Paper Smooches Sparks - Anything Goes Week

Whoooosh... and we're back to Sunday again which means a new challenge over at the Paper Smooches Sparks blog and this week it's Anything Goes.

I've gone puntastic this week!!..... this idea has been bursting to get out of my head and onto a card since I saw the Cute Fruit stamp set and the fun alphas in Sassy Script just helped it to happen....

I love inking up these solid fruits in various colours of ink to give them shape and dimension and I reckon purple and green make such an eye-catching colour combo too :0)

To help make the phrase I hunted through my stamps and found the right wording in Chit Chat along with a couple of alpha stamps in the Graffiti set. I love that you can mix and match sentiments by using some simple masking of stamps :0)

I pondered the idea of adding a small heart but decided that leaving it off would make the card more versatile... after all, it doesn't have to be for Valentines :0)

As always, please check out my teamies cards for more inspiration

Alice

Angeline

Erin

Jenny

Savannah

Check out the PS Sparks blog for details and please play along too....we love to see your cards in the gallery :0)

Jenny x

Coffee Talk :0)

I have a couple of my Make the Day Special Stamp Store DT cards to share and one of them is for the current Freshly Made Sketches challenge..... the sketch just caught my eye because it was quite different and not a design I've tried before!!!

I love to treat my daughter to coffee shop giftcards whilst she's away at Uni so this will be winging its way to her as we speak with a fully loaded card inside.... this cute set from Lawn fawn was just perfect for the job and fun to colour too :0) I love how layering up the speech bubbles is a great CAS way to add patterned papers to the layout and I have enough of them to choose from!!!

We also have our monthly challenge up and running over at Make the Day Special Stamp Store blog and it's  a recycling theme this month...... all the details can be found here and the linky gallery is here.

My good recycling deed was to use the inner tubes from wrapping paper to print a pattern using acrylic paint onto white card

... the yellow circles were printed with a homemade stamp of spiralled string onto a cork from a bottle of bubbly... I was quite pleased with the end result despite my doubts during the process!!

It would be great if you could join in the challenge for the chance to win a £15 voucher to spend in the store... all we ask is that you use at least one product from the store with your recycling craftiness :0)

Jenny x

Paper Smooches Sparks - Picture Perfect Challenge

Hello and welcome to the Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge, this week is the turn of the photo inspiration challenge and it's a gorgeous picture with lots of potential...

You could quite easily go Christmas with this photo if you want to get yourself ahead.... perish the thought!!! Oh no... for me the silver birch logs jumped out so I used the Autumn Groves stamp set and Backdrop Builders dies to make a woodland scene...

...and peering out of the woods stands this adorable little deer from Happy Camper, all alone and missing his/her friend. The sentiment is from the beautiful Scripty Sayings and I'll follow it up by stamping 'my Deer' inside the card.... you know I can't resist a play on words *wink* :)

Please be sure to visit my teamies for more amazing inspiration

Alice

Angeline

Erin

Jenny

Savannah

You can find all the details about the challenge as always over at the Paper Smooches Sparks Blog, we hope you can play along as we love to see your cards in the gallery :0)

Jenny x