Sunday Crafting

Hello!

I hope your weekend is going well.....we are all chillaxing here as the effort of a week at school and work has left us all exhausted!  I don't think the boys have got out of their pjs :)

That has left me a bit of time to get crafty so I can't complain.

In particular, I have wanted to play along with Taheerah's Cure for the Monday Blues for ages and have never made the deadline.  Finally....here is my card:

I loved the soft pastel colours and sprinkles from the inspiration photo and decided to play with my new WPlus9 sparkle and shine die.

I die cut two rectangles from Lawn Fawn in patterned paper and combined with a cute little envelope from Lil Inkers in to which I put some pastel sequins.  The sentiment is stacked up for dimension and I added WoS to give extra sparkle.  A few sequins are adhered outside the envelope on the card base to give the extra look of sprinkles.  I don't often work with a pastel colour palette but like how this turned out.

I also decided to play along with Fusion this week - which I think is another first.  It is their one year anniversary and I really loved the inspiration photo and all of the fab designs from the DT and their guests.  I loved the combination of the pink and gold with the chalkboard:

 

The chalkboard panel is from a 6x6 paper pad called The Story of Us by Simple Stories.  I cut that out and layered over some gold and pink patterned papers.  Very simple - but I don't think I would ever have thought to use that panel on a card until I saw the Fusion challenge.

 

Finally, here is a card that I made for CASology where the cue card is date.  I am terrible for forgetting dates, particularly birthdays and figured that this is a card I am likely to need to use this year:

 

 

I am using fab stamps and stencils from Create A Smile - who have another great release going live this weekend. Definitely worth checking out.  I love the star stencil and have lightly inked it to create a fade out background for my cute monster.  I am still practicing colouring with my Chameleon pens so don't look too closely :)

Not too bad for a weekend's work?!  I would love to hear what you think.

Thanks for stopping by,

Sarah x