Play Date and Sweet Sunday Combo

Good afternoon,

Not content with one post today I'm here with another!

This card is a combination of two challenges the Play Date Cafe challenge, which is a challenge all about colour, this week we have a very girly colour combo, of Coral, Petal Pink and Antique Gold.
So I sifted through my Colour Coach to find colours like these and came up with Tango Tangerine, Blushing Bride, ad So Saffron (I don't have any gold so I went for a golden yellow shade)

 The second of the challenges I have used for my card is a sketch from the Sweet Sunday Sketch challenge, I really like the sketches from this challenge site. They are normally quite simple so that you can take them wherever you'd like, here is this weeks sketch.

I really liked the photographs used for the Play Date colour story and was inspired by the dress to use my Sew Lovely stamp set. What do you think?

I used the eyelet border punch for the strips to carry on the fabric theme, I think they look a little like fabric strips.I kept my promise and used several pieces of DSP in this card.

Well that's all from me for today, see you later in the week with some more offerings, xx

Buttons and Bows

Hi,

Just a quick post this evening to show you the card I've made for the Simply stampin' challenge blog, as you can tell from the title this weeks challenge was buttons and bows.

I may have gone a little OTT with the buttons, what do you think?

I wanted to use my new scallop circle die to make my card and I had this idea of using the buttons to frame the sentiment, I choose a background paper that had lots of colours within it so that I could use all different coloured buttons. The DSP is Sweet Stitches paper, and a mixture of SU! designer buttons, and buttons from my stash, the ribbon is gorgeous White Organza which you may have overlooked in the catalogue, this can be dyed any colour with the re-inkers so it's very versatile.

Anyway keep your fingers crossed for me, that my very different card, catches the design teams eye over at Simply Stampin.

Sew Lovely to see you

Hi there,

Just a quick post before I run off to work.
Well today I thought I'd share another of the cards are I made for my first card party. It's made using the Sew Lovely stamps, and co-ordinating papers, Sweet Stitches.

The papers are really fun and bright, so I wanted my card to have the same feel. I know that pink and orange clash a bit but I really like the way that this combo worked along side the yellow. Which I carried through the card with the buttons.

Here's the recipe
Stamps, Sew lovely
Paper, melon mambo CS, pumpkin pie CS, daffodil delight CS, Sweet stitches DSP, vanilla CS
Ink, choc chip
Accessories, designer buttons, daffodil delight satin ribbon, stamp-a-ma-jig

Hope you like it, xx

Sweet Sunday

Well I'm back again with another challenge card this time for Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge, I find these challenges the most useful, they tend to guide me rather than hurting my brain, which wouldn't feel nice on such a glorious Sunday afternoon.

This is the sketch for this week

I needed to make a birthday card, and I'm completely in love with my Daisies die, you may have noticed, so I thought straight away that I would use a large daisy for the circle element of this sketch, here's my card

I wanted it to be quite bright so I opted for Melon Mambo again, (second time today) but this time coupled with Perfect Plum, and Tempting Turquoise. I've used the Sweet Stitches DSP, as you can see this paper pack doesn't have to be used just for sewing cards!

Here's the recipe
Stamps, Afterthoughts
Paper, Perfect plum CS, Melon mambo CS, whisper white CS, Regal rose CS, Pretty in pink CS, Sweet stitches DSP, Brights DSP stack
Ink, Basic black
Accessories, Daisies Die, Seam binding ribbon (Rose red), Rhinestones, Rhinestone Brad (flower centre)

Back soon, with more to share
xx