Spring is in the Air for JUGS #287 Word Week

Spring is in the Air  - just not where I live.

 We are in our Autumn but that doesn't stop me from
making a card with bright cheerful colours.

Sharyn as our Hostess chose SPRING
for Word Week
and I am sure all my friends across the pond
 are looking forward to it after a

Long and Cold Winter.

Here is a close up of the butterfly which was fussy cut
after adding crystal effects and popped on top of the image
 but doesn't show the shine.

 

I also used the following items on my card -

 White & Green card stock

Designer Paper and Image - Fred She Said + the

Pre coloured image called Marigolds & Morpho

Fancy That - Leafy Swirls

Sentiment is from Gina K Designs

Just Rite Tags

Own Ribbon/Micro Beads

 

Pop over to Our Blog and check out

the other inspirational cards by the

Design Team and our Guest Kathy

and hope to see your entry there.

In doing so you could be our Guest for JUNE.

Thanks for popping in.

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I would also like to enter this in the

Top Tip Tuesday Challenge

Mellow Yellow.

 

 

 

 

WIW Colour Challenge at 'The House'

The What if Wednesday Challenge over at

The House that Stamps Built is a colour Challenge.

 

and here is my card.

 

 

I love Kraft and Red together. My third choice

of colour was Cream.

 

Here are the products I used -

KRAFT card stock

Small scrap piece of cream DP

Stampin' Up Red Flower Shop flowers

MS Leaf Punch - leaves were inked with

SU flower stamp and scored

Cream Lace

Sentiment is from Inspired by Stamping

Big Wishes 11

Pop Dots

Red Glitter on the flowers

and topped with Kaisercraft Droplets

 

 

Hope you liked what I made and

Thanks You for dropping in.

Till next time -

Cherrio from



It's Mellow Yellow at Top Tip Tuesday

It has been a while since I played with a challenge over at

Top Tip Tuesday but the current challenge has me

playing with Mellow Yellow.

 

 

 

The Script Dies are all the rage at the moment so

of course I 'needed' them. I bought one online and it arrived

in the mail yesterday so after seeing the challenge above

I got straight into cutting that Hello die and made this cas card.

I did say on an earlier post you wouldn't see

 'feathers' on my next post

but there are those stencils that keep calling me instead.

Perfect for a simple background.

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Here are the products that I used

Basic white and yellow card stock

Lawn Fawn Scripty Hello

(cut several and popped for depth)

TCW Mini Texture Stencil

Tim Holtz Peacock Feathers Distress Ink

Stampin' Up Yo Yo Yellow Ink

Friend Sentiment from Stampin' Up - Just Believe

Sequins.

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#Tip If you have a word that you want to leave a
letter out cover it with washi tape ink up the word
then remove the tape before stamping on your card.

I think I will play with this colour again before the week is out

as it is so bright and colourful with so many possibilities.

 

Thanks for popping in



Sketch Time for Atlantic Hearts #101

It's time to play with Sketch Challenge #101 at

Atlantic Hearts

 

 

 

I know I have Feathers on my brain at present

and that is because a very dear friend sent me the

Four Feathers Stamp/Die from Stampin' Up

and I can't stop playing with it.

I decided to go away from flowers as I had

that set sitting close by. Love it!

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So here goes with what I used on my card

White & Brown card stock

Stampin' Up Four Feathers Stamp/Die Set

Tim Holtz Speckles Stencil

Tim Holtz Distress Inks in

Forest Moss/Antique Linen

Memento Inks in

Morocco Potter's Clay Peanut Brittle

Jute String

Pop Dots

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I sure hope you like it and thanks for dropping in.

PS My next scheduled post doesn't have Feathers hehe

but that doesn't mean there won't be

 as I may do one on the spur of the moment

after all those feathers are still floating around.

 

Till next time - Cherrio from

 

 



I'm Designing for STAMPIN' ON TUESDAY.

I have been invited to join the Talented Team over at

Try Stampin' on Tuesday

and looking forward to New Friends and New Challenges.

Thank You CherylAnn for this opportunity.

For my first assignment below is the sketch for this week's

Challenge #212

Courtesy of Lynda

Here is my interpretation -

I stuck to the format pretty closely by adding

the heart as above.

Here are the products I used -

Peach card stock

Designer Paper - Kaisercraft Lady Rose

Cuttlebug Heart Die

Sullivan's small heart die glittered

Sentiment is from Inspired by Stamping -

Fancy Sentiments

Sequins/Cotton/Ribbon

A fairly cas card but so colourful with such

pretty paper.

Hope you will pop over to the other

Designer's blogs on the right hand side of our Blog

and leave them your comments.

Also I look forward to checking to

see your take on Challenge #212.

Thanks for popping in. Till next time

Cherrio from



JUGS #286 Photo Challenge

 

Our Hostess over at Just Us Girls is Cheryl.
Hasn't she picked the most gorgeous
inspiration photo for us as this is
PHOTO WEEK 

 

And as it say 'This picture has it All'
and so many things that inspired me.
They were -
The curve and curtain under the sink so I cut that out with
a Spellbinder die. The lace I dyed to match the photo.
Added some pearls for the handles
The background with the yellow swiss dots is from the tea towel.
The ric rac and ribbon are from the tea towels also.
I backed my flowers (which are at the back of the photo)
by scoring white card stock to create the tiles.
The vase and flowers are from Gina K Designs
Vogue Vases (an old favourite) which is popped.
The flowers I fussy cut and attached them to a Spellbinder die.
Finished off with some coloured bling.
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I am sure you will also be inspired by this fabulous photo
and pop over and enter your creation at Our Blog
so I will see you there.
***
Don't forget to check out the other Designers cards
as I know you will be impressed.

So till next time
Cherrio from





Cupcake Inspirations Challenge #302

While surfin' the net I came across a great challenge HERE 

with a sweet colour combination.

 

 

I think these colours go fabulously together so

in I went to my crafty domain and came up with ...

 

 

 

 

Here are the products I used -

White black and yellow card stock

The coloured background was made using the

shaving cream technique in just 2 colours.

Sentiment Stamp is from Papermania - Typography.

which was embossed in black and spritzed.

Inked the S's in Yo Yo Yellow by Stampin' Up

Added a little ribbon and sequins to finish.

 

Hope you liked what you saw and pop back in sometime

to see what other challenges inspire me.

 

Till next time

 

 



Sketch Time #100 at Atlantic Hearts

 

 

 

I found this new Challenge Blog recently thanks to my

good friend Shari. I was commenting on her lovely card

and thought I would join in on the current challenge over at

Atlantic Hearts



I pretty well kept to the layout of the sketch below.
Just added lots of flowers...
 

 

Here are the products I used on my card -

Mother of Pearl card stock

Pastel card stock

Unknown DP found in my stash

Spellbinders Labels 20

Spellbinders Fancy Tags 2

Sentiment from Gina K Designs Fanciful Tags

Stampin' Up Petite Petals Stamp/Punch

Tim Holtz Distress Inks

Kaisercraft Pearls

Pop Dots

That's it for today. Thanks for dropping in
and for your lovely comments.
Cherrio for now



Just a 'touch' of colour for JUGS #285 Challenge

It's again COLOUR WEEK at Just us Girls

and our Hostess Nancy has picked a Super One with

just 2 colours and we get to pick the 3rd.

How fabulous is that?

 So many colours running through our heads and

what colour will you choose!
 

 

 

 

Well mine was easy. I have this gorgeous stamp

from Repeat Impressions - Spring Blossoms 1320M

 that I knew would work perfectly for this one

by stamping it in black and highlighting

part of it with the beautiful yellow of the daffodil
which was inked with Stampin' Up Yo Yo Yellow.
A pretty simple card with a bit of layering basic coloured cs
popping the cut out daffodil which I added Crystal Effects for shine
and paper piercing I got a great result.
The sentiment is from Gina K Designs which was cut out with
Just Rite Antique Tags and partly tucked underneath.
***
Hop over to our Just us Girls Blog HERE
and check out what the other Designers
 and our Guest - Deb have made for your inspiration.
You could be our Guest in May.
See you there!
***
I am going to enter this in the current challenge over at
Time Out Challenge for their Challenge #27 which is
CAS with the optional twist of
Black White and a Splash of Colour.
 



It's Time to get 'INKY'

Our Hostess this week at

JUST US GIRLS is SUE

and she chose SPLATTERS for our
TREND WEEK

 

 

 

After several attempts to make my own splatters

inky fingers and all I gave up and

got out my Tim Holtz splatters and speckles stencils

and started inking. Again there were a few throw aways.

I decided on this background. To add a bit more filling

I spritzed the same 3 colours randomly.

I still managed to get inked up fingers lol

Here is what I used on my card -

Basic card stock

Tim Holtz Stencils

Sizzix Fancy Tags

Stampi' Up - Nature Walk stamp in Memento Black

Stampin' Up inks/pens in

Melon Mambo Yo Yo Yellow & Baja Breeze

Own Ribbon

Sentiment is from Gina K Designs

Pop Dots

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It was fun getting inky fingers and hope

you will check out the other Designer's Splatter cards

and then join us over at Just us Girls

with your creations.

By doing so you could be our Guest in May.

Hope to see you there.

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Thanks for dropping in...

 

 

 

 

 



Playing with Paper at The Paper Players

 

I'm playing again over at The Paper Players

for their PP235 Colour Challenge

I tried to get my colours as close as I could

 to the colours above.

The flowers on my card were sent to me by a lovely girlfriend

who is now a SU Demonstrator.

I have already used a few of them but this challenge

gave me a chance to do so again.

I am not sure of the colours but I know they will

be current SU ones so hope they are close enough.

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Here is what I used on my card -

Basic white card stock

Yellow Co ordinations card stock

Kraft card stock

Stampin' Up

Flower Shop flowers

Ribbon

Sentiment - Heard from the Heart

Cuttlebug Swiss Dots

Flower Soft Dew Drops & Beads

in the centre of the flowers

Unknow DP

Gold/Green cotton

Scored line at the bottom of sentiment

inked with Memento Pistachio

***

Thanks for stopping by

Till next time Cherrio from

 

 

 

 

 



I 'MALE'd this card to my Son in Law

I am the Hostess this week for the

WORD CHALLENGE at JUST US GIRLS

and I chose MASCULINE.

 

All too often we get carried away making 'Girly' cards

so this week it is the Male's Turn.

***

I have a girlfriend who is forever looking out for crafty items

for me and most of what is on this card is thanks to her.

***

The background stamp is from Urban Stamps - Cogs

Inked in several colours from Memento

I also got the metal cogs and inked a few of them

on the background.

I was given a bunch of different types of metal cogs

so worked perfectly for my Son in Law

as he was in the middle of restoring an old car -

hence I thought he could do with a few spare parts

The sentiment is from Inspired by Stamping -

Chalkboard Birthday.

***

Hope I got to you with this challenge and

you get your male card stash updated.

Please checkout what the other Design Teamies

 and our

Guest for March - Jen Mitchell

have made and I look forward to seeing you over at

JUGS

 

 Nice to have you with us this month Jen.

 

So glad you stopped by

 

 



Sieze the Birthday 'Masculine' card

 

I was asked by a girlfriend to make her a card

for her brother who happens to be

'Guitar Crazy'

and I had the perfect stamp for this card.

How lucky I am that this card suits the current challenge over at

Sieze the Birthday for a Masculine Card.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here is the Recipe -

 

Basic Card Stock

The Guitar and Sentiments are from

Inspired by Stamping Stamp Sets -

Guitars/Masculine Tags/Chalkboard Birthday

Kaisercraft Grunge Stamp

EZ Cut Music Embossing Folder

Stampin' Up Beyond Basics Stamp

Dimensional Magic on the Guitar

Memento Inks -

London Fog/Black/Peanut Brittle.

 

Thanks for popping in today

 



I'm Stampin' on Tuesday again

 

 

 

 

There is another Sketch Challenge over at

Try Stampin on Tuesday

so I thought I would put my dies to work

and this is my creation.

 

 

 

I used the basic card stock and embossed my background with

a Darice folder called Henna.

I framed that in front of coloured card stock.

The flowers are from Stampin' Up - Flower Shop.

The colour on one of the flowers look a little red but is

actually burgandy.

I decided after placing them on my card that

they were too nice to cover up so cut out a circle of

acetate from a Spellbinder die so you can see clearly

through it to the flowers.

I popped my sentiment on top of that with a

double punch. My sentiment is from Gina K Designs.

Finished off with a few pearls.

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Thanks for dropping in so till next time

Cherrio from

 



Fab Friday Sketch #58

 

The current Challenge over at FAB FRIDAY is this Sketch below.

Above is my interpretation.

 

These are the products I used for my card -

Basic card stock

Memory Box Quinn Flourish

Marianne & Joy Craft Dies

Flower is from Stampin' Up Flower Shop

Sentiment is also Stampin' Up - Pocket Silhouettes

Diamond Dust in the middle of the Flower

Kaisercraft Pearls

MS Punch.

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Thanks for dropping by

 



Thinking 'SPRING' at the Mod Squad

 

Again this week I have a Special Friend as Hostess at

The Mod Squad

 

 

Susan Sieracki has asked us to create a card depicting 'Spring'

Maybe she picked this one because of all the 'Winter Blues'

all my overseas friends are experiencing while I have been

basking in 'Sunshine' but I won't gloat as it won't be long

and I will be experiencing those cooler days.

Also over at The Paper Players their challenge is 'Spring'
 

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I have a special reason for making this card.

The flowers I used have been sent to me and are from

SU Flower Shop. I loved this set and I received

a bundle of them in my mail box

Thanks so much Maria...

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Here is what I used -

White card stock as my base

Small piece of DP on the side

SU flowers - Flower Shop

Kasazz Leaves

Tim Holtz Stencils

Sizzix butterfly

Pearls Micro Beads and Dew Drops

Sentiment is from Inspired by Stamping.

 

 

Thanks for dropping in.