Shopping our stash

 Shopping our stash wants leaves.

I've just made this card to say thank you to a friend.

While I was there, I made this second card using the same background paper.

Farmquest and cardz4guyz

 The challenge at Farmquest is farmyard cutting tools.

I searched high and low and finally found this journal card which I made into a birthday card for a grandfather,

At Card 4 guyz they want embossing.

I made this card for a friend's son because it is his birthday. I put the 2 tags through a floral embossing but chose manly colours. 

Sketches in Thyme -last September sketch

 

Here's the end of the month sketch at Sketches in Thyme.

I've chosen 3 photos from a friend's beautiful garden at Port Macquarie.

I used several narrow branding strips from papers. Most had a floral theme so that worked well. I had a Kaisercraft strip of flowers so used that across the top. I added extra small leaves on the right-hand side because my 3 photos are off centre slightly. 

Colour my heart colour dare challenge and Lil patch of crafting friends. .

 

I've made this card for  Colour my Heart Colour dare challenge. #618

The pink is as close as I had to the salmon colour.

I used the remaining pink triangles on this following card for Little Patch of Crafting Friends.

I'm using it as a sympathy card for a close friend's Mum.

Crafty Gals corner

 I've made this card for crafty gals corner.

They asked for ribbon on a card.

I've used 2 strips of ribbon plus some antique lace.

Next, I made this card with a summer theme. I still have some St Tropez journalling cards from Prima which are summer beach themed. I used this one with background paper featuring flip flops (thongs here in Australia). Then I had some stickers of bikini girls so used 2 on this card.

I'm entering this at A place to start.

Sketches in Thyme

 I'm on to my last piece of paper from my Counterfeit Kit.

I'm using this sketch from Sketches in Thyme.

Firstly, I didn't want to cut into the 2 photos of the boats so they remain rectangular. The smaller photo of the historical boat sheds is round.

I used a strip of aqua coloured paper which was an offcut from a previous layout.

After placing my photos on the layout, I added my title.

Next, I used 3 remaining flowers from a packet I had, layering them to get some texture. That packet is now used up.

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I also made top 3 at Shopping our stash with the hot air balloon card.

CKC Challenge

 The challenge is to use black accents on our page.

I had photos of a bouquet I was given for my birthday so used those.

As they are so colourful, the flowers around the photos in black and white provide the necessary contrast.

I used a combination of paper flowers I had plus Peterloo net flowers and butterfly. I also added a darkroom door filmstrip I found plus matted my photos in black as well.