Colour me this

The Fripperies and Butterflies colour challenge doesn't have many players, in fact the last 2 months has seen me enter on my own, now I don't mind winning *g* but when you're Billy No Mates, its a bit sucky. I declined the prize pack by the way.

My make for July 15th  - Aug 14th challenge on this colour scheme:

 

 

Is a digital postcard done using a Gecko Galz image from Seaside Beauties 2 design sheet, back of a postcard from Google search, sea shell border from Google search.

 

I coloured matched the sun and the sentiment from the colour chart.

 

 

P is for punches & pink

Had a lovely week off last week with Andrew, only been in my new job for 2 weeks so I was so pleased that they honoured the holiday. Lovely just to chill in the sun, and potter around. (not sure if I posted on here what happened with my last job, but that's a post for another day) Today is all about the butterflies!

 

 

The challenge for this fortnight is P is for punch and/or pink - I used this stamp again, its turning into a favourite, this time I paper pierced it with matching ink to paper - Hot Pink and Christmas Green pigment inks from DoCrafts, the paper was also from docrafts capsule collection. Love the effect.

 

To incorporate the Punch bit of the challenge, I used a small butterfly punch I had given me - and punched through the white card, putting a piece of the same pink paper underneath to match the Rose.

 

I've had the backing paper for years and it was one of those I liked but never could never match to a card design. To finish it off, I added 4 little pink gem stones and 8 white pearls in the corners.

 

Again with the off cuts/inking testers from this card, I made a small tag to match, only adding a stamped 'with love' sentiment in the same Hot Pink ink.

 

                                  

 

entering in: butterfly challenge = P is for punch and/pink

Dimension & Denim

3 for the price of 1 today, got my crafty head on as the weather is cooler today, expecting it too rain but the wind blows away the greyish clouds and we get a little bit of sun. Couln't concentrate on anything whilst we were in the heat wave, I picked 6 books from the library and have only read 2, couldn't get into the others, will take them back and pick some more.
Did you know if you check out books from your local library, the author gets some money? Its something like 7 or 8p a go, sounds rather Spartan but at least they know they're being read.

Anyhoo, back to the cards.

 

Made using a sheet of dark blue denim effect paper and a light blue denim effect paper. Create a flower die, (which came free with a magazine - which explains why I nearly took the tip of my index finger off with it when I pulled it from its glue, having to craft and type with a poorly finger stuck up in the air is quite hard. Ouch.) Tattered Lace mini butterflies die, blue gems, Spellbinders sentiment die, white flower and finally a dark blue button.

 

A simple card, but I love how it turned out.

 

I have some A6 blue cards I had given me in a swap over at cardexchange uk, which have been sitting in my envelope box for some time, so I thought I'd use up my bits & bobs and make 2 notelet style cards with them.

 

I read an article in this months Do Crafts Creativity mag about Happy Mail and it looks like something I liked to do, so I figure if I have some to hand, then I can start using them.

 

 

 

entering in: butterfly challenge = D is for dimension and/or denim

Planes, trains & automobiles

Again, struggling with male cards - although I bought HunkDory little book of gentlemans whatever it is, the name escapes me at the moment!

A simple put together of a spare piece of HunkyDory backing card, the topper and then some copper peel offs and twine tied over the top. Hey Presto!

entering in: lunagirl = Planes, trains and automobiles

travel

Most of this digi page was done in the middle of the night, my brain would not switch off and let me sleep, so I got up and decided to start my piece for Digitally Sweet.

Used various elements from various digi kits free on the web, but the image is from Lunagirl 'Travel Posters'.

100% digital using CAP2.

I used the Travel theme with a twst - Time Travel - I guess the sentiment could be a statement or a question, with the steam train powering out of a fiery rip in time.


entering in: digitally sweet = travel

colour palette

The colour palette theme for June was absolutely gorgeous, which made making the card quite hard as I was torn between the colours!

I eventually chose teal, beige and a teeny tiny bit of black.

 

plain colour papers from DoCrafts colour block pack

candi "Mr & Mrs"

die cut sentiment from Tattered Lace 'Mini die set'

teal patterned paper "Soft Nostalgia" Hot off the Press

 

Going to use this as a notelet/writing card/rak.

 

entered in fripperies and butterflies page on Facebook.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Y is for Years & Yellow

Using a feebie embossing folder and accompanying stamp, I made this lovely 80th birthday card.

 

The yellow was water coloured but I didn't like the result so ended up going over the pencil with a promarker.

 

entering in: butterfly challenge = Y is for Years / Yellow