Unscripted love

Hi all, here is my other make for today,  I love Unscripted Sketches and try to play along now and then.  This one was such a lovely CAS design.

I had all sorts of ideas running around and when I tried to harness them, the kept being elusive and slipping away from me.  Then I decided not to go down the Christmas card path and thought PINK instead, and it all just flowed together....I guess I'm over making Christmas cards now!

Cardstock:  Rose Red, Pretty in Pink, Pink Pirouette, Silver Glimmer Paper.

Ink:  Rose Red

Stamps:  Punch Potpourri, Baroque Motifs, Occasional Greetings

Big Shot: Dots embossing folder, Heart Embosslit

Striking birthday wishes

2nd post for the day!  I fell in love with this sketch when I saw it at the Card Patterns Sketch blog.  Found the colour combo at Our Creative Corner Colour Challenge and here's what I came up with...

Card Patterns Sketch - Sketch Challenge # 130

Our Creative Corner ~ Neutrals with a POP of Red

Purple challenge

Woo Hoo!  Runner up at Picture Perfect Creations.  Thanks girls for choosing my card as one of your runner up choices.

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I finally found some time to put towards creating for a couple of challenges.  Picture Perfect Creations have a Purple and vanilla challenge and I was so there!  Then this sketch at Card Patterns just inspired me.

You can just see the glitter on these flowers, I mix a little bit of dazzling diamonds with my clear embossing powder then stamp in versamark then directly into the ink pad and I have whatever colour embossing I want.

Picture Perfect Creations ~ # 67 Concord Crush, Perfect Plum and Very Vanilla

Card Patterns Sketches ~ sketch # 127

Scrapmasters Paradise ~ Purple Challenge

Play Date Cafe Challenge

Hi again, this colour combo over at the Play Date Cafe got my mojo working.  I've seen quite a lot of twisted easel cards and decided to give it a shot.  I've CASE'd myself here using an old Mojo Monday sketch entry. 

Of course who could pass up the opportunity to win those fabulous Stampendous Fran~tage stamps?  So, here's my entry!

The Play Date Cafe - Barn Red, Slate Blue and Gray

Another 4 challenges met

This entry has won a TOP 3 Pick at Unscripted Sketches, Thank you ladies.

Well I've felt like the two cards I've made today have taken an age to come together, not that I struggled with them, it just seems that it's taken me such a long time to put them together!  Maybe I'm just slowing down, you know, old age creeping up and tapping me on the shoulder.....LOL

Lots of my favourite things in this card with Flowers, Butterflies and Bling!

Believe it or not, the card base is So Saffron, I guess it just washed out a bit in the photo.  The other colours are Rich Razzleberry and Blushing Bride these three make up the challenge colours over at Colour Lab this week. 

So team that colour combo up with a sketch from Unscripted Sketches then add a Lemon Zingy theme from Paper Take Weekly and a Flowers theme from Southern Girls and it's done.

I'm really happy with this one after all, it took a while to get the threaded ribbon to work the way I wanted it to, but I got there in the end, I was going to use only flowers and bling but you know me, the butterflies were calling my name.

 

This Card is entered into the following challenges...

Unscripted Sketches ~ Sketch

Southern Girls ~ Theme Use Flowers

Colour Lab ~ So Saffron, Rich Razzleberry, Blushing Bride

Paper Take Weekly ~ Lemon Zingy

Best Yet!

OH My! I'm so thrilled with this card, I've had this idea floating around in my head about embossing the leaves from the two step bird punch and this weeks Mojo Monday sketch inspired me to attempt it on this card.

I've been on quite creative a roll lately and have the luxury of time to spend in the craft room. In particular with cyclone Yasi heading this way apart from doing the preparations, there isn't much else to do and all that nervous energy needs an outlet right?


Mojo Monday ~ Sketch

Totally Stampalicious ~ A No Occasion card

Crafty Creations ~ Heat it Up! Heat Embossing (entry No: 2)

Early start to the day

I woke early today and the creative urge was still strong so I made a cuppa and headed off to the craft room! Yay lucky me, apart from some washing I have no urgent jobs waiting to be done the house got a spring clean a few days ago.... so I'm free for most of the day until I pick up my little cherub this afternoon. I think we'll go swimming, Danielle (my 2 1/2 year old grand daughter) LOVES the water, unfortunately we can all be shrivelled up like prunes and she doesn't want to get out so there is usually a lot of tears, a bit of squealing and a little bit of bribery!



This card is working to a sketch and a theme. I've used Going Grey CS (ret), Basic Black, Basic Grey, Whisper White. Riding Hood Red DSP from the christmas special pack and Riding Hood Red and Basic Grey Inks. I've clear embossed the heart to deepen the coulour. The stamps are Word Play, Always, Punch Potpourri. I've also added a ribbon and some bling which wasn't on the sketch but.....meh.....I took creative license!

Fussy and Fancy ~ Sketch
Our Creative Corner ~ Colour/Bird


Ohhhh, I think another cuppa is in order and oh gee.....I'm going to head on back into the Den of Creativity! I might just be back to post again today.

4 Cards - 5 Challenges!

I've just spent a lovely couple of hours in my craft room creating challenge cards. I've made four cards covering off 5 challenges.... I just hope I link them all up right!

First off is the Mojo Monday Round or Square challenge combined with Colour Lab Challenge #22

Next comes a second entry in the Colour Lab Challenge #22 combined with a Stamping 411 sketch #183 I love this Blueberry Crisp and it fitted in perfectly with the Colour Challenge of course once again, Butterflies feature in this card and it was hard work not to use them in the other cards I made this morning!

So then it was time to try the Curtain Call Act 62 colours and this also used the sketch #51 from Stampin' Royalty (Opps too late, entries have closed!) I'm not one for murky greens, so while I'm reasonably happy with the end result, it's just not me.

Then it was across to Easy Craft Projects for this challenge, which I altered by using flowers instead of Flags, but then that's what the challenges are all about, taking artistic license with the sketches! I don't normally reach for Yellow but figured that it was a nice contrast to Rich Razzleberry, I've spritzed this all in Gold Glow smooch and embossed the sentiment in clear mixed with Dazzling Diamonds, if that wasn't enough bling, then I've added rhinestones to the centre of the flower brads as well......I had to stop myself adding them to the punched out flowers too as I thought that might be taking all that bling a little too far!

Luxury Hearts and Flowers

On of the girls at work commissioned a few funky fold cards, you've seen the elegant one in an earlier post, this is the one I made using Basic Grey base, Elegant Eggplant and the Lap of Luxury DSP.   Punch Potpourri stamp set, added a little bit of purple glitter from the Fine Cosmo Glitters, leaves from the two step bird punch and a sentiment from Well Scripted available from the new Mini Catalogue 1 December 2010.

Colour Q 59

When I started this Colour Q challenge I was quite daunted by throwing Pumpkin Pie into the mix, I had a strip of Pumpkin Pie on my desk and I tried to fit it in somewhere and it just wasn't working for me, then I remembered the idea I'd passed on to a friend for a card she did and it worked a treat!  I stamped up the Punch Potourri flowers in Pumpkin Pie then sprayed them in Gold spritz to soften the look, the same treatment has been applied to the More Mustard butterflies, so they have a lovely gold glimmer.

I hope you like my interpretation of this colour combo.

Just Like Christmas!

Getting your hands on the new items in a Catalogue is so exciting it's just like Christmas!  However for me this week it's been so hectic that I didn't get to 'play' until Saturday night and my parcel arrived on Thrusday.  

Then of course there is the decision time... which ones to use first, that's hard, and there are still stamp sets I haven't used yet.  But here are my latest offerings.  Some are my creative bent when CASE'ing work from www.splitcoaststampers.com   one of my favourite sites for inspiration.

Enjoy.

These two cards feature the level 1 Hostess set 'Punch Potpourri' I've used Concord Crush (an new 'In Colour') and Shimmery White card stock with just a touch of Old Olive thrown into the mix.  The flower centres are Crystal Effects with a dusting of the Green Glitter from the Fine Super Nova glitters.  I've poped a round Ice Rhinestone on the ribbon bow and done a tiny pearl for the birds eye.  I love this Shimmery White, (which is slightly off white or winter white), I'm sure I'll be using much more of this card stock in my future creations...it truly is beautiful.

Then it comes to Cherry Cobbler, I love this rich deep red, I've matched it here with Very Vanilla and Sahara Sand, I've coloured the satin and organza ribbon with Sahara Sand ink so it just blends into the background.  The Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder adds such a lovely dimension to this card.  I've stamped the vine from Style Beautiful onto the Cherry Cobbler before punching out the wing and the heart, I've gone over this with Crystal Effects to give a shine and deepen the colour.  Love the look of this colour combo  another one I'll probably reach for often!