Birds and Bells

Hello!

Just a quick post to share a few cards which I have made for some of my favourite challenges.  First up is Addicted to CAS where the code word is Birds.  I didn't need any more of an excuse to break out my new sketchy bird stamps from Stamplorations designed by the fabulous Shirley Bampton.  Here is my CAS design:

I watercoloured the bird with distress inks and added a sentiment from Stamplorations Noteworthy sentiment set.  As my card features Stamplorations goodies I shall join up at their Anything Goes challenge which is always running and at Addicted to Stamps where the theme is Clean and Simple.

Next up I have made a card inspired by this fabulous creation from Chriss Blagrave at Muse Christmas Visions.  Here is the inspiration card:

I love the unusual colour combo and the bold die cut sentiment.  This is my take:

 

I die cut some bells from Lil Inkers from white cardstock and embossed them a few times with copper embossing powder to give them a metallic look.  I combined it with a die cut sentiment (also from Lil Inker) which was stacked up on a few layers.  I coloured the base layer of card with copper ink to tie the colours together.  I hope you can see how I was inspired :)

That took a bit longer than I planned!

Thanks for stopping by,

Sarah x