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

Muse DT 167

Once again it is my turn to be the Muse this week ..where are the weeks going! just 6 weeks til the summer holidays wahoo!

This week it is something a little bit different for me card wise, no flowers but still hope it will inspire you to play along .This week I diecut a  row  of  gift boxes that  I Paper pieced with a rainbow of  Colours  but it doesn't have to be gift boxes it can be anything! or maybe you might only want to   use the colours  or the heart ??? feel free to use the muse card in anyway you like!

 The dies were from SSS and the sentiment is from Paper smooches  which I managed to put on just the tiniest bit squint ...oops:)

Finally I added a wink of stella to the boxes to make them sparkle as you can see from the picture below and a little heart to say ..given with love !

Hope to see you in the gallery and can't wait to see what beautiful creations you will come up with this week!

I took my inspiration from the current Paper Smooches challenge so will be linking it up there too. 

 Thanks for taking the time to look

xxx

Passion for promarkers

I came across a new challenge for me which fitted in beautifully to what I was sitting doing at my desk ,trying to colour in these poppies from Clearly Besotted with my promarkers and flexmarkers.... Passion for promarkers!!! 

I have used the other poppies in the set and used a different technique but wanted to try using my promarkers especially as I'm not the best at shading with them....  must admit  still not 100% happy with them and found them very hard to photograph as they went a funny shade.... they are much duller red and prettier(well I think so) in RL! 

I used chalk on the background and in the centre of my flowers and if you are looking for my stripes or spots as the challenge states I'm hoping the  the stripey twine will fit the bill!.

A few of the people I know are coming up for retirement soon - another one in work at the end of next month so if you are looking Susan....... this card will be winging its way to you soon! :)

Thank you for taking the time to look

xxx