International Art and Soul Challenge 118

 The challenge for this fortnight was set by my team mate Debbie, and she wants to see projects featuring Furry Friends, so I'm looking forward to seeing your animal-based creations.

I don't have a lot of animal stamps really, but I do have a gorgeous CDRom featuring the beautiful Ivory Cats. I will admit that I've often used it for backgrounds for unrelated projects as some of them are gorgeous, but this time I used an image.

I combined the image mat and background paper in Photoshop Elements. Looking at the flowers on the ground, they looked a little like forget-me-not, so I found my Susan's Garden Notes Forget-me-not die set and created a sprig to go alongside the image. I added a little white pen on the flowers and pale green pan pastel on the leaves, but otherwise, these are very simple flowers.

I do hope you can join us this time.

International Art and Soul Challenge 49

Our first challenge of 2019 at International Art and Soul is on the theme of Cats and/or Dogs. Now, I'm not a pet owner. I love cats, but my husband hates them, so it's really not an option. But, some years ago, I bought a CDRom (I think from Joanna Sheen) called Ivory Cats and I've used that to make this:

To be honest, I've used this CDRom more for the gorgeous backgrounds than the images, but many of the images are lovely too. I did a little work in Photoshop Elements before printing - adding an extra frame and the wording. Then I matted the result onto embossed gold card. The background is rom the CDRom too. And then I finished the card with some gorgeous braid Ive had for ages but which seemed to match perfectly.

I do hope you can join us this time. 

One Stitch at a Time Challenge 238

This time at One Stitch at a Time, our challenge is Anything Goes with Flowers. So, if, like me, flowers are your go-to embellishment, that means pretty much anything you like.

Our sponsor this time is:

See the challenge blog for prize details and you can find a link to the shop in my sidebar.

So, I worked with an image from Stitchy Bear called Patches.

Isn't she sweet? And with her pretty patchwork dress and mis-matched shoes, I had to use a patchwork background. Fortunately, I've got a CDRom with several - Joanna Sheen's Ivory Cats. I may not make many cat cards, but I do love the papers! I coloured the image with Promarkers, cut with Sizzix dies. The flowers use some Sizzix dies and some from elsewhere - Memory Box, I think, but I struggle to remember dies unless they've got a distinctive appearance. I blame my age ...

I hope you can join us this time.

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Simply Papercrafts where anything goes,

Inspiration Destination where anything goes,

Paper Shelter where the theme is Flower Power,

Penny's where anything goes,
Tuesday Throwdown where anything goes,
Crafting from the Heart where anything goes,