Relax....

The cue word at CASology this week is relax - other than crafting and cooking, one of my favourite methods of relaxation is reading a good (or even trashy) book so the cue naturally lead me to this:

I stamped the book stamp (dimension stamps) onto scrap card, coloured with copics using the colours from this weeks ColourQ as my colour palette, and popped up on foam pads for a little dimension.  I finished with a sentiment from My Favourite Things "Well Read" stamp set.

Do pop back later as our new challenge over at St Luke's Charity Cards Challenge goes live at midnight :-D

Not scary but cute witch

I've not managed to make much this week, by mojo has definitely gone on holiday of late - I guess it doesn't like the cold and damp weather....

There are a lot of Halloween challenges around at the moment though and I have a super cute little swiss pixie Brigitta witch stamp that has never seen ink so I was determined to play with her.  When I saw this weeks colours at ColourQ I knew how I wanted to colour her - the grey, black, tangerine tango and crushed curry they have are just perfect for her

Cooking it up with Katie gave me the inspiration for the layout - they wanted to see colouring - well my image is coloured with copics - and they also wanted to see circles and paper curling, so I cut a couple of circles in mustard and grey with nesties and distressed and curled the edges.  I used some papermania black, white and grey spotted paper and some orange striped paper to finish the layout - I do like to mix spots and stripes.

As well as the two challenges that inspired my card design, I am entering the following  Halloween themed challenges too:

http://cupcakecraftchallenges.blogspot.com/2011/10/cupcake-163-halloween.html

http://cutie-sunday.blogspot.com/2011/10/cutie-sunday-151-09102011.html

http://7kidschallengeblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/challenge-32-happy-halloween.html 

Thanks for visiting

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