It's a beautiful sunny day in Adelaide, and here is a card inspired by Alisa Tilsner's Colour Challenge nice and bright colours and I used my new Upsy Daisy stamp set for the first time, I think I have just about tried all my new sets now! I have so many more on the wish list but I will have to wait until I have saved some more money.
After being inspirated from Marelle Taylor's Catalogue Challenge I decided to use the same colours and stamp set for the Sketch Saturday challenge. I don't think it is a nice as the 6" x 6" size, I do struggle more with the 12" x 12" scrapbooking pages as I think the smaller one is more like making a card. (The photo is of me feeding an elephant at Australia Zoo during a trip to Queensland in September 2008 which was the highlight of my trip, even more exciting than seeing the Irwins - Terri, Bob and Bindi.)
It's a Friday and I am not working, I am having a four day break which is just so fantastic as I have been working way too much over the last few weeks. My nephew's birthday is on Sunday so I have made him a card using the Sketch Saturday layout and have included all things Holden as he loves car racing.
I received my new stamp sets this week and wanted to try out the Fifth Avenue Floral one and I wanted to do Keesha's colour challenge but I knew I was going to stuggle as I don't have the Real Rusty ink pad or maker and I only had the Sage Shadow maker so it was really going to test my skills and well I don't think it's one of my best cards but I thought I'd share anyway as I might not get to stamp again to next weekend.
A very quick card completed tonight to participate in Makeesha Byl sketch Challenge. I don't have the in-colour inks yet they should arrive in the next couple of days thanks to Kylie Robinson (have a look at her blog she does some wonderful cards) who I had a catalogue party with due to having to cancel my party in my home at late notice due to work commitments so I had to use the closest match I had.
Happy Mother's Day to all those mothers that read my blog, unfortunately my dearest mother died ten years ago but my prayers and thoughts are always with her up there looking down with my sister at me. I shared a lovely cooked lunch with my dad after we had placed some flowers on my mum's, sister and grandmothers graves. This afternoon after dad left I decided to do some stamping and participate in the Mojo Monday sketch challenge before it closes.
Stamp Set: Oh, So Lovely
Look over at Kellie Winnell blog as she is giving everyone the chance to win this blog candy...wow look at the wonderful items.
I would love to win this especially as it has one of the Magnolia stamps.
I made these last Wednesday afternoon and just remembered that I posted it on the UStamp site but not on my blog...so here is the one sheet wonder which is a stamped on an A4 white piece of cardstock and then cut up to make these five cards and a box (which unfortunately does not fit my cards as the American cardstock must be a little different to our A4 sheets, oh well I will have to do a few more smaller cards to fill it).
