Pink and gold for Altenew February inspiration

I LOVE my Altenew flowers and this month inspiration photo is simply beautiful.

 

Who doesn't love pink flowers.  For my card I have used the sketch from February's Card Chain Challenge together with my flowers and leaves

I foiled some double sided tape for a touch of cold.  My flowers are from the Adore You set as is the sentiment.  I used some Zig Real Brush Markers to color my flowers and then fussy cut and added to my card with some foam tape. I left the rest of the card CAS with no other embellishments.  

I have entered this into the February challenge at Altenew and the Fantastic Florals at Simon Says Stamp.

Just getting this done quickly prior to lunch.  We are going out this evening into the city for Dinner and then onto the Jimmy Barnes show.  Looking forward to this. 

Just a note

I've been home today with a sore throat so after having a sleep in the morning, I decided to get a head of my DT work.   While I had some Hero Arts stamps out, I also grabbed some Catherine Pooler Party inks... Rocking Red, Party Dress, Green Skirt and Lime Rickey and made a card

I started with Party Dress and stamped off the first layer to get my lightest layer.  Next layer was full Party Dress and then Rocking Red for the final layer.    I used some Lime Ricky for the first layer of leaves and Grass Skirt for the second layer.  I added the sentiment in Rocking Red and the little heart outlines.  I used the ink to watercolour inside the hearts.  To get the green matching the leaves, I did direct to paper with the Lime Rickey and added a small piece to each side.

Entering into the challenge at
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Fantastic Florals
A Blog Named Hero - CAS 

Love you

On the 5th February NZ time, Betty had a Hero Arts 24hr Scramble going on.  I managed to squeeze in some time to play... 45 minutes to be exact.

Betty's theme was to create a card with the colors GOLD AND BLACK and the theme of LOVE.

Here's what I came up with

Used an older cling background embossed with Platinum powder - gives an old gold look.  Die cut heart was also embossed with the same powder onto some white card.  The embossing has interesting texture as the black card is a textured one.

It was a fun scramble and there were some lovely entries.

And I'll leave you with a Photo of hubby and I at the wedding

Be Happy Butterfly

Hi there.   It's my day to share a card over at Die Cut Divas and I am using our Sponsor's product.... and  this month's challenge theme... Using Pink or Red.

 

We are lucky to have Hero Arts as our sponsor this month.  One of our lucky entrants will win a $25 gift voucher to spend in the Hero Arts store... and how exciting is that.   The wonderful Jennifer McGuire recently did a video showing all the latest release.  SEE HERE.

My card using an older Hero Arts stamp and cut set that has this beautiful butterfly stamp and die

I embossed my white background with an all over butterfly design (very hard to see in my photo)
Here's a better look

 

I stamped and coloured my butterfly with Copics and die cut him out.  I added a lot of wink of stella glitter and used the excess pink on my brush to add to the centre of the embossed butterflies.

My sentiment comes from the Be Happy stamp set - another of my older Hero Art sets.  

I've away from home for the last 4 days - in Mangawhai for the wedding of the daughter of our best friends.. It was stunning.  The day was perfect, the bride looked amazing, the groom very handsome, the venue (our friend's backyard) was perfect and the whole afternoon into the night time was just the best ever.  And then all day Sunday back at the house, eating and drinking with a spot of heading to the beach for a swim or two, and catching up with old friends and new.  Such a fun and exciting time.   I wish Maggie and Kristian all the very best for their future life together. 

Pretty in Pink

It's my day for sharing at Southern Girls Challenge today.   Our sponsor is Crafts and Me.

 

the team got to use images from our sponsor.  I chose to use Annabelle Digital Stamp for my card 

Our theme this fortnight is to use 3 or more patterned papers on your project.  I used three different pink patterned papers from a Theresa Collins pack.  I had the papers in mind and the design (thanks to a sketch I had saved into my Pinterest board) and printed the image so I could die cut it.  I coloured with my Prismacolor pencils before using the Spellbinders rectangle die.  I used a gold paint pen to edge around my PP panels and my focal panel.   Finished with a flower and some pink leaves. 

Hope you can find the time to join our challenge.  

I have entered this into the challenge at 

 Crafting when we can - flowers

Be yourself...everyone else is taken.

It's my day at A2Z again.   I made a whimsy card using an old Hero Arts set called Be Yourself.

Although the stamp set has not been available for a long time.... Hero Arts has a digital version, available from A2Z Scrapbooking.  

Thanks for stopping by today. 

January CCC - colourful card

The Card Chain Challenge is still alive and well thanks to Gail and Jo and now even has it's own blog
  HERE

I had the pleasure of sending a card to Deborah in Indianapolis.   

I went the Friendship theme.   I have this set of pre-embossed paper and I had just got the latest Catherine Pooler inks and used them to sponge on the card.  I added the die cut and  sentiment from Winnie & Walter.   A very bright and colourful card. 

I've signed up for the February CCC - you should try it out!

Hero Arts and Die Cut Divas - with Love

Die Cut Divas have been lucky enough to get Hero Arts to sponsor us again.  They were the first sponsors we had when we first started this blog challenge in 2015.  You could win a $25 spending spree at Hero Arts

 

So this month's challenge is about using Red or Pink on your projects.  Valentine's Day is Feb 14th and of course, the Chinese New Year using lots of Red.

My card is a Valentines one..

I started by white embossing the Heart Background CG702.   I then sponged the card with Hero Arts red Chalk Ink.   I white embossed the heart onto black card.  The heart stamp and die are from Hero Arts Stamp & Die set (DC132 Yes Stamp & Cut) My silhouette couple is a die I got from Krafterscart - a NZ online company.  I added some ribbon to finish off.  

Thanks for stopping by today.  Do come and join us at Die Cut Divas this month.