African Butterflies....

Opposite colour's  of the colour  wheel that's the LiM Challenge

 So, having just returned from a wonderful trip seeing many amazing places in South Africa, and many, many beautiful birds, animals and butterflies, people  etc...who could resist the challenge, a little late but here is my take on the challenge, using various shades of bright blues and yellows I went for some bright big and small African butterflies And a PP sentiment....

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.......

One layer love....

The challenge over at LiM this week is one layer  and love.  

ATCAS is a new challenge for me and this  card seems to fit well with this weeks challenge Mask!

Being our wedding anniversary this card is made with love and full of love and I tried for a two dimensional panelled look by using 2 of my old  favourites, the bird cage is embossed in copper for a vintagey feel and the butterflies in my favourite pink and orange..I also felt it was too busy for a sentiment but I'm sure the butterfly background words are of love and affection!  My husband loved it anyway haha....

Just had to show a little photo of the gorgeous craftilicious ceiling of paper cups and saucers, tepots etc where we were taken for an anniversary breakfast and the scrumptious cake (sorry its sideways on!) made by my daughter and one of our grandaughters! Thirteen unlucky...not for us we married 44yrs ago on Saturday 13th Feb..

Happy Birthday

to Less is More who are celebrating 4yrs of blog challenges and inspiration. Well done x

The challenge at LiM is pink and grey what a beautiful colourway to work with...I made a simple card with a copics coloured coral vellum fussy cut flower and another heavyweight white flowe stamped and embossed in white then coloured in two shades of grey and adhered them both loosely over some dark grey ribbon recycled from a xmas gift! , as I felt the look was quite dramatic I decided not to add a sentiment but let the card speak for itself.

After a few days in beautiful Shropshire, now feeling relaxed, I wish I'd  had my camera with me though..?. we saw some amazing little hedge sparrows feeding in the hedges along our walks and lots of beautiful lambs in the fields. ...hope you like my card this week and thank you for stopping by to take a peek....

Gold.....

 And glitter is the theme for the Altenew challenge and an inspiration photo..


I dont actually have any frame dies so decided to improvise as I thought a round frame would work best with this lovely stamp, I just used a couple of circular dies for the frame and embossed the left over centre panel to add some dimension...I love white on white CAS, so simply stamped and heat  embossed the motif flower in gold onto vellum and loosely adhered it around and through the frame and another in white, that one I coloured in deep pink on the reverse and cut just a small section to overlay on my gold flower, a little die cut 'joy' sentiment colored with a gold leaf pen and added so that it sort of floats and glows rather than glitters... over the frame to finish it off......hope you like my card, thank you for stopping by to take a peek And apologies about the shadows on my photography!! Enjoy