Celebrating Curves!

It's finally stopped raining - so this card seems appropriate - a celebration of spring, in response to CAS(E) this Sketch's sketch #288:

and Just Add Ink's pretty inspiration photo:


My card ended up like this:

Ingredients: 

Stampin' Up card (Shimmery White, Mossy Meadow), ink (Basic Black, Rich Razzleberry) watercolor pencils (Rich Razzleberry, Old Olive), DSP (Share What You Love) Stamps (Detailed with Love, Petal Palette, Thoughtful Branches for sentiment), Detailed Trio Punch, dies (Petals and More, Layering Circles), Petals and more embellishments.

Other product: Faber Castell pink watercolour pencil

Let's eat cake

A few days ago, a friend introduced me to long post-it notes - a product I didn't know existed. Those 5 inches of stick make long masked edges much easier! I used them to create the base shape for this card, which combines two challenges: Less is More's#332 One layer 'sweet things' and CAS(E) this sketch's #225:

Previously, I've found one layer cards very difficult - I just keep on wanting to add bits - so I was pleased I've restrained myself this time. 

Made Using:

Stampin' Up Ink: Pink Pirouette, Sweet Sugarplum, Rose Red, Rich Razzleberry, Basic Black

Other: Stampin' up Whisper White paper, gold embossing powder and Endless Birthday Wishes stamps; Versamark watermark ink

Stamp set: 

Paisley Elegance

My first decisions for this card were about colour: as soon as I saw the elegance of The Card Concept's 'Freshly Elegant' challenge, I wanted to use those cool, elegant tones, with a bit of gold bling, of course.

I began with the lovely little floral paisley stamp and die, sponged pink and gold embossed, then looked for inspiration about what to do with it, finding what I needed with the CAS(E) this sketch's challenge #224.

 The simplicity of the colours helped to keep the final card CAS, I think.

One of the images looks very pink in tone - I'm not quite sure what I did there!
Made using:
Stampin' Up: Whisper White and Crumbcake paper, Pink Pirouette ink, gold embossing powder, Paisley framelits, Paisleys and Posies and Shake and Celebrate stampsets, enamel dots

Mother's Day

I actually felt quite moved by the beautiful colours in Just Add Ink's colour challenge #357, since the pinks, purples and deep blue-green in the challenge were my own mother's favourite colours to wear.

I thought they worked well with SUO's Challenge #173: 'All that's Feminine': feminine without being too 'girly'.
My husband said he 'loved' the resulting card (I was pretty surprised since he's never previously expressed an opinion about a card!) which is good, because he'll be giving it to his own mum in a couple of weeks.

Made using Stampin' Up products as follows:

Paper: Sahara Sand, Whisper White (I also used some watercolour paper left over from my daughter's school days)

Ink: Sahara Sand, Island Indigo, Sweet Sugarplum, Rich Razzleberry

Stitched Shape Framelits and Bloomin' Heart Thinlits and Thoughtful Banners

Some little diamantes (I think they're Stampin' Up but not 100% sure because I've lost the packet...)