Just checking ...

This is for Clearly i stamp 22, where this sketch was provided:

The challenge requires the use of one of their Clear Dollar stamps or digis and a lovely freebie set is available for download: spring violets.

The sentiment was made with my dymo letratag and a few pearls added to the violets and to the bottom left. The base card is stardream, so there is a glittery sheen to it. Why is it that the colours don't look that true on the photo? - they do say that the camera never lies, but I do wonder!

This is also for this week's Daring Cardmakers which is asking us to create something featuring February flowers: violets or primroses.

This is also for:

Sweet stampin: spring flowers
For fun 50: spring
Digistamps4joy 12: flower power
2 sisters 25: the world is our oyster - pearls
Creative Belli 110: jewelry (the pearls, which have been a bit forgotten recently)
One stitch at a time 48: do it with a digi
Stamp something: February digi day challenge
Craft your passion 44: anything goes
Sew many challenges 42: anything goes
Stampin with the dragon: anything goes

Butterfly with love

This is for the sketch on Hanna and friends 80:

and the colours for Color throwdown 127:
I used BG blush papers and a piece of kraft paper for the stamped butterfly image, simply inked with memento rich cocoa, added a paisley brad and five quite unusual buttons.


This is also for:

Flutter by Wednesdays 140: open + butterfly
Delightful: come fly with me
Critter 51: critter
Cooking it up with Katie 47: I need 2 brown metal papers - metal (the brad), add a little brown, 2 designer papers
Flourish timeless 104: button up
Tuesday throwdown 35: buttons
Pixie cottage 55: buttons
Dutch dare 98: buttons, buttons, who's got the buttons
Little red wagon 66: kraft
Stamp scrap & doodle: dots and stripes
Crafty Ho's: love theme
Crazy challenge 53: lots of love
Incy wincy 80: love
Stamp with fun 97: love
Stamp and create: love
Spoon full of sugar 138: let's see some love
PaperPlay 5: stamp it out
Craft your passion 44: anything goes
Pear tree 35: free for all
Sew many challenges 42: anything goes
Stampin with the dragon: anything goes
Little Claire designs 1: anything goes
Craft us crazy: we want to see what ya got ... anything goes

Grow girl

This card is for Stampotique 23: orange & turquoise - I really enjoyed working with this colour combo - not one that I would readily think of using normally.

I used the sketch for Technostamper Monday lunchtime sketch 160:

Papers are BG blush and urban prairie and the gorgeous stamp (fast becoming one of my favourites) Grow girl by Janet Klein. I used copics to colour, including the edging and also for the larger of the flowers. I added a few pale orange gemstones to her bow, shoes and to replace the seeds on the stamped image, as well as the centre of the flowers.


This is also for:

Pile it on 6: bright and breezy
Creative Belli 110: jewelry - I used gemstones (the old and forgotten embellishments: the flowers)
PaperPlay 5: stamp it out
Top tip Tuesday 21: frame it
Sweet stampin: spring flowers
Craft your passion 44: anything goes
Pear tree 35: free for all
Sew many challenges 42: anything goes
Stampin with the dragon: anything goes
Little Claire designs 1: anything goes
Craft us crazy: we want to see what ya got ... anything goes

Putting it right

The other day I did a CAS Christmas card that I linked for the current ABC Christmas challenge - but, d'oh!! I forgot that we were supposed to follow the given sketch.

So, with big apologies to the ABC team, I'm now showing two cards for ABC Christmas: C is for clean & simple, using the sketch provided:The background for both cards if Bo Bunny 'tis the season carol. The circular image and Christmas pudding are left overs from a QVC kit a couple of years ago, with the addition of other bits and pieces from my scraps box.



These are also for:

Wee memories 42: dust off those scraps (even the Bo Bunny backgrounds were left over from having cut into a 12 x 12 earlier - as well as all the other scraps)
Aly's 35: bling bling - the Christmas pudding and holly are glittered and foiling dots, as well as the foiled strip