WSC72 - Birthday Wishes for Laura

This is my submission for the Weekend Sketch Challenge on Beate's blog. It's our friend and neighbour Laura's birthday and I'll give this to her. I think my paper flowers overpower the card a little, but I do like these colours together. I like the layout too - I can see using this quite a bit. My colours are So Saffron and Riding Hood Red with Vanilla as my stamped image panel. Cathy and I purchased these little dew drops at Stamping Bella the other day so I thought I'd use them too! I just love S-U's DSP this year. They have really prettied them up. I used the Best Kind of Friend stamp set and used versamark and Riding Hood Red ink and embossed the pot. I popped it up to add a little dimension. The card measures 5" x 5". Thanks for having a look!

Taylored Expressions Cupcake Challenge #59

This is my submission for the Taylored Expressions challenge today. My photo has a bit of a blue-ish shadow on it from my dining room light. I like these Trendy Trees from S-U. I also love their DSP. Today's card uses Good Morning Sunshine. My card base colour is Kiwi Kiss. I layered Summer Sun using my Nesties. This colour looks so much brighter than what is in the DSP, but I double checked the colours that were in the DSP and it says Summer Sun, so who am I to argue? I picked up the Pacific Point in the DSP and layered a strip over the circle and DSP. I added a bit of Kiwi Kiss satin ribbon to bring in more of the Kiwi. Even using my SAMJ I couldn't lie up the tree stems very well! I finished the main panel off with a 1/2" library clip in Chocolate Chip. The main panel is also popped up a little to add a bit more dimension. My card measures 5" x 5". Thanks for taking a look.

Ways to Use It #209, Sketch Challenge #199

Here is my submission for the Ways to Use it Challenge today to Go Green. We were to use anything we could reuse or recycle something or just to use the colour green. I was given a Scrapbook Calendar for Christmas from my boss (it was supposed to be a Secret Santa gift, but everyone told everyone else who the giver was - not fair - I held out but they figured it out by process of elimination). There was some background paper from yesterday and this cute leprecon (is that how you spell it?) and the sentiment with it from today. I just trimmed it out and mounted it using an old sketch challenge. There is no stamping on this card. I used green self-adhesive rhinestones on the right side. The quality of the photo isn't great - sorry 'bout that. Thanks for taking a look.

Billybootabella, SCS sketch challenge # 96

Cathy and I decided to trek up to Thornhill to the Stamping Bella store. They have everything there! I decided on purchasing billybootabella and sweetybellas. I made this card for a colleague who is a little under the weather. I thought the sentiment (Hero Arts) said "be kind to you" and not "be kind be you". Oh well, I'll write something appropriate inside! I used the SCS sketch #96 for my layout (love those challenges). I paper-pieced the Bella Rose DSP (see what I did there? Clever, huh?) on the umbrella and her top. I watercoloured the rest and made her poncho pink pirouette as well as her boots. Her skirt is riding hood red. I used the build-a-brad kit with the DSP and used earth elements ruby red brads as well. I'm sure my Bella collection will grow with time! Thanks for taking a peek!

K Werner Color Challenge 45 - Cathy's Take

You've already seen Donna's beautiful take on this weeks colour challenge on the K Werner Design Blog and now, here's mine!

I actually broke the rules of the challenge by adding just a teensy bit of red - I felt like my focal image needed a lift. I used a decorative blade on my Purple Cows Trimmer to cut my card base and give it a more nostalgic feel, then layered on some Basic Grey paper from the Ambrosia collection and a snippet of a Hambly overlay I had lying around. The focal image was stamped once on the red patterned paper, then again on white and trimmed out. I "fluffed" the petals a bit for dimension, then layered everything with some black and grey ribbon from American Craft and a few Hero Arts self adhesive pearls. Finally, I glued a tiny clock face to the centre of the flower and decided it was done!

Unfortunately, I won't be able to post a link over at K Werner Design this week ('cuz I broke the rules), but I had fun making the card anyway!

Kristina Werner Colour Inspiration #45

Here is my submission for Kristina Werner's Colour Insiration challenge today. I've had a paper stack from DCWV for a few years and don't use it much, so I was thrilled when I could rifle through it. I started off with stripes and circles, but didn't like it, so went for the flower look instead. I also used an older SCS sketch challenge # 180 for layout assistance. I used the retired set Live Your Dreams - I've always liked this flower because you can use a lot of different techniques with it. I embossed it in black and used Basic Gray ink around the edge. I finishd the card off with a dragonfly charm I've had laying around for a long time too to pick up on the little dragonflies in the patterne paper. Oh ya, there are black brads in the corner of the patterned paper as well. Thanks for taking a peek!

Colour Throwdown #33

I'm glad Cathy left me with a stamp set I thought I could use for this colour challenge (kidding, Cath!!). I had this stamp in mind even before she pilfered through my stuff ;). I needed a little help with my layout, so I decided to use the SCS sketch challenge #69. This is a new set from S-U that is available early (it's featured in the upcoming Occasions Catalogue to be released on April 1/09) called "An Egg-cellent Easter". I used markers and ink to watercolour the bunny and eggs. My choice of green was certainly celery. I used the coordinating grograin ribbon and celery brads. I'm not sure what happened when I was trying to space them out - I thought I had it right, but as I moved left, I realized they weren't going to be even on both sides - oh well! My aunt, who will receive this card, won't know the difference! My sentiment came from the All Holidays set. That has to be my favourite sentiment set because it covers off all major holidays & special occasions.