Colours prescribed ..........

 Purple, green, pink & white are the colours for the colour challenge 29 at Creatalicious Challenges blog.

I stamped the heart stamp twice using olive ink, then coloured them in with inks using a cotton bud to give the naive feel to the card.

The heart stamp is the first ever stamp I got way back when in Australia when I was introduced to rubber stamping & gorgeous craft shops full of gorgeous goodies!

I used plain green bazil to back the card.

I added a white flower & pink clip & used my Martha Stewart branch punch for the foliage.

I finished with the 3 pink buttons.

Waste not Want not!

Whilst making my LIM entry I got inky fingers & didn't realise, putting inky marks on the edge of my card :-(

the rest of the card was fine so I cut off the inky edges, mounted it onto red bazil & made another card!

I added the flesh colour to the image to balance out the stronger use of the red on the card so the eye is drawn to the image.

This obviously wasn't appropriate for the Less is More challenge as it wasn't a one layer card but I have another card made ready for when it is needed :-)

Anyone else do this kind of thing?

Golfing birthday card

I, like a lot of us, often find male cards quite difficult to design, but this one was easier than usual as the recipient is well known for his love of golfing!

I coloured the image using Copics & used sticky fixers to mount it onto the vibrant green background bazil.

I popped the stamped sentiment onto a slightly darker green background matt & there you have it, or rather he has it mail permitting, as the birthday was yesterday! :-)

Anniversary Card

This is the Anniversary card that I made today

The hearts I made in a batch a while ago & were just perfect for this :-)

They are chipboard & covered with embossing powder.

I mounted them onto a square of bazil cardstock.

I stamped the sentiment onto the patterned paper 

& matted it onto the same bazil cardstock

This photo is a bit bleached out but I was rushing 

to catch the post so I can't redo it!

Quick New Home card

I needed a quick New Home card so this is what I came up with.

The green bazil is a really fresh green & complements the lovely mushroom paper

I stamped directly onto the bazil with my trusty home sentiment

and quickly coloured in the little house stamp with my copics.

I matted the picture & the mushroom paper onto plain card & layered them up &

there you have it .....

a quick New Home card :-)