Summer Cake & Strawberries

Summer to me is my daughter's birthday and strawberries, so my inspiration for this card is my kitchen!  This year I made a birthday cake and my daughter helped to decorate it.  No strawberries on it, but they are always present (I actually had a really big one in the last punnet I bought!!)

The cake in Power Poppy's 'Tea Cake with Strawberries' image looks so yummy I want to eat it. My cake was yummy too though... chocolate chip and it didn't last long!

Products used:

• Kraft card blank
• English Tea Party designer papers
• Ribbon
• Pink cardstock
• ProMarkers - Walnut, Cocoa, Raw Sienna, Holly, Lush Green, Forest Green, Gold, Mustard, Cool Grey 1 & 2, Shale, Berry, Red, Lipstick, Sunkissed Pink, Sunflower, Burnt Sienna, Carmine, Pastel Pink, Baby Pink, Warm Grey 1 & 2

I am entering my card into the following challenges:

1. Power Poppy - Home Sweet Home!
2. Creative Fingers - #151 AG
3. Cute Card Thursday - #543 Spots & Dots
4. The Crafter's Cafe - #202 Birthdays and/or Buttons
5. The Corrosive Challenge - #8 AG

An Underwater Rainbow

It's colouring challenge time over at Kit & Clowder. I've only just joined the group, so this is my first one.  
For the challenge Ching Chou Kuik has created a brand new exclusive image called 'Floating Pearls'.  You can get this image for only $1.50 USD if you join the group and enter the challenge. 
After colouring a rainbow rose for Alyce's wedding I decided I'd really like to try some rainbow hair. I think the bright colours really suit a mermaid theme.

To create my card I have used the following materials:

• Card blank
• Mulberry paper
• Lace
• Recollections flowers
• Docrafts buttons
• Me & My Big Ideas mambiSTICKS tm quote stickers
• Promarkers - Burnt Orange, Coral, Dusky Pink, Blush, Lipstick, Berry, Crimson, Peach, Mango, Bright Orange, Soft Lime, Lemon, Canary, Apple, Pine, Forest, Arctic Blue, Sky Blue, True Blue, Cobalt, Indigo, Lilac, Amethyst, Purple & Aubergine 
• Staedtler Noris Club watercolour pencils

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

1. A Bit More Time To Craft - #23 Anything Goes
2. Artistic Inspirations - #160 Anything Goes
3. Craft Your Passion - #319 Anything Goes
4. Crafting By Designs - July Anything Goes
5. Crafty Creations - #318 Anything Goes
6. Deep Ocean Challenges -#132 Colours of Summer
7. Inspiration Destination - #92 Anything Goes
8. Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - #37 Anything Goes
9. Passion For Promarkers - #352 In or Beside The Sea
10. Simon Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Left My Heart At The Beach

It is a bright sunny day here in Sasktoon, which takes me back to childhood days spent at the beach in Bournemouth UK - my hometown and where I met my husband.  He is a Cancerian, a water sign, much more longing to be back at the beach near the sea than me a Libran air sign who is happy in many places!
So with Father's Day and his birthday very close and KennyK having the very appropriate 'Bathing Beauty' as their newsletter freebie this month, I thought I would make a frame to go up in his new office. 
I have used the following materials to create my frame:

• Card, frame, sandpaper and brads from my stash
• Enamel dots and palm tree die from Echo Park
• Gold Sharpie
• Promarkers - Oatmeal, Soft Peach, Dusky Pink, Buttercup, Tulip Yellow, Mustard, Raw Sienna, Sky Blue, Arctic Blue, Peach, Mango, Col Aqua, Duck Egg & Turquoise

I am entering this frame into the following challenges:

1. Club Kenny K - #9 June Freebies
2. The Crafter's Cafe - #150 Vacation
3. The Corrosive Challenge Blog - #6 Lots of Layers
4. Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - #35 Anything Goes
5. Creative Fingers - #110 Anything Goes
6. Crafts Galore Encore - June Anything Goes
7. Crafting by Designs - June Anything Goes
8. Craft Your Passion - #315 Anything Goes
9. CCC Digi Creations - #50 Anything Goes
10. Allsorts - #366 The Great Outdoors
11. A Beautiful Mess - #3 Anything Goes