Another Blooming Card

Hello. It's me. Again.

I seem to have gone a bit flower happy in the last couple of days so I'm entering another card into the Casology challenge. In case you missed it, the cue word this week is 'bloom:'

Bit different to my other one isn't it? But I've been dying to have a play with some Perfect Pearls I bought recently. I used a Hero Arts stamp, embossed some of the flower outlines in white emboss powder and used a mix of Perfect Pearls powders for the blooms. I can't help thinking there is something missing. A sentiment maybe? In fact, I may come back to it and make an adjustment or two.
I'm also going to enter it into this months Simon Says Stamp challenge which is 'Flower Power.' It's great when you get to do a double whammy isn't it?!

Thanks for stopping. Again.

Claire x

Freshly Made Colour!

Hello bloggers!

I seem to be on a roll with the cards at the moment. Not sure what's happened to the scrapbooking - I haven't done a layout for ages and think I should maybe change the name of my blog soon!

There's a great sketch by Amy over at Freshly Made which I've combined with this week's Colour Q combo. I decided to take a 'less is more' kind of approach and only used a little of each colour, along with the black and white.

I stamped the border in Real Red using Mama Elephant's Modern Borders, matted it against some certainly celery card stock and did a spot of colouring with Cameo Coral.

Just a quickie today....enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Claire x

Waltzingmouse Blog Party

Hello everyone,

It's time for one of my favourite challenges of the month again - the Waltzingmouse Blog Party!

This month the theme is 'teacher appreciation.' It's a bit early in the year for us to be sending thank you cards to teachers in Australia - our school year ends in December. But who said you had to wait till then anyway?

I went back to Claire's chalkboard technique tutorial for this one. I wanted it to look like lines on a blackboard so I used the 'for my teacher' stamp from the Frame It set. I drew the apples and added some Dimensional Magic, then stamped the leaves in Versamark using the tiny leaf from Folk Art Medallion.

Well that's enough partying for me this month...off to see how all the other guests have dressed!

Thanks for stopping,

Claire x

Blooming with Casology

Hi everyone,

Another day, another card and another Casology challenge. This time the cue word is 'bloom.'

Unfortunately I'm one of those card makers who finds it very difficult to throw away the tiniest scraps of patterned paper. I have a whole file full of MME scraps and this was the perfect card to use some of them up. I punched a flower from a die cut square of bazzil, covered the petals with some coordinating papers and covered the flower with the cut square, using some dimensional tape. Has to be one of the easiest, quickest and cheapest cards I've made in a long time!

Hope your day is blooming - thanks for stopping!

Claire x

A Dynamic CAS(E) This Sketch

Good morning bloggers,

I've been meaning to have a go at a Dynamic Duos challenge for ages so I combined it with this week's sketch over at CAS(E) This Sketch. Unfortunately I just missed the CAS(e) deadline. Oops...don't you just hate it when that naughty Mr Linky shuts shop?!

Yes, ok I know.  I am just a little bit obsessive over that typewriter! But it will end soon...promise.  I've combined it with another set of Mama Elephant stamps called Modern Borders.  It's the kind of set I could play with for ages, if only I didn't have to do all the other 'important' things in life like look after the kids....

I'm also going to enter this one into the Simon Says Stamp challenge this month which is 'things with wings.' May be pushing it....but hey, there is a bird on it and Simon can always hit the delete button!

Have a great day and thanks for popping by!

Claire x

Play Date Cafe

Hello folks,

Another pretty colour combo over at the Play Date Cafe this week:

I've used a few Kaisercraft papers from their Peachy Keen collection for this one. I fussy cut the flowers from the patterned papers and added a few stamped leaves from the Waltzingmouse Folk Art Medallion set. I've used a stamp from the same set to stamp the background on to a Marvellous Square die cut.  I love the boldness of the blue with the peach and apricot - definitely a colour theme I'll be using again....if only I had the talent to think of it in the first place!

Thanks for looking!

Claire x

Casology Hexagons

Well hello bloggers,

I have to say I've struggled with the Casology cue word this week:

Why did I struggle? Because I've really caught the 'hexagonal' bug and realised I have way too much hexagonal stuff to choose from! Should I use the hexagonal die cut? Or maybe the embossing folder? Or the hexagonal woodgrain stamp? Then again I could use the mask...

In the end I went for a new stamp that I got from Mama Elephant recently, coloured it with a few markers and added a stamped circle from Waltzingmouse, together with a Stampin' Up flower from their Eastern Gardens set. I also used the mask but I'm wondering if this has steered me away from the 'clean' element of the challenge!

Of course, since I've finished this card I've had another 100 ideas about what I could have done....

Can't wait to see how everyone else has interpreted the word this week!

Thanks for stopping,

Claire x