Colour Me!....

While browsing I came across another challenge that I have never entered before Colour me...! and as I find colour challenges hard ,thats why they are challenges I suppose!!! thought I would give it a go.  It also helped that this SU stamp(giggle greetings)  popped into my head whenever I saw the colours

Stamped it in black memento  and using promarkers coloured it in,mucked it up but did another then mounted them together to stand out more and then dry embossed the frame.
Really simple but quite pleased with it.
Thanks for taking the time to look
xxx

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The card concept #100

The card Concept is back also after the holidays and they are celebrating their 100th challenge ...well done ladies on bringing a challenge that brings so many styles together and even better explains what each style is !!
Following their criteria then, I think my card falls under the clean and simple style .

I seem to be going mad on DL cards lately but I like them folded this a-ways (means I can also slip money or cheques in easily),so when I saw the beautiful photo inspiration this idea popped into my head.I have used the parcel idea before but for Christmas so wondered how it would look as a birthday card ,think it looks ok and might even use it on a money wallet! 

 I took inspiration from the striped background  for my 'ribbon' ( an Avery Elle stamp) on my parcel and the flowers are from wplus9, the sentiment is from SU and the tag from my stash.

Thanks for taking the time to look.

xxx

Muse #99

This must be a record for me three cards in a week... last year I was lucky if I managed 3 in 3 months!

Don't know about you but I only made one New Year resolution this year and that was to make more time to do things that I enjoy,and that seems to involve an awful lot of card making, hence the 3 cards! and an ironing pile that has grown ever bigger with each passing day,think I must be sticking to t! :)

The Muse challenge is back after the holiday break with this great card by Vicki Dutcher

My take on her card was to use the red white and black colour scheme and for the circles I paper pierced a circle around my cut out one, then die cut the Wplus 9 'happy' from black and white cardstock and layered it with the black as a shadow.Stamped the su birthday and layered it up and finally added the stars rather than sequins as I felt my card had a more masculine/teen feel to it.

off now to have a peek at what everyone else has come up with

Show CASE your style

I found another site that is new to me, while I was browsing and found it through the amazing Darnell's blog and its ShowCASe your style and its another CAS card challenge that is looking for one or more diecut on your card.

Weeell it just so happens this evening I was making a baby boy card for a work colleague and so my diecut is the circle that I cut out to showcase my SU ark stamp - love this stamp for baby boys or even twins :) and it was so soothing to get out my promarkers and have a colouring in session. 

Off to get my work things organised for tomorrow ,but thanks for taking the time to look!

xxx

Opposites

(Sorry not the greatest photo had to use the daylight lamp!)

Well its back to work tomorrow :( so trying to squeeze in some cardmaking,came across the One Layer Simplicity challenge  while browsing Ardyths page and the theme appealed so thought I would  give it a go - The theme is opposites and kinda thought that would be an easy one eh well maybe not,took me a wee while to come up with this very very simple card!

 :)

But think it meets the criteria (even though the Happy was meant to be small case and didn't even notice until I put up here- oops!) with a WHITE card and BLACK stamping, a SHORT happy and a LONG birthday (love this Uniko studio sentiment so crisp ) BIG and SMALL hearts and the pink colour is shades of LIGHT and DARK.

 Also think it meets the challenges:-
Crazy 4 Challenges
Clean and simple
Virginias's View
Clean slate
( I chose from the list
lots of white space and one layer)

Happy New Year!!

It is Hogmanay here in Scotland and I have followed my mum and grandmas tradition of sweeping out thde bad luck from this year out the front door (rough translation I did a bit of  a clean!) ready for a fresh start in the New Year!

So before I settle down to wait for the bells I wanted to wish everyone where ' er they be a Happy and healthy year.

Take care and enjoy the festivities tonight

Cheers

&

Lang may yer lum reek!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

xxx

Allsorts

MERRY CHRISTMAS and A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I hope that your pressies from Santa included plenty of crafty goodies ??he brought me a Cricut mini but we cant get it to work wont get past the initializing page :( but will get in touch with their support and see what they say...fingers crossed that we can get it up and running soon!

I would like to thank those people who continue to visit my page even though I have been such a poor blogger lately but aim to change that after the holidays if not before!

Starting with......

The Allsorts challenge,they have a theme of 

LAST MINUTE GIFTS

and as in Scotland it will be Hogmanay on the 31st and it is tradional to givea small first footing gifts to the people you visit after midnight I decided to make some last minute gifts for it .This year I have made a selection of cards in a box (made by my new SU envelope puch board)nthe tutorial for the envelope box for C6 size cards came from Lizys house of Cards video tutorial you can find it on her sidebar and it worked a treat ..except my dots went off slightly ,promise there was no wine partaken when I was making it !

The paper for the box and some of the cards are using SU products and the rest are using W9,loving these flowers you will be seeing more of those I can promise you that.

Thanks for taking the time to look

xxx