Riding Hood Red does the tango with Sahara Sand challenge

Another late night, burning the candle at both ends...

A challenge to complete and here it is!

These were the colours I decided to challenge myself to use: Riding hood red, tangerine tango and sahara sand.

I have largely ignored the sahara sand in my neutral colour palette, but I have decided that it will tone down those wild bright colours in the new Catalogue.

This sketch challenge (I will come back and edit when i remember where I found this sketch) was one I found recently and thought it gave me a good excuse to experiment with my background stamping.

Three separate panels and a circular medallion to decorate: just screams Boho backgrounds and now that the One of a kind Boho blossoms and punch are back in the new catalogue I intended to give them a whirl together.

I Love how you can layer the circle punches on this design. The first panel was done with the little flowers from Boho backgrounds, and the middle (red panel) with the Boho background circle stamp and the third panel I have used my Baroque wheel for a swirly effect.The last embellishment is my "faux" brads - that is french for fake brads! now brads are cheap but you never seem to have the right colour for the card you are making ... unless you plan it that way. And brads, unfortunately, do not come in the new in-colours, so apart from buying a build a brad kit ... you can fake it with card stock, crystal effects and dimensionals.

These little flower "brads" are made from a punched out circle of pink cardstock.

The dimensional lifts the brad off the card surface to make it look real.

I have tried to take a photo close enough, in this low grey rainy overcast light, to show you the shine on the flower centre.
Want a real demonstration of this effect? Give me a call and book a party with some friends ...

One of a kind - Post it note holder and pencil.

What do you do when you have a stamping project disaster?

Put another layer on ... if that doesn't quite work? Then, add an accessory or two...

So, next time you're thinking wow so many layers - just think - mmm, what is hiding behind that ribbon?

That's what happened here. If I am to be honest.

Firstly it is a post it note holder, a little longer than first intended, so I added a pencil holder.

My daughter saw me eyeing off her miniature gel pens and promptly hid them. She knows me too well. So I had to settle for one of her cast off pink pencils.

The metal ring goes through the two layers of cardstock and the post it note. Made with the oh so humble Cropadile tool. That will go through a post it note without so much as a yawn at the many layers. You are only limited by the depth of the paper pad that you can fit between the cropadile's jaws. The hole is reinforced with a large metal "Jumbo" eyelet and held together with a closed ring and silk pomegranate coloured ribbon.

The stampset is from our current spring mini and is called "one of a kind" and the flowers are punched out with the Boho Blossoms flower punch, so easy.

The central flower was matted on pomegranate cardstock punched with the one inch (2.5cm) circle. Then matted again with a scallop punched circle, cut in half and joined to another scallop in contrasting artichoke cardstock.

Don't you just love this shiny pomegranate silk ribbon? This might work as an extra part of a Christmas present don't you think?

One of a kind button Harmony

One afternoon in the backyard my daughter sat for me to take a few photos intersperced with catching the ball as she tried to lose it in the backyard.
Our children are all one of a kind. Unique, Genuine and Original!

Stamped Clear Buttons and Taffetta bows make easy accessories on a simple scrapbooking page.

Stampsets: One of a kind (Spring mini), Genuine articles.

Paper: Holiday Harmony DS (Spring mini), lavender lace cardstock.

Ribbons: Elegant eggplant grosgrain, Tafetta - Mellow moss, craft, choc chip, Bashful blue.

Accessories: Clear buttons, Mat pack, 1 1/4" circle punch, Silver thread.

Ink: Black Stazon, elegant eggplant.

I attached the clear buttons with silver thread to the cardstock and tied it off behind to keep a neat finish. The black stazon ink was used to stamp the image on the front of the clear buttons.

Boho blossoms and a passion for pink...

I really did have another productive weekend.

Just love the "one of a kind" stamp kit and it suits the Spring weather we have been having don't you think?

Firstly the cardstock is pink passion - got to love this colour!

Then I used the coloured markers from the Bold brights kit to directly ink up the rubber stamp - pink passion and only orange - stamped the confetti white cardstock.

The ribbon is regal rose wide grosgrain with a ribbon glide from the silver hodgepodge kit. Goes nicely with the flower centre brad. I've used the mat pack to line up the row of holes above and below the ribbon and corners of the cardstock, which I wiped with pink passion ink.

The Only Orange flowers were punched out with the Boho blossoms punch (so easy to use) and the "for you" stamp edged with two more blossoms and silver brads.

The second version didn't take much creativity I have to admit .... Circles and layers of bright cardstock underneath the one of a kind blossom in pink passion with a new silver hodgepodge brad in the centre. With Only orange and pink passion inked blossoms around the outside. I looked for a contrast on this one - green galore and a pomegranate scallop punched to continue the floral shaped theme.

The one of a kind stamp at the bottom was to be enhanced with further silver or ribbon, but the program finished on TV and my daughter needed calling inside from exploring the long grass in the backyard ... embarrassed to say the program? ahh, motor cycle grand prix, and then we switched back to my fair lady ... we are a very democratic lot at our place one show for daugher one show for daddy and I took the clothes off the line before the storm hit this afternoon.

I have to show you the Boho blossom punch I have been using ... you will recognise the card in the background from a post late last week... It is definitely Spring ...

Boho blossom and birthdays

It seems that May and September are my big birthday months, so fortunately the spring catalogue has showered me with new stampsets to make them with and this is one of my favourites.

"One of a Kind"and The boho blossum punch saves hours of cutting. Just stamp out a row of blossoms, line up the punch and in minutes you have a pile of cut out flowers to arrange in circles or patterns on a card with a bit of snail adhesive or dimensionals or secured with a brad in the centre. This is for my bright and feminine friend ... you know who you are! Actually I enjoyed stamping and punching so much I made a second one, one with tearing and one with the corner punch to make a pretty scalloped edge to match up with the regal rose grosgrain ribbon.

The cardstock is: rose red, regal rose and confetti white.

The inks are: rose red, pixie pink and pumpkin pie

Stampsets: One of a kind, Think Happy thoughts.

Accessories: regal rose ribbon, silver and white brads, corner rounder, snail adhesive and dimensionals.