Double Challenge Scramble 1

I nearly missed the Hero Arts Flickr group scramble this week, as I thought it was for tomorrow. Luckily I set a reminder on my phone!

Jayne gave the challenge to have a card on a card. I don't think I've ever made one of these before.
And she gave us the extra challenge of incorporating the Hero Arts Tic Tac Toe Challenge at the same time. Try do that when you're on the clock!

For my first card, I went with the last vertical column : heat embossing, die cutting and my favorite colour.

The little white hearts are heat embossed with white embossing powder.

I will also enter this to the a2z scrapbooking : New Beginnings Challenge.

Two Circles - Take 2

A re-think of my first two circle card for the One Layer Simplicity Challenge : Round and Round.

Much softer.

Stamped my two circles - a real Misti Moment - so easy to line up. The A, heart and S were embossed in white; the arrow in Ranger Platinum (I love that colour!).

Two Circles - Take 1

The month long challenge at One Layer Simplicity Challenge : Round and Round has been stretching my mojo, and playing on my mind. This month the challenge is to use 2 circles on your card - no more, no less, but you can add other images and sentiments.

It has taken me a week to come up with this ...

Originally I wanted to combine the colours in the middle, but I thought purple would be strange to show love. But I'm not that happy with it. The pink and blue are a bit too bright. Perhaps I will go and paint in the purple - it would make better sense.

Oh decisions, decisions! What do you think?

Be - YOU - ti -ful

More butterflies at the Muse Challenge .... Yay!!

Here's my take ... you can see I've been having more fun with my Silhouette. The butterflies have a lovely shimmer from Wink of Stella.

Here's a close-up of the shimmer - it looks so much better in real life - you can see the dimension on the letters.

Here is Vicki's Card for inspiration ...

I'll also enter it for Addicted to CAS : Butterfly Challenge.

Bring on the Happy

I have always been a lover of rainbows and butterflies, so putting them both on a card makes me really happy!

Inspired by these challenges ...

... Pretty Pink Posh : Watercolour Blog Hop Challenge

... Addicted to CAS : Butterfly Challenge

... CAS(E) This Sketch Challenge

... SSS Work it Wednesday : Rainbow Challenge

...Just Us Girls : Summer Challenge

A White Christmas

I have been following the Muse : Christmas Visions Challenge for a couple weeks now, but have never got round to making a card. But I couldn't resist this week.

I will also enter this to the Colour Me : Monochromatic Challenge.

Warm wishes

I've had a crafty morning.

This is an entry for ...

... Freshly Made Sketches Challenge

.... Color Throwdown Challenge #345

Masking 2

Since I still had some coloured texture paste left over from my first card, thought I'd better make another.

Entering it to ... 

... Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge : Anything goes

Masking 1

We had a fun card scramble at Hero Arts Flickr group on Sunday night. The challenge was to use embossing. My heat gun died a couple of weeks ago (after over 21 years of service) and I hadn't got round to getting another one, so I decided to go for embossing paste and masks.

Since we only have 90 minutes to make and link it up, it's a bit of a rush. Very dicey with embossing paste which takes time to dry!

So here is what I submitted to the Flickr Challenge ... the zigzags and diamonds are embossing paste.

I thought it needed a little more ... so I've added black Accents to the green diamonds. I think it makes the colours pop more.

An entry for the CAS(E) This sketch Challenge,

and the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge : Anything Goes.

May CCC

Another month has flown by - we're half way through the year already!

And the cards have been flying across the globe for the May CCC challenge. Mine went off to Carol in Scotland.

I went with the sketch, colours and Friendship theme.