MCV 43

When I saw Kimberleys beautifully sparkly card for this weeks MCV I just has to play along !

Unfortunately I didn't have a stag and my mind kept going to an old sentiment I had of SU 's and then it just seemed it had to be a star ...thought processes are so weird aren't they!

But to show that I did take inspiration from Kimberley's card I chose to follow :_

The colours ..... white, red and silver

The  glitter ...used glittery paper instead 

The white panel on top of the red panel

Silver heat embossed sentiment

I used a ribbon instead of a scarf and added the snowflake and gem!

 Thanks for taking the time to look 

xxx

Muse: Christmas Visions 42

 

It has been a frustrating week so thought I would have a wee play to forget about what's been going on and I had the WHOLE day to myself ....but nothing was working out so binned the lot and decided to look at my favourite challenges that I have badly neglected while the wedding invitations were getting (almost) done (and no the dies are still not here!!!)

Loved the idea of the two baubles on Such's cards over at Muse:Christmas Visions

So here is my take on  her bright and cheery card !

I took inspiration from her colours and baubles 

Stamped in the middle of  the baubles and the black sentiment.

Thanks for looking!
xxx

Card concept 52

I am such a bad card maker and blogger lately but have been busy with my friends up coming wedding and this week has just flown by but wanted to take part in this weeks Card concept because not only is it their 2nd Anniversary but that inspiration photo had me drooling!!  an idea popped into my head straight away but when I scrolled down  I saw that Ardyth had a similar idea.:)

Did try another one but didn't like it so went back to my original idea.
I was inspired by the colours the bling and the flowers and think mine is either clean and graphic or clean and layered ???

I cut out a square of the cream and added the strip of black, punched out the daisies and added the sparkle and sentiment and simples it was done ! 

 We are away for a few days with  Dick's mum and his cousin to see his  aunt in Fort William but hope to get back to normal with more blogging and card making soon....better had cos I'm running out of cards! 

Take care and thanks for looking! 

xxx

MCV 37

Its that time again for Muse :Christmas Visions and we have a guest designer Emily Leiphart!!!
She has done a gorgeous and fun card for us and at first I struggled but then had a light bulb moment and decided to take my inspiration from :-
 the Yeti /abominable SNOWMAN which I popped up like Emily's central figure (meant to do his scarf blue but oops forgot)
the trees
the speech bubble
DP
So thanks Emily for getting me to put my thinking cap on!.... and actually I kinda like this one now that its made,came out better than I expected.
Well off to make the tea now squeezed in some crafting time before the family comes in.
Thanks for taking the time to look
xxx

Muse DT

Muse158

It is the last week of term ,yippeee... and the last Monday in March so it is my turn to be your Muse this week .At our school we have a teacher who is retiring soon so I have made a card to give (hopefully she won't be peeking on my blog before then!)

I know she loves pottering about outside so I used a Clearly besotted new release and thoroughly enjoyed colouring it with my favourite technique...yeah blender pen and ink :) but this time I added some yellow chalk to the centres and gently smudged it over one side of the petals.I then grounded my image with smudged green and blue to hopefully give the impression of outdoors before finally adding the butterfly and sentiment.
I mounted it on  black cardstock then worried that between the poppies and the black trim it would look more like a sympathy card !!  what do you think ??

 I hope that I can inspire you to play along with us this week... can't wait to see what you come up with!

:)

xxx

Muse Christmas Vision

 I am on a roll this weekend have decided with working these extra hours that one day of the weekend I'm going to do things I want to do first!

I fell in love with Cornelia's beautiful card for this week's MCV look at those colours!!!...but inking isn't something that I find easy :(

So though I know my card does look so different from Cornelia's there is inspiration from her card there :) Honest!

I have used a silhouette stamp from Clearly Besotted 

My inking does fade so can we say ombre???

I have a moon rather than the sun going down but it's round!

and my sentiment is under my images 

Instead of stars I made snow falling with liquid pearls and the use of a pin to keep them small

My trees I dotted with a white pencil

Thank you for taking the time to look 

xxx

Muse 157

This week's Muse is Anita and she did this gorgeous card that looks like it would be so simple to CASE...except for me it wasn't ! was really struggling until I had a light bulb moment due to Ardyth's card I had done the same middle part at least 15 times when i saw Ardyth's card in the gallery and tried it as a SQUARE card and it worked so much better for me... well in my eyes :)

The one thing that popped out at me on Anita's card was the word fabulous which I paired with a SU sentiment, so I started with that and then used a mama elephant flower set .

So my inspiration this week came from the :-

sentiment

colours 

flowers

 Thanks for taking the time to look,hope to see you in the gallery! 

xxx