Upsy Daisy

Hi there!  My card today steps away from the monochromatic funk I usually find myself in and incorporates a mix of bright colours - hooray!! It would work well for either a guy or a girl I reckon.  You can give a guy a card with flowers on it right??  If not, about half of my stamps are ruled out! hehe.

I was given some exciting new things to play with for Christmas, one of which was sponge daubers.  This is actually my first attempt at using them and I'm happy with the results, but there's definitely room for improvement too! 

The square was sponged while still sitting in the nestability die to create the soft white border, and then I matted it against the orange cardstock.  I'm a big fan of this paper, it's Washington Apple dsp from Stampin Up! and I think it's a great colour scheme.

So what do you reckon - masculine enough to give to a bloke??
Sheryl

Supplies:
Cardstock & Paper: Pumpkin Pie, Washington Apple dsp (SU!), White
Stamps: Upsy Daisy (SU!)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko); Bashful Blue (SU!)
Other: sqaure nestabilities

Friday Mashup!

Wow, it's been awhile since my last post - where does the time go?!!
Over the weekend I found a new challenge blog (well, new to me that is) called Friday Mashup! This week they are running sketch challenge #35 and I was inspired by the clean and simple design so decided to participate.   

Here's the sketch:

Here's what i did with it:

I love the way this one turned out, even though it was a struggle for me to leave so much blank space - I was tempted to fill it up somehow.  I'm glad I resisted urge though!  I stuck pretty much exactly to the sketch, without going off on any creative tangents :) 

My scallop punch creates quite small scallops and I wanted something bigger for this card so I created the strip by cutting a scallop square nestability and trimming off one side.

The colours are Wild Wasabi and Certainly Celery - such a soothing combo together - and the black button is just one from my stash (off some skirt or another hehe) which I threaded with a strip of cardstock.

The stamped dragonfly is from KaiserCraft and I coloured it in with my water colour pencils before cutting out with a classic circle nestie and popping it up on a foam dot.

Thanks so much for stopping in today.  I'd love to know what you think.
Sheryl

Supplies:
Cardstock & Paper: Wild Wasabi, Subtles DSP (SU!)
Ribbon: Certainly Celery (SU!)
Stamps: Dragonfly (Kaisercraft)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko)

Other: circle nestabilities, square scallop nestabilites, black button, foam dot