Taking a Colour Q...

Kept with the bird theme from this weeks Colour Q inspiration palette.  As you can see I am still having fun with negative die-cutting clouds from My Favourite Things :)  The bird is from MME, I replaced the chest panel to more closely match this weeks colour palette with papers from Making Memories.  Sentiment is created  using Journalling Hand font.

Almost forgot to add this in the celebrations over at The Pink Elephant Challenges too - this week is birthday week so inspiration is anything Ella pink.

Hope someone makes you feel ten feet tall today!


PS I feel ten feet tall after receiving this!!!

There She Goes on a CASual Play Date...

Loving the brights this week at The Play Date Cafe - decided that I am definitely a brights girl when it comes to crafting.  I combined this weeks stunning colour palette with this weeks CAS-ual Friday paper piecing challenge and There She Goes negative die cut challenge.  The lighter blue cloud and grass are created from negative die cuts in the white cardstock.  The gorgeoous Paper Smoochers sun and WeR Memory Keepers bee are stamped onto October Afternoon paper and cut out, and together with the darker blue clouds are all pop-dotted for added dimension.  The sentiment is Paper Smooches too.

Hope the sun is shining in your corner of the world too!

PS. This put a smile on my face too :)

So Proud to be a Smoocher...

Fell in love with the Paper Smooches stamps - aren't they just divine!     

Discovered they have a fantastic Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge blog too.  This week was a great inspiration challenge from this Pinteresting photo.  I picked out the gorgeous and fresh colours and stripes, mixed with these great FREE digi-download stamps, pop dotted the coloured cardstock background for added interest and tied together with MME coloured twine.   I just love their simple and snazzy designs - makes for simple and snazzy cards in no time.  

P.S. Just realised my card could be interpreted as "knot" So Proud - perhaps I should have gone for "bow" So Proud instead LOL!!!! 

The Colour Room Case...

Inspired by this weeks Case Card with the gorgeous Karola Witczak as Muse and The Colour Room colour palette and sketch too, I revisited my origins... scrapbooking!!! I can't believe it has been over a year since I last scrapped, but I couldn't help but be inspired.  Still a little rusty - but amazingly I found the page came together much more quickly than it used to.  Too many products used here to mention them all LOL!  I do really like the journalling cards and butterflies from the Kaisercraft Bonjour Collection.

Many thanks for stopping by :)

Take the Leap with Play Date Cafe...

Even though I struggle with purple, I loved this weeks colour inspiration board at The Play Date Cafe and couldn't resist playing along. The pastel colours look so delicate so I thought I'd try a new technique using a feather today.  As the purple content of my stash is minimal, I used Tattered Angels Glimmermist in Denim over Candy Pink to create my base then dragged the tip of the feather through the wet inks to combine and define the ink pattern (inspired by the gorgeous work of Louise Nelson).  The feather theme perfectly suited this sentiment stamp from My Favourite Things Clearly Sentimental About Success watermark inked then heat embossed with Ranger Ink Sea Foam embossing powder.  Background paper is by Fancy Pants. 

Really difficult to get a good photo of the amazing colours and shades that glimmermist produces - especially on a not-so-sunny day!

Hope you have the confidence to build your wings today :)

Friendship blossoms...

Love the gorgeous cherry blossoms and the tall glass shapes in this weeks inspiration photo from There She Goes combined with this weeks super colour challenge over at Colour Q, and I couldn't go past this fabulous sketch from Less is More. 

As I think I have more Valentines Day cards then Valentines to send them to, I designed this card as a frienship card - although Love blossoms does have a certain ring to it too :)  Inside reads ...in every season. 

The cherry blossoms are created using Cheery Lyn Cherry Blossom die-cuts, then dabbing a little of Tim Holtz Spun Sugar Distress Ink and some LuminArte Pink Azalea to create the darker centres.  The blossom stamen are created by using a double length of white embroidery thread knotted in the centre then threaded from the top through the centre hole and double-sided taped to the underside of the flower to hold in place - and to secure the blossoms to the page.  The branch is one of My Favourite Things - literally too!!!

Will soon find out how the kiddies went at their first day back at school - hope friendship blossoms for them, and you, too.

For Weddings and a Valentine's Day...

Loved this gorgeous colour palette from The Colour Room combined with sketch inspiration from Mojo Monday - this week we're looking through the round window!

Had fun making red felt roses using My Favorite Things Minature Rolled Roses - just need to remember to roll from the outside of the diecut to the inside - doesn't work quite as well in reverse ;) I also used the Lifestyle Craft Floral Rose and Swiss Dots embossing folders - the ribbon across the centre makes hiding the overlap in the embossing easy! I love this couple stamp - stamped once in black ink on white cardstock and a second time in white StazOn ink on black cardstock, then hand cut the suit and top hat and added the coloured bow-tie and matching flowers to tie the colour scheme together. I adhered two sheets from Making Memories notepaper together to create the scalloped edge. This is the first time I have made a round card - folded an A4 piece of cardstock in half and cut an almost complete circle using my Fiskars circle cutter - too easy!

Many thanks for dropping by - much appreciated :)

PS. Having some technical issues today so sorry for the multiple listings / missing links in Mojo Monday