Home is where you hang your heart...

I so wanted to play along with the new design team at Dynamic Duos this week - only just scraping in as our internet service provider was having issues!  Inspired by the gorgeous graphic over at Curtain Call Welcome Home Challenge, and this fabulous Freshly Made Sketch!

Felt heart and kraft wreath are both My Favorite Things die cuts, paired with paper from MME and Collections "home", together with the sentiment from There She Goes and a Kaisercraft pearl.

A Little ConFUSION...

Welcome back for another fabulous week of FUSION inspiration!  What will inspire you this week - this fabulous sketch from Jackie?  Or this fabulous inspiration photo from Lesley - with it's bright bold elements? Or a FUSION of both???

This week I was particularly inspired by the gorgeous teal background, the combination of bright bold colours, the owl theme, the wooden table and flowers.  I stamped my There She Goes owl trio onto a combination of lightly patterned papers - woodgrain for papa owl, floral for mama owl and chevrons for baby owl.  I love that these little guys look so shocked in response to the Lil Inkers sentiment LOL! I created my stripes by pop dotting the top layer of white cardstock, creating negative space for the teal background paper to peep through.  Unusually for me I actually used patterned papers from just one collection today, Echo Park Here & Now.

Why don't you stop by the FUSION Design Team blogs for even more inspiration!

Allyson  Anderson  / Amy Tsuruta / Deanna Jean / 
Kelly Griglione / Stacey Schafer

Playing along with There She Goes Anything Goes too.

There She Goes, Just in CASE...

Torico's gorgeous TSG card

I fell in love with this gorgeous card by Torico, so when this weeks There She Goes Challenge was CASE a Trendsetter, I thought I was set, but alas I left it too late.  I couldn't miss the opportunity though, so I'm playing along with this fab Dynamic Duos and linking up with Simon Says Stamp Anything Goes instead.

A Brilliant Day...

Inspired by this weeks CASual Fridays Hi Ho Silver, and this weeks fab Seize the Birthday Feminine Birthday Sketch, I heat embossed this gorgeous chandelier stamp from my stash, using silver tinsel, matted in silver glitter paper, and created the sentiment using There She Goes Sentimental Birthday and Paper Smooches Alphadots, backed with silver mesh ribbon, and finished with some Kaisercraft bling.  

Hope you have a brilliant day too!

There She Goes all Moxie Fab...

The first thing I thought of when I saw this weeks Tuesday Trigger Cross My Heart Challenge was this home-made looking grid paper from MME, perfect for sitting on this teal blue base.  I thought I'd create a heart card inspired by this card, but as I don't have any heart embossing folders, I thought I'd substitute these fab polka dots instead.  I punched out a folk heart and used it as a template to hand cut my heart aperture.  The sentiment is a combination of Paper Smooches Alphadot, and There She Goes Day & Night, perfect for playing along with this weeks TSG Inspiration Challenge.

I just realised when reading this that a lot of "thought" goes into my creating! LOL!

 

Playing along with Simon Says Stamp Have a Heart, Just Add Ink Just Add a Hearts and Ribbon Carousel Challenges too!

There She Goes Inspired by Freshly Made...

I had so much FUN making this card.  Inspired by this weeks fab Freshly Made Sketch and the There She Goes Inspiration Challenge - I don't know why but old bikes just remind me of home!  I love the combination of gingham, wood and hand stitched heart (from Laurel's Inspired By Challenge), I think they compliment these cute house and sun stamps and sentiment from There She Goes perfectly.

 

Playing along with Simon Says Stamp Have a Heart too!

There She Goes Just Hanging Out...

I've seen so many amazingly creative cards for the current Moxie Fab World 75 Creative Card Challenges Week #60 Make a Card with a Window, that I just had to join in.  I created my window by using a blue cardstock base and removing a rectangular section from the front of the card.  I created a wood grain tree and branch for the side and top of the window (sandwiching the branch between the front wood grain panel and the blue cardstock panel) then securing the sentiment to create the base of the window.  I paper pieced the monkey behind and in front of the branch so he's securely hanging out LOL! The cute monkey, branch and sentiment are all There She Goes, perfect for this weeks There She Goes Wood Grain Challenge.  My branch and monkey are paper pieced too, perfect for this weeks Simon Says Stamp Paper Piecing Challenge.

Bee Mine...

Thought I'd have a little fun with negative die cutting again, combining the first fab CAS(E) this Sketch for the year with There She Goes "Love is in the Air" Challenge.  I just love the little bee and trail stamps from There She Goes, paired with My Favourite Thing Dynamic tall die cut letters, perfect for a Valentine Bee Mine card.  Using masking tape to align the letters and adhere to your cardstock before cutting, it makes creating faster & straighter LOL!

 

There She Goes on a Mojo Throwdown...

Had so much fun getting messy with inks last week, thought I'd have another go!  Inspired by this gorgeous photo from There She Goes, this lovely pastel palette from Colour Throwdown, and fab Mojo Monday Sketch.  Papers are a combination of Prima Songbird Collection (fussy cut and pop-dotted), Echo Park This & That and MME Miss Caroline, My Favourite Things scalloped border and hearts die-cuts, love this birdhouse die-cut from Marianne Design and the gorgeous sentiment is There She Goes Day or Night. Got inky with Tim Holtz Distress Ink Vintage Photo and twine is The Twinery Buttercup.

We're off for a short change of scenery - have a GREAT weekend!

Happy Mothers Day & Thanks for Dropping By...

I hope everyone is having a wonderful Mothers Day, whether celebrating it yourself, or with your Mum!  Also a huge "Thanks for dropping by!" on the There She Goes Mother Of All Blog Hops yesterday - I couldn't resist making one more card featuring the There She Goes Under The Weather stamp set - and don't forget, there is plenty more inspiration today!  This card was inspired by this weeks versatile Freshly Made sketch and this gorgeous rainbow inspiration from Scrapbook Boutique.  Papers are a mix from Kaisercraft, Echo Park and October Afternoon.

Hope you have a wonderful Mother's Day.  Thanks for dropping by!

There She Goes MOABH...

Welcome to the 3rd annual Mother of All Blog Hops sponsored by There She Goes Clear Stamps!   Over the next two days, we (customers and trendsetters!) will be featuring some of our favorite There She Goes Clear Stamp sets!   Not only that, we’re going to give YOU a chance to win some fabulous prizes!  To find out how, please go to the There She Goes’ blog.

So glad you can join me today as I have the pleasure of showcasing the versatile There She Goes Under the Weather, a fab set of gorgeous spring-filled stamps by Melyssa Connolly with whimsical images, borders and sentiments.  My card is inspired by TSG Design Team member Karen Giron's Sunday Sketch.  The gorgeous girl and her umbrella have been paper pieced with a mix of papers from Heidi Swapp, Kaisercraft and Echo Park, highlighted with Prima flowers and bling buttons :)

The image and sentiment are just a a small sample from the Under the Weather set.  I just LOVE the versatility of this set, I have crafted a few other cards using this set recently, and the details can be seen here and here.

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A Splattered Moxie Play Date...

 

Inspired by the gorgeous water and glass colours this week at Play Date Cafe, I decided to challenge myself to the Splatter Technique Challenege in the Moxie Fab World.  I have discovered that the best, and worst thing about the splatter technique is its unpredictability - that and the fact that I am probably more splattered than my paper lol!!!  Using Glimmermist in Juniper and Cherry Blossom, I had a few attempts at creating a stormy sky - and love the way this one looks like a bolt of lightning in a thundertorm.  These stamps from There She Goes Under the Weather suited my stormy skies perfectly. 

Are you game to get splattered today?!

There She Goes all Retro...

A super quick post before I rush off to work!  Can't wait for the There She Goes Mother of All Bloghops this weekend, so I decided to get a head start.  Inspired by this weeks Retro Sketch and TSG May Flowers Challenge.  These gorgeous stamps are from There She Goes, and the papers are Three Bugs in A Rug. 

Hope you have a wonderful day!

Tell you why I DO like Mondays :)

Who couldn't love Mondays with these three great challenges!  Todays inspiration comes from these funky colours at Colour Q, this great sketch from Mojo Monday, and this weeks Ribbon Challenge at There She Goes.  And if that wasn't enough, TGS has a fantastic sale on this week, with proceeds going to the Make a Wish Foundation!

LOVE, love, love this funky colour combo, and I have been itching to try these gorgeous puppy stamps and sentiments from There She Goes.  In case you can't read it, the sentiment reads "A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the nicest things you can be".  The puppies are coloured using black, red and pumpkin Marvy Markers - I added some spots to the smaller dog and gave them matching pumpkin-coloured noses and red collars.  I paper pieced the grass and die cut and pop-dotted the heart shape from My Favourite Things.  The papers are a mix from Kaisercraft and SEI, but would work fantastically using Stampin' Up papers too.  This gorgeous ribbon and cute paw-print brad are from my stash.  I knotted an extra piece of ribbon around my the flat piece across the page - it's much easier to end up with the words where you want them using this method! 

I hope you are having a glorious weekend too - and looking forward to Monday :)

This made me smile too!