It's COLOUR WEEK at Just Us Girls

It's my Good Friend Judy Woodland's

First Time Hosting at Just Us Girls

as she recently joined us with her awesome talent

and has chosen such gorgeous soft colours

for our Colour Challenge.

It just so happens that we both love

the colour Lavender (and purple) so I was

excited when I saw her chosen colours

of  Lavender Peach & Ivory.

 

 

I seem to have been making lots of floral type card lately

so this was a perfect chance to move away from them.

This card came together so easily.

I have this beautiful Mother of Pearl metallic card stock

which was just perfect for the Ivory colour required.

I again used ivory card stock for my flourishes background

which were randomly heat embossed

with Satin Pearl Embossing Powder.

Inked with Memento Lulu Lavender &

SU Calypso Coral.

Added foam squares for dimension.

My big butterfly is from Spellbinders

and cut from lavender metallic paper.

The 'with love' is cut from the same paper

and is Spellbinders Sentiment 3.

Finished off with random pearls in

lavender and ivory on my butterfly.

 

I am sure you will love playing with these

beautiful colours so I look forward to

checking out Our Blog  - that is

after you have been inspired by all the

other beautiful cards created by

our Guest Angie and the Design Team.

You are never disappointed are you?

And you know that by joining is

you have the chance to be chosen as

Chic of the Week and could be

Guest Designer for June.

 

Thanks so much for dropping in and

it is always lovely to read your comments.

 

 

 

Hello Friend!

 

It has been a long time since I have played

with a challenge over at

The House that Stamps Built

as family health issues have kept me quite busy.

I think everything is about back to normal as it can be

so I am finally back at The House.

Now I HAD to make time for this challenge

because my Cyber Scottish Sister Cheri is Hosting her

'Who Let the Dogs Out' Challenge' and

this card was made for her.

 

 

Now when I make my cards for The House I always try

and make them with Repeat Impression Stamps.

I wasn't worried this time as I knew I wanted to use

my Scottie dog die my Hubby bought for me

and of course add tartan paper.

Then I remembered a stamp I purchased from

a win I had over there some time ago - hence the

Friend sentiment - You Cling Set

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Here is how I made this card.

I have used black/re and white card stock.

The Scottie dog (Marianne Designs LR0339)

was cut from black card stock as I wanted

him to be white. I heat embossed a piece

of card stock in white to give a rough textured look

and glued the black cs to it. A shame you can't see the effect.

The frames were cut from Spellbinders Hexagons

Tartan paper is Boofle which a girlfriend brought back

for me when she was in London.

I gave my Scottie a tartan collar and of course a dog

needs a bone so have added several and inked

for effect. I have used foam squares for layering.

The flourishes on the corner finished it off nicely

I thought and are from Inspired by Stamping. 

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Thanks so much for dropping in.

 

 

 



A Little HELLO card.

I found this lovely colour challenge 

over at

CAS Colours & Sketches 

and thought I would play.

  

I had made several backgrounds before this one but they

weren't quite right so decided to heat emboss

this stamp from Urban Stamps

Beautiful -  Lepidopterology (big word)

with white embossing powder and then

inked up the background with

SU Melon Mambo - stained fingers and all

Yo Yo Yellow and Calypso Coral and popped.

My 'Hello' is from Lawn Fawn cut twice

and heat embossed for gloss.

Finished with a few Snow Pearls from Kaisercraft.
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That's it for me for a few days as I am heading off
to spend a few days with my Sister in Law at the
Sunshine Coast - in Sunny Queensland.

Thanks for dropping in.
I love reading your comments so don't be shy!

 



A Birthday Card for the 'Fix it Man'

I did say in an earlier post I was going to play again with the

Sketch Challenge over at

Always Playing with Paper

and decided to go with a Male Theme.

 

 

 I have had these tool dies from Marianne Designs

for ages and hadn't yet used them so I thought

they would be perfect for this Sketch.

I used red & orange card stock for my

base and matting - also using the orange for

a few of the tools.

I inked them all to give a worn look and

included the silver embossing and the

DP from Farmhouse Paper Co.

I just love the shoe marks - a great touch I thought.

The sentiment is from Inspired by Stamping.

 

 

I really enjoyed getting away from girly cards.

We never seem to have many male cards in our stash

so this is one to add to my collection.

Hubby's birthday is a little way off so this will

come in handy when that time comes.

 

Thanks for dropping in.