Challenge with nbus & Park hopping

NBUS stands for Never-Before-Used-Schtuff and I am entering this month’s challenge #53 with a card made using the Stampin’ Up! stamp set Sweet & Precious, which I received recently but have not used until today. The other challenge I am entering with this card is Park Hopping My Happy Place and is dedicated to my friend Gaudi who is from Nairobi in Kenya home of the Nairobi National Park.

This was a stretch for me as it doesn’t have pretty flowers on it! But it was fun to make nevertheless 🙂

A yellow-green sketch

I had fun yesterday creating for some challenges, one of my favourite things to do, and today I am sharing a card I made for two challenges, a sketch challenge with Global Design Project #GDP406, and a colour challenge with Colorful Options #Yellow-Green.

I used the sketch as my starting point, used the Stampin’ Up! Lemon Lime Twist cardstock which I embossed, and stamped the foliage in Lemon Lime Twist and Lemon Lolly.

Three in one

I love challenges! And this week I have combined three challenges to make this Happy Birthday card.

I am really enjoying creating these cards with all the layers, I have made a few in the past week and using the same template but they are all so different. This one uses the 3 colours from the Color Throwdown challenge ctd755, the Anything Goes Challenge with AAA Birthday #52, and another Anything Goes with Retro Rubber #rrcb212, the stamp I used is Art Gallery by Stampin’ Up! and is more than 2 years old.

Sketch saturday #731

I made this card for the Sketch Saturday Challenge #731…

I had the circles already cut out for another project but when I saw this sketch thought how perfect they were for this card.

I have just completed a month long challenge with Paper Craft Secrets – Creating With Confidence Facebook group. It was a lot of fun crafting every day, and revisiting some old techniques and CASE’ing some of my earlier cards, and after it was finished I found I had to recalibrate. I can’t explain what I mean by that but it took me a few days to find my crafty feet again and in this whole process discovered a new style that I am experimenting with. Watch this space!

Happy crafting, thanks for dropping by 💜…

Retro rubber challenge #212

Back with a challenge from Retro Rubber Challenge Blog again #rrcb212, Anything Goes. And I am so excited that I was chosen as their winner again for the last challenge, and won a guest designer spot on their blog again. Thank you Retro Rubber 💜

I remembered doing this reflection technique years ago but had to refresh myself on how to do it, and I love this Lovely As A Tree stamp set by Stampin’ Up! which is more than 10 years old.