Fabulous Ladies

 

I could not resist getting these ladies in the Shoreline Friendship set of Unity stamps. 

My entry to ...

... Addicted to Stamps : Make your mark

... CAS Colours & Sketches : Colours

... Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge #240

... NBUS #59

Sparkly Birthday Wishes

For those special Birthdays it's wonderful to add some extra sparkle.

Look at those sparkles!

My entry to ... 

...  Seize the Birthday #204 : Sparkle & Shine

... Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge : Anything Goes

... Just Add Ink #533 : Just add "S" I'm adding Sparkle!

Summer Sunshine

Sending a little summer sunshine!

My entry to ...

... Less is More #401 Colour Challenge

 

... Just Us Girls : Word Week - Summer

... AAA Cards : Made in Minutes (Optional twist - Summer)

... Addicted to CAS : Bubbles

Summer Breeze

It's time for a change in season and a new CASology challenge.  The cue word is SUMMER.

Oh to stand outside in a summer breeze!

I kept it very simple by using only 2 colours.  On the first card, I used some paper piecing on her dress.

On this second card, I went with only colouring with Copics ... and my favourite ... blue!

Come and check on the creations of the design team and be inspired. Looking forward to seeing your take on the cue word.

Bharati Nayudu

Deidre Payne

Jacquie Southas 

Janet Ribet (you are here)

Jen Wills 

Joyce Mehrberg

Karen Haman

Melissa Chipperfield

Rachel Bergfeld

Sue Symens

Guest Designer : Marlena

Sponsor : Stamplorations

Spring Breeze

Don't you wish for spring breezes ...

Some stickles on the seeds ...

My entry for ...

... Freshly Made Sketches #381

... AAA Cards : CAS Spring - One image

... Addicted to Stamps & More : CAS

Sprinkles and smiles

The CASology Challenge this week is Sprinkle, and if you've got sprinkles then you've got smiles too.

With some Wink of Stella shimmer on her dress too.

I will also enter this to ...

... Freshly Made Sketches Challenge

... Less is More Lucky Dip Week : Patterned paper challenge

Song Inspiration

Michele made the inspiration card inspired by a song for the Muse Chalenge this week.  I would guess that it is "I have joy, joy, joy, joy, down in my heart".

I am inspired by the song "Clouds" by Zach Sobiech.

This is my entry to this week's Muse Challenge #151 : Song Inspiration.

[PS. Having linked this card, I'm not sure it fits with the challenge rules. I'm a bit confused this month. Is the challenge to do a card both inspired by a song, and by Michele's card? If so, I'll take my card off. and do another.]

Motivating Bookmark

I am trying to organise my life better .... and it's three steps forward, 2 steps backwards. But since I discovered Bullet Journalling only a couple of weeks ago, I'm beginning to make progress.

First I covered my journal (little black book from local stationery store). I made a loop for my pen with the lovely thick ribbon from May Arts.

As the weeks have gone by, I realised that I needed a book mark to mark Today's page ... and link to the Month page. So I have made a magnetic bookmark and I can put the first part on the month page, and the other on today's page!

Part of this process is to establish better daily habits, so I thought it would be a good reminder to put them on the bookmark. I'm a tea drinker, so I can go days without drinking water! Once I'm out walking my dogs, I love it, but I have to make a 15 minute drive to get there ... and it's been raining, raining, raining which means very muddy dogs ... so they haven't been this week at all.

And I'm really not doing well on the last one ... it's 2:04 am now!!! And I must get up early tomorrow morning to take my son to do an exam. Let's hope I do better as the days go by.

Everything is stamped except for the "Drink Water" (I used Elephant font) and the row of glasses. For the rest, I used a mix of stamps, alphabets and masked stamps to only get the parts I wanted. 

This is part of my colouring for The Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring Challenge.

Also will enter this to the Simon Says Wed Challenge : Things that fly even though my butterflies are rather small.

Colouring Day 1

I've joined in Kathy's 30 Day Coloring challenge.

I'm have so many uninked stamps and I hope to make some headway in using them in these 30 days. This one is Sabrina Fashionista from Unity Stamps.

As I go through this colour challenge, I would appreciate any suggestions and tips on what I could improve in my colouring. Like ... where you put the light...

I am more happy with her hair than her dress - especially the bodice.

Thank you Bronwyn for sharing some of your Martha Stewart sprinkles! Just perfect for this card ... and the Inspirational : Sprinkle Challenge.

WIll also enter this to ...

... ATS : CAS Anything Goes Challenge, and

... Simon Says Wednesday Challenge : Special Lady/Girly.

Friends

When I saw the Friends Challenge on Less is More, I knew I would use this new sentiment from Funny Bones - just love it. First time it is stamped so it will also be entered in the CAS-ology NBUS Challenge (Never Before Used Schtuff) and Darnell's NBUS Challenge. It's also the first time I've used the Unity ladies stamp, and the sketchy stamps from Papertrey Ink.

I will also enter this into the One Layer Simplicity Challenge of Opposites. My opposites are the solid stamp verses the light thin lined scribbles.

I'm also entering it to Uniko's Love and Friendship Challenge.

Another Mistletoe tag

As I was photographing my first Mistletoe card, I had a flash of inspiration for another using the same sketch from Sketch Saturday. Except this time I flipped the sketch on it's side.

I will also enter this into the Anything Goes Challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More, and the Holiday Challenge at Die-cut Divas!

Mistletoe Tag

A quick tag card with the Unity mistletoe.

I started with this ....

but decided that the band was too thick, and I needed to bring in the kraft colour more. So I added a tiny strip.

I think it brings it together better. Which do you prefer?

This was based on the sketch from Sketch Saturday Challenge.

I will also enter it to the Die-cut Divas Any Holiday Challenge.

The Greatest Gift

I bought a whole stash of Unity Stamps last December and a lot of them haven't been inked yet! Now is the time to get the Christmas ones all inked up!

The first is The Greatest Gift - I can see myself doing a lot of cards with this one so I'm sure you'll see more in the days and weeks to come.

I was inspired by the simple design at the Muse Challenge of just using one image and one sentiment; and the colours of the C.A.S. Challenge.