Pink Elephant Day...

Can't believe Monday has come round again and it's time for a new challenge at the Pink Elephant.

This week is a colour challenge and our colours are Brown (yes that is brown in the photo), Yellow, Neutral and one colour of your choice. I chose to use a sheet of 12" x 12" card that was part of the stash in a Docraft's goody bag. It made the whole card so easy to create as all the essential colours were there and waiting for me. An added bonus was that the card was reversable making it easy to create contrasting cuttlebug panels using the plain distressed side.

I decided to combine our challenge with the sketch challenge at Pollycraft. I just love Pollycraft stamps and Paula's sketch is so cute and easy to use (which is how I like them). Thank you so much Paula.

Materials used:

• Stamp Winter Reflection by Pollycraft
• reversable patterned card by Docrafts
• brown card,gems and organza ribbon from stash
• snowflake cut using Quickcutz die
• Promarkers
  
• scalloped edge and plain circular nesties
• sentiment stamp from stash
  

Challenges :

• The Pink Elephant - colour challenge - brown, yellow, neutral and one to choose.
• Pollycraft - sketch

• Creative Card Crew - snowflakes

Have a great day everyone - only 4 more sleeps till the NEC - not that I'm excited or anything!!!

Wedded Bliss...

Another large 8" x 8" card stamped with Lofty and his bride from the Joanna Sheen Lofty Celebrations stamp set.

I had a great time combining loads of different stamps and elements to make up this card. My daughter thinks it would be perfect for a couple getting married on a tropical beach or even better a beach in Kenya so if you know anyone that is this could be the card for you!

Materials used:

• Just Married Lofty stamp set - this set includes the wedding couple and the two different heart motives.
• Planter is from Art Impressions
• Trellising was trellis border die by Cuttlebug and then built up to form an archway
• leaves are punched and tiny paper flowers are from stash
• purple card, silver mirri, white organza ribbon and peel offs are also from stash

Challenges:

• Die Cut Dreams - Wedded Bliss
• Passion for Promarkers - any colours but include an animal

Have a great weekend everyone and thank you for all the fantastic comments that you have left this week.

Favourite Flowers...

Can't believe it's got to Thursday and this is the first card I've put on my blog showing the new stamps I worked on recently for Joanna Sheen. Last Sunday saw the release of both a new CD and 12 new stamp sets to celebrate the 30 year anniversary of the Joanna Sheen company.

As Joanna says herself she was a child prodigy and started in the business at around the age of 10 - lol - not sure whether to believe that one or not, but seeing as she is such a lovely lady I'll give her the benefit of the doubt.

The carnation stamps I used are from the Hothouse Flower collection and are so beautiful to work with. I used Promarkers to colour them, but they would be fabulous done in any colouring medium.

Having been to a demo day at Whichcraft in Doncaster I was really intrigued by a sliding mechanism they were demonstrating on cards. I really liked the idea of 'something to pull' and a 'secret message' combined on the one card so I set about using the idea.

Since spending hours working out how to do this I've actually spotted a great tutorial at Split Coast Stampers so if you fancy having a go do check this out. It will save you hours in time and a lot of wasted card believe me - I know!!

One thing to bear in mind so that the mechanism glides smoothly is not have anything that is raised up on the inner sections. The peel offs I've used do slide but stamping would have been better.

Materials used:

• green, cream and gold card
• vintage paper (unknown source)
• Carnation Stamp Set by Joanna Sheen
• Promarkers
• gold peel offs and organza ribbon from stash

Challenges:

• Daring Cardmakers - favourite things (stamps are from range of Favourite Flowers, organza ribbon and peel offs are just indispensable).
• One Stop Craft Challenge - celebrations (Happy Birthday)