Colour Q Weekly Challenge

This week's Colur Q challenge to me epitomises summer.  This colour combo is fresh, citrus and pure sunshine.  Here is my interpretation.

Hello Honey for the background and large Scribble flower, So Saffron for the smaller Scribble flower with the white background, Bermuda Bay for the tag and the "happy" and instead of Peach Parafait I used Dried Marigold Distress Ink.  I also coloured white card using the Dried Marigold then die cut a Scribble flower from this, top left of the tag.

Bermuda Bay sequin added to embellish the card and "BIRTHDAY" stamped using the Rotary Alphabet stamp in Basic Black.

Side view to appreciate the layers.

The Scribble flowers from MFT Whimsical Wishes stamp set using Dried Marigold and a Tim Holtz sticker for inside the card.

Why not head over to the Colour Q blog and see what others have been creating.  See you tomorrow for another card.  Take care of you. 

Pauline x

TGIF Monthly Challenge Remix

Over on the TGIF blog there is a monthly remix opportunity to take at least two of the past months challenges and 'mix them up'.  So I have chosen to combine the #tgif11 sketch challenge and #tgif12, which was to use anything 'brand new'.  Here is my take on this.

The Timeless Elegance Designer Series a Paper is brand new and the tags were the sketch challenge.

Also, for me, Hello You die set is new this month.  Although I have used the set extensively I have only had the set a number of weeks.

So I am really please with how this card has turned out.  Why not head over to the TGIF challenge blog and check out what other folk have been up to, click HERE

 

Thanks for dropping by, why not come back tomorrow and check out tomorrow's card.  Take care of you.

Pauline x

Beautiful You

Well a few days I got some new goodies and this new Striped Cover Up and the pierced Tags dies from Die-namics you just know I love.  I feel over this past couple of months my passion for cards has increased ten fold and really developed too.

Here is my first use of the Striped Cover Up die, you know your going to see so much of it over the next few weeks.  I used two of the Pierced Tags and silver embossed onto the white tag using a Flowering Flourishes stamp and silver embossing powder from Stampin' Up!

Silver foil flowers added to envelope and Signo White pen to centre of flowers.

The "you" is from the Hello You die set, the card is Pink Pirouette, Smoky Slate and Basic Gray.  The flowers are punch from the Itty Bitty punch set, "beautiful" is from Express Yourself stamp set, stamped in Basic Black and die cut using the Stitched Rectangles set from Die-nanics.  The brads I have had for years and used to use when I made mini albums, these can be seen in my much earlier blogs using Graphic 45 collections.

Too much fun, I'm off to make another card.  Take care of you.

Pauline x

Freshly Made Sketches Weekly Challenge

However, today primary colours must still be in my headspace because for this week's Freshly Made Sketches challenge I made this.

Right up until I was adding the sequin I wasn't sure about this card, in my head I knew exactly what I wanted but as I putting it together I was full of doubt.  Now I love it.  

I used the new Cotton Paper from Stampin' Up! die cut and stamped from Flower Patch and coordinating dies then layered with foam dots onto a Basic Gray Striped Cover Up die from My Favorite Things, Dienamics.  I used a large Pierced a Tag to create the accent at the bottom, which had been stamped with Sweater Knit with Antique Linen Distress Ink.  I then used the 'Hello' only from the Hello Life stamp set from SU then die cut this with a small tag die.  I used Watermelon Wonder ink from SU with this.  A small foam dot and Glossy Accents were used to adhere this down.  

From the side you can see how the petals curl, I used a bone folder on all the petals for this.

Inside I used a Stitched Rectangle from Dienamics and a die from Hello You from SU.  This was die cut in whisper white and watermelon wonder and I offset them slightly to create a bit of a shadow effect.  Silver sequin then added to embellish front and inside.  

Why not head over to Freshly Made Sketches blog, click here and see what others have been creating.

See you tomorrow.  Take care of you.  

Pauline x