Muse DT

This week for Muse I am still determined to try new layouts ! 

Well maybe not that new :) but using soft grey cardstock I cut out  a 5x5 card .I cut out the centre circle using avery elle pierced circles .I cut a regular circle slightly smaller and stamped it with an Altenew sentiment.Laid it aside and made my MFT flashy florals .(Love this set so easy to use!)

Finally I popped the slightly smaller circle in the space (I was going to leave the circle open but think I prefer the thin empty space between the two circles).

Hope my card inspires you to join in with us this week and cant wait to see you in the gallery! 

Thanks for looking

xxx

MCV 53

Whenever I saw Chriss's beautiful inspiration card this week at MCV I know what I wanted to do... 

Using a Poppy die for the poinsettia's I cut  3 of them out  and coloured in the leaves with  a flexmarker ...love these!  I added a dot of liquid pearls in the centre and then mounted my card in gold mirror card as my panel wasn't popping out enough .Then added that to my main card that had a textured surface.

 Oh and I loved how Chriss had added the supplies that she had used so I was inspired to do that to :)

A very simple and traditional card but one I could recreate easily , but for now another card done !

Thank you for taking the time to look

xxx

Time out challenge

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"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine"

Anthony J. D'Angelo

This is the word inspiration over at the TIME OUT challenge 

...and as we are sadly lacking any sun at the moment I found myself drawn to make a sunshiney card !

I used an old stencil that was languishing in a drawer and a hero arts sentiment ,I would have prefered a pair of sunglasses rather than the heart but unfortunately I had none! so went instead with the Su punched heart with a swipe of wink of stella .

Thanks for taking the time to look

xxx

Happy Birthday Darnell

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DARNELL!!!!!!!

....hope its your best one yet!

I am posting this card here for Darnells birthday and holding my hand up that I did the unforgivable and forgot Darnells birthday!!!!!!! (she NEVER ) forgets mine, and on cue one beautiful card arrived today how bad a blogging friend am ???

I hang my head in shame and beg Darnell when she comes over to the UK in July  if she can possible ask hammy if he has any relatives in Scotland that would be willing to help me out with me with old lady memory issues ,inspiration and general PA duties???
Room and board will be provided (sunflower seeds and veg of his/her choice of curse if provided to the highest standard).

Case this sketch 178

When I saw this weeks sketch over at CASe this Sketch an idea popped into my head straight away!

I know someone who will be moving house soon ,so decided to do a card for her! 

I did follow the sketch pretty closely just really popped a roof on it :)

As my friend is partial to a bit of DP paper (mine is from MFT) added that in her favourite neutral colours for the house. Looked a bit plain so added a (Slightly overgrown ) garden . The sentiment is a bit small I know but it says ' Home is where the heart is ' .

I'm hoping you have guessed who it is destined for Michele ???

 :)

Thanks for taking the time to look

xxx

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