Purple Rose

This card is based on the current Retro Sketch #116 using techniques shown by Betsy Veldman in PTI Make It Monday. A last minute decision to make this card while I'm cooking, hopefully the roast is not burnt!

Ingredients
Card - Watercolour, Neenah, Vellum
Stamps - PTI Year of the Flowers Roses and Think Big Favorites #24
Inks - Tim Holtz Distress Inks Seedless Preserve, Mowed Lawn, Tumbled Glass and Vintage Photo, Versamark
Others - White EP, Sequin, Hemp from Hemptique

Anniversary Card

I have an anniversary card to share made using the borders framing Dawn showed on PTI Make it Monday. When I first saw her card, I thought to myself that I would need to draw pencil lines to make everything square up, and then I watched her video… so I decided to make it the way she did, without any markings on the card.  I'm also linking up this card to Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - Anything Goes Challenge. Thanks for dropping by, believe it or not, this is my 245th post! Need to do a giveaway for the 250th post!!

Ingredients:

Neenah Solar White and Desert Storm, PTI Think Big Favourites, Boutique Borders: Birthday and Happiness in Bloom, Hero Arts Red tomato, Cup O'Joe and Field Greens.

Sapphire Anniversary

My Uncle and Aunty in Malaysia just celebrated their 45th wedding anniversary. They had a renewal of their vows and a big reception afterwards. I wanted to send them a card to celebrate this special event. I wanted to make a white CAS card with a little bit of blue to represent the colour of sapphire. The ribbon, the number and the sentiment were all stamped or coloured with Broken China. The numbers were sprayed with Perfect Pearls - love this technique!! I'm submitting my card to ABNH's Tag challenge and also Simply Less is More's oval challenge. Simon Says Stamp's current challenge is embossing and the CASology challenge this week is 'White'! As this is an asymetrical card and the Moxie Fab World challenge is still open, I'm submitting my fourth card! Thanks for dropping by!

Challenges:

A Blog Named Hero - Tag! You're It!

Simply Less is More - Use an Oval

Simon Says Stamp - Emboss It!

CASology - White

Moxie Fab World - Card Design Asymetry Challenge

Ingredients:

Cardstock - Neenah Classic Solar White

Embossing folder - Tim Holtz Sizzix Regal/Damask

Die Cuts - MFT DieNamics Tag, MFT DieNamics Numbers, MFT DieNamics Layered Labels

Stamp - Hero Arts Sentiments CL272

Ink - Tim Holtz Distress Ink Broken China, Perfect Pearls, Versamark

Others - Glitter embossing powder, Kaisercraft blossom and rhinestone, seam binding

HA Scramble

Another quick card made from the Hero Arts 90 minute scramble this morning. It was hard getting up at 5am! The scramble task was set by Emily Leiphart and we had to combine two different sets of sentiments to come up with our own. It was a mad scramble to get all my HA sentiments out (I don't have many to choose from). I picked CL272 (HAPPY ANNIVERSARY) with CL 350 (Just Saying Hello) to make up Just Saying HAPPY ANNIVERSARY. I had something ink smudging issues (something about white - I always manage to dirty a white shirt whenever I wear one!!) Anyway it was all done with 2 minutes to spare and I managed to go back to bed!! I chose the colours blue and green for this week's challenge at Less is More. As I used HA stamps, I'm also entering this to ABNH Freestyle challenge.  I added glossy accents to the flowers after the scramble to give them a bit of a lift and to hide my glossy accents smudges!!  Pop back later as I managed to make another card today.

Challenges:
Hero Arts August - CAS card 
Less is More - Blue and Green
A Blog Named Hero - Challenge #9 Freestyle
Ingredients:
Cardstock - Ranger Specialty Stamping Paper
Stamp - HA Ancient Flowers and Butterflies, HA Sentiments CL272 and CL350, HA Lattice background 
Inks - HA Wet Cement, Ranger Archival Jet Black, Distress Markers
Others - Hero Arts Hues Dots, Glossy accents