A Happy FUSION...

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this fortnights cool inspiration photo collage over at FUSION. However, I was slightly distracted this week, with hubby being asked to consider a three year position in Michigan. As tempting as the thought of being closer to my US and Canadian crafting buddies is, with two kiddies in high school, we think we'll be staying here for now.

How will you be inspired? This card combines the gorgeous FUSION sketch with the colours, hand drawn elements, birds in the tree and circles from the inspiration photos. Using this hand drawn chicken from Purple Onion Designs, coloured and paper pieced, these gorgeous Verve poppy blooms, and a rubber sentiment from my stash, all stamped in Versamark watermark ink and heat embossed in black.  Lil Inkers Stitched Circle and Paper Smooches curve dies used to create the pop-dotted front panel.

We'd love to see you play along! 

How to play:

1. Play with just the sketch challenge.

2. Play with just the inspiration photo challenge.

3. Or you can create FUSION by combining BOTH challenges into one card.

4. Use the challenge graphic and link back to Fusion in your post.

5. Please read the other considerations on the Rules Page before playing along.

 Stop by the rest of the DTs blogs for even more fabulous inspiration! 

Betty J - Cathy Weber - Dannielle Robeson - Deepti
Geri Freeman - Julia Aston - Katie Brooks - Kelly Griglione
Kimberly Wiener - Lynn Mangan - Michelle Lupton
Michelle Williams - Sindhu - Stephanie Severin

Check the FUSION Mr Linky to see how much time is left to play!! 

 Love that the colours are so perfect to be able to join in with this fabulous palette from Colour Q, 

playing along with the The Card Concept Floral Theme - Clean and Layered, 

and you have a few more days to play along with Keep It Simple Things with Wings too.

 

Come Play with Me...

Created this for fun and to to play along with a few challenges too!  Inspired by Keep It Simple Things with Wings (DT), FUSION photo (DT), this fabulous Muse card by Marion, A Blog Called Hero Roy G. Biv, Verve Diva Dare Perk Up, The Crafting Musketeers Butterfly Challenge, Catered Crop Birthdays Recipe Swap and Seize the Birthday Hearts Challenges.

Pulled out my gelatos and paintbrush to create the watercolour background behind my Memory Box die cut butterfly heart. This die cut usually leaves the butterflies attached to the heart, but I carefully removed the butterflies so you could see more of the rainbow panel. Stamped with this gorgeous Verve sentiment and framed in black to help pop the colours.

Hope you are having an AMAZING weekend!

  

This made me smile...

A Butterfly KIS...

Come join in the fun @ Keep It Simple this fortnight, with "Things with Wings".
So excited to be playing along for the first time as part of the Keep It Simple DT!!

Had a play at Jenny's house and borrowed her Penny Black medallion stamp, embossed in copper on the cardstock base and on the textured tissue paper Die-namics Butterfly. combined with a Paper Smooches fishtail flag stamped with this gorgeous WPlus9 birthday sentiment, and fabulous diecut WPlus9 leaves.

Make sure you stop by the rest of the design team for some
more FABULOUS Keep It Simple inspiration!

Playing along with this Sweet Sunday Sketch, Seize the Birthday, Catered Crop Birthday Recipe Swap and
WPlus9 Week 3 Birthday Celebrations - Trend Watch, with trendy metallics and vellum too.

 

P.S. Honey I'm Home!!

Just squeaking under the wire for this fabulous Fun and Cute Paper Smooches 3rd Anniversary Challenge, and Paper Smooches Sparks Anything Goes Challenge., Playing along with Moxie Fab Worlds Happy for Hexagons Challenge too!  Used a honeycomb mask and Distress Inks Wild Honey (of course LOL!) Sentiment created from a combination of three Paper Smooches sets Bee Mine, Squeaky Clean and Bitty Bungalows, combined with this cutie pie Giddy Bugs bee. Added a few Prima flowers and Kaisercraft pearls to complete.

  

Love is Inspired by... WPlus9

I couldn't resist playing along again with WPlus9 Birthday Celebration Step It Up Challenge, this time I created a dimensional base by playing with texture paste and a chevron stencil, then using WPlus9 Folk Art Florals leaves in coloured vellum, pop-dotted Label Layers 5 in MME woodgrain paper,  Love Birds in white cardstock and Seasonal Sentiments hearts in red cardstock, with Damask Doilies sentiment. Just remember when you are choosing a base for die-cutting in mirror reverse, choose to cut it from cardstock or vellum, so front and back are the same colour LOL!

Playing along with Frosted Designs fabulous Love Is... Challenge, 
and Inspired By too, with its CAS, hearts, pops of colour and fabulous texture.

Happy Heart Day...

Wishing you all a Happy Heart Day!!!

Playing along with WPlus9 Birthday Celebrations, CAS(E) this Sketch and City Crafters Love Bug Challenge. Papers are a mix of Carte Bella, Kaisercraft and Simple Stories, with these fabulous dies from WPlus9, and a doily from my stash.  Layered die cuts area always an easy and fun way to add dimension to your cards.

Celebrate Birthday FUSION...

How gorgeous are all those beautiful butterflies!!! 

I can't wait to see what this weeks FUSION inspiration brings - will you be inspired by this FAB sketch, or this gorgeous photo - or BOTH?!?   This fortnight I was inspired by a combination of both the sketch, and the photo, with its butterfly theme, I focused on the colours of one of the butterflies - love the green, turquoise and orange colour combo! Created using texture paste and Heidi Swapp mask background, Kaisercraft butterfly stamped multiple times and fussy cut, Simple Stories papers, coloured vellum and gorgeous Verve sentiment.

We'd LOVE you to join in the fun...

How to play:

1. Play with just the sketch challenge.

2. Play with just the inspiration photo challenge.

3. Or you can create FUSION by combining BOTH challenges into one card.

4. Use the challenge graphic and link back to Fusion in your post.

5. Please read the other considerations on the Rules Page before playing along.

Drop by for some more fabulous DT inspiration here:

Betty J - Cathy Weber - Dannielle Robeson - Deepti
Geri Freeman - Julia Aston - Katie Brooks - Kelly Griglione
Kimberly Wiener - Lynn Mangan - Michelle Lupton
Michelle Williams - Sindhu - Stephanie Severin

Don't forget to check FUSION Mr Linky to see how much time is left to play!! 

Joining in Seize the Birthday and CASology Bold and 
The Crafting Musketeers Butterfly Challenge too!