Your Challenge Cards & Happy Birthday Tracy !

My Challenge Cards

Happy Birthday Tracy

Good Morning Ladies,

First thing i'd like to say to Happy Birthday to our Lovely Tracy, I hope that you got lots of craft goodies for your birthday too.xxx

I do hope you enjoyed something a little bit different with the Sketch this week, I am hoping that it had you all looking at your stamps a little differently.  Just changing the colour that you stamp with makes a different. 

Janet, I love both of the cards that you have made with that Vintage style stamp, the first card with the pretty air balloon and the lovely old fountain pen, perfect for somebody about to go travelling and is going to document the journey, I love that sentiment too, it's from one of your Stampin up sets "To someone who makes others so happy" , it's so lovely to see you stamping your cards too Janet.

Your second card, using the same stamp, this time using the vintage clock as an embellishment would be perfect for a man! 

Thank you Janet for taking part in this weeks Challenge, I knew it was asking a but more of all of you, but I hope you got something out of it too xxx

Lilian, two beautiful sets of cards, both fit the challenge perfectly, I love the baby cards they are both so cute, those lace edged bibs are so pretty.  

The Watering can cards are lovely too, they work perfectly for both Male & Female cards with just a change of colour as you have shown. 

Thank you so much for taking part Lilian xxx

Margaret, I really wasn't expecting you to be able to make cards this week, so soon after your operation, the pretty Dragonfly die works perfectly on both cards, I think that a man would be just as happy to receive that card as a woman, I love both colour ways.  Thank you my lovely for taking part I do hope that you didn't push yourself before you were ready, mind you it's torture having all those lovely things and not being able to use them xxx

Michele, OMG!! I love these cards, I have these dies and you have 100% inspired me to get them out and play with them, I would struggle to choose a favourite from these two cards, I think the 'male' version might just be my favourite, mainly because Male cards don't usually get me excited like this one has, I love the colours, the stars, the banner, everything!  The girly one is do pretty , sweet without being too sweet, the flowers and pearls are just the perfect embellishments.  Thank you, thank you, once for taking part, twice for inspiring me, I am off to order myself the matching stamps too!  xxx

Karen, you, like Michele have inspired me in so many different ways with this die set,  I think it's a real 'go to' when you have a man card to make, because of  the straight, basic style of the die, you have shown that in your first card, the simple embossing is all that's needed to create a fab Man card.  Then change the paper to a pretty floral, add a few pearls and you have pretty girly card.  You have met this weeks Challenge perfectly, thank you xxx

Maria, Oh my how cute are those puppies!!! Such a lovely stamped image too, just like Lilian's, the change of colour in ink and paper makes the image work perfectly for both Male & Female cards.  Thank you so much for taking part this week Maria, I know I was asking a little more of you than usual.  I really appreciate the time you spent making your cards xxx

Lynda, I am going straight over to buy some sparkle Texture Paste, these two cards are so incredibly beautiful, I love the bird, but most of all I love that super sparkly 'Spirelli' background.  Lynda has written her own instructions so I will paste them below.  Lynda, thank you so much for taking part, you have had a horrendous week, so the fact that you sat and made two gorgeous cards for me means the world xxx

"My two challenge cards i used

CLARITY STAMP HOUSE MARTIN stamped that first on both cards stamped it again on another card & cut it out for a mask then used

That special touch masks from Creative Expressions SPIRELLI

I used cosmic shimmer sparkle texture paste through it with

OCEAN SPRAY FOR THE MAN & GRACEFUL PINK FOR THE LADY

Then coloured the House Martin with sparkle pens."

Val, a perfect example of this weeks Challenge, two amazing cards, one pink be flowery, the other blue and dotty!  It just highlights that we can get a lot more value out of some of our Stamps and dies than we initially thought, my first thought when buying these things is straight away that I like how it looks, I rarely think of how it will work, or should I say "I used to rarely think of how it worked', because these days I do think about it a bit more.  Val you must have to get the best from every set as you have so many cards to make for the shop.  Thank you so much for taking part Val, I know you have achieved a busy week preparing for your holiday xxx


Ladies, you have smashed that Challenge, well done, you are all amazing!! Thinking cap is on ready for tomorrow, if you have any requests let me know!

Have a lovely Sunday
Love and Hugs
Sandra
xxxxxxc