Our Bright & Beautiful Challenge Cards

 

Good Sunday Morning Ladies,

We had a brighter day yesterday, it was incredibly windy all day but the sun did try to show his face most of the afternoon,  there was a lot more flying at the Air Tattoo yesterday,  which made up for the lack of flying on Friday, the Prince & Princess of Wales visited the Air show yesterday with their children,  such a shame the weather was so awful as they wouldn't have seen any of the flying displays.  

Sadly I was stuck in bed most of the day, I'm not sure if its down to the antibiotics or the infection resisting them!  Either way I felt awful, I have taken my last antibiotic (at midnight last night) so fingers crossed they worked.

Tbe girls had the day off due to not being able to get to work because of the Air Show traffic, so they had quite a productive day packing up their bedrooms!  Paul was busy up and down the loft ladder. So hopefully progress us being made!  

Let's have a look at the Challenge projects that you have made. ....

Your Challenge Projects 

Lilian 

Lilian's Description:

Here are my cards for this week

1/ Tim Holtz floral boarder stamp, coloured with my zig water colour pens, it’s a bit bright, but I quite like it.

2/ stamp , positive thoughts, clear embossing powder, then rubbed on , garden green, old olive and pear pizzazz.

3/ floral stamp again, coloured with my old water colours, lemon yellow, yellow ochre, and a little carmine red. Fussy cut and then stuck on stencilled background, using one of Lavinia stencils.

Hope you are getting plenty of rest. Lilian

Oh Lilian your cards absolutely blew me away when I opened your message, WOW!  All 3 cards are so beautiful,  that first card that you coloured with your Zig pens is Stunning, the colours are so rich, your colouring skills are just a joy to look at. Card 2 is green, so obviously gives me joy, I have that stamp set and love it !  

Card 3:  WOW again,  your watercoloured floral stamp is beautiful,  your Watercolouring has added so much interest to the stamped image,  it works so well on that stencilled background too.  

Thank you so much for 3 stunning cards, I can tell how much enjoyed making them XXX

Janet 

Janet's Description:

Here is my card for this weeks challenge,  I used 'everything TONIC to create the card.

The dies were bought many years ago the same goes for the attachments.

Such a lovely card Janet, those die cut pink elements are so beautiful and work perfectly with those little leaves.

Thank you so much for taking part in this weeks challenge my lovely XXX 

Karen

Karen's Description:

Here’s a Thrinchie (the last one!) for this week’s challenge 

Background is the baking paper technique using DO Mustard Seed, Carved Pumpkin and Picked Raspberry 

Stamps #540 for background 

#535 and #567 for focal elements

Absolutely gorgeous Thrinchie Karen,  I love the colours you have used too, those ticket shaped florals are lovely, you have coloured them perfectly too.

Thank you so much for taking part Karen XXX 

Maria

Maria has made 2 super cute cards, I think they are Hunkydory kits, which are perfect for when you need a card in a hurry, they are always finished beautifully too.

Thank you so much for taking part XXX 

Sonia

Sonia's Description:  

I made this card for Hayley’s Graduation. I’ve used a Polkadoodles digi image. The stamped sentiment is from My Favourite Things. The flower from Gummiapan.

Oh Sonia what an absolutely gorgeous image, I love the colours so much 😍.  I bet Hayley was blown away when she opened it bless her.  Your Gummiapan flower is the perfect finishing touch.  Thank you so much for taking part my lovely XXX 

Sue

Sue has made two fantastic, bright & Cheerful cards, perfect for this weeks challenge.  What a great idea to use the large letter dies to cut lovely bright letters and then finishing off with a coordinating paper strip along the bottom.

Thank you so much Sue for taking part in this weeks challenge XXX 

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Oh Wow what at stunning display Ladies, so many bright & beautiful cards, thank you all so very much ❤️ 

I hope that you all have a lovely Sunday, 

Love & hugs to all of you,

Sandra

xxxxxx