PLG strange one this week.

I have to admit, this picture inspiration at Paper Lovin' Gals this week gave me all sorts of grief!  It took ages to be able to come up with something.  My Mum saved the day by asking me for a birthday card for a lady at her church.  I ended up selecting a doily shape to go with the mesh like images above.

I stayed with similar colours using Poppy Parade as my base, Sahara Sand just echoed Ecru, which is the colour of a lot of crocheted doilies in my Mum's collection and then just to lift it all I added the blue satin ribbon from my stash.  I coloured the flowers using Copic markers and the white is so stark in the photo but it's actually very close to the Sahara Sand IRL 

I rarely decorate the inside of my cards, I suppose I'm moving on to the next project, but my Mum always opens them up when I show her, even though she knows there is nothing inside I like to wait until I know what I want to use the card for and add a message especially for the person and occasion.

You really need to give this one a go!  Talk about making you think, thanks Michele.  Head on over to the Paper Lovin' Gals blog and get creative.

A very green farewell

One of my staff is moving on to take up a new challenge in her career so I made her this card, it's an A4 folded in half to allow everyone to write a comment for her.  I know she's a bling girl and green is one of her favourite colours so this monochromatic card is what I came up with.

 Sorry the pictures were taken under artificial light as I need to get this card to work today for everyone to sign it and don't have the opportunity to take pics in good light.

I've used the Card Patterns Sketch for my card, and really like the way it turned out.  Lots of SU stamps used here and the Martha Steward butterfly punches and ribbon edge punch.

Certainly Celery, Wild Wasabi, Handsome Hunter (retired) and Whisper White.

Cheers,

Kasey ~ in Oz

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