This card fits several challenges and seemed to take me ages to put together as I kept getting interrupted.

The Paper Players wanted something New, Sunday Stamps – Stay Neutral and Jugs was a theme Word Snowflakes. I’ve had the world die from Sissix for a long time but couldn’t use it a lot as it wouldn’t cut well on my Big Shot. On the Gemini it was a different story and it cut beautifully. I used one of the gray tones as close a match as possible to the Neutral colour challenge and adhered it another gray silvery piece and then onto black. With the white sentiment banner and the stamped sentiment I covered off 3 colours. Before gluing to the base I used a corner punch to round off the corners and punched small holes so I could add the snowflake brads at each corner. The banner was created on my computer as I didn’t have any sentiments that would work, so created my own, and didn’t have the right shaped banner die either. I fussy cut this out and popped it on top of the world. Added the winter sentiment because inside it says ‘It is snowing somewhere in the world right now’. I also added some iridescent gems to the center of the brads for a bit of bling. i’m really happy with how this one turned out.

One thing is certain, I am no water colourist and am now considering finding someone to teach me. That said this card isn’t a total dud and may grow on me.

I started by stamping the rising bubbles, by Designs by Ryn, with Amalgam Ink. On a separate piece I also stamped the Seahorse from a Gina K Designs stamp set. Added a few seaweed images with Distress oxides after I had used water colours to try to get a watery look. It looked awful but I refused to throw it away so ended up using a curved die to cut it down to what you see. This was much better so I adhered to a card front and then stamped the sentiment. I fussy cut the seahorse and popped him up. Sentiment from same set.

Trying out various new things with this card. Had fun doing it.

The new stuff is as follows, 3D Embossing folder by Crafters Companion, Embossing powder from Ranger and a new Stamp set by Unity Stamp Company won in a recent challenge. Started off by stamping the images onto white cs in Versamark and then heat embossing in Gold. Added a bit of colour using Sakura pens. I had a very thin gold frame left from a project and decided to use it here. Cut the white card down to the size I wanted. My Christmas gift from Hubby was a Gemini, but it initially didn’t work due to a faulty switch. Managed to get it changed this morning so just had to try it out. Folder came with the machine so I embossed the card front and added a swipe of versamark and my new powder called Lemon Drop which I heat set. Added the image panel and a die cut word on top. The embossing powder has a lovely shimmer to it.

The Modsquad challenge is to create your own PP and Double D’s mood board is using a punch. I managed to do both with this card.

Taking a piece of the light blue background paper I used an old stamp set by CTMH and peacock blue Distress oxide ink. I randomly stamped several of the Paisley images over the paper. I found a scrap of the same colour as the ink card stock and punched the border with an old Martha Stewart punch. I glued that onto the white card base first and then added the rest. I added the focal piece to some gold CS to tie it to the sentiment embossing. From the same stamp set I stamped the sentiment and heat embossed with cosmic shimmer powder. I rounded the corners with a corner punch and popped it on top using a foam back. It is a very simple card but I like it a lot.