For CAS(e) this sketch and CAS(ual) Friday - 2nd entry

Hello sweet bloggers,

Hope you are enjoying the weekend which ever part of the globe you are in. It is almost the end of Sunday here. 

Here is my second entry for CAS(e) this sketch and CAS(ual) Friday this week which is Chevron and Flowers. I have used a Penny Black image and coloured it in with water colour pencils.  The chevrons were stencilled in with American Crafts white ink. The sentiment is handwritten and the ribbon and flower are from my stash. I stuck a pearl and in the flower centre and on the top of the tag to make it look more interesting. The leaves have been punched and lightly coloured with water colour pencils as well.

Have to go to bed soon so good night all.

Love,

Monica 

Thank you Sandra

Hello there,

Here is a card I made with the lovely papers and embellies I received from dear Sandra. Thank you ever so much, Sandra. Since everything was coordinated it took me precisely a few minutes to make this card. Sometimes it is nice to create a card with no stamping. All I did was add matching ribbon, crystals and an MS punch on the side with pop up fabric glue on it. I like this simple card but was left wondering if there was too much plain surface at the bottom?

Happy carding!

Lots of love,

Monica 

For CAS(e) this sketch and CAS(ual) Friday

Hello kind peeps,

 Here is my card for CAS(e) this sketch and over at CAS(ual) Friday the challenge is Chevron and Flowers this week so I decided to combine my card for both challenges. The card stock is light green and I have sponged it with TH broken china and I made my own tag, sponging it with the same ink. The flower is from Petaloo and the yarn and pearls are from my stash while the sentiment is from Spellbinders and I have had in for two years now and did not realize what a pretty font it has. So now you are going to see a lot of this in the future. Lol. The Washi tape is from the scrapbooking store close by and the flourishes are from Sizzix and they have been sponged with different inks.

 CAS(e) this sketch

Thank God it's Friday and I do hope you like my card.

Love,

Monica 

For Inkspirational Challenge - colours

Hello sweet bloggers,

Here is a card I have for the colour challenge over at Inkspirational. I thought my card stock was close to slate in real life but looks rather different in the picture. And I am not too pleased with the stark yellow MS butterfly border. Seems like an over doze of yellow and then that big block of pink there. Anyway too late to do anything now and trust me I am not going to show it to Zeenya!!! Lol. 

I will also enter this card in the following challenges:

http://flutterbywednesdays.blogspot.com/ - butterfly

http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.com/ - anything goes

http://tuesdayalchemy.blogspot.com/ - pastels

Off to do some commenting now.

Love,

Monica 

Globe traveller

Hello sweet bloggers,

Thanks for the lovely comments on my last post. Down below is my card to show you for today...The image is a stamp from Penny Black which I have coloured with water colour pencils. The striped paper has been recycled - it is from a news magazine. Doesn't it match perfectly?

The flowers have been punched out of papers that were sponged with Aleeza's paints while we were  painting together. Then I sprayed them with water and crumpled them to get this dreamy effect. Put in some punched flower centres and flourishes which were sponged with Tim Holtz peeled paint. 

I had lots of fun gluing the flowers on to this card and I do think this is the maximum number of flowers I have ever added on a card. Lol. Was in a generous sort of mood. Lol.

Would love to hear what you think of my card - I do think that the two blobs of rouge on her cheeks could have been avoided. And I need to learn how to colour in skin better.

I am going to enter this card in the following challenges:

http://ladybugscraftsinkchallengeblog.blogspot.com/ - anything goes

http://www.lovesrubberstampschallenges.com/ - anything goes

http://www.craftdoormagazine.com/- anything goes

Any way off to play with Aleeza now.

Lots of love,

Monica 

For Less is More - third entry

Hello sweet bloggers,

Here is yet another card I  have made for the scallops challenge at Less is More - my third to be precise.  

 Zeenya, my critique viewed it as "too yellow". High standards yet again. Lol. The card has an inner the top of which has been sponged with Momento dandelion. The little flowers were sponged with American craft in yellow and I added a liquid pearl in gold as flower centres. The flourish stamp is from Kaiser Craft - being inaugurated on this card and stamped in Momento dandelion. I seem to find it calming to make cards with monotone colours these days. Lol. 

Off to do some commenting now.

Love,

Monica 

Less is More - second entry

Hello sweet bloggers,

Here is my second entry for Less is More this week for their scallops challenge.

I have had this tiny clear stamps from Imaginisce for ages in my stash so I decided to air them this morning. Lol.

I have used two Imaginisce stamps on this card, stamping the blue background with scallops with Archival Brilliance in pearly blue. Over that I stamped the wee little boat and sentiment with American Craft danube blue. The sentiment kept getting messed up so I had to try many times to get it right (you don't want to know how manay, lol) Finally, I just decided to go with it and went over it with my Staedler pen in blue. Popped up the white stamped image on foam dots and the blue lace is from my stash.

Happy Sundaying!

Love,

Monica