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..

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.....

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.......