First project of 2011

Happy New year to everyone

Morning all, hope it's a bit brighter today, can't believe it was more like a wet and dreary november day than a crisp clear winter day yesturday, but I did get some crafting in before my in laws descended and we had fun playing various card games including Bohanza really fun  if you want a change and then taking turns on the ps3 with sons steering wheel trying to drive around a circuit especially the guys who had had plenty of wine by this point, and they so didn't like it when we girls and my son got better placings than them , even my mum in law who doesn't drive stayed on the track better.

Well my card, is for my son to give to my sister. I decided on a whim to use colours that I wouldn't normally and as my sister seems to wear alot of red I thought I would have a look to see what challenges there were to stretch me using these colours. I found a couple of colour challenges and set to work using one of my new sugar nellie sassy stamps that came from funky kits via Santa.

I coloured with Promarkers and highlighted with sakura white pen. The beige ribbon I used to tone down all the red and pink and I used the beige gems to balance it. The papers are all from my stash and scraps folder along with the red mirri card. I added a peel off sentiment and it was finished, it is growing on me but I'm not sure I like it that much but it will suit my sisters personality and my son says it's so aunty Kath so hey ho it will do.

I would like to enter it into the following challenges:-

The sugar bowl-layout and optional embossing which I forgot
Playdate cafe-colour challenge red,beige and pink
Colour create-red,pink and white
Simon says-celebrate /party
Anything challenge- Cis for (celebrate my sisters birthday
Creative card crew-birthdays
Moving along with the times-birthdays and circles
Crazy for challenges-celebration
Speedy the cats friends-use something new
Really reasonable ribbons-something new and ribbons
If the shoe fits-red
Sew many challenges-new things
Creative inspirations challenge-use something new
Order of opus gleui-anything you've made

I decided that as my sister seems to get alot of colds she could do with some tissues in a handy pack so made a holder to match her card and together I would like to enter the card and tissue pack into fussy and fancy challenge of matching card and gift.