Hi Dawn here to share my Pink and Red card for this month's Challenge asking for predominant colors of red &/or pink (neutrals & a bit of a non-neutral are ok). 

We have the wonderful Hero Arts as our sponsor this month! 

Hero Arts has generously donated a $25 gift card for our 

February random winner - thanks Hero Arts!!

I started by white embossing Hero Arts Cling Heart Pattern Background stamp (circa 2016 - retired) and then using some Distress Oxide Picked Raspberry to blend all over the embossed hearts.  I used a Gina K Master Layout 2 to die cut the panel and a white matting layer.  I took the DO ink and did a ink pad to paper to colour my card base.  The love you heart is another retired Hero Arts set - Stamp & Cut Yes. (circa 2014) stamped and clear embossed with the DO Picked Raspberry ink and cut with the co-ordinating die.  The ribbon is a Poppy Stamps die called Grosgrain Ribbon.  Added some white and Rose cold foliage from Altenew's Branches and Berries.

We hope to see you in the February gallery by 9pm Pacific Time on Feb 28th.

Thanks for visiting & happy crafting!!

 Hi there.  Dawn here to share my card for the  October Challenge - Anything Goes! 

Where's Santa.... oh dear - he's got himself stuck in the chimney! I've used the very cute Brass & Bliss "Stuck Santa"   For more details on how I made this one... hop over to my blog post. 

Thanks for visiting and we hope to see you in the October gallery!
As a reminder - be sure to use a die cut &/or an embossing folder.

 Hi all.  Dawn here to share my card for our June challenge.

 Our challenge this month is a color challenge. We'd like you to use at least three of these colors, as well as black and white and skin tones, for people.

Our Sponsor this month is Poppystamps who will be giving our winner a $20 gift card. Thank you Poppystamps for your generosity.

 Hi Dawn here to share my sample for this month's challenge.  It's a challenge that warms my heart... my favourite theme and sponsored by my favourite company....

FLOWERS

Our sponsor this month is Altenew. They will be giving our winner a $50 gift certificate to their online store. Thank you Altenew for this very generous gift.

I've been doing a few Christmas cards during this month so I'm keeping with that theme for my today's card.    I don't have a lot of My Favorite Things products - mostly older stuff from when I first started card making.  So today my Christmas card uses an older (discontinued) die called Hexagons.  

The die set has two dies - one that cuts a border and then separate hexagons.   The separate hexagons are two sizes... one the exact size of the border and one slightly smaller.    I chose to make the border in black and then used a variety of Christmas papers for the separate ones and layered together.  I've pair this border with an embossed panel and a die cut sentiment and some stamped sub-sentiments. 

Hope you will join us for our challenge.

Dawn & the Divas.

 Hi there.   Dawn here to share my card today. 

and our challenge is 

to Add Some Glitter.

I don't have any Scrappy Tails dies or stamps, so my lovely team-mate Arlene, sent me some stamped and die cut images. 

Here's my card for today. 

This is from "Santa's Workshop" set.   I coloured the die cut images with alcohol markers and added Glitter Glue to act as the snow on the workshop.  The sentiment is from Altenew - a free set from a magazine a few years back. 

Do come and joint us with your Glitter projects HERE ... just remember to use your Die Cut machine in some way...

Dawn & The Divas

 Hi there.   Dawn here to share my card for this month's Pop Up challenge.  

Our lovely sponsor is Poppy Stamps and the team are using products from them.  However you can use any products provided you use your die cut machine to cut a die or use some embossing on your creations. 

A big thanks to my teamie, Arlene, who sent me some lovely Poppy Stamps die cuts to make this cute as Bird House easel card 

 Hi there - Time for me to share a card with you today ...We have a new sponsor and we're so happy to be working with STAMPlorations.  

California-based STAMPlorations™ is owned and managed by husband-and-wife team, David & Shery Russ. STAMPlorations offers clear stamps, stencils, thin metal dies, clear stickers, coloring pages, chipboard & MDF, and paper goods for stampers, card makers, scrapbookers, mixed media artists, and all other kinds of crafters. Through their product lines, they hope to encourage crafters of all ages and experience levels to "Stamp with all your ART!"

At this time, the shop is limited due to Shery's illness.

"Anything Goes with optional Autumn"

STAMPlorations has a fabulous selection of digital images.  

 STAMPlorations is donating a prize of a $20 code on digital images for the winner. 

 Hi there.... Dawn here to share my card for our July challenge . our sponsor is Elizabeth Crafts Design

For my card today, I have used ECD - Reindeer.  

Hi, Dawn here with some inspiration for you.  Cas-ual Fridays Stamps is our sponsor

Prize - $20 gift card to their store (USA or Canadian resident only), randomly picked from eligible May entries 

My card today uses older Cas-ual Fridays stamp and die... but there are lots of great product on the website (Here)

For my card I have used a Cas-ual Fridays "Catherine's Background" stamped in 4 purple inks from Altenew.  I inked it up and lightly spritzed with water and stamped onto some white cardstock.  I trimmed the panel down so it would fit onto the purple die cut panel.  The scalloped panel is from Gina K Master Layout #4.  I added dimension to the stamped panel with some cheap card stock.   The sentiment is Cas-ual Fri Dies - Girlfriend was die cut from the same purple as scalloped die and layered up with 3 layers.  The sub-sentiment is from the Girlfriend stamp set.  I added a few die cut flowers (left over from the other days die cutting) for embellishment. 

Thanks for stopping and we hope to see you in our May Gallery!

Dawn and the Divas.

 

 Hi.  Dawn here to share a card today. 

 Our sponsor this month is Joy Clair Designs

and we have a Tic Tac Toe challenge

 Hi there... Dawn here with my sample for this month's challenge.   Our sponsor for November is Kat Scrappiness and the Divas thought Slimline and Mini Slimline cards were perfect to make your holiday cards, no matter the content.  

Kat Scrappiness is offering a prize of a Kat Scrappiness Gift Pack valued at least $25.

I added the frame to cream card base that I made a similar size to the frame.  I paired the wire frame with and Altenew Lily.  I used some watercolour pencils to colour up my lily.  The sentiment is also from Altenew. I added some silver baubles on some of the diamonds.  

 Hi there.  Dawn here again.  

Our theme for the month of August is "watercolor real or faux".

The Prize will be a $20 gift certificate to Altenew.

Today I'm sharing a Faux watercoloured card.   A great easy way to do watercolouring.

To make my watercoloured flowers I used the layers of Nature Blossoms flower. I inked up with the first colour and spritzed with water before stamping onto some watercolour paper . I dried with my heat gun and did the next layer in the same manner. And finally the last layer. I used the Red Sunset inks from Altenew - one using the first three inks and two using the 2nd - 4th inks. The centres are stamped using inks from the Warm and Cozy set. I die cut with the matching dies and then blended a little of the ink on the edges. For the leaves I used inks from the Green Meadow inks and did some smooshing onto wet watercolour paper. After it dried, I overstamped some leaves. I die cut the leaves and with some of the extra watercolour paper, I die cut some branches from the Branches and Berries Die set. My other faux watercolour technique used the Classy Stripe stencil - I inked it with the Crimson ink, spritzed with water and used it to "stamp" onto my card base. Loved how it looks. the sentiment is from the Engraved Flowers set.

Do come and join us for this month's challenge.

Dawn & The Divas

 Hi there.   Dawn here to share my card to inspire you today.   Our theme this month is tone-on-tone.   And our superb sponser is Birch Press Design  this month and they have donated a $20 gift card for our random winner (to be announced August 3rd). 

My card using the stunning Big Birthday Sugar Script die which the lovely Diva Cindy sent me a few precut.  I took the inner die and used some Dark green Altenew ink to colour up.... be warned though - keep an eye on the tiddle.... mine decided to run away and I couldn't find it.... I had some lovely green patterned paper but it wasn't quite the green I needed so I used the same dark ink to blend over it and the white layer.  Once the dark green die was added to the white shadow layer I added it to the blended background and stamped a little happy.  To finish a little dark green butterfly.  Loving this mini slimline size. 

Thanks for stopping by today.  You have till 9.00 pm Pacific Time on the 31st to join our challenge.  

 Hi there.  Dawn here to inspire you today.  

Poppystamps is offering a $20 gift certificate to the winner!

   THEME: WINDOW or APERTURE CARD

We are so happy to have Poppystamps as our sponsor and have such fantastic products.

The die I used is Adriana Square Frame.  I cut it out of some Canson watercolour paper and then used a variety of greens and a splash of teal from Altenew's 36 pan watercolour paints.  Once it dry I add the stamped vellum behind the appeture. The sentiment is from a Catherine Pooler Designs set and I white embossed it onto some heavy vellum.  I then glued it to a dark grey panel.

Do come and join us at Die Cut Divas for this month's challenge. 

 Merry Christmas Day from me and all the Divas.....

Today I am sharing a Christmas card which is for all of you!

Thanks to my team mate Arlene, who send me some Kat Scrappiness slim line nesting die cuts.  I took one of the black ones and added some washi at the bottom to fit onto my slim line card base.  I die cut the big Christmas die(from Paper Roses)  cut form gold card and finished the sentiment from a Mama Elephant set called Alpine Carollers that my dear friend, Deirdre from Ireland, sent me this year.  

By the time you read this, Christmas Day will be nearly over at my house.  So hope that all of you have a special time this Christmas.  

Dawn and the Divas

Hello everyone,

Cindy here to share another inspiration for this month's challenge:  Holidays!

Cheapo Dies is our sponsor this month.  They have increased their inventory with the addition of well  known die brands like Altenew, Elizabeth Craft Designs, Memory Box, Sizzix, Hero Arts, PoppyStamps, Lawn Fawn and a whole lot more.  Be sure to check Cheapo Dies out here.

Cheapo Dies offers a $15 gift certificate as the prize for our challenge winner.

Now about my card.  A few days ago I used Altenew Graden Trellis Cover Die (available at Cheapo Dies) for my project, and I am left with lots of the negative pieces.  Today I made use of them to create a Valentine card.

I used the same cover die along with a silicone mat to sandwich the card front and pass thru the die cut machine to created the embossed pattern/grid.  Then I glue the colored left over pieces on top and coated with Sprinkled Sugar for a bit of shine.  Lastly I stamped the sentiment in black.

For further details, hop over to my blog:  Escape To Stamping.

Thanks for stopping by!