A Friday make

A happy Friday to you all,

I have a card today inspired by a few challenges I have wanted to play along with this week. Yesterday I got the chance to have some crafty time.

Here is the card:

I decided I wanted to challenge myself again to enter the ColourQ Challenge-I had no idea how I was going to get the blue and the coral onto my card but came up with colouring my butterfly blue and my pearls coral using copics. Another week that I have made, what to me are really hard colours, work...yes I am pleased with myself!!

That gold strip is actually adhesive tape that I picked up from a shop in Covent Garden-a little find! The butterfly is a new one from Concord and 9th

The layout is from the latest sketch at Freshly Made Sketches

I had the idea to use the butterfly from the adorable photo at Addicted to Stamps and More-check it out below.

I will also enter this into the 'metallics' challenge at Uniko-the sentient is actually a Uniko one.

        

The Little Things

A very Happy Weekend to all,

I am popping in today with a very CAS card.

The idea of this card popped into my head when I saw the challenge this week at CASology. The cue word 'Simple' reminded me of this sentiment I have used before (STAMPlorations)

It is the simple things in life that we often forget to cherish-our family and friends being right at the top of the list! This is why I added these hearts-3 heart dies stuck together and then coloured with pale blue. I liked the dimension this added. The hearts were a gift from Darnell-thank you Darnell x

I used the colours at colourq. Loved this colour combo and used SU crumb cake for my kraft. The 'cherish' has been heat embossed with 'melon mambo' embossing powder.

I will also enter this in to STAMPlorations CAS challenge-anything goes with option of silver

Have a fun weekend x

         

Happy New Year!

A very Happy New Year!

I wish you all a very Happy and healthy New Year. 

And lots of crafty time for us all x

I just got down to doing a bit of crafting. A good way to start the New Year.

Here is my card, inspired by a few challenges. It is dark here now so the photo is a little dark but it has been 2 weeks since I posted so wanted to share it with you.

A very CAS card-no surprises there. I wanted this to be very graphic as it has been made for someone who herself makes very graphic cards.

I got the colour scheme from colourQ. This is the closest blue I have to coastal cabana so this is what I went with. I used delicata ink for the gold. I was quite pleased how straight the stripes came out as these I eye balled! I don't have a Misti so have to make do with my eyes.

I got the lay out from Sovushka Slavia.

Enjoy the rest of your day.

      

You Rock!

Hi All

I have a card for you today inspired by the colours at Colour Q-melon mambo, grey and pink pirouette-fitting colours for Breast awareness month. 

I started off by stamping these stripes in the 2 colours and then die cutting the bubble. After I did this, I then stamped the sentiment. Layered up some more die cut bubbles to give the dimension. I added a few sequins and enamel dots in the right colours and although I don't have melon mambo ink but do have the SU card stock.

I will also enter this into the 'geometric' challenge at Uniko and 'Think Pink' at AEIHeartuChallenge

Have a fun day x

  

       

Lets Party!

Happy Easter!

I am popping in today with a card I made yesterday. It has been water coloured so needed to flatten over night under a pile of boxes.

The idea for this card started with the sketch at Happy Little Stamper. As soon as I saw the sketch I knew I would be playing along. I wasn't sure what colours to use but this is where Colour Q came to the rescue.

I used water colour clear masking fluid so I could follow the sketch but not let the colours run too much. Once the water colour was dry I embossed the sentiment from Winnie and Walter.-I will enter the Join in to win challenge at Winnie and Walter.

Have a good day

       

Inspired by many!

I have not been so well since last Sunday night and have done a lot of sleeping in the last few days and creativity seem to have escaped me! However today I was doing some blog hopping and saw this card by Bev my fellow DT member at TIME OUT challenges. I loved this card and as I had just this week received the same Butterfly stamps from Bev's Uniko Studio store, I thought I would see if my mojo was coming out to play! With a little help from a few more challenges I created this card:

I went looking for a layout and came across the card this week by Therese at the Muse Card Club challenge. I loved the one layer design of Therese's card with the flowers overlapping the sentiment. I changed the flowers for butterflies but followed the general layout. It has been ages since I played along at Muse so I am pleased that today it helped inspire me. I used the colours this week at Colour Q. I loved the combo of the colours and think they worked perfectly for my card. I love the touch of bright green sparkle I added to the butterflies.

I will also enter this into the challenge at Crazy for CAS who are this week asking for Butterflies!

      

Have you taken TIME OUT to Dance in the Rain??

Happy Friday Eve,

Have you had chance to take TIME OUT to play in our 'Inspired by Words' challenge 'Dancing in the Rain' at Time Out Challenges.

My card today is inspired by these words and hopefully might give you an idea to play along.

This was going to be a really quick card but whilst I was making it I saw the colours at Colour Q and decided I would use these for my umbrella and then add some glossy accents to show that I had been out in the rain!! Therefore I had to wait for my umbrella to dry....not so quick in the end! The umbrella is fussy cut and popped up on a foam pad for dimension.

If you pop over to our blog here you will see our DT have a few more cards to inspire you. Then take some TIME OUT to play along. You have until Wed 27th March 5pm GMT to join in the fun.

We 3 Kings!

Hello my crafting my friends,

Today I have a religious Christmas card today but I have used quite unconventional colours! I wanted to make a card using the 3 Kings stamp from Stamplorations and when I saw the colour combo this week at Colour Q, I decided these would make great colours for my King's robes. Using my copics I came up with this:

(click on the P to save to pinterest)

I am not the best at colouring but I do like having a go now and then and enjoyed blending my copics to create robes fit for my Kings.

I will enter this into the following challenges:
Colour Q-I used brown to colour their hair.
52 Christmas Card Throwdown-Christmas carol or Hymn
http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/-Christmas song or carol
Word Art Wednesday-anything goes must be uplifting.
4 Crafty Chicks-Christmas
Aud Sentiments-any sentiment
Copic Marker Europe-anything Christmas (the first time I have been brave enough to enter this!)