Patchwork

Charisma #36 - Patchwork
I wanted to do this challenge justice, but am so pushed for time I had to do a quickie.
The Kay & Co paper 'Patchwork' was an ideal starting point.
I mounted a lovely little sentiment card onto vibrant pink card tied some equally vibrant pink ribbon around the card et voila!!!
The sentiment reads 'Wake and be thankful, See the good in every day'
Hope you don't mind a quickie, but sometimes these things are born out of necessity.

Never Felt Better!

Very windy weather here albeit a bit sunny and I think it may have blown a few cobwebs away from my mind as I have managed to combine 3 challenges into this one card today.
365 Cards Day 188 - Touchy Feely Friday ~ to use felt or flocking
Charisma Cardz Thursday #35 - Swirls, Curls and an extra element of hearts
Allsorts Challenge wk 16 - No Rubber Stamping whatsoever.

I had this wonderful pack of large square felt swirls of flowers by Prima for Christmas and am over the moon to have the perfect chance to try one out. I cut a portion of it to fit the Bazzill card base and also to leave a space for the sentiment which was a velvet puffy alpha. by Papercrafts4You. I also used some black peel-offs from the archives to add extra sentiments around the swirls.....you know it makes sense to use these up...lol!!
The white felt flowers which I added to the top of some of the black flowers are 'Flower Frenzy' by Queen & Co.
Lots of gems and bling were scattered here and there, and it was hard to know when to stop. On the word JOY I have added 3 little gem hearts to fit in with the Charisma challenge.
So there we are Felt, Swirls & Hearts and definitely No Stamping - so 3 x job done.
Thanks for stopping by. :)

A technique revisited...

365 Cards - Day 149
Sponging
This will also fit in with the challenge over at Charisma Cardz #29 'Tag It'
As you can see from my card this is a trip back in time. It is that long since I've done any sponging the technigue has not evolved for me. I daresay this needs further time looking into but this is my quick offering for today.

I shall *whisper* that I dug out some old peel-offs and placed them randomly on a piece of white card.
I then sponged with Adirondack Butterscotch, Pesto and Red Pepper until I was happy. On removing the said peel-offs the pale shadowy images are left behind.
I tore this piece of card and edged it in Adirondack Ginger.
This was stuck to the green base card which looks like Bazzill, but not sure.
I made another piece of card into a tag, placed a Basic Grey sticky Letter 'F' and sponged with the same colours again. I then added a rub-on to marry the letter. I found it hard to apply the rub-on over the ink. :/
This was then placed onto a piece of chocolate brown card and cut around. Made a hole with a punch and added a piece of misc. brown loopy ribbon which I also put down the side of the card, hopefully to bring it all together.
This looks like something I would have made 10 years ago lol!!

Missing but not Lost

After 3.5 days without a modem I am going to be playing catch up big time.
I went into meltdown without my cyber fix and glad my new router didn't take the 5 days to arrive as was a possibility.
So this late card is for:-
365 Cards Day 142 Movie Monday -
To interpret the movie 'Twilight'
and
Charysma Cardz Thursday #28 sketch, but am now late for this
Well for 365 CardsI haven't read the books or seen the movie so went by my gut instinct of someone mentioning vampire and the colour of the pic posted.
The specific for this was :-
Black card base, paper to be predominently red and to add glitter or gems....hope I've remembered that correctly.
PP - Basic Grey 'Scarlet's Letter'
Sentiment - portion of a Hero Arts stamp 'Inspirational Prints'
Ink Pad - Brilliance 'Moonlight White' - very apt.
Everything else from my stash

Patriotic

This has been a great weekend for all things Red, White & Blue in the blog world.
I have a combo of 4 challenges to cover this card as follows:-
Sketch Saturday #58 - a brilliant sketch & to feature Red, White & Blue
Penny Black Saturday wk 56 - Also Red, White & Blue
Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge #39 - 3 Ribbons
Charysma Cardz Thursday - Buttons

As you can see I acheived the R, W & B with the base card, Doodlebug striped paper, downloaded red & white check paper and various blooms.
The 3 pieces of R, W & B ribbon were out of my bits box
The Penny Black stamp is 'Burst of Stars' which is very appropriate and I used Adirondack Red Pepper ink pad.
The brads and 2 buttons were out of my stash.
The Best Wishes sentiment was a freebie with a magazine years ago.

I have enjoyed making these last 2 cards as it is so good to get away from pink and green.
And the Union Jack flag being Red, White & Blue I feel very patriotic too.