60th Birthday Card(s)

I was asked to make a 60th birthday card and wanted to use the Paper Smooches digits and stripes for the current PS Sparks challenge. I ended up with two cards as I wasn't happy with the first one. Both cards are based on separate sketch challenges. I finally got hold of some heavy weight vellum and couldn't resist trying out the Simon Says Stamp banner die. Let me know which one you like….

Muse Challenge #42

Challenges :

Muse #42 (first card)

Mojo Monday 318 (second card)

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - Anything Goes Challenge

Paper Smooches Sparks Trend Watch - Stripes Challenge

Ingredients:
Neenah Solar White and Desert Storm, Gold metallic card stock, Heavy Vellum, Basic Grey Serenade 6x6, Paper Smooches Digits and Sentiment Sampler, PTI Tag, Paper Smooches Reflections die, Simon Says Stamp folded banner, Versamark, White and gold EP, Chalk ink.

Postcard Birthday

I've got good news to share. I recently submitted a few cards to Paper Crafts's Stamp It Techniques V2. Mind you, I had been very busy and only managed to make one sentiment card using one of the techniques I learnt from the Online Card Class Summer Camp 2. I also submitted a few other cards including the one below which were previously made for other publication calls. The sentiment card got accepted. Yay! ... for Step-Outs... I think this means that they want step-by-step instructions on how the card was made. This magazine will come out in January 2014!
For this card I used  my favourite Big Postcard stamp from Hero Arts and added my other favourite flower and butterflies stampset. I'm adding this card to Moxie Fab World Birthday card challenge, Tuesday Trigger - It's Completely Collagical and Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Airmail. Thanks for dropping by!

MFW TT - It's Completely Collagical

Ingredients:

Neenah Natural White, Basic Grey Serenade 6x6, Hero Arts Big Postcard, Antique Flowers and Butterflies and Find Joy, Ranger Archival Jet Black, Tim Holtz Gathered Twigs, Kaisercraft rhinestones and seam binding

Cardabilities Sketch 78

I love the Cardabilities Sketch this week and wanted to make a card with Basic Grey Serenade. I decided to add a tag to the card so that I can submit this to the Moxie Fab World Birthday Tags and Wraps challenge. I've also used the colours from Play Date Cafe and The Simon Says Stamp and Show A Little Stamping challenge this week. I also added a felt flower that I got in my Hero Arts warehouse clearance sale. Thanks for dropping by!

Ingredients:

Cardstock - Neenah Desert Storm

Paper - Basic Grey Serenade 6x6 and Snippets

Stamp - Hero Arts CL661

Ink - Ranger Archival Jet Black, Tim Holtz Gathered Twigs

Dies - MFT DieNamics Fishtail STAX, Open Bracket Border and You're It Tag

Ohters - Hero Arts Fancy Felt, Studio Calico Gem, Doily from Ellen Hutson

The ones that got rejected

Hi All! I've been MIA from the blogging world as I have been busy with my other hobby. We had invited instructors from Singapore and Malaysia to teach my team the art of Dragon Dance. We had 4 days of intensive training and I also took a few days off so that we showed off a bit of sights around Melbourne. So now, back to normal!
I have a bit of good news to share. I submitted for Kaisercraft DT call last week (emailed it at the last possible minute as I only found out about it half an hour before the deadline). I just received an email informing me that I am into Round 2! So they are sending out some papers from two yet to be released collections and I have to make 2 cards, 2 layouts (this is going to be hard!!) and a OTP project (I have one that I was gonna do one day...) So I will be a little quiet on the blogging world this month as I have 4 weeks to submit them.
Anyway, I made 6 cards for the latest Paper Crafts Paper Savvy publication call. I was very excited that one got picked! This will be my second card with PC Mag! Here are some of rejects, the others got re-submitted for another publication. Thanks for dropping by!

This first one was submitted in the Colouring Media category.

Ingredients

Cardstock - Black Cardstock, Neenah Solar white card stock

Stamps - Hero Arts CG125 Friend Definition, CG244 Large Fabric Design, CL661 Its Your Day

Inks - Tim Holtz Distress Inks Picked Raspberry, Peacock Feathers and Chipped Sapphire, Versamark, Ranger Archival Jet Black, Hero Arts Bubble Gum

Dies - MFT DieNamics Fishtail STAX

Others - Clear Embossing Powder, Kaisercraft rhinestones

This second one was made with a recent Retro Sketch. I liked it so much as it matched the elements used for the category Ready made embellishments using Basic Grey Serenade with no stamping!

Ingredients

Cardstock - Neenah Desert Storm Cardstock

Paper - Basic Grey Serenade 6x6, BG Serenade Snippets, BG Serenade Banners

Inks -Tim Holtz Distress Ink Gathered Twigs

Die - MFT DieNamics Fishtail Flags STAX

Others - The Twinery Twine Cantaloupe 

Splash of green!

I've been itching to play with this challenge ever since it was posted. Why? And I don't even like the colour green? Well what intrigued me was that Pantone announced the colour 'Green' as the colour of the year for 2013 and so Play Date Cafe decided to add it to their challenge. Why I don't like green? It was my school uniform colour! Anyway, I'm going to embrace and celebrate the Pantone Green this year to overcome my fear! Here is my card with my favourite flower from PTI coupled with Basic Grey Serenade paper! Oh, I also used my new Fiskars stamping tool for the first time (sentiment only) - took me three goes before I got it right! You have to press very hard and walk around the whole stamp. Personally, I prefer to stamp on a telephone directory and tear out the soiled pages after each use! Anyway, practice makes better!

Ingredients:

Cardstock - Neenah

Paper - Basic Grey Serenade 6x6

Stamps - Papertrey Ink Lovely Layers, Hero Arts Big Ticket

Ink - Ranger Archival Jet Black, Hero Arts Field Greens

Retro bird

I couldn't let the Retro sketch challenge go this week without submitting a card. So in the last hour, this is the card I made. My cardstock supplier has finally got Neenah Desert Storm in stock now, so I'm stamping on it for the first time. I'm also submitting this card for the Hero Arts January contest - Try something new (Neenah cardstock and Basic Grey Serenade) and Basic Grey's New Beginnings/Something New challenge. Thanks for dropping by!

Ingredients:

Cardstock - Neenah Desert Storm

Paper - Basic Grey Serenade

Stamps - Hero Arts Timely Bird CG292, Simon Says Stamp Sentiment

Ink - Ranger Archival Jet Black

Others - Kaisercraft rhinestones