Muse Dt 172

My turn again to be DT  at Muse ....the months are sure flying by!and I did a really simple layout this week but I love it! so far I have made a batch of these in different designs and hoping that it will inspire you too! 

I started off by stamping a hero arts butterfly then coloured it with my old faithful chalks - yellow and blue,before punching them out with  SU punches.

I still have cards left over from the wedding invitations so as the layout is so simple thought the textured background would make it pop more ...maybe I should look for a linen look embossing folder!

I then stamped the sentiment with my Misti ( this is one tool I could not do without now!)

Finally I  placed them and added the bling .

Wonder what you will take inspiration from butterflies ?,colours? bling ? layout or whatever pops into your head !

Look forward to seeing you in the gallery -

and thank you for taking the time to look 

xxx

MCV 50

I am delighted to see as our Guest designer over at the MCV challenge Elizabeth Stewart! She makes the most beautiful cards and this one is a Christmas stunner...look at all that sparkle ,whats not to love!

I found my eyes being drawn to the circles and how they all touched one another in some way ,the snowflakes and of course that sparkly paper. 

I  punched the circles and die cut out 2 sets of  the snowflakes before fitting the white ones back in - boy what a fiddly job it was getting all the sparkly bits from the other set to fit inside the snowflakes (needed a glass of wine when I had finished!!! )

Using the sparkly set of snowflakes I then added them so that they touched their neighbours and finally stamped the sentiment in blue before heat embossing the sentiment in white on the vellum.I had hoped it would add a shadow to the embossed sentiment but unfortunately it didn't work :( but thanks for taking the time to look

xxx

MCV

This week our Muse is Cornelia over at MCV and she did a really fun card !!but I struggled with it I must admit would have loved to do a fun card too but mu brain and stamps refused to cooperate :( so this is what it came up with instead....

it followed Cornelias colours,her 2 stripey trees and wood grain - 

and the one week where I decided that I couldn't possibly post another card with a small rectangle in the middle (think this is becoming my trademark ...but so frustrating that I cant stop doing it!!) Ardyth does a circle in the middle too! :)

Thanks for taking the time to look

xxx

Mcv and CASE this sketch

                                                  

First of all I must apologise for just dipping in and out of blogland recently ,my friends wedding is taking up a lot of my free time,though exciting and great fun when I'm not with her I am either planning a few 'crafty' surprises (in more ways than one!) for her or working...

 but today I woke up with a sore throat that just said to me have a lazy day and what better way to cheer myself up but to find that a card that I had started  yesterday actually would fit into 2! challenges.MCV   where I followed Chriss's penguins and colour scheme.

I started to by using rectangles leftovers from my wedding invitations of which I have many!

which reminds me I never  showed the quirky ones using paper smooches toast  that we came up with to showcase her partners poem....

....I think it all ties in together well after all it has been  a 24 year engagement!!

But back to my card ..I chalked the blue sky added liquid pearls for snowflakes and placed my fussy cut out mama elephants penguins (love them just soooo cute!)and placed them off the edge,added the sentiment and cut it to match the tag on CASe this sketch ,(which I seem to have switched the sketch to the opposite side oops)

 Cas(e) this sketch

 

Speaking of which I had the privilege of chatting  (thanks to my son showing me how to do 'face time' on face book!)with Michele Ferguson it was great to speak face to face and what a lovely lady she is and Tom her hubby too :) ...can't wait to do it again !!!

Thanks for taking the time to look 

xxx

Fusion

When I saw the Fusions cue card this week I just knew what I wanted to do because I had the new card kit from MFT delivered this week and boy I LOVE it!!

I wanted to kinda of mimic the way the flowers went up the cake  but then I got carried away and added the small flowers ...as you do when you are having fun so feel it maybe a bit too busy now but hey ho .

I used hero arts inks cornflower blue and navy and SU lucky limeade and MFT jelly been green for the leaves.The panel is a scrap left over from the wedding cards I made recently, and the sentiment is Altenew label love .

Thanks for taking the time to look

xxx

MCV 46

I've already said it I know but I am soooo bad at blending inks and this weeks challenge at MCV has beautiful blending by Stephanie...I did try and will have to plant a tree for the amount of paper  I wasted!

So I   went with the colours- white black green and red

 the  deer,

 and the sparkles

I got the closest sentiment that I could and it was meant to go across the top but it was slightly too big depth wise next time I will stamp before I cut the panel :)

Thanks Stephanie for a brilliant inspirational card love how your image comes over the edge !!

Thanks for taking the time to look

xxx 

Case this sketch

I thought I'd play along at this weeks CAS(E) this sketch! love these little robots from Clearly besotted and have nobody to really give it to... but I had fun colouring them in and the 'confetti' I made with SU markers .

Thanks for taking a look 

xxx