Four cards and a canvas!

First of all I want to say happy birthday to Ann, (my father-in-law's partner). It's a big birthday but I'm not going to give away the number! Anyway - I hope she has a great day, this is the card I made for her...

Well - definitely a busy Saturday. I decided I'd like to catch up on a few challenges today before tomorrow's adventure with the birds of prey.

So I started with the school themed card challenge at LCOM and following on from the basket of flowers I made for Ann's card, I made a basket of apples for a special teacher. Funnily enough my favourite teacher when I was young was one of my infant teachers called Mrs Applegarth - I don't know where she is now - but wherever she is these apples are for her...

I love making things 3D...here's a different angle on that apple basket. Each apple is handcut from Sassafrass lass paper and layered up with foam pads, and the basket is woven from 0.5cm strips of Bazzill...

My next project was to tackle the Trifecta over at the Dollhouse. At one point I didn't think I was going to be able to combine all three challenges - the sketch combined with an altered item and ATC just didn't seem possible. But I thought if I altered an old canvas it might just work. The colour challenge was grey, green and white...

The sketch challenge was...

And the elements challenge this week was to make an ATC and then use it in an altered project.

So here's my ATC...

I then painted an old canvas white, used grey and green paint to create the blocks of colour and added my pictures, painted letters and lots of gems. Adding the ATC as the initial letter of my title and obviously following the sketch and sticking to the challenge colours...

The pictures are of my mum with each of her sisters, so I've decided to give the canvas to her to hang on her wall.

I'd like to thank the lovely dollies for always leaving great comments on my blog - it's one of the reasons they're my favourite challenge blog!

The next pair of challenges came from the Chicken Soup blog...they have a DT call out at the moment too so go and check them out!!

The first - recipe 10 was based on this card...

Inspired by the grid format and the bright colours this is what I managed to produce...

and the next one was based on this image...which, sadly I think looks a little like the butterfly has flown into a window!

But I liked the idea of the bright colours and butterfly - so I combined these to give this card - the butterfly is embossed on acetate and only attached in the middle to make it more 3D...

I have one more project I want to work on - the 'daisies' gothic arch, but that will have to wait until after I've been to Tescos for the groceries and made dinner!