Phoenix Inspirations

I have another card for you today using my Sketch from the current challenge over on Sassy Sketcharinos And here it is I have created this card using stamp sets Flower Patch and Painted Petals. I had a very old die from Stampin' Up - an embosslits die of various sized butterflies and I die cut them using silver glitter paper. There are teeny tiny gems in the middle of the small flowers and a large one on the main flower. Colours used are: Pretty in Pink, Rose Red, Old Olive and Certainly Celery. I am also entering this card into the following challenges: Crafty Boots Challenges  - Bees and/or Butterflies Craft Your Passion Challenges  - Always Anything Goes Crafting From The Heart  - Challenge 113 Anything Goes Thanks for looking today - see you soon xx

The challenge over on Sassy Sketcharinos has been extended for another couple of weeks so I decided to make another couple of cards using the current sketch I also used the colour/photo inspiration from the current challenge over on MHKDesigns I love these anemone type flowers and they look gorgeous in white - the perfect starting point for my card - take a look I used Stampin' Up's Blended Bloom and Fabulous Florets to make my flowers shading it with a Sahara Sand Marker. The large main flower also has some Dazzling Diamonds glitter added to it. My stripes are Sahara Sand, Always Artichoke and Pear Pizzazz with a couple of gems added as a finishing touch. I've had great fun in my craft room today and I made another card using the above sketch but that's for another day. Hope you all had a good weekend, I'm up with the lark in the morning for my first shift of the week at the Cancer Research UK shop. Hopefully when I get ho...

It's time for another Christmas card and this week on 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown  Fabiola wants to see.... Here is my card (my critters might just be a bit big though!!!) And a close up of my main critter I love to make this style of card and with this one I kept the colour palette quite limited: green, red and brown. My stamps are a mish mash of what I have in my stash with a bit of Stampin' Up White Christmas thrown in for good measure - love how the banner fits perfectly on the reindeer's antlers. Do pop over and take a look at the other critters on show on the challenge blog and I will see you soon xx

Fabiola has given us some colours to work with this week at  52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown Take a look And here is my card My fir branches were stamped in gray and my baubles in blue - I added a few highlights of glitter and sponged around my Kraft mat with Crumb Cake ink. Thanks for looking today - see you soon xx

Found a rare few moments to pay lately so decided to make an easel card. I also got some gorgeous free stamps on a magazines and threw those into the mix too - take a look I used my Windows Framelits to cut the shape of the card and also embossed them with the Mosaic embossing folder. This card was used to day as a birthday card for a very special Aunt - hope she liked it! See you soon xx

Today's sketch over on Sassy Sketcharinos looks a bit like this And my DT card looks a lot like this My humming bird was heat embossed with clear embossing powder and then ink was sponged over it to make it stand out. My colours are Pistachio Pudding, Pretty in Pink, Old Olive, Primrose Petals. I added a bit of glitz with some silver glitter paper. It would be great to see you joining in over there - please do pop over a take a look at the other DT creations - we have a surprise Guest Designer too! Bye for now xx

It's that time of the week again - Christmas card time at 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown Fabiola is our Hostess for this month and here is her sketch And here is my card I rotated the sketch to make it portrait and used my Christmas Blessings stamp set. Colours are: Whisper White, Crumb Cake, Real Red and Gold embossing powder. Please do hop over to the blog to check out all the other gorgeous DT cards. See you soon xx

We had a rest last week at  Sassy Sketcharinos  but we are back with a great new sketch for you - take a look Here is my card - it's very blingy! Blended Bloom and Bitty Butterfly - it looks really sparkly in real life! Thanks for looking - please do pop over to the challenge blog HERE  to take a look at the other DT cards too. See you soon xx