I Spy With My Little Eye #30

Hi everyone, wow we’re nearly 3/4 of the way through the year already and autumn is almost here - when did that happen? It’s the third Wednesday of the month, so it’s time once more for another I Spy With My Little Eye... challenge over at Ellibelle's Corner. Thanks so much to everyone who joined in last time - please do check over on Ellie’s blog to see if you are one of our top picks. 

Ellie chose the challenge theme this month, and it is

I Spy With My Little Eye 

*** Something Clean and Simple ***

Clean and Simple, (CAS) projects can often be made pretty quickly, so hope everyone will find time to join in this month!  Please don’t forget to pop over to Ellie's blog to see her fab creation and link up your entries here.

Here’s my card for the challenge - the CAS theme was an absolute Godsend to me this time, as I didn’t have a lot of crafting time available! I’m not sure it’s really CAS in the true sense, but it was simple to make and is about as CAS as I get! 

I stamped and heat embossed the focal flower and sentiment, then coloured the flower using watered down ink from my Posca sparkle pens - for some reason I always feel the urge to colour this particular image in rainbow hues, which guided me to use this sentiment which I felt suited it well. Unfortunately my red sparkle pen had dried up, so I improvised with an old Cosmic Shimmer watercolour paint for that. I then added some  background stamping of grungy squares and scribbles, and some faux gold Posca spatter. When dry I matted onto black, then satin gold card and my card blank.

Here’s an angled picture to show the sparkle a bit better,

Stamps: Visible Image Creative Chaos (flower); Uniko Spring Botanicals Daffodil (sentiment); unbranded background stamps;

Media: Versafine Clair (Nocturne); clear embossing powder; Posca sparkle pens; Cosmic Shimmer watercolour paint; Posca pen (gold).

Challenges I would like to enter:

Addicted to Stamps & More! #501 - Make Your Mark 

Ally’s Angels #98 - Anything Goes

Alphabet Challenge - K is for Keep It Simple (2nd entry)

Colourful Options (September) - Anything Goes (2nd entry)

Creative Fingers #307 - Anything Goes

Path of Positivity #133 - Anything Goes Positive (2nd entry)

Simon Says (Monday) - Add Some Metal

(gold mirror card and gold metallic Posca pen)

Tic Tac Toe #279 - Tic Tac Toe

(Large Sentiment / three or more colours / stamped image)

Sparkles #192 - Single Flower

Triple B (September) - Birds, Blooms and/or Butterflies (2nd entry)

Word Art Wednesday #716/717 - Anything Goes (2nd entry)

The I Spy Challenge will end on the Sunday before the next challenge starts at 23:59 US Central Time - so this time that is Sunday October 12th, and the next challenge will begin on Wednesday October 15th.

Take care, and thanks for visiting.

Hugs,