Happy Happy Birthday!

Thank you Sami and the DT over at Scrapmasters Paradise for selecting my card as your winning entry for this challenge!  

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Don't you just love it when you phone an area at work seeking assistance and you just hit it off with the staff?  That's what happend when I called our workforce team in Brisbane.  The fabulous Leanne and her staff are so friendly and helpful, so when I learnt that it was Leanne's birthday, I just had to make her a card.

It was just such a happy coincidence that she loves Pink! and this would have to be one of my favourite pink combos.  Crumb Cake and Regal Rose I've also added in a tiny bit of pretty in pink and pink pirouette.  I've used Greenhouse Garden to stamp the outline image and I've double stamped it in Champagne Shimmer paint to give that lovely shine.  Hint.  rather than put shimmer ink on your inkpad, draw with a marker on a china plate then sponge the shimmer paint and dab it in the ink.  Less messy!

 Here's the inside of the card too, lightly spritzed with shimmer to make it glow.

Paper Sundaes ~ Finishing touches - decorate the inside of your card.

Scrapmasters Paradise ~ Crumb Cake, Regal Rose and Whisper White
(ok so I used Pink Pirouette as my lightest pink...no worries, not entering to win a prize.)

Southern Girls ~ layers and birthday  -  Happy Birthday Southern Girls!

Farewell and good luck

Unscripted Sketches DT chose this among their top entries for this challenge.  Thank you! 
 

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Hi fellow bloggers, welcome to another post.  Hope you like what you see.

One of my staff if leaving us for a 6 month adventure, so we're having a send off tomorrow afternoon and I put this card together for her, we will all write our own message for her so the inside has been done up as well.

This one follows a sketch from Unscripted Sketches challenge and the colours from Scarpmasters Paradise.  I've used the embossed resist technique and sponged the Cherry Cobbler, Real Red and Pumpkin Pie over the embossed paper.

Unscripted Sketches ~ Sketch #122

Scrapmasters Paradise Colour Challenge ~ #116  Cherry Cobbler, Real Red and Pumpkin Pie

Pacific flower party

One of the things I've been remiss in is welcoming my new followers as they joined my site.  So for the first 50 I say a huge welcome and thank you for selecting my blog to follow, I love reading your comments and also visiting your blogs when I can.  

Welcome also to Sandra, a fellow Aussie from way south of here in Adelaide as follower # 51!

On to the post for today.  Scrapmasters Paradise had this interesting colour combo and I thought I'd give it a go.  I'm really loving Pool Party as a colour...a very pretty mint green.  Not so fond of Lucky Limeade though so I've only used the tinyest bit in this creation.  Yes I know it's a cop out!  

Greenhouse garden flowers stamped in Pacific Point and Pool Party and the leaves from French Foliage are stamped in Lucky Limeade.  The background is Pool Party stamped on Pool Party I just love that flower outline and I think it looks fabulous here as a background!    I used the rock n roll technique on the larger flowers and then spritzed them with water prior to stamping the image, just to soften the lines more.

All the flowers have been spritzed with Champagne Shimmer paint although it really is hard to get glitter to show up well in photos.

Cheers for now, I'm heading back into the craft room to see what else I can come up with today!

Kasey ~ in Oz

Oh My

I was blog surfing and had a little look see at what my lovely blog friend Andrea had been up to lately,  Oh MY is all I can say.....her blog led me to the Amazing Grace's blog and this amazingly talented lady has some incredible tutorials available for free.  Such a generous spirit to not ask for one single cent, Grace shares her talent free of charge and is just like her name.

I used her tutorial to create this card,  The white scalloped background is made using only a corner punch.  You really have to try this it's such fun, as this was the very first one I made, it's just slightly wonky!  I'm off to practice!  In the meantime, this card is for two challenges. 

Monique, if you're reading this....check it out girlfriend....I've used Lucky Limeade!!!

Opps sorry I've just realised my sentiment is slightly wonky as well.....*sigh* that's what you get when you're rushing to finish a card and cook diner at the same time! 

Scrapmasters Paradise ~ Colour Combo #114  Lucky Limeade, Daffodil Yellow and Whisper White

Less is More ~ Things that move.

Cheers,

Kasey ~ in Oz

Soft pastels

How incredibly pretty are these colours together?  Baja Breeze, Wisteria Wonder and Pink Pirouette.  Although the Baja Breeze has come up quite green looking in the photo.  These pretty colours are the challenge combo over at Scrapmasters Paradise this week and I love them.  I"ve combined them with the sketch from Stampin' Royalty .

I've used the new hostess set Precious Butterflies, although I've also used the leaf flourish from Vintage Vogue on the Baja Breeze card.  I stamped the circle of butterflies after colouring them with markers then I cut the smallest butterfly from the Beautiful Wings Sizzlit and popped them on top of the stamped ones.  I love the whole look of it.

I've inked up some taffeta ribbon and some narrow satin ribbon from my stash with the three colours and tied a little bunch of them together for an artsy bow.

This card is for the following challenges...

Scrapmasters Paradise - Colour Combo #113

Stampin' Royalty - #85 Sketch

Vintage Sympathy

This was my interpretation of the colour challenge at Scrapmasters Paradise Colour Combo Challenge this week,  The colours were Island Indigo What the?!?,  Soft Suede and Melon Mambo. ((What on earth was SU thinking?!?  naming a teal Indigo when we all know Indigo is a deep blue/purple!  Don't get me wrong I LOVE this colour, the name isn't right though. Anyone else agree on that one?))

I've added a neutral Very Vanilla and gone vintage with Palour Prints background stamp and striped paper to create an effect reminiscent of a drawing room centuries ago then added my art work to the wall...LOL ... OK it's not quite a master piece but I like the way it turned out with soft water colouring for the Melon Mambo and Island Indigo.

 

Scrapmasters Paradise ~ Colour Combo # 112

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

Soft and pretty

Soft and Pretty that's what I think this colour combo comes out like.  

Shimmery card stock, pretty in pink ink and cardstock, Basic Gray with shimmer spritzed onto it then some Gray ink and vanilla ribbon and an antique brad, simple and elegant.

This card is entered into

Stamping 411 ~ Challenge #198 Sketch

Scrapmasters Paradise Colour Combo ~ # 94

Pink.....Hearts.....Butterflies ......and....BLING!

Yay.....the lovely ladies over at Hand Stamped Sentiments have bestowed on this card the Artists Pick! Thank you very much. I'm still doing my little happy dance.

What could be better? Pinks, Hearts, Butterflies and Bling not necessarily in that order. I'm thrilled with this creation. It just came together for me as my interpretation of the Hand Stamped Sentiments sketch challenge this week.

I used the Colour challenge #83 from Scrapmasters Paradise as well to make this card.

I wanted the large scallops so I punched 3 circles and layed them side by side to form the first layer, then did it again in Crumb Cake to get that layered effect. I sponged Pink Pirouette ink over the white ribbon and tied a loose knot in it and coverd the join.



Next came the hearts, I used the embosslit die for the Regal Rose and Crumb Cake hearts. I used the large heart punch to punch out the Crumb Cake heart which removed the scallops, then I spritzed the Crumb Cake heart with.....LOL yep, you guessed it, champagne mist shimmer paint, I can't get enough of this stuff for that elegant shimmer and it comes up so beautifully on the Crumb Cake. The embossed Presto speciality paper was still on my desk from last night's card so I sponged it with Regal Rose to bring out the pattern and layered all three hearts over each other.

Now of course, you all know that no project is really complete without butterflies and bling. I've added a single rhinestone to each heart growing the size with each one.



Thank you for stopping by, I hope you love this card as much as I do.