Muse #150

Jenni gave us such a gorgeous card as the Muse Challenge inspiration this week.

I focused on ...
... the script text for the background
... rectangle design
... lovely colours of soft pink, green and grey

I created the effect of matting using a rectangle mask and flicking my Copic C1 over the edge. I had originally planned a one layer card, but the colour had bled through, so had to mount it.

Also entering this to Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge : Anything Goes.

At the Table

What a lovely relaxed and happy evening we had last night at our Book Club Christmas dinner. The decor, twinkly lights, laughter, beautiful Christmas cards and messages, the sharing of gifts and the delicious meal was in the true spirit of Christmas.  I am now definitely in the Christmas mood.

I used the Hero Arts houses and the Bauble die cuts to decorate the table ...  the colour theme was white and kraft.

Happy New Home

Oh how I love it when a plan comes together!

I love this week's sketch at Freshly Made Sketches. The extra twist was to keep it clean-lined and fresh. I hope my rainbow brightness counts for that.

My first idea was to use watercolours to create the squares. Then I had to work out what to put in the squares and I was leafing through my dies and spotted my new (and never been used) Simon Says Stamp Quadrangle Frames. OK, so that was still just a frame, so what next? Need something small, and found these rather neglected Quickutz dies from the days when we still used that 2" squeeze machine (can't even remember what it was called!). The little house struck a chord as my daughter has just moved into her new apartment. Perfect!

I popped the little dies on foam and gave them all swish of Wink of Stella ... lovely shimmer.

I will also enter this to Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge : Anything Goes!

Runway Inspiration

Such a lovely soft inspiration from Runway Inspiration this week.

I went with the lacy look and the green leaves with a white background. I embossed the lacy stamp and Birthday sentiment with white embossing on kraft cardstock. I green comes out very dark in the photo.

Ombre Times

I was playing with Hero Arts Ombre Inks. I was testing the range of colours with the lovely Hero Arts stamp. When I used the blues, I loved the effect.

I need another sympathy card - this time a more masculine one. Added the dragonflies in the reverse ink order, and a touch of pp.  Thought it would make a peaceful card for someone grieving.

Entering this to Simon Says Stamp Work it Wednesday Challenge.

Sympathy ... 3

It's been a really long time since I've used this stamp, but it was perfect for the Retro Sketch Challenge.

Also my last entry to Just Us Girls Sympathy Challenge.

Sympathy ... 1

It's sad when we need sympathy cards, and I need quite a few at the moment.

I will submit this to ...

... Just Us Girls : Sympathy Challenge

and

... CAS(E) This Sketch #134 Challenge

Album Finished!

Whew! Finally finished the wedding album my friend asked me to do. I love making cards and layouts in the style that the receiver would like. She loves simple yet vintage look ... lots of lace, pearls and flourishes in creams, white. So I grabbed some white, cream and vanilla cardstock and went straight to my Silhouette. Cut out lots of scrolls, flourishes, roses, frames and words. Then I got script & flourish stamps, ribbons, lace, embossing powder and pearls and was ready to go.

 I can't share the pages with the photos, but here are some sneak peeks.

Loved the soft look of pearl embossing powder giving a tone on tone look.

I used vellum with the the Hero Arts medallion embossing folder, then fussy cut it and topped with Silhouette cut flourishes, lace and pearls.

I loved how this page turned out ... the Penny Black scroll border was the perfect touch at the bottom of the photo.

The next page I used a lot of different embossing folders and inlayed Silhouette die cuts.

More embossing, lace, Silhouette print and cuts ...

Silhouette cut wedding rings. This was a wonderful shimmer gold cardstock from Club Scrap.

For the page coming out of the church, confetti shaker tags!

The Silhouette does amazingly fine cuts.

The roses ... and great that you can vary the sizes.

Wonderful sentiment from Penny Black ... with vellum over to make it soft.

For the pictures under the rain and umbrellas.

Embossed paper and die cuts.

One of my absolutely favourite flourish stamps from Inkadinkado. So light and lovely.

And couldn't resist using the WPlus9 peonies.

Now I had better start my wedding album (even though I have been married for 26 years!)

Many Thanks

My daughter has asked for more Thank you cards ... so I'd better get on it.

Plus Susan has reminded me to send cards expressing gratitude and thankfulness with her Thanksgiving Crusade.

This is one of the wonderful dies that came with my spanking Brand new Big Shot Plus! So happy. I die cut white cardstock, spritzed the gold sections and watercoloured the green piece.

Entering this to ...

... Less is More : Green and Gold Colour Challenge

Card Scramble #117 - No 2.

LaVon was running the Hero Arts Card Scramble #117 and she gave us the 3 sketches which were from the August 2012 Hero Arts Challenge.

I first went with the circle sketch, making a die inlay card. I think it may be the first one I've ever made. I first watercoloured cardstock with Distress Inks (Picked Raspberry, Ripe Persimmon and Mustard Seed). Gave a spritz of Perfect Pearls. Dried and die-cut. I inked up the card front with Picked Raspberry using direct pad to paper so that it was lovely and vibrant. Sentiment is from Altenew.

A close-up of the inlay - and you can see the shimmer of the Perfect Pearls.

This is so completely different from the first card I made with this die. I will enter it in the Hero Arts Makeover Challenge.