Round Vase Daisies

This is my second post of the day, both for Less is More Blue & Green and
A Blog Named Hero Freestyle.

Click here or scroll down for the other card.

So this is the card I made while I was making up my mind about the other card.  But then I decided to enter both cards.

Stamp - FRB011 Round Vase Daisies coloured with Tombows.

Floral Chevrons

The challenge at Less is More this week is Blue & Green, and A Blog Named Hero is Freestyle.

Once I'd made this card, I couldn't decide whether I liked it.  Now I like it.  I think.

I inked up a floral background stamp with blue and green die inks, then kissed the chevron stamp onto the background stamp, and stamped it off onto white card, cleaned the chevron stamp then repeated.  Then I cut out the chevrons and flipped one of them, and stuck them down with pop dots.  They needed lifting from the base card to be effective.

Then, (I can't believe I did it) I dismembered a stamp!  "It's your birthday" is all one stamp but I wanted to split it to get more flexibility from it.  I suppose I could have masked it as required, but I took the plunge and dissected it instead.

Floral background stamp - Rubber Stamped 3255R Signature Background stamped in Impress Chartreuse and Cerulean Blue
Chevron stamp - Lawn Fawn
It's your birthday stamp - Hero Arts CG275 Birthday
Flowers and brad from stash.

Dragonfly

The challenge at CASual Fridays this week is:

CFC64: Clean And Simple projects featuring things you'd see in the sky

so I thought I would make a card with a dragonfly, using the colour scheme from Play Date Cafe challenge #143.

Cherry...Mint Julep...Jade

I decided to use my Cuttlebug dragonfly die and embossing set, and started trawling the internet for some inspiration.  That's when I discovered that my dragonfly set is actually a build-a-flower set.  Well, there you go!  Undaunted by this minor technicality, I made my dragonfly.

I made the red dots with a Dotta-Riffic marker pen from Zig, using less and less pressure as I worked down the tail.  The sentiment is from Hero Arts CL139 Birthday Messages.

Hello Birdy

This is my second post of the day.  Click here or scroll down for my Sparkly Flowers post.

What can I say?  Sorry, probably.

But I like him, he cracks me up.  He's definitely a him, because when I tried to add a bow in the topknot to glam him/her up a bit, it just looked wrong.

The cue word at CASology this week is

Well, he is a bird.  And those are his own eyes, he doesn't need googly eyes (but sometimes I give him googly eyes for the fun of it).

444F Emu by Stamp It.
Sentiment is from Paper Smooches.

Sparkly Flowers

I seem to be on a run of flower cards at the moment.  ColourQ's challenge #148 is this juicy palette:

And today is the last day for the July Penny Black Saturday Challenge, so I've used this Penny Black stamp 3867K Constellations, coloured with Tombows and finished it off with Stardust Stickles for some sparkle.

Button Flowers

Second post from me today.  For CASual Fridays challenge, click here or scroll down.

The challenge for Dynamic Duos this week is monochromatic using hues of brown, Early Espresso and Crumb Cake.  I'd give the espresso to anyone, but you'd have to fight me for the cake.

The challenge at Young Crafters Unite (I do qualify, y'know, honest - it's in the small print) is to use buttons.  (I'm just waiting for the Inlinkz tool to appear on the post before I can link it).

This flower set and the buttons were the perfect match for me.  I thought about putting twine through the holes, but they look like faces, so I wanted to leave them as they are.

Flower stamp set is Sassafras Lass Blooms N' Stalks, and Happy Birthday ribbon slider is, appropriately enough, SSC057 Ribbon Sliders from Stampendous.

Birthday packages

The challenge at CASual Fridays is to use this colour scheme:

I love this colour combination, it's so fresh, and perfect for a male card.  The parcels and dots stamp is E473 from Great Impressions, stamped in Memento Paris Dusk, and coloured with Tombows.  Happy Birthday is from Hero Arts CL139 Birthday Messages.