A Beautiful Day

 I love sunsets ...

My entry to ...

... Color Hues Challenge : Blue & Orange

... CASology : Sunset

AAA Challenge Guest Designer

I am so happy to be the guest designer at AAA Cards Challenge #135. This fortnight, the challenge is One Sentiment Plus Three with an optional twist of Friends.

 

I went with :

• stamped image
• coloured pen/pencil (Prismacolor) - on the butterfly
• die cut

I thought I would add some excitement to the inside, using Jennifer McGuire's Surprise Spinner idea.

Here it is in action ...

This was my second attempt as I was winging it on the first. On Jennifer's last card, she had said you needn't measure but just make the fold next to your opening. But when I closed the card, my butterfly extended past the edge by quite a lot - see how it goes passed the white edge.  So in fact, her original measure of having the folds a minimum of 2.5" from each edge is better.

So I ended up gluing it to a large square card, stamping the inner panels to add interest ( and camouflage my error!). So don't worry if you don't get it right the first time. I find there are ways of fixing errors too - and sometimes it even ends up better than the original

SSS Flickr Challenge "Let's Color" 3

For my third card as GD for the SSS Flickr Challenge, I kept things really simple with easy colouring using Prismacolor crayons.

Simon Says Stamp Colouring Flickr Challenge

I am so happy to be a guest designer for the Simon Says Stamp Flickr Challenge this week. The theme is "Let's Color" in honor of Kathy Racoosin and her 30-day colouring challenge at The Daily Marker. So you can enter 2 challenges at the same time!

I decided to do 3 different ways of colouring : 

• Distress inks as watercolour, 
• Copics and 
• Prismacolor pencils

Here are some sneak peaks ...

Bits & Pieces tag

I'm still trying to use up all the bits and pieces ... and this came together as I was sorting by colours.

Ooh .. and I just noticed that it's the same colours as my blog header.

I offset the blue panel to add some interest while keeping it CAS.

A close up of the layers

My entry for ...

... Less is More Challenge : Tags

... Addicted to Stamps & More Challenge : Clean & Simple

Pretty in Pink

It's time for the September CCC Card Reveal for all the cards that went out over the globe. Mine went off to Denise in California.

I try to include at least 2 of the 4 options for the challenge, so this month I went with the sketch option and friendship theme. 

I like to stamp up the envelope to match too.

Color Palette Option

(Exact matching is not required.)

or

Sketch Option

(Orient as desired.)

or

Theme Options: Food, Cats, Friendship

or

Product / Technique Options: Wool or twine

Would you like to receive a card? And send one too? Come and join in the October CCC Challenge.  You have until the 6 October to join in the fun. 

Splash Watercoloring

I spotted this Splash Watercoloring challenge over at CAS Watercolour. 

I had a couple of small pieces of the Altenew Washi tape left from my last card, and it needs a little background to help fill the card. Add a dash of script and the lovely light dies from Alexandre Renke, and top it off with a sentiment from Altenew.

Switching sides for the second card ... and the darker flowers get darker liquid pearls.

I will also enter this to Altenew July Inspiration Challenge.