Monday, March 8, 2010

Girly Turtles

Good Monday Morning...
It was a busy weekend, going down to Calgary Friday night and back again Saturday afternoon. I know people make the round trip all in one day - too much driving at once for me. It was fun though!
So, yesterday I was able to stamp and get some challenges completed. I'm beginning to wonder if I will ever colour this turtle with appropriate colours! I created the card for the Inspiration Challenge on SCS from Saturday. The website was Ginko Papers and I chose this greeting card with the floral turtle on it. I've also used the sketch from over at Our Creative Corner. I've used the flowers instead of the scallops along the bottom.

Creating a "girly" card was the challenge over at Stamp Something this week. I was happy to be able to pull out my old retired "Totally Cool" set and use this girl again. I selected a piece of Sweet Pea Paper and used the Circle Scissor Plus to cut a circle to fit the square. I cut out one of the left-over butterflies and added it to the largest butterfly from the Beautiful Wings Embosslit die. I ran out
of thin sticky strip so I had to use a wide band to put the orange microbeads onto. The sketch I used for this card comes from Friday Sketchers.

Well, I'd better get off to work - I hope you have a wonderful day. Thanks for stopping by!
Joan

9 comments:

Marlene said...

Beautiful cards! I'm loving that shopper girl. ;)

Chris said...

Hi Joan! Gorgeous cards and great images too and they're so beautifully coloured. Personally I prefer inappropriately coloured turtles :D, yours is superb! Love your girly girl card too. Chris :)

Cheryl said...

These are both wonderful cards. The little turtle is too cute.

Thank you for your sweet comments on my blog. I can't wait to see how the paper piecing works out for you.

MiamiKel said...

Gorgeous!!!!! Love the color combo, sweet lil turtle and the fun balloons! Terrific, Joan!

Stef H said...

all turtles are girls - or should be - lol.

one of my fav sets too - that totally cool. just like us - more lol.

super cards!

Joseline said...

Great cards Joan!! Can't decide which I like best. You did a great job!

Silke Ledlow said...

Hi Joan - glad you had a nice weekend and returned home safely!!!

Both of your cards are beautiful!!! The turtel on the OCC card is toooooo cute and I like how you colore it!!! Love how you added the sparly flowers instead of the punched out border!!! Awesme Sketch card my friend!!

Thank you for plaing along with us!!! Hugs ~S~

Linda Coughlin, the funkie junkie said...

Wonderful work, Joan! I really love the turtle - such pretty colors an I love the way you substituted the flowers instead of the scallops. Great take on the OCC sketch. So happy you could have fun with us this week at Our Creative Corner!

Glad you had a nice, safe trip!

Anonymous said...

So girly. Love the image and the butterflies. WOW.
Thank you for joining us at Stamp Something this week.
Dorte aka dot-scrap