It's Photo Week at Just Us Girls

 

Our Host for this weeks challenge over at

JUST US GIRLS is MARIA

and she has chosen this gorgeous picture

And here is how it inspired me

 





 

You see I have this gorgeous stamp

Vase of Tulips 1317L from Repeat Impressions

which I just HAD to use.

I have also been playing around again with

shaving cream and getting all inky - just so happens

the colours on one of my pieces fitted in nicely.

I heat embossed the stamp on top of my

background cut it out with a

Spellbinder Oval die and then added

a scalloped border behind it.

I wanted something a little different from

just the normal card so I just folded over

one half of the front. 

Added a piece of coloured card stock

embossed with Tim Holtz embossing folder

then attached my floral bunch of tulips.

To finish it off I cut out the LOVE

from a Kaisercraft die and covered it with

glossy accents and the u is

from a Cuttlebug alphabet set.

On the inside I attached a piece of

matching coloured paper and added some

flourishes and sentiment from

Inspired by Stamping.

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Hop on over to see how the other Designer's

and our Guest Kathy were inspired.

Hope to see yours Here.

You could be in the running for our

Popular Chic of the Week and

maybe our Guest for June.

 

Thanks for stopping by.

 I so love reading your comments.

 

 



Time for a 'SKETCH' at The House

 

Once again I am playing with one of the lovely stamps from

Repeat Impressions - Beautiful Days for the current Sketch Challenge over at

The House that Stamps Built

 

 

Here is the Sketch I followed.

 

 

I started with the basic white card stock then topped it in yellow

which I stamped randomly with a piece of bubble wrap in

Peanut Brittle Distress Ink.

I also did the same behind the daisies in Memento Summer Sky

The DP is from American Crafts

I then framed my Daisies and Butterfly (9203-P)

after colouring it in various coloured pens from

Tim Holtz TomBow and Stampin' Up

Added a touch of Glossy Accents to the

centres of the daisies and part of the butterfly.

Finished off with some small punched daisy flowers

and a tiny piece of orange ribbon bringing out

 the colour on the butterfly.

Sentiment is from Stampin' Up Pocket Silhouettes.

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I have had so much fun with the challenges over at

The House that Stamps Built this month.

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Part of next month I will be away from home celebrating

Mother's Day with my daughter in far North Queensland

where the weather will be simply divine. I will also be

celebrating 2 of my grandchildren's birthdays so some

wonderful family time coming up.

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I have a few DT projects scheduled so you will still

see a few posts from me.

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In closing I would like to wish all the

MOTHER'S out there a Very Happy Mother's Day.

 

Cherrio for now

 

 

 



WIW Challenge A1515 at 'The House'

Over at The House that Stamps Built

they have their WIW Photo Inspiration Challenge A1515

and all the details are Here.

 

 

and below is the Gorgeous and colourful

Inspirational Photo.

 

 

I took me a while to work out how

I would make my card.

I recently bought some gelatos

 and thought I would try them out.

I took my inspiration from the

bright colours and wavy  lines.

I started with black and white card stock

To that I added a mounted black frame

for my image which was made with my gelatos

a stencil and inks from

Memento/Stampin' Up and

Tim Holtz Distress Inks

The floral stamp is from

Repeat Impressions - Flowering Vine - 4314K

Added Iridescent Medium for shimmer

Sentiment is from Inspired by Stamping

Finished with Liquid Pearls on the flower centres.

 

I did have fun with this challenge and will

certainly be using those gelatos in so many

other different ways.

 

Thanks for stopping by.

Hope you liked my interpretation of that fabulous photo.

 



It's 3 of ... at Top Tip Tuesday

The current challenge over at

Top Tip Tuesday

is to make a card with 3 of something.

Well I certainly did that -

3 pieces paper (the base frame and top)

3 different coloured inks

3 stamps

Scored 3 times

3 Sequins.

 

Products I used are

Black/White card stock

Stampin' Up Stamps -

Pocket Silhouettes/Just Believe

Stampin' Up inks - yo yo yellow/melon mambo

Memento Teal Zeal/Tuxedo Black

Sentiment is cut from vellum with JustRite Vintage Labels

Rhinestones.

 

Hope you like what you see and

thanks for dropping in.