Ohhh one of my favourite colour combos

Hi again, imagine that, three posts in one day!  Not necessarily unusual for me.  I had to rush off this moning when I realised I'd posted my Friday Mashup DT card early and didn't have time to recall the post and reschedule,  I had to go pick up my grandson as we were heading off to the movies.  We saw Happy Feet Two.  It was OK, not quite up to the first one though.

I've had some time to do some more crafting this afternoon and here's what I came up with.

This is the first time I've followed a Deconstructed sketch and I had fun with it.  I've also used Stampin' Royalty colour combo as it is one of my all time faves.

Hope you like my card.  Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers,

Kasey ~ in Oz

Another deadline missed...sigh!

Here I was thinking I'd be able to knock over all these challenges in two cards and I've missed a deadline, I got this sketch from 4 Crafty Chicks and got sidetracked last night so it remained partially finished on my desk until this evening when I got home from work and of course, in my usual style, I've missed the deadline!  Never mind, I should still make the other challenges.  I've also found another new challenge sitem at least, new for me.  Gosh, that's two in one week  YAY.

This card uses another favourite colour combo of pinks and browns.  I'm really happy wiht the way this one came together, I thought the sketch was really different.

Challenges are...

City Crafter Challenge Blog ~ Week 74 - I {heart} you

Stampin Royalty ~  Challenge #89 photo inspiration (I went with the colours)

Cards & Things ~  Colour Challenge #87  Early Expresso, Crumb Cake, Pretty in Pink and Rose Red

Sparkle

Hello blogging friends, I hope your weekend is going well and you have found time to do some crafting.  I managed to squeeze in a little bit and came up with this one.  But...I have to ask, have you ever had one of THOSE days where you timing couldn't be worse?  That's today for me!

I'm using up scraps of DSP, this one is Lap of Luxury which is about to retire.  All pretty pinks and purples with a lovely rich cream.  I actually got the sketch from Unscripted Sketches, but in my usual fashion, I'm running late and the collection has closed!  *sigh* 

I was also entereing this one over at Jules blog Always with a Heart, she runs a weekly snippet challenge, where you're supposed to reduce that pile of left over bits and pieces of paper by using them up in cards....well I've missed that one by 2 hours!...Stop Press!   Week 34 is up, and while this was posted yesterday...I'm sure Jules won't mind my sneaking it into her new snippet week.

I think I'm still in time for Stampin' Royalty challenge which is to use Bling, Glitter and Sparkle. 

Stampin' Royalty ~ Challenge # 86 Bring on the Bling, Rhinestones, Glitter and Sparkle

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

Mother

Between loads of washing I've snuck back into the craft room this morning and whipped up another challenge entry.  Stamping 411 had an Inlaid Texture technique challenge which I wanted to try, unfortunately I've missed out on being able to enter this card there.  But it fits two other challenges that I found, so here goes.

This is Regal Rose, Crumb Cake and Soft Suede hearts, all spritzed with Champagne Mist shimmer paint then glued in place on Very Vanilla and run through the Big Shot with the Square Lattice embossing folder, what a lovely technique!  THANK YOU to the ladies at Stamping 411.  

I've also matted this card with Crumb Cake and Melon Mambo to add a bit more Pink, it IS after all for a Lady!

Stamping Royalty ~ Challenge #63  Texture

Crafty Creations ~ Challenge #110  Mother's Day

Stamping 411 ~ Inlaid Embossing

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

Shabby flowers

I once again dragged a retired stamp set out and blew off some accumulated dust, Looks Like Spring is yet another old set that I just have to keep....I'm sure you know what I mean and if you've seen my craft room....you'd see how many stamps I just have to keep!

I inked the large flower up with Concord Crush then stamped it three times then I sprayed the flowers with Champagne Shimmer Mist and rubbing alcohol this had a different effect on each flower, the darker one go all shimmery, the middle one seemed to separate the pink and blue coluors that make up the purple it looks awesome! then the palest flower took on a very light shimmer, while the flowers were damp, I scrunched them up and then poked and prodded at the petals till they looked like a mess! I probably poked and prodded too much but it does look a bit better in the flesh.






Stampin' Royalty Colour Challenge #54

Blue seems to be the order of the day!

For the next challenge, guess what?  it's blue too although I have combined a colour challenge in there too,

This card goes into several challenges...

Friday Mashup - Sketch and add optional bling  (since when is bling optional?)

SU Only Challenges - Bling

Stampin' Royalty - Birthday theme

Crazy 4 Challenges - Celebrate theme

Curtain Call - Act 63 Colour Challenge

I have to say the colour challenge really threw me, but I think I managed to add the Cajun Craze and Chocolate Chip without overpowering the Blue.  The Always Artichoke altered topnote and the Whisper White butterflies are sprayed with Champagne Shimmer Mist (an alltime favourite of mine as are the butterflies) plus it provides a bit of subtle bling.