Blue and white Muse

Afternoon all, thanks for stopping by.

I've been looking at this week's Muse card by Marion Vagg all week trying to come up with a suitable entry.

Problem was that my stock of dark blue card is limited and my choice of border stamps also. In the end I settled on this entry -

and this is Marion's card

As you can see I went with my diecuts, inlaying a white MB Tessatina border then adding some Marianne flourishes and a MB butterfly. I left off a sentiment just as Marion did but added a few blue sparkles on the body of the butterfly.

This is the same card from a different angle. The card was a pearlescent finish and a bit tricky to photograph but it does show the inlay better than the first.

I didn't go with the heart theme as I'm all Valentined out at the moment, I've got quite a collection of them now if anybody wants them!

Anyhow that's about it for the moment, see you back here soon for some more exciting news.

Pink,bling and ribbon

Good afternoon bloggers, thanks for stopping by.

Decided I would make a card  to more than one specification today.

As I've said before I like a brain teaser and Marianne challenges always test me to use the few items I have got, in new and different ways, so that was my starting point.

I need to use at least 3 items from Marianne to enter Marianne's Design Divas challenge 'Pink', so I had a long think and found the image and backing paper on a download from the Marianne web site. I used the tabs from their COL 1315 set and the stamens in the flowers were from the LR0112 Creatables, which I cut down. I coloured the girl with Copics as follows:-

Hair - YR24,Y21,23,E25

Dress, shoes, bag - RV 21,23,29,69

Flesh - E000,00,11,R20

Shadow - BG10

The rest of the papers I found sloshing around in the stash, which I then mounted on white. The sketch I followed was from this weeks Sketch n Stash and the other theme was bingo over at Copic Markers Norge- lace /ribbon, pink and dies was my combination. The pearls, pink Broiderie Anglais and ribbon was from the stash. Greeting stamp from Molly Bloom.

I shall enter the following challenges:-

Marianne Design Divas - Pretty in Pink

Copic Marker Norge - Bingo

Sketch n Stash - #131

Creative Inspirations - Ribbon

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Bye.