Birthday Angel

Last Wednesday's OWH Stars and Stamps midweek throwdown was a recipe challenge...to make a card using a die cut or punch, ribbon and heat or dry embossing!

I punched out 5 hearts and glued them together to make the button...I finished it off with some Crystal Effects and tied it with some embroidery thread. I hand ruffled the ribbon to match the ruffles in the angels dress and I embossed the background with an embossing folder.

Supplies:-
Stamp - Birthday Angel by Penny Black
PTI white cardstock
Brilliance ink
SU markers
Aquapainter
Cuttlebug embossing folder
SU coloured cardstock
SU ribbon
Embroidery thread
Foam dots
SU heart punch
Crystal Effects

Make Everyday the Best

G'day.....be sure to check in at the {Ippity} Blog to see the full list of today's Blog Hop participants and all their wonderful {Ippity} creations...and to see what this week's challenge is!

This week I had fun playing with the {Ippity} set So This Is Love. Both cards have been airbrushed with Copic markers.

Don't forget you can purchase all the {Ippity} stamp sets and paper from me HERE and you won't pay any shipping within the US!

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a great day!

Supplies:-

Stamps - So This is Love by Ippity

PTI white cardstock

Brilliance ink

SU coloured cardstock

Copics

DP SU and unknown

Sizzix Embosslits Beautiful Wings

Best Occasions Metal Dots

Foam dots

Ribbon

Paper flowers

Button

Embroidery cotton

Kindness...

The Playdate Cafe is holding a Colour Horribilis Challenge this week with the colours hot pink, navy blue and mustard.

When I pulled these colours onto my craft table I have to admit I did screw up my nose! Navy blue and hot pink are great together but with mustard...icky! But the strangest thing happened...as I looked at my card I liked the finished product. I'm not sure I'll use these colours together again but I think I made it work?????

Supplies:-

Stamps - Mouse Love by Penny Black and Heard From the Heart by SU

PTI white cardstock

Brilliance ink

SU markers

Aquapainter

Felt flowers

Crotchet flowers

Ribbon

Embroidery Cotton

Happy New Baby

The Tuesday Trigger over at Moxie Fab World this week is this photo: Light & Bright...

I decided to make a baby card (because I needed one) in the colours from the photo and used clean lines like the furniture in the photo. I mainly used white to keep it light and bright! When I printed the photo on my printer the colours looked like Stampin' Up's Pacific Point blue, Rose Red and Apricot Appeal...looking at the photo on my screen I can now see that the colours should have been Taken With Teal, Melon Mambo and YoYo Yellow...I might have to try this challenge again!

Supplies:-

Stamps - Unity KOTM Joly 2010

PTI white cardstock

SU ink

SU coloured cardstock

SU ribbon

DCWV embossed card front

Foam dots

Trust in the Lord

This week's Ippity challenge is to add paint to your card/project! I dug out my watercolour paints and painted a little heart to go with the verse from the Ippity set Devoted. I love painting inchies....one inch squares of chipboard...but this square is a little larger at 1 1/2 ".

Supplies:-

Stamp - Devoted by Ippity

Watercolour paper

SU coloured cardstock

SU DSP

SU markers

Foam Dots

A Little Pickup

Danielle, over at D-Dazzled Designs is hosting Tangled Up In Creativity's challenge this week. She challenged us to:-

1. Create a card using the colour 'Pacific Point' blue by Stampin' Up!
2. Make it suitable for a male recipient
3. Incorporate ribbon or the look of ribbon into your design.

This challenge was perfect timing because I needed a masculine "Thinking of You" card for a family friend in Australia who is having surgery this week...I want something to be waiting for him when he gets home from hospital in a couple of weeks. I decided to use stamps from the SU set Loads of Love and while I was looking through my patterned papers I came across this one from SU and it reminded me of tire tracks so I cut strips of it to use in place of ribbon.

And here's my card...

Supplies:-

Stamps - Loads of Love by SU

PTI white cardstock

Brilliance ink

SU coloured cardstock

SU DSP

SU markers

Aquapainter

Color Box Chalk

Foam dots

My heart trusts in Him

This week's Stampin Sisters in Christ challenge is to make something that represents what could be your life verse, a place where God has revealed to you that you can trust in Him, something representing a turning point in your life, or just focusing on Psalm 56:3..."When I am afraid, I will trust in THEE."

Cindy Coutts is this week's host and she courageously shared why Psalm 56:3 has special meaning to her. Her story resonated with me and brought back lots of memories of my big move to America five years ago. It was a very scary time for me and for the first time in my life I learnt what it truly meant to "trust in Him". This helped me tremendously over the last five years and although I may not always understand God's plan for my life I know He has one and that makes me joyful and gives me reason to give thanks...hence the choice of verse for my card today..."The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in Him and I am helped. My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to Him in Song." Psalm 28:7

Supplies:-

Stamps - Something Within by Unity and Music of My Heart by Ippity

PTI white cardstock

SU coloured cardstock

SU ink

ColorBox Chalk

SU button

SU ribbon

Lace

DP unknown