Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble

Haunted Design House offered us an interesting recipe with the following 5 ingredients: black, purple, green, metal and flourish.

Here’s what I brewed in my cauldron:

 

I mounted a green bubble background ATC on a black and purple card featuring clear embossed flourishes. My metal ingredient consists of a silver heat embossed pentagram. Sorry for the bad scan, in real life the green ‘s got a bit more punch and the pink is actually neon pink.

Stamps used

• Witch:  Gaïa
• Cauldron & mouse: Cherry Pie
• Bats: Stampers Anonymous
• Pentagram: Make your mark
• Bubble sentiment: Stampendous

Green shamrock fairy

One can never create enough St Patrick’s Day ATCs!

For the background I combined dry embossing, heat embossing and distress inks. The tag’s made from shrink plastic (that’s why the scan isn’t too great).

This is yet another ATC for the Stampotique Designers challenge, i.e. # 138 ‘Green’. I’m not quite sure if this winged creature qualifies as a forest/flower fairy, but it’s a shamrock fairy, so I’d like to enter this atc in the Wicked Wednesday Challenge ‘Forest/flower fairies’.

Stamps used

• Tree topper & skulls (3 in a round): Stampotique
• Sentiment: Stampsmith
• Stripes: Stampers Anonymous

Leprechaun

And here’s another atc for St. Patrick’s Day:

Collage on a heat embossed alcohol ink background.

This is my entry for Wicked Wednesday ‘Leprechauns & Luck’ and Inspiration Avenue ‘Green’.  

Credits

• Leprechaun: unknown
• Pot & Hat: RUCOLA DESIGNS (ErinsIsle Freebie on Deviant Scrap)
• banner flag and shamrocks: The Graphics Fairy

St. Patrick’s day

I have a fondness for all things Celtic (that’s why I chose Aisling as a nickname), so I’ve been having great fun creating some ‘unusual’ ATCs for St. Patrick’s Day.

 

This is my entry for the following challenges:

• The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers: P is for Paddy
• Craftitude: Anything goes or add a little green

Thanks for looking! I hope these made you smile!

Celtic inspired card

When I saw the challenge theme ‘Volksmotive’ on the Art Cards Challenge blog, I thought it an excellent excuse to start playing with my Celtic knotwork stamps!

 

I have some great Irish Blessing stamps (by The Stampsmith) that are very large, so I hardly ever get to use them on atcs or cards, but I found the perfect solution: I used them on the inside of this card!

Inside of the card

 

 

 

I’d also like to enter this card into the Kreativer Bastelblog ‘Borders’ challenge (#40).

Stamps are by Stampabilities, Dovecraft, Inkadinkado, Stamp it crazy, The Stampsmith, Make Your Mark.

Snowmen

I’ve been creating a number of snowman ATCs  for a swap in our Yahoo-group and this is the card I made as a treat for my swap partner:

It’s my entry for the current Dilly Beans ‘Snowmen’ challenge.

Stamps used

• Snowmen (digi): Dilly Beans
• Stripes – Baroque background: Darkroom Door
• Postage mark: Circular sentiment:  Hero arts – Snowman inside the circle: Artemio

 

Longing for sunshine

We’re probably all dreaming of a white Christmas here in Belgium, but we’re only getting rain, rain and more rain!  This foul weather really makes me long for bright and sunny days, so I thought it’d be fun to show you one of my springtime/summer projects.

 

This is my entry for the following challenges:

• Third Coast Creative Challenges # 12: anything goes
• Out of a Hat 39/40: Birthstone colours (I used peridot, topaz & amethyst)
• Fat Pages and Cards with Attitude: anything goes

Stamps used

• Dragon: Third Coast
• Fairy, tree and sparkles: Lavinia
• Sentiment: Scrolls Work

Curiouser and curiouser

Here’s a bright and sunny card I made for a couple of challenges:

The Altered Alice challenge wants to see a lovely garden and/or bright flowers. I used my Tim Holtz tattered florals die. The shape of the leaf was stamped with a scrap I cut out of the waste of a sheet of rubber. I doodled the details of the leaves.

The Stampotique Designers Challenge wants us to combine two or more stamps. I put Moth Fab’s head on the shoulders of a Dilly Beans image of Alice .

Simon Says Stamp and Show celebrates Stamptember and chose ‘Read all about it’ as this week’s theme. Lewis Carroll’s story of Alice makes great literature, of course. Moreover, I added several pieces of textbook papers and incorporated a Cherry Pie text swirl in the background to tie with the theme.

I hope you like it!

Flower ATCs

I’ve got some flower ATCs to share with you:

 

I’d like to enter both ATCs in the following challenges:

• Crafty Individuals: Last days of summer
• Daring Cardmakers: Focus on flowers
• Sunday Stamper: Stamped flowers

As the second ATC features an embossing resist background, I’d like to enter this one into the Frilly and Funkie challenge too.

Stamps used

• Flowers (squares): Crafty Individuals
• Flowers (background):  Hero arts
• Script background: Darkroom Door
• Natural Beauty sentiment & book page background : Stampinback

 

Fairy

I’m on holiday and I didn’t bring my crafting supplies, but I do have my laptop, a powerful internet connection and a number of cards that I haven’t shared on my blog  yet. Here’s one of my recent cards (that I created for this lady):

The sentiment is Dutch but in English it would be something like  ‘You don’t have to be a fairy to perform miracles’. So true! All stamps are by ‘Inkerbell stamps’.

I’d like to enter this fair(l)y simple card into the following challenges:

• Crafts and me ‘Anything goes’
• Make my Monday ‘A midsummer night’s dream’
• Try it on Tueday ‘Anything goes’.

Thanks for looking!