WWC35 - Marsha's "Anything Goes" Challenge

I have yet another Bokeh card! Hope you are not tired of seeing them as I don't seem to be tired of doing them. Since the Watercooler Wednesday Challenge this week is "Anything Goes", this is a perfect fit. You can see all the entries by clicking on Watercooler Wednesday.

And here is my entry:

The colours are Mossy Meadow, So Saffron and Daffodil Delight. As always, the circles are done with Whisper White craft ink.

For the trees, the Wonderland stamp set from the 2015 Holiday Catalogue is the perfect choice. Love these trees! I used a sentiment from the Moon Lake stamp set that was in the Occasions Catalogue. Unfortunately it is no longer available to order. I try not to use retired product for projects I post on my blog, but this one was just so perfect I had to use it!

The cardstock is Whisper White for the image and Thick Whisper White for the card base. What I love about this is it is really very simple and would be so easy to do a whole set in not very much time at all.

Now, go and see what the Watercooler Artists have come up with!

September Free For All

Welcome to our September Mix-Up! Why a Mix-Up? Well, maybe it's because right now we have two fabulous catalogues to tempt us - the 2015-2016 Annual Catalogue and the Holiday Catalogue which we can order from until January 4, 2016.

Because our Hops always go in a circular fashion, if you are starting here, I'm the first stop on the journey. If you joined in somewhere along the line and are working your way around, you may have come from Deb's Stamp and Create blog. I don't how she comes up with all the amazing creations she shares with us!

Let's jump right in with my first project. The idea of the Free-For-All or Mix-Up is to use products from both catalogues. So my first project features the Woodland Textured Impressions Embossing Folder and the Among the Branches stamp set - which very conveniently are offered in a bundle which saves you 15%. I teamed them up with the Thankful Forest Friends stamp set which is also in the Holiday Catalogue.

When I looked at the bear image, I immediately pictured him peeking out from behind one of the trees. I call this card Peek-A-Boo Bear. For products from the Annual Catalogue I used the sentiment stamps from Work of Art and punched it out with a retired punch because I didn't have any current punches that would work for this! Many apologies!

Next, I had to re-visit a favourite technique. Bokeh! Because it reminds me of bubbles, I teamed it up with this very fun jellyfish stamp from the Land to Sea set from the Annual Catalogue.

 The inks are all blues - Night of Navy, Bermuda Bay and Pool Party. To make the jellyfish pop - they are stamped with Versa Mark ink and embossed using White Embossing Powder. For an item from the Holiday Catalogue, I chose the Softly Falling Textured Impressions Embossing Folder - again, because it can be bubbles or snowflakes!

Thick Whisper White card stock is perfect for the card base.

Finally, I had to go all Christmas. But, Christmas with Bokeh!

This is pretty much all from the Holiday Catalogue - except for the Night of Navy, Whisper White and Thick Whisper White cardstock.

The Sleigh Ride Edgelits Dies are just way too much fun! And add such a WOW factor against the Bokeh sky with silver glitter that was so, so easy to do by dabbing small dots of glue using the Fine Tip Glue Pen. Love that glue!!

The 'peace' is cut from silver glimmer paper using the Christmas Greetings Thinlits Dies set. I used the same ink colour as with the jellyfish card.

So I have lots of new toys to play with, which is always fun. Hope I have given you some inspiration!
I know you will get a lot of inspiration from the next Hopper - Debbie. Just click on the 'Next' button, below, to continue your journey.