Phoenix Inspirations

We have a new sketch for you over on  Sassy Sketcharinos Take a look Here is my card I have used Serene Silhouettes for this card and my colours are Crumb Cake, Pool Party and Tangerine Tango. To make my shapes I have used Apothecary Accents dies on my Big Shot. This is our fourth challenge and I really hope that you can join us this week. Do pop over to the  blog  and take a look at all the other DT cards - my team have done me proud. See you soon xx

Yikes - time is going so quick this week and yet again I am running out of time to enter the challenge over on  CAS - Colours & Sketches . This week they have a sketch for us I've flipped and rotated the sketch and gone with a very Clean and Simple design - take a look My image is from Serene Silhouettes and is stamped on to a label cut on my Big Shot using the Apothecary Accents dies. The butterfly is from Papillon Potpourri and both images have been heat embossed in gold. Thanks for looking - see you soon xx

.....................................here I am with a Christmas card! It's OK - I'm back on the team at  52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown . I really missed not playing along last year and as a result had hardly any cards ready in December when I needed them. Not this year - this year when December comes I will be all organised and have a hefty pile of hand made cards ready to give out to friends and family. You could too - the challenge this week is a sketch. Take a look and maybe play along with us. And here is my card The image is from Serene Silhouettes and I've added some red berries with a marker pen. My border is some gold glitter washi tape and I've embellished with a wooden snowflake and some red gems. Do pop over to the blog  HERE  and take a look at all the other cards made by my dt team mates. See you soon xx

It's time for another challenge in  The Male Room  and this time we would like to Autumn and Fall projects. Don't forget that your cards or projects need to be male only - no fancy frills here please! Here is my DT card for this challenge A very clean and simple card from me today - a tree with a background of autumnal splodges! The sentiment is stamped onto a piece of card stock punched with the Decorative Label punch. The sentiment itself is from a new set that can be earned for FREE by placing orders of £200 or more before p+p - that's in addition to all the other benefits that go along with orders of that size. The set itself is called Good Greetings and includes words in a beautiful font for any occasion You only have until October 31st to take advantage of this offer so please do get in touch with me if you would like to place an order or book a party. You can get in touch by emailing me on deezinesart@icloud .com Please don't forget to...

It's time for our weekly challenge at  CAS - Colours & Sketches  to commence and this week we have some lovely colours for you to use - take a look Now these colours had me stumped for a while and while I was gazing at my stamp sets looking for inspiration to strike my eyes settled on the Serene Silhouettes and an idea was born - here is my card I love the trees in this set and I thought that the perfect sunset backdrop would be one of my Gorgeous Grunge stamps and the Cherry Cobbler red. The stamp was stamped closer together at the top of the card to create a darker more concentrated colour. Materials - Stampin' Up Stamps: Serene Silhouettes, Gorgeous Grunge, Petite Pairs Ink: Cherry Cobbler, Night of Navy Card Stock: Very Vanilla Accessories: Modern Label Punch, Basic Rhinestones To order any of the above current items or items from the Annual Catalogue please e-mail me on deezinesart@gmail.com - a catalogue pdf can be found in the side bar...

Louise has a lovely colour combination for us this week at  52{C}CT  - take a look Unfortunately I missed the bit that said use a metallic of your choice {!} but I did put a lot of glitter on which is very shiny - does that count do you think?????? Colours used: Always Artichoke, Pear Pizzazz and Real Red along with the very un-Christmassy Serene Silhouettes Serene Silhouettes Clear-Mount Stamp Set 127324 Price :  £17.95 All-season four-piece set gives you stamping options all year long. So many lovely silhouettes to choose from! Coordinates with the 1-3/4" Circle Punch. Set Quantity: 4 Hope you have fun looking at all the other dt cards today over on the blog! (To order any of the above current items or items from the Annual Catalogue please e-mail me on deezinesart@icloud.com - a catalogue pdf can be found in the side bar along with the NEW SPRING/SUMMER MINI. Items can be delivered direct to you - just £4.95 p+p any size order. Also se...

The car I have to show you today is another from the archives! I made it months ago and never got around to blogging it - take a look My Very Vanilla card base was stamped with Vesamark ink and then heat set with gold embossing powder. The panel on top was created by inking up my stamp with markers and spraying with water before stamping - it gives an unusual effect don't you think. Crushed Curry and Gumball Green are my colours of choice this time. SERENE SILHOUETTES CLEAR-MOUNT STAMP SET Price :  £17.95 GOLD STAMPIN' EMBOSS POWDER Price :  £3.95 (To order any of the above current items or items from the Annual Catalogue please e-mail me on deezinesart@icloud.com - a catalogue pdf can be found in the side bar along with the NEW SPRING/SUMMER MINI. Items can be delivered direct to you - just £4.95 p+p any size order. Also see the special offers above in the top tabs - thanks). You can also shop now directly from my Stampin' Up website...

I have a card to show you that I made a while ago. It was a technique I learnt at a local craft club. Take a look at the card I will tell all! I used some of the Naturals Ivory card to stamp on as it was the closest to watercolour paper I could find at the time. It's quite porous which is perfect for this technique. My stamp was inked with markers and then spritzed with water and then stamped. It gives a lovely blurred look to the image which worked very well with the tree from Serene Silhouettes and what's so great about this technique is that you get a totally different image every time you do it. The image in the middle was just stamped normally but still using the marker pens. Materials - Stampin' Up Stamps: Serene Silhouettes, Loving Thoughts Ink: Early Espresso, Always Artichoke Card Stock: Early Espresso, Naturals Ivory, Very Vanilla Accessories: Scallop Trim Punch, Decorative Label Punch, Dimentionals (To order any of the above current items or ...

Here is another one of the cards I found when I was cleaning up my computer folders. It's one of a few I made at a papercraft club I attend. The technique was called Brushless Watercolour and was achieved by colouring a stamp with markers, spritzing it with water and then stamping onto paper. For my card I used the Serene Silhouettes - take a look The colours used are Gumball Green and Crushed Curry. I also added a little gold heat embossing too and I really wish I could remember the DSP I used but I'm sorry I can't be bothered to go into my study and find my catty to look it up - it's very very cold in there! Thanks for popping over to take a look at my blog today, I'm ashamed to say I have a few more 'forgotten' cards waiting to be blogged so please do come back to see them! Bye for now

We have a lovely theme for you this week at  Make My Monday , we want you to create a Frosty Scene. This is one of my favourite things to do and I had such fun creating this card - take a look I recently had the great pleasure if playing with the new Thinlits Circle card die and couldn't resist using it for this card. Loads of glitter was added to the branches of my trees and this is the first time I have used this particular stamp - isn't it lovely? Materials - Stampin' Up Stamps: Serene Silhouettes, Petite Pairs Ink: Island Indigo, Midnight Muse Card Stock: Island Indigo, Whisper White, Silver Glimmer Paper: In Colour DSP Accessories: Big Shot, Thinlits die, Scallop Trim Punch,Modern Label Punch, Dazzling Diamonds (To order any of the above current items or items from the Annual Catalogue please e-mail me on deezinesart@gmail.com - a catalogue pdf can be found in the side bar. Items can be delivered direct to you - just £4.95 p+p any size order. ...

My workshops are starting up again soon but I remembered that I hadn't shared with you what we made way back in  July. We made Tunnel Cards using the Serene Silhouettes stamp set - take a look Materials - Stampin' Up Stamps: Serene Silhouettes, Petite Pairs Ink: Old Olive, Calypso Coral Card Stock: Whisper White, Old Olive Accessories: Big Shot, Apothecary Accents, Scallop Trim Punch, Vanilla Flower Trim (retired), Dimensionals. (To order any of the above current items or items from the Annual Catalogue please e-mail me on deezinesart@gmail.com - a catalogue pdf can be found in the side bar. Items can be delivered direct to you - just £4.95 p+p any size order. Also see the special offers above in the top tabs - thanks). Don't forget that during the month of September if you join my Stampin' Up team not only will you receive the wonderful Stampin' Up Starter Kit but a FREE gift from me - a stamp set of your choice. Email me now for more detail...

Well I can safely say that the first challenge over in  The Male Room  was a huge success as we had over 100 entries! Challenge no.2 starts today and we have the theme of REFLECTIONS,  Now this could be reflections on water, mirror images or if you are a scrap booker or make memory books perhaps a page looking back reflecting a memory - the choice is yours please just make sure it's male. Here is my card                                  This is the card I made recently for my Son's 20th birthday (I can't believe I have 2 children now in their 20's!). For this card I didn't use my brayer - although you could - I used my sponges to lightly dab the dark ink on to the card stock. The Midnight Muse ink is very dark but using a sponge meant that it could be lightly applied and built up gently to give the effect I was after. My moon was created from a punched post it note  - I made 2 ...

Things have been a bit quiet here blogging wise as I had to dash away this weekend to my parents. It's always a mad scramble too to catch up with everything going on when I return! My card for this week's  Make My Monday  challenge didn't get posted so I will show you now along with the card I also made for the  Midweek Motivation . The challenge is Silhouettes - take a look Both cards have been inspired by the fabulously talented  Michelle Zindorf  and use a variety of Stampin' Up products Card 1 Stamps: Serene Silhouettes Ink: Midnight Muse, Soft Sky, Summer Starfruit Card Stock: Whisper White, Midnight Muse, Summer Starfruit Paper: In Colour DSP stack 2013/15 Accessories: Big Shot, Apothecary Accents, Mosaic Madness EF, Brayer, Basic Rhinestones Card 2 Stamps: Fabulous Florets, Everything Eleanor Ink: Black Stazon, More Mustard, Cherry Cobbler, Baked Brown Sugar Card Stock: Whisper White, Smoky Slate, Basic Gray Accessories: Scallop Tri...