Moving Along With The Times Challenge Blog | Use Your Favourite

Hi All, 

It is a new month and that means there is a new challenge over on the Moving Along With The Times Blog and today's card is using products from Paper Rose.

The theme is "Use Your Favourite" which I actually found it hard to pick my favourite. However, I do really love the Beautiful Mandala from Paper Rose, now retired unfortunately.

My all time Favourite would have to be the "Wizard" from Stampinbella. I have coloured him once and honestly I loved how he came out I never coloured him again! I suppose silly really. You know I can never bring myself to give the card away! 

 

Card Size Aus A6 which is 10.5 x 14.9cm (4 1/8 x 5 7/8) 

Feature Panel Size 9.7 x 14.1cm (3 9/16 x 5 5/16) 

 

I started with gold Embossing the Mandala stamp. I roughly applied watercolor over the stamp allowing it to dry in between applications and definitely after applying the shimmer paint. 

 

Picking out areas inside and around the outside, this allows the image to pop along with Gel Pen to bring the image out from the background.

 

Product List Below 

 

Paper Rose Beautiful Mandala (retired)

 

Watercolour paints - Gansai Tambi

Purple, Cobalt Violet and Cherry Blossom Pink 

Gem Violet (Shimmery) 

 

Stampin Up Diamontes

 

Polychromo Pencils

Walnut Brown, Magenta and Manganese Violet. 

 

Gel Pen 

 

  

That is all from me today. Thank you for your time. 

Take Care Natalie

Moving Along With The Times Challenge Blog | One or More Butterflies

Hi All, 

Today's card is using products from Darkroom Door. It is a new month and the Challenge for you this month is One or More Butterflies over on the Moving Along With The Times Blog

 

Card Size Aus A6 which is 10.5 x 14.9cm (4 1/8 x 5 7/8) 

Feature Panel Size 9.5 x 14cm (3 3/4 x 5 1/2) 

 

I must admit it is nice to have Darkroom Door back again. Yes, it isn't the original owner (who sadly passed away) but it is nice to see another stamp company surviving in these hard times for the craft industry. 

 

This card is fairly simple in design. I have stamped three different stamps and rotated the angle that I stamped them at. This will make it more random and natural. I added the bees to fill in gaps and for fun. They were a nice cute size.

 

 

 

Product List Below

Fine Butterflies DDRS175

Thank you DDRS144

Hero Arts May Cardmaking Kit 2025- Bee- these kits have changed since I got them. They don't sell off the old kits but I have linked where you can subscribe.

Gummiapan Large Postage Die (Stort Frimarke D250724)

Clear Drops from my stash

Stardust Stickles

 

Polychromo pencils 

Shadow - Cold Grey V234 and Cold Grey III 232

Bees - Dark Chrome Yellow 109 and Cadmium Yellow 107

Buterflies - Magenta 133 and Helloblue Reddish 151 

 

 

Upload your card to the blog for a little bit of fun.

 

That is all from me today. Thank you for your time. 

Take Care Natalie

Moving Along With The Times Challenge Blog | Anything Spring

Hi All, 

Today's card is using products from Hero Arts

 This card was made using products from the May 2025 Card Kit

 

Card Size Aus A6 which is 10.5 x 14.9cm (4 1/8 x 5 7/8) 

Feature Panel Size 9.7 x 14.1cm (3 9/16 x 5 5/16) 

 

Product List Below 

May 2025 Kit - They have recently been altering their kits but you can find their kit information here

 

Everything except the Distress Inks were from the Kit

 

The cardstock from the kit is:

Blue Spruce - Trim

Waterfall - Van Body

Seaside - Shelf and Window

Rainforest - Leaves

Fog - Wheels

Raven - Tyres

Yellow and Pink that I am not sure of the names

 

I used the inks below to alter the elements. For example - Leaves to give 2 different colours to the leaves and I did the same for some of the flowers 

Distress Inks

Evergreen Bough, Unchartered Mariner, Peeled Paint, Walnut Stain, Wild Honey and Pumice Stone 

 

 

 

That is all from me today. Thank you for your time. 

Take Care Natalie

Moving Along With The Times Challenge Blog | The Birds and/or The Bees

Hi All, 

 Today's card is using products from Woodware

 

Card Size Aus A6 which is 10.5 x 14.9cm (4 1/8 x 5 7/8) 

Feature Panel Size 9.7 x 14.1cm (3 9/16 x 5 5/16) 

Matt 10 x 14.4cm (3 7/8 x 5 9/16) 

 

 

These little birds are soo cute I couldn't help myself from making a little bird tower and the images are really really easy to make stand on each other. The last one I simply masked out the bottom of the feet so he was "sitting" on the one below.  

 

Product List Below 

 

Woodware Bubble Hopping Robins

 

Polychromo pencils

 

Red 

Walnut Brown 177, Dark Red 225 and Deep Scarlet Red 219

 

Orange

Dark Cadmium Orange 115 and Walnut Brown 177

 

Yellow

Dark Cadmium Orange 115 and Cadmium Yellow 107

 

Green

Olive Green Yellowish 173 and Leaf Green 112

 

Blue

Helloblue Reddish 151 and Mid Phthalo Blue 152

 

Purple

Magenta 133 and Mid Purple Pink 125

 

Stampin Up Cardstock

Night of Navy

 

As you can see I only have 5 little birdies so I gave some birdies both colours so I could get the whole rainbow in. (I'm a full set girl!) 

 

 

That is all from me today, I hope you join in with the challenge. It is a little bit of fun and great for times when you just want to craft but have no ideas.

Thank you for your time. 

Take Care Natalie

Moving Along With The Times | Floral

Hi All, 

Today's card is using products from Altenew. This month's theme is "Floral" on the blog Moving Along With The Times and who else does floral better than Altenew.

 

Card Size Aus A6 which is 10.5 x 14.9cm (4 1/8 x 5 7/8) 

Feature Panel Size 9.3 x 13.7cm (3 5/8 x 5 3/8) 

Matt 10 x 14.4cm (3 7/8 x 5 9/16) 

 

 

 

Product List Below 

 

Altenew Serene Blooms and stencil set

Flowers - Plum, Grape Agate, Amethyst and Pale Mauve

Leaves - Moss 

Flower Centres - Paper Bag

 

Background - Caramel Toffee and Canyon Clay  

 

 

I stamped and used 3 flower images and cut off any areas that were coming off the edge of the cardstock. These pieces were used to fill in other areas of the card panel. All flowers were raised up with foam tape. The sentiment shadow was cut out 3 times and layered up to give more dimension as it would of been much harder to apply foam tape and still have it higher than the flowers again.
 

 

I hope you join in on this months challenge. I look forward to seeing your creations.

 

Thank you for your time. 

Take Care Natalie

Moving Along With The Times Stencils and\or Dies | Cheering you on

Hi All, 

Today's card is my card for the Moving Along With The Times Challenged Blog

The theme is month is Stencil and \ or Dies. 

 

Card Size Aus A6 which is 10.5 x 14.9cm (4 1/8 x 5 7/8) 

 

Product List Below 

 Lawn Fawn Winter Yeti LF 3259

Gummiapan Riven Background D240139

Concord & 9th Everything Will be Okay 

Confetti Sequins

 

Distress Inks

Weathered Wood

Pumice Stone

 

Stampin Up Smokey Slate  cardstock

 

Copics Used

C3 and C1 

Colorless Blender

110 

 

That is all from me today. Thank you for your time. 

Take Care Natalie

Moving Along with The Times Challenge Blog | Santa | Watercolor

Hi All, 

Today's card is from the Moving Along With The Times Challenge Blog. The theme this month is Santa.

 

 

 

Card Size Aus A6 which is 10.5 x 14.9cm (4 1/8 x 5 7/8) 

Feature Panel Size 9.9 x 13.2cm (3 7/8 x 5 3/16) 

 

I die cut the blocks die 4 times in the end, including one for the base. I kept the inserts and sponged them up with the green and red distress Inks and inserted them back in the outline.

 

I added the postage marks with versafine ink and carefully added my shaker elements... and held my breathe lol 

 

Product List Below 

 

Waffle Flower Postage Blocks Die US peeps here

Waffle Flower Postage Collage Stamp US peeps here

 Paper Rose Poinsettia Bouquet Stamp 30306

Stampingbella Santa has a prezzie  

Arteza Watercolor Paints

 

Cherry Cobbler Cardstock 

 

Distress Inks

Victorian Velvet

Barn Door

Shabby Shutters

Mowed Lawn

 

Shaker Elements

Hero Arts Polymer Lollies - from an old Kit

Polymer Santa Faces from my stash

Micro Glass Beads 

 

 

 I am really looking forward to seeing your projects over on the blog.

 

That is all from me today. Thank you for your time. 

Take Care Natalie

Moving Along With The Times Challenge Blog | Winter Wonderland | Copic Colouring

Hi All, 

Today I have my first card as a Design Team member for the Challenge Blog, Moving Along With The Times. 

 

On the First of every month we release a new challenge, it is a bit of fun and gives a little bit of inspiration to each other seeing all the beautiful designs.

Today my take is playing in the snow. Now I don't get snow where I am and I haven't seen snow for maybe 2 and a half years since I was in America and even then it was April! Ha ha

This card is using products from Colorado Craft Company.

 

Card Size Aus A6 which is 10.5 x 14.9cm (4 1/8 x 5 7/8) 

Feature Panel Size 10 x 14.4cm (3 7/8 x 5 9/16) 

 

Product List Below  

 

Snow Good Sledding  AJ410

Versafine Onyx Black Ink - sentiment

Memento Tuxedo Black Ink

Weathered Wood Distress Ink

 

Copics Used

Snow - V20, B00, B000, B0000 and 0 marker

Orange - E08, YR18, YR15 and YR12

Mice - W5, W3, W1 and R30 

Hat - C9, C7 and C5 

 

 

 

It is a fairly simply card but you can check out the video here for all the details. 

 

 

 

That is all from me today. Thank you for your time. 

Take Care Natalie