It's Blooming PURPLE!

It's Saturday and you know that means - 

New Challenge at Just Us Girls

I'm Hosting our Photo Challenge and 

loved this one below on Pinterest.

Why? It's purple -  my favourite colour,

and my birthday coming up.

But my card is for my BFF's Birthday

which is just a few days before mine.

Oh and it is Spring here so there will be

some beautiful flowers blooming soon.

 

A few things to mention about my card - 

the majority of the dies used here

are from my early birthday package -

 she knows me well - couldn't wait so got them early

and have used quite a few of them already just not all of them!

The pretty paper was from her a few years ago

and blends in perfectly - Bazzill card stock.

The three gems on the flowers were also in my package.

Of course you knew the flowers were coloured with

 Lindy's Magical's!

The background dp is from my stash, stenciled lightly.

It looked rather dull so added 

Tim's Distress Glaze for a bit of sheen.

The tub is from STAMPlorations Fluttery Stamp/Die set

I cut across the top to tuck in my flowers.

Added some Art Alchemy Waxes for added colour

and finished with crochet cotton bow.

There are such beautiful cards over on Our Blog

from the Talented Loll - our September Guest

and the Amazing Girls who - like me share their creativity

with you weekly. Check them out AND

hope you join in this weeks challenge with yours.

You could be my Chic of the Week!

As it is the last Saturday in September we bid farewell

to our Super Talented Guest Loll.

It's been such a pleasure to have her share her

works of art with us this month.

Thanks for dropping in and leaving your kind comments.

Love Planted a Rose

 Welcome to today's post for

The Sisterhood of Crafters

Sistah Darlene has chosen Stencils as our Theme

and it is a favourite of mine.

I had so many ideas running through my head

but in the end went quite CAS.

My background is from my bits box

with the shaving cream technique.

I stenciled the ARTplorations Rose Duet with

texture paste and let dry. I then applied a

 pearl white acrylic paint mixed with iridescent medium

to give it that extra sheen, matching the

grey background.

Sentiment is from STAMPlorations About a Rose.

Attached to SU great card stock.

Pop over and see some fabulous stenciling 

from my Sistah's and I am sure you will 

want to play and add yours to our Gallery.

Hope to see you there.

CASE-ing Chrissie

 Hi there - popping in with a reminder for our

Sketch Challenge at Christmas Craft Creations

I was browsing Pinterest recently and came across a card our

Guest Designer Chrissie had made Here and realized

it's perfect for her sketch challenge so here is my 'cased' card.

Thanks Chrissie for the inspiration.

I was going to used the same colours as Chrissie

 but found a lovely piece in my bits box that was a left over

using Lindy's Magical's so carefully cut out the trees

and the stitched hills.

I added snowflakes to my background,

green cotton and sentiment

then popped onto white card base.

There you have my quick cased card.

Hope you have had time to play - if not

you still have time to add to our Gallery.

Love to see you there.

Thanks for dropping in