It will be ALL WHITE on the night!

Today's FOSTV challenge is to use ALL WHITE.  Because all white can seem quite flat I used embossing and layers to add dimension. 

This card was one where I learnt a few lessons
Lesson 1 - ensure your stamps are perfectly clean or stamping in white doesn't end up white!
Lesson 2 - thread your ribbon through the Romantic Rectangle before you assemble the card
Lesson 3 - white flowers are often cream - I had to search for the whitest ones!

The stamp set I used today is called Daffodil Greetings

We would love you to join our challenge this week - please check it out at Speedy TV.  It is under FOSTV challenges - number 67.

Hope you have a great week.

Buttons & Bows

This week's challenge at Friends of Speedy TV is to make a card or other project using Buttons and Bows.  I made this Anniversary Card which is for my sister and her husband for their 18th Wedding Anniversary.  I hope they like it.

The card uses Marianne and Spellbinders dies along with the rose from the Marks Finest Papers Love Remains set.  I love colouring the roses from that set - in fact I was doing one in pink only last night.  This rose bud was coloured with Prismacolor pencils and then H2Os to add a little sheen.  I have also tied a bow in a sheer blue ribbon and added tiny buttons to the die.

The set you could win this week is another flower set - Daffodil Greetings which also features a lovely butterfly.

Thank you for checking this out - please join with this week's challenge - we would love to see what you create.

Heart, Dies, Love and Life

I know Valentines Day is just around the corner but I seem to be in a romantic spell this weekend. The sketch used for this one is Week 3 of Viva La Verve for January 2012.  I am also entering the card for Sentimental Sundays and Stampin Sisters in Christ challenges for today.  The requirements are dies (with a sentiment of course) and a stand out heart respectively. 
I used dies from Spellbinders along the card base and the designer paper, plus the heart die for my heart.  I then used a Marianne die for the embellishment round the heart. The sentiment on the heart and on the vellum strip are from Verve.  The paper is from Dovecraft.

Hope you have a good week and if you don't please read the post about biting the head off the doll on the Stampin Sisters in Christ site.  Janine

Quick Post

This is a quick post of a Waltzingmouse card I actually completed for their latest challenge.  I have noted down sketches for the last couple of months but only made 2 or 3 cards in that time.  This one is simple using an ornament image that matches a Spellbinders die.  The background is done using a Marianne embossing / cutting folder.