Birthday blessings

Hi there!

For today's card I had inspiration from 3 challenges:

Muse card club

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Dynamic duos challenge

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Keep it simple

At the Muse card club Vicki's card has great elements that can be used as inspiration.

I decided to use the doily, and instead of the butterfly, I chose to use a bird.

Where's the doily you ask? Well ... I enlarged a doily cutting file in my Silhouette software programme, and used it as part of my background. I kept it white on white like Vicki did to keep the focus on the soaring bird, positioned in the same place as the butterfly in the inspiration card.

The bold colors from The Dynamic duos were just what I was looking for!


                                   
           
                                  


                  


That's it for now!

Thanks for visiting me today!

Water color!

Hi there!

For today's card I had to dig deep into my craft supplies!

The water color paint I used was bought more than 6 years ago for my youngest daughter's art classes, when we were still living in South-Africa!

All the colors still good, so with water colors such a huge trend right now, I won't put it away to deep!

I really enjoyed playing with it, although I don't actually have a clue how to !! I just added water and started painting!

My sentiment says : 'Congratulations' in Afrikaans.

Challenges:

Less is more  ~ green and yellow

CAS on Sunday ~ color me pretty

Virginias-view ~ water color

Keep it simple  ~ things with wings

Thanks for looking!

Have a great week!

Gray gray gray...

Hi there!

I'm playing along with 3 challenges today:

Cas-ual fridays  ~ Shades of gray

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Case this sketch ~ sketch

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Stampin royalty  ~ CAS

                                                                             


                                                           



                                                           

Perhaps you'll be able to use my sentiment ;)

I colored my 'happy' with the same shades of gray (Promarkers cool shades of gray), that I used in my focal point.

 Thanks for visiting me today... wishing you a creative week!

Happy birthday wishes

Hi there!

Just a quick birthday card to share using some ribbon , metal buckles and a bit of bling!

Challenge inspiration:

Freshly made sketches

Simply less is more ~ use metal

Addicted to stamps ~ CAS

Crafty creations  ~ keep it simple

The sentiment shared with you:

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Paint!

Hi there!

I am so happy to join the CASOLOGY team today as guest designer!

The cue word being:

I told Melissa the other day, that the reason I LOVE this challenge so much, is because of the fact that you are allowed (and encouraged) to let the cue card  take you... wherever!!!

This is the picture that inspired my card:

Image credit

I created a cutting file for my card by welding several circles together and ' filled the tins ' with different colors of card stock to represent the different colors paint.

The sentiment is my own, and I will share it as always!

 Thanks for visiting... hope to see you this week at CASOLOGY!

A wedding card

Hi there!

I had another request for a wedding card.

This time I had a glimpse of the "save the date" presentation, which included the following elements :

Doily bunting
Wood grain
A heart

This is what I came up with:

The challenges:

Crazy for CAS ~ use a doily

Simon says stamp blog ~ wedding / anniversary

4 crafty chicks  ~ things with wings

Make it monday  ~ anything goes

Thanks for looking!

Two cosy quilts.

Hi there!

My first memories of a quilt goes back a long long time.

My aunt made me and my 2 sisters each one a quilt... using pieces of fabric left over from dresses she made for others. Most of it she did without a sewing machine... yes by hand! Needless to say, my quilt is a possession very dear to my heart! We always had so much fun, trying to remember from  which dress every piece of fabric came.

My 2 cards today look a lot different than my usual style... I just felt like doing something different and covered the total card surface with pattern... and patterned paper.

The pattern is a quilt template downloaded from the internet and converted to a cutting file for my Silhouette.
Edited: I had a few enquiries about where I found the pattern...  you can find it HERE !

The different colors  used gives a whole different feel to each card!

My card will be entered to the challenge at Curtain call :


                                                  


Thanks for visiting today!