Birthday Giggles with Let's Party

Once again, I have come up with a card inspired by various challenges to celebrate the upcoming birthday of my partner. We don't take life too seriously and always have a good laugh together, so I knew that I wanted to make a light-hearted card for him.

This sentiment always makes me giggle and is rather apt!

I kept the colour and the layout quite simple, using black and white with a touch of copper accents and just a tiny amount of bling with the black enamel gems. I sponged the notepaper die cut with black ink to make it stand out more as well.



I was inspired by the following challenges:
Addicted to CAS: Masculine
Color Throwdown: Black, White and Copper
Heart 2 Heart Challenges: Duly Noted
The Paper Players: Humorous

Thinking of You- Country Kindness

Today I'm sharing a card that combines two of my favourite challenge blogs- CASology and Color Throwdown!

I put together this quick card using an aqua piece of card layered on black, with the sentiment and the rooster and pig also stamped in black. I felt like it needed a more rustic feel to it, so I added some twine as the only embellishment.



I really love the simplicity of these colours together, and the farm stamps add some whimsy- I plan to send this to my friend in the country so I'm sure she'll appreciate the animal stamps!

Color Throwdown Tomatoes

I'm always on the lookout for a good pun, so when I found a stamp set consisting of jokes and playing on words associated with food, I had to have it.

For some inspiration to get me back into my cardmaking, I looked at the Color Throwdown challenge for some ideas.

I had to use the tomatoes from my stamp set for the something red, and I paired it with the cute Gimme Some Sugar paper and some extra bling in the specified colours.

Thanks for looking!

A simple Hello

I have playing with the scraps from my Swan Lake Paper Packet, and thought that i could use some of the leftover PML cards as card bases.



I am playing along this week with Just Add Ink- Just Add P. I used a Picture My Life card as the background of the card, which already had the word hello printed on it as well as some pretty leaves.

I am also joining in with this week's Color Throwdown colours, as the black and gold were already paired together in the beautiful shimmer ribbon and I added a blue flower from the With You stamp set.

This card came together very quickly from some scraps I had left on my craft table!

Stamping for NSM

Did you know that September is National Stamping Month? What better time to pull out some of my stamps to create a background for a card.

I started by stamping some images onto watercolour paper using my Archival Black ink.



Once they had dried, I started to colour them in using my Watercolour Paints.



I also coloured in the background for a more sepia, vintage look.



And here is the finished card complete with sentiment!



This card is part of my Design Team link up at H2H challenges for National Stamping Month, and I am also entering this card in the Color Throwdown and Curtain Call challenges.

You're a fine-apple!

The challenge cosmos aligned perfectly this week, with three of my favourite challenge blogs inspiring me to make a tropical card.

Just Add Ink wanted a card with stripes, Curtain Call was a Tasty Tropcis theme, and the Color Throwdown even had a pineapple on it too!

I started off by painting some watercoloured stripes, and adding some paint splatter. The base of the card was also a striped Kraft cardstock.

I still can't find my fruit themed stamp set, so I improvised with a Cricut cut pineapple from Canary, Kraft and Fern cardstock, and I wrote the saying using my Cricut and the pen attachment.



Here you can see the sentiment close up- I am a sucker for a pun and the Sour Apple pen was a great match to the Fern twine and cardstock.



This may be my favourite card of the year so far! The idea came together out of nowhere- usually I have to be inspired by a sketch or someone else, but this card only used the prompts listed above. Now I just have to find someone awesome to give it to!