Snips and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails...

I used Freshly Made Sketches #30 - A Sketch by Tui Nathan:

I embossed the base card. Used paper designed by Jenny Ellory layered on brown card and used my cuttlebug to cut circles in white and brown card, stamping the white card with a stamp I got recently in a magazine. The sentiment comes from the same set and the image was coloured with promarkers and I finished with a few gems.

I'm also submitting this for:
- Try it on Tuesday - Pampered Pets
- Crafty Catz Weekly #128 - Animals
- Stamptacular Sunday Challenge #159 - Freebie (Anything Goes)

If You Don't Know Where You're Going...

I used papers from the BoBunny Flutter Butter range and a topper from the same, layering it all on brown card. The ribbon is from the Smirk range and the pearl from my stash.

For the layout I used MoJo Monday sketch #236:

I'm also submitting this too:
- Cards for Men #8 - Spring Colours - Green, Blue and Yellow are (I think) sufficiently springy - and yet masculine.
- Saturday Challenge #181 - A Man's Card

"Less is More": Week 63

This weeks "Less is More" challenge is a one layer card, with doodling.

Alas, my doodling skills are seriously lacking, so I fell back on faux stitching, which as about as far as my doodling skills extend! I used turquoise papermania ink pads directly onto the card and the butterflies (can't recall where it's from) in black ink, added the sentiment (magazine freebie) in turquoise and drew in the faux stitching with a lestraset fine line drawing pen.

Just Dropped In To Say...

Sliding in at the last minute here, but I really wanted to do something with the super cute sketch from this weeks Sketch Saturday #202

I used card from the paper company, paper from Papermania's Birdsong range and the sentiment and owl are both from the woodland folk stamps set - the owl was coloured with promarkers - sandpaper, caramel, chestnut, honeycomb and apple and I finished with some buttons from my stash.

I'm also submitting this for:
- PaperPlay Challenges '12 - Week 15 - Things With Wings
- Totally Paper Crafts #112 - Things With Wings

CAS-ual Fridays: CFC48

This weeks CAS-ual Fridays challenge #48 is: Opposites Attract.

CFC48: Opposites attract- choose 2 opposite colors from the color wheel to design your Clean And Simple creation. Opposite colors are determined by where the points meet. Examples: green and red, or orange and aqua, or purple and yellow, etc.

I wasn't sure at first what I was going to do, so just started looking through my stamps to see if inspiration struck and came across this Laura Ashley stamp. The moment I saw it I knew exactly what to do with - masking it off and using pink ink for the flowrs and green for the leaves - I used a sentiment from Daisy and Dandelion and finished with a few gems to give it a bit of sparkle :)

Swinging Friends

The Sweet Shop is celebrating it's 3rd birthday this month and are having fun with past sketches, which I love as it's an excuse to go look at sketches from before I found the blog/that I've missed since! I picked Sketch 144:

I used the adorable Swinging Friends image from Pollycraft, coloured with promarkers - chestnut, caramel, sandstone, blush, cool grey 3, cool grey 4, rose pink, dusky rose, amber, honeycomb, bright orange and apple. The paper is Thimbles 'n Threads, from Nitwit Collections, layered on orange card from the paper company. I used the bright orange promarker to - partially - colour my sentiment stamp, which is daisy and dandelion and finished with felt flower embellishments.

I'm also entering this card for the following challenges:
- Pollycraft Monday Challenge #135: Fabric (Felt flowers)
- Simon Says - April Showers bring Spring Flowers
- Cute Card Thursday - Spring Flowers
- Aud Sentiments #52 - Spring Summer Colours

Classic Birthday

I created the background by stamping a Laura Ashley stamp repeatedly with two shades - a paler aqua blue and a slightly darker turquoise - backed it on lighter blue card. Used paper from the sofa nostalgia pack from hot of the press and some ribbon from my stash, tying the bow and adding a gem for a bit of sparkle, then stamped the sentiment (I think it's daisy and dandelion) in two parts.

I have to say, other than the fact I'm not totally happy with the soft nostalgia paper, I really like this card, it has a nice clean slightly classic look. Well I think it does anyway! *grins*

I used this weeks "Just Us Girls" sketch, from challenge #131:

And took my colour inspiration from A Gem of A Challenge #43:

This stunning aquamarine gem stone :)