Muse Challenge # 129

Well, what a wonderful weekend I had with my Mum. Lots of cards were made and junk food consumed. I did come home last night to more than 300 emails (most of them are blog posts from all the wonderful people who's blogs I follow), so please bear with me as I catch up on all your adventures!!

This is the beautiful card from Anita this week for the Muse challenge. The beautiful blue/green colouring with the white/black and gold really caught my eye. I really love her gold splatter over the stenciling but wasn't sure how I could recreate that part:

I started by die-cutting a square to make a mask for my stenciling, so I could concentrate the patterns in the middle of the card. After die-cutting the 'happy' from black CS three times, I glued them all together. I stamped and heat embossed the flower and leaves in gold on some plain vellum and then used the matching die's to cut them out. I layered them over the stencil pattern and then adhered the 'happy' over top. A few gold sequins (instead of gold splatter) and the rest of the sentiment stamped in black finished it off.

The stencil is from Teresa Collins 'Basically Essentials'. The 'happy' die is from Whimsy Stamps, as well as the 'birthday' stamp from the set 'Happy Everything'. The flower and leaf stamps (and matching dies) are from Waffle Flower 'Leafy'. And the gold sequins are from Neat and Tangled.

I have three other challenges I would like to enter:

Little Tangles Challenge # 59

House of Cards - August Challenge 

Seize the Birthday Challenge (No Topping)

I wish I had been able to post some of these cards during the day. By the time I get thru the rest of them its going to be tomorrow.....wish me luck!!

Take care
Shona