Poppy Challenge

Over on The Stampman challenge blog the theme is Poppies and you can send your cards off to The Stampman ,if you wish,to raise money at a special British Legion event to be held in Skipton during October, I had already promised Janet a card when this was first advertised so what better than to include it in the challenge as well. I watercoloured my image, which is from Elusive Images, and layered it onto backing paper that I printed from a Joanna Sheen cd using both draft and normal settings to get the different effects.

Pick a Pattern

The St Lukes hospice charity card challenge wants to see checks,spots,stripes and gingham etc on this months card, I've added all that topped with a promarkered Digi stamp and even found some spotted flowers in my stash, oh and I forgot the spotted ribbon.

Mini Workshop

Mini in that it was made up of four friends plus me, I set up three cards and a bookmark for them to make and they completed them all. The first was a card decorated with a teabag folded topper,i'd been asked to do this and had to get out the old books for instructions as it must be 7 years since i'd done any folding but we managed, I don't think I'll keep on doing them tho'. I've posted a photo of the girls enjoyng the day with a cup of coffee on hand.

Punches and Pearls

This weeks Less is more challenge is - White on White - my base is a cut and embossed card, using a new Marianne embossing/cutting die, the sentiment is stamped in grey and then the whole is decorated with punched flowers plus a butterfly - all in white, I've used tiny flat back pearls and liquid pearls for the flower centres. I seem to have had a week of punched flowers with all those that went on my 'magic box', I find it a great way to use up scraps of card.

Inside the box

Finished the inside at last, all the little punched flowers took a long time to shape and put together but I'm pleased with the results, I used the same digi image as in the 'shell' card and similiar colours, I really love the way the acetate stands up with the flowers attached, the inspiration for this came from the magic box blog and there is also a tutorial on the LOTV inspiration blog as well as on the magic box blog.
Today I'm putting together a card workshop for a few friends on monday, I've chosen what I hope are easy cards for them to make, we'll have to see.

'Shell' card

It's not really a shell but just reminds me of something like that, the inspiration for it came from Fleur, I saw the card on Fleurs blog and then when I visited Sir Stampalot there it was again - beautiful!! Any way this is my version made using my blossom nesties, tattered rose distress inks, the 'fairy flora' digi stamp I coloured with promarkers and as usual I made the flowers using my punches, all brought together with a gentle dusting of glitter. Thank you Fleur for the inspiration!! please visit her blog (link above) to see the original card and all the other lovely cards that Fleur makes. I thought this card perhaps would go to Canada for my cousin's daughter's new baby but just found out it'll be a boy so back to the drawing board!! can you have blue shells??

A winner and a magic box.

I was so pleased to see that my flower card, for the St Lukes Hospice challenge,was one of the four winning cards and I have my winners badge to prove it!!
Todays picture shows the magic box I am working on, the outside is finished and I hope to get the inside done tonight, i'll put up the relevant links in the next post.