Pals Paper Arts Weekly Challenge

Today is the first day in what seems forever I have had a chance to participate in blogs and get some card making done.  I fear I have lost my mojo a bit as I have had 6 weeks of awful back/sciatic pain but good strong painkillers and some Bowen therapy is helping sort me out.

The blogs I follow and participate in work so hard and despite fearing I'm off my game I still want to enter to ensure a good response and to be supportive.   Here is what I have made.

I used A Wink Of Stella on the pegs and the White Perfect Accents, which have been coloured gold with a Sharpie to add some subtle sparkly glitter.

Why not head over to the PPA blog HERE and check out some more goodies made for PPA266..

Take care of you.

Pauline x

One For The Boys

I don't often make cards for boys as I'm sure you realise I have a thing for butterflies but today I made an exception lol.

I think he is pretty cute and am sure some little boy would love to receive this card. 

Take care of you. 

Pauline x

Colour Q Challenge

Today's card has been made for this week's Colour Q challenge.

I started with the new Stampin' Up! thicker white card for card bases.  I then die cut using the Flower Flair die set one of the larger flowers in the Rich Razzleberry.  I then cut into this to make more defined petals cutting some wedges out around the flower.   I then used the thinner centre die in Rich Razzleberry again I layered this onto the larger flower.

Using the dotty stamp from the Perfect Pennant stamp set I stamped using Wisteria Wonder then using the smaller centre die from the Flower Flair set and raised it on a foam dot layered it onto the flower centre.  I then used one of the Antique Faceted button and a Glue Dot to adhere this.

I stamped the tag in Wisteria Wonder using Pinstripe from My Favorite Things and die cut this using a Pierced Tag die from Die-namics.  I layered black Bazzill card behind. The fern leave is Pool Party and I used the Bouquet Bigz die to make this.   The 'hello' is also black Bazzill card die cut using the Hello You set from SU. 

Inside is a die cut stitched mat and more of the die cut centres I used for the flower on the front, one each in Wisteria Wonder, Rich Razzleberry and Blackberry Bliss.  Rhinestones have been added to embellish and a Rich Razzleberry Candy Dot. 

Why not head over to the Colour Q blog HERE and see some other great inspirational cards. 

Take care of you. 

Pauline x

TGIF Challenge

This week over at #tgif the colour challenge this week is Basic Gray, Pool Party and Daffodil Delight. Here is what I made.

I wanted to make a more masculine card, hard for someone who automatically reaches for sequin and butterflies lol. 

I used Basic Gray ink with a new stamp from My Favorite Things, Cheesecloth. I love this stamp and I think like all the other background stamps from MFT it will be versatile and be well used. 

I stamped my Typewriter Text stamp, MFT, in Pool Party and die cut this using a Die-namics Pierced Tag die.  I also die cut a Daffodil Delight circle using a Dienamics Zig Zag Circle die.   Foam Dimentionals were added to this to create layering. 

I used the Hello You die set to make the 'happy' and used black Bazzill card stock for this.  I then used my Rotary stamp from Stampin' Up! to stamp 'birthday' and layered this with white card to make the banners.  All these were layered together to create the card.  I found it difficult not to add a butterfly but I still had to add some embellishments so chose sequin from Teresa Collins Urban Market collection in grey and black and white.

I hope you have enjoyed this card. Why not head over to the  and check out other cards using this colour combo. 

See you tomorrow for another card. Take care of you. 

Pauline x

Pals Paper Arts Weekly Challenge

Today's card was such great fun, I pulled out my Aqua brush  and created brush strokes across the card using colour combo Mint Macaron, Tip Top Taupe, Pool Party and Bermuda Bay.  Here it is.

I then used Bermuda Bay, Tip Top Taupe and Mint Macaron card die cut hearts and added rhinestones to embellish.  I love simple but forget it can be just as gorgeous as lots of layers sometimes lol.

Why not head over to the Pals Paper Arts blog,  and check out the other projects.   

Hope you're having a great day.  Take care of you.

Pauline x

Colour Q Weekly Challenge

This week's Colur Q challenge gave me more of a challenge than I anticipate.  I think I had three attempts of designing a card before I was finally happy.  Here is the final card......

and I added detail inside too.......

So how did I come up with this.  First I thought I would....

I wanted stripes.  I used my......

Derwent Inktense pencil in Poppy Red an Aqua brush and dome watercolouring card.  But when I had made this I thought it was too American flagish and although the American flag is very colourful it wasn't the effect I was hoping to achieve.  So next I .......

Went for an entire watercolour wash effect, but still no it just wasn't working for me.  So I pulled out old faithful my Sizzix Basic Shapes die and cut out the shapes in the card instead.  I was still really keen to do some sort of stripes so I cut half inch stripes , arranged them on my card cutting at different lengths and Bob's your uncle, I was happy.

The heart was raised on Dimentionals and I used a retired stamp set from Stampin' Up! and used the flag stamp Stampin in Pool Party.  The card base is Crumb Cake and the navy is Night Of Navy as I only have Midnight Muse ink.

So I got to do a lot of my favourite things in this card.  Watercolouring, used hearts and designed something a bit quirky.  Happy.

Hope today is lots of fun.  Why not head over to the Colour Q blog, click HERE  check out what other designs have been created.

After I had finished and entered my card I took a notion of the card being more nautical an I unpicked some string and pleated it to create a rope and wrapped it round the heart.  I'm not sure about it.  What do you think?

Take care of you.

Pauline x

Table built using Product Table Builder by The Crafty Owl - Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator.

Pool Party and Silver Card

Today's card once again has a butterfly, my favourite embellishments.  I have used Pool Party card and velum from Stampin' Up!  The butterfly has 3 layers; silver foil, Pool Party and silver heart velum.

First I used SU heart stencil and sponged Pool Party ink onto the page using different pressure to create different depths of colour.  I then die cut 3 leaves and the 3 butterflies using Sizzix die's.

The sentiment is silver heat embossed using SU powder and the I used my favourite Dienamics die as this creates the stitched effect all around.

Lastly I added a sequin and rhinestones to the butterfly and card.  

Hope today has been full of crafty goodness.

Take care of you.

Pauline x

Table built using Product Table Builder by The Crafty Owl - Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator.

Watercolour Wonder

Today's card I have used one of my favourite techniques; watercolouring.  I use an Aqua brush and paint the lines and I have used three different colours, Mint Macaron a new in colour for 2015/217, Pool Party and Bermuda Bay inks.

I then adhered this to Lost Lagoon card to coordinate with the inks.  I then used my 1" circle punch to punch a circle from pink card from my stash, very similar Blushing Bride. I then took a piece of gold velum and separated it to create two flags.  I adhered some white cotton with Crystal Effects and put the butterfly punched from the Elegant Butterfly punch onto half a  Dimentional placing this on top.

The sentiment has been embossed with gold embossing powder die cut and layered onto another piece of Lost Lagoon card then Dimentionals added to create some depth.  Gold sequin were also added adhered with Crystal Effects.

Inside the card has been stamped in Mint Macaron.  Sorry, this stamp set has since retired.

This card is been made especially for the TGIF weekly challenge.  This week it is a mash up of the previous weeks.  Here are the challenges.

  

Can you guess which I used?

Why don't you check out more great cards over on the tgif blog, just click here 

Thanks for stopping by.  Hope you all have a glorious weekend.

Tale care of you.

Pauline x

It's All About Silver

My cards today are all about silver glimmer paper from Stampin' Up!

I made two cards in different styles tonight.

This card I used Coastal Cabana ink and card and using the Hearts and Stars masks and a finger dauber I stencilled in the stars.  I used a medium and large star punch and also silver pigment ink with the mask on the inside to add a subtle accent.  I love the sequin, they really make the card sparkle.

This card I used Baked Brown Sugar, Pool Party and Whisper White card and Pool Party and Crumb Cake ink.  The front sentiment is from Hello Love and the inside stamp is from my stash.  I also decorated both envelopes to pull the card and envelope together.  I like this touch as it ensures the envelope is equally a welcomed touch too.

I hope you enjoy these cards, leave a comment if you wish.  I hope today has been kind to you.  Take care of you.

Pauline x

Table built using Product Table Builder by The Crafty Owl - Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator.