The Card Concept #49

Hello All,

We have a fun challenge for you at The Card Concept.

Here is the card I made:

And here is the photo and colours to inspire you:

I don't have inks for most of these colours so had to hunt out some DSP. I die cut flowers from the DSP and just stamped the leaves. I managed to still make this Clean and Simple although I did have to mess around with the design until I was happy with it!

You can create a card in any design you want. These styles are defined here

Our Guest Designer for February is the very talented Rachel. Check out her inspiring blog here

Then take a look at our blog and see what Rachel and the DT have created to inspire us.

Spring Colours!

Hello All,

Yesterday I saw Tracey's lovely card at Muse. It was the trio of flowers and the fresh Spring look of the card that inspired me. I had to CASE it and went hunting for a sketch and some colour ideas. I found some and came up with this:

I used the colours at Paper Players and the sketch at Sovushka Slavia.

The flowers are covered in WOS and IRL are all sparkly but I couldn't get the photo to show this.

I haven't made a square card for ages but I am happy how this turned out.

I will also enter this into the one layer stem challenge at Less is More. I do love the funky stems to these flowers.

Here is Tracey's card:

And the colour and sketch:

    

Have a good day x

Surprise Sweetie at Cupcake Inspirations

Happy Valentines day!

Hope you all have a fabulous day.

A few weeks ago I got an email from Naki of Cupcake Inspirations asking if I would like to be a 'Surprise Sweetie' for thier challenge today. Naturally I said yes and feel very honoured that I was asked.

The theme of the challenge is 'Love'. Perfect for today!

Here is my card:



And here is the graphic to inspire you:



I picked out the colours and the hearts to create my card.

My sentiment stamps are from STAMPlorations and they are sponsoring this challenge.

I actually made this card using 3 of their challenges this month:

CAS challenge-anything goes with red
Sketch Challenge-my layout is based on the sketch
Monthly challenge-stamps and triplets-I have used 3 stamplorations sentiments and 3 clusters of hearts (Uniko)
CASology-Valentine

Thank you Cupcake Inspirations for asking me to be your 'Surprise Sweetie'. To see the fabulous DT cards, take a look here.

      

  

Inkspirational #102

Hello All,

We have a fun 'Word Prompt' challenge for you at Inkspirational

Our word is:

'POP'

I went for the 'pop' you get when you open a champagne bottle!

Our Guest Designer is the very talented Tenia. Her blog Jazzy Paper Designs has the most fun and funky cards that I have seen in blog land!

Our DT have all all made excellent cards. Check them out here

I will also enter this into CASology-Valentine-I expect a few of us will be popping open a bottle tonight or tomorrow!

Time Out Challenges Reminder

Happy Friday Eve,

I am here with a reminder for our 'Inspired by Words' challenge at Time Out.

Our words are:

Love is the flower you've got to let grow' (John Lennon)

You can be inspired by the whole phrase or any of these words.

This week I went for 'Love' again and made this card:

I used left over hearts that I had used for a card earlier this month. Great way to use your stash.

Our Guest Designer for this challenge is the very talented Valentyna.

Check out here what Valentyna and the rest of the DT have made to inspire you.

Then take some TIME OUT and join in the fun x

I will enter this onto:
CASology-Valentine
CAS on Sunday-Valentine
Just Us Girls-Valentine

Uniko-AG with the option of love

AAA cards-love me like you do

Double D challenge-pretty pink hearts-these adorable pink hearts

        

    

Honey I Shrunk the Kit!

Hi All,

I recently joined a few crafty buddies in a mini kit club. We call it 'Honey I shrunk the Kit' club.



In this club are:

Hazel-Hazels Paper Designs
Sarah G-Funky Fossil Designs
Shona-Twine Around
Sarah P-Sazzle Dazzle Crafts

This time Sarah G sent us all a pack of goodies and we all had some 'virtual' crafty time together. We had a lot of fun.

Here are the 4 cards I made:

This card I used this gorgeous glitter gem.

I will enter this card into the 'glitter' challenge at CASology

This second card I embossed splatter.

Sarah's pack of goodies was so inspiring. I enjoyed playing with all this sparkle and shine with my crafting friends and can't wait to play again soon. Please don't forget to visit, Sarah G, Hazel, Shona, and Sarah . You will love what you see.

And here is the pack of goodies Sarah sent us:

The kit is a mixture of goodies from Hero Arts, Lil'inkers, Avery Elle and W9plus

Enjoy your day xx

Less is More and CASology

Hi There,

Popping in with a card I made this evening inspired by 2 challenges:

Less is More-white on white-Happy 5th Birthday

CASology-glitter

Sorry about the shadows but it is dark now and I needed to photo tonight as tomorrow I have posts already scheduled and I didn't want to miss CASology.

I used glitter white card to die cut the bow tie. Then to add some interest and texture I die cut a stitched rectangle die and linen embossed the base card. I added dimension by using foam pads. I do like white on white and adding texture and dimension I think really helps.

Enjoy your Sunday x