Feminine at Try It On Tuesday

 Our challenge for the next two weeks at Try It On Tuesday is called 'Make it Feminine'.

I love this Altenew Peony embossing folder and have used it lots!

This time I swiped over the flowers with two different colours of Versamagic Chalk inks - Pixie Dust and Pink Grapefruit before sponging a little pale green onto the leaves.

I then sat and fussy cut it! Two thirds of the way through I was beginning to be sorry I started - at least the funny thumb was - so I was glad when I finally finished!

I mixed the Pink Grapefruit ink with a little water and spattered the base card, popped the fussy cut panel onto it with 3D foam pads.
Finished with a simple sentiment.

Thanks for looking - hope you will visit the TIOT blog and have a look at the rest of the DT's makes and as always hope that you will join us for this challenge!

Have a great day whatever you're doing. x

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Beautiful Blossoms - A/Floral
Creations in Pink - Mainly Pink
Pearly Sparkles - Floral

Sublime

Time has simply flown and I am beginning to wonder what I am doing as I never seem to have a lot of time recently to do anything!

A friend's birthday is fast approaching and my card stash didn't have a lot in it so I have made this.

She is a no fuss or frills person but she does love her garden and birds so thought these stamps from Penny Black called Sublime would be perfect.

The little birdie is so cute!

Using watercolour card I stamped the floral spray off the edge a couple of times using Versafine Clair Fallen Leaves ink.

Images were coloured with Aquarelle pencils and the sentiment is from SU.

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Crafty Chicks - CAS
Cardz4Galz- Birds
Simply Clean and Simple - Off Centre
PB Saturday Challenge - Flowers

Thanks for looking today - hope all is well in your part of blogland! x

Keep It Simple at TIOT

 Our challenge for the next two weeks at Try It On Tuesday is called - 'KEEP IT SIMPLE'.
I hope that you can find time to join us and also pay a quick visit to the Design Team to see what they've come up with!

I have not had a lot of time recently as we have a big County Art and Craft Showcase in September and our W.I has been creating a very large project (more on that when I can reveal!)

So because of the time constraints and my brain being full of coming up with things to make (and making) for the very specific Showcase theme I turned to my saved folder for ideas and saw a card like this!

It was really quick and I am happy with how it turned out - I think the white over the black gives a crisp look and the lime green adds a big pop of colour.

I simply added a few enamel dots in the same lime green for a bit of interest.

I shall be doing a couple more using a different colour than black for the base card to put into my emergency stash I think!
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(Pin)spirational - Use Die Cuts
A Cut Above - Die Cuts
Thanks for looking and hope all is well in your part of blogland! x

Card Chain Challenge July Reveal

 My swap partners this month for the Card Chain Challenge - I sent to Jo in the UK and was delighted to receive a lovely card from Linda in Michigan! (Thank you again Linda!)

So - I was a little pleased as I managed to have a bash at using the colour options and the theme of 'Asian' from the choices this time round.

A lighter bright blue (Topaz) was the base and before layering onto gold mirri card I used some gold embroidery thread to attach the Chinese coin.

I used a darker shade for the next layer stamping some bamboo and simply clear embossing.

The 'Bird of Happiness' is from an Altenew set, gold heat embossed (love this stylized bird) and the Happiness sentiment is from Paper Discovery.

Having checked the colour of 'Jade' on an internet search I found it was varying shades of green through the colour spectrum from a very pale green right through to Emerald. 

So once I had stamped and fussy cut my figure, I painted her in pale green and blue. 

There's still a few days left to sign up for the August challenge and we are being generously sponsored this time by RELATIVELY THOUGHTFUL who are offering a gorgeous digital download paper set called Egyptian Dreams for one randomly selected player in the Chain and are also offering a 10% discount for all our players!!
This discount applies to digital and physical products in the shop so wherever you are in the World we should all be able to benefit from this - the code will be included when you get the Card Chain Challenge contact email.
Come and join us! x