Lawnscaping Dimension

This is my second post today.  Click here for my Magenta post.

The challenge at Lawnscaping is to use dimension:

I was asked to make a card utilising the photo from this invitation, so I thought I'd borrow the chevron idea too:

I stamped some rows of chevrons onto spare card then cut the panel and stuck it onto the cardbase, then added extra dimension with the photo, name and numbers mounted on foam pads, and added pearls and glitter dots.

Chevron backdrops - Lawn Fawn
Parker Upper Alphabet Die Set - Memory Box
Large Parker Number Die Set - Memory Box

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.

Christmas Snowflakes

I do enjoy making one layer cards.  This week's One Layer Wednesday, hosted by Cheryl, is to create a  card or tag using snowflakes.

The challenge at The Paper Players is to make a clean and simple card with snowflakes.

And over at Lawnscaping they want us to Make It Shine.

I cut a square out of a sheet of paper and used the negative mask to sponge Distress Inks.  Flicked some water over it and blotted it off, then stamped the snowflakes (hero Arts) with Memento London Fog, and treated them to some Stickles and gems.  Stamped the greeting (Clearly Besotted) in Brilliance Rocket Red to overhang the frame.

Bring On The Bling

During my daily blog-stalk yesterday I found this card by Therese, and was inspired to CASE it.  I don't have that particular memory box die, so I decided to use these flowers from Hero Arts Framelits instead.

The colour scheme at Dynamic Duos this week is ideal.

Add a bit of bling, and it's eligible for the Hero Arts November challenge, Bring On The Bling.

And because the bling is so old (Suze Weinberg Puttin' On The Glitz glitter glue - I must have had it 10 years, and it's a tad gloopy now from lack of use) it's also eligible for Lawnscaping's Dust 'Em Off challenge.

I also made this card for the Hero Arts Bring On The Bling challenge,

and this one for the colour challenge:

I created a vague tree shape using the Hero Arts CL519 Many Dots set, and added silver self-adhesive gems.  Sentiments on the top two cards are from Hero Arts CL611 Many Birthday Messages.

Not Quite So Burnished Velvet

The challenge at Lawnscaping is to try a new technique.

Ardyth had created a card using the burnished velvet technique in this post which I wanted to try.  And I wanted to use red glitter so that I could enter my card into the Runway Inspired Challenge:

Just one small problem.  Well, not small enough, actually.  I didn't have any red micro glitter.  So I've used chunky dunky red glitter (well, it's fine glitter, but it looks chunky dunky compared to micro glitter).

The chevron paper is from Penny Black Madison range, and the sentiment is from Woodware FRCL069, stamped in Versafine Smokey Gray.  

Something Old, Something New

The challenge at A Blog Named Hero this week is:

White on white immediately sprang to mind, even though you are allowed to start with white cardstock and colour it to within an inch of its life.  But there's something quite uplifting about white on white, particularly for wedding cards.

Appropriately, the challenge at Less is More this week is Love and Marriage, which fits very nicely.

And the challenge at Lawnscaping is:

The shaped card is from Craftwork Cards, as is the Paisley embossed aperture panel.  The stamp is by Rubber Stampede.

Have a Happy Birthday

I'm thrilled to say that the kraft tags I made for the Penny Black Holiday Tag Challenge were a winner! Just had to share that.

But back to today.  The challenge at Lawnscaping is to use text in your project.

And the challenge at ColourQ is to use these colours:

I've had this ransom alphabet (Clear Stamps), unused, for a long time. So long, in fact, that the stamps were very attached to the storage sheet and didn't want to part company with it. But I was very careful, and managed not to rip any.  The letters were stamped onto white card and coloured with Tombows, then cut out and stuck onto the main card. Pen lines around the outside edges of the card were drawn with a Staedtler 0.05 Pigment Liner.

A Day to Celebrate ... A Leibster Award!

I don't often do sketch challenges, but I quite liked this one at Lawnscaping (nice and CAS):

And I saw this card on Loll's blog, which led me to this colour challenge at The Paper Players:

(I'm also a huge fan of Heather Telford's masking and sponging technique, go and check out her blog.)

The stamps on my card are Hero Arts CL127 Dots and Lines, and CL139 Birthday Messages.

Ardyth of Maskerade was kind enough to nominate me for a Leibster award (thanks again, Ardyth!).  If you don't already know about the award, here's the lowdown.

ABOUT THE AWARD

This award was designed to be a blog award in the pay it forward fashion. Once you've been nominated, you award it to blogs that you like that have fewer than 200 followers, to encourage new visitors to visit these new blogs.

RULES FOR ACCEPTANCE

Thank the person who gave you the award and link back to their blog. Post the award onto your blog. Give the award to five bloggers who you appreciate that have fewer than 200 followers. Leave a comment on their blog letting them know that you have given them this awesome award!

PAY IT FORWARD

Here are the five blogs that I'm nominating.  If you haven't visited these blogs before, go and have a look.  Better still, follow them then you won't miss out.

Stamping with Loll

Djkardkreations

The Storyteller

Oh, Smudge!

My Paper Epiphany

Classy

I made this card for three challenges, but I missed the deadline on one (The Paper Players, CAS paper piecing).  Fortunately another challenge came up that fitted in very nicely.  But then as I was typing this blog, I realised that my card didn't meet the criteria for one of the challenges, because I can't count (Less is More, 3-2-1 Recipe: my recipe was 3 pearls, 2 stamps, 1 paper piece.  Well no, actually, because I used 3 stamps.  Doh.  I even used 3 inks.)

So we're back to two challenges.  Still with me?

Lawn Fawn - make your own patterned paper using stamps - I used SP & Company Little Floral Background.

Dynamic Duos monochromatic colour combo challenge:

Fortunately, black/white are also allowed.

Coco Chanel's words of wisdom are from Kanban, and the dress stamp is from Creative Stamping RN94G.

I'm off to make a 3-2-1 card now!

Destination London

London is certainly the place to be at the moment!  We're having a few days there soon and I'm looking forward to visiting Greenwich, a part of London I've never been to.  Our preferred mode of travel will be the Tube, not taxis!

I originally intended to add some red and blue in the background, but then decided I liked it monochrome, apart from the yellow light on top of the taxi.

The theme at One Layer Wednesday this week, hosted by Cheryl, is transportation;
The theme at Lawnscaping is

and the theme at A Blog Named Hero is Freestyle.

Taxi (stamped in Versafine Onyx Black and coloured with Black Soot Distress Ink), Big Ben and phone box (stamped in Versafine Smokey Gray) are from Papermania's Portobello Road Vintage set PMA907126.

Destination is from Clear Choice Stamps MIN-CCS103, stamped in Versafine Black Onyx.