Celebrate in Style!

Yesterday was a very 'inky' Saturday for me. I spent the afternoon crafting away. And today I am here to share one of my cards. A very CAS design but I have to say I do love how it turned out.
I wanted to do a card for the 'black, white and a splash of blue' challenge over on The Play Date Cafe.  I loved the blue used in their inspiration picture below and wanted to see if I could get something close to this-my memento 'bahama blue' ink works pretty, see what you think??

I will also enter this into the Ruby's Rainbow's 'black, white and one other colour' challenge.

I have used PTI's linen impression plate but my photo doesn't seem to show this. I used this sentiment as I wanted it to reflect the elegant feel of the card.
I can see this being a nice and easy card to replicate for other occasions when you need to make a card at the last minute.
The stamps are all from PTI's 'big and bold wishes'

Not sure today will be so 'inky' as hubby is contaminating our crafting space with work.....he has a deadline and has to work at home and unfortunately has to do this in our little creative space......the work vibes give me 'crafter's block'!!

Guess I will go to my allotment and see if my beets are ready to harvest!!

Enjoy the rest of your weekend x

And Breathe!

At last its the weekend and time to de-stress and recover from a busy week.
And my card today is for all of you who enjoy de-stressing in a Yoga class......not my thing but I know so many people who swear it keeps them sane!

I have been asked to do quite a few Yoga cards and yesterday I eventually got down to it. I hunted for a sketch and found the perfect one on Feeling Sketchy. I used my yoga silhouettes from My grafico and decided to do 3 different poses and colours. Here is the one I like best:

The sentiment is from Paper Smooches and I decided to stamp it vertically as it seemed to fit with this yoga pose.
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And here are the other 2 using the same sketch:

Have a good Saturday x

Sunny London

Sun and more sun today and best to enjoy it as we have 4 days of rain to look forward to!

Today my card is for the 'acetate/vellum' challenge this week at CAS-ual Fridays and the colour combo challenge at Colourq.

I eventually found a small piece of pale blue vellum in my stash. I have not used this before and was not sure what to do with it. But I have used my sizzlits leaf die a few times recently and just had a go to see if it would work on vellum-and yep, it did!
And here is what I came up with:

As you can see I have used my wood grain PTI impression plate and my new paper smooches sentiment.

If the sun is with you today......enjoy!

A very big thank you

Today my card is a thank you card for some one who over the last 6 years has helped me through many tough times. She has listened to me and always helped me and I believe I am in a better place now because of her care. She is moving away and this sad but a great opportunity for her. Today I made this card for her:

Yesterday I watched this tutorial on Nichole Heady's blog-capture the moment. It was a lesson on 'bordered sentiments' and the theme of this week's 'Make it Monday' challenge. So I decided to give it a go using PTI  mehndi medallion stamps and paper smooches sentiment sampler. I went with the paper smooches sparks colour combo challenge. I added some lavender ribbon as borders to my sentiment, some matching coloured gems and rounded the right hand corners.

So not only have I learnt a new technique but made a card that I hope conveys the thanks I feel to this special person. 

Just a quick post today to share with you a tag I made to go on a present (a set of notelets I made earlier this week) for a friend. I was suddenly inspired to make this tag as I wrapped her present because the paper was just so gorgeous. An idea popped into my head and 15 mins later the tag was done-nice and easy but I had a lot of fun making it. I will have to try this again as I just loved this finishing touch.......I didn't write on the back so she could re-cycle it....and she is going to!!
So this really was a home made present-next time perhaps I should go with making a gift bag or decorating some plain paper. It makes it a real joy giving a present to someone when you have made it all yourself......as I am sure many of you know!

Here is the tag:

And here it is with the paper that inspired it!

See how gorgeous the paper is and I love how my tag works with it!

I will be entering this into the following challenges:
Great Impressions Stamps-die cuts
Ruby's Rainbow-tags

Have a good day-the weekend is nearly here x

Mix and Match

Happy Tuesday,

Raining again in London and it is set to be with us all week. The good thing is that this is perfect crafting weather and yesterday I stayed inside and got inking playing with my new stamps. I decided to have a go at mixing and matching stamps from different companies to see if I could make my own pattern. I used my new Craft's Meow  'retro foundations stamps' and PTI  'basic background chevrons' rubber stamps.

If you read my blog yesterday you will see that I tried to enter the Embellish Colour Challenge but used last week's colours so this time I double checked and did the right colours!! I used these as my base. I did find it quite a challenge as I usually just like 3 colours. But it was a day for trying new things and so I was determined to have a go! And although this is not my best card I have did achieve what I had set out to do and had fun doing it..........and that is what it is really is all about!!

And here is what I came up with, a fun Birthday card:

Well I had better get myself out today and at least have a walk and do some food shopping......can't let the British weather defeat us!!

Have a good day x

Polka Retro Birthdays

Just popping quickly with another card that will be going into a box of notelets.

Today I used Cas-ual Fridays polka dot challenge. I have added a retro twist to my polka dot using one of my new Craft Meow's retro foundations stamp. I coloured in the dots with promakers using the colours from the Colour Trend Embellishment challenge-a new challenge for me, although I have been looking at this challenge for a few weeks, this is the first time I have had a go. Ooops when looking back on the challenge I have now realised that I have used last weeks colours.......so this won't be going into this challenge-I will have to try again!

I added a few extra dots and gems to follow my twist on the 'polka dot' theme and ended by adding texture using PTI linen impression plate.

A CAS card that is great for a notelet pack and even better as I got to play with a few more of my new stamps!
I am also going to enter this into the 'Happy Birthday' challenge at Lexis Creations