Audrey loves makeup

Morning all.
It's time for a brand new challenge over at Cardz4Galz. This time it was my choice of theme and I chose:-

HANDBAGS and GLADRAGS

Not the Rod Stewart or Stereophonics single but projects that show a little bit of glamour, someone dressed up to the nines, or simply handbags and a fab outfit!
I knew the exact image I wanted to use, Uptown Girls Audrey from Stampin Bella.

Having decided on the stamp I need a colour scheme, so hit upon the colour challenge over at Cupcake Inspirations.

After colouring Audrey with Copics, I fussy cut Audrey and placed her on a panel of NitWits DP and a sentiment from another Stampin Bella Uptown Girl set, stamped in blue and embossed with clear EP.

The yellow trim along the edge of thr DP panel was cut with a die from some canary yellow card and slipped under each long edge. Not having any matching sequins I coloured some silver ones with matching Copics and left to dry before attaching to the card.

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Have a perfect day

Hi, just popping by to announce the start of the latest challenge over at ATSM.

This week it is our Make your Mark challenge. 

Here is my card.

My inspiration for this was the latest challenge at Less is More, where it is their one layer week on the theme of curve. 

When I made this I was still in blossom mode, I really love this time of year with all the trees heavy with blossom. I would love some in the front garden, at least they would be too tall for the pesky rabbits to eat, well once they get to a certain height! One day.

For this I took a A6 base card and embossed a curve with a die and then stamped some Cardio branches in Versamark and embossed them with white EP. I then added some colour with some of my Zig brush pens and moved the colour around with a wet brush to blend. 

The sentiment by Waffle flower was embossed in gold to finish.

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Herd it was your birthday

Good morning folks.

Well. did you enjoy the sun over the weekend? Here on the Welsh Marches we had the sun but alas also the wind, so no sitting in the garden in shorts and top like the rest of the country, fleece required for anything stationary! Still I got the washing done and a little bit of weeding in the garden.

I also managed to make a card for the new challenge over at Cardz4Guyz.

This week we would love to see cards on the theme of -

ANIMAL ANTICS

Here is my card.

This card was inspired by a friend who supports Leeds Rhino Rugby League Club, they play in blue and gold and their mascot is a rhino, obviously!

I found this cute rhino image and coloured his shirt to roughly represent the kit fussy cut him out and added a few balloons and attached then with strings through the mouth of the rhino. The sentiment was computer generated on plain card before I die cut the balloons and coloured them with Copics and white gel pen. A scrap of  bight blue NitWits DP was slotted behind the aperture and the whole mounted on a golden yellow base card. 

For more fab animal inspiration check out the rest of the DT here.

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Animals or Birds

#141 Animals

4 legged friends

HLS Anything Goes with Dies April

Evening all. 

It's been a corker of a spring day around here, a little chilly in the stiff breeze but perfect for drying the washing and working in the garden.

The months are just flying by so it's time for a brand new challenge over at HLS Anything Goes with dies.

As the name suggests, all you have to do is use dies in your project to enter. Use them straight or use them to make stamps or stencils or masks for a change. I kept to the standard die cuts, the flowers are from a CC flower branch set and the branch is Memory Box.

I lost my scissors last weekend so decided a tidy up of my desk was in order to find them and while putting things away I found a couple of smooshed panels in a box of bits. The colour reminded me of cherry blossom and we'd passed loads of fabulous cherries in full blossom on our way to Shrewsbury the other day so the thought was at the front of my mind as I started this card. The scissors were staring at me in the pot on my desk by the way and I'd totally missed them, but at least the desk got a tidy!

The panels were made by smooshing some MM paper into Picked Raspberry DI and Platinum Inka Gold Wax spritzed with water. The wax gives the finished panel a lovely shimmery look that doesn't really show up here. I cut two branches from white card and trimmed them to fit the panel then added the small blossom flowers. I chose this slightly textured grey paper as a background as pink and grey are a very classy combo and show the blossoms off to the full. My sentiment is the only stamped element and is from the HLS Doodled Flowers set, embossed in white.

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Chocolate Bunny

OK, how to make a masculine Easter card?

Why you might ask, well it's the theme for this week's challenge at Cardz4Guyz.

EASTER/SPRING

I'd got lots of ideas for feminine cards but not so much for a guy. Then I came across this card made using a Stampin Up set, Basket Builder, with a fab sarky greeting. I thought that that would be the way to go so this is the end result.

The actual phrase was 'May all your chocolate be solid' but not wishing to upset SU, I went with this computer generated one and a chocolate coloured rabbit from a free set in a mag last month.

I didn't have any small egg stamps either so cut an egg shaped stencil and inked in a pattern over the top with DIs and a STAMPlorations stencil. The central panel was popped up on pads after cutting with a MFT stitched rectangle die.

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