Baby blue

Time to make a baby card! This one i've entered for Friday Mashup #37: Animal Challenge - I managed to squeeze in the elephant from "out of the box"! I also used the the "Nursery Letters" stampin' around wheel to create the pattern on the baby vest.
[I had to take the photo with flash-sorry!]

Blue, Orange and Green

This card is for Colour Throwdown #134 and I was able to try out my new scallop border punch!

I've used the "happy birthday" stamps from wow flowers and birthday whimsy. And a nice big bit of ribbon finishes it off :)

Colour Throwdown # 134

CR84FN 20 (Plum, Lavender & Green)

CR84FN 20 has my favourite card colours for their challenge this week, so I got to make another card with my favourite birdy! 

I confess I cased this one from  Julie's stamp Journal where she made a beautiful orange version.

Sorry the photo is a bit dull-poor lighting i'm afraid :(

Happy Birthday with PPA 85

I got a set of SU marker pens a while back-in the earth elements colours. The pens work really well for stamps that have different parts that could do with being different colours-like cake stamp from "On a Pedestal".
I decided to use this stamped image along with the card sketch from PPA 85. This was going along fine until I realised I hadn't put a sentiment anywhere....

I had a Martha Stewart "Happy Birthday" pre-punched sentiment in my box of scraps (which matched the hints of red in this card) -but where to put it??

Ta-dah! I snuck it behind the cake motif! It just didn't seem to work anywhere on the card; but it fits snugley onto a label die cut which I punched out.
I cut a little slit down the edge of the motif and slid the label in place :)

Purples and Greens

I couldn't go too long without bringing back the purple birdie-and here he is! The colour combination at Just Add Ink works really well for my favourite birdie combos. The sketch is from Mojo Monday 182 - it uses a nice big circle shape-which I can frame the bird with.

Click on the challenges to take you to them:

Our Creative Corner "Fabric Challenge"

OCC "Fabric Challenge"

I'm going back to my textile roots today with bits of felt, organza and gold thread. I used free hand machine embroidery for the swirly stitches and then finished it off with a couple of paper punched butterflies.
I haven't made it into a card yet, as i'm thinking of making it into a wall hanging or maybe pop it into a frame.
I must get out my sewing machine more you know!

Springtime

Quite a few blog challenges are choosing Spring as a theme but i seem to have missed the deadlines for all but PPA84! I do love the colours of spring: yellows (for daffodils and crocus), purples (crocus and blue bells), whites (snowdrops) and then greens and blues of grasses and sky.

I wasn't sure if i liked this card at first-a bit busy. But it's growing on me! I've tried to create daffodils with the 5 petal punch (i know daffs have 6 petals, but he ho!) Its definitely a punch art card but there is a little bit of stamping in there-the central "for you" from SU punch bunch and then the little leaves from SU sweetpea stamp set.

Finally got my Mojo back!

I've been lacking in get up and go with regard to making cards for a couple of weeks, but last night i bought all my crafty bits into the sitting room, looked through some challenges and made a couple of cards-yey!
So here's my interpretation of Mojo 181 (just in time!)