Makeesha's Inspiration Challenge #5

Here is the pic for Makeesha's challenge this week it comes from Adairs. Gorgeous!

The colours I pulled out are Very Vanilla, River Rock and Night of Navy. I had never used this colour combo before and I love it. Great for both men and women. I used another old favorite stamp set Looks like Spring ( retired list $58.95 & Bushfire set) With the kissing technique on the flower. Makeesha's challengers are alway fun, click here to enter or see the other entries.

Recipe

Stamp Set : Looks like Spring

Ink : Night of Navy, River Rock

Card : Night of Navy, River Rock, Very Vanilla

Punch : 1" circle

Accessories : double stitched ribbon river rock, jumbo eyelet pewter, metallic eyelets, cutter kit, crop a dile

Nerine's Tuesday Layout

I pulled out the aqua pen and had a go at some water colouring for Nerine's Tuesday Layout. I'm quite pleased with how this card turned out. I stamped the cute fish from Fishy Friends (retired list $39.95) onto watercolour paper then using the aqua pen coloured him in. Added a bit of paper piecing and a lot of dazzling diamonds. The greeting is from the Circle of Friendship set (retired list $33.95)

Recipe

Stamp Sets: Fishy Friends, Circle of Friendship

Ink : Stazon Black, River Rock, Soft Sky, Blue Bayou

Card: Water Colour Paper, River rock, Soft Sky, Blue Bayou

Punches: 1 3/8", 1 1/4", 1" circle

Accessories: double stitched ribbon river rock, piecing mat & tool, aqua pen, 2 way glue pen, dazzling diamonds.

Awards.

These are two awards I received back in January, please forgive me Nerine and Liam for not posting and passing them on when I should have. I really do feel so honored because there are so many fantastic craft blogs out there and you picked mine.... Wow!

I received the Kreativ Blogger Award from Liam (Inspirestampin) she has such a great blog with loads of very creative projects, you should check it out. here

These are the rules for this award :

1. The winner gets to put the logo on their blog.

2. Put a link to the person who sent you the award.

3. Nominate 5 blogs for the award.

So I will nominate:

Chris-Dot Dot Stamping Designs

Kristy-Krafty Kristy

Lousie-Handmade by Lou

Sam-Stamping Creations

Nerine-Stampin' Addication

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This is the Proximity Award, given to me by the lovely Nerine at Stampin' Addiction.

I love her Tuesday Layout Challenge.

In receiving this award , I have agreed to post this awards creed and pass it onto 8 bloggers who, with luck will then pass it on to 8 other great blogs.

"These blogs believe and invest in PROXIMITY - nearness in space, time and relationships! These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in prizes or self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbon of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers! Deliver this award to eight bloggers, who must choose 8 more and include this cleverly written text into the body of their awards."

I will pass this award onto:

Natasha-Natasha's Creation's

Robyn-Rainbows by Robyn

Makeesha-Inkspirations by Makeesha Bly

Mel-Mel's Stamping Haven

Karen Robinson Congratulation on making 102 layouts for the Memories Project. You rock!

Debbie-Hubbies Headache

Sonia-Giggle Buttons Your antics always make me laugh.

Kristina- K Werner Design Blog

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I almost forgot to post this one. This is from Robyn at Rainbows by Robyn. She pick her 10 favorite cards and one of them was mine. It's the card I made for Nerine's Tuesday Layout Challenge & Makeesha's CC #5. You can have a look at it here.

For this award I need to pass it on to my top 10 Fav's. Because this has taken me sooo long and because I love all the blogs listed above, everyone above will also receive this award.

Thanks you so much Liam, Nerine & Robyn, your so sweet. :)

And thank you to all the wonderful ladies above for sharing your very creative ideas.

More Petal Prints

Here are a couple more cards using the Petal Prints stamp set. I just found them in my photo folder and hadn't yet posted them. I also found a few other cards that I will post another time.

This first one is using the colours choc chip, sage shadow, pretty in pink and whisper white. The background is the Sanded stamp and the greeting is from Sincere Salutations.

This one using the colours very vanilla, old olive and cameo coral. The greeting is from the Warm Words set. I inked and distressed around the edgers.

I have another fun weekend planed. Taking Jamie to the school disco tonight, he so excited. While the big boys are going to the Bronco's game. First game of the season, they'll probably get rained on. I'm seeing my Aunt & Uncle from Darwin, tomorrow. Yey! Can't wait to catch up. Sunday is Alex's football game, a home game this week so we shouldn't have any trouble finding the field. (grin) So hopefully I'll get time to do a couple of challengers in between everything else.

Hope you have a fun weekend too!

K Werner Design Colour Inspiration # 45

I picked the set Petal Prints for Kristina's CI #45, It's one of my all time favorites and I think one of the very first stamp set I ordered from SU. It's now on the retired list $ 53.95. :(
The Cherished Memories Rub-Ons are also being retired at 25% off $14.96.

Recipe
Stamp Set: Petal Prints
Ink: Basic Black, Basic Gray
Card: Basic Black, Basic Gray, Whisper White
Punches: 1/2" circle
Accessories: Rub-Ons Cherished Memories, black gingham ribbon, huge sliver brad from the pretties kit

Thanks for looking.

March Diary/Calander Page

Click here for the UPDATED Retired Availiabily List as of March 12th 4.50pm.

I finally got it posted, the diary/calender page for March. I've used the Simply Scrapin' Kit Secret Garden, love it, love it, love it! Which is on the Retired List $36.95. Everything is from the Kit except a couple of punches and the Jumbo Outline Alphabet set and the It's a Date set, also retiring $29.95. Which is why I love these kits, everything you need for any project is in the kit. Too easy!

This time I added a couple of extra pages for notes and things to remember. The DSP from the kit already has lines on it making it super easy. And I've used my favorite punch again the Scallop edge punch.




Have a great night and I'll catch you tomorrow with some projects using retired sets.

Mojo Monday # 77

I really like this sketch from Mojo Monday week 77.

I used the Embrace Life stamp set and the DSP Ginger Blossom from the Summer Mini Catalogue with some flowers and a rhinestone brad from the Pretties Kit. I also used the stamp set Circle of Friendship ($33.95) that's on the retired list.

Recipe
Stamp Set: Circle of Friendship, Embrace Life
Ink: Cameo Coral, basic gray, going gray
Card: basic gray, cameo coral, whisper white
DSP : Ginger Blossom
Punches : 1" & 1/2" circle
Accessories : taffeta ribbon basic gray, pretties kit, Tombow Mono adhesive, dimensionals

Makeesha's CC#5 & Nerine's Tuesday Layout

Today I've combined two challenges onto the one card. Makeesha's Colour Challenge #5 and Nerine's Tuesday Layout Challenge.

Makeesha has picked a very interesting colour combo this week and at first I didn't know to start. But with Nerine's layout I had a starting point.

I've used the level 1 hostess sets Oh, So Lovely & Party Punch. I inked around all the edgers, did a bit of paper piecing and added some ribbon and a gorgeous Rhinestone brad.

So here it is.

Recipe
Stamp Sets : Oh, so lovely, Party Punch
Ink : Basic Black, Blue Bayou, Real Red
Card : Blue Bayou, Soft Sky, Whisper White
DSP : Afternoon Tea
Punches: Round tab
Accessories : double stitched ribbon Soft Sky, rhinestone brad-fire, dauber, piecing mat & tool, blender pen, dimensionals