Fusion Inspired!

I hope you are all having a fun weekend.

I have a card for you today that was inspired by the colours in the photo this week at Fusion. I made a card for the last challenge but stupidly missed the deadline so I am getting in early this time!

I glued together some teal and orange card and then die cut the 'Happy'. I then die cut a number of these to give me some dimension. The stamped the balloon directly onto the card. Doesn't this little white stamp make the balloon look more realistic! This stamp is from the new release at Uniko-balloon bash.

This was really fun to make and I love how CAS it turned out. For me the rounded edge just finished the card off perfectly.

I will also enter this into Seize the Birthday

and the Orange CAS challenge at AAA cards

Happy Birthday Less is More!

Happy Friday!

I have been wanting to join in the Less is More 4th Birthday challenge all week. I wanted to celebrate their Birthday and I also love the combo of pink and grey. Last night I finally got to craft. I tried something new to me-embossing an image on vellum and then using copics to colour it.

I stamped the image and sentiment in grey ink directly onto the card and then added my embossed and coloured image onto this. A few baby pink enamel dots added 'just because'.

All images and sentiments are from Uniko

I am so pleased I got to play along!

I will also enter this into Seize the Birthday-no heart twist for me!

Happy Little Stampers-feb CAS and embossing

STAMPlorations April Challenge

It is time for our monthly challenge at STAMPlorations and this month we want to see you use stamps and a technique:

There are lots of cool techniques out there that you could choose. I thought of a few when preparing for this challenge. However when I think of what makes me really happy when making cards, it has to be good old plain stamping. Give me some good stamps and some ink and I am happy! I was inspired by the photo challenge at Fusion-the brickwork, text collage stamping on the dress stand and the pop of colour the scarf brings to the photo,(see fusion photo below) inspired this:

I have used the mini mixed media STAMPloration stamp set to create my background and just popped some bright coloured enamel dots for contrast-just like the scarf in the fusion photo but perhaps my dots are more of a contrast, but I actually love this colour against the grungy background.

The winner of our STAMPlorations challenge can choose 2 clear stamp sets from the Vignette, Patchwork Frenzy and Subway Art sets-visit the shop here to have a browse. Plus if you enter all three challenges this month there is an extra special prize that you could win-visit our main challenge blog here for details and to see all fab inspiration from our teams. We are joined by the very creative Sian this month as our GDT.

Have fun choosing a technique this month and I am looking forward to visiting your blogs.

I will also enter this into the Birthday Challenges at Seize the Birthday and Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge

Here is the inspiration for my card from Fusion