayer for the background. stamps used are froma Tanda daisy set and the butterfly is a Stampin Up stamp which just happened to be on my work space! Background layer is textured watercolour paper sprayed with Sunflower Glimmer Mist. Daisies were painted with twinkling H20s.

A Bird in the Hand

This is the challenge on Tanda Stamps forum this week and here is my card. There are some on my blog which fit the bill but I did make this today for the challenge using H2Os for the image and also managed to use up some oddments of Cuttlebug embossed card sprayed with Glimmer Mists. There is some reflection on the scan and the peacock looks better on the card itself (too much 'twinkle perhaps')

Klimt Tree

This card was created using a Klimt tree stamp and a border stamp from Tanda Stamps, The tree was clear embossed on black card and painted using irridescent red and gold Twinkling H2Os.