Lily Pad Cards April CCC & Colour Palette Challenges

My card today is for Lily Pad Cards and it fits two of their challenges.  The colours I used are from of Kathy's Lily Pad Palatte Challenge

It is also for Lily Pad Cards' April CCC - Card Chain Challenge and I have used their sketch. 

If you have never taken part in their card exchange, then I would encourage you to look out for their exchange next month as the one for April has already ended.  It is a lot of fun sending the card you make to someone (in my case, usually to the other side of the world) and also receiving another one in the mail.  I have been able to get to know some wonderful people through this exchange.

Here is my card.



I also entered this card in the MyGrafico Challenge - Buttons and Bows #125. 

Supplies:
Ink: Black Versafine 
Stamps: HA envelope stamp
Sentiment: Computer generated
Cardstock: yellow, pink, lime green, black
Other: ribbon, pink flowers, button, The Twinery twine, pearls, Cuttlebug floral screen embossing folder

Thanks for stopping by and for your comments.

Take care,
Angela

Brown Tones

Two cards that I have made I have using brown tones.

The first card is for the Clean and Simple Challenge #176 using this sketch.

I decided to make a masculine card and that is why I went for the brown tones.

I gold embossed the envelope stamp and the old french writing on to brown card, and dry embossed the d'vine swirls and diamond plate onto copper card and cut them into squares.  I mounted them onto a fawn/cream card than I had punched the scalloped edge on and mounted this onto brown card.  I then mounted it onto white card that I had distress inked with walnut stain.  I gold embossed the Happy Birthday sentiment.

Supplies
HA Happy Birthday stamp
HA Envelope stamp
HA Old French writing stamp
Gold embossing powder
Ink: Distress ink - Walnut stain
Cuttlebug embossing folder - D'vine Swirls & Diamond Plate
Stampin' Up scalloped edge punch

My second card includes some pink as this is the colour palate for the Lily Pad Cards - CCC - Card Chain Challenge

Supplies:
HA Envelope stamp
HA Happy Birthday stamp
Cuttlebug embossing folder - D'vine Swirls (on the pick butterfly)
Ink: Impress Chocolate ink
Cardstock: Brown, fawn, pink
Punch: Scalloped edge from Stampin'Up



A fairly CAS card. 



Thanks for dropping by and for your comments.


Angela

Lily Pad Creations

Hi,

Last weekend I took part in The Twinery Blog Hop.  After seeing so many great creations using twine I decided to make some cards myself using twine.  I had received some twine a while ago along with the Lily Pad CCC card I was sent, but I hadn't used it yet.  Now was my chance to put it to good use.  (Thank you Jeane).  These were the two creations I came up with.

The first card is for another Lily Pad card challenge exchange for November and December - CCC.  For this card I decided to make a Christmas card and use the sketch.

I gold embossed the ornaments from The Craft's Meow (The Merry Best set) onto a circle cut with spellbinders, edged in a red circle to make it stand out.  I added the swiss dots embossed background for texture.  The sentiment is also from The Craft's Meow from the Season's Greeting set.  I also added some twine.


For my second card I used a different sketch.  This one is also for a Lily Pad Card challenge.  It is The Craft's Meow Presents a Sketch Challenge. 

(Sorry I don't seem to be able to download the sketch.  I will try again later, but you can view it here)




I masked the HA writing stamp so it would only stamp on the right side of the card and added the sentiment on the left. I used my cuttlebug to emboss a strip of purple card with some texture and added the twine for effect. Lastly I added the butterflies (kindly sent to me from Betty) and added some rhinestones.

Thanks for taking a look and as always, I really appreciate your comments.

Angela

Purple and Lilac

Purple, lilic and pinks are colours I like to work with so I thought I would take part in Jay Nook's Challenge 10.  The challenge is to "simply create a project inspired by this photograph, another beautiful college put together by Joy - interpret it any way you wish." 

Here is my interpretation

This is also my card for the Lily Pad Cards, August Chain Card Challenge. 

I then made another card using  lilic.

This is my entry for the Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Touchy Feely. 

I used a brayer to put ink (lilac) onto my cuttlebug folder and then put the cardstock in it and put it through the cuttlebug slowly several times to let the ink press into the card.  It always seems to work better at one end then the other.  I like this technique as it helps the embossed image to stand out more, but it usually takes a few attempts as it doesn't always work out.  Even this one I am not completely happy with, but it seemed to be the best one.  I then distress inked the scalloped circle in lilac and mounted it on a white circle, edging it slightly with ink and adding a stickeroo.  To finish off I added ribbon for more texture and mounted it all on white card

Thanks for stopping by.

Angela