There's something fabulous... valentine

I've recently started playing along with the ColourQ and I am addicted! Every week there's a wonderful inspiration photo along with a colour challenge and this is the current one.

How gorgeous is this?! Aren't you immediately inspired?! Well I was - come and see what I made:

This gorgeous little balloon is from a hostess set called Ain't Love Grand. It contains six stunning outline images with sentiments and I bought it because I wanted to experiment more with colouring. You can see I have a long way to go (!) but I think I'm getting away with it and I can just imagine these wonderful images in the hands of one of you amazing ladies that colour beautifully - you know who you are! I finished my card by cutting some ruffles with the Dotted Scallop Ribbon border punch and layering them up on one side of the card. To keep the balloon panel flat I attached the ruffle side with glue and the other side with dimensionals.

I made a card for last week's ColourQ too but being a complete looby I didn't get it entered in time! The inspiration was wonderful again:

And here's what I came up with:

I know you're not supposed to take these things literally but I really did have to make one of those amazing hearts! The 'thread' for my heart is the curl from Perfect Punches - I love putting my stamps to all sorts of use!

See how dimensional the heart is? It was great fun to make - I just punched out the red heart and die cut the white one then hand-cut a mat for each out of black card stock with my sharp paper snips. The white one was stamped with the little flower from Create a Cupcake and embellished by dotting with Real Red and Basic Black markers. The white dots on the black mats were added with my white gel pen before assembling the heart with dimensionals.

I found the perfect sentiment in the Create a Cupcake set too. The sentiment in full reads: There's something fabulous about your birthday {must be you!} but by picking out just the first bit with a marker, I've got a great valentine sentiment - isn't that fun?!

Supplies needed for these cards:

BALLOON CARD

Stamps: Ain't Love Grand (hostess set)

Ink: Basic Grey

Card stock: Whisper White, Poppy Parade, Peach Parfait, Regal Rose

Other: Poppy Parade, Peach Parfait, Regal Rose markers,  Dotted Scallop Ribbon border punch, dimensionals, stamp-a-majig

HEART CARD

Stamps: Create a Cupcake, Perfect Punches

Ink: Regal Rose, Baja Breeze

Card stock: Whisper White, Basic Black, Real Red, Crumb Cake smooth and textured

Other: Real Red, Basic Black markers, white gel pen, Large Heart punch, heart die from Timeless Type alphabet, paper snips, dimensionals, stamp-a-majig

I'd be delighted to order any of these supplies for you and can have them delivered to your address in the UK. I am committed to providing excellent customer service and am always happy to help and advise. Just send me an email or give me a call on 01280 820593.

Click here to see all the free Sale-a-bration sets and don't forget to let me know which ones you'd like - remember, you get one free item for EVERY £45 spent!

My youngest son is involved in an inter-school dance group competition and has thrown himself into it with his usual enthusiasm! After explaining some of the moves to me he added: "Of course we have to warm up properly first!" I asked what that entailed and he told me that they used ballet moves. "First we do a plié," he said, "And then a demi-plié. And then we have to do..." he wrinkled his brow a little, "...You know, those things where you come up - I know! Levitate!" I'm thinking that my son's group would win the competition for sure if they've mastered levitation but I expect he means relevé!

Thank you for popping in to visit today. I'll be back tomorrow with Three Minute Thursday so do call again if you have a minute.

Hugs,