Time Out Reminder

Have you played along at our challenge at Time Out Challenges?

We are asking you to inspired by these words:

 'Autumn...the year's last, loveliest smile'

Use any of these words or the whole phrase.  This week I decided to go with 'Smile' and created this card:

I did some water colouring for this card. Asa's take on the sketch at Happy Little Stampers inspired my lay out. It is quite a loose interpretation of the sketch but as soon as I saw Asa's take I thought it was really creative and used her idea as my starting point. Thanks for the inspiration Asa.

This week at Time Out Challenges our Guest Designer is Glenda. She is the Queen of stitching and I would urge you to check out her blog here

I will be entering this into the following challenges:

Winnie and Walter water colouring with Vanessa for WCMD 

AAA Cards-word play.

Happy Little Stampers-sketch challenge

Colour Throwdown-mint green, saffron and ivory.

 

The Card Concept #41

It is time for a new challenge at The Card Concept.

Here is our photo to inspire you:




And here is my card:

This photo made me think of someone sat on this chair on their porch contemplating life. I thought this sentiment was perfect to reflect this. I used the colours from the photo and this very CAS design to finish my card.

Our Guest Designer this month is the very talented Diane. Her style is Free style collage. Check out her blog here

I am on the 'Clean and Simple' DT but for this challenge you can use any style of card, just let us know what style. Our DT have all made cards from different styles. Check them out here and then join in the fun x

I will enter this into:

AAA Cards-word play

Butterfly Muse

Hi All

I am playing along with Muse again this week.

Our Muse is Joan and she has created a gorgeous card for us. As soon as I saw her card I started creating. I was drawn to the water coloured background and the white embossing. I actually made 2 backgrounds and left them over night to dry and flatten. I am not so happy with one of them but hope to see what I can do with it later.

Here is the one I finished this morning. I embossed the butterfly with sparkly white embossing powder, fussy cut it before adhering to my water colour background. I coloured the centre of the butterfly really to hide the adhesive!

Here is Joan's card:

Hopefully I will be able to rescue the other card and post later in the week, although I wouldn't hold your breath!!

I will also enter this into:

Virginia's view challenge-colouring

Winnie and Walter-WCMD water colouring

   

Have a good day x

World Card Making Day take 2!

As most of you know yesterday was card making day and I had a fun afternoon making cards. My hubby was working at home so it was the perfect time to craft.

Here is another card I made:

This was inspired by the colour challenge at Winnie and Walter. Heather set us the challenge to use aqua, mint, kraft and yellow. It was quite a tough one for me but I got there in the end. Plus I do love the result. I actually got a ping moment when I saw the latest sketch at Retro Sketches. I haven't played at Retro Sketches for a while so it was fun to get the inspiration this week.

I will also enter the 'CAS' challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More

Have a good day x

     

I love Purple!

Happy Card Making Day.

Here is a card I just made today:

I guess most of you who follow my blog will already know I am a purple freak. However today I have a very good reason to pull out my neon purple ink as Becca is holding a 'Blog to Stop' domestic violence. Here is why:

You see, purple is the colour of National Domestic Violence Awareness month. 

1 in 3 women will experience domestic violence over the course of their lifetimes. 

Let that sink in - 33% of all the women you meet. 

And women aren't the only people who are affected! Women, men, transgender - gender doesn't matter. Domestic violence is something that exists regardless of gender, socioeconomic status, religion, education level, etc.

As today is 'World Card Making Day'. I really wanted to join in and make a card for this worthy cause.

I was also inspired by a few challenges that I have seen today:

Winnie and Walter Sketch challenge for WCMD-I flipped the sketch.

Less is More-who want to see 'jewel' colours. I have gone for amethyst. My engagement ring is amethyst...I know not a great surprise!

I hope you get time to create today and also to join Becca here and raise awareness of domeatic abuse.

Today is a day for all us 'card making' lovers to get inky-hope you get some time x

edited to add-I forgot Winnie and Walter are asking us to take craftie's today. So hubby just took this of me hiding in the corner of my tiny craft space-you can see it is getting dark now, time for me to stop crafting I think!

   

Fusion-Falling Leaves Bouquet

Hello crafty friends

Back again today but this time for our new challenge for Fusion. For this challenge you can use either the photo or the sketch below or combine the 2.

I find sketches tough but this time I had a go plus combined the colours in the photo. So this week I fused the challenge!

I needed a card for a dear friend who had just got a new amazing job. I wanted to congratulate  her and we all know the best way to do this is to get crafty.

The DT over at Fusion have created inspiring projects showing you a variety of ways you could interpret the photo, the sketch or fuse the 2.

I am really looking forward to visiting your blogs to see what you make of this challenge. 

You have until Tuesday 13th midday (PST) to join in the fun

Go and get crafty...we are waiting!

Time Out #41

A very Happy Friday Eve,

It is time for our 'Inspired By Words' challenge. We have gone all poetic on you this week and have a quote from the American Poet William Callum Bryant:

 'Autumn...the year's last, loveliest smile'

With this challenge you can use any of these words or the whole phrase. For example you might want to focus on Autumn or Smile but you could also use any of the other words. We would love to see what you might come up with for 'last'. Just let your creativity bloom!

This week our Guest Designer is the very talented Glenda

Glenda's blog My Paper Cat is a joy to visit. Check out her wonderful stitching designs here

This week I decided to focus on 'Autumn'

Unfortunately my Mum needed a sympathy card and I thought these Autumn colours would give a calming feel to the card. I just masked off a strip and used orange and yellow ink randomly on these leaves and stamped them repeatedly.

For this lay out I used the sketch at Sovushka Slavia

I will enter this into the 'Autumn Colours' challenge at Make My Monday and the photo challenge at (PIN)spirational Challenge

And also the CAS challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More

Our DT have all got inspired by our poetic phrase this week, take a look here and then get inky x