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This week on the Global Design Project we are Casing Michelle Last…..

WOW!

Michelle is a very talented lady and this card like all her cards is so beautiful..

I really love this card and it really excites me…

The Layout of this card has  inspired me and I hope you will enjoy my card as much as I enjoyed making it.

This card is full of texture but has a simple look with the white background and the “Pop” of colour in one corner. It gives it such a feel of elegance.

I’m also giving you a “Sneak Peak” of a new Stamp set and Thinlit Dyes…..

Colorful Seasons and Seasonal Layers Thinlits.

I LOVE this set……and this is only a small part of it.

As this is the first card I have done using it..you will have to wait to see what else I do with it.

As I have said I have Cased the “Layout”….instead of using a square frame I have used a circle and raised it from the card to add an extra dimension.

To do this I used the Foam Adhesive Strips and to go around the curve I nicked long the strip, giving it the ability to go around the curves nicely.

A dye cut branch floats across the frame with beautiful Spring Blooms.

The inside of the card I stamped a matching image

I hope you have enjoyed my card…

The Colorful Seasons and Seasonal Layers Thinlits will be available come the 1st June.

If you want a copy of the 2017/18 Annual Catalogue then contact me and I will have one sent to you when released.

Remember to go to Global Design Project and check out the other wonderful cards and may be Give it ago yourself..

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So happy to share that the card I did last week received a “Special Mention” on Global Design Project

This week the challenge from Global Design Project is “Case the Designer”

This week we are casing Louise Sharp.

The Stamp set I am using for my card is “Sitting Here” 141589.

For almost a year I have had this stamp set but wasn’t sure what to do with it But today I knew exactly what i wanted and I love this layout of Louise’s.

I’ve kept it all very simple with the background paper from the Envelope Paper 2016 – 201814 In-colours, repeating the colour with the ribbon and bird.

The image was stamped onto Crumb Cake card stock with Crumb Cake Stampin’ Pad and with the Blender Pen the colour blended in from the outline. Dapper Denim was used with the Blender Pen to add colour to the cushion the cat sits on. The Cat was coloured in with Cajun Craze Stampin’ Pad with a hint of blue for his eyes

Blue is my favorite colour and I have enjoyed making this card so much.

Thanks GDP for another great challenge.

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In my last post I shared a video by Stampin’ Up! on Marbling and the wonderful effects you can get with this technique.

Here are the pieces of card stock I marble in case you didn’t get to see them.

Now they are nice and dry and ready to make into cards..so I have put together a simple card using the Sketch Challenge from Global Design Project

Here is the sketch and my completed card…

I have used the same colours in the card as I used in the marbling...Wild Wasabi, Wisteria Wonder and So Saffron.

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Welcome!

What a week…

Gee its gone fast.

I don’t know about you but time is flying, this morning when I woke up I was thinking its what day Tuesday….

Nooooooooo!

Its Wednesday already and I have so much to do today!

And there’s so much I’m behind on.

Last week I’m sorry but I completely forgot Global Designer Challenge…..it closes on Monday (I think) and they announce the winner/s Monday night.

And I thought better go and have a look and then thought what did I do for it, I can’t remember. The reason I couldn’t remember was because I’d forgotten – BLONDE MOMENT!

I even had it all worked out in my head…..

So I’m not forgetting this week!

The Theme is week is ……….

Now the way this card came to being……

Stampin’ Up! puts out each year some beautiful rangers of Designer Series Paper (DSP) and like most, I buy it….it beautiful so this is what you do..you buy it!

Then what do you do with it…well it sits on the shelf looking pretty….and looking pretty..on the shelf!

YEP!…I’m the same as you, its there on the self looking pretty!

Well a lovely friend Kylie Bertucci is really encouraging ALL of us to #loveitchopit

Get it of the shelf and use it, chop it up, put it on cards and let others enjoy it too!

I purchased the “Sending Love DSP Stack”, great little 15 x 15 cm (6 x 6″) packs of lovely papers great for Valentines Day.

Well Valentines been and Gone…

So what do we do with the left over papers…use it of course!

One of the lovely papers is a spot.

I used Basic Black for the card and Whisper White as the under layer with the Real Read and White Spot as the base of my card.

the thought here was to keep the card simple…and I needed to add a

 WINGED CREATURE….that’s the brief….

a Butterfly, a white butterfly……NOOOOoo!

I ended up with a scrap of Whisper White and some daubers and ink pads….Crushed Curry, Pacific point and Real Red.

I sponged the cardstock with the Crushed Curry and Pacific Point…mix these together and you get ….”GREEN”…don’t you!

At this point using the Butterfly Thinlits and the Big Shot I cut out the butterfly, but its a bit too green.

So I kept going…this wouldn’t be a Michele card unless it MORFS some how.

The two colours were not right with the Real Red and white spot DSP…So added some real Red to the wings.

A little Vellum under to lift from the back ground….still needs something.

(The vellum is adhered under the butterfly in a few concealed spots)

Add some leaves from the Botanical Builder Framelits a bit of silver thread and don’t forget some BLING!

And here is this weeks Creation….Hope its worth the wait..

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Hi! Welcome to my Blog…

How have you all been coping with the extreme heat we have been having over the last few days?

Thankfully it has now cooled down here in Moss Vale and tonight I should be able to get a good nights sleep.

Today I have been playing along with this weeks colour challenge.

Today I have made two cards and both are very different.

One is softer and the other very bright in colour.

With this card i used the Floral Phases Stamp Set.along with the Stampin’ Write Markers.

I coloured in each section of the stamp with the markers and then breathed on the stamp to re-moist

and stamped on the Card.

Earlier today I watched a great video by Patty Bennett –

How to stamp the High Tide Lighthouse and watercolor background from Stampin’ UP!

I loved the way she did the water colour background. I have done this before but only colouring the block with the markers.

Patty used the Stamp pads to colour the “Block” and which gives the strength and brightness of colour.

the flower was then embossed with Black embossing Powder..

Enjoy!

“Enjoy the Little Things”….

How often do we forget to “Enjoy the Little Things”,

we spend so much time worrying about all the different things that life throws at us that we forget to “Enjoy the Little Things”.

This week, Global Design Project has challenged us with a Sketch Challenge.

Funny things is …I started my card the day before the challenge came out.

Last week I did a water colour card using these same colours.

Blushing Bride, Mint Macaron, Sweet Sugarplum, So Saffron, Tempting Turquoise and Peekaboo Peach.

This was a fun card to do and a simple card to do but I think very effective.

With this card I masked off the bottom section of the card and then sponged the colour blending them one into another.

A Bokeh effect was created by adding drops of water onto the sponged area and letting it dry, the water moving the colour to form lighter areas.

The sentiment was stamped with Basic Black – Archival Ink, this will with stand any water and not bleed. Splatters of ink was added with the same 6 colours used in the sponging.

This was done by watering the ink down with an Aqua Painter and tapping the Aqua Painter against another bush to form the splatters across the card front.

Just take care when doing this as the splatters will go everywhere and I mean everywhere.