St Luke's Hospice Challenge

Good morning everyone, let's see if this works! Here is my card for the St Luke's Hospice challenge:
I'm so glad I've found this blog. They are raising money for a hospice in Sheffield, not very far away from us at all, and it's because of this that I've decided to pluck up the courage to have a go at my very first challenge blog.

The theme is 'Say it with Flowers', which I think I have done, don't you? The stamps are from Pink Petticoat, but they were free with Simply Cards and Papercraft (rapidly becoming my favourite magazine). I didn't have any matching backing paper, so I got out the little daisy stamp and stamped all over a piece of card, so I could colour them with Promarkers and they'd match the little toppers exactly. The blue border was just plain card coloured with a blue Promarker too, so that matches as well. The ribbon was just a piece of green from my stash, but it worked a treat. The wording says, 'A little note... to say thanks.'

Now I have to work out all the technicalities of uploading this to their blog. I may be a lot greyer by the end of today, but it will have been worth it.

Enjoy the sunshine everyone!

Mrs O.

Comments

  1. Tara Cardwell19 April 2011 at 09:46

    What a lovely card - we're do honoured you chose our little challenge to be the first you entered and what a great job you did too! Colouring your matting paper with promarkers to match your toppers is such a clever idea - why have I never thought of it before???
    Thanks for joing us at St Luke's Charity Card Challenge - hope you'll be back to play agian in our next challenge in May :-)
    Craftilicious x

    ReplyDelete
  2. Michelle19 April 2011 at 14:04

    Such a pretty card. The stamped images are really sweet - I've got those stamps as well, just not used them yet. I've also got the floral papers in your previous post. I can see we share the same taste in magazines! x x

    ReplyDelete
  3. Jean19 April 2011 at 20:25

    Very pretty. Glad you entered.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Kim Owens20 April 2011 at 12:25

    You did a wonderful job and I love your result!!! Your commentary is an absolute riot! :) xoxo, Kim

    ReplyDelete
  5. Stamps and Paper20 April 2011 at 13:47

    A lovely card everything blends in so beautifully, love how you have matted and layered your little flowers in the vases...thank you for joining in our first challenge over at St Lukes Charity card challenge and we hope yo see you back again next month....

    Anne

    ReplyDelete
  6. Sarn20 April 2011 at 16:00

    Great idea to stamp a matching background to your focal flowers! I must remember that! LOL!
    Lovely card and congrats on mastering blogland.
    Hugs, Sandra

    ReplyDelete
  7. Deborah Frings21 April 2011 at 13:50

    So glad you took the plunge and entered our challenge. Your card is just super. I love all things by Pink Petticoat and these stamps are so versatile. And I like the backing paper you made too. Thanks for playing along with our first St Luke's Charity Card Challenge; I do hope you'll join us again next month!

    ReplyDelete
  8. Lynne23 April 2011 at 18:13

    Really lovely card. Thank you so much for joining us at St Lukes Charity Cards Challenge. See you next month.
    Lynne xxx

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Colour Q Challenge # 121 and Freshly Made Sketches # 19

Image
Hi folks, hope you're having a good weekend.  I can hardly believe I'm posting again so soon, but I really wanted to get this card on before it's too late. Here are another couple of challenge blogs I've been following since just before Christmas, but I haven't had enough supplies to be able to join in.  The first one is the Colour Q challenge  which as you can see, wants us to use the colours shown in the picture, put together beautifully in the skirt.  I don't have any of the Stampin Up! In Colours yet, so this is the first time I've been able to have a go.  The second challenge blog is Freshly Made Sketches.  I saw this and wondered if I could combine the two challenges. And so here is my card: First of all, I rotated the sketch, I just couldn't work it that way up! I decided to use a kraft card base, and stamped the image (sorry I can't remember the name of it) which I'd inked up in Old Olive, Real Red and More Mustard.
Read more

Freshly Made Sketches No. 22

Image
I've had one of those conversations with lovely, lovely hubby.  You know the sort: DH: Can you make me a birthday card for work, please? Me: Of course darling, who's it for? DH: (In a voice of doom) A male colleague  (Cue thunder and lightening!) Me: (Swallowing) No problem.  When do you want it by? DH: (Casually) Tomorrow. Me: You're 'avin a larf! But have I let the situation defeat me?  No, I have not!  But I would like to say a huge thankyou to Freshly Made Sketches , for coming up with one of the most wonderful, and inspiring, sketches I've ever seen. This is what they've given us to work with: And this is the card I made using the sketch: I actually made a prototype card first, just using paper, as there was quite a lot of measuring to work out before I put everything together.  The card is 5x7" but then I went into metric for everything else (The joys of going to school in the '70's!) I cut a 7cm x 7cm square in white card
Read more

Dynamic Duos No. 1

Image
Hello everyone, I hope you're having a great Bank Holiday weekend (here in the UK), even if it is raining! Now, many of you probably already know Lesley Croghan, owner of the wonderful Always Playing With Paper blog, who runs her Merry Monday challenge from there.  If you don't, you certainly should pop over when you get time. Anyway, she's now hosting a new challenge, called Dynamic Duos, which you can find here : Her first colour choice is Pool Party and Lucky Limeade, and I couldn't resist having a go.  This is what I've made: The base is 5x7" in Very Vanilla.  (Neutrals are allowed, thank goodness!)  Then I've taken a piece of watercolour card, which is very similar to the vanilla, with the addition of a lovely texture.  I've punched out a flower using my Posy Punch, very close to the edge, so it leaves a gap.  I've put dimensionals on the back of the water colour paper and stuck it onto one of the sheets from the Everyday Enchantment
Read more