Travel

Here is my card for the challenge at CAS on Sunday which is Travel.

This pattern is called Spanish Arch and if someone handed me a ticket I'd certainly love to 'travel' there.

 

I replaced the stitched flowers with flat backed gems in this one.

Supplies:

Pattern: Form a Lines Flower tub Spanish Arch
Thread: Brand and colour codes unknown

Flat backed gems as flowers

Rolfes metallic pen in gold

Flower brads in yellow and pink

Precious

When I hear the word 'precious' straight away I think of the things that are precious to me, my family, my God, my cat, my health but what about precious metals and stones or gems.

I am definitely a jewellery kind of a girl, I always accessorise with a piece or two so today's card covers both categories for me.

This card was made as a wedding card for my cousin who certainly kept us waiting before he tied the knot. He was over fifty when he said "I do' for the first time.

The heart represents how precious a spouse is and the gold on the ribbon is for the precious metal of the same name.

I die cut the heart and then wove the ribbon, once complete I adhered it with tape to the edge of the die shape. The gold edged ribbon was rather difficult to work with as the gold kept on unravelling so for the second card I chose to use satin ribbon instead and to add (dots of liquid) pearls were each strand overlapped.

  I will be entering this in the challenge at CASology which is

My inspiration

Source: Sheryl

Supplies:

Card Stock: white 160gsm

                    White linen effect200gsm

Ribbon: Nylon with gold trim

             White Satin

Gold peel off sentiment

Liquid pearls in gold

Flat backed gem in clear

Cuttlebug

2 die 4 heart dies

Berry Shades

Today is the start of a long weekend here in SA. Sunday is Women's Day. As the public holiday falls on a Sunday we get the Monday off too. Great. We are heading off to the beach tomorrow morning for some R & R with some good friends. Looking forward to it.

Simply less is Moore has a new challenge and it's 'Berry Shades'

Great one folks.

Here is my card, I hope the large expanse of red is still considered "clean and Simple"!!!

Supplies:

Pattern: 101 designs for Embroidery on paper by Erica Fortgens

Thread: Brand and colour codes unknown

Metal dot

Card Stock: 200gsm in red

                   160gsm in white

Cross Country

It was our annual school cross country today. It's compulsory and the boys earn points for their school sports houses. It's the first time that my little guys take part and they start out so enthusiastically but reality kicks in very quickly. They have to run 1.3km and no matter how often we say "Don't start too quickly it's a long race and you need to pace yourselves" they just can't. Some of them where exhausted by the end but I'm pleased to say all of my 'littlies' finish. Way to go Boys!!!

My card today is for the Sweet Sunday Sketch challenge which is

I raided my Hubby's fishing box and found the nylon string which I tied around the white panel. The edges where distressed as the card just felt as though it lacked something without.

My inspiration

Source: Debbie Hughes of Limedoodle

Supplies:

Pattern: Stitching Cards Lily
Thread: Brand and colour codes unknown

Nylon 'string'

Say it with crystals Pearls

Card Stock: 200gsm in Kraft

                   160gsm in white

Colorbox cat's eye ink in chestnut

'W' is for washi tape

The challenge at Butterfly Challenge is running for a month this time instead of two weeks.

The letter chosen is "W"so the challenge is to include a butterfly and some washi tape on your card.

Here is mine. For good measure I used two different washi designs.

The vellum was salvaged from an advert in a decor mag.

Here was my inspiration

Source: Ardyth at Maskerade

Supplies:

Pattern:Stitching cards Free butterfly pattern
Thread: Blue and red. Brand and colour codes unknown

Black beads

Vellum: recycle

Cuttlebug

Sizzix 8 circle die

Washi tape: red and white stripes

                   Tape measure

Card Stock: 160gsm in white

A Mandala

When I saw the new sketch at CAS(e) this sketch which is this 

I was stumped but then I remembered this card which I made a while ago but never got around to posting. 

The pattern is obviously made for a square card but as I only make rectangular ones it didn't fit. That is when I came up with the idea for only using half of it.

When stitching half of a design you need to choose carefully as some designs only look good if the stitches are able to extend over the half way mark. This design however was perfect for chopping in half. I coloured the centre flower with pastel pencils which I then smudged with an ear bud.

I added a strip of washi tape to the base card and then adhere the topper using some foam squares to give it some height.

My inspiration

Source: Anya Schrier

Supplies:

Pattern: Not sure but I think one of Emilia's

Thread: All colours and brands unknown

Flat backed gems in purple

Derwent pastel pencil in Olive Green (51B)

Washi Tape: Green chevrons 

3M Double sided Foam tape

Card Stock: 160gsm in white

Wild Garlic

I'm taking part in the TGIF Monthly challenge remix when you have to look at the challenges which they have had over the last month and choose two to combine in your project. 

I have chosen the "Brand new" and "Clean and Simple" challenges to combined.

Here is my card

 This is a very simple pattern (first part of the challenge) and it's new to me. This is the first time I've stitched it so that covers the second bit too.

I also decided to try it on some small cards 6x7.5cm and the designed worked very well there too.

Supplies:

Pattern: Prick 'n Stitch.
Thread: Grey: DMC 3799

             Green: DMC 699

             Cerise: DMC 326

             Mauve: DMC 155

             All other colours: Brand and colour code unknown

Card Stock: 160gsm in white

                    200gsm in pink

Paper: Mauve Gingham: Activity Village
           Yellow: Paper Pizzazz in soft tints

Rolfes metallic pen in gold and pink