Silhouettes

I came across a new (to me) challenge today courtesy of Darnell...she who knows everyone!

It's called Share the Joy and the challenge has a lovely ethos.

This card follows both parts of the challenge, the sketch plus the CAS part, as that is just my style!

The panel dies are from Simon Says Stamp, the sentiment is Sizzix, the embossing folder is Sheena Douglass, and the deer I believe are Memory Box, but I have bought a few recently a

nd would have to check to be sure.

This is for a friend whom I know loves trees, loves CAS cards and is very fond of deer..so all good!

It's also for the circles challenge at CASology 

...and The Card Concept challenge - Forest Friends

I'm not quite sure how this card emerged from this photo inspiration at Just Us Girls

I knew that I wanted to use the keyboard die to replicate the stripes in the image but started by trying to add yellow flowers but with the rather large sentiment from Heidi Swapp and Tattered Lace it just wasn't working. Quite how the kittens on the keys came about is a bit of a mystery, but they looked as though they should be chasing something and so the yellow stars also emerged!

Less is More recipe

The recipe at Less is More this week is Something shiny!

The something shiny in this one is Glossy Accents, added to this digi image from Chris Dark, the Sketching Stamper. It was coloured with alcohol pens and accompanied with a computer generated sentiment!

Here are a couple of Elizabeth craft bauble dies cut from gold card and made into a simple shaker design. I use tiny iridescent sequins as the shakers. Even the ribbons are shiny! The sentiment is from Wplus9.

More gold card here with a background of alcohol ink marbled card and a Memory Box butterfly and sentiment.

More Glossy Accents here over a simple image. accompanied by a computer generated sentiment. I don't remember where the image came from, I was having a tidy up the other day and came across all sorts of partially started bit and pieces, so just finished off this image and made a card from it!

We just heard that my daughter's cat has been run over and killed. Everyone is really sad and my grandchildren are distraught. Tilly had such a special place in everyone's hearts in her short life. She will be sorely missed!

CASe this sketch

The sketch at CASe this sketch is cute this week and there are some amazing DT examples so I thought I would have try at it!

Here are a whole mix of die cuts from different companies. It's a fraction of a Hero Arts background stamp embossed with WOW Sparkling Snow EP then cut and mounted onto a rounded corner stitched square die cut.

This simple shaker card is for the Holly Challenge at HLS Christmas Challenge

It's a Memory Box die and the JOY is from Wplus9.

It's also for the Die Crazy challenge at Simon Says Stamp!

I'm off to take a friend to the Oncologist for her assessment following Chemo and Radiotherapy to see when her surgery will be, then I'm off to Bath to look after my grandson for the half days of his last week of part time school. Life is never dull!

Technology

The theme at "Less is More" this week is Technology.

I'm not quite sure where the idea for this challenge came from but I was at a bit of a loss as to what to do for it.

After a little head scratching I decided to try to make a mobile phone image from some bits of card.

I started by cutting a couple of rectangles from black and dull silver card, rounding the corners with graduated sized Corner Chompers...3/8" for the silver and 1/4" for the black. Next I cut a rectangle with a Spellbinder rectangle die, shortening it slightly to fit in the space. For the button I used a flower centre die and a hole punch, fitting the smaller black circle onto the silver piece. The microphone at the top was made with the letter i from a Cuttlebug's Babyface alphabet. The message is also from little alpha die-cuts and the sentiment is computer generated!

Headache over!

I had to choose  not to add my watermark to this picture as it completely obliterated the sentiment!

For many years I have made a card for the son of a friend of mine whose passion is bicycles. This is the latest edition!

Cuttlebug letter dies, Hobby Art 'Happy Birthday' and computer generated sentiment. The image is an internet download.

This coming week I shall be in Bath, looking after my grandson during his final week of part-time schooling ... his life will never be quite the same again!