Blues and Turquoises - Take 2

While trying to find the right sentiment for my first card at Kathy's Palette Challenge at Lily Pad, I came across my butterfly inchies and knew I wanted to use them on a much simpler card.

So I came up with this :

Blues and Turquoises - Take 1

Just love the colours of Kathy's Palette Challenge at Lily Pad.


Just up my street! But when I sat down to create, I just couldn't come up with anything. So I started with all my bits and pieces of paper in those tones of blue, and came up with this :

The background card has a lovely shimmer.

June CCC Challenge

This months Lily Pad CCC really was a challenge for me  . . . the colours were not ones I use very often (well at least not together)

and the sketch had the sentiment at an angle (definitely way out my comfort zone).

But at the 11th hour, my mojo finally decided to get moving . . . and then it was FUN! I'm going to add 3 white pearls after the sentiment, so that on the inside of the card it will read "when shared with friends".

May Arts Ribbon Challenge at Lily Pad

Love May Arts ribbon, so had to play! Used some of my favourite Hero Arts stamps giving a watercolour effect, embossing the sentiment with white and adding gems.

ATC Swop

I love getting the real thing so was definitely up for the Hero Arts Flickr group ATC swop. I was paired with Donna and we decided to make ATC's with the Starburst Lace and a bird. Just to see if it was possible to make different ones, I made 2 :

Inspired by Tacha

I just loved Tacha's sketch and examples at Scrap RDV. We have Mother's Day tomorrow, and my MIL is now a great-grandmother. Nothing is so special as I baby, so I made a mini album of her first grandchild (now nearly 2 months) as a gift. I found these delightful "ribbons" of baby clothes at my local hobby store. Couldn't resist them!

And the inside  . . .

Each of the tags is a mini booklet with 4 photos. Here is the first page of each one.

Congratulations Heidi!

and welcome Abigail!

Kathy at The Daily Marker blog is having a baby shower blog hop to welcome little Abigail.

Here's my card (inspired by Tacha's sketch at Scrap RDV - I love her examples too!)

More Lily Pad Palette

I warned you that these (at Lily Pad) were my colours! Could just keep going with them.

Name that Frog

Over at The Lily Pad there is a celebrity in that making . . . . and we're to come up with names.

Amazing how my first thoughts were for a masculine name :

From the Lily Pad :

Lancelot
Logan (from the hollow)
Link (from the river)
Leroy (king)

The frog . . .
Frodo
Fynn (river)
Felix
Fergie

but then I began to think it must be a “woman” frog :

Linleigh (from the pond)
Bernadette
Pandora (what has she let out the box?!)
Fredrica

or a celebrity name . . .

Bluebell
Bella
Tallulah

OLW52 - Circles

I love circles and so was keen to do the OLW52 (One Layer Wednesday - circles) at Simplicity

Decided to highlight a circle of the image. (My new Inkadinkado stamp which I'm just loving!)