Interlude

Birthday invitation on short notice - had to quickly make a card. Did not come out as colourful as a two year old would like most but had to combine my papers with my ideas ... and my challenges. With more time I would probably make another one and keep this for an older birthday girl, but the big day is tomorrow...

So here is the card:

And the involved challenges are first of all the lovely sketch of Mojo Monday plus the recipe of Paperminutes (2 design papers, 2 colours, 2 flowers - hope it's allright that I have one more design paper than requested - the girl is stamped in brown!) and I would also like to join the challenge of Simon says Stamp with "Anything goes".

Experimental Card

I am not that much of a colour-mix person, more the monochorme type really. So choosing a challenge that mixes 4 colours is some sort of experiment for me.

Soooo, I found that challenge of Colour Create with the (for me) strange colour combination of pink (so not me), blue, sage (which aparently is some sort of green) and white/cream. I did some distressing, not sure if that counts for ripped/torn, but that's optional anyway.

I chose the sketch of Sunday Sketch & Stamp for it, although I wanted it in egg-form so hope the changes I made still make it count for the challenge. Putting some more dots/perls/flowers in it would have been just too much for me... ;)

Since the big egg is stripey and the dominant one, I also want to join the challenge of Fun with Shapes & more with this card.

And now - here it is, the card with the colours that are so not me:

Green spring - the final one

Okay, with this one I am done with the over-green I guess. Just found a colour challenge with blue and - hold on - PINK! - and decided to try it. Maybe I'll manage today.

But first is my remaining card from this weekends crafting attack:

The sketch is from Sunday Sketch & Stamp, slightly changed it, hope that's ok. And to match it we have the theme "Friendship" from Everybody Art - which finally allowed me to use that great square text stamp that was still slumbering in my folder.

Just found out (again) that I do not have enough sentiment-stamps. Need to go shopping...

Edit says: Guess what? I missed the Sunday Sketch & Stamp one coz - surprise - it is Sunday! So only one challenge for this card then. Will still set the link of coure since they povided the great sketch!

Springcard-Mania

As promised - I did more cards and want to show those too. And of course I used some challenges as inspiration and will join them now. Not that many this time though, I used most of them on the other card. But I so liked the colour combination that I kept using it, trying out different sketches on them.

(You could also say that I am a bit short on springlike colours that do not involve pink, but who would want to tell...? ;))

And the outcome is:

The sketch - the most important thing when I do a card - is by Mojo Monday (who rarely have a sketch I do not like) and I tried to match it with the "Bingo - 3 in a row"-challenge of Papertake weekly. So in here you can find the middle row: Ribbon + free + punched shapes. I also used a button but the gems finally did not really match the optics of that card. But my clovers did (which is a punch I got for my birthday last year so you could also say I got it "for free" ;)).

Well, anyway, there are no more challenges involved here. Hope you like it - and that whoever gets it will like it too.

About (spring)time

The cold winter is finally over. First of all time to go outside and get some warmth by sunlight into the system. But then there is this big weekend coming up, involving eggs and rabbits, and that screams for new home decorations (once the chaotic basement reveals its hiding place...) AND for some cards of course.

So I was busy getting the first one's together, of course using sketches and themes of challenges for inspiration. Here is No. 1:

So the sketch is from Karteneinerlei and Take time for you asks for "Butterflies" (clearly in use here). There are also three sites with the same theme "springime", which are Kreative Stempelfreunde, Stamps & Fun = Creativity and finally my chance to join the Irishteddy's challenge with "Awakening spring" (not sure if that is the right translation to be honest...). Creative Inspirations thinks that "Anything goes" - so this does also, I guess. ;)

So hope you like it as much as I do - but stay tuned, there is more to come...