Thinking of You.

Hello and Welcome to my Saturday Post.

Lisa is our Host this week at Just Us Girls

for our Photo Week. 

Here's a close up!

What caught your eye here?

I saw all the lovely bright colours.

My background and die cuts are from

Lindy's Screamin Banshee Black

as I knew the various colours would show up nicely.

I then die cut Tim's Mixed Media Thinlits

adding a little stenciling to include

 yellow there and with my ribbon.

Die cut sentiment is from Crafts4You.

Finished by attaching to white card base

with a snippet of coloured paper on the side -

  something I picked up from teamie Cecile. 

As it is the last week of July 

it is the last post from our Guest Claire

so pop over and see what caught her eye

then on to the Team's Creations.

Always amazing makes!

PS Thank you so much for sharing

your talents with us this month Claire.

The Circus Comes to Town for a Birthday Celebration

What a fun challenge Vicki chose this time round for us at

 The Sisterhood of Crafters

Certainly one for the kiddies!

As I had nothing Circus-y in my stash I 

went delving into blogland for something appropriate.

What is a Circus with a Clown?

I chose this fun pre coloured clown as he seemd to be saying

Happy Birthday so that is the path I took.

I inked up the number stencil

to go with the birthday theme

and adhered to a coloured back.

The Happy Birthday sentiment is from Pink & Maine

and cut from Spellbinder circle dies

tucked behind the numbered stencil.

Attached to bright coloured card stock.

There's some fabulous Circus Themed cards over at

Our Blog from my Talented Sistahs so

go check them out and add yours to our Gallery.

Thanks for stopping by.

A Merry Make for Christmas Craft Creations

It's Reminder time at Christmas Craft Creations

and as a bonus I have another card for your pleasure.

I saw a card I really liked over on Pinterest Here

and have cased it.

I inked my background using acetate with 

Tim's Oxide Inks in Abandonded Coral and 

Salvaged Patina onto watercolour paper.

Added the Lawn Fawn white heat embossed leaves

from STAMPlorations Feathery.

Die cut my vellum tag from CUTplorations Tags 1.

The Merry Die from Hero Arts Merry Stamp & Cut

was cut three times for dimension and 

heat embossed with Zing Metallic Silver

and adhered to the vellum tag.

Inked the Christmas word underneath.

Added STAMPlorations Shaker Blend sequins

and tied my tag with variegated cotton from my stash.

Finished with corner rounding and 

attaching to white card base.

Pop over and see how my Talented Team Mates

chose to show off their Non Traditional Coloured cards

and come join in our Gallery. 

Hope to see you there.

Thanks for dropping in.

Love reading your kind comments.

Another Merry Christmas card for The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge

 It's that time again for a New Challenge over at

The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge

and we have reached a Milestone #100 Challenges!

I had forgotten I had a lovely big snowflake die

from Cuttlebug and knew it would make a nice

CAS Christmas card. I die cut my topping

from some Christmas DP and again underneath

in blue to add a touch of colour.

This is when I rummaged through my embossing powders

as I knew I had one with a hint of blue and gold.

It's Wow Antlantic Seaspray -  perfect!

I die cut my snowflake twice and heat embossed

with the above powder. 

Just had to finish it off with a sentiment from

STAMPlorations inked and heat embossed clear,

 a big gem centred in the snowflake

and a few tiny heat embossed stars.

Pop over and see what my Team Mates

have in store for your pleasure.

Hope you are inspired to create

a Christmas card for our 100th Challenge.

Thanks for dropping in