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....

Our Little Furry Friends

Well, it's the 1st of the month which means time for a new challenge over at St Luke's Charity Cards Challenge and I hope you will all be much happier with this month's theme of "something furry" than you were with our one layer challenge last month which seemed to send most of you running for the hills with your decorative papers clutched firmly to your chest..........

This challenge is super easy - you can make a card for anyone, on any theme, as long as it features something furry - cat, dog, teddy bear or even a furry monster!   For my inspiration card I opted to go for the super cute retro Chester the monkey digi stamp from Pollycrafts (if you like him, be sure to nip over to the shop this week as sadly, it's closing it's doors for ever on the 8th June :-(  so if you want to get any of the great images you've only got a week to buy them before they disappear  http://pollycraft.co.uk/shop/page/1?shop_param=  You can currently get a fab closing down offer of 100 images for less than a tenner which is kind of a no brainer in my book.....

I used the sketch from Paperplayers as my base for my design  http://thepaperplayers.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/paper-players-97-leannes-sketch.html and colouring him with copics before cutting and matting with nestie circles.  The sentiment is from Waltzingmouse and I think it's highly appropriate for the image!

Speaking of Waltzingmouse - they are our FABULOUS sponsor again this month so if you enter our challenge, you can win this gorgeous stamp set.  If you've not tried them before you'll be stunned at the quality of their clear polymer stamps - they are so much better than many clear brands out there - there's no "squish" to them and the results are perfect every stamp!  So enter your furry creation into our challenge by noon on 30 June and you could win this gorgeous set of wonderful and very useful background stamps:

I'm entering this card into a few other challenges - mostly masculine ones to match the theme as there are a few of those around at the moment with father's day coming up fast:

http://tuesdaythrowdown.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/tuesday-throwdown-100.html 

http://herecometheboysblogchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/challenge-28-anything-goes.html

http://onestopcraftchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/challenge-184-for-boys.html

Pollycrafts linky party  http://pollycraftdesigns.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/its-party-time-come-and-link-up-your.html  you can link up any card here featuring a Pollycrafts image but it's only open until the store closes on the 8th.

Looking forward to seeing what you all come up with over on the challenge site.