Ketchup and mustard

Splitcoast stampers F4A431 is
'Ketchup and mustard' ie yellow and red

I made a duo of little cards

 

Colouring the yellow on with an artists pastel

 

Supplies:

card stock: 160gsm in white

Gel pen in gold

Rolfes metallic pen in green

Flat backed red gems 

Pattern: Discontinues

1 june

Brideshead Revisited

The library challenge is highlighting this book

 

 

Once again I focussed on the colour and made this small card

 

 

Supplies:
card stock; 160gsm in white
Paper: scrap
Pattern: Stitching cards bookmark-flower-6
2 june

 

Turquoise

Inspired by all the little things has this cue

 

 

I don't have any feather patterns or dies so I decided to concentrate on the ptredominant colour which for me was that lovely turquoise.

Here is my card

 

 

I will also be entering it over at Just add ink where it's

 

 

 

 

Supplies:

Card stock: 160gsm in turquoise

paper: 80gsm in pink

Rolfes metallic pen in gold

Glass beads

Pattern: Easy embroidery on paper by Joke de Vette

1 june/30 may

 

Under the sun

Lil red wagon has this happy, bright cue

'Under the sun'

 

To me this tag looks like it's a perfect sunny day in the surrounds

 

 

I will also be entering this over at Simon says stamp blog work it Wednesday May 2018 where it's
'Summertime and Sunshine'

as well as over at Time out challenges where it's



Supplies:

Flower: Bought card stock shaker embellishment

Card stock: 160gsm in white

Single hole plier punch

Paper: Scraps

Pentel fine liner in black

Sentiment: Computer generated. 

29 may/26 june/5 june

Birthday tags

CAS on Friday have this cue
 

'Happy Birthday'

The top tag in this trio fits the bill

 

It was made with some scarps of paper, 3D stickers and a fine liner for some faux stitching. The sentiment is computer generated and the tag is hand cut.

 

30 may

Hand written greetings

Water cooler challenges have a Christmas challenge this week

 

 

Here is another one of my very first attempts at card making

 

 

I photo stated the image and carefully cut it out before adhering it to the card stock. The sentiment was hand written.

 

I will also be entering this over at CASe this sketch where it's

 

 

and at Cards in envy where it's

'Feeling sketchy'

ie we have to make a card using a sketch.

 

 

29/31 may/3 june

 

Ballerina

Sugar pea designs have this challenge

 

 

I concentrated on the colour and made a ballerina card

 

  

 Supplies:

card stock: 160gsm in white

paper: Scrap

Rolfes metallic pen in rose

Pattern: Form-a-lines

2/2 June

 

A golden butterfly heart

butterfly spot challenge has these cues 

 

 

I'm doing the heart and gold with butterflies of course

 

 

I made another colour version of this card here.

 

Supplies:

Card stock: 160gsm in white and cream

Cuttlebug

Die: Memorybox butterfly heart

Scrap of gold ribbon

Flat backed pearl 

6 Jume

A blast from the past

The holly and ivy christmas challenge has an

'Anything goes' cue this week

 

 This is another card made many moons ago (1994) and rediscovered last year when I was packing my craft room prior to moving, hence the age marks.

It I a stamped image with some red ribbon added at the base of the topper and a little glitter glue for accent.

 

Supplies:

All unknown

26 may

Waterworlds

Lil red wagon has this cue

'Waterworlds'

I made a little fish card

 

 Supplies:

Card stock: 160gsm in white

Paper: Scrap

Flat backed pearls in white

Rolfes metallic pens in blue

Pattern: Form-a-lines sea_life_fish

22 may

Blue, green and white

Color throwdown is

 

 

Here is my card

 

 

Supplies:

Card stock: 160gsm in white

paper: Scarps

Liquid pearls in white

Pattern: No longer available

21 may

 

Inspired by nature

AAA cards is

  

 

I made a small tortoise card

 

 

Supplies:

Card stock: 160gsm in white

Rolfes metallic pen in gold

Scrap of green ribbon

Pattern: Stitching cards turtles

26 may

 

Copper

CASology have this cue

 

 

I made another dragonfly card

 

 

as well as over at Stamplorations. CAS challenge where it's

 

 

  

 Supplies:

Card stock: 160gsm in white

Cuttlebug

Embossing Folder: Cuttlebug Swirls

Gold metal dots

Die:Spellbinders Nestabilitie small octogon

Pattern: Prick 'n stitch Dandeline 

21/30 may

 

Make it girly

Splitcoaststampers F4A429 is

'Make it Girly'
 

 Pretty pink flowers are pretty girly in my book

 

Supplies:

Card stock: 160gsm in white

Pentel fine liner in black

Flat backed gems in clear

Pattern: Easy Embroidery on paper by Joke de Vette

18 may

Blooming souls

Time out challenges have a quote thiss time

 

 

I made another small card

 

 

Supplies:

Card stock: 160gsm in white

Paper: Scrap

Gold peel off

Pattern: Ann's paper art

23 may

 

For the boys

Simon says stamp blog Wednesday challenge

'For the boys'

 

This was an order for a 1st birthday for little boy who is dinosaur mad.( He loved the wobbly eyes)

 

 

 

Supplies:

Card stock: 160gsm in white

Paper: Fabscarps Paper Collection

Cuttlebug

Die: Sixxizz six circles

Pentel fine liner

Wobbly eyes

Pattern: Stitching cards valentines-dinosaurs 

16 may

Something with wings

Stamplorations CAS challenge has this challenge

 

 

I have another dragonfly card for you

 

 

I made a different colour version here.

 

Supplies:

Card stock: 168gsm in white

Paper: 80gsm in blue and black

Cuttlebug

Die: Cuttlebug Swirls

Self adhesive tape in silver

Pattern: Prick 'n stitch dande_sunbird.html

Thread: Blue: DMC 33325

              Silver: DMC E168

31 may

 

A heart felt occassion

Water cooler challenges

 

 

Mine is for a birthday

 

 

I made a slightly different coloured version here.

Supplies:

Card stock; 160gsm in white

Glitzin' Glam in irredesent

Thread: Purple: House of Embroidery No.14

             Green: DMC 703

Pattern: Sentiment: Stitching cards words-wishes-art-nouveau

             Dandelion:  Prick 'n stitch dandeline  

 

14 may

 

Gold

Addicted to CAS have this cue

 

 

I hand cut this 'J' and then hand wrote the sentiment. The bells are a couple recycled from Lindt bunnies which I received at Easter time.

 

 

Check here for the inspiration for this card.

 

Supplies:

Card stock: 180gsm in white

paper: Gold: 80gsm

           Scraps

Pentel fine liner in black

Beading wire

12 may

 

Wild

Time out challenges have this challenge

 

 

When I think of wild typically I think of lions and bears and such but a little, shy field mouse does fit the bill too so here is one 

 

 

Supplies:

Card stock: 160gsm in white

paper: scraps

Pentel gold gel pen

Liquid pearls in gold

pattern: Form-a-lines field_mouse

Glitzin; Glam in irredescent

9 may

 

Let's Play

Another new challenge for me is Little red wagon. There cue for this week is

'Play along'

I'm playing cricket

 

Supplies:

Card stock: 160gsm in white

Paper: Download from Microsoft Publisher

pattern: Stitching cards cricket

8 may

Just add 'O'

Color throwdown have these colours

 

 

I made another small card

 

 

I will also be entering this at Just add ink where it's

 

 

as well as at Water cooler challenges

 

 

 

Supplies:

Card stock: 160gsm in white

Paper: Scrap

Rolfes metallic pen in gold

7/9/7 may

 

An Oval Christmas

Freshly made sketches have this

 

I made a Christmas card

 

 

adding some gold peel offs in the corners.

I hand cut the oval.

 

Supplies:

Card stock: 160gsm in white

paper: 80gsm in red

Rolfes metallic pen in gold

Gold peel offs

pattern: Stitching cards holly-wreath

7 may

 

Let's party

Stamplorations TAGplorations have this cue

I made some tags and the little aeroplanes fit this perfectly

 

The top two have scarp book embellishments on them and the bottom two are buttons with their shanks cut off (My husband has been busy!)

I added some computer generated sentiments, faux stitching and doodled grass and birds to finish off.

 

Suppies:

Card stock; 160gsm in white

Paper: Scraps

Single hole plier punch 

31 may

It takes Two

Split coast stampers F4A427

"It takes two"

 

I made 'Two' cards using the same image

 

 

I used a decoupage image given to me as part of a pack of papers. Even though this is not my usual style of card making I had a lot of fun.

 

Supplies:

Card stock: 160gsm in green

                    200gsm in mirror red

Button from my stash

Paper:  Pre printed 3 D pictures and matching papers: Fizzy Moon Traditional Christmas Decoupage & paper pad

4 may