Breast Cancer Awareness - Think Pink...

I loved the colours and textures in Laurel's Inspired By - but as I've been away, I only just got a chance to play!  I created this for Link Up for Pink in honour of Breast Cancer Awareness Month too - I think this sentiment from Verve "She stood in the storm and when the wind did not blow her away she adjusted her sails" is just perfect.  Converting left-over paper scraps into butterflies and fishtail flags always come in handy and are just right for this fortnights Use it Tuesday Scraps Challenge.  Sketch is from this fabulously versatile Seize the Sketch!

Inspired By...

 

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!

Feather Weather Friends...

OK, so no prizes for guessing what my inspiration was for todays' card LOL!  As soon as I saw this fortnights Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger Feather Weather, I remembered a very old piece of Jenni Bowlin paper in black and white with these four gorgeous birds sitting on the branch of a fruit tree.  I adhered the paper to a sheet of cardstock for added rigidity and fussy cut the birdies, then using a combination of Distress Inks in Squeezed Lemonade, Salty Ocean and Broken China, I colour washed the birds to match the inspiration photo colours.  I stamped this gorgeous Technique Tuesday Botanika cherry blossom branch three times to create a collage of blossoms in the background, and pop-dotted the birds over the top.  The Verve sentiment is stamped in Broken China before being mounted on cardstock and Fancy Pants paper.  Other than the sentiment, everything on this card is more than 5 years old, perfect for joining it at Use it Tuesday Anything Goes! The layout is loosely based on this weeks Clean & Simple Sketch, the colours of this weeks Inspired By and Catered Crops Mellow Yellow Challenge, and inked feathers from CASE Study.  Playing over at Simon Says Stamp Anything Goes too.

Tuesday Trigger - Feather Weather

Inspired By (Laurel)

Clean & Simple