White With 1 Challenge

Haven't been able to motivate myself to blog for the last week and my mojo's is very low at the moment, as I'm still feeling a bit blue.  We had to put our beautiful Cocker Spaniel Louie down on Thursday and it was really upsetting for the whole family.  Hopefully my mojo will be back soon, but in the meantime I  thought I'd share my White With 1 LO for this month's challenge and these two quick birthday cards I made.
 
Live Laugh Love

This month at White With 1 the criteria are:  Purple & White + Doodling.  Had this one sitting on my desk and wasn't sure how to add some doodling to it.  I always get nervous with doodling as I'm not very confident with this style, so I just added a scribble doodle around the LO and on the journal spot.

Had a bit of a play with textures on my background for this one.  I scrunched up some tissue paper to add some dimension and sprayed over the top with Fully Purple glimmermist.  To create a circular design I painted around the edges with white paint leaving a rough circle of the misting exposed, then scrunched up some Tim Holtz tissue tape around the circle to create a border.  I also stamped randomly with a music stamp and instead of ink I used some purple Smooch pearlized accent ink for a little shimmer.  The smooch was also used on the Scrapmatts word chippies to tie in with the purple theme.

The central circular design was created with a paper doily and I misted a Prima mask onto white cardstock with the purple glimmermist and hand cut the masked image to create a soft dreamy feel.

A Couple of Birthday Cards
This card was made for my nephew's 20th birthday using some Graphic 45, Basic Grey and Cosmo Cricket pp's, with a little bit of hessian and Tim Holtz tissue tape for a some texture.  I inked the tape with some Distress Ink to tone in with my papers and embossed the Cosmo Cricket paper with a Tim Holtz embossing folder for a little added grunge.

The second card was made for my daughters friend Holly who just turned 15.  I usually make very feminine cards with lots of gorgeous flowers for Brittany's friends but Holly is not a girly girl so I toned it down and kept it simple.  Took all my willpower not to add flowers, but I did add the doily elements.

A Little Toot!
Only just found out a few days ago that the Websters InspireMe blog site have used one of my LO's as their "Banner of the Week".. and also got a little blurb written by Brandin about my work on the side of their blog.. was very excited when I found out and it made my day a little brighter which was nice.  Check it out HERE not sure how much longer it will be up there.

Thanks so much for stopping by and leaving some love :)))