RIC#15 - Lacoste

The inspiration photo for Runway Inspired Challenge #15 is this plaid creation from Lacoste.  Just the thing for doing the weekly trolley dash.

When I first made this card I added the card candi on the ribbon bands, but contrasting the colours (red dot on blue band, blue dot on butterscotch band, butterscotch dot on red band) but the balance of the card wasn't quite right.  So, after days of staring at it (not all the time you understand, just now and again) to get inspiration, I peeled the dots off and replaced them above the bands, replicating the order, and now I'm happy with it.  Happy everything!

Ribbon stamp - Stampendous SSC057 Ribbon Sliders
Happy Everything - Paper Smooches Simply Said
Card Candi - Craftwork Cards

Razzleberry and Olive Tag Card

Challenge #10 at Dynamic Duos is bold and sassy colours, and this month's choice is

And the challenge over at Simon Says is

TAGS or ATCs 

you can add a tag or an ATC to a card or project too :-)

I cut a tag from some raspberry Bo Bunny card, and added a strip of Botanical Pearlescent Paper, and coloured in with Tombows. I added some knotted cord around the wording section of the paper, and tied some olive sheer ribbon through the tag. Oh, and I added a pearl to the centre of the middle flower.

The shaped card (and the Botanical paper) is from Craftwork Cards. I stamped a flower from the Papermania Hampstead Sketch Flower Collection, and coloured that in and added a tiny pearl in the centre, which you can just about make out. The Happy Birthday stamp is from PSX stamped in ColorBox pigment inks. The olive is much more olive on the ink pad than it inks up on the stamp.

Thanks for looking :)

Best Foot Forward

The challenge over at CAS-ual Fridays is

CFC60  Use text in your Clean And Simple design

and the challenge at Less is More is to use 'Gold'

The shoe stamp is by My Sentiments Exactly and stamped in Encore Metallic Gold. Birthday Wishes is by Ladybug Crafts, also stamped in Encore Metallic Gold onto a strip of white card then mounted onto a wider strip of black card.  The flower is from Prima, with a bit of bling added.

Seeing Stars (and Hearts)

This card is for two challenges - One Layer Wednesday 95 over at Susan's blog, which is to make a one-layer card using at least one heart and one stripe (my stripe being the scoreline), and Creative Belli Challenge #147 - Stars.

Now the theme of One Layer Wednesdays is to produce a one-layer card with no or minimum embellishments, whereas the theme of Creative Belli challenges is to use old or forgotten embellishments.  The more eagle-eyed among you may notice that there are no embellishments on this card, but I've stretched the rules a bit for the Belli challenge, because it was the stamp that was old and definitely forgotten - I'd forgotten where I'd stored it!  It took two rounds of searching before I finally found it in a box that I'd already checked.  Hmm.

If I get disqualified for not using embellishments, maybe someone should start a challenge for old and/or forgotten stamps.  Not me though.  Maybe there's one already?  Ever counted up how many stamps you just had to have that have yet to see an inkpad?  Frightening.

Balloons stamp by Image Tree, stamped in Versafine Smokey Gray and coloured with Tombows
Happy Birthday stamp by Rubber Stampede stamped in Versafine Smokey Gray
White gel pen

Beach Huts

This beach hut stamp came in a free cover set on a magazine.  On the first card I've stamped it three times in Memento Paris Dusk then drawn the boards with watercolour pencils, and filled in the roofs, hinges etc.  Birthday Wishes is also stamped in Memento Paris Dusk.

I've used the colour scheme from ColourQ Challenge 144

and I'm submitting both of these cards for the Stre-e-tch Your Stamps challenge at A Blog Named Hero.

For this second card I stamped the hut onto spare card in Versafine Onyx Black, drew on the boards then coloured and cut it out and cut the doors so that they would open. On the card, I stamped the sun and seagull in Versafine Onyx Black, then coloured and masked them.  I marked out the area where the open doors would be and coloured in some boards, then masked that area off while I used my Inkylicious Duster brushes and masking to create sand and sky.  I removed the masking and stamped the sentiment so that it would appear in the open doorway, then fixed the beach hut on with foam pads.

I'm also submitting this second card in the Lawnscaping Challenge #37 to use dimension.

I'm also linking this to Virginia's feature on stretching your stamps.

The seagull is from the free stamp set

The sun is from Woodware FRCL059 On the Move

Sentiment is from Paper SmoochesA15096 Simply Said

Dandelion Best Wishes

The challenge from Chrissie and Mandi at Less is More this week is to take their blog header as inspiration:

And the challenge for Dynamic Duos #9 is Crumb Cake and your choice, so I chose black.

Shaped card - Craftwork Cards
Kraft panel cut to size
Corner stamp - Lili of the Valley
Best Wishes/Flower - Inkadinkado 99537 Flower Sentiments
All stamped in Versafine Black Onyx then highlighted with white gel pen.

Anything But a Card

I've had this 3D photo frame lurking around for ages waiting for inspiration, and now the inspiration has arrived.  I cut a piece of white card to fit the back frame and stamped and coloured the cycling hedgie, then masked it.  I used Broken China and Peeled Paint Distress Inks for the background then stamped the sentiment.

I then stamped the elements for the front panel (small hedgie, flowers and dragonflies), cut these out, then placed them between the two panes of glass that make up the front section of the photo frame.

It was so difficult to photograph, because I'd cleaned all the glass and it was nice and shiny... so I kept getting reflections.  Finally got an angle without reflection, but it doesn't really show the 3D-ness of it.  Oh well.

All stamps from Penny Black 30-101 Hedgie Friends

I'm entering this into Belli Challenge #146 Anything But a Card and the Penny Black Art Extravaganza challenge via Flickr.