Best Wishes

Once again I'm using up some of the papers I made using the shaving creme technique.  I just love the effect of the swirling colours and the unique finish to each and every piece.

I've teamed this paper up with basic gray.  The line images are stamped in basic gray and then in silver spritz which was sprayed onto a folded paper towel as a stamp pad.  you can see the silver stamped images in the above photo, they didn't show up too well in the next pic. I also spritzed some white taffeta ribbon and got this lovely shimmery gray and silver ribbon.

Diva Coffee Break Designs ~ Challenge #225 - Sketch

Distressing Mother!

Well not really distressing mother herself, but the card to give her!

This colour combination came to me as I was searching through the colour coach and couldn't quite settle on any of the suggested combinations so I've used Soft Suede, River Rock and Elegant Eggplant.  All inked and distressed and the soft suede is also spritzed.  

I have a feeling that I've overdone the pearls on the tag...Oh well, hang the expense Mum is worth it!

This card goes into the following challenges.

4 Crafty Chicks ~ Distressing

City Crafter Challenges ~ Mother May I? - Mother's day card

Truly Scrumptious ~ Challenge #56 Sketch

FMU # 4

Welcome to Friday!  You know what that means, another sensational Friday Mashup challenge for you. 

Kim is bringing you the challenge this week and you need to use Punches or Big Shot Dies and create your card, you can also create a baby card or Mash them up and create a baby card using punches or dies like I did.

I can't take credit for the baby dress original idea, it's original creator Sherylee created the little dress and did her card up for a Baptism.  

I've altered the card slightly and my little dress is Pink Pirouette with an overlay of Velum which has been run through the Big Shot with the polka dots embossing folder.


Go forth and create!  ummm cards not babies....LOL

PLUS ~ In honour of the Royal Wedding, I've also created this for your inspiration...Sorry I've taken the photo at night so there is a little bit of reflection off th emain image which of course is Wedding Sweet!  Loads of gold embossing both heat and dry and then a bit of bling all suited for the Royal occasion.

When you post your cards, don't forget to stop by other blogs to leave a little comment, every one loves to hear how they inspire you with their creations.  Oh and I hope you check out the rest of the DT girls creations and leave a little love there to!

For You

Hello there, come on in and browse around, you'll find something to inspire you!

This creation just flowed together nicely.  Not my normal choice of colours at all but they work together well.  I've inked the flower up with markers then added some crystal effects over the top of the image.  I've used the big shot to do texture on the Old Olive card then used the crimper to add texture to the Rich Razzleberry dsp. 

This card is created using the following challenges...

Colour Lab ~ Challenge # 39 - Rich Razzleberry, Pumpkin Pie and Old Olive

Papertake Weekly ~ Sketch

The world

Hello again, sad day today as it's the last day off in the 5 day long weekend we scored for Easter this year.  I could get used to this just Harry-ing around in my studio!

This card turned out so nice, I'm really very pleased with it.  Easily able to be used for a Mother's Day card even without the word Mum on it.

 I was inspired to use the Mojo Monday sketch along with the Picture Perfect Creations colour combo and then it also fit in with the Shabby Tea Room this week as well.

Mojo Monday ~ # 188  Round or Square

Picutre Perfect Creations ~ # 56 Colour combo  Not Quite Navy, Marina Mist, Very Vanilla, Pear Pizzazz 
Runner Up for this challenge.  How nice!

The Shabby Tea Room ~ # 59  Butterfly Wishes
Woo Hooo I got an honourable mention at the Shabby Tea Room with this card!

Southern Girls ~ Green and Blue (2nd entry)

Last card for today.....I promise!

I've had the most wonderful day to myself, pottering (my Son out law calls it Harry-ing) around in my craft studio and creating lots and lots of cards.

This one was inspired by Delys and her DT inspiration in a JAI challenge.  I just had to use that flower stamp in Marina Mist, so I made my very first Gate Card.  I added some Cornflower glitter from the Fine Cosmo set

And when it is open...

City Crafter Challenge Blog ~ Week # 53 - Gate Card

Navy, Cherry and White

Gosh, 4th post for the day!  I've been on a roll creating, I have stopped to do things like bring the washing in, have lunch, flick through a craft magazine, tidy my desk etc but the colour throwdown challenge this week was for Navy, White and one other colour.  Cherry Cobbler kept popping into my head so I just had to try it out.  I've used the sketch from Paper Players and here it is!

I've created the stamped panel using the So Swirly wheel and then sponging some Night of Navy and Cherry Cobbler ink onto the pattern.  Then I've used the eyelet border punch to do the two strips for the scrunched up ribbon and bow. 

The Paper Players ~ Sketch #44 - A sketch from Lesley

Colour Throwdown ~ #138 Navy, White and ONE other colour
Drats, collection closed!  I left it too late for this one, I should have done it a few days ago when the idea first struck.

Stampin' Diva adding ink!

I hope you like my imaginative title for this post, it's all about the challenge blogs rather than me.

This card has one of those oops moments, smarty pants here had used the spritzer tool and spritzed the card base and flowers using the Stamp n Write markers Melon Mambo (lge flower), Tempting Turquoise (med flower) Rich Razzleberry (small flower), then I sat the flowers beside each other and spritzed them with shimmer paint and rubbing alcohol (you know that's one of my favourites) then I put the card together and it looked pretty good but I decided to spritz shimmer paint all over the finished card and well....colours bled.  *sigh* see we ALL make mistakes! 

Just Add Ink ~ Challenge # 65 Add Mateship/Friendship for ANZAC Day
(For those not familiar with ANZAC day the JAI site has an interesting story)

Diva Coffee Break ~ Challenge # 224  Rich Razzleberry, Melon Mambo, Tempting Turquoise

Stamping 411 ~ Sketch Challenge # 200 (WOW! Congratulations Stamping 411)

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!

Fresh combo

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This is my take on the sketch over at Pals Paper Arts this week.  I felt like using some fresh colours so chose Certainly Celery, Pacific Point and the Blueberry Crisp DSP ad in a tiny bit of Very Vanilla and it's done!  Then I realised that it also fits the challenge over at Southern Girls as well.

Sorry not the worlds best photographer, they always seem straight in the screen on my camera, perhaps I move the camera when I press the button. I might have to invest in a tripod.

Pals Paper Arts ~ Sketch Challenge #90

Southern Girls ~ Green & Blue

Off Centre

Now some people who know me will probably say it's me that's a bit off centre!  However I made a phone call this afternoon to my lovely downline Monique, she is in Canberra and I really feel like I deserted her when I had to relocate over 3,000 klms away to be closer to family, but we stay in touch via blogs, email and phone calls. 

During our lovely long phone call, Monique and I were sharing some of our favourite Challenge sites and Monique put me in touch with Less is More.  I was quite taken with their 'Off Centre' challenge so I went straight off to my desk and came up with this.

Less is More ~ Week 12 'Off Centre'

Clean and Simple Mother's Day card

Hi there followers and blog surfers.  It's getting close to that time when we honour our Mother's and all the hard selfless work they put into raising us, picking up after us, cooking and cleaning, running us around to all the out of school activities, healing our hurts with a band aid and a kiss and as we grow into our adulthood they are there as our friends and a shoulder to lean on with a word of sage advice.

So here's to celebrating Mothers!

I've used Very Vanilla, Concord Crush and Metallic Gold for this card.  Baroque Motifs and Well Scripted stamps and the Finial Press embossing folder. Scallop Trim border punch and treaded some Vanilla satin ribbon through the loops and added just a few rhinestones for a bit of bling!

The Paper Players ~ Clean and Simple challenge # 43

SU Only ~ Challenge # 17 Mother's Day

Friday Mashup time again!

This is my second week of being a Guest Designer for Friday Mashup Challenges.  I was so excited when Holly sent me the details of the challenge as this is one of my favourite combos.

So I've created a mashup card for your inspiration.  This card is a case of a card that I cased very early in my card making days and I'm sorry but I wasn't blogging then and didn't take down the name of the person I cased so if it's yours leave a comment and a link to your blog and I'll give you credit.

I've used the Always stamp set here, it's one of my all time favourites.  As my heat gun hasn't arrived, the white images on the background are stamped in Craft Ink White rather than embossed in white, so they appear a lot softer than intended.

I then went out and made another Black n White card for fun to play along in the challenge.  

Another favourite stamp is Bella Toile, I've stamped it in Basic Black and then run the image through the Big Shot with the Square Lattice embossing folder and sponged the edges in Basic Black.  I'm always amazed at how 'purple' Basic Black can look!

I've punched a scallop border around the edge and then threaded some white taffeta ribbon through the holes and added a few rhinestones for some bling!


Hope you're inspired to join in and play with us at Friday Mashup for Challenge # 3  

On another note, I've been playing around with my blog and adding and then removing several backgrounds over the past few days then I found the Scrappin Blogs site and they have some amazing backgrounds, I'll stick with light and dusky pinks for a while, it's got butterflies on it!  Just in case all these changes show up for my followers.  Sorry about all that playing around.

Mmmmm Chocolate...

The ladies over at Just Add Ink have the most awe inspiring Easter challenge, forget your cute little bunnies and chicks.....bring on your favourite chocolate bar and well of course you just have to eat some of the chocolate while you create.....oh that explains the chocolate coloured smudges!

So here is my chocolate inspiration......apart from Haigs chocolate when I can get my hands on it, this is the next best choice for me.  Dark Chocolate has theraputic health benefits....all the experts say so!

And here is the card I made inspired by the chocolate wrapper colours. I did tone the green down just a little.  This is a case of a case....LOL well I cased this design about 3 years ago and I'm sorry to the original artist, I didn't take down details at the time, I created one in burgundy, caramel and soft green which was just beautiful.  I've used the same design but different colours and stamps this time.

It's a little difficult to see in the picture, but I've used a gold leafing pen to jazz up the flowers a little.

Just Add Ink ~ # 64 Chocolate wrapper challenge

Another sketch challenge

What a lovely Easter surprise, thank you to the girls over at 4 Crafty Chicks for selecting this card among the winners.

Hello to all my lovely followers and to those of you just popping in for a quick look around.  Grab a cuppa and browse till your hearts content, I hope I offer you inspiration while you're here.

I'm loving the sketch challenges this week, over at 4 Crafty Chicks they have a sketch that I've gone all monochrome with and just used buckets of texture, which if you stop by now and then, you would already know is one of my favourite things to use.

4 Crafty Chicks ~ Getting Sketchy for Challenge #33