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Monday 23 March 2015

Shades of.....blue!

Colours can be challenging in themselves, but to incorporate a CASE'd card at
LiM where I chose Sarah's card to CASE, a colour Fusion challenge  and an anything goes plus a sketch challenge at Uniko  and an around the world with Altenew ......challenges indeed this week...and bonus of all a little photo from  one of our trips to see our daughter in the UAE, inspiration indeed....


I also decided to give my sewing machine an airing with some lovely new silver thread I recently bought....just because...as we crafters do! AND this was my first attempt at proper watercolouring, so not so perfect but oh did I make a lovely mess, used up a lot of paper and had loads of fun, especiaaly as one of the paints was a lovely shimmery silver! Not a good photo as the silver shimmer on the bottom flower looks a bit gold instead of silvery....never mind. I used silver to emboss the flowers and the die cut heart I placed over the stitching so that just a little peeked through....

Here is my card for three challenges this week..



Tuesday 17 March 2015

Hello....

Says this gorgeous giraffe digi from here isn't she sweet, and there are lots more .
The LiM challenge   this week is one layer and the subject is add an animal......and immediately I pictured this little giraffe peeping out from the top of the trees collecting the flowers on the way...

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I simply sized the digi to what I had in mind, printed her and then used some new cats eye colours I bought recently (which have a lovely sheen/shimmery effect to them) to colour various leaf stamps, I then overstamped some flowers and a couple of tiny leaves onto the tiara of flowers rather than colour them in as I wanted to tone them all in and thought this effect might give a more dimensional look.......I liked the black and white look so left a lot of the giraffe uncoloured............

Also entereed into AAA challenge here

Hope you love her as much as I do.....

Thursday 12 March 2015

Woohoo......

A little late, but there it is my very first badge of honour for my little ones card ....thank you LiM ladies.

A little late because I was enjoying time with my daughter and grandchildren in Dubai and I had such problems with my Tablet...not least because it decided to translate everything to Arabic!  But I'm back on track now and very proud of my little badge which I display with pride (after an hour or so of trying today duh!)....

This weeks challenge over at LiM is a colour challenge using the colours Yellow and Green very spring like and what a lovely day it's been today, this morning I decided as a treat to take my 3yr old Grandson off to the local Safari Park where we had a lovely time, watching all the animals and sea lion and bird of prey show...

For my card this week I have used a new stamp I received only yesterday, I love this fairly new company and have treated myself to a few of their stamps as I find them a bit different and very versatile,  if you fancy a peek you can find them here. This card is for my Aunty who at 84yrs young has decided to move to a bungalow which will make life a bit easier after a mild stroke, she also  looks after her husband at home who has altzheimers,  she is one of those amazing carers both  young and old we hear of these days.......