A cocktail is lots more naughty

 Sharing a card for my niece featuring Mochi Party Girl from Stamping Bella.

Can’t quite believe my niece is 19 already but means that she’s off the ‘present’ list and on the ‘my shout for a drink’ list, making me feel very old indeed!

I’m playing along at Fusion where I’m working the fusion, I’ve followed their sketch for my layout and also got fruit on my card.  I went with the lemon slice, a stamp from the Lemon Zest set by Stampin’ Up!, on the rectangle element to match one of the Mochi Girl’s drinks.  Not sure it shows up in the photo at all but I ringed her glass and edged the black cardstock in Rock Candy glitter to resemble the sugar rim of a lemon drop martini, which I’m thinking is the naughty cocktail Mochi Girl is drinking.  And, yep, you guessed it, my niece is a beautiful red head.

I’ve also taken inspiration from The Card Concept and their Dog Days of Summer photo.  The lovely bright colours of the photo had me riffling through my paper stash to find the rainbow glitter paper and the coloured Bling on a Roll.

With my blingy embellies I am also linking up at Dream Valley going with the gem half of their current theme.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin B60, E21, E50 & PC1026, PC1092

Eyes PC912, PC913, PC943, PC1004

Lips RV29, RV19 & PC925, PC994

Hair B32, R27, YR07, YR04 & PC 918, PC944

Outfit B34, YG17, YG03 & PC912

Bracelet PC950

Cocktail & Lemon Slice Y15, Y13, Y11 & PC 938, PC1004

Glasses C2, C0, 0

Table B66, E59, E57, E23

Wine YG97, RV69, RV66

Chalks & Powders etc

Ranger Destress Glitter ~ Rock Candy

Ranger Embossing Powder Antiquities ~ Frosted Crystals

Embellishments

Creative Memories Epoxy Stickers ~ Enchanted

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Distress Paint ~ Squeezed Lemonade

Tsukineko Ink ~ VersaMark

Papers

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Bazzill Smoothie Cardstock ~ Grapefruit Bliss

Stampin’ Up! Cardstock Glimmer Paper ~ Rainbow

Ribbons & Trims

Recollections ~ Bling on a Roll

Stamps

Stamping Bella ~ EB900Mochi Party Girl

Stampin’ Up! ~ 143808 Lemon Zest

Challenges

Dream Valley #230~ Add Gems or Pearls or both

 

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Like the mellow ray of a departing sun…

Sharing a CAS card featuring one of the images and sentiments from the now retired Beach Happy set by Stampin’ Up!.

I needed to make a retirement card for a male colleague and was in need of inspiration so I turned to the challenge blogs and, as usual, I found some.  First up was Addicted to CAS and their silhouette challenge, which, when combined with the black and white and a splash of colour challenge at Creative Friday had me digging through my stamps for this deck chair image.  I used a circle die to create a stencil to add in the sun for my splash of colour and then did the rest in the requisite black.

For my layout I followed the current sketch at The Paper Players.  It gave me the opportunity to frame the silhouetted image adding some interest to my otherwise quite simple card.  Although CAS I love the pop of yellow and think it turned out pretty good.

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Stampendous! Embossing Powder ~ Detail Clear

Dies, Stencils & Templates

Spellbinders Nestabilities Dies ~ S4-116 Standard Circles

Inks & Paints etc

Gina K Designs Ink ~ Amalgam

Sharpie Pen ~ Black

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Dried Marigold, Mustard Seed & Squeezed Lemonade

Tsukineko Marker ~ VersaMark

Papers

American Crafts Cardstock ~ White

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Bazzill Smoothie Cardstock ~ Grapefruit Bliss

Bazzill Prismatic Cardstock ~ Black

Stamps

Stampin’ Up! ~ 148585 Beach Happy

Challenges

Creative Friday #254 ~ Black and white and a splash of colour

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…there was in me an invincible summer

Sharing a CAS but elegant card featuring the beautiful Uptown Zodiac Girl Virgo stamp from Stamping Bella.

This card is for my niece who turned 18 earlier this week and is therefore a Virgo.  I didn’t have any suitable number stamps to match the pretty image so went with a cursive sentiment from the New Wonders set from Stampin’ Up!.

The layout of my card follows the sketch over at Sunday Stamps.  I placed my image in the middle of the circular element, which I created with splattered paint so I could play along at TGIF for their technique challenge.  I scattered some gems among the splatters as the current theme at Crafty Friends is to add embellishments.

Usually I have difficulty choosing colours but for this card it was easy.  I went with the yellowy green for the dress, gems and my mat as the peridot is the August birthstone.  I’ve coloured up the flowers in Virgo’s hair as yellow poppies as one of the August flowers is the poppy.  Although the card is fairly CAS, I am super happy with how it turned out, way happier than I am at the thought of having an 18-year-old niece, where the chubby, gurgling little baby I swear she was only last week went I have no idea!

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Stampendous! Embossing Powder ~ Detail Gold

Embellishments

Peridot Gems from stash

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Antique Linen, Black Soot, Fossilized Amber, Mustard Seed, Rusty Hinge, Spun Sugar, Tea Dye, Twisted Citron & Vintage Photo

Tim Holtz Distress Paint ~ Tarnished Brass

Tsukineko ~ VersaMark

Papers

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Bazzill Prismatic Cardstock ~ Black

Bellbird Paperarts Card ~ 300gsm Cotton Blend

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Paperie Kraft-Stock ~ Metallic Jewels Green

Stamps

Stamping Bella ~ Uptown Zodiac Girl Virgo

Stampin’ Up! ~ 149426 New Wonders (sentiment)

Challenges

Crafty Friends #117

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