Basic Grey - week 2

Here is my card for the BG colour combo challenge of brown, yellow & pink. The papers are from the Eva collection. I didn't realise how difficult it was to tie a bow from satin ribbon. or maybe thats just me.

Basic Grey Challenge # 35 - Ice Cream

This week on BG we had to make a card inspired by our favourite ice cream flavour. I thought I'd settled on toffee, but then, what about cherry, and mint chocolate and cornish vanilla and...........see the problem? So I decided to create a card to combine all of them using papers from the Phoebe collection, and a download from Crafty Templates.

Two Challenges

Yesterday I managed to get 2 challenge cards made before I went out for my birthday meal here. Lovely food, and they were very accommodating about my Gluten intolerence.

Anyway, firstly DCM - the theme this week is 'Old McDonalds Farm' (thanks for putting that song in my head). So, I checked my stash for farmyard animals and came up with - yes - a pig. Excuse the pun, I couldn't resist. The lettering is made by running a sizzlits alphabet strip through my Side Kick - I won it ages ago for having a card in a readers gallery, as no way would I have actually bought it. Talk about fiddly.













Next up is the Basic Grey challenge and this week its a colour combo. Black + Grey + 1. Now this was tricky, but I found the scarlet letter paper for my background, and I stamped my butterfly (part of the set I won last week - see last post) & dragonfly onto Marakesh paper - oh and theres a brad in the middle of the big flower. You can't really see, but I've glued some black seed beads on the butterfly's body with diamond glaze. (Wish I could do that 'close up' thing that you see on other blogs).Normally I wouldn't use these colours together but I think it works - thats why I love these challenges.

Basic Grey Challenge # 32

This week the challenge is a sketch which you can see here. I have used papers from the 'Mellow' collection, and a chipboard hedgie for my focus point from a kit I recieved a while ago. Tried hard to think of something 'hedgehogish' for the sentiment but could only come up with Hogs & Kisses.













Also I was lucky enough to win the prize last week in the random selection - this great stamp set from the Artistic Stamper, plus some Kling On repositionable cushion (my son thought this was hilarious, being a Trekkie fan). Anyway - thankyou for my prize BG. xx

Basic Grey Challenge #31

I've not done much crafting this week as the weather's been so nice and I've been outdoors, but I was itching to use my new stash from the Ally Pally Show, so......This week the theme over at BG is paper piecing - I actually managed 2 cards. The first is using the in your face Lime Rickey papers and the second was using the Eva collection















This next item is something I made for my forum buddy Sarn - I can show it now as her birthday was yesterday. The photo is pants, lighting all wrong, but anyway, as she is know as chocoholic, I knew I had to put that on the front of the BIA notepad.

Basic Grey Challenge #29

This weeks Basic Grey Challenge was to create a card with an Easter or Spring theme.The stamp is by Penny Black and I used papers from the Urban Prairie collection. I realise now that I forgot to glitter the flower but I was rushing to finish last night before 'The Apprentice' and now I have to get off to work.

Two Challenges

This weeks Challenge on Basic Grey is a sketch - not something I normally do as I find it really difficult, but I do want to challenge myself so here's my card. Didnt quite manage to follow the sketch, and also I had to move the sentiment as it wouldnt fit at the bottom of the card. Paper used are from the Eva collection. I feel its missing something but not sure what.















Next is the Tag Your'e it challenge - cute & Cuddly this week, again, a topic I struggle with. Anyway, I dug through my stickers and found this PB cat and just added loads of ribbons. The background paper is allsorts by Craftwork Cards.















And finally - here is the card I made with it.