Simply Stampin Challenge Colour Week

Good morning,

This week it's time for another colour combo over at Simply Stampin', we are stretching you again this week with a toughie, but I'm confident that after the last colour combo you guys can handle anything!!! So here we go.

I had a birthday card to make for my boyfriends nephew who turned 9 on thursday so I used my Make a monster set to make a batch of colourful monsters, and Charlie really liked it, yay!

Although when I looked at this weeks colours I wanted to run away and hide I actually really like how this card turned out, why not give it a go? You might surprise yourself too!

Also don't forget as it's the first Saturday of the month it's guest designer week, so pop over to the challenge and check out her fab work! xx

Recycled Embellishment

Hello there!

Every so often my fabulous friend Ruth sends me some 'happy mail' and she always takes the time to decorate the envelope of the card (and usually makes me a gorgeous gift, I'm sooo lucky!) just as beautifully as the card itself. It was my birthday a few weeks ago and Ruth sent me the most beautiful birthday card with gorgeously decorated envelope! I always keep my hand made cards on the wall in my craft room, they really brighten the place up on a gloomy day. I felt silly keeping the envelope but didn't want to throw it away, so I decided to recycle it, I hope Ruth doesn't mind.

Do you see the cute little birdie holding the little happy birthday banner? That was the embellishment Ruth had lovingly made for the envelope of my card, I'm sure you'll agree that I could not throw that in the bin! I've pulled out a set that I haven't used for ages Circle Circus, and got inking with the new in-colours minus Calypso Coral and added in Melon Mambo. What do you think? I do hope Ruth will approve!

Don't forget to check out this weeks Simply Stampin' 'Leafy' theme challenge! xx

Saturday's Simply Stampin' Entry

Happy weekend everyone,

I hope you are doing very enjoyable things this weekend. I am very excited because, as you know I like to enter different challenges and I have been awarded top 3 at Simply Stampin' for my entry last week. If you are anything like me you enter and never expect to win so it's so lovely to be chosen!

This week the challenge is a colour combo, and I think a particularly difficult one, as it includes pink and blue. Here are the colours.

see what I mean, tricky.

I had a ponder and came up with this

I LOVE owls, and this little guy is so cute that I had a dress him up, in a Pacific Point outfit. I'm still not sure that this colour combo works so well in these proportions, but I had fun making it.

Why not join in with the challenge yourself? xx

Less is More - theme week

Hello there,

This weekend I'm all about challenges, so of course I couldn't pass by the Less is More theme challenge, which this week is circles.

I immediately thought of my Circle Circus stamp set, and had an idea of making a Hungry Caterpillar out of the circles, (good thing I didn't) have just popped over to the blog to link up and found that someone else had that idea too!

When looking at my Circle Circus stamps I thought that one of them looked like bubbles so I looked through some more sets and pulled the whale out from Fox and Friends.

I masked off the edges of my vanilla CS and brayer Marina Mist into the centre, positioned the cute little whale, and set to work with my whisper white ink pad and my circles, which from now on are bubbles!!
I glittered a few bubbles, (the glue will dry clear but I had to take my chance and photograph the card in between showers) and cut out the Little Leaves die in Old Olive and Certainly Celery to look like seaweed.

I decided after much deliberation not to add a sentiment in case this made it over crowded.

Hope you like my fun take on the theme - xx