Happy Easter!

Good morning,

Nice to be back blogging after a short break which seemed very long to me :) Two things happened over the last few days. First my parents are here with me. I am very excited to see them after three years. So much to talk and catch up. Children are so happy to see their grandparents. Getting away with a lot of things lol! Then my hubby also built me a tiny craft room. There was a void in the house with a chandelier hanging. This was a dead space and he decided to build it up and make it as  a craft room for me :) How thoughtful of him and what a great birthday gift for me :) It is all completed now and I have moved in. Will soon blog some pictures :)

For today, I am sharing a easter card I made using Wplus9's Easter Blessing stamp set and using CAS(E) this Sketch #66 sketch. I was not able to play along this sketch due to inablity to access my craft supplies. So I am happy to finally be able to play along this sketch. Here is the sketch.

And here is my card using thie sketch as the inspiration.

It is a clean and simple card with some colouring making the colours pop out of white background. Love the simplicity of the card. Hope you do too. 

Thanks for stopping by! See you soon with more.

Curtain Call Inspirational Challenge - Perfectly Peach!

Welcome to a brand new Curtain Call Inspirational challenge - Perfectly Peach!

photo credit: weddingillustrated.net

We have a fabulous new sponsor, Peachy Keen Stamps, for the Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge: Perfectly Peach challenge!  The LEAD of this challenge will receive a gift certificate to Peachy Keen Stamps!

Peachy Keen Stamps generously contributed two stamp sets to me to use on my card here. They are called Tropical Floral and Happy Birthday - Big. Thank you so much for your generosity.

  

Here is my take on the challenge using these two stamp sets.

I have used watercolour paper and coloured the stamp with distress markers, misted with water and stamped on the watercolour paper diagonally. I did the same with the sentiment. I added some diamond stickles and a strip of glitter ribbon on the bottom of the card. Accented with enamel dots. My inspiration for this card came from the top right picture from the inspirational collage. Hope you like my take on the inspirational challenge - Perfectly Peach.

You won't want to miss what our special guests and crew have whipped up for Perfectly Peach!

Perfectly Peach Designers

Gigi McKillips, Peachy Keen Stamps

Amber Kroening

Amy Kolling

Amy Tsuruta

Barb Murphy

Gayatri Murali

Kim Singdahlsen

Monika Davis

Sheri Gilson

Sarah Gough

Stacey Schafer

Tenia Nelson

Tracey McNeely

Stop by the Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge: Perfectly Peach and play along with us!

I have not blogged so much this week because I have construction going on this week at my home. Doing a little extension thereby I get a teeny tiny dedicated craft room. Most of the work is finished. So hopefully I will be able to access my craft supplies by next week and start blogging again. And I will also blog pictures of my teeny tiny craft room soon:)

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Best Wishes!

I played along two challenge over the weekend but found time to take photo and blog only today. I am late for one challenge but certainly not for the other. It is too late for Wplus9 Trend Challenge :( But good to enter into Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Wedding Anniversary. 

I have combined some new stamp sets called Fresh Cuts Series with one of their very old stamp set called Woodgrain Silhouette Additions. I have stamped the the big leaves  from Woodgrain Silhouette Additions using gold pigment ink then layered with a smaller outline leaves. Then I die cut the flowers and leaves of Fresh Cuts and More Fresh Cuts stamp sets and stamped them using two shades of grey colour from Hero Arts (Soft granite and Charcoal) and black. Worked so well especially with the gold leaves. I then wanted to add some colour. So spattered with some neon pink Mr. Huey. Then stamped the sentiment on a strip fo cardstock. I also then stamped some flowers from Fresh Cut Wreaths on the card. Finally accented with some sequins.

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Sketch Meets Colours

Played along My Favorite Things sketch and colour palette challenges today.

 

Love blue and yellow together with neutrals and this sketch is awesome. 

I used the new release Go Overboard stamp set, Let's get Nautical die-namics and Striped Stencils to make my nautical card.

I coloured yellow distress ink using the Striped stencil for the background. Diecut the banner using blue cardstock and stitched it. Love this hanging thread trend :) I then diecut the porthole about 5 times usinf kraft cardstock and glued them together to get the thickness. Added the brads. Similarly diecut the Anchor five times and glued them together. Adhered the anchor to the white circle which is then embedded inside the porthole. Brushed the anchor with Wink of Stella and finished off with glossy accent. The sentiment is stamped on a strip of white cardstock, trimmed to make the fish tail ends and foam mounted it. Love how it turned out.

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great weekend!

There is still time to play...

the Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge-Cozy Quilt

Here is my second card for the challenge using Lil' Inker Designs Stamp sets.

I have used images from Modern Mehndi and sentiments from Stay Beautiful & Darling Diamonds Stamp Sets on my card.

So come and play along the challenge. Here is the link to the challenge-Cozy Quilt!

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