Thanks for Everything

Tracey has created a lovely autumn wreath for the Muse Challenge #286 so I was inspired to make this card.  Instead of stamping my wreath I chose to use die cuts... cutting my 'twig' circles twice and removing the centers.  Then from some shaving cream panels from my stash I die cut four types of leaves and arranged them around the 'twig wreath'. To finish I stamped on my sentiment and added an extra leaf.  Elements of Tracey's card I've focused on are - wreath, autumn colours, layout.  Thanks for visiting and enjoy your weekend

Thank You

When I checked out the Muse challenge #285 today, Anita's card really caught my eye with the fresh white and lovely mix of green and yellow colours.... so I had to join in - especially because this cool stencil arrived in the mail today.  I thought Anita had sponged colour through a stencil but on reading her post she had coloured texture paste... so I tried this out too... using Distress Inks with my paste. I decided to frame my panel with white on a white card and to finish added a die cut sentiment.  My elements are landscape orientation, thank you sentiment, greens and yellow colours, stencil and coloured texture paste. Thanks for visiting and enjoy your day.


 

Have a Great Day...

This year I have really stepped it up making masculine birthday cards which is cool because they seem to be a lot less involved... Today I have used one of my recently made Twinkling H2O water wash backgrounds and added a stamped dragonfly, then attached my fish - stamped on gloss card and coloured with H2Os - he looks all shiny just like a fish would jumping out of the water.  To finish I added a couple of die cut reeds and a stamped sentiment on a strip.  I am playing along with Challenge #89 at The Male Room - Fish and also at Watercooler Wednesday WWC178 - Crystal's "All About Occasions" challenge and also the Muse card challenge #274 - inspired by Tracey's card - my elements are waterwash background, "fins"
 Thanks for visiting and enjoy your weekend

 

 

 

With Best Wishes

Today I've cased Anita's lovely Muse #273 card.... using elements- colours, masked strip, black stamped  image and sentiment on the strip with a few scattered dots.
I used Distress Oxides blended with a baby wipe and then stamped on my image and sentiment.  Thanks for visiting and enjoy your day

 

With Love

My stamped heart image is from my very old stash and the card turned out to be ok to watercolour (a relief) - I used a combination of Distress Inks and Oxides to colour it, then I fussy cut it out.  I stamped my sentiment in pink and clear embossed it and cut the ends like a label.  I found this pink stripe embossed card in my 'old' stash too and decided to go with it instead of white card and to add interest die cut a frame using two nesting dies.  I am playing along at Muse challenge #272 casing Steffi's card (below)  - elements : a heart, pink, die cut edge, stripes, sentiment within the heart.  And also joining in at AAA Cards CAS Game #118 - Use a frame.  Thanks for visiting and enjoy your weekend.

 

Congrats

I have cased lots of elements of Anita's card for the Muse Card challenge #269 this week.... the colour palette, die cuts, layout - her card is so fresh and cheerful.  I used Gelatos to blend my blue ombre background, choosing to have the darker shade against the white die cut landscape. Then I added some die cut foliage and die cut my sentiment in white and yellow for a layered effect... to finish I added a few bright yellow die cut butterflies.  I am also playing along with Simon Says Wednesday challenge - Anniversary/Wedding, and Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes with Dies challenge.  Thanks for visiting and enjoy your day

 

Birthday Wishes

Of course my card had to include a waterlily when casing this weeks Sweet Gupta's lovely card over at Muse challenge #268.  I stamped my image with DI in Antique Linen to achieve a no line effect when I watercolured with Distress Oxides, then fussy cut it out.  I die cut a wavy border on a background created with DO and backed the cut out with shimmer light gold metallic paper, leavinga a fine border along the top edge too, then attached this to a white card before stamping on my sentiment. I chose to use a pink card as it helps frame and lift the image.  I have used elements... waterlily, layout, gold, watercoloured image as inspiration.  I am also playing along with Watercooler Wednesday challenge WWC172 - Anything Goes, and Seize the Birthday - Anything Goes challenge.  Thanks for visiting and enjoy your day

  

Happy Mother's Day

Today I have a cute Mothers' Day card I thought the little grand daughters could give their mum next Sunday... I used lots of the elements from Lynne's card (below) from the Muse challenge #264 - I flipped her layout, used a square card, with a cute image and flowers.  I stamped and watercoloured my cute bear with his armful of flowers and added some tiny glitter dots. Then to finish added a bright pink layer onto my white card.  I am also playing along at Shopping Our Stash challenge SOS#352 Mother's Day.  Thanks for visiting and enjoy your day

Muse Challenge #264

 

SOS 352: Mother's Day

Have a Beautiful Day!

How cute is this little bird on Kim's card this week for the Muse Card challenge #262.  I remembered I had a bird set with stamp and punch so 'dug' this out for my card.  Inked my bird with two shades of aqua blue, stamped and punched him out, then as there's a wing on the punch I repeated this and gave him a little wing.  Then found some leftover green 'Distress Ink experiment' card and punched some leaves too. I liked that Kim had different leaves on her card so decided to stamp some in the background before attaching my leaves.  To finish I stamped on my sentiment, attached my bird with foam tape and added a few sequins.  I cased all aspects of Kim's card - layout, colours, bird/leaves and sequins.  Thanks for visiting and enjoy your day

 

Hello Friend

How's you weekend going?  We're having lovely weather and I've enjoyed some quiet time at my desk....  I have a card for the Muse Challenge #261 where we are casing Tracey's lovely fresh floral card... flowers are a favourite of mine - real and on card.  I really like the colours, her layout, the fussy cut image, and then the sentiment - stamped and die cut.... so I've just done the same... I stamped my image and used Distress Oxides to watercolour it, then cut it out.  I die cut my 'hello' and then glued it to white card and cut around that too.  Then to finish I just stamped the rest of my sentiment and attached all the elements with foam tape.  Thanks for visiting and enjoy your weekend.