Simply Stampin' To Die For.

Hello again,

This week over at Simply Stampin' we are asking you to get busy with your dies and create a card or project using them. At first I was stumped, I thought of a shaped card but I have done that before so I wanted to use my dies in a way I hadn't before.

I ended up using two dies, The Daisies Die and the Two Tags die to make a card and matching mini bag. The Daisies Die is great for making flowers with great depth. 

You can see the dimension a little better on this photo, to make the flower you will need to cut 3 of the larger Daisy and 3 of the smallest Daisy, I shaped the larger petals in one direction and the smaller Daisy petals in the opposite direction, and inked the edges for more interest.

I can't wait to see what you make out of your dies, so get creating! xx

Sketch and Stamp

Good evening,

I'm back with another sketch and colour challenge combo. The sketch is taken from a new challenge I've found called Sketch and Stamp, as you may have guessed they ask that you follow the sketch and use stamping, either traditional or digital within the design.

The colour combo I have used is this weeks challenge over at the Play Date Cafe, I wasn't sure if I could pull off the bright blue with the other colours, but I don't think I've done to badly with it.

Once again I have used the Garden Whimsy set from my card, I have used a sponge dauber to get the two toned effect on my butterfly and to colour the tulips. The colours I have used are Night of Navy, Tempting Turquoise and So Saffron.

 I have swapped the scallop circle element of the sketch for the popped up butterfly, which fits in perfectly for this weeks Simply Stampin' challenge which this week is Flutterby Butterfly, I'd also like to thank for ladies for naming me top 3 for last weeks challenge!

Hope you'll pop back and see me again sometime, xx

Happy Birthday Nikki!

Good morning,

Today is my little sister's birthday, I have waited to post this card until the day just incase she tries to get a sneaky peek before hand.

I really like shaped cards at the moment so I thought I would go for a stepper card, using the Cheers to you set, as she loves a good night out on the town. I have paper pieced the cocktails on the 'steps' which in-colour DSP and have colour co-ordinated her card with her red living room, hee hee.

Have a great day Nikki! xx

Round or Square Mojo

Hi everyone,

I always love the last Mojo Monday challenge of the month as it is always round or square.

I have been asked to make a few masculine cards this month so I thought I'd combine this tricky theme with the Mojo challenge. I decided to make a square card, and chose two papers from the Elegant Soiree DSP pack, because of the colour tones this paper pack works brilliantly for both masculine and feminine cards.

As you can see I replaced the flower element on the sketch with a star, and what looks like a ribbon is actually a strip of card stock. I couldn't help myself, I just had to add the brad embellishments, but I think they bring the card together and don't look too girly. It also gave me a chance to use a retired stamp set that I haven't yet used called Starring You, which I coloured and stamped with my markers.

I'll be back with some more of my masculine cards soon.
xx

Easel For Ruth

Hiya,

Sorry for my lack of posting this week, I thought I'd scheduled this post but I must have just thought about doing it, and not actually done it, hopefully this doesn't mean I'm going completely mad!!

You may remember I received a card a little while a go from the very thoughtful Ruth over at Flower Sparkle, (her blog is amazing, so please do go and check it out) if you missed her gorgeous her you can find the post here.

Well I wanted to make her a card in return, and I wanted it to be a special card. So I had a go at my very first easel card, I have always thought that these cards looked really complicated but It was actually much simpler than I expected and very fun to do!
Ruth had posted about her fear of orange, this is a fear that I share coupled with yellow, these colours scare me so I wanted to try and make a card using this colour. I decided on the in-colours Peach Parfait and Pear Pizazz.

So what do you think? Not bad for my first attempt. I actually quite like this colour now, I think because it's not a really bright orange, and aren't these FREE (level 1 hostess) papers just gorgeous!

Well I hope you'll pop back tomorrow, for challenge Saturday. It's officially my favourite day of the week!