Colour Combo

Hi Everyone

We have a fantastic colour combo for you this week over at Simply Stampin' Challenge :

and here is my DT entry:

I used the lovely DSP 'Beyond the Garden' for this card and go out one of my favourite stamp sets 'Just Believe' which has been neglected a bit recently :o(

Recipe:
Stamps: Just Believe
Card: Daffodil Delight, Wild Wasabi, Tangerine Tango, Whisper white
Ink: Wild Wasabi, Tangerine Tange, Daffodil Delight
Ribbo: Daffodil Delight
Punches: Scallop Edge

Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by

Niki xx

Sketch Week - Cupcakes!

Hi Everyone

It's sketch week this week over at Simply Stampin' Challenge and here is the sketch we had to follow:

and here is my DT entry...

I needed a card/present for my lovely hubby and I know the way to his heart is chocolate so I thought I'd combine the two and this is what I came up with!

Recipe:

Stamps: En Francais,Medallion
Card: Real Red, Chocolate chip,Riding Hood Red, Crumb Cake
Ink: Riding Hood Red, Crumb Cake, Chocolate Chip
Punches: Heart, mini Heart, Scallop Trim Border, Circle
Ribbon: Real Red
Cupcakes: M&S!!

Thanks for stopping by

Niki xx

Totally Tags

Hi All

We have a great theme for you this week over at Simply Stampin' Challenge:

Totally Tags

Which means we need to see Tags on your creations this week. Here is what I came up with for my DT entry:

Recipe:
Stamps: Happiest Birthday Wishes, Heard fro the Heart, Confetti
Card: Melon Mambo, Whisper White, Perfect Plum, Crumb Cake
Punches: Circle, Small Tag & Large Tag, hole punch
Ink: Perfect Plum, Melon Mambo
Ribbon: Perfect Plum

Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by

Niki xx

Colour Combo

Hi Everyone

I really love colour challenges, I sometimes agonise over choosing colours but having set colours solves that problem and I (usually) make the colour combo work for me, however random!

I don't think this one's random though from the Simply Stampin' Challenge:

I think this one works really well. Here is my DT entry:

Recipe:
Stamps: Faith in Nature, Sincere Salutations, Medallion, En Francais
Card: Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Poppy Parade, Baja Breeze
Ink: Crumb Cake, Poppy Parade, Chocolate Chip
Punches: Oval & Scallop Oval, ScallopBorder
DSP: Tickets & Tags Simply Scrappin' Kit
Ribbon: Poppy Parade
Other: Border Sticker from Tickets & Tags Simply Scrappin' kit, Basic Pearls

Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by

Niki xx

Graduation

Hi Everyone

Ben totally threw me when he said, 'can you make my sister a graduation card please' I had absolutely no idea what to do for it given I didn't have any graduation type stamps to hand, so I began thinking about using punch art to make a graduation hat (I know they have a special name but that escapes me right now...!) and then had a brainwave: the owl punch (wise owl and all that) wearing a graduation hat!

I had a look on google to see if anyone else had done this (and how they'd done it...!) and there was of course plenty of them out there, so I took inspiration for the hat and the scroll but came up with the gown all by myself!

I followed the sketch for this week's Simply Stampin' Challenge:


and here is what I came up with for my DT entry:

I spent about an hour putting the own together and had just finished him (and was very pleased with myself) when Ben came in to my craft room - I showed him the owl but his response was, 'well have you make a card yet or what?'

I was very cross.

So apart from Ben's initial reaction I was very pleased with the way the owl turned out and Naomi (Ben's sister) said it was the best graduation card she had received, so all in all, a very successful graduation card!

Recipe:
Stamps: Tiny Tags & Swirls & Curls Verses
Card: Riding Hood Red, Baja Breeze, Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake
Ink: Riding Hood Red, Crumb Cake
DSP: Tickets & Tags Simply Scrappin' Kit
Ribbon: Riding Hood Red, Linen Thread
Punches: Owl Punch, Scallop Trim border

Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by

Niki xx