MUSE challenge

The latest MUSE challenge caught my eye this morning.  The card made by the Muse, Kristie Goulet, is colourful and bold, whilst also being calm and restful.  My take on her inspiration is not so bold, but it is colourful, and calm.

There are heaps of wonderful cards to see in the linky over at Muse - you can check them all out HERE.
Thanks for visiting :)

CASEing Debby Hughes

As soon as I saw this card from Debby Hughes back in February, I knew I was going to CASE it!  I just didn't do it straight away - that's what's so good about Pinterest - squirreling ideas away for a rainy day!

I used all Hero Arts stamps, "Night and Day Flowers",  and "Messages with Flourish".  The colour is from Distress Inks used as watercolours onto watercolour paper. The sentiment is stamped in Versamark onto a strip of vellum, then silver embossed using Ranger liquid platinum embossing powder.

I'll be submitting this to the ColourQ challenge:

 and to CASology's latest challenge:

 and to Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge "Birthday".  

Thanks for visiting - have a lovely Easter :)

A girly birthday card

I haven't had much time to make cards for challenges recently, so I went looking for challenges, and found four that I wanted to join in with - and then I made one card that fits all 4 challenges!  This card is for a very special friend of mine, Stella - Happy Birthday, lovely lady!

I stamped a bouquet of Wplus9 flowers on the white base card in strong colours, so that they would show through the vellum window (which was die cut with Lil' Inkers designs stitched rectangles and stitched circles).  The die cut and stamped flowers and leaves in front of the vellum were stamped in softer tones of Hero Arts shadow inks.  I die cut the word "birthday" (from Simon Says Stamp) twice and glued them together to give the word a bit more stability.  The pink stamped, clear embossed word "girl" is from a Hero Arts set of sentiments called "birthday sayings". The final touch was some Zig "Wink of Stella" onto the die cut blooms and flowers. It's a pity the Wink of Stella is so hard to photograph - it gives such a lovely, subtle glimmer that really lifts the whole card.

The four challenges I'll be submitting this card to all have different themes!  They are Virginia's View - Layers and Dimension, ColourQ CQC #285,  CASology "Spring" and Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge "Birthday".  

I hope you have a lovely day - thanks for visiting :)

CAS-ual Fridays challenge 138

Welcome back to another challenge for CAS-ual Fridays.

You must use kraft, flowers, and some twine. Here's what I did.

For those of you that know me, no I am not ill but, yes, I did use the colour orange (and it's not in a rainbow!) It's nice to break out of your comfort zone once in a while! LOL!

I used Casual elegance for the flower stalks and the sentiment, Wonderful Words for the flowers, and Christmas Carols for the line and dot border, all stamped in Versamark, and white embossed with Hero Arts embossing powder.   The bakers twine is from Darice.

 Looking forward to seeing your krafty floral creations over at CAS-ual Fridays!
 Thanks for visiting :)

Collaboration time at A Blog Named Hero

There's a collaboration happening all week at A Blog Named Hero - here's a sneak peek of my project:

Make sure you visit A Blog Named Hero to check out my whole project.

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