After almost 2 years

Hello again

Technology has been my enemy since I got my new phone.  I've struggled to connect and so couldn't upload any photos of projects.
I have continued to follow many challenge blogs, but had lost interest in creating for them for the above reason.  But ..... yesterday I saw the Gingham challenge from Double D.  I love the Gingham Gala papers from Stampin' Up and have had such fun making some cards with them.  There is an instant wow factor and they go with just about anything.

I used 3 SU stamp sets:
Wonderful Moments for the sentiment
Butterfly Gala for the butterflies
So Hoppy Together for the flies

The butterflies were  stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black so I could colour them with Granny Apple Green Stampin' Blends then punched out using the butterfly duet punch.  I then swiped each butterfly with Versamark and heat-embossed with clear powder.  They look amazingly glossy, though it's not so clear in the photo.

The flies were coloured with the same blend and the wings were coloured with a silver sparkle gel pen.

Finally, I flicked some black dots from my marker right across the white card.

Cards and paper:  lemon lime twist card base, black mat, lemon lime twist gingham paper and whisper white.  I die-cut the layers with the Paper Roses A6 stitched rectangle dies - especially sized for standard Australian cards.  I have had so much use out of these - it is such a treat to be working with the right shape for our cards.

Next question.......  Can I link this to the challenge?

Thanks for visiting my blog.  I hope to be back soon!

35 years

I have been married to my wonderful husband for 35 years and on this anniversary wanted to convey my hopes of growing old together.
Here is my card.  

The stamp is by Deep Red and the punched hearts are covered with Glossy Accents to give an enamel look.  The watercolouring looks very pale here, but is a little stronger in real life.

My colour inspiration came from the Color Throwdown Challenge 444.








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A congrats card

This is for two challenges.  washi tape as the border and red felt for some texture (though it doesn't show in the photo).









Try Stampin' on Tuesday













and Color Throwdown

Another colour challenge

I LOVE colour challenges.  This one from CAS Colours & Sketches used so saffron, pear pizzazz and wisteria wonder.  What a great, versatile selection.  There should be many terrific entries for this one.
The stamp I used is  SU Pretty Kitty and I put a small doily at the back.  Tim Holtz brick folder for the background.

Fun with feathers!

House of Cards has a "feathers" challenge.  I've already entered once, but have another card to submit.  Feathers are so wonderful to play with. This is a simple card with white embossing and sponging.

Getting more CAS??

Well, I've been trying to get more "white space" and I think I've achieved the CAS idea this time.

My entry is for Less is More (3 pastels), Addicted to CAS (Smiles) and Hand Stamped Sentiments (calypso coral, pool party & smoky slate).

This card makes me smile;  it reminds me of a song I used to sing with my children.  The words were something like this:

3 grey elephants balancing
step by step on a piece of string
thought it was such a wonderful stunt
that they called for another elephant

Happy memories!

Another Challenge Entry

This time it's for Less is More.  The brief is "3 pastels" and it worked so well using the Falling in Love DSP from Stampin' Up.  Colours used are Blushing Bride, Soft Sky and Very Vanilla. 

  I've just gone to link this entry and I'm wondering whether it is "CAS" enough!  Perhaps I shouldn't have stamped on the background ... or perhaps I should have used vanilla as the base .......   Will wait and see if I can come up with something else.

I've tried again and hope this will have enough "white space".
I'll give it a go.  Same colour combo, but this time I've used the Beautiful You stamp.  Everyone seems to love this stamp; I've seen so many cards done with it.

Such wonderful inspiration from the challenges

House of Cards has a "feathers" challenge and I LOVE feathers so I have to enter.
I think this is a great card for a male birthday.

Another year has gone by ....

It's The Male Room which has inspired me to start again.  I couldn't resist their latest challenge requiring black & white & one other colour.  I've been waiting to try out my new High Tide (SU) stamp and here is the result.  I like the dark, stormy look - it seems to fit the sentiment well.

























Late addition - This card received an honourable mention from The Male Room.  Hooray!!

No stopping me now!

I'm all inspired by The Male Room Challenge so I've completed another card; this one is to congratulate grandparents on their first grandson.

A bit of dimension with the duck, balloons & growsuit.  Pear Pizazz is the colour, though that may not be very obvious as my phone camera seems to be turning everything brownish; it's certainly not obvious that the bench on which the card is sitting is white.




Have fixed settings on phone camera.  Hooray!  Better photo here.



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Back again - after almost 8 months!

This is what happens when one unsubscribes from challenge emails whilst on holidays.  I got out of the habit of creating!
Well, here goes again.  The Male Room Challenge arrived just as I was to make a birthday card; I find a challenge a great way to focus.  Otherwise, I have such a mess in my head and I can't concentrate on one idea.





Adding better photo (not so yellow) - have fixed setting on my phone camera.






Sahara Sand is the colour.  The "edging" was stamped using the Timeless Textures set from SU and the car & sentiment are from Guy Greetings and were clear embossed.  First time use for both of these, but it certainly won't be the last.


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Having fun tonight

A card for 'Tis the Season colour challenge and CAS(E) this Sketch challenge.

















Here's my card.   

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Circles!

This time I'm entering in the Just Us Girls word challenge and Pals Paper Arts colour challenge.

Fun working with the corrugated cardboard.  I didn't have Cucumber Crush or Watermelon Wonder, but I hope I've got close enough.

Here's my card.

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Monochromatic Red

My entry for the Colour Me challenge uses a couple of my favourite dies.  I spent quite a long time cutting out the flower and replacing the middle white bits, then realised it doesn't really show and I could have just done the diecut in red!  Oh well - in person, I think it looks better this way.  That's my story anyway!





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CAS Colours & Sketches

The first card I made using the colours from the CAS Colours & Sketches Challenge didn't have white space so I made another one, but I'll show both here.

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The Card Concept Entry

The Card Concept has a great colour combo.



Here's my take on it.  Clean & Layered style?



















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Try Stampin on Tuesday entry

A sketch and/or theme challenge at Try Stampin' on Tuesday.
I combined both, but my use of silver card made it very difficult to photograph - I kept getting the reflection of my hand or phone in the picture!
The printed paper (a drawer liner I discovered when cleaning out the linen cupboard) was embellished with glitter and gelatos, but the gelatos don't show well.

The theme is BABY











I've put in 2 photos, but neither is very good.









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Freshly Made Sketches & Color Throwdown

It's good to be back cardmaking and, at last, I'm happy with my entry for these 2 challenges - 
colours from Color Throwdown and sketch from Freshly Made Sketches













Here's my card:

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Long time no blogging

Life seems to have been very busy lately - little time for cardmaking, but it's nice to join a challenge or two again.

My card is an entry in Nacho Averages colour challenge and Less is More - a new challenge to me.










The second challenge required stencilling and lots of white space.

The feathers were each stencilled then two of them were stamped over.

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Hooray - I was equal winner with this one at Nacho Averages.