Gretta's birthday card

Sorry I've been MIA all week ... no it wasn't the CPS marathon that finished me off, but another {bleepin} cold!  It's barely been a month since the last bout, so hopefully that's me for a while!

But at least it didn't stop me going to see Grease at the Opera House in Belfast yesterday with my sis.  And it was FAB-U-LOUS!  I've always had a bit of a thing for the film, so I couldn't help but love the live version!

This card was inspired by this week's featured stamper over at Splitcoaststampers ... Becky - here's her original.
I used a flower stamp from Stampendous 'happy flowers'; Marianne Design DP; Paper Smooches alphabet; green pearls.

• Use it Tuesday #25 - Its a birthday party
• Cute Card Thursday #204 - flower power
• Allsorts #142 - anything goes
• Paper Sundaes #108 - Birthday

Dream Valley Challenge #23

We're back with a new challenge for the New Year at Dream Valley and it couldn't be easier ....
Anything Goes!

(There's a fab prize on offer too from One Stop Card Crafts)  Make anything you like, doesn't have to be a card and you've a fortnight to play along. (max 3 entries)

My card uses some wee paper-pieced flowers from Stampendous and the DP was from a Christmas pack.

Other Challenges:

• Allsorts #136 - paper piecing
• Ribbon Carousel RCC34 - anything goes
• The Pink Elephant TPE129 - anything goes
• Joanna Sheen - celebrations

ETA: Top 5 @ Allsorts

Happy Flowers and Happy Roses!

This is just a wee CAS card ... paper pieced some flowers from the Stampendous 'Happy Flowers' set, added some card candy, bling and googly eyes and that was it done!
(scroll down for challenges I'd like to enter this card into...)

We had a very mixed bag of weather today, but the rain mostly stopped while we went for a visit to our local agricultural college's garden open day this afternoon....

Here's my Mum among the roses, which unfortunately have been beaten down a bit by the rain!

And there were loads of stunningly beautiful dhalias too ....

• Really Reasonably Ribbon August Challenge - CAS + ribbon
• Creative Card Crew - hand made flowers
• Try it on Tuesday - anything goes
• Fussy and Fancy Friday #43 - use at least 3 of your favourite embellishments ... I've used bling, bakers twine and card candy

Dream Valley Challenge #12

Our new challenge over at Dream Valley is to make a card (or any project) with a Surprise element, so anything hidden or a pop up or whatever ... just surprise us!  You've a fortnight to play along with our challenge and you could win yourself a wee prize from Digis with Attitude!

I thought I'd have a go at making one of these flower pot cards with the hidden sentiment for my sister's birthday card - here's the link to the Splitcoaststampers tutorial if you fancy having a go yourself!

Other challenges:

• Make it Colourful #27 - colour your own embellishments - I coloured my white card candy with a red marker and then topped it off with red glitter, and also coloured my clear rhinestones with a red marker
• Allsorts #113 - free and easy
• Paper Cutz #101 - anything goes
• Kaboodle Doodles #76 - embossing

Just a simple note

Just a very simple little card ... flowers from Stampendous 'Happy Flowers', Tim Holtz border die, card candy coloured with grey marker and bit of glitter added, and that's about it really!

• Layout inspired by Clean and Simple FTL146
• Stamp Something: Red, white and blue
• CAS-ual Friday CFC8 - add a fancy edge
• Play date Cafe PDCC87 - slate blue, barn red, grey

Dream Valley Challenge #06

Our new challenge at Dream Valley is Flowers ... and there's a fab prize up for grabs from One Stop Card Crafts!  So play along and you never know your luck!  Check out the gorgeous creations from the rest of the DT when you're uploading your card HERE.

Can you tell the sun was shining and there was a bit of heat in the air when I made this card ... all those lovely hot colours!  I've used a stamp set from Stampendous 'Happy Flowers' and coloured with copics.  A couple of the flowers are popped up on 2mm dimensionals, and the flower centres on 1mm.  I had intended to add some frosted lace stickles to the flower centres, but my tube ran dry, as did my pink marker - I only just managed to scratch enough out of it to colour the flower centres ... I think my crafty supplies are conspiring against me again!!

Other challenges ....

• Simon Says Stamp .... anything goes
• Paper Cutz #89 - anything goes
• My Mum's Craft Shop #3 - flowers
• Sparkles forum challenge #10 - anything goes
• Do you stack up #17 - make it pop

Happy Mail

 

I managed to use some of my goodies from yesterday's shopping expedition this morning .... I bought some black enamel yesterday (which I'm LOVING!) and used it to highlight the wee dots.  My new stamp set is from Stampendous 'Happy Flowers' and my new DP was a cheapo bargain from Dovecraft.

Paper pieced my flower and popped up the centre on dimensionals.  Versamarked the little flower on the pink panel and hand stitched a few wee stitches at the base. 

• Sketch from Stamp TV STVSKSP21
• Lets ink it up #13 - stitching
• Secret Crafter Saturday challenge #130 - stitching
• Charisma #15 - pink, black and green
• Crafty Creations #114 - paper piecing