Red White and Blue

Well it is the Jubilee weekend, so what else could this month's colour challenge at Less is More be?  http://simplylessismoore.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/week-70-colour-challenge.html  Once I'd extricated Lottie from my lap (see end of post) I had a play and made a couple of cards for the challenge.

For my first card I got out my papermania portobello road papers and made 3 flowers in red, white and blue using them and a scalloped circle punch.  I printed the sentiment about being a Queen for a day and cut it with a nestie and mounted it onto more the red paper from the set.  I deliberated hung it off the card and trimmed it back.  I stamped a crown by Dimension 4th stamps, coloured and glittered it and added some gems.  To assemble I added some union ribbon (papermania), a marianne D die cut swirl and a stamp from a papermania set (could have done with a better ink match to the printed sentiment though!)

I'm also entering this one into One Stop Craft Challenge this week which wants red, white and blue and crowns or diamonds  http://onestopcraftchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/week-185-queens-diamond-jubilee-crowns.html 

I'm also entering this one into the Cool Britania challege at MAWTT 
http://movingalongwiththetimes.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/cool-britannia-mawtt.html

For my second card, I went cute but still CAS.  The image is a Pollycrafts digi, coloured with copics and fussy cut.  The sentiment is computer generated again and mounted ribbon style onto some blue card from my snippets drawer.

I'm entering this one into the Cool Britania challege at MAWTT  as well
http://movingalongwiththetimes.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/cool-britannia-mawtt.html

This one would also be perfect for our new "furry friends" challenge over at St Luke's this month  http://stlukescharitycardschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/   we have a great stamp set from Waltzingmouse up for grabs if you fancy playing along.


My crafting time this morning started later than normal as the weather has gone cold so the cat was seeking warmth, and it seems I was it!   It's very hard to craft one handed ;-)  She was definitely interested by what was on my laptop today too....