Mothers Day Daffodils & Tulips

Hi again! I'm back to share this card I've made using this weeks Less is More challenge. It's a colour scheme of Yellow & Green - perfect for spring flowers :-) I've used some Clearly Besotted stamps & dies to make this little panel of daffs & tulips. To start off with I was just playing around with these stamps - I think I would have masked a bit more carefully from the start if I'd thought about it - oops ;-) I've loosely based it on this weeks Sketch Saturday sketch but I moved the sentiment a bit. Thanks for stopping in! xx

Supplies;

Stamps & dies - Clearly Besotted 'Spring Blooms'

Ink - Stampin' Up 'Daffodil Delight', 'Crushed Curry', 'So Saffron', 'Pear Pizzazz' & 'Garden Green'

Sentiment - Papertrey Ink 'Blooming Button Bits'

Cardstock - Stampin' Up 'Pear Pizzazz'

 

 

 

 

CAS(E) this Sketch & Fusion challenge

Afternoon! I hope you're having a good weekend! I've had a little card making time this morning and made this card. I really like this weeks CAS(E) this Sketch sketch so I really wanted to join in, and I also love this weeks Fusion challenge colour scheme - it's sort of modern retro looking - love it. I really liked the vase of flowers in the photo too so I made one with some Clearly Besotted goodies, the new stamp set Simple Silhouettes, which I stamped in a cluster and fussy cut. Then I used the vase die from Flower Arrangement cut out 6 times, layered up and given a coat of glossy accents for a nice shiny look. I think white enamel accents would have been better but I don't have any - yet ;-) I hope you like it, thanks for looking!

Supplies;
Papers - My Minds Eye 'Fine & Dandy - Boy'
Dies - Clearly Besotted 'Flower Arrangement' & Nestabilities 'Circles'
Stamp - Clearly Besotted 'Simple Silhouettes'
'Ink - Stampin' Up 'Pumpkin Pie'
Sentiment - Winnie & Walter 'The Big, The Bold & The Happy'
Cardstock - Stampin' Up 'Early Espresso' & 'Pumpkin Pie'
Other - Glossy Accents & white embossing powder

Wedding card

Hiya! I hope you had a good weekend! Mondays don't seem quite so bad when they're this sunny, do they? :-)
Over the weekend I had a little play with these Avery Elle stamps, I used a technique Jennifer McGuire (love her!) showed in a video (here) about dabbing the ink off stamps to get 2 tone images. I used it for the flowers then leaves and couldn't seem to stop so I did it on the sentiment too! I chose the colours to tone in with this gorgeous paper.
Its for this weeks Less is More challenge of Flowers, along with Avery Elle's challenge of Botanicals. I also used the current CAS(E) this Sketch. I hope you like it, thanks for looking!

Supplies;
Stamps - Avery Elle 'Thanks a Bunch'
Sentiments - Clearly Besotted 'Love Blossoms'
Paper - Carta Bella 'Hello Again'
Inks - Stampin' Up - 'So Saffron', 'Crisp Cantaloupe', 'Pear Pizzazz' & 'Old Olive'
Other - clear gems & Wink of Stella clear

Buttons for Brains Thank you card set!

Hiya! Happy Saturday! This is quite a photo heavy post but I've been playing some more with my Garden Kit from Buttons for Brains and I've made a set of thank you cards - I'm realising you can never have too many! I've used papers and flowers from the kit plus some of the coordinating sparkly butterfly stickers. I kept them pretty simple as I was making the 4 at once and I thought it would be nice to let these papers do the talking. All I added to the kit was one die cut flower, a Clearly Besotted word die, some Wink of Stellar glitter pen and some faux stitching with a white gel pen. Here's a little piccy of the kit, it's on offer at the moment too! Here's a link! :-) 
Liz has also just added some new pads & embellishments to the shop, here they are!

I've used this weeks CASe this Sketch for the layout and inlaid the thanks die cut words instead of the heart. I'm also going to enter this into this weeks Simon Says Stamp Flowers challenge and this weeks Papertake challenge of Anything Goes. Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies;
Papers & flowers - Buttons for Brains 'Garden Kit'
Butterflies - Dovecraft 'Garden Party 3D stickers'
Dies - Clearly Besotted 'Thanks word die' & MFT 'Botanical Beauty'
Other - Wink of Stellar clear glitter brush marker & white gel pen

Runway Inspired!

Hello! Today I have another card to share. I have a list of all the challenges I like printed out and on my desk and write each weeks theme in pencil then erase it when it's either finished or I've made a card for it. When it's a photo challenge, I write down the first 3 things I notice in the picture. This fortnights Runway Inspired challenge photo caught my attention and I wrote lime green & black, black lace & black bands. It reminded my of some gorgeous glitter acetate I've been hoarding got, so I dug it out for this card :-) The birthday die cut is covered in Wink of Stellar glitter then inlaid into the black strip, it doesn't really show up too well though. I'm also going to enter this into this weeks Simon Says Stamp challenge and Seize the Birthday challenge, both of which are Flowers. Wow I've rambled in this post! Haha! Thanks for hanging in there! :-D

Supplies;
Acetate - Kanban
Cardstock - Stampin' Up 'Lucky Limeade' & black
Dies - MFT Die-Namics 'Accent It: Celebrate' & Clearly Besotted 'Birthday word die'
Other - Wink of Stellar clear glitter brush marker

Purple flowers

Good morning! Wow it's dismal out there today! Still no baby here so I've been making more cards :-) This one is for this weeks Muse challenge card by Vicki, I used her fab card as a sketch for mine, and I used the Monochromatic Purple theme from this weeks Card Concept challenge. Mine falls into the Clean & Layered category I think. I'll slip it into this weeks Spring Flowers challenge at Simon Says Stamp too. I used an old Kaisercraft pad for the paper, it's the only one I can think of that I own that has a lot of purple in it. Then I used this Mama Elephant Water Blooms set stamped repeatedly in various purple inks and cut around each of the flowers. I went over the leaves in Vesramark so I could emboss with a little silver too. I hope you like it, thanks for stopping by!

Supplies;
Stamps - Mama Elephant 'Water Blooms'
Sentiment - Clearly Besotted 'Spring Flowers'
Inks - Stampin' Up 'Wisteria Wonder', 'Perfect Plum' & 'Elegant Eggplant'
Die - Mama Elephant 'Dainty Bow'
Paper - Kaisercraft 'Lilac Avenue'
Other - clear gems, silver mirror card & silver embossing powder

Thinking of You

Morning! A very quick post from me - off to work. But here's a card I've made for my friend who's having a bit of a poo time. I've used mostly Stampin' Up and Clearly Besotted supplies but I'll be back to add the list tonight. Thanks for looking!

Challenges;
Freshly Made Sketches - this sketch -->
Dynamic Duos - these colours -->