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.

ATSM Challenge #111

Hi, thanks for calling around.

It's time for a new challenge at 

This week our sponsors are

who are giving away 5 digis to the winner

This is an

  ANYTHING GOES 
challenge, so the world is your oyster, so to speak.

The DT are dedicating this challenge to one of our original DT members Marie ( baileyrosey.com) who is currently on the DT for our sister challenge Addicted to CAS. She is going through a really rough time at the moment and we thought it would be nice to get a linky going in her honour just to cheer her up a little. So if you would like to send your best wishes just link your project as usual to the ATSM site and mention Marie in your post if you would like.

Here is my card for your inspiration.

I was influenced by a couple of challenges while making this card.

Black and White plus one other colour

a sketch

( rotated and mirrored it)

and the 

I chose lime for my extra colour as my friend Di is redecorating using this as a focal colour and it went well with what I had in mind for the flower. Nich bought me some flowers for lending her my car when her's was stolen and one of them was a spray of chrysanthemums in lime green as well as one in white.  I used an old Sizzix daisy Bigz die cut several times in copy paper and also in the green card for the center. The leaves are cut down MB Fresh Foliage and Grove Branch. The white panel was cut from the Tessatina Border also from Memory Box. I went with a black panel after the picture at The Cutting Edge inspiration photo but went with a white base for added contrast.
OK that's a wrap as they say. 
Pop over to the ATSM blog and check out what the rest of the gang have made to inspire you and join us.

Thanks for stopping by, come back soon.

Rainbow

Evening all.

Well the forecast rain did not arrive this aft, just a few drops that didn't wet the ground, so I managed to cut the grass before the rain tomorrow, if it materializes!

Even so I have been playing around in the craftroom, trying out some new dies I bought yesterday on a bit of a spree.

Here is one I managed to finish, in between grass cutting, bed making, dog walking and sandwich making!

The die in question here is 'Tessatina Border' from Memory Box. I'd had my eye on the latest challenge over at CASology which is Rainbow when I made this. I had a panel I made a while ago when playing around with water stamping so decided to use this and cut out the die again and pieced in the little out cuts to make a solid panel in this one layer card. I did have a rather pretty panel left from the rainbow strip so I will have to put the thinking cap on as to how to use that at a later date.

OK that's about it, should really be thinking of making some tea soon.

I shall enter the following challenges -

and

over at Merry Mondays