Speedy Fox and Friends - Purple

Purple is a colour I love to play with so when I saw this week's Speedy Fox and Friends challenge was to use purple I had to play along.  I tried to keep my card simple and used acrylic blocks to create my background and then stamped over them - the purples are all Memento inks and the grass image is from the set called Buffalo Spring, the butterfly is from Scenic Selections and the sentiment is from Daffodil Greetings. The card base is an off white pearlescent colour.

Joseph's Coat - Speedy Fox and Friends

Marks Finest Papers has lots of challenges and as team members we concentrate so much on our own projects we rarely seem to find time to play along with challenges being organised by the other teams. 

However, today is different and I am playing along with the Speedy Fox and Friends Joseph's Coat technique.  There are two people responsible for this - one is Angie who I regularly have lovely email exchanges with and with whom I was discussing this technique this past week.  The other is Debbie our leader who posted a tutorial on her blog this week about this technique.

The card uses a multi coloured inkpad with some extra colour sponged on at the edges.  I used the MFP set called Oh Beans for my technique and then used the Cricut Suburbia cartridge for my cups. It is a very simple card but when you have created a nice big background you don't want to cover it up!
I tried a larger size cup in some pink paper I had on hand to check proportion and decided it was too big and obscured too much background - that became the gift tag! I then cut a smaller cup in blue but had fun squeezing in the message.  The glossy paper I used was not really good enough as the black ink didn't take too well in some places - I think it might have been photographic paper so next time I won't just grab the nearest scrap to work with!

Hope you are having a great long weekend.

Count Your Winter Blessings

This card was born from an old button!  When we were in the USA recently our friends took us to an Antique Fair because they love picking up all sorts of collectables.  I wasn't too sure about it but it was a beautiful day and we could just browse so no harm done.  One of my recent "spur of the moment" purchases had been some Pebeo paints although I hadn't been brave enough to play.  I started looking round at the fair for old cheap things I could use to "play on" and I found some big buttons.  Well having created a "new button" I needed something to do with it and today's Speedy Fox and Friends challenge to use circles got me started.
The large snowflake is made with Spellbinders dies, carefully assembled and then sprayed with glimmer mists and perfect pearls.  The large button was added to the centre.  The card base was sponged with two shades of ink through a mask - I used Memento Lulu Lavender and Adirondack Eggplant.  The sentiment from MFP Snow Gifts was stamped in Memento Elderberry.

I am entering this card in 3 challenges
Speedy Fox and Friends - use Circles
Stampin Sisters in Christ - handmade ( I hope it counts)
CCC12 - another one for September!

Thanks for checking this out and stopping by - hope you are having a great weekend.