No Squares!

Yes, it's me back again! Friday also means a new challenge over at Totally Papercrafts. Thank you to everyone who entered my challenge there last week for pastel colours - nice to know they're popular with lots of other people too!
This week the lovely Susan set the challenge of 'shaped cards' - i.e. no squares. Now this was definitely a challenge for me as 99% of my cards are square! Oh dear.  So I decided I'd go for something completely different - and made a hanging decoration instead!

And I must admit that I really enjoyed making something a bit different!  So I used two of my favourites of the new LOTV stamps - 'My Little Tree' and 'Christmas Star' - and one of the grungy sentiments. (Although when I showed this proudly to my hubby and said it was for a 'no squares' challenge he helpfully pointed out that the sentiment was a square... I won't repeat my response...! Sometimes you wonder why you bother!)

I've coloured the images with promarkers and pencils, added plenty of stickles and then added pearl pen 'snow'.  I've added gingham ribbon from stash and then a few roses from WOC - a few red ones and then a couple of ivory roses sprayed with Cosmic Shimmer spray.  I think it makes quite a nice hanging decoration - and nice to display some of the cute images! 

Hope you like it. So do pop over to Totally Papercrafts and get some 'no squares' inspiration from the fab DT!

Back soon, Kim x 

I'm entering this creation into the following challenges:-

JustKeepOnCreating - christmas

SimonSaysStampChallenge - glimmer/sparkle

Createdwithlove - christmas

TuesdayAlchemy - anything but a card or tag

PapertakeWeekly - anything goes

HollyJollyChristmas - glitter/bling

Fab'n'Funky - no patterned paper

Faith, Hope and Love

Good morning all! Just a quickie post from me today - the sun is shining and we have a busy day today in our (very full!) household!  It's our son's 14th birthday today - and he's just emerging from his pit! I can't believe my 'baby' is now 14! Where does the time go? It only seems last month he was a little toddler and now he towers over me! His friend stayed over last night as a few of us went out for a 'birthday tea'! So I think I'll be required in the kitchen soon to provide bacon butties, toast, etc!  And our daughter & her boyfriend are heading off to Lanzarote today for a week's holiday - so dad is on taxi duty to the airport in a couple of hours! Then I'll be hurrying the boys along to get ready for a football match this afternoon! Oh joy!

So, today's card was made using a gorgeous digi stamp from Bugaboo - I just loved the wording and image on this!

I've coloured the roses and leaves with promarkers, with some chalking to soften the edges of the image.  

The backing paper is from Teresa Collins - just love these papers and I've nearly finished them - sob! - so I'll have to see if I can find some more!  And then some coredinations card for matting and layering. 

 The flowers are from WOC - and I've used an ivory wild rose but sprayed it with Cosmic Shimmer mists. I do like to do that with some flowers as it gives a lovely subtle 'sheen' to them.  The leaves were done with Spellbinders 'Fall Foliage' die set, some gorgeous leaves on there and I can see it will come in quite useful, particularly for 'seasonal' style cards.  And then just added a Marianne die swirl. 

So a fairly simple card really, but I was quite pleased with it! But I do love the aqua/teal colours.  And I just love the wording on this stamp - so true. 

So, have a good Sunday whatever you're doing. I'd better head to the kitchen and start feeding hungry teenagers!

Back soon, Kim x 

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:-

Clearly Inspired - leaves

Inspire me Fridays - anything goes

ATCs and cards with attitude - anything goes

Crafty Anns - monochrome (aqua)

Shellys Images - anything goes