Still Warm

 

This week at still addINKtive we have a great sketch and colour challenge.

You don’t have to combine the two challenges, you can take your pick, but I decided to use both.

 

 

Yes, I used my By the Seashore set again.  I have really enjoyed playing with it but I’ll give it a little rest now :)  We have had our hottest summer ever recorded in Tasmania this year.  We are now into Autumn and yet we are still getting temperatures in the 30’s which is very strange weather for us Hobartians!  A sign of global warming unfortunately. Anyway it still feels summery here and I thought I would make a beachy card.

I sponged some crumb cake at the bottom and some pool party and indigo at the top and sponged a little on the squares too.  I also used the splat stamp from French Foliage in crumb cake and added some pearls too to kind of make a shoreline.

I used naturals ivory card for the base and embossed it with the Delicate Designs folder.  I liked the added texture this gave the card and it reminded me of sand at the beach when it’s raining or when droplets of water make little indentations in it.  Although I’ve never seen rain leave as pretty a pattern as this I must admit :)

 

Ingredients :

Stamps : By the Seashore, Cheer and wishes (ret.)

Card : naturals ivory, white, crumb cake, first edition dsp

Ink : crumb cake, stazon, pool party, indigo, cherry

Other : big shot, delicate designs ef, pearls, square punch, decorative label punch

 

Please take a look at the wonderful creations at still addINKtive and we’d love it if you’d play along with us too.

 

kathy

Wedding Flower

If you’ve been following my blog you’ll know that last week I was asked to make a wedding card for one of the teachers at school. I was happy with how it turned out but then I was asked a couple of days ago to make another wedding card for the same person.   That made it hard because I have no wedding sets and I didn’t want to use the set I used last time (Always) again.

So I started looking at challenges for some much-needed inspiration today.
I found a great sketch of Rita’s at Freshly Made Sketches. 



And The Paper Players have a theme challenge this week which is Spring and that means flowers and butterflies to me.

So I decided to combine the two challenges and this is what I came up with:





I made a big paper flower again using very vanilla and spritzed it with champagne shimmer mist. I made another crumpled double bow too (thanks Ann).  I  clear embossed the butterfly from Kindness Matters and coloured them  with a blender pen and baja and river rock. I  have bent up their wings and attached them with mini glue dots.


Ingredients :
Stamps : Kindness Matters, Tiny tags, Cheer and Wishes
Card : vanilla, baja, suede, river rock
Ink : suede, versamark, crumb cake, baja, river rock
Other : tag punch, big shot, polka dot ef, lattice ef, swirls scribbles, island floral, 5 petal flower punch, fancy flower punch, antique brad, lace, crumb cake seam binding, blender pen, champagne shimmer mist/alcohol, clear ep, linen thread


Hopefully the person I made this for will be happy with the card.  I may just have to invest in a wedding set, it would make things so much simpler!


Kathy