CD SUNDAY CHALLENGE

Good morning to all my blogging friends and welcome to our latest challenge over at

CD SUNDAY

Thanks for your continued support and your entries last week, we enjoyed visiting your blogs and leaving comments.

Our challenge this week is

LET'S GO ORIENTAL

My DT Card is shown below

I chose backing papers and and a lovely image from Eastern Treasures CD courtesy of Joanna Sheen

The backing papers have been printed onto Pearl Card and printed on both sides to give a contrast.
I cut part at an angle and then layered the cut away panel to the bottom left hand corner.
My lovely topper is printed onto Glossy Photo Paper.
The Happy Birthday stamps are from the Kay Carley Collection - Aspect of Design 51 - Japenese Minis and are available from The Stampman

I have a love for delicate colours and this reflects in my card design.

We hope you will join us again this week, the only rule is to use something from a CD in your design and say which CD you have used.
Do pop over to the challenge blog to see if you are the lucky winner of a $10 Gift Certificate given by our Sponsor for last week, Digi's With Attitude and to see the stunning creations the rest of my teamies and our Guest DT Jen have for you this week.

I am entering my card into my friend CRAFTY ANN's challenge this week, which is ' Happy Birthday'

Hubby's Birthday Card

It is my Hubby's Birthday today so I thought I would share with my blogging friends the card I made him.
He is awkward to make cards for as his love is trains and I don't have anything with trains, however he is a keen birdwatcher and like me, loves Owls.

The base of his card consists of Heat Resistant Acetate to which I added Alcohol Inks in shades, Caramel & Meadow. I overstamped with one of my Swirl stamps using Archival Coffee, then rubbed the ink off to reveal a clear image. This is a technique I was shown at Sheena's class In Kettering recently.
The Owl image is from a Joanna Sheen CD - The Jayne Netley Mayhew Collection which I printed onto Gloss Photo Paper.
Using my leaves stamps from Creative Impressions, I stamped, then coloured using Promarkers. These were carefully cut out and added to the image using 3D Foam.
Brads were used to attach the acetate to the card.

His comment, I wish I could see that particular owl. At least he commented which is more than he usually does when I make anything.

CHALLENGE 98 - RAINBOW LADY

This is my card for Cynthia akin Rainbow Lady
Her theme this week was
Red, Black & Gold + A Touch Of Oriental

My base card is Stardream to which I overstamped using a blossom stamp from Aspect of Design and used Gold embossing powder over the design.
The gold paper is a piece from my stash which had been put through my Cuttlebug.
I decided to make my own tag using Red card and stamped Oriental Blossom with the sayings of Luck, Friendship & Love.
For the finishing touch I added a fabric flower with a Gold Brad for the centre.

Cynthia runs a weekly challenge every Thursday, so do pop over and take a look, you won't be disapointed.

TIO Challenge No 6

This is my entry for Frankie's TIO Challenge No 6 which is Dragonflies & Butterflies. I feel that Frankie chose this theme especially for me as I so love making anything which combines these elements, so thank you Frankie. I started by spraying my background with various colours of Cosmic Shimmer Mists before stamping using a new set from Inkadinkadoo called Morphic Bugs. The dragonfly stamps are from my set of Kay Carley - Aspect of Designs 51 - Japanese Minis which are available from The Stampman. For a finishing touch I added Butterfly & Dragonfly Brads from my stash and a lilac ric rac ribbon.

Christine