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Challenge day with my friends on CCEE Stampers
Joanne has our third CCEE Stampers Challenge for July.....

For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere,

is one of our warmest months.

 When I think of hot days, I think of the beach.

  Let’s create cards that honor beaches in some way.

Even in winter in Australia, along the south east coast, it is wonderful to walk along the beach. You never know what treasures you will find. I recently spent my holidays at the seaside and every day I walked along the beach. One day a huge shell washed up on the shore, when I had a closer look it had a baby octopus inside, it was quite entertaining watching the octopus get the shell back into the water. Also June to October is whale watching season and I could sit up at the headlands and watch the whales for hours, it is so peaceful.


For my card today I dusted off some wood mounted stamps,the main image is from Stampshappen and the verse from Lucy's stamps and the background ones are red rubber ones from Stampscapes.

Don't forget to check out the CCEE Stampers blog to see the rest of the creations the CCEE Stampers created this week. You can also see more details of their creations on their individual blogs.

Anne Harmon

Joanne Grzelak

Liz Williams

Lois Bak

Lynn McAuley

Frances Byrne

Vicky Gould

Cheers 

Maryann

Triple Time stamping

For today's card I thought I would try a technique that is very popular at the moment it is called triple time stamping or seamless tiers. For this I used some very old supplies, wood mounter stamps from PSX and Lucy stamps, Adirondack inks, butterscotch, latte, current, terracotta and a skeleton leaf. In fact the PSX leaf is one of the first stamps I purchased 13 years ago.

 While I found this fairly easy to create I found this link on do stamping with Dawn that explains it with a video tutorial.

Have fun creating, I know I will be making more perhaps even as a quick Christmas theme cards.

Take Care

Maryann

A touch of Elegance

For this card I wanted to create a soft effect using distress ink and sponging. I inked up the flower with two colours, once stamped I used nestabilities oval die to cut out the image. While the die was in place I sponged the edges, I did the same with the verse. They were then matted using the scalloped die and chocolate card. I used the mini rolled rose die-namics and attached pearls in the centre with hot glue. The roses were made with the same designer paper that I used for the background.
Supplies:
Stamps: Lucy's stamps from Kazazz
Paper: Designer paper, cream and chocolate card.
Other: distress ink- tea dye,brushed corduroy,antique linen, milled lavender, MFT mini rolled rose die-namics, pearls, marianne leaf die, nestabilities, lace, sponge, hot glue.
Maryann

Just living

I created this card so time ago but I have only just taken the photo, the challenge on CCEE was to used wood,CCEE1041. The sketch was from splitcoast stampers SSSC71. I used the sizzix embossing folder designed by Tim Holtz called Woodgrain and used a sponge block to add colour. The flower and dragonfly was stamped with adirondack ink and the words over stamped with black ink, it was then cut out with nestabilities circle, I then sponged the edges andused a destresser tool on the edges. I am not totally sure this technique is for me. A large brad was used for the centre of the fabric flowers.
Supplies:

Stamps:Lucy's stamps flower set 1942LQ

Paper: close to cocoa, pumpkin, cream

Other: nestabilities, tim holtz destresser tool, sizzix embossing folder, sponging block, adrondack inks - Latte, peach bellini, mountain rose, butterscotch, terracotta, black, ribbon, brad, flowers

Thanks for looking

Have a great day.

Autumn Medallion

After sweltering in todays heat 36 deg (97F) which felt 10 deg hotter due to high humidty, I spent some time inside with the air-conditioner. I felt it was time for a change in the weather and made this Autumn card for the sketch sc212.

I started by making the medallion by cutting out a 5cm x5cm square of black card, I then punched the corners and turnded them inside out. I them stamped the pampas image with aged mahogany on pumpkin pie card, then punched out the image and layered in onto chocolate card.

The flourishes were stamped with moonlight white on chocolate card and created a the pampas boarder on pumpkin card all layers were matted with black card. To finish the card I used the window punch for the word autumn and layered it with 2 black pieces punched with the window punch and layered to look like one and then added two chocolate brads.

Recipe:

Stamps: Lucy's Stamps - Pampas 1112LC, Impression obession - WR27 Fall, Autumn Leaves - Elegant Flourishes

Paper: pumpkin pie, chocolate chip, black

Other: SU- circle punches, word window punch, EK Sucess - Corner punch, Brillance - Moonlight white, Ranger Tim Holtz - Aged Mahogany