And more flowers and butterflies...

I also made another card with the same stamp, inspired the colours in the Fab Friday challenge:

and also by the CAS on Sunday challenge 'Tic Tac Toe' :

Using 'Birthday', 'Butterfly' and 'Ribbon', here's my card:

I'm also entering this one into The Crazy Challenge 'Use ribbon or lace'

Flowers, Butterflies and a Sketch

I've made another card with my new flowers stamp, inspired by Sketch Saturday's current challenge, which is 'Choose Any Sketch'. I decided to use this one:

Here's my card:

I'm also entering it into the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp 'Anything Goes'

Addicted to Stamps 'Anything Goes'

New Stamps!

I've been on eBay again, which is always dangerous... my new stamp set arrived this morning, and I really love them! They were free with one of the Cardmaking & Papercraft magazines, but the seller had never used them.

I've made a couple of cards using one of the flowers images and a Happy Birthday sentiment;

This one was inspired by the gorgeous colours in the Colour Me! challenge:

I'm also entering it into the Sparkles Monthly challenge 'It's Spring'      

For both cards I used the Papertake sketch no. 64:

The current Papertake Challenge is 'Take Your Pick', which meant you could 1 or more of the following:

• Any Papertake sketch
• Glitter
• Blue and/or green
• Easel Card

I'm entering the card below in the challenge because it has the blue (with a tiny bit of green), and uses the sketch:

I'm also entering it into the Cas-ual Friday challenge, which involves using tan, white and one bright colour. I'm hoping they will forgive the two tiny green leaves being an additional colour... :)

Daisy Bling

I made another daisy card, and went for a bright summery red. I wasn't sure what to do with the centre of the flower and decided to add a few gems, but I got a little carried away...

Anyway, here it is:

I'm entering this into the following challenges:

Seize The Birthday 'Anything Goes'

Simply Create Too 'Keep It Simple'
Crafting When We Can 'Bling It Up'
Creatalicious Challenges 'Butterflies'

Happy Anniversary

Hi! Just been trying out my new heart stamp, and playing around with a sketch, and with colours from a couple of challenges. Here's what I've come up with, the same card with two different colour schemes:

I'm entering this one into the following challenges:

ColourQ

Creative Inspirations: 'Anything Goes' with optional sketch

I wasn't sure about using these colours for an anniversary card at first, but I like the freshness of the yellow. Colour challenges are great because you try things you would not normally think of :)

I'm entering this into the following challenges:

Fusion

Papertake: 'With a Heart'

The pink elephant; 'Anything Goes'

Blue, Green & Grey

I love the colours in the Cupcake Inspirations challenge, here:

I've made a couple of versions of a card using these colours, and am entering this first one into the challenge. I stamped the image with grey ink (Watering Can Archival Ink) onto watercolour paper, then coloured using a water brush and Andirondack inks Meadow, Sunshine Yellow (to soften the green a little) and Sail Boat Blue. I matted the image onto another square of watercolour paper, painted green, and then added that to folded grey card. I added the butterflies to give it a little bit of depth.

Favourite Flower Stamp

Hi! Here's another card I made today:

I made this one for the One-Layer Simplicity Challenge: 'Blossom' by masking the squares and stamping one of my favourite flower stamps into the squares.

I coloured it using the beautiful colour combination at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge:

Obsessed with a Sketch

Hi! I've been having a go at making cards using the sketch at CAS Colours & Sketches:

I got a bit carried away and have made a few with this layout - it's my new favourite thing! Here are a few of them:

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:
CAS Colours & Sketches
Cas-ual Fridays: 'Black, White, Orange & Turquoise'

I'm entering this one in the Crafty Creations challenge: 'Color Palette - use at least 3 colors' 

I'm entering this one into the ColourQ Challenge:

Birthday Flowers

Here are a couple of birthday cards I made using a digi from Leaves of Time, and adding some ribbon and gems.

I'm entering this one into the following challenges:
Papertake Weekly Challenge: 'In The Garden'
Sweet Stampin': 'Clean and Simple'

I'm entering this one into the Colour Me...! Challenge:

I used lace instead of ribbon and gems for this one, for a softer look. I'm entering this into the following challenges:
Cute Card Thurdsay: Lovely Lace!
Fusion Card Challenge:

More Punch Flowers

I needed a Thank You card, so punched yet more flowers out of patterned papers. Love being able to use up some of my paper hoard :)  I made a 'Just a note' card with the same papers while I was at it ;)

I'm entering this one into the following challenges:
The Pink Elephant Challenge: 'Appreciation/Thank You'
Papertake Weekly: 'Anything Goes'

I'm entering this one into:

Virginia's View Challenge: 'Layers and Dimensions'

More Tiny Flowers

I've been making a few more notecards, in different colours. I think I need to buy some new flower punches, though, as the different flower shapes look good together :)  Any excuse to buy more craft gear...

I made a couple in turquoise and in pink, smaller versions of the birthday cards I made last week:

These ones are inspired by the Fusion 'Happy Days' challenge, although I think I should have used more yellow, less white :-s  But I love colour challenges, as I'm not very imaginative with colours and the challenges make you try something new :)

I made these for the MFT Color challenge - love these colours!

Makes me think of bees

I wanted to make a card for the Color Throwdown challenge, but I could only think about making something with bees on it, and I couldn't think of any bee-related card ideas.

Love the colours, though, and also the daisies image - oh yeah, I could make something with flowers! It's not always about bees...

So I made a couple of tiny note cards with punched flowers and gems. I'm entering this one in the Color Throwdown Challenge:

And I'm entering this one in the Allsorts challenge: 'Bring on the bling' - ok, so it only has three gems on it, but it's a tiny card, so a higher percentage of it is 'bling'ed... Hope it counts!