Precious Girl...

I can't believe that my first born will be a teenager soon!  I still remember when she was barely a few weeks old, and everyone was telling me "you soon forget how little they were", and I did not believe a word they said!  So I've created this flutterby birthday card for my precious girl. 

Inspired by this divine dress at Moxie Fab World Tuesday Trigger, this delicious colour palette at The Play Date Cafe - a perennial favourite as my girl was blessed with stunning red hair - and this gorgeous layout sketch from Clean&Simple, I dived in and had a play with my Glimmermists.  I created a negative die-cut template of butterflies using MFT die-cuts for the medium and smaller butterflies and a Spellbinders die-cut for the larger butterfly to mask the Black Cherry and Harvest Orange Glimmermist overspray.  I love how the Glimmermist seems to capture movement in the butterflies.  At the same time I placed a large die-cut butterfly in position on top of the template so it would match the spray pattern when placed back in position on the card.  The border cardstock was misted separately.  The sentiment on the front of the card with its gorgeous faux stitching is by Little Yellow Bicycle, and the stamped sentiment inside the card is one of my favourite, from My Favourite Things Clearly Sentimental about Emerson, with a small butterfly die-cut from the scraps. 

I hope you have a beautiful day too :)

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!

A CAS-ual CASE of Growth...

As soon as I saw the gorgeous card in this weeks CASE Study, I knew I wanted to make a card with a tape measure running down the side of it - to match the "grow" theme of the card.  I added polka-dots and pastels to follow the theme of the card and the added black highlights made it perfect for this weeks The Bold and The Beautiful Challenge at CAS-ual Fridays. 

The gorgeous giraffe is from Paper Smooches Zoo Crew - stamped in reverse using Paper Smooches Dude Block (with LOTS of practice!), and the sentiment is stamped using Paper Smooches Alphadots. The tape measure paper is from Little Yellow Bicycle, the yellow spots from Carolees Creations and the green spots and yellow checks are from SMiRK Love and Friendship Pad.

Hope you enjoy learning and growing today :)

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