Time to Colour at Just Us Girls

Our Super Talented Sharyn is Hosting our

Colour Challenge this week and has chosen

one with such bright and inviting colours.

Does it remind you of those All Day Suckers that

used to be so popular or am I showing my age?

My card was super simple to make

because I found some brightly coloured DP in my stash

(perfect match) and went with it.

 

 

 

I started my card with a white base then topped it with bright pink

scrapbooking paper then attached my coloured paper 

The Happy Birthday is a new Sentiment Die

I bought at a recent Craft show

and is from Impression Obsession.

Added some multi coloured cotton and tied a bow, a variety of

different coloured gems and a Sizzix butterfly to finish.

 

And there you have it - my

Brightly Coloured Birthday Card.

 

Don't forget to pop over HERE

and see what inspired the DT and

our July Guest Linda Beeson

See you there!

 

Thanks for dropping in

 



I'm Flying High for the Inspiration Challenge at The House

I am loving the new Inspiration challenge over at

The House that Stamps Built.

You can see all the details Here

 

There are 2 gorgeous photos to inspire us but I chose the one below.

 

 

I just happened to have some hot air balloon stamps

so it was time to get them out and ink them up.

I am even lucky enough to have recently added

the tiny bird stamp from Repeat Impressions

to my collection. How cool that I got to use it here.

 

 

I love trying to make scenes and of course with hot air balloons

that is exactly what I needed to do.

I masked both sides of my card to just have

a small part as the scene.

The hot air balloons were given to me by a friend

and I don't know who they are from.

Added the clouds in Memento Sky Blue

the grass mound in Memento Pistachio

The Birds (Repeat Impressions 3412) and the small balloon

are inked with Tim Holtz Broken China 

The larger one I used Memento Love Letter.

I also used Spellbinders Circles/Lacey Circles

The sentiment (sorry it is too light

and too scared to reink even though I would

used my stamp a ma gig )

is from Hampton Art.

The grass from Gina K Designs.

 

Hope you liked my little scene - look so inviting.

My daughter was lucky enough to go up in a

hot air balloon while on holiday to Africa.

 

So that is it for now.

Thanks for stopping by.

 

 



Colour Throwdown Challenge #351

I found the most gorgeous colour challenge over at

http://colorthrowdown.blogspot.com.au/

and it has my favourite colour combination

 

 

Don't you just love it!

Best of all I got to use my most favourite stamp.

 

Being a Scot I love thistles and some years ago

while visiting my Homeland I bought the stamp

that is on this card.

I tried different ways to highlight it but came up with

the shaving cream technique.

I heat embossed the stamp which is from Heritage Stamps

in black after I had fun playing with the

shaving cream. My craft room smells nice again.

I used Stampin' Up Rich Razzleberry and

Pink Food Colouring for my 2 colours.

Here are the other products I used -

White & Black card stock

Black embossing powder

Spellbinders  Petite Ovals/Scallop Ovals

and Labels 18

Best Wishes is cut from a Cherry Lynn Die

Kaisercraft Pearls and Own Ribbon.

Image has been popped.

 

Thanks for dropping by.

I would love to read your comments.

 

Cherrio from

 

 

 

 



It's TIME OUT Challenge #35

 

The current challenge at Time Out Blogspot is

Nature with the Optional Twist of Animals

and is Challenge #35 

 

  

The sponsor of this challenge is Cas-ual Fridays Stamps

and I was lucky enough some time ago
to win my choice of stamps

so it gave me the chance to ink them up
once again for this challenge.

***

Here is what I used to make the above card -

Cas-ual Friday Stamp - Wonderful Words for my sentiment

Black/white card stock

Memento Tuxedo Black/Lulu Lavendar Inks

Tim Holtz Seedless Preserves/Dusty Concord

Stampin' Up Pocket Silhouettes/Reason to Smile Stamps

Stampin' Up Rich Razzleberry Spritzing

Kaisercraft Pearls

Gelly Roll pen on flower

Sizzix Butterflies from scrap DP.

Thanks for dropping by and hope to see you
back here soon. Love reading your comments.
Cherrio from
 

 



Crafty Ribbons Bicycle Challenge

I found a new challenge recently and knew I had the perfect stamp

to enter the Bicycle with Ribbon Challenge at Crafty Ribbons

 

 

You don't often associate a bicycle with ribbon but I am really

happy how my card turned out.

I love playing around with backgrounds and getting my fingers

all inky especially when you get a great result.

I love the bright colours I used and it made the

embossed stamp really stand out.

Used several colours of card stock to match

I embossed my Stampin' Up Postage Due stamp with

black embossing powder then got inky with

Tim Holts Peacock Feathers/Bundled Sage and

Seedless Preserves

The small floral image next to my ribbon is also from

Stampin' Up - Fresh Vintage cut with

Spellbinders Square Die

Sentiment is from Cas-ual Fridays Stamps

Added  a crinkled piece of ribbon - love the look

Distressed the edges of my main image and background paper

and finished with a black pearl.

 

That's it for me for now so till next time

Cherrio from

PS - I'd love to read your comments.