Happy Birthday

• Stamped various sweet pea stems from Power Poppy - Sweet Memories set,  around the edge of white card panel with Versafine smokey grey and watercoloured with Distress Inks - abandoned coral, spun sugar, shaded lilac, dusty concord, peeled paint
• Looked a bit stark white so blended shaded lilac around the edge.
• Stamped and silver embossed sentiment from Close to my Heart - Joyful Birthday Occasions
• Trimmed panel and attached to purple card and added a scatter of silver gems

I am playing along with AAA Birthday Card challenge #26 - Flowers

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Spring Wishes

Playing with embossing folders again today... this one I've not used before from Simply Cards & Papercraft mag - Birds of a Feather... also the stamps that I used.

• Embossed white card panel
• Watercoloured with Distress Inks - gathered twigs, mustard seed, salty ocean, mown lawn, spiced marmalade, seedless preserves, peeled paint
• Stamped the bird and nest with antique linen and watercoloured with the same DI plus speckled egg, broken china, and fussy cut them out and attached with foam dots

I am playing along with Let's Squash It!!! challenge #9 - Nature meets Watercolouring

 also with NBUS challenge #27

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Thinking of You

• Background - liberally spritzed water over the top corner of the white card and dusted on a small amount of lemon and scarlet Brushos and let them spread - tilting and mopping a little bit.
• Stamped the silhouette Kaisercraft Hummingbirds image in Versafine black
• Trimmed the panel and stamped and clear embossed the sentiment (from Creativ Words & Alphabet)
• Attached to a slim card with a red border frame

I am playing along with the CAS Mix Up June Watecolour challenge - Flight

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Happy Birthday

Hubby is a mad golfer... plays three times a week, so he's easy to make a card for....

• From my very old stash of stamped and embossed images... 
• Watercoloured with Distress Inks
• Framed panel with offcuts of green and light blue onto an orange panel
• Stamped and embossed sentiment on orange panel and attached to a square card

I am playing along with the Watercooler Wednesday challenge WWC317 - Heidi's Challenge - All things masculine.

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Card Recipe 

Stamps: House Mouse & Friends - Golf Tee Time, Darkroom Door - Happy Birthday

Dies: Versafine - black

Inks:  Distress Inks 

Other:  clear embossing powder

Hello Friends

Well, a big hello to my card making blogger friends...

    ....   I'm still here 

and realised today, it's half way through the month and I haven't finished one card

Do any of you find that you've fallen off the grid and deserted your buddies?

I do

So many lovely friends I've met.... sent cards to.....  received cards from and ...  heaps of wonderful encouraging comments....    I love you all and appreciate every single one of you

.....  and I feel like I'm floundering

So I'm hoping now that I've put this in words - I can find my mojo and you'll see me real soon

I've made so many cards over the years and even with the challenges for inspiration my enthusiasm is on a low and I don't want it to be.

I have been dabbling at my desk....        just not finishing 

Thanks everyone.....       NOW to MAKE SOME CARDS!!

HUGS

Thanks for your Friendship

My May Card Chain Challenge card went to Gail in Norway.   I used the colour palette, embossing folder, Mandala pattern, Tea and Friendship

• Embossed my white card panel with 3D EF and carefully highlighted the the embossing with  blue Distress Ink
• Stamped the cup image in grey and used pencil to colour it and fussy cut it out.
• Die cut the doily in mid blue card
• Stamped the sentiment on a white strip
• Assembled the card.

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Theme Options: Tea or Coffee and optional Cake/ Mandala Patterns/ Friendship

Technique Options: Embossing Folders

Card Recipe 

Stamps: Kaisercraft - High Tea ---cup and sentiment

Dies:  Spellbinders - Medallion One

Inks: Distress Ink - Blueprint sketch, Versafine - black and smokey grey

Other:   coloured pencils,  Sizzix - 3D embossing folder - Doily

Christmas Wishes

A quick and easy one layer card for the end of the month Christmas card building stash.

I used elements that were on my desk from recent card makes

• holly leaves - stamped, loosely watercoloured and fussy cut
• stamped sentiment on a stamped ribbon and fussy cut
• strips of green sparkly glitter wrapping ribbon

I am playing along with Rudolph Days May challenge 

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Card Recipe 

Stamps:  Hero Arts - Watercolour Holly Outline,  Magazine freebie - Pretty Poinsettias

Dies: 

Inks: Distress Ink - Rustic Wilderness, Versamark

Other:  white and gold embossing powder, green glitter wrapping tape

June Calendar

From my stash again... this orchid stamped image, already watercoloured but never going to be used on a card as I overstamped it when finished and got a slight blurry image....ok for my calendar page though.
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