London Days

Today my card is for the 'toot your own horn' challenge over on Cas-ual Friday. The idea is to create a card inspired by your blog header. I don't have the conventional blog header so decided to take the inspiration from my blog title-London Days.
As, this card is both inspired by my header and my CAS style, I will also enter it into the 'show your style' challenge on Hiding in the Craft room

I love living in London. So many things about this great city inspire me and now after the Olympics I couldn't be prouder to be a Londoner. So this challenge was a lot of fun for me. I had to go with the London Skyline and this is what I came up with:

I printed off a skyline image from the web and very carefully cut it out. Then I cut the front of the base card down and attached my image. I thought a 'thinking of you' sentiment would go perfectly as I could send this to a friend abroad or, if I am away, to a friend at home.......I am sure they will get the double meaning???
This is an interesting challenge and it is fun looking through how other crafters have been inspired by their own blog headers.
I am also going to enter this into the 'CAS' challenge on Dutch Dare challenge blog.

Happy Sunday x

All I want for Christmas......

.........is shoes!!

Yes I do love to get new shoes and not just for Christmas.

My card today is for the 'shoe' challenges on Casology and Ooh-la-la-creations.

I was looking through my shoe rubber stamps then remembered I had this Pink Petticoat digi Xmas shoe image so decided to make a CAS shoe card. I coloured the image with promakers and embossed the background. I like the crisp look of this card so made a few. I know a few of my girlfriends who will enjoy getting this in the post at Xmas. And lets hope some of us get the real things under the tree this year!!

Seeing Spots

Happy Tuesday,

I have a card today for you that was inspired by this photo on the Runway Inspired challenge.



The blocks of colours, the bright blues and the reflections on the floor-which to me looked like a mirrored floor-were the things that inspired me. However these ideas have been spinning in my head for a few days now but when I saw the photo below on  Moxie Fab's Trigger Tuesday , the blocks of colour were converted from rectangles and lines to circles and spots!



 And from these inspirations I came up with this card. This is a PTI stamp. I have punched a circle in the second spot and added a mirror behind it, to represent the mirrored floor. Quite hard to take a photo so you can see the mirror without getting a reflection of me! One spot is yellow as in the Runway photo the 'man bag' gives a splash of colour and when I look at the spots in the Moxie Fab photo the yellow spots stand out as strong.

I think this is a funky, fun card that would be great for a guy and therefore I am entering into hooked on crafts 'cards for men' challenge.

White Christmas

Gosh crafting chums, 2 posts in one day! Another new one for me.

I have been thinking all week what to do for the 'white' challenge on Casology and just couldn't come up with an idea. Then I saw the CAS sketch on Retro sketches and an idea just popped into my head. Don't you just love it when that happens. I flipped the sketch and came up with this card for both challenges:

I haven't used this embossing folder for ages but I knew I wanted to dust it off for this card as it reminds me of snowflakes. This sentiment is another new toy for me from PTI and my new 'love letter' memento ink.

A fun way to spend a rainy Sunday morning in London. Now I must stop having all this fun and get on with the ironing!!

A Casual Play Date

Oh what joy, I have had more inky time creating a CAS card for the 'Fall' challenge on Cas-ual Friday and colour challenge The Play Date Cafe.

I saw a card on less is more site by Marian and was inspired by her use of script and blending. Check out her fab card here.
So with this card as inspiration I got to work. I doubled up a script stamp inked in a yummy chocolate colour, masked it off and blended some honey coloured ink to cover the script. Then added a few leaf stamps blending a red and orange ink to give the 'flamingo' colour and finished off the stamp with that choccy colour.
I know.......I am on a blending ink kick at the moment but I make no excuses as I am loving it.
Enjoy the rest of your day x

CAS makes a come back!

Happy Saturday crafting chums,

My CAS creativity took a little vacation but today it decided to return in style (well I hope you think so).
I feel refreshed after making this card. I used the 'Turning a new leaf' stamp set from PTI. I tried to incorporate the idea of movement and repetition principles I have been reading about on Moxie Fab. And will be entering this card into the  Moxie Fab rep challenge and the Moxie Fab Movement Challenge
And, as this card is full of those gorgeous Autumn colours, it is ideal for the 'Fall' challenge on Eureka Stamps and the 'leaves' challenge on 4 Crafty Chicks.......gosh a lot of challenges, so CAS really is for me!

I am showing you 2 photos as I have embossed the brown card but found it hard to show this-really because I didn't emboss it with enough pressure. You can just see it in the first photo and in the second photo you can see those warm Autumn colours more clearly:

Have a good weekend x

Traditional Xmas Card!

Hi crafting chums,

I am popping in very quickly to share my first traditional Xmas card, no purples today!

What is Xmas without a bit of sparkle, gold, a tree and some snowflakes........yes, my snowflakes are black but I don't do too traditional!

This card is for the challenge on Retro Sketches. I flipped the sketch and came up with this:

I tried various ways to stop the gold glare but not with too much success!!
Here is the sketch:



The last 2 days I my cards have not been my preferred style but they just came out like this.....perhaps my CAS creativity needed a little rest BUT look out for tomorrow's post as I think CAS is feeling neglected and is making a come back!!