Merci!!

How is your weekend going?

CASology's word this week is 'ORANGE' and, as I love my 'tangelo' memento ink, I wanted to play along.

I have for a while been following Karen who makes the most amazing cards. She often masks off areas and blends ink. The cards are stunning and I love the CAS style. If you don't know her work take a peek at
this card.

I decided to give this masking and inking a go in 'Karen's style'. I masked of a small area using post it notes then used a blending tool with my 'tangelo' ink. I used the same colour ink to stamp the background (this is a Verve stamp). Then added the sentiment in black to give contrast.

This is a 4" by 4" small card-continuing my effort to use different sizes and styles of card.

I am also entering this into the 'Thank You' challenge on Party Time Tuesday

Lets Chat!

Yippee, Friday is finally here and the cocktail hour approaches! Well it has to be 5pm somewhere??? But perhaps we should wait until we have our tea and toast!!

I have a very girly, pretty pink card for you today. It was inspired by paper smooches sparks 'typography' challenge. When I saw this I thought, what a great opportunity to mix and match some of their sentiment stamps I have. Recently in blog land I have seen quite a few of my fellow crafters repeating the same sentiment and loved the way this looked. So I decided to have a go. I have based the card on the colour pink after browsing this week's challenge on Less is More.

I actually used ribbon but I won't tell you how long it took me to tie the bow, but lets just say, I remember why I don't use ribbon too much! Still I love the way it finishes the card, so perhaps you will see more ribbons and bows!

Thanks for popping by and have a happy Friday x

Mid Life Crisis???

Happy Friday Eve,

My friend's chap is hitting 60 in a few days and my card today is for him. Now I am 46 (between you and me!) so I like to think he is just hitting mid life-I know, who I am kidding!!

BUT you assess for yourself. He drives around in a Porsche, zooms around on his motorbike and wears lots of leather jackets.......and your conclusion is????

I think my card is perfect for him!!

The stamps are all from papersmooches and the patterned paper is from the retro collection at Stampin up.

I was looking through my stash of cards the other day and came across different shapes and sizes of cards and decided it was time to have an experiment with them. Today I used this long, thin card which seemed to suit the car stamp.

This is my entry this week for CAS-ual Fridays  'masculine' challenge, Allsorts 'for men only' challenge and Cards for Men 'anything goes' challenge.

Have a zoom, zoom day!!

Happy Birthday Lynn!

Today I want to shout across the pond......Happy Birthday Lynn!!

Lynn and I are cousins and therefore have always been connected although we live in different countries. But over the last 18 months, and through our love of card making, we have become a lot closer and I feel blessed to have her in my life. Our new connections means the world to me, so today we are raising a glass to you Lynn!

And my card today is for Lynn. Hopefully it has arrived in the post o.k-if not Lynn, read on to see what it should have looked like!!

I wanted to use the leaf dies and stamps as Lynn has often commented to me how much she loves these.  I have used the colour combo set by Mynnette for the third card in her DT call (details here). This was a tough combo-suede, baby blue and olive. I did have to think a while on this one but had the idea of looking through my stash of buttons to find a suede one and actually found one that I think is a pretty good match. I then die cut a flower from, much neglected, blue felt. I masked off the strip and did some inking and stamping in the colour combo.

And here is my card for Lynn and my third card for the Mynnette's DT call.

I am also going to enter this into the Totally Gorguss 'button' challenge, and Crafty Catz 'add texture' challenge.


Have a fun day Lynn xx

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Remember, Remember the 5th of November! Guy Fawkes night tonight-are you off to a Fireworks display or, like here, did all the sparkle and fun happen over the weekend? I am afraid we didn't go out into the cold but we do have a bird's eye view of all the local displays from the warmth of our lounge!

I have a card today inspired by this photo display from Jay Gee's Nook



I loved the gingham garland with the red and white stars. I took these elements from the photo and followed clean and simple sketch #215 and came up with this:

I do love this sentiment is from Verve and it is the first time I have used it.

I will also enter this into the 'twinkle, twinkle little star' challenges at Cute and Girly and Totally Papercrafts

Have a fun and sparkly Guy Fawkes night!

Crafty Sunday!

Happy Sunday,

Today hubby and I have had a crafty day (after doing the supermarket shop!). He is one corner of our craft (spare) room producing his 'drum and base' music and I am the other side, getting inky! I made some more bauble cards, a twinkle star Xmas card, a get well card and decorated some gift bags! Goodness where did all that inspiration come from!!

Today I am going to share some more of my bauble cards. I have used different die cuts, colours and sentiments but stuck to the same stamp.

Here is my first one, which I am going to enter into the 'Christmas' challenges on Crafty Ribbons

And my second version which I am going to enter into CAS(E) this sketch, this is my second card but I decided to enter it as I think it is actually closer to the challenge sketch than my first card.

I will be back over the next few days to show you the other cards I made today.

Thanks for popping by x

CAS(E) this Sketch #4

Gosh November already!! Better get going on those Christmas cards!

I have had a few days off from Christmas cards but today got the urge to use my new die cut baubles and Lisa's sketch on CAS(E) this Sketch gave the inspiration I needed. I combined the die cut with some stamping to come up with this:

This was fun to make and I got to use my new toys!

And here is Lisa's sketch:



Enjoy the rest of your day x