CASology Week 28 - Purple

Good Afternoon,

This week's Cue Card of 'Contrast' at CASology  is Purple, so lots of directions you can go with this one.  I am running short on birthday cards, so just made a pretty card instead.

Supplies Used:
Uniko Studio - Bright Butterflies
Stampin Up - Stripes
Papertrey Ink - Faux Ribbon
Sprakles from my stash

Now it's over to you guys, I can't wait to see what you all come up with this week, but before you get started have a quick visit round the rest of the Design Team for further inspiration.

Ardyth Percy-Robb

Jen Wills

Joyce Mehrberg

Judy Marino

Kimberly Wiener

Maureen Merritt

May Park

Meghan McMillan

Melissa Chipperfield

Tracey McNeely

Guest Designer - Toni

And our fabulous sponsor this week is Prickly Pear Rubber Stamps

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CAS(E) this Sketch #61

Good Evening,

I have just realised that I forgot to post my card for this week's CAS(E) this Sketch challenge. I am such a terrible blogger at the moment, a lack of mojo, forgetting to post cards and not having time to comment on everybody elses blogs is just not good enough. However my work should calm down after this week, so hopefully (fingers crossed) I get back into the groove of things at the weekend.

Anyway, enough ramblings here is my card.

Supplies Used:
Impression Obession Die
Clearly Besotted - Surprise (Sentiment)

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Bright Butterflies

Good Afternoon,

Another miserable Sunday afternoon here is Aberdeenshire, so I have disappeared to my craft room and think I may be here for sometime!

My card today, is for this weeks challenge at Less Is More, where they have provided us with a sketch to follow this time.

Supplies Used:
Uniko Studio - Bright Butterflies
Clearly Besotted - Surprise (Sentiment)
Ink Dusters

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Happy Blogversary Muse

Good Afternoon,

Can you believe Muse is one year old already! and as an extra treat the original creator of Muse, Jackie Rockwell is back with the Muse card this week!

I have been trying to joining in with challenge all week, but work is getting in the way. Anyway I finally found time to create my card and went through lots of different ideas before finally settling on a design I liked.  However once I finished it I realised how similar it was to Jackie's original card! Argggh, however I thought I would share it anyway and I will have another go later on today.

Supplies Used:
Pink Petticoat - Waterfall Hearts DP
Nestabilities
Stampin Up - Teeny Tiny Sentiment
Annabelle Stamps - Sparkles

And here is Jackie's original card and her Muse take on her card.

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CASology Week 79 - Contrast

Good Afternoon,

This week's Cue Card of 'Contrast' at CASology  has stirred up quite a lot of discussion among the Design Team, as our leader Melissa set us an extra challenge of making a CAS and a non CAS card so that we can demonstrate the difference between the two styles. However you don't have to do this, we are asking for a CAS using the Cue Card in any direction it takes you.  My take on Contrast was to use opposite colours on the colour wheel.

First up is my CAS version of 'Contrast'

Supplies Used:
Hero Arts & Sizzix
MME - On the Bright Side - DP
Stampin Up - Express Yourself

And now for my non CAS version, well as non CAS as I could manage! It's easier said than done. But it was fun to challenge myself.

Supplies Used:
As above plus
Stampin Up - Doilies
Stampin Up - Morning Meadow
Annabelle Stamps - Pearls

Now it's over to you guys, I can't wait to see what you all come up with this week, but before you get started have a quick visit round the rest of the Design Team for further inspiration.

Ardyth Percy-Robb

Jen Wills

Joyce Mehrberg

Judy Marino

Kimberly Wiener

Maureen Merritt

May Park

Meghan McMillan

Melissa Chipperfield

Tracey McNeely

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Colour Blocks

Good Afternoon,

Another quick post from me today, life seems to be flying past and nothing I do seems to be slowing it down unfortunately. I have managed, over the weekend, to make a quick card for this week's CAS-ual Fridays challenge, which is 'Colour Blocks'.

Supplies Used:
Clearly Besotted - Geometric Style
Stampin Up - Curly Cute
Stampin Up - Edgelits

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New Baby

Good Afternoon,

What a miserable wet day it is here today, but a perfect excuse to disappear into my craft room!  My card today is for this week's Less Is More challenge which is 'New Baby', which is quite convenient as my next door neighbours had a baby boy this week so I needed to make a card anyway.

Supplies Used:
Freshly Squeezed Stamps - Subway Series Occassions
VersaMark
Wow white embossing powder

Off now to start on the next item on my 'to do' list.

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CAS(E) this Sketch #60

Good Evening,

My card tonight is for the new challenge over CAS(E) this Sketch, I have rotated the sketch to suit my hearts die.  I don't seem to be back into full card making mode, but hopefully it won't be too much longer.  Is anybody else having problems getting back into the groove after their break over Christmas and New Year?

Supplies Used:
Impression Obession - Hearts Die
Uniko Studio - Always & Forver

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CASology Week 78 - Dot

Good Afternoon,

It is time for another challenge over at CASology and this weeks Cue Card is 'Dot' My card is made using Stamps from our amazing Sponsor this week, Neat and Tangled.  I recommend you all hop over there and have a look at the amazing stamps they have. I have already got a wish list written up!

Supplies Used:
Neat and Tangled - Sparkle and Shine
Paper Piercer

Now it's over to you guys, I can't wait to see what you all come up with this week, but before you get started have a quick visit round the rest of the Design Team for further inspiration.

Ardyth Percy-Robb

Jen Wills

Joyce Mehrberg

Judy Marino

Kimberly Wiener

Maureen Merritt

May Park

Meghan McMillan

Melissa Chipperfield

Tracey McNeely

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Fancy Feathers

Good Afternoon,

It's time for another challenge over at Muse and Therese has provided a gorgeous and scrumptious card as inspiration.  Here is my take on her card.

Supplies Used:
Clearly Besotted - Fancy Feathers
Clearly Besotted - Twinkle Toes (Sentiment)

And here is Therese's card.

I would also like to enter my card into the current challenge over at Stamplorations where the theme is 'stamps and feathers'.
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Text

Good Evening,

Tonight's card is for this week's challenge over at Keep It Simple, where text is to be the focal point of your card, so hopefully this should meet that requirement.

Supplies Used:
MFT Die-namics - High Rise Letters
Tattered Angels - Glimmer Mist Candy Apple Red
Sewing with my sewing machine

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Less Is More - Hearts

Good Evening,

I have had all day to think about my card for this week's Less Is More entry and then when I got home I noticed it was a One Layer week, so all my ideas went out the window.  So I have went very very simple instead.

Supplies Used:
Impression Obsession Die
Stampin Up - Express Yourself (Sentiment)
Clearly Besotted - Surprise (Small Heart)

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Love

Good Afternoon,

The new Challenge at Clearly Besotted has started, so today's card is my entry for that. The challenge this time is 'Love' and since I am short of Anniversary cards, I thought this would be a good excuse to make one.

Supplies Used:
Clearly Besotted - Love Hearts
Clearly Besotted - Tag Along Stamps and Die
Clearly Besotted - Basic Stripes
Stampin Up - Teeny Tiny Sentiments
Ribbon and twine from my stash

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CAS(E) this Sketch #59

Good Evening,

I seem to be in love with the colour coral right now, whenever I have a card to make, I seem to reach for this colour and my entry for this week's CAS(E) this Sketch is no exception.

Supplies Used:
MFT Die-namics High Rise Letter Dies
Impression Obession - Tag Dies
Stampin Up - Express Yourself
Stampin Up - Bakers Twine
Uniko Studio - Round In Circles

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CASology Week 77 - Bubbly

Good Afternoon,

Yaaay CASology is back with the first challenge of 2014. And the Cue Card is 'Bubbly'.  As you will see from the Design Team there is so many ways to interpret this and I can't wait to see what you all come up with.

Supplies Used:
DigiStamp Boutique
ProMarkers
Stampin Up - Curly Cute

Now it's over to you guys, I can't wait to see what you all come up with this week, but before you get started have a quick visit round the rest of the Design Team for further inspiration.

Ardyth Percy-Robb

Gillian Ross

Jen Wills

Joyce Mehrberg

Judy Marino

Kimberly Wiener

 Maureen Merritt

May Park

Meghan McMillan

Melissa Chipperfield

Tracey McNeely

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Muse Challenge #49

Good Morning,

Just a super quick from me this morning to share a card I made for this week's Muse Challenge.

Supplies Used:
Stampin Up - Doilies
Clearly Besotted - Butterfly Additions Wishes
Clearly Besotted - Tag Along
Stampin Up - Teeny Tiny Sentiments
Stampin Up - Linen Thread

The Muse inspiration card this week is by the very talented Laurie Wilson, I used her card as a sketch for the inspiration for my creation.

Here is Laurie's fabulous card

Must dash, thanks for visiting, I will be back later on today with my CASology card.

Fusion Challenge

Good Evening,

Well that is my Christmas and New Year holidays over and back to work tomorrow. If I said I was looking forward to it that would be an understatement, however I'm sure once I am there I will be fine.

However some good news is that the Fusion Challenge blog is back and better than ever. They even have some fab new Design Team members, including my talented CASology teamate Kimberly.  Since I haven't played along with Fusion for quite some time, I thought I would join in.

Supplies Used:
Uniko Studio - Background Builders - Lattice
Stampin Up - Teeny Tiny Sentiments
Stampin Up - Morning Meadow
Lil Inkers - Stitched Mats

With the Fusion challenge, you can either use the inspiration photo, the sketch or both.  For this card I used the pattern on the cushions and colours featured in the photo.

That's it from me for today, got to get organised for work tomorrow.

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Shades of Blue

Good Evening,

I am back with a quick card for this week's Less Is More challenge.  It is great seeing all the challenge blogs starting up again as they are such a source of inspiration for me.  This week at Less Is More we have to use shades of blue, so this was a great excuse to use a new addition to my stamp collection.

Supplies Used:
Stampin Up - Swallowtail
Stampin Up - Teeny Tiny Sentiments
Stampin Up Ink - Baja Breeze, Tempting Turquoise & Midnight Muse

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Happy New Year

Happy New Year Everybody,

I hope you all have had a good New Year, I was away celebrating Hogmanay in Edinburgh, so had to take another short from my blog. However all the festivities are over so normal service shall resume.

I always find that when I take from crafting it takes a while to find my mojo again, the quickest way for me to get back into the groove is to go back to basics and don't attempt anything too complex. So here is my card for today.

Sorry the picture doesn't show the shimmer and splatter too well

Supplies Used:
Uniko Studio - All Occasion Sentiments #2
Clearly Besotted - Going Places
Stampin Up - Smooch Spritz - Gold

Challenges Entered:
One Layer Simplicity Challenge - Restocking the Shelves - I am running low on just generic birthday cardxs, so I now have one more to add to the pile.

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