Buttons and stitching for Moxie fab's Trigger Tuesday

When I saw this week's Tuesday Trigger photo at Moxie Fab World, Friendly Flowers, I knew EXACTLY which stamp set I would be using - Stiches and Swirls from Papertrey Ink. I combined it with some Basic Grey buttons, and a sentiment and inks from Stampin' Up. 

 Thanks for visiting - have a lovely day :)

Fusion take 2!

Seeing as I had the stamps and the inks out, I thought I'd have another go at this week's Fusion Challenge.  I decided to make the flowers form the chevron shape across the card, and this is what I came up with - and all on one layer! All the stamps are from Stampin' Up (but from 4 different sets!) and the inks are Stampin' Up Wild Wasabi, Regal Rose and Daffodil Delight, the sentiment is in Memento Tuxedo Black, and the orange is a Hero Arts Mid tone Shadow Ink - Orange Soda.

I'll be submitting this to CASual Fridays CFC 97, and to Fusion #1.

A new challenge blog!

A new challenge blog has begun - just yesterday!  It is called Fusion, and it looks to be really cool, and great fun! (and I particularly love the scientific terminology - they don't have challenges, they have hypotheses!!) This week, there is a sketch challenge, and a photo challenge, or you can choose to combine the two to create a fusion, which is what I did!

(I think I need to have a fiddle with the settings on my camera, or maybe photoshop - the pink flowers look coral in the photo, but they are hot pink in real life!)
It also fits in nicely with CASual Fridays challenge this week, which is chevrons and flowers. 

Hmm, now I'm thinking I should have rounded the top right corner - not sure......

I hope you're having a great day!

Pink and a cat

A friend of mine recently asked me to make a birthday card for her daughter - who likes cats and all things pink.  This is what I came up with:

 Unfortunately, I ran out of time to submit this to Less is More's "Scallops" challenge - rats!!

UPDATE: Thanks to a comment from the lovely and talented Virginia Lu, I'll be submitting this card to Simon Says Stamp challenge - Happy Birthday!! :D

Three challenges

This week's CASual Fridays challenge is to use both chevrons and flowers on a CAS card.  This week's Lawnscaping challenge is to use embossing. And CASology has the theme "UP" at the moment.  I decided to combine all three :)

I used Lawn Fawn's "Admit one" and "Sophie's Sentiments" stamp sets, as well as "Bright Side" papers, plus a discontinued pink paper from Stampin' Up.

 I hope you're having a lovely day :)

UPDATE - thanks to a comment by Virginia Lu on another card I posted today, I'll  also be submitting this card to Simon Says Stamp challenge - Happy Birthday :)