One Layer Flower Card

my second card for the weekend also has inspiration from three challenges:

• TGIF Challenges - #148 Masking Technique
• CAS on Friday -  #127 One Layer Wonder
• Fusion Card Challenge - Sketch and Photo

When I saw the masking challenge and the One Layer Wonder they had to go together and the sketch and photo brought it all together with the colours coming from the photo.

The Flowers were from Stampin Up's "Reason to Smile", with the greeting from "Bring on the Cake". It was a weekend for bringing out the old stamps. The colours in this card are Blushing Bride, Pear Pizzazz, Early Espresso and Tuxedo Black. The flowers were coloured with Blendabilities (another retired product) Blush, Nude and Calypso Coral. The base card is Thick Whisper White.

This one was a lot of fun to make.

A Cuppa Tea Challenge Card

This weekend I was lucky to have some time to make 2 cards. This first one used 3 challenges for Inspiration:

• Calling All Sistahs - CAS 10 Photo Challenge
• Tuesday Throwdown - TT380 Sketch Challenge
• Retro Rubber Challenge - RRCB80 Dotty for You Challenge

This card used the Stampin Up "A Cuppa Tea" stamp set and Cups and Kettle Framelits. This set was from January 2016. The background used the little splatter stamp from "Timeless Texture.

The colours used were Night of Navy, Early Espresso, Watermelon Wonder and Baked Brown Sugar.  

Party Pandas

This weeks challenge card has inspiration from 3 challenges:

• Freshly Made Sketches - Sketch 324
• TGIF Challenges - #147 Sale-A-Bration inspiration
• Watercooler Wednesday - All about Occasions

I used the new stamp set from the Stampin Up Sale-A-Bration catalogue called Party Pandas.

This card uses Whisper White, Basic Black, Real Red and Smoky Slate card and ink. The background has the panda stamped in various directions in Versamark, although it is a little hard to see in the photo. The greeting is from Happy Birthday Gorgeous.

Thank you to the designers of these challenge sites for their on-going inspiration and helping me to keep my creativity going.

Beautiful You card

This weekend I was only able to make one challenge card using the 'Beautiful You' stamp set from the Stampin Up Annual catalogue. I found my inspiration from four different sites:

• Tuesday Morning Sketches - Sketch #438
• Callin All Sistahs - Colour challenge #09 and theme of Inspiration
• CAS on Friday - Technique challenge #125 - use pencils or markers
• That's Crafty - colour challenge - use blue

The colours in the card and ink are Pacific Point, Tempting Turquoise, Basic Grey, Whisper White, Blushing Bride and Staz On Jet Black. I used the Layering Ovals framelits to cut out the greeting. The dress and background have Wink of Stella across them to give a little sparkle.

Check out the previous challenges from these sites for further inspiration and some wonderful cards from the designers.