Celebrate!

Hello!

I found a little time this week-end (by ignoring the vacuuming) to make some cards. :-)

This card I made for Runway Inspired Challenge #87, which inspired me the second I saw it!

I sponged SU! Almost Amethyst along the side of my card and then stamped Altenew Modern Beadwork against this. The sentiment is Altenew Label Love. Super clean and simple, just the way I like it!

I'm also entering this card into Virginia's View Challenge #16 - 100% stamped.

We're enjoying the most beautiful Winter's day here. We were promised the coldest day of the year. It didn't arrive. I was looking forward to that cold snap, but this beautiful blue-sky day is a wonderful consolation. 

Thank-you for dropping by to visit me!

Michelle

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Winter beadwork

Hello!

Virginia's View Challenge this month has the theme "Clean Slate". That sounds right up my alley! I love a good  expanse of white on my cards. :-) I was also inspired by the photo at Curtain Call Challenge which is all white and ivory and beige, yum! The sponsor at Curtain Call is Altenew, so I couldn't resist pulling out my Altenew stamps. I settled on using Modern Beadwork with Label Love for the sentiment.

Once I had finished this card, it gave me the feeling of marble mosaic tiles and I was whooshed off to Italy in my imagination! :-) Colours are PTI Soft Stone, Fine Linen, and Hero Arts Wet Cement.

I'm also entering this into Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge where the theme is Anything Goes.

Today I had a mole excised from my face. It was only a little mole, but it appeared right where I had previously had mole removed through a shave biopsy and found pre-cancerous cells. The fact that a shave biopsy had already been done meant they had to do the excision this time. I really don't like local anaesthetics. I don't like the numb feeling, I don't like the tingling and itching as the feeling comes back, and then I don't like the pain that arrives later on. :-(  I'm such a sook! I have two friends this week with their gallbladders removed, and I'm sooking over a little mole removal, lol! You can check my Instagram account if you'd like to check my sooky face. ;-)

I will be back with more entries to Virginia's View challenge. I just love Virginia's challenges and I am off work this week, so I plan to make good use of my time and make multiple entries.

Thanks for visiting!

Michelle
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P.S. I have started updating my other blog again. I'm putting some of my daily life photos (not professional, just snapshots) and some of my art practice over there. Feel welcome to take a look.

CAS(E) This Sketch 95 - follow your dreams

Hello!

I'm using Modern Beadwork for this week's CAS(E) This Sketch. This week I challenged myself to actually stay close-ish to the sketch, lol! I think I managed it! No flights of fancy, just straight, CAS, stamping. :-)

I used Altenew Modern Beadwork and PTI Building Blocks stamps. Colours are SU! Early Espresso, Soft Suede, Crumb Cake, and Pool Party.

Just a quick post tonight. I have a couple of very tired girls just returned from visits to grandparents. I need to rush them towards their beds.

I hope you can join in the fun with us!

Thanks for visiting!

Michelle
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CAS(E) This Sketch 91 - a beadwork banner

Hello!

This week for CAS(E) This Sketch I decided to stay a little closer to the sketch than I did last week. ;-)  I flattened it out into a one-layer card, despite my first instinct to create an actual banner and embellishment. I'm really pleased with how this turned out.

I used Altenew Modern Beadwork stamps. Inks are Memento Luxe Rose Bud and Tuxedo Black, and Mama Elephant Smoke and Blush. Card base is PTI Soft Stone.

I am totally enjoying Modern Beadwork stamps. I thought I might get frustrated with trying to fit those beads together into patterns, but they are surprisingly forgiving. Fabulous!

Tonight I was at my youngest daughter's first big ensemble concert - the Junior School Ensembles concert (strings, recorders, and choirs). Her string ensemble (about 30 kids on violin, viola, cello, and double-bass) have been learning their instruments for about six months. Most of them are about 7 or 8 years old. What the teacher achieves with the kids in such a short time always amazes me. They did well. Lots of proud parents in the auditorium tonight. :-)

And now, it is time to head for dreamland. I'm a little weary!

Thank-you for visiting me! I hope you are inspired to play along with us at CAS(E) This Sketch this week.

Michelle
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Exploring Modern Beadwork

Hello!

I had a package take the slow boat to Australia recently. Most of the time the mail between US and Australia takes two to three weeks, this time it was five or six weeks. Every single day was an agony of anticipation awaiting two new stamp sets that I was extremely eager to try out! Today I sat down to play with the first of the two sets! Yay!

The stamp set used here is Modern Beadwork by Altenew. I have only just begun with this set... the possibilities are endless!

For this first card I took inspiration from this week's Colour Q Challenge - the colours as well as the picture.

Then I moved on to a Scandinavian cross stitch influence to create this next card. I need to play around with the patterns I can create, because this Scandinavian theme has some promise!

And for the last card, I moved back to American Indian theme. I created a feather. Can you see it?

Oh, I am going to have some fun with this set!

I am also joining in with Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge where the theme this week is Anything Goes.

Thanks for coming to visit! :-)

Michelle
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