In my travels through blogworld, I came across two challenges that I thought would be fun to have a go at. Firstly, The Ribbon Girl is having their very first challenge – colour challenge #1, where you need to use the colours orange, black and white. What popped into my head was a lovely sunset scene, so this is what I have endeavoured to do. Hopefully all of us will be able to stop and enjoy life’s simply moments – like a beautiful sunset! I created the sunset background by rubbing the 3 colours onto kraft card and then used my sponge daubers to blend them together.

This card also fits into the current Caardvarks challenge which is to create a clean and simple stamped card….you can’t get more simple than stamping a tree with a sentiment!!

Supplies: Kraft card, Savvy stamp Heart Tree, Versacolor Ink – black, orange, yellow and cardinal, Sentiment “Enjoy Life’s Moments” (not sure which brand – I picked it up really cheap from a discount store), sponge daubers, white DMC thread, white button.

Thanks for looking and I’d love to hear your comments.

Well after a little bit more crafting tonight, I am entering in a second card to the Scrapbook Boutique September Colour Challenge. I wasn’t entirely happy with the first card, so here is another attempt…this time a totally different approach.

Supplies: Regal Craft Card (white textured single fold), Kaisercraft Small Gerbera stamp, X-Press It White card, Memento Ink Black Tuxedo, Copic markers, foam dimensionals, glossy accents, Kaisercraft patterned paper – La Di Da Collection “Hop” (green stripe), TLC Quik Words ‘Thank you” rub on, Glossy accents.

I added glossy accents to the centre of the flowers (and as you can see in the second photo…it is not quite dry!!). Overall I am happy with the simplicity of this card – but it still uses the challenge colours of lilac, pink, green and white.

Ok, off to bed now.

Well I have been busy creating tonight…leaving things to the last minute again, but hey, I am a busy mother and have to wait until the kids go to bed to really get in the mode!

Here is my entry to the Scrapbook Boutique September Colour Challenge using the colours lilac, pink, green and white. I had a hard time with this…especially adding in the green! I am not altogether happy with the final result, but I did enjoy using this floral tag digistamp that I recently purchased from Isabella’s Sketchbook.

Supplies: Regal Craft Card (textured single fold), Paper Chic Patterned Paper (pink) by Cristina Re, Paper Chic Patterned Paper (pink stripes) by Cristina Re, Floral Tag digistamp from Isabella’s sketchbook, X-Press It white cardstock, copic markers, Kaisercraft pearls, foam dimensionals, Fiskars scallop border punch, bazzill cardstock (pink), Purple ribbon, Kaisercraft “Get Well Soon” rub on.

I also experimented with making the sentiment have a curved dimension and am happy with the result. The lilac flowers have also been raised to add some dimension.

Thanks for looking.

I have done it…made the deadline just in time for this week’s CASE Study Challenge. I think Mariana’s card is simply perfection.

Anyway here is my take on her card. I just loved it so much I cased the whole thing, just changing the butterfly for some flowers which is a digi stamp from Isabella’s sketchbook.

Supplies: Kraft cardstock, brown Bazzill cardstock, Hero Arts Flourish background stamp, VersaMark Watermark ink, Clear embossing powder, digi stamp “Sweetheart Flowers” (from Isabella’s Sketchbook), Kaisercraft Pearls, Kaisercraft “Thinking of You” rub-on, Foam dimensionals, copic markers, white cardstock, Fiskars scallop border punch.

Thanks for looking and I’d love to hear what you think.

Have a great day,

I have been planning my entry to the CASE Study #5 Challenge all week in my head and I only started working on it last night! However I have managed to pull something off, although what I was planning in my head bears little resemblance to the finished product! Why does this always happen?

Anyway, CASE Study has a new Muse for the month of September, another talented lady by the name of Mariana Grigsby. You should check out her blog. I fell in love with her card as soon as I saw it…this style of card making appeals to me.

For my card I used a similar layout to Mariana’s inspiration card, and I was also inspired by her embossed background. I loved her polka dot ribbon and even though it is small, I have also used some polka dot ribbon.

Supplies: Regal Craft White card (smooth horizontal fold), Bazzill cardstock (blue), Cuttlebug, Fleur de Lis embossing folder, White cardstock, Autumn Leaves Clear Flower stamp (sketch flower?), Small flower wood mounted stamp (no idea of the name or brand…I have had it since the beginning of time!!), Copic markers, Memento Tuxedo Black ink, VersaColor ‘Atlanta Blue’ ink, Kaisercraft textured clear stamp – Grid (stamping on small white background piece), Hero Arts Blossoms clear stamp set (stamping on vase), sponge dauber, Kaisercraft pearls, Pebbles Inc ‘Happy Birthday’ rub-on, yellow polka dot ribbon, green cardstock (for stems and leaves), thin white ribbon, 3D foam squares, corner chomper.

Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

CASE study are having their 4th challenge and I couldn’t resist entering into it again….I think I am becoming hooked on challenges!!

Once again the beautiful inspiration card was designed by Maki Jones. I love her flower in this one….just perfect!

I was inspired by the orange and green colours Maki used in her design (but I added blue as well) and also the use of the oval with the flower on the side. I also incorporated the scallop edge into my design.

And here is my card!

I made my own flowers using the Ume Carl Craft punch and used the same paper from the border on the side. I made the text in Microsoft Word and distressed the green border around the text, though this is hard to see in the photo.

Supplies: Regal Craft White textured card, Kaisercraft papers – Sugar Cookie, Choir and Darleejing, blue Bazzill cardstock, Kaisercraft pearl embellishments, Carl Craft Punch – Ume (for flowers), Versacolor Ink – bark (distressing oval and flowers), sponge daubers, Hero Arts Blossoms stamp (for leaves), foam dots, Zots clear adhesive dots, Microsoft Word.

Thanks for looking,

Have a great day,