Have Wheels, Will Travel

It's a man theme today.  The challenge at A Blog Named Hero is to make a card for the man or boy in your life:

The challenge at Simon Says is MASCULINE / FATHER'S DAY

The cue word at CASology is wheels:

And I've used this fabulous colour scheme from ColourQ:

Went to a fabulous event in our village last night - Music in the Woods.  Bring your own gazebo, chairs, picnic, wine, etc.  Live music, fairy lights strung through the trees, dancing on the grass, warm weather - fantastic!

I'm going back out in the garden to play, as it's another warm and sunny day.  At this rate, we'll be on a hosepipe ban by next month! (That's despite being knee-deep in flood water last September!)

Image and sentiment - Darkroom Door DDRS036 Enjoy Life
Sequins - stash
Watercolour swooshes and colouring - Tombows

Birthday Banner

I've been coveting this tweed stamp from Hero Arts for some time, and I couldn't resist any longer.  Although it's been around for a while, it's also part of the new Stamp Your Story range, so I can enter this card into the month-long Stamp Your Story challenge.

Inspiration for the card has come from:

The colour scheme from Moxie Fab World Tuesday Trigger

Sweetness and Light

CAS(E) This Sketch by Chrissy Larson

And CAS-ual Fridays Banners and Flags.

All stamps by Hero Arts.

Summer's Here!!

Finally!  We're in the middle of a week of warm sunny weather - so sunny, in fact, that I had ginormous shadows on my card so I had to take another photo inside - here's the outside version:

Hmm. It's a lot sharper, isn't it?  Well, take your pick.  Or pic ;)

Anyway, the challenge at The Paper Players is Summer Holiday

I'll be spending my summer holiday in my garden, as I've already had three holidays so far this year.  I'm looking forward to seeing all the vegetables and flowers we've planting actually growing and flowering!

The inspiration card for the Muse challenge this week comes from Laurie Willison:

I used some more of my giveaway flowers from Loll, some stitched ribbon and the black sentiment (Hero Arts CL611 Many Birthday Messages).

Card Candy Congratulations

My blogfriend Loll has been making her own gorgeous card candy, and has been giving it away.  I was the lucky winner of her Giveaway #2, which arrived the other day.  And one of the flowers was perfect for this card.

The challenge at CAS-ual Fridays is to make a clean and simple congratulations card:

And the challenge at Less is More this week is to use the
COLOUR OF YOUR FRONT DOOR!
We would like to see a pic of your front door too if possible, but is not absolutely necessary!

Now my front door is plain white UPVC with frosted glass panels with black trim, and an aluminium handle.  Not worth taking a photo of, so I won't bore you with one.

I stamped the Dream Words Border (Stampendous) in Brilliance Pearlescent Ice Blue (which stamps a lovely silvery grey colour) to represent the frosted glass.  I added some black punched leaves behind the flower, and stamped Congratulations (Paper Smooches Simply Said) in black.

Thanks Loll!

Flower Buds

I love these quirky flowers from Jo Firth-Young.  I just bought myself another set, and now she's releasing even more gorgeous stamps.  I predict another purchase ;)

This one is for the Play Date Cafe's colour challenge:

Smoky Plum ... Cherry Blossom ... Lava

(The smoky plum bit is around the edges of the flowers.)

It's also for Lawnscaping's challenge to use any colouring medium (Tombows for me):

And for Simon Says Anything Goes:

The background panel is JOFY Mini JM09, and the two foreground flowers are from the JOFY Collection 09.

Hey There

Continuing with Ardyth's birthday party, this week's One Layer Wednesday, hosted by the Birthday Girl herself, is to case one of her cards or make a birthday card, as long as it's one layer.

Ardyth does precise.  I don't do precise.  As you can see.  The most precise I got was to keep the repeat colour pattern on the flowers.  I chose flowers deliberately - I did think about using dots, but there's no hiding behind dots, is there?  And I know embellies should be kept to a minimum, but I couldn't resist.

I used the colour scheme from ColourQ:

I cased Michelle's beautiful inspiration card for Muse:

And also took my inspiration from Paper Smooches SPARKS Picture Perfect challenge:

In case you're wondering - the continuous circle (or oblong in my case) of colour.

Stamps: Paper Smooches Bold Blooms, Sentiment Sampler

Oh, The Lies!

Ever lied about eating chocolate?  Me too.  Ever lied about eating other people's chocolate? Mmmm, me too.

I've had this two-part sentiment stamp for a few years and it's remained uninked until today.  Just the thing for this guilty-looking mouse.

The challenge at Less is More is HUMOUR, the challenge at CASology is FURRY:

And the challenge at Simon Says is ANYTHING GOES:

I stamped the mouse onto spare card and cut him out, and rounded his fat little belly and popped it up with a foam dot.  Added a strip of designer paper for him to sit down on after gorging on all that chocolate.

Sentiment: Inkwell Stamps

Image: Annticipations F9445