Wednesday is Cuttlebug Challenge Day...

This week the challenge at http://cuttlebugchallenge.blogspot.com/ is a sketch by the very, very talented Becky Fleck. It's a very interesting sketch and quite a challenge, but one that I very much enjoyed having a go at - twice! My first attempt in white, silver and vellum ended up in the bin after a little accident with some glue. Ah well I like the spring feel to this one!

As you can see in the sketch you can add buttons, but no matter how I searched 'just the right colour, size, ect.' of buttons eluded me so I ended up using different sizes and varieties of peel offs.

I have a huge collection of peel offs that at times I hardly use, but just occasionally they come into their own and I was really pleased to find the funky flower circles which form the focal part of this card.

I used the Cuttlebug die and embossing set 'Snowfun' to cut and emboss the various sized circles. Swiss Dots sneaked in on the act too for one of the larger circles. I also sanded them to make them pop of the page more.

I really love the different textures created by the embossing folders combined together in this way - maybe it would be good to try out different shapes and patterns.

Materials used:

• DCWV textured card
• Cuttlebug Snowfun die and embossing set
• Spellbinders circle and flower die
• Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder
• Gold peel offs from stash
• Gold brad from stash

Thank you so much to everyone who took part in my blog candy. I had such wonderful comments cheering me on after becoming a design team member and so many of you had a go at last week's challenge. It was great and there were some fantastic cards.

I will be printing out all the entries - putting them in a hat and drawing out the winner before the end of the day. It may take some doing! The winner will be announced later - good luck everyone.