Gruffies and Guests Halfway Reminder

It is the halfway reminder for the 18th Challenge at Gruffies and Guest.  The challenge theme is *Lavender and Lace with the option of Anything Goes* and we have two wonderful sponsors.

Crafty Ribbons

 with a £10 voucher for 1 lucky winner

and

Crafty Sentiments Designs

 with 3 digi's to 1 winner

Here is my 2^nd card as a guest designer.  I used an older image and stamped it with Memento ink.   
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After coloring with Copic markers and fussy cutting, I used dimensionals to pop it up on a die cut piece of sticker paper covered with Cloud Nine, Purple Rain, and Fairytale Lavender glitter, using the Lace Background Technique.  I used a Spellbinders’ floral die to cut it and then layered it on lavender designer paper and a purple layer die cut with Sue Wilson’s Union Square die from her New York Collection.

I ran a piece of lace with ribbon roses and pearls along the bottom.  This is a fun card that could be used for a variety of occasions.

Make sure you head over to the Gruffies and Guests Blog to get all the challenge details and see more inspiration.

E. Marie

I entered this card in the following challenge:

Bunny Zoe's Crafts June Challenge:  Furry Friends

Scrapy Land Challenge #20 – Favorite Color Combo (PLUS using any brand of die Scrapy Land sells)

Chocolate, Coffee & Cards Challenge #93 ~ Use Pearls

Simon Says Stamps Wednesday Challenge – Use Your Favorite Technique and/or Product

Craft Your Passion Challenge 267~ Always Anything Goes

Hanna and Friends Challenge #224- Im Garten/ In The Garden

Love To Scrap! Challenge Blog LTSCB #56 - Anything Goes!

Sweet Stampin’ Challenge 84 – Bingo (Purple, Pearls, Flowers)

Gruffies & Guests Challenge #18 - Lavender & Lace + Option of Anything Goes.

Today is the start of a new challenge at Gruffies & Guests Challenges and I am thrilled to be a guest designer for Challenge #18 - Lavender & Lace.  These are two of my favorites. 

You do have the option of anything goes but if you do use the theme you will get 2 chances in the prize draw.

The sponsors for this challenge are

Crafty Ribbons

 with a £10 voucher for 1 lucky winner

and

Crafty Sentiments

3 digi’s to 1 winner

Crafty Sentiments Designs is an online base family company own and run by Suzette, the images are cute fun and make any cards and projects look amazing.

Suzette and Justyna are the main artist, all images are exclusive to Crafty Sentiments Designs and there is lots of digital stamps available, sentiments, rubber stamps, crafting CD's, exclusive Crafty Sentiments Designs dies and much more. www.craftysentimentsdesigns.co.uk you can also find us on facebook, printerest and twitter.

I used this cute Fancy Pants Happy Hopper, die cut with Spellbinders’ Majestic Labels Twenty-Five.  This is popped up over designer paper, die cut with Spellbinders’ Adorning Labels Twenty-Five.  I added double stick adhesive on the back of the designer paper and added glitter to the exposed adhesive.  

 After layering on lavender cardstock, I ran a strip of lace along the bottom and added all to the white card base.  I used a Copic mark to color two sizes of pearls and added the tiny ones to the Happy Hopper’s necklace and the larger ones as corner embellishments.

Now head over to the Gruffies and Guests Challenge blog and check out the lovely creations from the designers.

E. Marie

I entered this card in the following challenge:

Scrapy Land Challenge #19 – Anything Goes (PLUS using any brand of die Scrapy Land sells)

Crafty Creations Challenge #290 - All Creatures Great and Small

Papertake Weekly Challenge – Anything Goes

Sister Act Card Challenge #109 - Anything Goes

You Did It!

This weekend one of my friends asked me how I came up with my ideas for cards and how did I plan out what colors and layout to use.  To be honest, I really couldn’t answer her.  Sometimes I am inspired by something else I see and then it grows from there.  Sometimes I just pick an image that meets the theme, color it, and then see where it goes.  Then sometimes something just pops into my head from who knows where.  Today’s card is one of those.

Impression Obsession has a challenge theme this week of “You Did It”.  I searched through all their stamps that I own, trying to come up with something that would somehow meet this theme, and decided I did not have anything that would work.  Then last night an idea popped in my head and I decided to try it.  Last year my daughter graduated with her masters in viola performance and before she could graduate she had to have her final recital.  I was visiting her and we were busy working on wedding invitations that needed to get out so the recital was not top in my mind.  I couldn’t come back to attend it, but did get to sit through several of her practice sessions and it was like a private performance.  Even though this card doesn’t say the actual words “you did it”, it represents the thought of her successful performance!

The sentiment is from IO’s Seashell Collage.  I used a marker to color only the saying and stamped this on a torn piece of musical designer paper, then added distress ink around the edges and the saying.  This was layered on a distressed piece of cream cardstock stamped with the Dance Party Collage.  I only inked the outer sections of this stamp.  Then I cut around it, colored by sponging with ink, and distressed the edges.  Behind this is another piece of cream cardstock that I stamped with the Damask Cover-a-Card, distressed and inked the edges, and layered on a light pink card base.  I had a few flowers and a strip of ribbon left on my table from another projects so I added this, along with some pink pearls inked with brown.

Is it too late to send her a card?

E. Marie

I entered this card in the following challenge:

Impression Obsession Challenge - You Did It!

Bunny Zoe's Crafts April Challenge:  Recipe -  Anything but Square and include Pink - Lace - Pearls

All Sorts Challenge Week 306 – Bingo (Lace, Flowers, Pearls)

Papertake Weekly Challenge – Words, Words, Words

Party Time Tuesday Challenge #197 - Anything Goes