Another CASE

This is the card I did for the valentine challenge that my upline Sharlene set our team.

I CASE'd Gretchen - I love designer series paper, and she had a series of posts showcasing a different paper each time - this is a black and white one that I SO hope we get!

I am so not into bling and stuff - well I am on other people's cards, but it tends to look like I dropped the pot on mine! lol. I know this card needs something else, but I just can't bring myself to add anything! it seriously looks like a kindergarten kid made it when I do!!

So this is another real plain card.

The cardstock is real red (honestly!!), and basic black. I wanted to use black embossing powder but I couldn;t find it ( MUST TIDY UP!!!), so I used versamark and black ink with clear embossing powder instead! This is an amazing technique! you can have ANY COLOUR embossing powder you like!! Just make sure you ink the versamark first, or it's really messy!!

So, anyway! I stamped the heart from polka dot punches in black and versamark, then clear embossed it, and cut it out. I did the same with LOVE from the hostess set so many sayings, and punched it with the word window punch. Scallop edge the basic black, and stick it all together!

TADA!

3rd challenge

I know!!! 3 challenges in a row!
This one comes from the sketch my FM did, and is because she originally thought of it in brown and cream, so I thought, ok rather than use my kristina colour challenge card for the NZSUblog SAB set challenge, I would make another one in different colours.
This card is a normal size card too, whereas the Kristina one was 6" x 3".
So this has a chocolate chip base, with very vanilla on top. The DSP is Rose Red patterned, and the ink is rose red, and chocolate chip. The stamp sets are polka dot punches, and yummy, both SAB sets that you can earn for free!

more challenges! Kristina first!

wow!! these challenges really do get your brain going!
I have a new flatmate (FM from now on - I think she might be getting addicted!) and she was fascinated that people spend MONEY on this stuff.. and then I was sitting playing around with some new rubber, and she sat down to watch, and all of a sudden, you could see the lightbulb go off!! "ooh" she says. "this is quite cool eh??" "Yes" says I, with a knowing gleam in my eye! "Wanna play?" and the rest is history!
ANYWAY..... one of my blogging sisterhood set a challenge for a masculine valentine's card, and I mentioned it to FM, and about 10 minutes later she came up to me with a little sketch she had jotted down. (aww, bless her!! - see I told you - addicted!) Here is the sketch.

Unfortunately I had kind of already sorted myself out on that challenge so I used the sketch for Kristina's colour challenge. Weird colours again - well one weird one thrown in! That green is LOUD!!
But here is my card (actually, I am not taking total credit - FM told me what colours to put where, and which order and everything - she just wouldn't ACTUALLY do it!!)

this uses two of the new saleabration stamp sets - polka dot punches, and yummy. cardstock is basic black, whisper white so saffron and green galore. Ink is real red.

I have other ideas though so I might be back with another one!