Have a Gorgeous Day!

I hope you are all having a fun weekend.

Here is my card for today:

Last Monday I saw the colour combo at The Challenge. I liked the idea of the orange and teal but wasn't sure about combining it with the navy blue but decided I would give it a go. On Monday I created a ombre orange panel using water colours and this panel had been on my craft desk all week! I had no idea what to do next. Then last night I decided I would die cut it to flowers and leaves. Then I did the same with some teal card. I messed around with the layout and eventually came up with this. Stamping the sentiment in navy blue.

I wasn't sure I would manage this colour combo but I guess that is why we call them challenges. 

Enjoy the rest of your weekend x

Oh What Fun!

Hope you are all having a good day,

I have just made a card that is quite different for me. I have used patterned paper, a banner and paper pieced. Honestly, I really have plus I had a lot of fun creating this:

This was inspired by Tracey's card at Muse. I went with the kraft, the lay out and instead of a leaf, I added this fun banner. I cut a slit in the top of the mug so I could pierce my banner into the it. I have stamped the 'cool beans' in the centre of the mug but the rest has been paper pieced using paper I found that matched the banner.

I was going to make this card more CAS but decided to go with more patterns after I saw the latest 'Birthday' challenge at The Challenge. I loved all the patterns in the photo and I also used the colours as a base.

I am joining the The Fall Coffee Lovers Blog Hop with this card as my colours have an Autumn feel.

The sentiment stamp is from Happy Little Stampers. They have a new release out-check it out here.

Enjoy your day x

Tracey's card:                        The Challenge photo:

          

Guest Designing at 'The Challenge' #36

Hello All,

This week is my last week designing at The Challenge. I would like to thank Lesley for inviting me for the month of May. I have had a lot of fun and hope you have too.

This week it is our 'Theme' week and we are:

'Celebrating Teachers'

I found this a tough challenge as here in England we don't give teachers cards-well not when I was at school or when I was a teacher (yes, I really did teach!!). However after some thinking I came up with a card that I thought could be given to a teacher but also one that I could send to a friend.

Now it is your turn to join in but first take a peek at what the DT have created to inspire you.

I will enter this into the 'die cuts' challenge at Happy Little Stamper May CAS challenge and the 'for the guys' challenge at AAA cards

   

Guest Designing at 'The Challenge' #35

It is my third week at Guest Designing at The Challenge.

This week it is the 'Inspiration' challenge. These are my favourite kind of challenges and this week here is the inspiration:

Be inspired by: The Colours, The Theme, The Objects in the Photo or anything else that inspires you about the photo ABOVE.

I have gone with the yellow flowers and came up with this:

The flower stamp is from Uniko and the sentiments are from Winnie and Walter.

The team have all come up with some amazing inspiration for you-take a look here then get out those inks and join in.

I am going to enter this into the Birthday Celebration at AAA cards-they are 1!!

And the 'Blossom' challenge at One Layer Simplicity Challenge

Enjoy x

Guest Designing at 'The Challenge' #34

Hi All,

Today I am Guest Designing again at 'The Challenge'. I am so happy to be Guest Designing for such an amazing team.

Today we have this colour challenge for you:

I immediately thought flowers but I have scheduled a few flower posts later in the week and some actually using these colours, so I decided to go with leaves. I inked up these baby leaves from Clearly Besotted Stamps in the three colours.

I like the crisp look of this card and we all need some one layer cards we can pop in the post for our far away buddies!

I hope you can join in the fun at The Challenge

I will enter this into the 'stamps and leaves' challenge at STAMPlorations-the sentiment 'celebrate' is from STAMPlorations

Enjoy!

Guest Designing at 'The Challenge'

Happy Monday to All,

A few weeks ago I was thrilled to be asked by Lesley to be the Featried Guest Designer at The Challenge. I was amazed to be asked and naturally said a very loud 'YES'. 

Today it is a sketch challenge and here is the sketch:

This sketch did scare me a bit as it didn't seem to suit my CAS style however once I decided to use the Uniko sentiment as the bottom strip the idea for my card came to me quite quickly.

I silver embossed the Uniko butterfly on vellum and fussy cut it out. Then did some masking and stamping in gold and silver delicata ink to finish off my card

The DT have all created the most stunning cards. You can check them out here and then it is time to get inky and join in the fun!

I am sneaking my card in at the last minute to the 'Flight challenge at CASology-better late than never!

 I will also enter this into the 'wings' challenge at Mixed Media Card Challenge-yes, it is CAS but I have embossing, vellum and dimension!

   

Time Out Challenges #28

Hello All,

This week at Time Out Challenges our challenge is:

'CASE with your own twist'

This week we are CASEing one of my favourite designers Kim. Her blog is Art Keeps Me Sane and I urge you to pop on over there as her cards are always inspiring and her posts full of fun. I love to visit regularly and always come away ready to create.

Here is my CASE of Kim's card:

I have followed the lay out of Kim's card using masking to create the flower border. My twist was to go with a white base rather than a coloured one, make mine a one layer card and not to colour but to just stamp.

Here is Kim's card:

Isn't it fabulous!

As it is Easter we have prizes. No, not chocolate but crafting goodies from our very special sponsor Clearly Besotted Stamps (Kim has used their stamps on her card). The winner of this challenge will get a £20 gift voucher to spend in their store.

Our Guest Designer for this challenge is Claire. Check out her blog Life on the Scrap Heap -you will be inspired!

You can see what ..... and our DT have created here

Time to...take some TIME OUT and join in the fun!

I would like to join in the celebrations at The Challenge who are having a 1 year Anniversary
 bash!

And the 'Spring' challenge at CASology
And 'Easter Colours' at AAA cards

      

Crafty Friends!

Hello Crafty Friends,

I have a card today for you that I made very quickly after seeing a few challenges over the last few days that inspired me.

This card is for us all!

I got this sentiment stamp from my lovely crafty friend Sarah and have been wanting to stamp it up (thanks Sarah). There are quite a few 'Friends' challenges in blog land at the moment so now seemed the right time! The washi tape stamp is from Uniko

I used the colour combo at The Challenge #23 and the sketch at STAMPlorations.

I will also enter this into the Friends challenge at:

CASology and Less is More

And sentiment only challenge at Paper Players

And don't forget we are having a 'Love and Friendship' challenge over at Uniko Studio,you still have time to enter and there are lots of goodies to be won!

Enjoy the rest of your day my crafty friends.