Celebrating!

Hello 'Blends' (see here for definition), I'm celebrating being selected to join the Southern Girls Challenge Design Team and am posting this card into their current challenge.  Which is Yellow, Red and Blue.  OK so a bit of poetic license has been taken here as I've got lots of other colours in here.  

Again, my photography skills are sad, although the second photo is clearer. There is spica pen everywhere on this image, only it doesn't show up well in the photos.

I've sponged ink around the edge of the card to create this background and layered black mounted strips of Kaisercraft Gypsy Sisters papers behind the Saturated Canary image.

I'm also entering this card into the following challenges.

Southern Girls Challenge ~ Red, Blue & Yellow

Crafty Purple Frog ~ Anything Goes

Cute Card Thursday ~ Anything Goes

Sweet Stampin' Challenge ~ Anything Goes

Sparkle

I recently took advantage of a fabulous sale over at Sweet Pea stamps and picked up some stunning stamps.  I've been colouring up some of the images and here is the first of them.

Ching-Chou Kuik's Radiant Butterfly, I've followed the colours fairly closely to what is pictured on the image for this one.  Love the way it turned out.  Sorry this pic was taken at stupid o'clock this morning under artificial light and her skin is really not that yellow!  It's raining here, still, I'll try another pic once daylight arrives!

Update:  Much better pic taken in a dull gray rainy daylight but it's better than the last photo!

This Photo below is still very yellow, but I wanted to try to show the spica sparkle on this image, she's pretty much covered in it!  I've added the copic colours used as well.

I've just finished a copic class with Mandi-Lee at Copic Me and I've learnt quite a lot that I had either forgot from my first lesson or wasn't covered.  Either way, it was the best investment of my time and a few dollars.

I am entering this card into the following challenges.

Simon Says Stamp and Show - Anything Goes ( my first time on this challenge site)

Make It Monday - Anything Goes

Cute Card Thursday - Celebrate (Happy 4th Birthday CCT!)

Copics used.

Skin:  E50; 51; 53 & 93  

Eyes: BV04 and BV000 Clear spica pen

Hair: BV00; 02; 04; B21; Gold; Clear and Sky Blue spica pens

Dress and Background:  Y000; RV000; 00 & 01; V000; 01 & 04; B21 & 23; Pink, Sky Blue and Turquoise and Clear spica pens

Butterflies: G000 & 00; Y000, RV01  Pink, Sky Blue, Turquoise and Clear spica pens

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers,
Kasey ~ in Oz

Mother's Day Card

I'm so very pleased that this idea turned out the way it did.  It took a bit of guesswork and measuring but turned out just sensational.

This is my first time using the Strength and Hope set, it's fabulous and what is even better is that Stampin' Up! is donating $2 from the sale of each and every set to Breast Cancer research, so what better set to use for a Mother's Day card than this.  The words in the background also aptly describe Mother's.

Here is the card closed, I used a narrow vanilla ribbon for that.  The colours are Rose Red, Perfect Plum and Very Vanilla, a combo I came up with a week or so ago and I've been waiting for the right card to come along to use them.

And whent he card is open there is room for your message on the under side of the scalloped circle front.

Hand Stamped Sentiments ~ Challenge # 65 Mother's Day Theme

SU Only ~ Challenge # 17 Mother's Day

Jac-inks Papercraft Challenges ~ Challenge # 7 colour inspiration photo 

( I took the pink and purple from the photo)

Cute Card Thursday ~ Challenge # 162 - Re use a sketch from anywhere or design your own.  I designed my own!

Skewed Squares

Hello again, I'm having a crafting day today, armed with my list of challenges and the raido keeping me company I'm crafting on my precious days off work!  I've done my share of entertaining my grand daughter and today and tomorrow are all mine....YAY!

This effort was started as the sketch but grew into meeting two other challenges, now I'm not entirely sure that the No Text theme over at Cute Card Thursday will allow newsprint....at least it's not me stamping a text, wonder if I'll get away with it. LOL  In fact, there is absolutely NO Stamping at all on this card!

in the big sheme of things it doesn't really matter, I had fun making this card and that's the MOST important reason why I craft in the first place, the sharing is an added bonus.

So this card is going into these challenges

Cute Card Thursday ~ Challenge # 161 - No Text

Jak-Inks ~ Challenge # 6 - Sketch

Sentimental Sunday ~ Challenge #52 - Let's get Punchy!

Hearts and Flowers Shaker card

This is my first attempt at a shaker card. Not sure I like them actually, the hearts won't go where I want them to! LOL

When I looked at the list of challenges that I covered off here I was pretty stunned 9 of them. woah! But then this close to Valentines it was bound to be easy.



4 Crafty Chicks ~ Valentines

Colour Create ~ #64 Chocolate, Strawberries and Cream Colour Challenge

Crafty Creations ~ #105 Three Little Words

Crazy 4 Challenges ~ #73 Valentines Card

Cute Card Thursday ~ #151 Hearts and Flowers

Easy Craft Projects ~ #31 Love

Just Add Ink ~ #55 Just Add Love

Some Odd Girl ~ Hearts, Hearts, Hearts

Stampin' Royalty ~ #58 Hearts, Hearts, Hearts

Red and White

Oh How exciting! Ramdom winner on Southern Girls challenge.

With a post surgery enforced inactive and no work couple of weeks stretching ahead of me, I'm blurfing. What on earth is 'blurfing'? I hear you ask. It's blog surfing! and I'm slowly moving from the computer to the craft room to the couch and back again, still a bit sore and sorry and not able to settle in one spot for long....anyway it's all good, well on the road to recovery.

So while I was blurfing I found an Aussie/NZ site for challenges where this week's challenge is for dry embossing, so I decided to make a card for it, if you've been following my blog, you know I use dry embossing quite a lot in my cards. This sketch from Cute Card Thursday seemed to fit the bill also. When using dry embossing, I like to keep the colours simple and I don't usually use DSP with a lot of patterns or colours either as this seems to be overkill and muddy up the waters.

Here I've used textured cs for the white card and the first large panel of white. I've used SU embossing folders Vintage Wallpaper, Perfect Polker Dots and Square Lattice for the dry embossing, the square lattice can give this tapestry or cross stitch look to an image which adds a lovely touch.



I was playing around with the sentiment and decided to go with oval to match the scallope oval and then looked outside the norm for attaching this and the ribbon. Really happy with this as it is so different and I think it just looks fantastic and adds what we all look for in our creations a unique and unusual element to our designs. Of course no project of mine is complete without butterflies or bling so I added both! LOL

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Cute Card Thursday ~ Sketch

Southern Girls ~ Dry Embossing