Cardabilities - Final Sketch...

I so wanted to join in the final Cardabilities Sketch...

This card background went through many incarnations before I decided I liked it LOL! I quickly discovered that too much red Glimmermist ends up looking like the chainsaw masacre, rather than quiet Autumn tones! That's the beauty of a gesso layer - if you don't like it you can remove colour with a baby wipe and start layering again!

Dictionary page base and added modelling paste (to play along with City Crafter Paste It) and a Pink Paislee She Art doily stencil. Covered in gesso, sprayed with a combination of Glimmermists and Dylusions in Autumn hues, highlighted with Gelato rubbed crayon once dry. Gorgeous Winnie and Walter sentiment, Dynamics branch and Clearly Besotted autumn leaves diecuts. Leaves created from watercolour paper oversprayed with orange and yellow Glimmermists. See how it GLOWS in the sun...

Cardabilities

City Crafter Paste It and Inkspirational Glow

This made me smile...

Winnie and Walter 1st Birthday Celebrations...

Created using Winnie and Walter Scenery: Big Bang Circle Creative Screenings background with Wendy Vecchi Translucent embossing paste, adding a Heidi Swapp Gold Color Shine flicked on a die cut stitched circle, Simon Says Stamp partial branch die cut in vellum, Freckled Fawn wood veneer heart, and golden thread topped with Winnie and Walter The Big, the Bold and the Happy Cutaways Love sentiment in gold.

Joining in the fun with two of the amazing 1st Birthday Challenges over at Winnie and Walter (see below for links to all their Birthday Challenges), Winnie and Walter Mood Board Challenge with Lea (focused on the bottom left hand photo) and Winnie and Walter CAS and Freestyle Collage with Gayatri. Inspired by this gorgeous sketch at Cardabilities, together with the fabulous Virginia's View Clean Slate Challenge.

  

To help celebrate Winnie and Walter's 1st birthday, there are TEN, count them, TEN FABULOUS challenges, click on the links below to find them:

• Shaker Challenge with Julie
• One Challenge with Shay
• CAS + Freestyle Collage Technique Challenge with Gayatri
• Color Challenge with Heather
• Sketch Challenge with Joni 
• In Rotation Technique Challenge with Kelly 
• Collage Challenge with Laura
• Mood Board Challenge with Lea
• Distress Inks + Patterns Challenge with Mayuri
• Gradient Challenge with Vanessa

Also playing along with AAA Challenge Add a Little Gold

This made me smile...

PS I'd LOVE if YOU could link up your favourite creations for 2014
on Our Favourite Things linky party on my blog here!

With Thanks...

Thanks... to everyone who follows & visits my blog, it makes the journey so much more rewarding :)

Todays card was inspired by Cardabilities Sketch #69, which I mirrored, and Color Combos Galore Challenge #231, with its gorgeous pallette of teals, pink & red with neutral, with a focus on photo #3, incorporating buttons, circles and magic mesh.  Seeing as I've incorporated a scalloped circle die-cut and a scalloped edge die-cut, I thought I'd join in the fun at Splitcoast Stampers Die Crazy Lovefest 2013 Challenge too. Papers are mostly Kaisercraft Fine & Sunny, with Faith the Chicken from Purple Onion Design, an assortment of Prima flowers and sentiment and buttons from my stash.  I think I'll call this style "Clean & Complex" LOL!

Hope you all have a wonderful day & a fabulous week!

Sew Beautiful...

Have you ever had one of those cards that just stuck in your head and wouldn't let you do anything else 'til you get it onto paper?  I'm not sure why, but this was one of those cards for me - perhaps it's my love/hate relationship with my sewing machine - I love the look, but not so much the process! 

Back with details after I've been shopping - grocery shopping that is ;)

I'm back!

This card was inspired by the soft colours, corrugated cardboard and mannequin from this weeks gorgeous vintage CASE Study, this gentle CR84FN colour palette, this gorgeous Cardabilities sketch and some glitter from DYSU for fun.

Papers are a combination of MME Lost & Found Two, Crate Paper and Basic Grey, with the cool corrugated kraft alphas from Jillibean.  The Beautiful stamp is part of a set by My Little Yellow Bicycle.  I stamped the sentiment in Essentials Glue, then added Making Memories Pink Glitter.  The chipboard accents are from Maya Road.  The cotton spool was rubbed with Tim Holtz Brushed Corduroy ink, then cotton wound around the spool, with an length looped back over the mannequin.  The mannequin was first inked with Versa Colour Old Rose, then dipped in Making Memories Pink Glitter.  The sewing machine was painted in Making Memories Manila paint.

Hope you have a creative day too!

The Things that Dreams are Made of, Rosettes, Cardabilities and Pink Elephants too!

  Butterflies Challenge

This card was inspired by this stunning Rosette Colour Trends Challenge at Embellish Magazine, and drawn from this gorgeous Cardabilities Sketch, first time I've played along at both these sites, and I couldn't resist joining in at The Pink Elephants Butterflies Challenge too!

I created these gorgeous roses using My Favourite Things Mini Rolled Roses Die Cuts in hot pink felt.  I discovered that you can create larger roses by die-cutting an extra rose (or more if you need to!), and continuing to wrap it around the outside of the rose to create exactally the sized rose you want - so I was able to use two die cuts to make three different sized roses - perfect!  I was inspired by all the circular elements in the Rosette Colour Trends Challenge - so all the papers (from SEI and Making Memories) are spotted, and I have repeated the circular elements in the scalloping and the Kaisercraft pearl bling too. I created a double frame around my card to reflect the frame from the photo too.  The gorgeous butterfly die cut is from Spellbinders.  This beautiful sentiment is from Verve Always on My Mind, stamped in Versa Colour Opera Pink and Orchid.

Hope your dreams come true today too!