Flower Cavalier

This image from Digital Two For Tuesday is just perfect for a little thank you card - a cavalier offering his flowers

The paper is BasicGrey cut with nestabilities into a little card and various ovals. The edges of the paper are distressed with ink, the stamp sentiment is from Elzybells. I coloured the image with Koh-i-noors. Petra.

Colour Challenge

This week's colour challenge at the Play Date Cafe is white/black/striking blue-turquoise/retro-redI love the colour combination. My card is not quite retro but represents a slightly older more vintagey era

The fantastic image is from The Graphics Fairy. I slightly altered the image by altering the backgorund colour and the colour of the 'evening wrap'. Then for the first time ever I managed to print the image onto thicker handmade paper which removes the sharpness from the image and gives it more of a soft and subtle feel. Petra.

CAS Notecard Set

A clean and simple A6 notecard set with lined envelopes - an idea I found at Gingersnap Creations and which was very appealing. This is the first set of hopefully many more, the sets will be sold at a little charity event for the 'Craft for Life' campaign to support Cancer Research UK
I love these bird images from the Graphics Fairy. They are so vibrant in their colours and the birds on the graphics seem to be so alive. I printed them onto textured card - the same card as used for the A6 card.
The images are layered onto plain black and Kraft card. The sentiment stamps are from Elzybells and stamped with Heine ink.
The envelopes are lined with paper I had in my stash for a very long time and never quite knew what to do with it (LOL). Petra.

Digital Frogs and Pointy Stars

Each week 'Digital Two For Tuesday' posts two digi stamp images. The from the last challenge images (flowers and frogs) are from an old children's book. The one which 'tickled' me most was the one with the little dancing frogs. Although I am not a frog person (lol), I think they are rather sweet

Supplies:
plain white A6 card
paper - BaiscGrey, plain white card
stamps - digi stamps 'Digital Two For Tuesday', Elzybells
ink - Heine
colouring - Koh-i-noors with OMS, Copics, Sakura
ribbons - from my stash

I started with the initial digital frog image thinking it would be nice to emphasize a bit more the frogs by cutting out a second 'frog' layer. But once I had started to cut, I couldn't stop myself (lol). The moon circle turned into a sentiment circle and I also added some shiny and pointy stamped stars to the scene which fitted nicely with the Daring Crdmakers challenge of 'What's the Point'. Petra.

Spring Butterflies

I love Spring when nature awakes and shows its colourful dress, and I love butterflies dancing in the wind and visiting the many flowers which will hopefully appear soon :-)

Supplies:
plain qhite square card
paper - leftover wrapping paper, Marieke Vermeulen, plain red card, Mind's Eye
nestabilities
stamps - Elzybells
ink - Heine
ribbon/button - from my stash
blings - Kanban

I alsways try to use as much scrap paper as possible. This time I found some leftover wrapping paper with flowers which was just perfect for my purpose; it did not only have the right colour combination, the paper is also slightly textured.
The card is for the SophistiCat and Docrafts challenge. Petra.

Brown and Turquoise ...

... and a Hole in One - the combination of Sketchy Colors and Daring Cardmakers,
(Sorry for the not so good quality of the photos. Unfortunately the turquoise turned more into blue on the photos :-( ), Petra.

Supplies:
papers - chocolate brown card from Elzybells, plain cream paper
nestabilities square and square scallops, Quickutz circle
stamps - Studio g
ink - Elzybells
ribbon - from my stash
bling/flowers - Artemio

A little Birdie told me .....

.... my dad has birthday very soon

I created the card layout to a sketch from Cupcake Craft Challenges

The image is a wonderful bird image from the Graphics Fairy. I love the muted colours which fit so well with the layered K&Company papers. The lacey ribbon was a very nice surprise from Pattie, I found the buttons in my grandma's button box. Petra.