CR84FN56 - Sweet Birthday Wishes ...

.... to Pauline Pollington, my design teamie and friend.  Pauline celebrated her birthday on 14th June and hopefully has received this card by now!!  I used our fabulous CR84FN56 colours of yellow, grey and neutral.  These colours are proving to be popular, we've already had lots of lovely submissions and you still have a week to play.

Like me, Pauline is a Waltzingmouse fan, so I had to use WMS on her card.  I started off by stamping the pretty art deco style border at the top of the card and layered some yellow designer paper on the bottom half and hid the join with some dark grey ribbon.  Claire Brennan (owner of WM) has made lots of stamps that coordinate with Spellbinder dies, and I used the stamps that coordinate with this border.  While in the die I added yellow shading.  I stamped the tiny rose onto a scrap of the yellow paper, coloured the leaves green and then cut it out and attached to the label.  I finished off by added the sentiment.

Stamps: Waltzingmouse - Compact Sentiments, Vintage Labels 25, Paris Nouveau
Inks: Memento - Grey Flannel; Distress - Squeezed Lemonade
Spellbinders: Labels 25 (S5-077) # 3 & 4
Accessories:  Cosmo Cricket DP - Delovely; Ribbon and card from stash

Here are our lovely CR84FN56 colours:

Do check out the CR84FN blog for full details of the challenge, and don't forget to check out the rest of the Design Team's cards.

As it's Father's Day today, our plans will be decided by Jonathan - it's his day!!  See you soon.

CR84FN50 - Thank you .....

... Today is the start of our new challenge at CR84FN.  The colours for the next three weeks are really bright and cheerful and I've had such fun with them.  These stunning wedding photos are courtesy of Southern Wedding Magazine.

I made a thank you card - and gave it to my Aunt last month.  As soon as Mona sent us the colour graphic I knew which papers I'd use; they're by Cosmic Cricket and are just gorgeous.  This card was easy to make - it was simply a case of cutting squares with my Spellbinders dies, matting and layering.  For the focal image I used the lovely two-step stamps Greenhouse Garden and cut them all out by hand!  I finished off with a small sentiment in the bottom corner.

Stamps:  Stampin' Up! - Greenhouse Garden
Inks: Stampin' Up! - Melon Mambo, Regal Rose, Pumpkin Pie, Tangerine Tango, So Saffron, Daffodil Delight
Spellbinders: Lacey Squares (S4-295) #4, Standard Squares Sm (S4-128) # 5 & 6, Standard Squares Lg (S4-126) # 5
Accessories:  Stampin' Up - Tangerine Tango card; Cosmo Cricket - De Lovely; Card from stash

The design team and Shannon, our Guest Designer for CR84FN50, have made some wonderful cards to share with you, either click on the link below or go to the CR84FN blog.

Mona

Lisa

Sue

Stephanie

Andrea

Heather

Suzanne

Shannon - Guest Designer

Sadly, Stephanie will be stepping down from the Design Team following this challenge - she's an inspirational designer and great team member, and I'd like to wish her well in her future projects.  Do drop by and leave some love!

Don't forget CR84FN50 is running for three weeks, ending on Friday 30th March - so you've got lots of time to join in the fun!  See you soon.