Well I have been busy once again with Beate’s Be Inspired Challenge. To be honest when I first saw the inspiration photo, I had no idea what I was going to come up with…….really I am sure you will know what I mean when you see this picture!

But I am totally stoked that I thought of something, ran with it, and actually liked the end product

This is the inspiration…….c wat i mean??….a pretty gaudy lookin cake!

This is my inspired creation….not bad hey (considering the cake!) I actually reckon that it looks pretty similar…hehe

I used Mellow moss, Brocade blue, Very vanilla, and Ruby red cardstock. The Moss has been stamped with the Fine lace background stamp with Moss ink. Then on the strip of Vanilla cardstock I rolled the Watercolour Vive with Mellow moss ink. I have stamped little flowers in Ruby red, and Brocade blue ink and added some random half pearls. I also created a strip of scallops with my slit punch and then paper pierced the centre of them. Lastly I took 3 different flowers from the pretties kit and coloured them with my sponge daubers and stamp pads and placing a large half pearl in the centre.

Thanks again to Beate for a great “Be Inspired Challenge” !!!!

 Okay off to finish this weeks Colour challenges………..till next time

Last week my lovely hubby came home with a gorgeous bunch of flowers for me! What a treat….thanks Rod.

Well as the week has gone by I have found myself staring at the beautiful array of colours standing in a vase, and then I thought to myself…..why not use these flowers for inspiration!

So I have taken a photo of my beautiful flowers and made a card from it.

Here are the flowers with my two all time favourite…Iris’ and Oriental Lilliums!!!

Here is my inspired creation….

Now this card is far brighter than I am used to…… Not much of a Bold brights fan, which you probably already knew and before you go telling me off for not including yellow, I will let you now that under no circumstance will I use yellow in my work. Ever since I was a little girl I have hated the colour yellow!!! Seriously, I am not joking. I don’t know where is comes from, but it make me ill. So yep you have it with no yellow….much to my best friend’s disgust, as it is her all time Fav colour and manages to actually wear it often, and that is when I kindly mention that she is looking terrible that day. Only kidding…..well I have done that a couple of times! Winking at ya Lee xxx

Okay enuff rubbish….. onto the card details. I have used Elegant eggplant, Only orange, Glorious green, and Real red for cardstock. The Eggplant background is stamped with the linen background stamp as is the only orange too. The large Flower from Fabulous flowers has been inked up with my markers and then blinged up with dazzling diamonds glitter. I have stamped it 3 times, and cut layers for a 3-D effetct. Lastly I did 6 little circle fpunches of eggplant cardstock and placed Real red Rhinstone brads in the centre, and some faux stitching around the outer border.

Whilst I don’t gravitate to these colours, I still like the card. I think it would look just Fab with Pixie pink, Turquiose, and Pumpkin!…..hmmm might have to go and give that a try.

Take care,

P.S. Like my new signature??? I have the wonderful Leonie Schroder to thank for that one! Not only is she great with paper, ink and stamps, she is so wonderfully computer savy too. Isn’t she so clever to get the stamp from the Scribble this stamp set to sit behind my name, and to match my blog header!!!! Thanks a million Leonie, I LOVE it

I had heaps of fun with this Beate’s Weekend Sketch Challenge. I also added another challenge to it…….I had to use stamp sets that I haven’t touched for over 6 months. It is so easy to go back to your  new fav’s all the time, but I thought why not use something that needed the dust shaken off! I am acutally quite suprised that they are just as good as they used to be! (not that, that make sense!)

This is Beate’s sketch….

This was my first card. I have used Close to Cocoa cardstock as the base which I stamped the little swirls from the Sweet Shapes stamp set with Chocolate chip ink. Then I added a strip of textured soft sky cardstock which I stamped the little dots on. Adding another strip if DS paper that I also drew some little squiggles ( is that even a word?)  I have stamped the shape and swirls and the little blossom on the background and then two butterflies one in pretty in pink and the other soft sky and two step stamped them with Close to cocoa ink for the outline. Lastly adding some dazzling diamonds glitter to them, cutting them out and mounting them with dimensionals. I punched out a couple of small oval punches and double mounted them and added a rhinstone brad to make the little brackets on the right hand side. Lastly adding the greeting hello from the same stamp set.

Ahhhh… the lovely Natural Beuty stamp set…… gotta love that one. I used River rock textured cardstock for the base, then adding a strip of DS paper from the LeJardin paper pack. I have also added a strip of Chocolate chip textured cardstock that I paper pierced and distressed around the edges. Then I stamped the little bird up on watercolour paper with my Stazon ink pad. I have watercoloured it using my aquapainter and stamp pads. I distressed the edges and did a couple of stamps with the Itty bitty backgrounds stamp set to get the mottled look. Lastly I added some Artichoke grosgrain ribbon with a piece of hodgepodge hardware and the word ‘HOPE’ to the Chocolate chip strip.

OHHHH Like it a Latte…..what a fun set! I fell in love with this one when it came out of the Spring mini last year. Great to see it make it to the new big catty this year! I have used Chocolate chip, Close to cocoa, and Pretty in pink cardstock. Really I just stamped the different stamps all with Chocolate ink, then blinged it up with some pretty in pink taffeta ribbon, buttons, and dazzling diamonds glitter.

The last card I made was with the Simply said stamp set. Not too sure if I actually like this card….hmmm well it is my least fav of the four of them. I used Perfect plum, Sage shadow, and Pale plum cardstock, with a strip of DS paper from the Spring Fling pack. The base is stamped with the Linen background with the perfect plum ink. I also masked the heart and then stamped with the linen background stamp on the the whisper white cardstock. The floral heart I stamped onto pale plum cardstock and coloured the flowers in with my white gel pen. Lastly adding some Eggplant grosgrain ribbon, sage shadow eyelets, and some detail with my white gel pen.

Okay now for some scrap pages……. see this sketch is FABULOUS!!!

I totally LOVE how this page turned out! Probably because the photo means so much to me and really resonates the absolute ball Louise and I had together at Convention!!!! Good memories for sure!

I have started with a Basic Grey cardstock that I stamped with some random shapes from the Polka dots and petals stamp set. I created the scallop edge with my slit punch on pretty in pink cardstock. Then I used a wide strip of  the Rose red prints DS paper pack. I double mounted the next strip with Basic grey and Pretty in pink which I dazzled up with the two-way glue pen and dazzling diamonds glitter. I cut out two of the flowers from the paper and mounted them together and placed a a rhinstone brad in the centre. Lastly adding  the greeting with my black stampin’write journaler.

Here is a little funky scrap page of my dear friend Monique (aka……..Monnie Moo) I would NEVER EVER use Brilliant blue because it is my least favourite colour along side Summer sun……(too many memories of a royal blue school uniform from a private school!!!!) Anyway since Monnie moo, is wearing that funky shirt I have taken the colours from that. Real red, Brilliant blue, Basic grey , and Basic black cardstock I punched out with my 1 1/4 square punch. I added the second layer strip which is plain basic grey with 3 buttons attached. Lastly I added the photo of Monique and her name with my black stampin’write journaler. The base of Real red cardstock I also stamped with the Background sampler stamp set with Real red ink.

Well that was great fun. I hope I have inspired you with this sketch………see it is easy…..go and give it a go yourself

This months promotion from Stampin’Up is called eScape…..what is that????

Well really it is trying to get us back in touch with our old way of communication, writing and sending things in the post.

June 25 is eScape day. A day to turn off the the mobile, email, etc….. A day to re-connect with a pen

This month to promote eScape day, Stampin’Up is offering a special package called the eScape bundle. What you will recieve is

1 1/4 inch cirlce punch

Circle of frienship stamp set

A pack of assorted Love Notes with Envelopes

All for $58.80…..That is 25% off!

I thought I would pull these items out and have a little play with them, and to also show you how cute these Love Notes come together. I also created a little box which you can fit 3 love notes with envelopes into.

Using my all time favourite colour combo…Choc chip, regal rose and cocoa! Don’t you think they are cute? Here I have used Chocolate chip, Regal rose, cardstock with some strips of DS prints paper in Close to cocoa. Along with the Circle of Friendship stamp set and circle punch.

The eScape bundle is only available til the end of June.

Enjoy!

Well once again I have manged to make something for Krisitina’s challenge…….only just though. Sorry no time for more than one I was hoping to, but we had hubby’s new work collegues for dinner yesterday and of course I had to have the house spick and span, AND make dinner, do the soccor run etc…. Well I think I have made it just at the finishing line to have them challenge card uploaded to Kristina’s site.

 Anyway here is the challenge from Kristina

There are the colours….

And here is my card….

I used the going grey and rose red as my base. I have added a strip of So Saffron which is covered with a strip of wide grosgrain old olive ribbon. I also added 2 fine strips of Going grey cardstock. The greeting and flowers is from the Fabulous flowers stamp set. The greeting has been embossed with White embossing powder. The Large flower has been stamped using the emerging colour technique and I topped it off with 2 small flowers and a rhinstone brad.

 Phew…….just managed to get that one done…..hopefully next time there will be more creations!

Love Keesh x