JAI #170 - Just Add Leaves

Hi, just wanted to quickly share this card I made for this weeks challenge over at Just Add Ink. We had to add leaves to our projects.

This is a very simple card, I cut out a bunch of leaves and stuck them to the back of my card and trimmed off any excess.

Pop past JAI to check out the design teams great creations.

Thanks for looking

TSOT #109

Hello! It's time again for another fabulous sketch over at Try Stampin' On Tuesday and this one was created by Mynnette.

Here it is:

Such a cute sketch! Here's what I came up with:

I went back to my old faithful colours. I used a crumb cake base, pear pizzaz dsp, certainly celery for the leaves, so saffron ribbon. The flowers are from 'embrace life' and are stamped in versa mark, heat embossed in clear and using my sponge dauber in rose red, I started in the center and worked my way outwards to get the soft colouring effect. My sentiment is from 'teeny tiny sentiments' and stamped in rose red and layered onto certainly celery. A bit of bling to finish and I was done :)

I hopefully inspired you, BUT if you need more inspiration, then go to the Try Stampin' On Tuesday blog and check out all the other amazing creations the team has come up with. Then link up your creation as we love seeing what you come up with.

Thanks for looking :)

Festive Friday #9

Hi! Well it's time for another Festive Friday and we are focusing on Easter. Now not sure about you, but I dont generally send out easter cards, lazy I know. So when it came to making an easter card, I dont have any easter stamp sets, so this card is me thinking outside of the box.

When I think of Easter, I think of Jesus dying on the cross, rising again and giving us new life. Also even though we have Easter in Autumn here in Oz, I think of spring and all the beauty that comes with it. So thats were my card is coming from, the butterflies are representing the new life and the subtle colours are nice and fresh.

For the ring of butterflies, I punched out a 1 3/4" circle and glued all my butterflies from beautiful wings embosslit to it, so I could pop it up on dimensionals. I cut out two little leaves and cut them into sections, to get a more 'clustered' look. The 'Easter' was cut out with timeless alphabet and I added dots with my white gel pen, to give it more dimension and interest. Not sure if you can see, but around some of the butterflies and leaves I used my certainly celery marker (fine end) to add some dots.

This card took me ages to make! Even though every thing is cut out with my big shot, the layout and colours and detail took me a while. But having said that, I'm really happy with the result :)

So now that I've talked your ear off, why not go to Nicole's blog and check out what the design team have come up with and be inspired to create an Easter card!

Thanks for looking!

JAI 76 - Inspiration Challenge

Good morning! How great is the inspiration photo at Just Add Ink this week? It reminds me of some where nice and warm (some place where I'd rather be than always having frozen fingers and toes)
I took the photo quite literally in the lay out and colours. With the white rectangle building on the right, the little bit of curve (behind the white verse panel) was taken from the tiles, the plant cascading off the  building and the 'butterfly' as the cloud. My right hand corner looked a little empty, so I took the metal balcony as my guide and added some silver brads. I love that this photo allows us to interpret how ever we see fit - great challenge!

Hope you like it. I also wanted to say a big thank you to every one who leaves me a message. It's much appreciated and encouraging, thanks. 

Have a great day and I'll be hoping for weather more like the one in the photo!