DIY Day Mk2

This is my second post today.  Click here for DIY Day Mk1.

More DIY, this time with digi images.  Uniko Studio are holding their first challenge, called Say "Hello".

I don't have any Uniko stamps - yet.  So in the meantime I've used some free digital images that Bev has generously provided in her shop.  I find digital images really, well, challenging.  My printer and I don't see eye to eye on how the images will be used, and the printer won three times before I got the hang of it.

I used one of the speech bubbles and all three "hello" images.  I created a border with two of the hellos and ran the border across the back of the card as well for added interest.

I used some baker's twine that my CAS-ual Fri-Dies prize were wrapped in, and added some Neat & Tangled sequins (that were also part of a win) to create the dot-dot-dots.  Ok, got to dash-dash-dash.

(Sorry, couldn't resist.)

DIY Day Mk1

I've been doing some DIY.  With triangles.  Well, with non-triangles.  I wanted to make a card featuring triangles for four challenges but the only triangle set I have wasn't inspiring me, so I made my own with some of the stamps from the Hero Arts AC026 Brush Strokes set.

Simon Says Wednesday challenge is ...

TRIANGLES!

Moxie Fab World has a challenge called Trendy Triangles.

Hero Arts are having a Stamp Your Story Inspiration Challenge until the end of September where you trawl their galleries for inspiration.

My inspiration is from this card by Jennifer McGuire:

And oh, look! This week's Case Study card is also by Jennifer McGuire:

Hero Arts: AC027 Brush Strokes, CL611 Many Birthday Messages
Mei Flower pearl grey gems
Tombow pens

Sweetie-pie

This is my second post today.  For Rosy Birthday click here.

I'm sliding in at the last minute for CASology's challenge, dessert.

And at the front of the queue with The Paper Players' colour challenge.

Borrowed stamp from my friend Mel, coloured with Tombows, Anita's 3D Clear Gloss Finish, machine stitched.

Short and sweet, sweetie!

Rosy Birthday

I'm back again with another card for the Little Tangles Birthday Bash challenge, Let's Celebrate.

I've used the colour scheme from this week's ColourQ challenge:

And I've taken inspiration from this week's Muse card by Laurie Willison:

After I'd stuck the roses onto the card I decided they needed pearls in the centres.  The pearls were a magazine freebie and they came attached to the acetate in a spiral.  Took the photo and was about to write the post when I moved things around on my work area (read dining table) and the rest of the pearl spiral ended up on the card, and I decided that it looked better with than without.  So I painstakingly added each pearl to the card in a spiral fashion.  Maybe sometimes less isn't enough - what do you think?

before

after

I also got to play with my new CAS-ual Fri-Dies oval tags which I won in the CAS-ual Fridays August release blog hop :)))

Stamp: Neat & Tangled Everyday Circles
Dies: Little Claire - Steve's Swirly Rose, CAS-ual Fri-Dies Oval Tags, Sizzlits Flower Centre and Leaf (just used the leaf)

Hot Pink Birthday

Pink isn't my go-to colour, but I've got a thing about hot pink at the moment.  This card is for Little Tangles birthday challenge, as part of Neat & Tangled's month-long birthday bash.

There are loads of birthday activities going on all month, so keep popping over to check them out.   This particular challenge closes in two days.  I might just try to sneak another card in before then.

Stamps: Neat & Tangled Everyday Circles
Sequins: Neat & Tangled
Dies: Spellbinders Circle, Memory Box Birthday

Think Pink Flowers - And Leaves

Penny Black have started a new game called Play Along.  For their first game they are playing along with Runway Inspired Challenge.  Here's who's on the runway:

This week's CAS(E) This Sketch has lined up perfectly for what I wanted to do:

Eventually.  I had just finished making a version of this card with the happy horizontal (let's face it, horizontal is a happy place to be) when the CAS(E) This Sketch challenge was posted, and I just had to combine the two challenges - look, the flower on the sketch is even leaning like the model!  So I made another card nearer to the sketch - just flipped the main part of the sentiment to run up the left instead of down the right of the flowers.

Stamps: Penny Black: 40-103 Delicate Florals, 3682C Birthday Girl (masked)
Happy die: Memory Box
Sequins: Neat and Tangled
Coloured with Tombows

Inlaying die-cuts is my latest new trick.  New for me, not my idea.  And I've just thought of another card for another challenge using the inlaying thingy, so I'm off to try that before it goes out of my head.

Feel Better Buttons

The current Moxie Fab World Tuesday Trigger has a collage inspiration photo.

One magazine that I bought recently had a freebie of papers and matching collage-style toppers.  Normally I don't get round to using them, but they were just right for this challenge.  I added a few other bits and pieces, and managed to get my fix of stamping on one of the pieces, and added some buttons so that I can enter it into the CAS-ual Fridays Buttons challenge.