Pretty Sad

Playing cards today instead of playing tour guide. A sad card to make today, for a family friend who passed away at the weekend back home.

Card Recipe

Cardstock

Moondust papers

White Lustre bulk card

Embellishments

Pearls - my stash

Equipment Used

Cuttlebug

Nestabilities - Standard Circles & Beaded Circles

Embossing Folder - Cuttlebug - Friends Forever

Stamp - With Sympathy

Chalk

Challenges

Allsorts Challenge Blog - 3 in a row

Saturday Challenge - Doilies are not just for cakes

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Yesterday's Card, Another Challenge

I entered yesterday's card into another challenge today which I came across whilst looking for inspiration for a couple of cards that I have to do.

When I saw the colour scheme for The Secret Crafters Saturday Challenge I knew knew the colours of yesterday's card were just right.

At least I have found some inspiration for the cards I have to do so do drop in in a couple of days to see the results of today's hunting.

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Secret Crafter

As I enjoyed using the doodle flower stamps for yesterday's Sketch Saturday card, I thought I would use them againg for another challenge, this time over at Secret Crafter and coloured the flower in with my Whisper pens. The papers are another set from BoBunny, this time the Alissa range. The star buttons are from my stash pile.

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Birthday Smirk

Another card I wanted to get done out of the way, is the one for my eldest daughter (don't think she checks Mum's blog, so hopefully it will be safe enough to post it just now). For some reason I always find it difficult making her cards.

How did the finished card come about? The inspiration for the layout came from two challenges which I am putting the card forward for. The layout came from Sketch Saturday and the recipe ingredients, 3 buttons, 2 designer papers and 1 ribbon came from Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge.

The striped and mini floral paper came from Say it with a Smirk as did the image. The mats are from K&Company's Recycled Remake Berry Pinks paper pad. The flowers were punched from the same mini floral paper and the buttons and ribbon are from my stash.

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Two Challenges in One

Met up with my crafting buddy, Linda, for tea and scone earlier this week, handing over some goodies I brought back from the UK for her and in return I got a wee pressie too. A wallet of stamped images. Thank you very much Linda.

Maybe some of you don't know it but Linda is one of the Design Team over at Cute Daisy May. By way of a thank you I thought I would use one of the images that Linda had given me in the latest Cute Daisy May challenge. Which one would I use? When I saw the Orange Bush and knew that was it as I had exactly the papers that would go along with it. The papers came from K&company Citronella collection.

Onto the card, the base, 6x6, was made from another K&company collection, this time Recycled Remake Grass Greens. The image was coloured in with copic pens, with the background being, for the want of a word, muddied with the lightest of the Warm Grey copic pens. Finishing it with a few flowers with brads for the centres.

Also included it into Secret Crafter's challenge as this week's challenge asked for stripes and dots.

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