CAS Oh so Eclectic

This weeks challenge over at CAS Colours & Sketches is a colour combination.

When I first saw these lovely colours I thought of autumn which is just around the corner.

Whilst looking for my vintage leaves stamp set I picked up Oh so eclectic, this is a set i have not used for a while so thought I would have a play.

My first card is on a white card base, and the image was stamped 

 in the following order Merry Merlot, Mango Melody and finally Poppy Parade.

I used Merry Merlot for the open flower stamp, before adding a sentiment to the bottom.

This card uses Very Vanilla cardstock, and I die cut my stamped image with a stitched square, and then mounted it onto a slightly larger square of Merry Merlot putting it at a slight angle on the card base.

I use lots of Hello cards whilst working away from home so thought this sentiment would come in handy.

CAS Fruit basket

Good morning from a damp north Wales.  The last few days here have been very misty and damp, we can hardly see the mountains from the office window.  Has we not been doing much outside work I have took the opportunity to do a little crafting.

I have had a little play with the now retired fruit basket stamp and punch set from Stampin Up.

I have combined the current challenge over at the Paper Players  CAS Fruit, and I have used the sketch from the current challenge over at Less is More

  

The squares were die cut using the Layered squares framelits from Stampin Up from whisper white and lemon lime zest card stock.  I then stamped two pears using Lemon Lime Twist ink and soft suede for the stalks before punching out with the coordinating punch.

I added 3 white pears to the other squares.

The sentiment is from the same set and stamped in soft suede

Forever Friends

Good afternoon, I have a card to share today that I finished last week but have just not had time to take a photo or blog it, and i wanted to enter into the current challenge over at Less is More

I have used a digi image from LOTV and coloured it with copic markers.  This card was made for my husbands birthday from our dog Millie.

It sums up the relationship that they both have, our dog is definitely a mans dog, and she loves to sit next to him whenever she can

Thinking of you

I needed a sympathy card quickly and this is what I came up with.

Its a one layer, using the Petal Pallette stamp set from stampin up and coloured with stampin write markers in old olive and calypso coral.

I scored 2 lines across and added a sentiment from Sheltering Tree set.

Please excuse the terrible picture but I do not have anywhere suitable for taking pictures at the moment.

I am going to enter this into the current less is more challenge

OLC - Thinking of You

Animal Outing

Its not often that I find time to craft these days, but today I decided to have a play with the Animal Outing Stamp Set from Stampin Up

First up is a new baby card featuring the little giraffe stamp.  

I have kept it very simple. 

I am entering this card into the current challenge over at

The Paper Players Animal Antics

For the next two cards I have used the hippo stamp from the set.

Welcome little one

I have two more cards to share using the A Little Wild stamp set from Stampin Up.  This time I have used the elephant stamp to create 2 new baby cards.

Firstly I created a pink pirouette card base, stamped the elephant and coloured with watercolour pencils before die cutting with a stitched circle die, and I cut off a little bit along one side before mounting onto the front of the card with dimensionals. I added some white thick twine and my sentiment from the same stamp set.

The second card base is in soft sky and I added a snippet of DSP before adding my elephant die cut. I again added some twine and my sentiment stamped in soft sky.

I have followed the sketch over at this weeks CAS colours & sketches challenge blog

and this weeks challenge at Addicted to stamps and more

Wild about you

  When I saw that this weeks challenge over CASology was safari I knew that I would use the stamp set A little wild from Stampin up.

I made two cards to share

 I stamped two images of the lions and coloured with watercolour pencils and a blender pen. I die cut one image with a stitched circle die and mounted onto a scalloped circle in Tangerine Tango card stock.  I embossed the front of my Old Olive card base added some burlap ribbon and mounted my image with dimensionals.  The sentiment was stamped in Old Olive ink onto a circle of old olive card stock.

I made a card base in Old Olive, added a scalloped rectangle in Tangerine Tango topped with a stitched rectangle in whisper white.  I added a snippet of old olive DSP.  The image was fussy cut and then mounted using dimensionals.  I added some enamel shapes and a sentiment stamped in Old Olive