Alisa's Colour Challenge

Alisa Tilsner has a weekly colour challenge. This week's colours are Chocolate Chip, Ruby Red, Summer Sun and Whisper White or Very Vanilla. I have never used Summer Sun in a card before, but I like the combination and have a few more designs running around my mind. I have again used products from the New Spring Mini catalogue. "True Friend" and "One of a kind" stamp sets and "Apple Cider" Designer Series Paper. The flower image is stamped using Ruby Red ink and then cut out with the great SU paper snips. A clear round rhinestone brad from the Pretties kit completes the flower. I used dimensionals to give the flower a 3D look. The scalloped edge on the Summer Sun cardstock was created by using the corner rounder punch. Whisper White grosgrain ribbon finishes the layout. Again I have cased Dawn Easton's blog and used a Mojo Monday sketch for this card.
I am really pleased with my effort and the best part was the card only took 10 minutes to create.
I hope you like my challenge efforts. Please leave a comment.
Have a great weekend, Cath :)

Mad Inkstinct's Team Challenge - 6 x 6 page

When I saw the photo of the tissue boxes that Madonna set for a team challenge, I had this strange feeling that I had done this before.

Here is a layout that I did for a workshop a few months ago, (Hi Emily). The hostess loved pinks and greens and feel in love with the 6 x 6 Desktop Calender, (see past post). I feel that this layout fits well with the second tissue box.

I have used Old Olive card stock and created my own printed paper using Very Vanilla cardstock and the So Swirly Jumbo Wheel with Old Olive ink. Pretty in Pink and Certainly Celery pastels were used for highlighting. The butterfly and message are stamped in Rose Red ink and are from the Priceless stamp set. The Flower in the corner is from the Pretties Kit and coloured using reinkers and a aqua brush. A pink Rhinestone brad finishes the flowers so well.

The photo of my beautiful niece Beth is layered onto Rose Red Cardstock.

I have one more challenge to do before I can go and watch the Wallabies beat the All Blacks :)

Cath

Mad Inkstincts Team Challenge - 1st Card

My wonderful Manager Madonna has set our team a couple of challenges to help the creative juices flowing. I came home this afternoon to an empty house and thought Woohoo take the chance to create.

The challenge was to create a card or scrap page using the colours or layout from the photo of the above tissue boxes. I used a design from a sketch challenge from Dawn Easton's blog. The base of the card is River Rock and I layered some of the latest Designer Series Paper called "Apple Cider", this coordinates perfectly with the Stamped image from the stamp set "True Friend".Both products are from the new Spring Mini Catalogue, (email me at mickcath5@activ8.net.au if you would like a copy of the mini and I will get it to you asap.) The green designer series paper, also from "Apple Cider" was layered onto Ruby Red Cardstock and both of these were punched using SU square punches. The flower image from "True Friend" is stamped with River Rock ink on Whisper White card stock, with River Rock ink sponged to give the image some depth. I finished the card with "Wild Wasabi" stitched ribbon. I'm happy with the colours not to sure about the layout. Definately out of my comfort zone.

Cheers Cath :)