Papertrey May Blog Hop Challenge

Still playing with my new toys from Papertray Ink and still using the fabulous colors from the curent Color Throwdown challenge. You may see this colors for a while.....

And yes, I really need to learn to use my Canon. Quickly!

This would also go to
Less is More
One layer simplicity
The paper players

Papertrey May Blog Hop Challenge

After CASE-ing Ardyth, let's try a Susan Raihala style.

I got very inspired ny the color combo in the current Color Throwdown challenge. I have done three cards in like 30 min, and I could continue forever (if there where no kids, no husband and no new project on repainting my patio table .... more about that in a cuple of days).

I will start with the first one I did. It was also an occasion to play with the new stamps from Paperty Ink (Dot Spot) that I just recieved today. Today being also a day of from work. perfect!

So here is the baby (last version)

 Why last? Because there where others...

3 colors, 3 flowers and the importance of buying lots of material!

I hove a new passion for paper crafting. And when you have a new passion, you discover artists that inspire you (in my case, is more like I discover artists and I want to be them!). 

So, in this area, I have discovered a lot of people who do amazing things. But there are two which are Queens for me!

One is Susan Raihala and the other is Ardyth Percy-Rob. I love both of them. 

Everybody does a great card now and then. Even me. What impresses me is that - first - each card that they are making is great. Great! Secondly, they have "their" style and touch. It is at the point where you can see a card and say, it's Susan. Or Ardyth.

Anyway, I decided to try and CASE this card from Ardyth.

70's hugs

Yes, yes, another 70's card. How come, right!

Still, I'm very happy with it, the color scheme at the Runway Inspired Challenge really ... insipired me. I have a second one, in the 70's style also, but I will post it tomorrow.

As for the technique, really simple (but requiring some patience): punching, cuting, glueing, stamping the sentiment. And here you are, my retro beauty.

A miracle has happened

MIRACLE, my husband, who usually has little interest in whatever I do in my craft room, has asked me to do a card for the daughter of one of his friend who would be nine soon.

He wanted butterflies (he wanted butterflies??????). He wanted sparkle (he wanted sparkle????).

Please undestand my shock. My husband is a minimalist architect. Nothing is simple enough. Nothing is white enough.

This explains his lack of special interest in my crafting. If I would do only white cards, than maybe..... And God know I do love CAS myself and always find my cards (and paintings, and ceramics) are not simple enough....but....

Anyway, I thought I would take the opportunity and do a third card for the current Addicted to CAS challenge (Over the edge).

By the way, he was happy with the result!!!!!

This card was also the opportunity to test different supplies for watercolouring. I tried Inktense pencils, Lyra Aquacolor pencils and Caran d'Ache Museum. All are great but Caran d'Ache has won my heart.

And here is the card. I have done also a video on how it was done (complex, belive me!). I will post it as soon as I had time to edit it. Stay tuned.

Over the edge

Two cards for one challenge over at addicted to CAS challenge 38. I took the opportunity to play a bit with watercolors after taking the online class. I do prefer the one with the stars, but the pictures don't do justice to both of them. Maybe taking the picture in the garden was not the best idea....

I may try a third one, will see how the evening goes.

Both were created by watercolouring and then using salt, as seen on the current Watercolor online class. I do prefer the result on the blue one, the second one is to ... busy for me.

Tiny flowers

I made this card for the OLS current challenge (Fabulous Flowers).
As it respects the rule of thirds (great rule, by the way) it goes to the CAS-ual Fridays as well.

But I have a problem. Not a card related problem. A language related problem.

I have started this blog to share my (new fund) pleasure of doing cards. And participating to related challenges. But all card related things are happening in the English speaking part of the world (and Web). 

So it needed to be in English. 

English is not, by far, my mother tongue. Actually not even French (which is my day to day language) is my mother tongue, but I'm pretty sure of my spelling in French. Not so in English.... So, you English readers, must have a lot of understanding and find me excuses whenever I invent a word, or a spelling, or whatever speaking or writting disaster. Call it creativity, for instance.

But card have their own language, yes?

So here is mine

And a second yelow and black themed card

I told you in the post about my first card for the current Fusion card challenge, that the color combination (yellow and balck), made me suffer. So probably I am a masochist, right?

Anyway, here is my second try.

I've used some Avery Elle (Blossoms and Blooms) stamps that were waiting for me to use them since some weeks, and this funy sentiment from Lawn Fawn (Penelope's Blossoms). The yellow stripes are all Stampin'up.

This one, as the previous, was made with flower stamps so that it also goes to the OLS current challenge (Fabulous Flowers). As it respects the rule of thirds (great rule, by the way) it goes to the CAS-ual Fridays as well.

The importance of sentiments

I've made this card for the current Fusion card challenge. I decided to go for the color scheme: black and yellow. Classical and easy, right? Not so!!!!! I fund it very hard, working with this colors. Dońt know why.

It was a bit blah. I decided to try adding a bit of sparkle on the biger flowers.

Still blah. So I made a second one. Again, not fully satisfied with it.

So I got back to my first one and decided to add a sentiment. And there it was. PERFECT. Funny, and full of joy, and flowers and spring. And CAS enough. Love it in the end.

70's rock

I have already posted about my love of all design related to 70's and 60's (and 30's and...). 

And I think my love of rather CAS cards, or evrything with clean and unclutered design, really, is pretty obvious when looking at what I end up designing (even if I am never fully satisfied with the level of simplicity ... but then simplicity is an art, and art needs suffering).

So, this being said, here is result reflecting a bit of all this.... Probablly nothing revolutionary, but looking at this card makes me .. smile ... and willing to dance (rock, of course) ... and dreaming about flower and power, ha!

A 2nd one for the "Freshly made sketches", "The Card Concept" and Fusion Card Challenge"

This one was really easy to do, stamping, cutting two circles with my new circle cutting from EK success (love, love, love it, I've cutted circles of all sizes from newspapers just for the fun of it!), and adding a sentiment (heat embossed on a strip of paper and mounted on dimensional adhesives). And some tiny diamonds for the fun...

And a 2nd card for the "Moxie Fab" challenge, The "Case study challenge" and the "SS Wednesday challenge"

My kids love this card! Wonder why :)

"Colour throwdown", "Moxie Fab", Frashly made sketches" and "SS Wednesday " challenge

And here is my card for the "Color throwdown " challenge. Not very me but very ... spring. I will try putting it also in the Moxie Fab Challenge on handwritting, "Freshly made sketches" and the "SS Wednesday ".

It did required some work, what with all the coloring and die cutting and mounting... but it was fun using Copics for the first time (just recived them by post, yay!)

A look at the details here

And a last one for Colour me challenge...

You can see the challenge here

And the 2nd 60's card

It goes to the SS keep it CAS and the SS Work it Wednesday.

60's card - such fun!

I really did have a lot of fun creating, but mainly looking at this cards.... I don't know what it is about me and the 60's (but also the 30's and 40's and...).

Anyway, here are the results (a 2nd one in a separate post here), not much to say in terms of technique BUT, do i love candy? I do, and not just the ones which make you fat, but the Colour Candy from Stampin'up are my new great new love!!!! So, so sweet...

And this baby goes to Colour me and SS keep it CAS challenges.

and the 3th (and last) card for the mini-card concept at Little Tangles

The magic of Glossy accents! (and the 2nd card for the mini-card challenge)

A bit more technique for this one. 

Little Tangles challenge - mini cards

And here is my 1st card for the challenge, I have others but need to charge the pictures and I am afraid of arriving to late...

Not much to say about technique in this one, it's simply (!!!! I didn't fund it that simple to line-up and space evenly all those lines, to be honest, ha) stamping. Still, I really like the result. And this dollies stamps really waited to be used, I finally fund a way to put them without having something to blah. 

Color Throwdown challenge no 289

I've done this card really quickly, in order to participate at the Color Throwdown challenge. I'm not sure I'm fully satisfied, I may try another version....