Wedding Wishes

Hello!

While playing catch-up on the week-end on the cardmaking front, I made this card to kickstart my mojo. My inspiration came from Muse Card Challenge and Inspired By All The Little Things.

I used Stampin' Up! Rose Wonder, Hero Arts Envelope Pattern background, and PTI Background Basics: Circles stamps.

For my very last minute entry, following Anita's Muse inspriation, I stamped a black and white image, masked, and then added a pink background.

For Inspired by all the Little Things I took the wedding theme and the corner flowers, only mine is a giant single flower rather than the beautiful bouquet of the inspiration.

I'm hoping that I can get a few more cards made over the next couple of weeks to bring me back to schedule so that I can keep up with my regular posting again. ;-)

This week I'm off to Sydney for work for most of the week. Everyone cross your fingers for clear weather for me, at least in the evenings. I really want to head out to Vivid while I'm there to see the gorgeous lights.

Thanks for visiting!

Michelle
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Fusion - Something Blue

Hello!

It's time for the new Fusion Card Challenge! Both the sketch and the inspiration photo had me reaching for my stamps. So pretty! I had to create a fusion card. :-)

I used SU! Wild About Flowers, PTI Background Basics: Circles, and PTI Botanical Blocks sentiment and dies.

Work has been crazy busy lately. I'm taking holidays from mid-June, but I haven't really been able to put much thought to that yet. I really need to because I'm heading to Europe! I do have my passport organised, and flights booked, but nothing else arranged... oops! Luckily I'm happy to go with the flow!

I hope you are inspired to join us at Fusion. I can't wait to see the gallery. 

Michelle

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Fusion #12

Hello!

Another quick one. While I was watching the outcomes of the leadership ballots of the Australian Labor Party, and finding out who our Prime Minister is as a result, I decided to make a card. For those who are interested, and haven't seen the news yet - the ALP caucus voted Kevin Rudd their leader and dumped Julia Gillard. No political comment from me other than the fact that I'm pretty disillusioned by the state of Australian politics generally at the moment. Also on tv tonight is the State of Origin football match (Rugby League) between Qld and NSW. I hear (via the political reporters who thought I may be interested) that Qld was ahead at last count, by a mile, so I'm guessing Qld won that game, LOL! My train home this afternoon was packed full of Qld supporters in their maroon jerseys, as the game was played here in Brisbane. They'll be celebrating tonight. :-)

I'm squeezing in at the last minute for Fusion Challenge #12. I chose to make a fusion of the sketch and the inspiration photo.

I used PTI Background Basics: Circles, and Heart-2-Heart #3. I also used Mama Elephant Basic Borders for the top dotted line. Colours are SU! Gumball Green, Daffodil Delight, Tempting Turquoise, and Hero Arts Pale Tomato.

Okay, off to bed for me! Thanks for coming by!

Michelle
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Dynamic Fusion

Hello!

I'm popping in quickly to share a card.

I used PTI Background Basics: Circles and Snowflake Flurries. Colours are SU! Cameo Coral and Blushing Bride.

I missed Fusion last week, and I was sad, so this week I made sure I found a little time to play along. Fusion Challenge #4 has this hypothesis. I am playing along with Jackie's sketch challenge.

I used the colours from Dynamic Duos #50, because they are totally irresistible.

Back to work today after a lovely week-end. Yesterday I listened to my daughter's string ensemble play. Those kids just amaze me every time I hear them, they make beautiful music.

Have a great day! Thanks for coming to visit me!

Michelle
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Soft and pretty CASE

Hello!

I found some crafting time today, yay!

I made this card.

I used PTI Harvest Berries, Background Basics: Circles, Stylish Sentiments: Birthday. Colours are SU! Barely Banana and Pale Plum. Card base is PTI Vintage Cream.

This is a very literal interpretation of Julie Ebersole's gorgeous card over at CASE Study #134. The design was so beautiful, I really wanted to give it a try. (Everything Julie makes is beautiful, I could CASE her all day long, every day).

 I used the beautiful soft colours from The Play Date Cafe Challenge #175

The weather is coming over all stormy again. I am wishing I'd hung out that second load of washing earlier...

Thanks for coming to visit!

Michelle
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Clean and Simple Card Making 2 - Day 3

Hello!

Today's lesson over at Clean & Simple Card Making 2 was wonderful. Three fabulous videos jam-packed with inspiration. Unfortunately my day didn't lend itself to actually using that inspiration so well, but here I am sharing what I did anyway. ;-)

Jennifer showed us a new technique for creating gradient colour. I've never done it before, and I was a bit scared to try, but I'm happy with the outcomes as far as colour go (I won't go into the bits I'm dissatisfied with!).

This card uses PTI Background Basics: Circles and Think Big Favorites #16 (?). Colours are SU! Pool Party, Certainly Celery, Daffodil Delight.

My second card was following Shari Carroll's tuition. The lesson was great, my application of it not quite what I planned. Instead of properly finishing this card, I dealt with a major 5-year-old tantrum. After that, I was too exhausted to play anymore. ;-)

This card uses PTI Teach & Inspire stamps and dies. Colours are SU! Poppy Parade, Certainly Celery, and Early Espresso.

There was more inspiration at Day 3, and I know I'm going to have to revisit the lessons again to soak up all the ideas.

Thanks for coming to visit!

Michelle
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Dynamic Duos #25

Hello!

Tomorrow is my hubby's birthday! Fortuitously, the Dynamic Duos colours this week are orange and black, two of his favourite colours!

This is the card. I must start concentrating on the angle of my cards in the photos!

I used PTI Background Basics: Circles for the background stamping. Colours are SU! Pumpkin Pie, Basic Black, and Whisper White. The vellum is PTI. The die cuts are PTI Mat Stack and Mat Stack Layers (Mmmmm, #1 I think).

Here is the colour inspiration, the dessert option being die-cuts.

Thanks for popping by!

Michelle
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Happy Birthday, Debbie!

Hello!

My team mate from For Your Inspiration challenge, Debbie Standard, is having a BIG birthday today, she's turning 60!  So I have made a card especially for her.

Happy Birthday, Debbie!

I will admit, that I had to use some inspiration to get to this point, so this is being entered into CASE Study #90 and Dynamic Duos #2.

CASE Study 90 has this beautiful card by Aga as inspiration:

Yep, I used the entire layout. Why mess with something that is already so beautiful?

And I chose the colour scheme from Dynamic Duos, challenge 2:

I don't have So Saffron, so I had to choose between Barely Banana and Daffodil Delight. Because I was using an outline stamp, Daffodil Delight won the toss.

I used PTI Pretty Peonies, Thin Big Favorites #12, and Background Basics: Circles. Stampin' Up Pool Party and Daffodil Delight. Card base is PTI vintage cream.

If you pop over to the rest of the team blogs, you'll see some more birthday cards in honour of Debbie's birthday.

Debby
Rudlis
Karen

Rochelle

Sara

Steph
Sylvia

Vicki

Debbie, I hope you have a wonderful day of celebration filled with love, laughter and happiness.

Michelle
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Papertrey April Blog Hop Challenge

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I've organised myself enough to join the Papertrey Ink Blog Hop again this month, yippee!  This is the lovely inspiration.

As soon as I saw this picture, I saw the fabric second from bottom. I have a pair of pyjamas in that fabric, and they're my favourite! :-)  (You really wanted to know that, didn't you?)  I would love to own this pile of fabric. I think I'd make a quilt out of it... I might need to give it to my girls, I'm not sure the hubby would want pink flowers in our bedroom, LOL!

Okay, so my mind went round and round with these types of thoughts, and when I sat down to make my card, I couldn't decide on just one fabric to use, I had to make a bunch of them, just like in the picture.

For this card, I used PTI Rosie Posie, Pretty Peonies, Background Basics: Circles, Think Big Favorites #13, and Hero Arts Zig Zag. Card base is PTI basic white. Blue card is SU! Pool Party. Ink is SU! Pretty In Pink, Cameo Coral, Poppy Parade, Bashful Blue, Pool Party, Certainly Celery, Old Olive. Ribbons are SU! Everyday Enchantment in Pool Party, Calypso Coral, and Lucky Limeade. Brad is Everyday Enchantments. 

Wow! That's a lot for one little card!

I'll be back in the morning to link this up to the blog hop. Unfortunately the Blog Hop goes live around midnight for us here on the east coast of Australia. I plan to be well and truly asleep by then. :-)

Thanks for dropping by to visit. Leave me a comment and I will be back to visit you as soon as I can!

Michelle
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Runway Inspired #9

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Here I am squeezing in an entry to Runway Inspired Challenge at the last minute, again... The worst part of doing these entries at the very last minute is that I have to photograph my cards at night, and we all know that there is no substitute for daylight when taking those photos!

Here is the inspiration from Runway Inspired Challenge #9.

I really like this dress as inspiration for a card. I like that bit of bone/cream running across the white dress, the colourful strip and the small green strip. I was pretty literal with my interpretation. No matter how much I tried to think of something "more", my ideas would not budge from what I ended up creating.  Here it is.

I used a white card base. Stamped PTI Background Basics: Circles in SU! Crumb Cake, then Hero Arts Say It All sentiment in Old Olive. Then I placed my colourful strip (PTI Harvest Berries stamped in Crumb Cake, Ruby Red, Old Olive on vintage cream card), and lastly my little rectangle of old olive card.

It's a really simple card, and I like it. Unfortunately the night lighting reduces the "white" of the white base, but I think you can get the picture.

Thanks for dropping by.

Michelle
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Butterfly birthday

Hello!

Today I am combining two challenges - Gayatri's Inspired by Pinterest and CASE Study #83.

I follow Gayatri on Pinterest (as well as here in blogland), and her pins are always inspiring. I don't know how she managed to choose just one image for this challenge, LOL! This is the image.

I love butterflies, don't you?

At CASE Study this week, the muse is still Laura Bassen (yay!), with this lovely card.

I love the layout. I love the simplicity.

By the time I finished my card, it wasn't as simple as I had planned, but I still like it. :-)

I used PTI Background Basics: Circles and Pretty Peonies. The colours are SU! poppy parade, pretty in pink, and soft suede. Card is PTI white (the card) and SU! white (the front panels).

Thanks for stopping by to visit. I hope you like the card. :-)

Michelle
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Clean and Simple Day 2 - Part 1

Hello!

Oh, dear! Day 2 at Clean and Simple Card Classes is One Layer Cards! My nemesis! You would not believe the number of mistakes I made in my cards. In the end I gave up and have decided to show you the two best of a bad bunch. I really couldn't believe it, because lately I have made many, many one-layer cards that I have been very happy with. Obviously I was struck with performance anxiety, LOL!

Here is the first card:

I was totally inspired by Amber's mixed backgrounds cards. Unfortunately, I only have one set of background stamps, so it is a mixed-circle background card. Don't look too closely, and it looks really nice! I love this idea and I will practise more to perfect it.

I used PTI Background Basics: Circles, SU! Pumpkin Pie, and the sentiment is from SU! Trendy Trees.

Michelle
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RIC#3 - Black and White Love

Hello!

I've been pondering Runway Inspired Challenge #3 for a little while now, trying to think how I would use those black and white stripes. Today the idea came to me, so I sat down in this 36 degree heat (96.8F) and whipped up a little card quickly before I go for a swim. :-)

Here is the inspiration:

Black and white isn't my forte in card-making. Neither are stripes, really, but I like them!

I went for a black and white heart, and I picked up the circles off the runway floor.

Here is my card:

PTI Heart dies, PTI Background Basics: Circles, PTI Botannical Silhouettes (sentiment). A really easy card, and I really like it.

Now, I'm going to try to beat the afternoon thunderstorm to the pool.  It was a clear blue day 30 minutes ago, now we're looking at this:

It doesn't look much, but it won't be long until the sky is dark grey with lightning and thunder - that's my prediction anyway. It's rare for us to have this heat, and high humidity all day without an afternoon thunderstorm. We can't swim in a storm, so it is a matter of getting there before the thunder starts growling.

Michelle
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