With Love!

 I have a quick post today for a couple of challenges.

Over at Color Hues this time round  the colours   

Red and Aqua got my attention 

and as I had butterflies around my desk the

Clean and Simple on Sunday have a fun  Butterfly Challenge 

I thought CAS and Colour would be a nice match up.

My background is some simple 

partial stamping from AALL&Create

and randomly coloured with the required red and aqua.

Fussy cut butterfly is the same.

To add interest I embossed it with a frame die

attaching it to the card base

after adding a simple sentiment. 

This card is heading over to the above Challenges.

Thanks for your visit and I love reading your thoughts.

Thinking of You

Welcome to today's post for Just Us Girls

  Bobby is Hosting our Colour Week.

I started by adding a background 

with Tim's Stone Stencil in Blue Print Sketch Oxide ink

and flicked some water drops.

Die cut my floral arrangement using

SU Calypsol Coral, Magicals Cape Cod Coral and Tan card stock

which includes the little strip on the side

(thanks Cecile) and one with vellum.

Added some more stencilling to the sides,

some crochet cotton and a button.

Sentiment is SU.

Adhered to navy card base.

Head over and see what our Guest Deborah

and Team created.

Will we see yours in our Gallery?

Thanks for visiting

Live in the Moment.

Hello and Welcome to my post for Just Us Girls

Our Host is Carol M choosing a fun trend - Shaped Cards.

I got out my Hexagon Spellbinder Die 

and made a little note card.

Unfortunately I forgot to write down the colours

of Lindy's Magical's I used as I made it  so quickly.

I do love the result I got with them.

Added a Lavinia Stamp, heat embossed in black.

Sentiment is from Tim Holtz Small Talk.

Framed in black onto white card base. 

Head over and see what our Guest Deborah

and the Team chose to use for their Shaped Card.

They are fabulous and all so wonderfully different.

Hope you get to have a bit of fun this week

and add to the Gallery.

Sending this simple shaped card over to

The Paper Shelter for their

Challenge #511 Shaped Cardl

and Update!

Addicted to CAS

Challenge #220 Flower

(Hoping I have enough white space)

Thanks for visiting.

Way to Go in PINK!

 Time for our New Challenge over at

The Sisterhood of Crafters and

Sistah Diane is in the PINK!

So we are going all out Pink this time round.

I was determined to move away from pink flowers 

and created this fun chic card instead.

A simple acetated background with

Nuvo Cherry Bomb Powder and a 

lighter shade with Tim's Kitsch Flamingo

Added Tim's background rays

stencilling with Transparent Gloss Texture Paste.

Heat embossed Unity Live Laugh Love Girl

and sentiments from Paper Smooches.

Adding some sequins for bling,

matted in black onto hot pink card base.

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but then I gave in and made an easy floral card  

with the SU Hearfelt Bloom doing all the work.

Inked with SU retired Melon Mambo,

heat embossed clear diamond dust,

Art Alchemy Silver Wax and white gel pen

to the flower centre.

Sentiment from the same set.

Die cut and framed in grey.

I also heat embossed the card base 

with the clear embossing powder

then adhered my flower to complete.

Check out what my Sistah's created

as they always impress. 

Your turn to show us your 'Pink' make

and add to our Gallery.

Thanks for visiting

Merry and BRIGHT!

Time for our New Challenge over at

Christmas Craft Creations

This month's Theme is Two Colours.

I chose Red and Gold.

My background splash is

Lindy's Cuckoo Cardinal Red and 

Grab a Guy Gold.

Sentiment from Hero Arts cut from gold paper.

An easy one for this month.

Love to see you add to our Gallery this month.

Thanks for visiting and commenting

It's Special!

Time for Just Us Girls Challenge and

Vicki is Hosting our Word Week.

FLOWERS!

Our Gallery is going to be full of beautiful cards - 

shame we can't smell them.

We welcome our May Guest Designer

Deborah Wheeler!

This card is special because it is for 

my granddaughter who's turning 30

and the flowers featured here are Tim Holtz Wildflowers

I purchased from her Christmas gift certificate

(and you haven't seen the last of them yet) ...

Chosen colours are blue tones - her favourite.

When this goes live we will be

celebrating two birthday's and 

a baby shower. Then Mother's Day Sunday

with one daughter travelling from North Queensland

for all the celebrations.

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Added a texture plate die to the background

adding my floral arrangement.

The 30 is an old CB die adhered to a

cross stitched nesting arch with

matching cotton tucked behind it and a

punched heart to finish.

Can't wait to see the Gallery full of flowers.

Our Guest Deborah and the Team have gone all out

  floral so hope you will too and

add to Our Gallery. You could be our

Chic of the Week!

UPDATES! Sending this over to

Color Hues for their

Colour Hues #40 Blue and Tan

and

The Flower Challenge

Challenge #68 Use a Number

Thanks for visiting and commenting.

Art is Therapy

Today's post is for the new Anything Goes Challenge at

Creative Artiste Mixed Media

and here is my project.

It's always fun using different mediums

to create whatever comes to mind or planned.

Often it changes as you progress.

I did manage to take a few photos along the way.

As you do with Mixed Medium there are lots of products

to play around with.

Sorry about the quality of this photo but I had

an overhead light on and wanted to show you

the lovely stamp I used.

You know the background is full of

wonderful bright Magical colours as it's a favourite of mine.

Using a stencil again from AALL&Create

I applied the smooth as silk butter.

Of course I got carried away after that and added

crackle paste through another stencil,

AA wax, more stamping and inky dots.

Butterfly is a Sizzix die

coloured with Magicals, a touch of wax and 

Sentiment also from AALL&Create

smooched and torn.

Adhered to black card base.

Here's a few more close ups

Head over and see what my Team Mates created this month. 

We would love to see you join us.

Heading over to add to the Gallery at Mixed Media Lovers Blog

for Challenge #13

Thanks for dropping in and commenting.

Till next time -  Cherrio from

We are going 'Wild' at Just Us Girls

 

It's Saturday and Time for our New Challenge over at

Just Us Girls

Lisa is our Host for our Wild Card Week.

This comes around when we have five Saturdays in a month.

My tri-fold card is a Twisted Gatefold.

I did a dummy run (just the fold part) first

 to make sure I got it right.

Card base and DP are retired SU as is

the inks and floral dies (Botanical Blooms)

Inside sentiment is Inspired by Stamping.

Head over and see what tri fold our

Talented Guest Mac Mable and 

Team Mates created and we would love to see

how we inspired you and add to our Gallery.

It has been an amazing month with 

our Guest Mac sharing her vast array of talent with us.

We have so loved having you. 

Thanks for visiting and commenting.