DOING LIFE

DDCC #66 : COLOUR INSPIRATION

• {Basic Grey Challenges: Week 9}
• {Everybody Art Challenge: #68 - Stitching}
• {Papertake Weekly: Sketch #29}
• {Cute Card Thursday: #89 Swirly Girly}
• {Paper Cutz Challenge: #19 Anything Goes}
• {Allsorts Challenge: Week 29 - Buttons}

  If you have a moment, it would be great if you could pop over to these challenge blogs and have a peep at the design teams' gorgeous creations.

I just loved this colour inspiration put to the Design Team over at Dutch Dare Card Challenge. The colours work so well together and are easy to be creative with.

In Style Stamps are the sponsors for this challenge and were so generous in giving the design team some gorgeous digi stamps to create with.

I have printed the digi stamp with my Canon Inkjet printer and once again coloured it with my H2O's. The flowers were stamped with acrylic stamps from a Making Memories flower stamp set. The sentiment was also stamped and punched out with a Paper Shapers scalloped 3" circle punch. Some faux stitching was done around the scalloped circle, the stamped flowers and the main image.

Basic Grey Challenges: Week 9 - A Sketch by Tara G as well as Papertake Weekly's Sketch #29 got me going with this creation. This is really a fabulous sketch to work with and it will definitely put to good use again. I have used the following BG Patterned Cardstock:

• Two Scoops: non-fat yogurt tsc-1048
• Lilykate: Queen Ann LIK559

All the embellies are from my stash.

The Inside:

Thank you all for taking the time to stop by once again. Apologies for not frequenting your lovely little creative spaces in blog land as regularly of late. Been a bit down with flu. Promise to spread some love soon.

Oh yes on a last note, me and hubby have been married for 25 years on Monday, 30 November. Can't believe how the years just seem to disappear in thin air. It feels like yesterday when I was walking down the isle with a shaking bouquet. Judged by the first 25, I am looking so forward to the next 25 ... life can only get better. The photos below were taken on the farm 'Skuilhoek' in the Elands River Valley, Eastern Cape, South Africa where I grew up. My Mom Phoebe Walters made my wedding dress. The confetti girls are my nieces, Liesl Schmidt on the left and Heidi Nel on the right.