Inspired by Mel

Can I just start by saying that this card was totally inspired by a very talented lady called Melissa. You can see her blog here. I have been making making cards using acetate for quite a while, putting all of the design on the top layer. I had never thought of doing the layering using the acetate itself.

The sketch that I used came from this weeks challenge over at A spoonful of Sugar and the colour scheme is inspired by this weeks challenge over at JUGS.

Rather than using a ribbon I have used a line of gems to replace part of the sketch. I have also replaced the buttons on the sketch with Snowman shaped gems. The snowman stamp came from Penny Blacks Jolly Folly stamp set. I have added glitter glue for sparkle and dimension on the snowman. I find the hardest thing about using acetate is getting it to photograph right.

I always take photos of the cards that I make in case I get stuck for ideas. Then I can revisit stuff that I have done in the past.

I'm off to make another card. I love crafting holidays.

Take care ;0)

Swirly Goth

This card was created using the sketch from Friday Sketchers. I have rotated the sketch to accommodate the nesties that I wanted to use.

This is the second card that I have made this week using my Sugar Nellie stamp. For some reason she keeps making me think Goth.

I' loving my cuttlebug embossing folders at the moment, especially since I learned how to ink them so that the embossing shows up more. I'm loving the brushed metal effect that I am getting with the metallic inks, so you will probably see a few more from me like it for a while.

I like the challenge sketch that I used for this one because of its simplicity. There is just so much that you can do with it.

2 4 1

This card was made in response to 2 challenges. The actual design came from Sketch Saturday who gave us this design to work with

I love lace on cards and that was the first thing that I thought of when I saw this sketch. The second challenge was from PBSC. For this challenge I had to use a Penny Black image or sentiment and some stitching - hand, machine or faux. Since I don't own a sewing machine I went with the faux option.

I'm very much into monotone, so I stuck to two main colours on this card. I have tried to add depth with the different layers and used brads and gems to add a touch of sparkly lushness.

Purple Flower Power

I don't know what type of flower these are, but I think they are lovely. I made this card in response to challenge 43 over at SCSC. We were given a sketch to work from and this is what I made.

The decoupage flower is one that I bought an put together a while ago. I also used purple and silver mirror board. I embossed the top layer of mirror board using a Cuttlebug embossing folder and used a length of purple organza ribbon and a length of silver lame ribbon to finish it off.

Dotty about PBSC

My mojo finally came back from its hols. It feels like so long since I made anything. I am so glad it is back.

This card is for challenge 55 on PBSC. We where given a lovely sketch to follow and this is what I came up with. Gave me a chance to play with my Nesties :0)