A CASE of Happy Bird-day...

I couldn't resist playing along this week with CASE Study, with this gorgeous graphic for inspiration. Created using Poppy Stamps Serene Bird negative die cut, Martha Stewart border lace punch, a combination of Memory Box and Bo Bunny papers and American Crafts sentiment.

Joining in the fun at Seize the Birthday Anything Goes, ColourQ,
and The Pink Elephant Anything Goes Challenge too.

 

Hope you are enjoying a relaxing Christmas Eve.

Seize the FUSION...

 

Rummaging through my stash I re-discovered these funky retro Bo Bunny Alora Collection papers.  How perfect are they for this fortnights FUSION colour combo! And I love that the swirls remind me of steaming hot coffee!

Took the colours and theme from this fortnights fabulous FUSION graphic, combined with the current Seize the Sketch to create this friendship card.  The up-cycled strip of corrugated packaging reminds me of takeaway coffee cups. Papers are a combination of Bo Bunny Alora Collection, Kaisercraft and Basic Grey, with the coffee girl and sentiment from My Favourite Things, and the coffee cup splatter from Skipping Stones stamped using Hero Arts Cup O' Joe (of course!!!)

 Remember you have another week to play along with FUSION - 

hope you can drop by for a cuppa and join in the fun!

Joining in the fun at Little Red Wagon Back in Time Challenge too.

This made me smile...

A Little More Sunshine...

Playing along with Curtain Call Sunflower Surprise and this weeks fabulous MUSE.  I had fun using this gorgeous gerbera flower and leaves stamps from Uniko Studio again, stamped in Hero Arts Cup O' Joe on Bo Bunny Forever Fall paper and fussy cut. Reflecting the variations in colour in the MUSE card background, the background paper is also from Bo Bunny Forever Fall, and the leaves are created from some very old Basic Grey, perfect for playing along with Basic Grey Challenges Autumn Inspiration.  The Lil Inkers Stitched Rectangle was stamped with My Favourite Things sentiment.

 

This made me smile...

FUSION... The Perfect Blend

I don't know about you, but this fortnights FUSION graphic keeps giving me flashbacks to the 70s, when Mum & Dad used to have dinner parties created in our lime green kitchen and served coffee made in plungers or percolators, rather than deluxe cappuccino machines!  Will you be inspired by this fabulous sketch, or the fantastic elements in this cool graphic, or will you create a FUSION of both?

Taking the colours and theme from this fortnights funky graphic, I combined my FUSION inspiration graphic with a Clean & Simple Sketch to create this friendship card to play along with Use it Tuesday Friendship Challenge. Talking about flashbacks, the papers are a combination of Echo Park, Kaisercraft (from about 3 years ago) and Basic Grey (from about 7 years ago!), with the coffee girl and sentiment from My Favourite Things, and the coffee cup splatter from Bo Bunny stamped using Hero Arts Cup O' Joe (of course!!!)

Hope to see you at the FUSION Challenge Blog soon, in the meantime, here's some more FABULOUS inspiration from the Design Team...

Amy Tsuruta

Geri Freeman

Kelly Griglione

Lynn Mangan

Stacey Schafer

Clean & Simple Sketch

Playing along in the Basic Grey Anything Goes Challenge too!

Spring Chick...

Playing along with Paper Smooches Sparks Cool Shades Challenge, combined with some more homework from Pattern Play Day 1 too.  Patterned papers are a mix of Echo Park, Lily Bee and Bo Bunny, with this gorgeous spring chick from Paper Smooches, with the sentiment created by combining Spring Fling and Chubby Chums,with a few buttons from my stash.  Sketch is flipped from this weeks fab Retro Sketches by Lori.

Also joining in the fun at:

Simon Says Stamp Easter / Spring Challenge
The Pink Elephant Easter Challenge

 These made me smile...

Life is Beautiful, BE Inspired...

Side view of handbag card

It's BE Inspired time at The Alley Way Stamps, and I was inspired to create a handbag shaped and folded card.  I cut out this fun sun shape using Bo Bunny Country Garden Collection on the front body and top folding flap of my card.  I punched a second sun circle and stamped it with the gorgeous sentiment from The Alley Way Stamps Talk to Me, then pop-dotted it on the bottom half of the circle only so that the top flap of the card can be folded into the space between the two sun circle layers. 

Why don't you head over to The Alley Ways Stamps to check out how the rest of the team were Inspired, and join in for your chance to win some FAB stamps!

Joining in the SUN /MOON challenge at Craftymess too

Perfect for the Shaping Up Blog Hop too!

CR84FN with Retro Sketches...

Have you tried a Retro Sketch yet... this week is the first week of Retro Sketches, with this cool sketch - loving the retro look!!!  

I find it so much easier creating with bold colour combinations rather than muted neutrals - I guess that's why they call them Challenges!!!  I fell in love with this gorgeous alphabet panel, taken from Bo Bunny's Back to Basics, and it was perfect for this fortnights CR84FN Colour Challenge.  The "U" was originally in red, so I made one in grey and yellow to match the colour palette. Other papers are a combination of Echo Park Spots & Stripes and Little Yellow Bicycle Fresh Print.  I just love this sentiment from My Favourite Things, The Great Outdoors.

May all your storms have rainbows.

SHOUT OUT

Here is my rainbow