Daring Cardmakers Autumn Purple

I heard on the radio that this weekend there was a convention being held locally for the Red Hat Society, which gave me the idea for the colour choices for this card.
I think I ought to join, it sounds like fun. I did have a red hat which I wore for my niece's wedding, but I sold it on eBay. I don't actually have any purple clothes, although when I had my colours done I was told that it's a universal colour and everyone can wear it!
I've spent a large part of this afternoon wrestling with some free trial watermark software. I decided to buy it in the end and hopefully this card will be the first on my blog to bear my own created watermark. I may try to experiment with the capabilities of the software later, but to have got a watermark at all in vaguely the area I wanted it is achievement enough!
This card is for the Daring Cardmakers Challenge of Autumn Purple, where the predominant colour should be purple. It 's not a colour I use often for cards, but this stamp from Stamps Happen seemed the ideal vehicle for it. I could fancy a coffee right now, and some mornings I know exactly what she means!

365 Cards Day 224 Two Techniques & My Time to Craft Purrfect Pets & Pile it on 3D

I'm not sure if I've nailed this challenge or not, where there was to be some form of perspective. However, I have got fancy cutting and I have got the cat in the foreground and the back of the chair is definitely behind him! I had to use a new blade in my craft knife for all the delicate cutting around the chair and the lampshade!
The kitty just had to be included in My Time to Craft's Challenge of Purrfect Pets.
As we have a stickey outey card I also think it qualifies for Pile it On's Challenge of 3D.
The images are from Whimsie Doodles and the papers from Cuddly Buddly.

365 Cards Day 223 In the Shadows & Caardvarks 'Take a Bow'

Today the challenge was to produce a card with a shadow somewhere. I decided to choose this bird image from Unity Stamps. I stamped one image with black Stazon then a second without re-inking the stamp. I really rather like the effect, although by using the grey leather embossed card as a frame, my husband thought it looked more like a sympathy card than a birthday greeting. I quite like it anyway.
The sentiment is computer generated and die cut with a Quickutz straight edge oval die. I used my Making Memories ribbon punch to make the ribbon slits. I used the Dovecraft ribbon on the wrong side as I preferred it with the rest of the elements. The stripy, right side looked a little dull in comparison.
On this side I think it looks good enough to enter into the Caardvark's challenge 'Take a bow' where beautiful ribbon techniques are to the fore! I hope this is good enough!

365 Cards Day 222 Pick 5

Today at 365 Cards we need to add just five things to our contribution.
SO here we have :-
1. Silver backing paper
2. Image
3. Ribbon
4. Sentiment
5. Adhesive gems.
The image is from Unity stamps (heat embossed with silver), the sentiment is computer generated.
I like simple cards!