Your Challenge Cards

 

Good Sunday Morning Ladies ,

Happy Easter Sunday my lovelies, what are you all up to today?  Another quiet one for us, just getting garden jobs done.  We are having roast lamb for a change today, spring cabbage is my favourite veg, the girls feel cheated if they don't get cauliflower cheese, I tried a recipe using the little chantenay carrots at Christmas they have become a favourite too.  The girls chose dessert too, I didn't even need to ask...Toffee Pecan Roulade!!! 

We don't really do Easter Eggs, my lot soon worked out that they got a lot more chocolate if they had Bars rather than eggs so that is what they tend to choose if asked. I have noticed over the last couple of years that Supermarkets don't have half as many Easter Eggs as they used to, long gone are the days of popping in on Bank Holiday monday and filling your basket with half price chocolate!!! 

Now let's have a look at your lovely cards, I really enjoyed this Challenge, so I would like to thank our Brenda who suggested it in our Blog Chat group,  I was only going to make one or two cards but once I got started I felt really inspired, I hope thats the same for next week too.

Maria

Maria has used pretty pinks as the colour theme for her beautiful Challenge card, I had forgotten how pretty some of Sue Wilsons Striplet dies are, Maria has used the 'Ornate Octagons' Striplet die for her card, it's so delicate and works brilliantly for this challenge.   I am thinking that we may need a 'Get your Sue Wilson dies out' Challenge, who still has them????

Thanks so much Maria for a beautiful Challenge card, for taking part and inspiring me to have a look at my Sue Wilson dies again XXX

Sonia

Lovely Lilacs and purple tones for Sonia's gorgeous Challenge card, that background die is so lovely, totally unisex too, you could just as easily use it for a Man card with a change of colour and embellishment.  The die cut Octagon ( another Sue Wilson die i believe) is the perfect landing spot for your butterfly Sonia, such a perfectly composed Challenge card.

Sonia's Description: 

"Here’s my challenge card,  I recently purchased some digi papers from Etsy, a set of 100 solid colours and a set of 100 watercolours, which I’ve used on my card. The butterfly is cut from the watercolour paper, although the colour doesn’t show up in the photo. I’ve used a Memory Box corner die and the octagon is from one of Sue Wilson’s sets."

Thanks so much Sonia for a lovely inspiring Challenge card, I like the sound of those digi papers, a great stash builder without having to find the space to store it ! XXX

Karen

Two fantastic Challenge cards from our Karen for this weeks challenge,  one super special design and one simple design that works so perfectly. 

I absolutely love your incredible Eclipse card design for Charlie's 1st Birthday card Karen, it looks so complicated, the white background to the 'Happy Birthday' totally transforms them and makes them almost jump of the page. You are so incredibly talented when it comes to designing bespoke/personalised cards Karen. 

Karen's Description's:  

"My first card Is mixture of Serif and MCS all coloured blue within the Serif program I cut the letters 3 times on ScanNCut and stacked them"

Here’s a tone on tone cc that I did yesterday It a mixture of JL butterflies (including sentiment) using Valspar paint charts/chips/samples/thingies!

Thanks so much Karen for two incredible Challenge cards XXX

Lilian 

Wow Lilian what a genius alternative idea for using the CoolKatz 'Fauxgrain' Ribbon dies, in my favourite colour too!! I really love your design, adding the extra inked lines above and below the main panel really extends the design, making a perfect design.  I bet it took a while though, it shows how lovely the die cuts are too, they just look like real Grosgrain ribbon. 

This design would work so well as the main focus of the card or you could use that panel as a bit of a background and maybe have a little spray of flowers in opposite corners.

Thank you so much for taking part in the challenge and for thinking 'out of the box' you have really inspired me to make a background with those dies XXX

Janet

Two beautiful designs from our Janet for this weeks challenge, one in lovely Vintage tones and the other in fresh lilac/lavender and green.  Both really lovely designs.

Janet's Description:

"My first card this week is from STAMPERIA and their theme of PROVENCE .It shows shades of Purple and Green. 

My second card was made using LABLANCE papers in shades of Brown and has the theme of VINTAGE. This is a card I made last year

Thank you so much Janet I have to say that I really love those 'Provence' papers that are just so pretty and some of my favourite colours too.  I really appreciate you taking part each week my lovely XXX

Michele 

Wow Michele, what an absolutely stunning Challenge card, I love everything about it, the colours are beautiful and that gorgeous die, so lacy and delicate.  I love the whole design of your card.

Michele's Description:

"My Tone on Tone card. I forgot how difficult the floral panels were to cut-probably why I’ve hardly used this set of Dies!! DieSire Circle Centre Dies , used my own dies for the sentiments & added some gemstones."

Thank you so much for such a perfect challenge card my lovely, you have now added more shopping to my list!! XXX

Brenda

Oh Brenda what a Beautiful design, I love that background so much, I feel like I have seen it before but it had never appealed to me but Oh My Goodness this card has 100% changed my mind, it's one of those backgrounds that you can leave simple with a sentiment and pretty bow or you could go 'all out' with a big floral centre piece. I think that the colours you have used adds to the appeal too.

Brenda's Description:

"For my tone on tone card I have used lilacs through to purple. The centre die I’ve had for ever, in fact the background section I made a few years ago, I made a whole batch and came across them again in one of my tidying up sessions, so I thought why don’t I turn them into Easter cards.  The deep purple I’ve used at the back really lift the whole thing, it was looking a bit bland so I had a play and this is the result."

You are right about that deep purple background giving the whole card a lift, it really works, it's one of those designs that the more you look at it the more you see, I have zoomed in 3 times and just noticed the tiny embossed pattern around those pretty little flowers!  What an absolute treasure to have found while tidying up, I hope you did a little 'Happy Dance' !  Thank you so much for such a gorgeous Easter card XXX

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Well ladies, what an absolute pleasure it was to open all of the messages you sent containing your challenge cards, I have no idea why but you have all designed some absolutely stunning cards for this challenge, just have another look back over that incredible display of cards. WOW, I genuinely feel so blessed and privileged to be able to share your designs each week, thank you all XXXX

I hope that you all have an enjoyable day and that you all get to have a little piece of chocolate,

Sending love and huge hugs to all of you,

Sandra

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