Your Challenge Cards

Good Sunday Morning Ladies,

We had a lovely time at our Village Summer Fete yesterday afternoon, the sun shone the whole afternoon, we bought some plants from the Plant stall, some gardening books so that we can try and identify weeds from annuals !! I may just share some of the photos on here and see if you experienced gardeners can help.  We have one Tree/shrub that has creamy white flowers, it is absolutely covered in Need, I thought we had a nest somewhere but on closer inspection the tree is alive with Bumble bees, amazing sight! 

Anyway back to the Fete, there was a Brass band playing and tea and cakes, we didn't win on the raffle but out of over 150 ducks we came ...............................

FIRST & SECOND!!!!  

We couldn't believe it, how funny, what where the chances, it was great fun! 

Now onto your cards......

Janet

Two stunning, completely different cards from Janet this week, one for the ladies and one for the most men!

The first card was one Janet made at Knit and Natter, I think it's the centre of one of Sue Wilson's dies, Janet has topped them with some beautiful flowers and foliage, a pretty feminine card.

Janet's second card has fantastic embossed background, the stamps that create the focal points of the card are both from Bee Crafty.

Thank you so much Janet for two fantastic cards.

XXX

 Lilian

Lilian has used the Stampin'Up! stamp set called 'High Tide' to create her challenge card, I love the composition of your card Lilian, using irredescent glitter to create the effect of the sun on the water is genius Lilian, I have this set and you have inspired me to have a go with it.

Thank you so much for taking part. 

XXX 

 Karen

Karen created three lovely cards for this week's Challenge, 

The first is super cute, a perfect New Baby card....

Karen's description:

" Here’s a cc for you It’s using squares I’ve made wonky frames before and this time instead of going two sizes down I went one size down So it’s made the frame very narrow in places I used CE mounting cushion and boy! It’s brilliant Admittedly I have only ever used cheap shaker tape before to add dimension It’s expensive and will keep for special items You can cut very thin strips (needed!) It doesn’t gum up your scissors Easy to peel backing paper off and you can gently ease off base if you need to reposition it 

Decoupaged TL Teddy Pink Lidl card Hunky Dory Moonstone sentiment dies and a bit of pearly bling The EF is CE Swirly Hearts (I think)

Karen's second card is for an occasion that's new to me, Karen as always had found the perfect image.......

"The second card is for the guy whose party we’re going to Never heard of a pre-retirement party! All totally designed on Serif"

Karen's third card is so beautiful, perfect for a Pearl Wedding Anniversary. I have invlincl Karen's description below, I think it looks perfect just as it it is Karen.

"Now I’ve photographed the Pearl Wedding card I’m not 100% sure I might add pearls on the outside corner It’s made with Centura Pearl card and SW’s Noble Adorned squares"

Three amazing challenge cards Karen, thank you so much for supporting the Challenge.

XXX

 Val

Val has gone for an 'African' theme for this week's challenge, I love the background/frame that you have stamped Val.

Val got these stamps free on a magazine, you have done an amazing job with them Val, they aren't always the best quality to stamp with, your stamped images are perfect.  A great Father's Day card.

Thank you so much for taking part.

XXX

 Michele

Michele has gone for geometric pattern building with the square theme for this week's challenge, placing the squares that were cut from Paint colour charts, on top of different embossed backgrounds. 

A very different look for Michele, I love that you are trying new techniques.

Thanks so much my lovely for taking part.

XXX

 Lynda

Lynda has designed two cards for this week's Challenge, both absolutely stunning, I will add Lynda's description below......

This First one I cut the rose frame out the matted onto black card & matted the frame back  under the black.

The rose stamp is a magazine freebee.

The papers are from  my stash

The second card is stamped onto my card base then made the black  square  & matted over the beautiful you stamp then made a blue mat .

I stamped  the lady again onto the blue card & cut the dress & hat & out then stuck on the white stamp lady.made some JL flowers & a "in style" sentiment from same stamp set.

I absolutely love both of your cards Lynda, thank you so much for taking part, despite feeling so poorly.

XXX

Danielle

Danielle designed her challenge card around the patterned paper, it was made using the 'Baby Wipe' technique, Danielle made this one at our Team retreat day last week.

Dannii mounted the stamped decorative paper onto matching card, that's the beauty of using Stampin'Up! Products, you can match everything perfectly.  To give extra interest to her card Dannii had embossed the centre panel with the Dynamic Floral Embossing Folder.

I absolutely love what you have done with that one piece of stamped paper, genius!!! 

Thank you so much for taking part my lovely.

XXX

Lorraine

Lorraine designed this gorgeous Congratulations card for this week's Challenge. Layering those Scribbled Heart die cuts up has really given them dimension and made them pop of the background.  I will add Lorraine's Description below...

"This is my card with a square on it, in fact it is a square based card.  I water coloured washed the background.  The dies were die cut (x5) each and adhered together with wet glue to give them dimension before they were adhered to the background.  Sandra it may go on your blog if you wish."

Thanks so much Lorraine for taking part in this week's Challenge.

Another amazing display of cards Ladies, you really pulled out all the stops on this one, so many incredibly amazing cards.

Thank you all so very much for taking part, I am so grateful.

Yesterday's blog was late uploading yesterday because I didn't finish writing the post until 01:20am, I had no idea of the time, when I went to schedule it I did it for the next day as usual, not realising that it was after midnight, so next day was Sunday and not Saturday as I thought.

Saturday morning is manic in our house, the girls are rushing around getting ready for work, they like their hair Dutch Braided, so when I eventually sat down and opened the blog I realised my error!! 

We are going over to my Mum's today, my sister is organising a barbecue, it will be nice to see mum and catch up with the rest of my family.

Have a lovely Sunday my lovelies, 

Love and hugs

Sandra

xxxxxx