Patchwork Birthday

Here's a quick card (well ok a quick post, the card wasn't all that quick to make!) for two challenges:

Clearly Besotted stamp your own background

And Pinspired:

Pretty easy to see where I got my inspiration from. I marked a piece of card into 1.5 inch squares and masked off while I stamped those tiny filler stamps that you tend to ignore.  They're all from the Clearly Besotted Framed Sentiments set, as is the sentiment!

Soft Sculpture

Penny Black are playing along with Less Is More, so I'm playing along too:

Onto our challenge for this week... We want you to use a 

RUBBER STAMP

In addition if you could use watercolours that would be wonderful!

I'm also playing along with Dynamic Duos where the challenge is plum plus a colour of your choice, in my case green.

And I'm also joining in with Pinspired where they have this gorgeous floral inspiration photo:

I coloured Penny Black 2671K Soft Sculpture with Tombow markers, spritzed lightly with water and stamped onto a card panel, then drew some of the colour in with a water brush, and swished the brush across the bottom of the vase to create a shadow and ground the image.  The sentiment from Penny Black 30-105 Gratitude is stamped with Encore Metallic Purple.

Summer Fun

I was asked to make a card for a 14-year-old girl.  I would have loved to get a card like this when I was 14!  I'd already coloured the image when I found these unused message die-cuts in my stash (while I was looking for something else).  Hey, Darnell, I've done a NBUS!

The colours were inspired by this gorgeous photo at Pinspired:

And Simon Says Anything Goes is still open where you can win a Simon Says voucher or this card candi package from Craftwork Cards:

 

I didn't use card candi but I did use the message die cut and the shaped card from craftwork Cards.  The image is Penny Black 2163K Love.  If you look really closely you can see tiny self-adhesive AB gems in the centre of the flowers.

Polka Dotty Washi

Very quick post, as I'm playing out tonight.  The inspiration for this card came from Pinspired:

and CAS-ual Fridays' Tic-Tac-Toe.  I've gone for the left-hand column (polka dots, square card, birthday).

And because I've used sequins, I'm also entering it into A Blog Named Hero.

Sentiment is from Paper Smooches, washi tape stamp is from Kaisercraft.

Housework Makes You Ugly, Darling

Here I am, taking a bit of time out from the housework.  I saw this picture on Pinspired, which reminded me it was time for a facepack.  I've run out of green gunge, so I used my more expensive gold gunge, but I'm wearing my green dressing gown in honour of the icing.

This week's cue word at CASology is GIGGLE.  Works for me :)

Here's the full card.  Image by Me and My Big Ideas, sentiment by Inky Antics.  Facepack by L'Oréal Liquid Pearls Platinum.  Colouring by Tombow markers.

Simon Says Anything Goes this week:

And the challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More is

MAKE YOUR MARK

Layered Cake

I found these strips of glitter card and pearlised card lurking in my stash, and they're perfect for the Moxie Fab World Ombré challenge.  I'd previously run them through my Xyron (remember those?) and there they have been sitting on the backing sheets for at least a couple of years, waiting to be loved.

The glitter inspiration came from the challenge at Pinspired.  Glitter and ombré.  Olé!

And the challenge at Less Is More is to use SCALLOPS, so I've added a dainty little scalloped doily.  Drawn a cake stand and topped it with a Prima flower.  Good enough to eat.

All card/papers by Craftwork Cards

Flower by Prima

Doily Punch by Martha Stewart