Party Time & Happy Birthday

Two cards in this post. I wanted to have a go at a sketch 

I liked the look of.

Beautiful Sketch, nice and uncomplicated.

This was my first attempt then I realised that no I have gone away from the sketch by doing a double layer so decided to use for another challenge that also looked great. Not a sketch but Pastel colours.

Isn't she a cutie with all her presents wrapped up in rainbow colours but

soft rainbow colours and her little friend just finishes her off perfectly.

I cut the single tag but felt it was too plain and cut a slightly bigger tag

out of cupcake paper. Added a bit of sparkle to the presents and

a clear sparkly gem on top. Finished off with the silver sparkle

paper die cut words 'Party Time'.

This next card is also rainbow colours but the vibrant rainbow this time.

I took a piece of watercolour paper and coloured in with a couple of

oranges going into yellows with my Inktense Pencils then used a broad brush with water

to blend the colours into a nice smooth transition. This paper when dry I cut with the

stitched tag die.

The balloons and present areal coloured with copics. I worked out where I wanted

the balloons to go and I used just the string stamp to add some strings for the balloons.

I then attached the balloons to the tag with dimensional foam to add a bit of angle and lift

to the balloons. The present is stuck on flat.

Added the tag to the card base and then the silver glitter paper 

die cut 'Happy Birthday' words.

This one works for the Freshly Made Sketches #256 by Jen.T so will enter that challenge.

I would also like to enter 

 Simon Says Wednesday Challenge : Anything Goes

Happy Birthday Card.

Can You Case It  #139 Colours by Kayla

Happy birthday Rainbow Card.

Seize the Birthday: Soft and Simple

The card Party Time going with the

topping and 3rd card.

Southern girls Challenge : Pretty in Pastels

The Card Party Time is for this challenge.

The Crafty Addicts Challenge #25

Anything Goes twist use pattern paper.

The Card Party Time, the back tag is pattern paper.

Thank you so much for coming to visit and I hope you come again soon.

It's the Twins Birthday

Aaron and Elysha turn 24 today. Its amazing to think 24 years have gone past and so

many things have changed in our lives.I think its time they moved out but this generation truly have us worked out. Lucky I love them so much. As the others all glare and pout over the things they get away with..... you made us blah blah blah. Yeah I know kids I love you all but it comes down to its always easier when there are only two and well I cant image having an empty nest just yet.

 Better get back to track here. This is the card I have made for to day for Aaron. Nothing too stroppy or tizzy being a boy. I have been buying boy stamps but not 24 year old stamp appropriate so I decided he would love this one. He's keen to have a dog (told him he has to leave to have one) so always showing me cute little puppies.

This is one I got in a set from Gerda Steiner Stamps (currently sold out but will be back soon). Fantastic set and glad I have finally started using the stamps.

stamped and Copic coloured, added a bit of texture with colourless blender on a scrap of towel but its not really showing here. Added some grass under his feet and stamped the sentiment with a multi colour stamp pad in greens. Then decided to add a strip of copic coloured Yupo  synthetic paper. This stuff is amazing and I have found it reasonably cheap on Ebay lately if you are interested. Its fantastic as its so smooth, hard to explain but fantastic for use with alcohol inks.

So cut a strip and played it alongside the coloured image. Finished off with a sweet little green bone covered in glitter. and .....and.... finally a watermark, just have to learn to use it, curtesy of Viv who also designed my blog header.

Here I am sharing the card Elysha wanted badly for me to give to her as she loves rainbows. Made this a week or so ago.

Thank you so much for coming to have a look at my cards 

and I hope you come again soon.

OOPS almost forgot.....

Don't forget our new challenge blog

"The Flower Challenge' starts 4th

October.

Sneak Peek of my card in the challenge

Hope we see you there.

Challenges: 

CASology Week 217: Cute

 Happy Birthday to Youuuuu -is

cute and CAS and lots of open space.

Pixies Snippets Playground : Week 248

Happy birthday to Youuuuu card

and the yupo is a snippet from some 

coloured butterflies I made.

Muse Guest Designer

I cant believe I kept this under my hat till now. I wanted to blurt it to the world. What an honour to be asked to be Guest Designer. I have to admit to the funny tummy 
flip flop when I got Ardyth's email and had to read it twice to be sure.

Alright I have to admit to one of my classic blonde moments, I then wrote back so excited and said and what do you want me to do for my card. As I was fiddling around doing things and waiting for Ardyth's reply so I would know what they wanted, the penny dropped.
Ohhh dear, yes My Card, My Inspiration. I hope Ardith didn't laugh too much.
Anyway its time to get a card done and thank you ladies for giving me such a wonderful chance. To be Guest Designer for Muse for a Week.

I decided to go with my favourite type of card, which is flowers and Copics.  I received these wonderful flower stamps on Thursday from MFT (My Favorite Things) and couldn't wait to use them. They are called Funky Flowers 

I have stamped in black, using a bit of masking and coloured with Copics.

I love the stitched pattern on the flowers and cant wait to

 try them white embossed with watercolours.

I have taken a closeup shot so you can see the sparkle from  the Wink of Stella

added to the flower petals.

I finished the card off with a few sequins and a die cut hello. The hello

die is from Avery Elle (I was unable to find in their store and may have been discontinued). 

I can't wait to see how you are inspired by my card. Will it be the colours, the flowers, the masking and flowers.Whatever it is and I'm  looking forward to visiting your blogs this week to see how you've 'cased' it.
Now its time to go to the    Muse Challenge blog to play along.

 

 Challenges:

Come and Get It : Challenge : One Layer Creations

AAA Cards : Game #74 Masking

CAS on Sunday Challenge #92 : One Layer Card

Thanks so much for coming to visit

Aloha & Have a Beautiful Birthday

I think if the Muse Challenge handed out awards for last minute I would win hands

down  in most instances. Again had an idea but got distracted, sidelined

and finally made it. No its not this card, this card was a spur of the

moment idea and it all fell into place so well I thought I would post it at the same time.

This beautiful bright card is to celebrate Spring which is here, most days and already

hinting at a hot Summer. Thats when its not pouring with rain.

Anyway back to this little beauty, isn't she the sweetest looking little girl. Click on

her to enlarge the image and see the sweet little smile she has. From a distance she

looks more serious but up close the smile is there. She is coloured with

Copics and finished off with a wee bit of 'Wink of Stella' Forgot to say she is

another of mt collection of Mo's Digital Pencil and this is the first time I have coloured her up.

I just realised I forgot to trim out the blue sky between her legs, will have to fix that.

I have fussy cut her, added this wonderful shiny textured floral patterned paper

to the base of the card. Then added the girl on dimensional foam for a bit of lift

then finished by stamping 'Aloha' sentiment, die cutting a speech bubble that

Then reduced in size slightly.

My next card was inspired by

Jenni Murray

Beautiful isn't it. I love it. I was inspired to try a layered stamp. The blue panel in-between the stamped image and the card base and the small sentiment.

So I started on my idea.

I have a few layer stamps, this one is one of the Atlenew Stamp sets. 

 I have not had much luck with it but was happier today, till I did the leaves. 

Then it was ruined. The leaves looked so wrong.

This was already my 4th try as I didnt like the colours of others.

I decided to fussy cut the flower, added a pale blue vellum, re-stamped the

 leaves hen fussy cut them.

I cute vellum so it was half an inch longer than the card front, used my

emboss tool to put a fold at that 1/2" then attached with double sided tape

over the back of the card. Stamped the sentiment with Stazon black ink

to make sure it stayed on and dried then added the flower and leaves

with dimension foam tape.

The flower has a very nice coating of Wink of Stella but doesn't show up

here. I did take a close up but it changed the colour of the flower so haven't uploaded.

I did this flower only using 2 inks and double stamped each colour for the different layers.

Challenges

Muse Challenge : #184 Jenni Murray

Blue flower card

  Amuse Challenge : September Anything Goes

Blue flower Card

Crafting When We Can :#128 Using your favourite medium

My Aloha card - Copics all the way

Seize the Birthday Challenge : Soft and Simple

The Blue flower card meets the Topping

Crafters Galore September Challenge : Anything Goes

Couldn't find a button for this challenge.

Aloha girl.

Thank you so much for coming to visit and I hope you come again soon.

THINGS ARE GONNA GET BETTER

 I recently purchased the cutest little dragons, prince and princess stamp set from

MFT (My Favourite Thing) and when I was stamping the characters onto the masking tape

I just feel in love with this little character. His face is so expressive.

I stamped him onto the front of the card, coloured just with greens

this time. Time to play latter, I had an idea. So coloured with greens

then masked. I sprayed repositional glue on the Tim Holtz

broken glass stencil and placed it over the top of the masked

dragon. I blended with 'Tumbled Glass' Distress ink and just faded out

as I went rather than do the whole front.

When I peeled back the stencil, you need to remember to go gently cause

it can grab hold of the card and tear little bits off. The spray is fantastic to stop 

movement of the stencil and also prevent anything going under then stencil and when its

a really fine stencil like this one if its not stuck down its very easy to catch the strands

and colour under them.

The card is finished off with this sentiment ' Things are gonna get better' - perfect 

for this card. I think I need and 'Oooops' one as well.

It turned out just how I wanted.

This next card was a quick one. I printed out the jug and flowers which

are images from Power Poppy. Love their stamps but sometimes

I want it digital so I can control the size. Here I have only printed it out in a 

smaller size.

Coloured with Copics yellows, purples and green. The jug is in very pale

blue/green colours.

Cut the image out with my wonky stitched square die second size down.

Used this yellow and white patterned paper and added the 'with love' sentiment, a few

clear drops on the petals and one yellow sparkly up in the corner.

Perfect for a birthday coming up.

Challenges:

Seize the Birthday - Soft and Simple

With Love card -without using the

 Topping.

A Gem of a Challenge #178 Female Birthday

With Love Card

Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge #212 Make your Mark

With Love card using my favourite Copics.

Crafty Gals Corner Challenge #90 - Critters

I think my cute dragon fits the critters.

Penny Black and More September Challenge : Add a Sentiment

My dragon with his wonderful sentiment.

Creative Friday#162 - Clean and Simple

I'm hoping my dragon card is CAS enough.

Thank you so much for coming to visit and I hope you come again soon.

I had an idea and I thought I would share.

 I started my blog, Colour and Sparkle, 18 months ago and it still feels so new. I cant 

believe that this next step is happening. 

 I had an idea, it was to start a blog where the challenges are

 all about flower/florals.  

I then approached a few people, people I knew shared my love for using 

flower/floral stamps, digital images, stencils & dies.

 I asked if they would like to join me in the adventure of starting a Flower Challenge.

 I am so amazed that everyone I approached said yes to either being on the

 Design Team or being future Guest Designers. 

I had to stop asking, we had reached top numbers before I  knew it.

 I am so honoured to say we are starting this challenge

 with 9 members in the Design Team.

We have just launched the The Flower Challenge blog. 

 Our first monthly challenge will begin on October the 4th.

  The Design Team that has come together  share a wonderful wide range of styles.

The blog is still having a few little tweaks so everything isn't live yet but
the blog itself is there ready to go.

  We hope you'll come by again on October 4th

 to see the first challenge and join us in all the fun.

I cant wait to see you all there.

Best Wishes on your Birthday

I didnt realise until I went to post the photos that my cards are all at weird angles but its too late I have already posted the card. I have used another of 'The Tons' wonderful flower stamps 'Happiest of Peonies'. I have stamped and heat embossed in gold.

Watercoloured with Zigs and lots of water to give highlights and shadow.

I then cut with this wonderful rounded corner stitch rectangle die from Gina Maria Design. Let me be clear here I do not get paid to advertise products and I have not been given any products nor asked to endorse them but when I use something I really like I am happy to share. To be able to get a set of rectangle stitched dies for $10 is a pure bargain. Go check em out.

After cutting the watercolour paper out with the stitched die I then cut the pink card stock in the same way so I could just place the watercolour back in place, a flat one layer card. I know it all looks rather red but its more a vibrant pink looks brilliant irl. Finished off with the 'best wishes' die cut and a few gold sequins (gold and pink/gold).

Love how this stamp looks, still have so many to use.

Challenges

Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge #212 Make Your Mark

Work It Wednesday Simon Says : Stamp It

Create and Inspire: Challenge 52 - Anything Goes

Thank you so much for coming to visit and I hope you come again soon.