As You Like It Challenge #74 - Favourite Occasion and WHY

Hi Crafters,

We all have a favourite occasion right?

So this weeks challenge should be easy peasy!

At As You Like It this time we want to see your cards or projects depicting your Favourite Occasion and WHY.

I have chosen Birthdays as my favourite.

 Creating Birthday cards for friends, family and for orders has afforded me a very wide and varied platform in which to create all kinds of cards in varying styles according to the recipients tastes. I have been able to experiment with different techniques and designs and each card is a new challenge which I love.

This card was one I made for my eldest daughter's birthday last week.

Recipe

Image - Santoro Topper

Papers - Santoro

Organza Rolled Flowers

MFT Flourish Die

Die'sire Edge'ables Die

Corrugated Card

Doily

Gems

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Crafty Friends - #25 Girly

Allsorts - #351 - Birthday Wishes

Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Things with Wings (owl)
TTCRD - ATG

For more details of the challenge and our sponsor Bunny Zoe's Crafts 

please visit the challenge blog here.

Well that's all from me today, I have a busy day ahead getting packed up and ready for my monthly Market stall tomorrow.

Keep well!

Lorraine

xXx

Simply Gorjuss

Hi Crafters,
Today was my youngest daughter's 21st Birthday. Where has the time gone? We all had a lovely meal out this evening and are now relaxing back at home.
Here is the card I made for her using her favourite colours - Teal and purple.
The new Gorjuss stamps and papers seemed to fit really well with this colour scheme so I coloured this lovely image up to match the theme.

I used lots of techniques on her card, the chequered background was made using an Inky Doodles  mask, firstly I distress inked some white card with Peacock Feathers and Dusty Concord, then placed the mask over it and inked through it with Pine Needles DI. I later used Versamark ink to highlight the pattern and clear embossed it. The scalloped border is a Martha Stewart Punch Around The Page punch and the die cut numbers are an MFT die. I stamped and black embossed the frame, cut out the centre and used some of the rich papers in the new kit to fill the frame - I also stamped one of the grassy border stamps around the oval for some detail. The girl and her pets are from different stamp sets but I stamped and cut them out after colouring and raised them on foam dots. The heart ribbon also comes in the range and the heart journal piece is also a stamp that I coloured to match the muted tones of the collection. The flowers I have had in my stash for a while but I sprayed the large one with Cosmic Shimmer Mists in 'Purple Violet' and 'Plum Twist' to achieve the right colour.

I'm entering this in to the following challenges:

TTCRD - Anything Goes

Scribble & Scrap - Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly - For Mum / or a Girlie


I hope you enjoy the rest of the evening and see you soon,

Lorraine