My Heart Pieces - Lots of Layers Challenge

It's time for another Challenge at My Heart Pieces and we simply want to see you use Lots of Layers on your cards this fortnight.  We are joined by a fabulous sponsor too this week.

My card today uses the delightful image Ankhi from My Heart Pieces and elements from the SVG Cutting File for the Sweet Cupcake Card from the Breezy Backyard Lever Cards Collection.  

I have colored Ankhi in with my Twinkling H20's  added three small purple rhinestone to the flowers draped across her front.  My card has been cut from various pieces of my favorite retired Stampin' Up! Designer Papers.  To the frame around the card front I have added three flowers which I have cut using my Spellbinders Carnation Die and Clear and Purple Dew Drops from the Robin's Nest.

For more layered inspiration be sure to pop over to the My Heart Pieces Challenge Blog.

I do hope you'll join us.

60 Cards for Mum

The past few weeks in between DT projects, a few projects just for me, family stuff and being sick I have been making 60 Cards for my MIL to send to all those family and friends who sent card and flowers for my FIL passing.  Here's a sneak peak at some of my designs.  I tried to keep them fairly CAS due to the quantity required and me not wanting to make 60 of all the same one.  Inside Mum asked me to include a short verse.

Coloured image & layers framing it with a bit of embellishment to finish.  This is the first time I have used this Crafty Individuals Stamp.

Water Colored Rose with a hand drawn frame on white and layered on angled color background.

My Favorite Unity Rose just had to make it on at least one card.

Water Color with Handrawn &/Watercolor Frame.  Dragonflys and Butterflies were used on a few of these cards. This one is from a Ippity Kit by Unity Stamp Co,.

Script and Floral Stamp coloured with Twinkling H20's, layered on colour with added ribbon and bling.

Quite a few of my Darkroom Door Nature/Floral Themed Stamps were used for these cards.

Thanks so much for popping by, I hope you have all had a wonderful weekend.  We have had a week of the most glorious Autumn Days.  My hubby has been cooking today so I am looking forward to some yummy minestrone soup for tea with warm and toasty bread which is such a wonderful meal for the cooler nights which we are now experiencing.  We are however yet to have the fire on.  I think this coming week I will finally need to pull out all my winter clothes and pack my summer ones away.

My Heart Pieces - First Challenge & DT Projects

THIS IS MY THIRD POST TODAY - Please scroll down to See Platypus Creek Digital New Graduation Release and Magical Monday Sketch Challenge Posts.

Today is the first ever My Heart Pieces Challenge and also marks the reveal of the first projects from the newly formed My Heart Pieces DT, so be sure to pop over to the blog to see the wonderful images by Priyanka and the fabulous and inspirational creations by all the DT.  All of the images can be purchased from Priyanka's Store attached to her blog.

The Challenges for My Heart Pieces will run bi monthly on the 1st and 15th of every month and to kick it off today's challenge theme is ANYTHING GOES.

For my card today I chose the delightful image 'Mermaid Couple'.  In wanting to feature the image I chose to do a CAS Design and not use any patterned papers.  Instead I kept it simple and simply embellished in a way to frame the image.  A bit like viewing an underwater scene through a porthole in a ship.  I coloured in the image using a combination of my Tria Markers and Twinkling H20's (Watercolour Paint with a Shimmer).  The Star Fish, Blue Dew Drops and Pearl Chain were all from my Stash.

I do hope you will join us for the very First My Heart Pieces Challenge.