The Ribbon Reel Challenge #12

Lovely Autumn inspiration over at the Ribbon Reel Challenge blog and the theme was "Orange/Neutrals/Flowers". Really enjoyed making this one:

• Square card base (top fold)


• Papers from Prima and stash


• Orange Bazzill card


• Punch from Fiskars


• Rub on greeting from Love Elsie


• Ribbon from stash


• Blooms from stash


• Brad from Sassafras


• Shapes cut from Create a Critter cart on the Cricut

Here's the link to the challenge:

http://theribbonreelchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/10/challenge-12-autumn-elegance.html

Daring Cardmakers Challenge

The challenge over at Daring Cardmakers this week is to be inspired by this month's flower, calendular or cosmos. Here's my take:


I don't normally use yellow so this was a change for me:

• Pale lemon card blank



• Laura Ashley ribbon stickers



• Various blooms and bling from stash



• Sentiment stamp punched and layered

Here's the link in case you want to have a go too:

http://daringcardmakers.blogspot.com/2011/10/octobers-flowers-calendula-and-cosmos.html

Cute Bag Alert...

I'm not a big sewer, but I am a big hoarder of material. I think I've found the perfect (easy sew) pattern to show off some of my stash:

Rae does lots of other patterns and her blog is full of inspiration. Here's the link to get the pattern, which is only $8:

http://www.made-by-rae.com/2011/09/showoff-bag-pdf-sewing-pattern-is-here/

Dusting off the BIA

My poor BIA thinks I've disowned it. Not likely, but I did lose all my wires for 8 months during the move. However, now rediscovered, I have put them to good use with some lovely flocked paper, but I can't for the life of me remember where it's from!

Size A5, will be used for some pics of the house renovations I think.

And another one...

I enjoyed the layer challenge the other day and as I had yet more die cuts, I used them to create another simple Thank You card. Hoping to have a pile ready in time for Christmas!

• Paper from Basic Grey


• Brad from Sassafras


• Stamp from Dovecraft


• Flower petals from Craft Robo template

365 Cards - Day 215 - Lovely Layers

The challenge today on 365 cards was to include 5 layers on your card. I over did it a bit with 6 and managed to use some flower shapes I cut out ages ago on my Craft Robo.

• White A5 card base


• Papers from Basci Grey


• Brad from Sassafras


• Papermania stamped greeting


• Yellow flowers cut from CraftRobo file and inked
  

Here's the link for the challenge:


http://365cards.blogspot.com/2011/10/day-215-lovely-layers.html

Why don't my scraps look like this?

Kirsty Wiseman has done it again and made a fab scrap page out of scraps! I can barely manage a card, but she has pulled off a lovely scrapbook page and a card.

Go and see her genius for yourself here:

http://limegreenbogiegirl.blogspot.com/2011/09/using-up-scraps.html