SHARE WHAT YOU LOVE

Challenge blogs!  There are lots of them out there and I was just musing over what I expect from playing along with them.  Is it the anticipation that your project may get chosen and clicking back on and seeing your name as the winner?  That's a great incentive I must say.  I love the fact that members of the team take the effort to come onto my blog and make a comment.  I'm on a Design Team myself and I ensure that I always comment if people have taken the time to join in.  There are a few blogs however that never seem to comment or choose winners and I'm slowly giving them a bit of a wide berth.

  Global Design Project   challenge this week is a sketch 

I wanted to use some new products from the new catalogue but I am still waiting for my order to arrive - two weeks so far - eek I'm normally quite patient!  So I decided to use some of the new Share What You Love DSP which was gifted to me.  I used some old SU punches to cut out the flowers and a retired SU embossing folder for the hearts background.  The sentiment is from an old SU set called Riveting.  The lace ribbon is also retired but the pearls are Share What You Love pearls.  A mix of the old and the new! 

 

TGIF CHALLENGE

I was recently gifted some of the gorgeous new DSP from Stampin Up called Share What You Love and am having fun making cards just with this DSP and not the matching stamp set - well I presume there is a matching stamp set - I haven't yet seen a new catalogue!

I thought I'd have a play with Beautiful You from SU as I haven't used this set in such a long time - when it first came out I think it was everyone's go to set.  On my Facebook Group The Joy of Sets it is definitely the most popular set with more project examples than any other of our albums.  Why not come and join us - we celebrate SU current and retired as well as other stamp companies.

I'm using the sketch from TGIF Challenges #tgifc163 this week which is:




I turned the sketch around for my card.

I've used one of the sheets of DSP both ways - in other words this shows you both sides.  I wanted it to look as though the girl was running through a field of flowers.  I cut her out with the Stitched Framelits and also made a frame for her.  The pearls are the matching pearls for this paper, as is the twine.  I coloured her in with the blender tool and So Safron, Old Olive, Powder Pink and Island Indigo inks.

SHARE WHAT YOU LOVE....

I was so overwhelmed to be RAK'd a sample of these gorgeous papers from a member of my RAK team on my Facebook Page Joy of Sets recently.  How generous is the lovely Margaret Reuter! 

I decided to use some of these lovely papers for the challenge over at Global Design Project this week #GDP142.  They gave us a sketch to work with 

I used a retired embossing folder from SU for the background dots and some of the lovely green twine.  The little flower was fussy cut out of some of the matching papers and added to the Stitched Framelits with some Share What You Love Artisan Pearls. The sentiment is from Watercolor Wings. 

These are definitely my kind of colours and there may be lots of examples from me using this lovely Designer Series Paper.



 

STICK IT DOWN

This great new challenge blog Stick It Down caters for both scrappers and card makers.  I've already joined in with one of their scrapbook challenges and this week thought I'd have a go at their card challenge too. Here's their sketch for us to follow.




I run a Facebook Group The Joy of Sets and we have a RAK (Random Act of Kindness) group within the group.  I was overwhelmed this week when one of the members sent me a load of goodies in with my RAK card as a thank you for running the group.  How generous - she sent me some of the new Share What You Love DSP from Stampin Up's new catalogue as well as some other cardstock and embellishments.  I chose to use this for my card today.  As I don't have the matching stamp set it's nice to show the paper taking centre stage - I've used a little stamp from another non SU set.

The paper is extremely thick and has a slight shimmer on some of the pages.  This is one page and its reverse side.  The twine is part of the same Suite.  It's very busy but I don't think the little ladybird gets lost do you?