Some Sketch Challenges

Well, this morning I took my lovely daughter for her first drive and decided to do it in our automatic landcruiser. Thought we would just stick with the feel of the car and the road before we let her use a manual car. She did very well considering the size of our 4WD but I suppose if she can manage that then she can manage anything!!! I think I had some fingernail squeeze marks on the palm of my hand from holding onto my side door handle - don't tell her that!!

Anyway on with the cards. I am a member of a lovely yahoo group and have managed to get around to doing some of the sketch challenges - I love these challenges because there is no time limit and you can do them at your own leisure.

I have made three cards so without further ado here they are:-

I love doing sketches because sometimes you can just tell what stamp set to use for certain sketches. I really like the one that looks a bit beachy, the flow of the paper just reminds me of the beach.


Happy stamping.

Just Add Ink - Challenge #13

The Just Add Ink girls have a gorgeous colour challenge on at the moment and I thought I would give it a try. I even managed to scrape up a small piece of Barely Banana!!!

The colours are:-


Aren't they just gorgeous together!!

Here is my creation using these colours although I only had enough Barely Banana to punch out my birdie and I used So Saffron ribbon:-


Don't look too closely but I don't think my wheeling on the bottom is too straight!! I am just loving this new punch right now.

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Inkspiration Colour Challenge #20

As soon as I saw this beautiful colour combination I just knew I would have to have a play. The stamp set Fifth Avenue Floral stood out for me with this colour combo. It has been a while since I entered a Makeesha Challenge so here goes.

Here is the colour combo:-

And here is my entry:-It's a bit hard to tell in the photo but the flower is stamped in Chocolate Chip. Now to just go and link it up with Makeesha's blog which you can find here.

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Another Challenge Card

I came across another challenge set by Marelle Taylor for a card made with no stamps. Oh no, how was I going to pull this one off!!

I thought for quite some time on this one and ended up coming up with the following card:-
I used Pink Pirouette as the base card followed by a piece of retired DSP "Spring Fling". I also cut out the circles from another patterned piece of DSP from the "Spring Fling" collection using my 3/4" circle punch and then mounted them onto Certainly Celery, Pretty in Pink and So Saffron. I then finished off my card with one of the lovely flower brads.

I don't have any rub-ons at present so was very tempted to add a stamped saying but refrained from doing so!!

Makeesha's Inspiration Challenge #12

I decided to enter another challenge this week, this one being for Makeesha's Inspiration Challenge #12 found here.

Here is the inspiration pic:-

I had a little struggle with this one as yellow is not one of my all time favourite colours but I didn't mind working with it.

Here is my entry for this challenge. Not sure about this card at all but thought I might as well have a play.My photography is not the greatest and it is hard to tell but I dry-embossed the top part of the card to represent the criss-cross of the doors and also around the edges of the white card layer.

I went with Pacific Point as my base colour and used circles from the Big Pieces and Little Pieces sets stamped with Pacific Point and Bashful Blue. I stamped up the flower image onto Summer Sun cardstock with white ink. I tried to achieve the look of the bedspread.

Marelle's Spring Mini Challenge

I have been a regular blog stalker of the lovely Marelle Taylor's blog for some time now so decided I would try my hand at one of her challenges!! You can find Marelle's Challenge details here.

My entry is inspired by the one on page 12 of the Spring Mini Catalogue but as I don't have that lovely Forest Friends set yet I thought I would improvise with the Trendy Trees instead.

Here is my entry:-

Probably not the best of photos!! I used Baja Breeze as the base of my card followed by a layer of Chocolate Chip. I then stamped my trees and the little birds from Wild About You onto Whisper White. I layered this onto a piece of Kiwi Kiss cardstock and then using a circle punch I punched out a semi circle. I then tied a beautiful piece of Baja Breeze ribbon over the Chocolate Chip layer and under the Kiwi Kiss layer. I then finished it off with a brad and, although the photo isn't the best, I did stamp Thinking of You on the Chocolate Chip layer just near the brad.

Now to see if I can enter the challenge!!