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Thursday 19 April 2012

St Luke's Charity Challenge

I can hardly believe this challenge has been going for a year but it is an anniversary over on St Lukes blog so do pop over and see what they are all about. This month they are asking for cards with BLING by way of celebration so I've stamped a quirky tree using a Polkadoodles free stamp which came with a magazine a while ago and coloured with Promarkers.  Some friends and I were looking at (and buying) border punches at the weekend and we were joking about keeping all the little 'waste' pieces to use on cards and this is exactly what I've done here - saved the little punched out flowers and added them to the tree with bling gems in the centres. Backing papers are by Papermania and of course the border was made using the Tonic punch. The circles were cut with Nestabilities and layered onto a Marianne die cut; sentiment printed on the computer.


10 comments:

  1. Love your quirky tree Val..pretty colours,great sentiment and I see you have used your new border punch which looks great.

    Anne

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  2. Sorry Val I on my last post I forgot to thank for your joining in our challenge over at St Lukes...

    Anne

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  3. This is beautiful Val, I love your layers and the flowers from the waste. I must get out all of my free stamps and see what I can make with them.

    Sue x

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  4. Delightful little tree especially with your doctoring using the waste from the border punch. The lacey edging of the circular matting layers ties in beautifully with the floral punched border.
    Paula (PEP)

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  5. Quaint tree Val looks lovely with the punched plowers! Love the border punch:)
    Val x

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  6. Love the tree and your "waste" flowers and bling. That Marianne die is really pretty.

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  7. pretty card Val, and the flowers go well with the wobbly tree. Well dome on keeping up with the challenges - sad to say i haven't managed one this week...............

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  8. Really pretty colours and papers on this lovely card Val. I've not seen that quirky tree image before ............ it's great and your flowers are a great addition.

    Hugs
    Lesley Xx

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  9. Wouldnt it be lovely if trees sparkled with bling in real life!!!
    Fantastic card Val :0)
    Thanks for joining us at St Luke's for our Birthday month.
    Jenny x

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  10. I love your subtle take on bling - the tree is really pretty with the rescued flowers :-)
    Thanks so much for joining us at St Luke's again this month.
    Tara (aka Craftilicious) x
    St Luke's Charity Cards Challenge Founder

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