OLW: home sweet home

The challenge at One Layer Wednesday this week is to make a new home card with two different coloured inks. straightforward enough......? no! I really struggled with this but thought I'd post what I came up with anyway..http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif
I used crushed olive and spun sugar through a clevercut mask for the background. I used a paperartsy Mini stamp and a bit of doodling with a handwritten sentiment

girly girl sweet sixteen

The theme at Stampotique this week is "Girly Girl" I thought that this was the perfect opportunity to make a card for my niece's Sweet Sixteen which is coming up soon.
I felt that "girl with heart purse" was suitably girly, but just to be sure I added plenty of pink, flowers, ribbon and gems.

The ribbon is tied using the immovable knot technique from Simplicity. Try it, it's genius!!
The back is embossed using a mask from Clevercut, in my new (ish) bigshot machine. The image is coloured with whispers markers.

The stamp is available from Happy Daze.

OLW25: "bee"lated birthday

The challenge at one layer wednesday this week is birds and bees and flowers and trees. Which was very handy when I suddenly remembered yesterday that I had forgotten yet another birthday!!! so I made this "bee"lated card using the bee and swirl stalks from Jo Capper Sandon's range at stampotique, available from Happy Daze. The quote is from a SeeDs set and just one of the most useful stamps I own, lol. The background is done from another of the masks from Clevercut

p.s. I did add an insert to this card that I just printed in word that said Happy "Bee"-lated Birthday.

Going dotty!

I bought a few of these masks from Clevercut recently. I think the dotty one is my favourite so far (proably because it's the only one I've played with) the dots are well spaced out as shown on the "chocolate chip" card. (quote from PaperArsty Hotpicks) Which I really like as it makes it a bit different to using sequin waste.

but as the masks are a little bit see-through, you can reposition them to create more dots, in different colours, as shown in this simple card. The flowers are from Stampotique (available from Happy Daze)