Pinwheel Tower Card

Earlier in the year I received a pinwheel tower card and have been meaning to have a go at making one ever since. It's only taken me eight months to get round to it!

It was surprisingly easy. The hardest part was deciding how to decorate it. It was for a special blog friend's birthday,  who I am fairly certain is very fond of purple.

 

In the end I found this pretty paper in a 6 x 6 paper pad and used my new very pretty stamp form Aall and Create that Sarn enabled!

 

Challenges:

NBUS

Less is More - Colour challenge

Now that I have no DT commitments I've been finding it hard to come up with any inspiration for making cards. So this week I have trawled the challenge sites and made a list of some I want to enter.  Whether I manage them all is another matter!  I liked the sound of the colours that Less Is More want, fuschia, yellow and grey. They said flowers to me!

I used a NBUS stamp from Uniko and stamped it in Smoky Slate then coloured it with Copics. The sentiment is from a HLS set.

A Quartet of Challenges!

I'm sorry the picture looks a bit blurry to me and definitely wonky, I must check the settings on my camera, or maybe it's the photographer!!

I've made this Christmas card to fit four, yes four challenges!
Merry Monday are asking for trees,

Darnell is running her NBUS challenge again and the stamp I used and paper pieced from Simon Says Stamp had never seen ink!

Pixies Snippets Playground  always wants to see snippets used and my little bits of paper are all snippets as is the gold glitter card used fro the star and small"sequins". I did try real ones but didn't like them!

And last but by no means least Rudolph Day over at Scrappymo's.


 

New Home and a NBUS card!

The lovely Darnell is hosting her third NBUS challenge.

 For those of you who don't know this term it means " Never Before Used Schtuff"! 

 

Just before Christmas - exactly a week before- my son and family moved into their new house. Up till now they have lived in military accommodation, but as he has just taken up his last posting before leaving the RAF they decided to buy. Of course this meant a new home card had to be made and I had the perfect stamp set for it - the SU Holiday Home set, which is now retired. I will be keeping it though as I love the different houses and is useful for so many occasions.  So here is the card I made them.

The sentiment is raised up as I smudged it when I stamped directly on the card! I'm also entering this into Addicted to Stamps and More where the challenge is to "Make your Mark". The background was sponged and the house coloured with Promarkers, and to Pixies Playground as the house and sentiment label and hearts used some small snippets. It's a long time since I've been over there - hope they haven't forgotten me!