Challenges Galore!

Hi all.

Over the coming posts I will be showing you some of the cards (and 1 project) I recently completed for the latest series of Inkspirations4U. I had a lot of fun doing these and once again went outside the comfort zone to complete them.

Our very first challenge was to gain inspiration from this picture.....

Obviously a baby's room...so a baby card was needed. Some of the gals had produced some beautiful projects and I wanted to do something a little different. I had seen some beautiful side step cards similar to this one here. This was my card from the baby's room......

I drew on the elements of the colour, set of drawers, texture in the velvet seat and the teddy bear in the corner. I was so paniced about trying one of these cards out, I made a paper one first and wrote all the measurements all over it!! The texture is given by stamping the CS with the Weathered BGS in Versamark and then sponging all edges in Certainly Celery. The draw knobs have Crystal Effects on them to make them stand out a tad more.

The cut outs on the draw base was achieved with the Curly Label Punch. I was very happy with the end result. If you have not tried a Side Step card before, there is a tutorial on SCS, but I based my card on this one.

Thanks for popping by again.

Stuff used:

CS: (SU) Certainly Celery, Pretty in Pink, Whisper White

Ink: (SU) Certainly Celery, Versamark, Close to Cocoa (ret), Rose Red SWM

Stamps: (SU) Weathered BGS, Button Bear (ret), Teeny Tiny Sentiments

Punches: (SU) Curly Label, Modern Label, Word Window

Other Bits: Crystal Effects, Pink 1/2 pearls.

Lynda xx



Baby Fun #1 - Girls

With the recent birth of my beautiful baby neice, naturally I would have a post on some baby cards about. The cards in the next couple of posts actually went to my work as we have a lot of prospective Grandmas and co-workers. It is a veratible baby boom coming. So here are the ones I did for the girls....

The following is a CASE from SCS here.

Finally a slightly different take, a tag that is Cuttlebugged with a plain tied behind so that it can be written on. I love the simplicity of this tag.

There are a lot of things used in these cards, so if you have any questions about the things/inks/sets I have used, leave a question in the comments and I'll get back to you.

Monday Night Madness

We were set the challenge a couple of Monday night's ago to come up with a Vintage card style using Kraft, Always Artichoke and Whisper White. We also had to use hemp twine an SU 3D embellishment. I cannot type what my initial thoughts were, but here are the cards I did.

And here's a close up of the score lines that can't reall be seen on the above picture.

Both of these cards were versions of cards I had seen on SCS here and here, so I thank these people for proving me with the inspitation for these cards.

Have a great day.

Stuff used:

CS: (SU) Whisper White, Kraft, Always Artichoke, Holiday Harmony DSP (fm Spring 08 mini)

Ink: (SU) Always Artichoke

Stamps: (SU) Button Bear, Carte Postale, Weathered BGS

Bits: Twine (non SU), Mellow Moss gingham Ribbon, Clear button fm stash

Lynda xx