Pink and Brown

I was going to swerve this week's LIM challenge as it's all about pink and brown and I'm not really a pink girl and having grown up in the 70's have an aversion to brown too!  http://simplylessismoore.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/week-83-colour.html

However, my DH pointed out that kraft card is brown and that I love the stuff - so I decided not to be a wuss and after a bit of a play came up with this:

Tree image (PTI love and marriage) stamped on kraft using rich cocoa ink.  I matted onto brown and then used a scrap of pink with the same brown ink to stamp the true love sentiment (same set) and the heart was stamped in rose bud onto the tree trunk.  I added some pink bling to the tree (wouldn't bling trees be lovely in a forest!) and mounted to the left on a pink base card over a tessatina die cut from more kraft.  The anniversary sentiment is from another PTI set stamped in cocoa again directly to the base card.

As this is a tree image, I'm also going to enter it into this week's Paper Players challenge http://thepaperplayers.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/paper-players-111-jaydees-theme.html 

We've been to the local "art in the gardens" art and craft fair today - it's an annual event and we do love it.  I came away particularly inspired by a couple of artists today so time for tea and a little more paper crafting experimentation.

Our Anniversary

It's our 5th Wedding Anniversary today, and naturally that meant making a card for my husband.  Normally I show him all the stamp sets I get when they arrive, but I managed to "hide" one of my recent PTI acquisitions when they arrived a few weeks ago, as, as soon as I saw it last year, I knew I wanted to make a card for him with it as it's just perfect!

A very simple clean and graphic card - perfect for a fella.  I stamped the "great lovers" from the Love and Marriage set (anyone know who Ozzie and Harriet are btw???) in black on some white card stock and then added the "you and me" underneath in red.  The forever and the tiny heart are also from the same set, simply stamped and the heart got a layer of wow nuetral shimmer embossing.  I finished it with a layer of black glitter paper for a narrow mat and then a little trendy washi tape with a love them that looks like it's attaching the panel to the card although there is some d/s tape underneath as it didn't hold!

Time for a quick bath before we go out for a meal before the horrendous weather decends over night - we're staying in tomorrow with buckets at the ready as there's an amber flooding alert AGAIN for South Yorkshire - we bought each other purfume and watches - perhaps we should have clubbed together for an ark!!!