Gorgeous Happy Day

Hello my lovelies!

How are you today? I was in a very crafty mood yesterday, so I have lots of cards ready to show you over the weekend!

This is my DT card for our new challenge at CAS - Colours and Sketches. In fact, I am the host this month so I hope you're ready for seriously inspiring colour combos and sketches??

First, let me show you this week's colour combo...

So my card...

I decided to use another potentially retiring stamp set...no, don't panic! It's not Gorgeous Grunge! It's the Happy Day set with fabulous large sentiments and this beautiful medallion. I stamped mine twice, once in Bermuda Bay and once in Daffodil Delight. I then cut the full BB medallion and just the centre part of the DD one, then popped them up on Dimensionals.

The ribbon is Smoky Slate Chevron and I finished with a BB Candy Dot. The layout is inspired by the challenge at Atlantic Hearts this week...

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Do nip on over to the other DT blogs to see what they've been up to and we can't wait to see your creations!

And if you're free, pop back tomorrow to see what I did with some of this lot that's lying around my desk...

Have a lovely Wednesday!

Simply Simple Stars

Hello everyone! Are you ready for a new challenge? Today over at CAS - Colours and Sketches we have a lovely fresh colour combo for you!

I felt these colours deserved a true clean style, so here it is...

This is one of the simplest cards I've made for a while! Quite simply, I stamped 3 stars using the three challenge colours and cut them out. Then I used my Stamp-a-Majig to perfect place my sentiment and mounted the panel onto Calypso Coral, then a Pool Party card blank.

I'm entering my card into the Clean & Simple challenge this week.

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A bit of masking with In Colors

Good morning!

It's Sunday and I haven't entered the challenge at Less Is More yet! So here is my entry into Chrissie and Jen's theme challenge this week, which is

MASKING or STENCILLING

Funnily enough, I was showing on of my team, Serena, how to use the masking technique only the other day!

I already kind of decided what to do when I started making this card, but as I was looking for something to make a masking area from I found my Chalk Talk Framelits and decided to give those a try. So I firstly stamped my flower from Flower Shop in Summer Starfruit, then punched a flower out of plain paper using the Pansy Punch. I also cut the label from Chalk Talk out of plain paper and position both over the stamped flower. TIP: If you add a little Tombow Glue to the back of each shape and allow it to dry before sticking it down, it becomes repositionable.

I then stamped the Hardwood Background stamp in Midnight Muse over the top, added a Papillon Potpourri Butterfly and my sentiment. I really like how this card turned out...might try some more masking this week!

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I enjoyed my little bit of crafting this morning, before work! Whatever you're doing this weekend, enjoy!

Zoo Review Birthday

Hi peeps!
I would like to welcome Carla, Elaine, Jacqueline and MaryJo to my blog...I know a couple of you have migrated from my old one, but it's so nice to see you here! :)

Today I have a card using a stamp that I borrowed off Jen. It was for a commission and the brief was 'something African'. So this is what I came up with...

This is one of the simplest cards I have made, but I really love the effect! The stamp set is Zoo Review and I have simply stamped it in Soft Suede. 

The card blank is Rose Red and the sentiment is computer generated. 

What do you think of my card? Would you add more?

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Are you up to anything fun this weekend? I shall be working but I plan to get a little crafting in this weekend! 

 See you tomorrow with my DT card for Sketch Saturday!

Woodgrain and Flowers

Good morning everyone!

How are you this Monday? I have had fun crafting and designing wedding invitations this weekend for a friend's wedding. I would love to share, but until she has sent them I think that would be unfair, don't you? 

So instead, I have this to show you...

My inspiration for this card came from the photo at Fusion this week.

I used the Woodgrain stamp for the background, stamped in Early Espresso and I inked the edges with Chocolate Chip. The flowers are die cut from the Blossom Party Originals Bigz Die and the leaves are from the Bird Builder Punch.

The centres are created using a whole load of black gems from my stash. Having a root around my craft room has made me more willing to use up the things I have in my stash! In fact, I think I could make a card a day for the next 10 years, and never have to buy anything lol!

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Do you have a nice day planned? I'm working, but I'm sure I will get some crafting in later!

Have a good one, whatever you're doing!