Mellow Yellow

We had a lovely day on Sunday with the final celebrations of my Mum and Dad's diamond wedding anniversary. Thanks for all your good wishes which I passed on. We enjoyed Sunday roast at a local restaurant and spending time catching up. What a great month it has  been for celebrations and I cannot believe that we have arrived at the last day of March.

I am delighted today to have been invited by the ladies over at Top Tip Tuesday as their guest designer. Their challenge for the next 2 weeks is Mellow Yellow. Please pop on over to see the DT makes over there and to also join in the fun.

I love the colour yellow but to me "mellow yellow" sings more that just plain yellow so I wanted to add a little pop of colour too. I was able to chose a digi from Sami stamps for my GD card. I chose a digi to make my niece's wedding card with. She is getting married in July and she is also a pink girl.
I have a great bird cage base card to use for wedding cards and I also looked through my stash of papers and found a lovely old magnolia paper with a background of yellow with purple butterflies. So I settled on my mellow yellow colours of yellow, purple and pink.

I lined the inside with pretty glitter embossed vellum and layered on some of my die cuts

 This is the pretty yellow butterfly paper inside.

I chose some yellow and white mulberry paper flowers from my stash (which I altered slightly for the final card with distress inks).

 I coloured the image with Promarkers and highlighted with Prismacolor pencils. I then carefully fussy cut her out, including that long eye lash ;0)

Then it was time to put on my creative hat.

Here is my finished card.

The single butterfly is a Cheery Lynn die as are the rose leaves and the lace at the bottom. The flourish is a Tattered lace die which was given to me by a friend of a friend who has given up card making.

 The sentiment is LOTV and the butterfly border is Joy Craft. These were all white die cuts which I coloured with distress inks in my "mellow yellow" colour scheme. I added some gems, pearls and glitter for a little bling.

and a couple of arty shots

 The colours speak to me of a mellow yellow sunny wedding day which we hope will be the order of the day in July.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges;

Country view crafts anything goes
Fussy and Fancy girlie
Whimsy use a die cut
Simon Says stamp Wednesday anything goes
 Cheery Lynn Back to nature 
 As you like it Lines or no lines technique mine is definitely lines and if I can be completely honest I actually don't like the no lines technique, I think it looks odd. I appreciate it's a skill but not one I want to learn.
Simon says stamp Monday pastels
Not just cards anything goes
Crafting from the heart anything goes
Artistic Inspirations anything goes with a twist of flowers
Pan Pastel UK spring colours
Sentimental Sundays springtime flowers
I love rubberstamps fave embellisment I have lots but I do love my die cut butterflies


Thanks for visiting, especially if you are a first time visitor here. You are most welcome. Can I also thank Samantha over at Top Tip Tuesday for inviting me to Guest design for her today.

We certainly had March winds over the weekend and the start of April showers. However
there are still so many mellow yellows in mother nature including these beauties in my garden and house.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x