Windmill

Card #2 for today

This card uses Sketch Saturday #267 rotated 90º, paper pieced windmill (otherwise known as a pinwheel) by Lawn Fawn (Lawnscapings Challenge) and Polka Dot patterned paper and die cut (CAS-ual Fridays Challenge). My stamping smudged and as I kinda liked it,  I decided to make it intentional and rolled as I stamped the next few swirls. Glossy hearts accentuate a sentiment and cover up inky smudges! The windmill is on a spring so you can flick it with your finger, it's surprisingly addictive.

Challenges:
CASual Fridays CFC109: Polka Dots
Lawnscaping Challenges #62: Paper Piecing
Sketch Saturday Week #267

Supplies

Stamps: Lawn Fawn Cruising Through Life

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Dies & Punches etc: Memory Box Contempo Circle

Paper: White card from stash, Lawn Fawn Bright Side Petite Paper Pack

Highlights: Glossy accents, gold liquid pearls, Papermania card spring

Hope you enjoyed your visit today and see you soon.

Obrigados

A special thank you from all of us for a Portuguese friend. I hope I've got the sentiment correct (he speaks at least four languages fluently).

The main sentiment is die cut from black card, heat embossed on patterned paper, fussy cut and paper pieced. I've stamped the present in Versamark ink, partially paper pieced it and shaded it with antique linen distress ink.

Challenges:

Lawnscaping Challenge #62: Paper Piecing

Top Tip Tuesday Challenge #105: Hexagons and/or Circles [Circles]

Supplies

Stamps: Lawn Fawn Quinn's ABCs, Home Sweet Home, Pa rum pa pum pum

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Distress Ink Antique Linen, Versamark

Dies & Punches etc: Lawn Fawn Circle & Scalloped Circle Stackables, Quinn's ABCs Lawn Cuts

Paper: Black, kraft & white card from stash, Lawn Fawn Bright Side Petite Paper Pack

Highlights: White embossing powder, white gel pen

Thanks for visiting, hope to see you again soon.

Muse Framed

Therese Calvird is our muse this week. I've taken inspiration from her card layout and inverted it. I've used the same shaped card, plus I've framed my image in a dark solid colour with large white border and used five elements with a sentiment. 

The blue flamingo amongst the pink ones reminded me of Vincent Van Gogh's Irises: one white flower in a sea of blue, of being alone in a crowd, standing tall and being yourself.

I coloured the daisies & cardstock with Promarkers/Flexmarkers.  I love the flick the Flexmarkers provide and I look forward to practicing this technique.

Challenges:

Muse Challenge #25

Sentimental Sundays Challenge #163: You've Been Framed

Sister Act Card Challenges #15: Anything Goes

Supplies

Stamps: Wplus9 Love Birds 
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black 

Dies & Punches etc: Simon Says Stamp Fresh Daisies Die 

Paper: White card from stash 

Colouring: Promarkers & Flexmarkers

Hope you enjoyed your visit and get a chance to see the other cards inspired by Therese.

You can vote for your favourite here: voting will begin at 8:00 am EST next Monday. Voting ends on Tuesday at 8:00 am EST. The results of voting will be announced at noon on Tuesday.

Peggy's Picnic Party

In my last card inspired by the Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger the tangerine shone through, in this card I wanted the green to take centre stage. I love this Hero Arts/Sizzix Medallion Embossing Folder and the Hero Arts Orange Soda and Butter Bar Inks. I swiped the ink cube carefully on the embossed surface, cut, stamped and coloured the other elements and 'pop dots' my finished card!

Challenges:
Moxie Fab World Tuesday Trigger: Scene in Tangerine
Passion For Promarkers Theme 206: Use the Colours of Your Flag- Ireland (Green, White and Orange)

Supplies

Stamps: Lawn Fawn Home Sweet Home, Hats Off To You, Quinn's Capital ABCs, Quinn's ABCs

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Hero Arts butter bar and orange soda

Dies & Punches etc: Hero Arts/Sizzix Mediallion EF, Lawn Fawn Home Sweet Home, Quinn's ABCs, Dovecraft Corner Punch

Paper: White card from stash

Highlights: Glossy Accents, Stickles

Colouring: Promarkers & Flexmarkers

Thank you for visiting, see you again soon.

ETA: Some blurry photos of what I brought to Peggy's Picnic Party

Teenz Rock

This is a fab image from KennyK, I had great fun colouring and distressing it to add some grime! I went to town with distress ink on the embossed background- what a ball! All it's missing is some graffiti.

 

Challenges:

KennyK's Krafty Krew Challenge #150: Teenz Rock

Supplies

Stamps: KennyKDownloads.com Dirt Bike Mike, Lawn Fawn Hats Off To You

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Distress Ink Walnut Stain, Antique Linen, Spiced Marmalade, Mustard Seed, Barn Door, Seedless Preserves 
Dies & Punches etc: Tim Holtz Sizzix Bricked & Woodgrain Embossing Folders

Paper: White card from stash

Highlights: White & Silver gel pen

Colouring: Promarkers & Flexmarkers

Thanks for visiting, see you soon.

Bundle of Joy

I've based my colour scheme on the Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger & used the Lawnscaping Challenge #61 Sketch. I've mirrored the ric rac ribbon with my chevrons in orange, yellow & green. There's a slight ombre/rainbow effect as I left some orange ink when I stamped the yellow, cleaned the stamp for yellow, left some yellow to stamp with the green and finally stamped with the green. I love the black wrap on the embroidery thread so had to include a deep black frame for my image plus some kraft card to hold everything together like in the trigger picture.

Fun, fun, fun with lots of dimension, fussy cutting and masking tape diecut clouds. Sequins are used as a highlight on the bundle of joy, for wheels on the pram and as flowers with black enamel dot centres.

There are 7 layers of card, 8 if you include the sequins on top!

Instead of the banner in the sketch, I've had a go at a washi ruffle. There is a lot going on in this card, so I love the see-through lightness of the washi as compared to a solid banner.

Challenges:
Lawnscaping Challenge #61: Sketch
Moxie Fab World Tuesday Trigger: Scene in Tangerine
The ABC Challenge: Q for Quite a Few- Lots of Layers [7 layers of card, 8 including sequins]


Supplies

Stamps: Lawn Fawn Plus One, Home Sweet Home, Chevron backdrops

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Distress Ink Mowed Lawn, Salty Ocean, Shaded Lilac, Hero Arts tide pool, butter bar and orange soda

Dies & Punches etc: Lawn Fawn Circle & Scalloped Circle Stackables, Home Sweet Home, Memory Box Puffy Clouds, Dovecraft Corner Punch

Paper: White, black & kraft card from stash, Lawn Fawn Bright Side Petite

Highlights: Glossy Accents, Black Enamel Accents, Stickles, Sequins, We R Memory Keepers washi tape, Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist

Colouring: Promarkers & Flexmarkers

Hope you enjoyed your visit and see you again soon :)

Mojo Muse

I've used Mojo Monday 300 sketch as a base for my card and taken my inspiration for the colours & textures on my card from the Muse Card Club Challenge #24, Monday Muse: Laurie Willison.

Laurie's colour scheme: green, black and beige/kraft. I scoured my digi papers until I found just the right tones to reflect the Muse card. I inked my stamps simultaneously with black & brown inks and distressed my papers with Antique Linen & Walnut Stain.

Laurie's textures: buttons, thread, woodgrain. I combined two of these by using a button with a woodgrain appearance. I've used my thread is au naturel and died with the brown & black inks.

Laurie's sentiment: hello. My sentiment is in the same vein: thinking of you.

Challenges:

Crafts 4 Eternity Recipe Challenge R#131: Sewing Room  [Real Stitches]
Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge 300 Celebration
Muse Challenge #24

Supplies

Stamps: Wplus9 Love Birds

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Rich Cocoa, Tim Holtz Distress Ink Mowed Lawn, Antique Linen, Walnut Stain

Dies & Punches etc: Wplus9 Love Birds Designer Die, Xcut die Square, Lawn Fawn Circle Stackables

Paper: White card from stash, Sweet Digi Scraps SDS_PerfectU_Paper4, SDS_PerfectU_Paper5, Bella Gypsy Designs bellagypsy_cozyup_pattern10

Highlights: Button, thread used with Sew Easy piercer

Hope you've enjoyed your visit & see you soon.

Forgot to say you can vote for your favourite here: voting will begin at 8:00 am next Monday. Voting ends on Tuesday at 8:00 am. The results of voting will be announced at noon on Tuesday.