House of Cards Colour Inspiration

Two posts today, and why, because I'm very disorganised this week - well it sounds better than because I'm daft!!!
The House of Cards challenge this week is a colour inspiration in the style of Fun & Cute and I made this earlier in the week, completely forgot about it and have just found it after a massive tidy up in my craft room!
I thought I was too late but a visit to the HOC site tells me I have just under an hour to submit so a very hurried photo (in dusk so hence the rubbish quality!) and a super quick post. The colours I chose to use are Calypso Coral, Pear Pizzazz and Basic Black along with Zoo Babies, A Dozen Thoughts, Summer Silhouettes stamp sets and the tufts of grass from the now retired Dinoroar.
Phew made it just in time!!

Margaret x

Classic & Elegant for HoC

Last week I entered a card for the House of Cards Challenge, using the sketch top right, to make a CAS card. I have another entry for this week's challenge which is using the same sketch but, this time, a Classic & Elegant card.
I used a piece of DSP from Modern Medley, cut diagonally, then fixed to a plain card blank to give the white 'x'. The retired SU sentiment Beautiful Birthday was stamped in Black Staz-on, cut with a Labels Collection Framelit then matted onto a larger framelit cut from Basic Black cardstock. A small loop of (retired) Basic Black Satin ribbon was glued to one side of the frame before fixing to the centre of the card using dimensionals. I added three small punched flowers, from the Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack with a Basic Rhinestone in the centre of each one.
My apologies for posting Weds card on Tuesday evening but, as this is for a challenge, I couldn't schedule it as normal because I needed to link it up to the challenge site and I can't do that when I'm not here! If you would like to see my Tuesday's 'new home' card scroll down to previous post :0)

Thanks for stopping by and I'll be back on Thursday

Margaret x

Cute as a Button!

Every now and again I remember to take a tour around some of the challenge blogs and yesterday I came across the sketch (top left) over at House of Cards. Each month a different challenge is set such as colours, sketches or photo inspirations and then each week in that month the main challenge is kept but a different style is chosen. So this week's challenge for the sketch is Clean & Simple and they don't come any more simple than this card!
I used the Gingham Wheel (which I have taken off the wheel to use as a flat stamp) to make the criss-cross and stamped this in Pistachio Pudding. The label in the middle is a stamp from Label Love punched with the co-ordinating Artisan Label Punch, again in Pistachio Pudding. To finish the card I added a small button cut from the Sweet Buttons Embosslits die with a bow of Bakers Twine

Margaret x