More Lime, turquoise and brown

More for the Lily Pad Palette Challenge and my favourite colours at the moment!

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Lily Pad Palette Challenge

I'm so exited about the Lily Pad Palette Challenge this month. These are SO my colours.

In fact when I finally sat down to do it, and got out my folder with turquoise etc, I had to laugh  . . . . I could make at least 10 cards just with the unfinished and leftover bits and pieces that were lying about!

So now I'm on a roll  . . .

I used a piece of card that I had already brayered. Stamped the leaf with Versafine sepia (it appears darker in the photo), and highlighted the tops with white gel pen. The card is actually pale lime green and not so yellow in real. Wanted to keep this one CAS.

For No. 2 I used the inked and stamped page from a book. Got perfect pearls too so a lovely glimmer to it. Here I was following the sketch from Hero Arts National Scrapbook Day.

For my 3rd card I continued with the HA sketch using a scrap of card card with alcohol inks, and pre-inked dots and scripted background.

OLW51 - Three of a Kind

A lovely challenge from Jennifer's OLW this week. Make 3 cards using the same stamp. Got to love that!

First time I'm using this stamp from Inkadinkado, and one of the sentiment wordings of Club Scrap that I love  . . .  first card . . .

Second card I decided to use distress inks on a shadow stamp, and a line pattern (inspired by Susan) from Club Scrap - not as chic as hers, but one's got to use what one's got!

Thirdly, I love playing with the distress inks so kept going! Adding flourish from Stampin' Up and script writing from Paper Chain in South Africa.

I bought the swan stamp to be used for my blog header, and this challenge helped me bring it all together. Thanks for the comments.

 

May CCC at Lily Pad

I'm so glad the ladies at Lily Pad are continuing Deborah's CCC! I love this month's colour scheme . . . pinks and brown, and the wonderful sketch that lends itself to chic and simple cards.

So here's my take . . . with my new butterfly inchies stamps from Inkadinkado, swirls from Club Scrap and sentiment from Hero Arts and ribbon from May Arts.

Movement - revised!

Our Dodo Scrapchicks meeting had the theme of movement this month, and on the day I came up with this . . .

The photo is not good as the lighting was not good - and the glossy accents hadn't dried on "S". I used white acrylic paint for the background, stamped with orange and grey acrylic paint using the new Hero Arts stamp CG298 "Life of the Party dots".

But the white paint on the black draws the eye away from the photos, and so I changed it to what I had originally planned . . . a white background just with the dots. This time I used distress inks. Had to change the "splash" title as the white would have been lost on the white background.

And I thank Susan from Simplicity who showed her revisions which gave me the encouragement to do it myself! Certainly don't get it right the first time every time.

Scrap RDV Monochromatic Challenge

I don't always get to make the challenges at Scrap rendezvous but I love the theme this month . . . Monochromatic! And there is so much good information there on colours, the colour wheel, how to combine colours etc. So kind of the 3 lovely ladies to share - it's like going on a course!

So I may make a rainbow of creations by the end of the month, but I start with green. And I made a card using a borrowed set from Annabelle Stamps with the dragonfly from Hero Arts. I enjoy this set so much I may have to get one myself - the detail is so fine.

And then a LO for my London trip . . . where I loved the GREEN and spaces in the middle of such a big city. I used stamps from Hero Arts, Inkadinkado and Club Scrap. (Will try to get a better photo  . . . can't really see the details of the stamped squares nor the coloured background)

Go British at Scrap rendez-vous

There are 3 challenges at Scrap rendez-vous this month, and I wanted to enter all 3, but starting at the 11th hour . . . and don't even know if these 2 will make it in time.

First Valerie's sketch challenge, of which we had a choice of 2, and I chose

and my card is . . .

Then there is the So British challenge. I have been sitting on doing my London album since October last year, to this was the kick I needed. Just loved the vibrant colours in the fabrics of the inspiration . . .

And that's exactly what I spotted at Covent Gardens . . . vibrant colours . . . popsicles . . . hats . . . ties . . . I just was inspired by it!

Family Project.

The box was the kit from Club Scrap (Shadow-in-a-box November 2010) and I needed to assemble it - 2" deep. I am a bit of a philistine in that I mix and match anything from my stash. So I didn't use their paper supplies as they were not the colour I wanted. Just got these perfect papers and flocked lettering the day before in the post! Had fun with the embellishments . . . stamping (Hero Arts & Club Scrap), flowers, silhouette cutouts, pearls, pegs, metalica.

Angle view

The details

This will hang on the wall opposite the 3 photo portraits of the kids.

Play Date Cafe 72

I just love Dina Wakely's work - so inspiring - colourful, free, space to breath, original ! So as her work was the inspiration for this week, I wanted to play along.

Have been waiting the use the Inkadinkado sentiment stamp with just this kind of card. The black artistic lines are from Club Scrap.

Inspired by Simply Create, Alford

I just loved the romantic inspiration and colours of Simply Create, Alford's latest challenge. And there is £100 of goodies up for grabs.

And my take is below, but this will not be able to be entered as I forgot the button!

I will have to play again and use the colour combination, and have a flower and a button!