Have a grrrrrreat anniversary

Yesterday I managed to finish a card using a sketch from the friday sketchers blog. They are celebrating their 2:nd anniversary and have a bloghop with great prizes on each DT member's blog so I wanted to join.
Here's the bloghop list:

Jacque
Jeanette
Janneke
Claudia
Aud
Inge
Carole
Tanja

I have been a bit bad at using my sweetpea stamps and this sketch was perfect for those images. It really allows the image to stand out. This is the first time I think that I've coloured in the background aswell. And browns are not my fav colour, but I think it's not bad. I also managed to use some fibers I've had for years that accentuate the colours.

I also want to thank Dee for a candy I won on her blog. I haven't entered many candies lately as I've been feeling bad, but yesterday I bloghopped a bit and found more candies for you to join. You can see the may candy list HERE.

Summer flowers

This week on friday sketchers blog the sketch looked like this:



I had decided how my card would look a couple of days ago, but didn't get around to actually making it. After applying for the house mouse challenge DT spot I wanted to work more with the cute mice, so I used one of my favourites:




This card fulfills the requirements for a colour challenge too (green, pink and brown) but I'm not applying to it with this card. I'm not sure how the rules are with the challengeblogs when there is a prize up for grabs, so I don't want to risk getting disqualified :) So this card is only for the friday sketchers blog.

The photo doesn't make the card justice. I'm very fond of green/pinks and the colours look much better IRL. I really need to make myself a lighbox. While bloghopping I found a tip on how to make one. I'll make one and see if it improves my late night photos. It will have to wait though because right now I'm revamping my whole corner. I'm getting a new bookshelf that won't risk collapsing every time I touch it, lol. Wohoo!

Challenges and fabrics

Today I've been super craft-productive. I've been buying fabrics, making two cards and cleaned up my table (but now it's messy again after the two cards, haha) I'm trying to clean it up so I can put up my sewingmachine.

My first card is for sketch and stash challenge. They have a guest designer spot available for 2 weeks, so I had to try out, especially since I knew just what to do. The challenge was to follow a sketch - and as always use your new stash, (like the name of the challenge, duh!)

I have used some reeeeally bright papers I got a year or two ago in a swap or as a prize, don't remember now, that's how long ago it was. I thought they were so pretty I just kept them in a bag, lol. The stamp is a RAM I got on the 50% sale at scrapaddicted. Even the bright fushia, orange and limegreen promarkers are new. I think I managed to mirror-flip the sketch, but I just had to to make it all look balanced. The text+little flower is from a patterned paper sheet. I really like buying those patterned papers with texts because then you have so many sayings/words. It was too muted, so I actually drew with the promarkers right on the text and flower. Worked out great, don't you think?
I know it's a really bright card and not for everyone, but I think it turned out very good.





The second card is for friday sketchers. I had to follow this sketch a little more and everything on the sketch had to be on the card. I used the blue patterned paper as the swirls and I don't know if it shows that well, but I have a laceribbon under the blue PP (patterned paper). I was thinking about outlining the swirls to make them stand out more, but thought it would be too much. I'm having problems with adding too much stuff. I try to challenge myself by adding one more thing than I would normaly, so I'm proud anyway. I think it follows the sketch so hopefully I'll be entered in the draw of some great round stamps! I've been looking for that kind, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.






Finally I want to show you the Tilda fabrics I bought today. I couldn't decide on which colorscheme I should go with (since I don't know what to sew yet), so I bought both pinks and turquoises. There are different shades of pinks and turquoises so they mix differently. The only "problem" I have is with the one far to the left since it's a bit greener than the other ones. I can always return it in worst case. I was in a hurry when I picked them out, so I just grabbed all I liked (I usually don't shop like that, but since I can return them I thought I could decide later. I didn't want to be late for my movie date)
The colors are a bit yellower on the pic, but you get the idea. Can't wait to sew something with this and show you!