Mel's One Sheet Wonder Challenge & Nerine's Layout Challenge

I really enjoyed this challenge of Mel's, one sheet wonders (OSW) are something I used to do a lot of but haven't done for a while, so this was great! So great in fact, I did 3!!

Here's the first one, the one I'm entering for Mel's challenge - just because these colours remind me of Mel!! (Bright & cheery!)

For those of you who are wondering - what the hell is a OSW? The general idea is that you stamp an A4 or A5 page randomly then cut it up to make feature panels on cards. Here's is what the OSW sheet looked like before it became cards...

These are the four cards I made out of that A5 sheet:

Here are some close ups of 3 of the cards (lost the photo of the fourth card somewhere!):

Stamps: Eastern Blooms, Its your Birthday

Ink: Pink Passion, Green Galore, Lavender Lace, Brocade Blue

Paper: Pink Passion, Lavender Lace, Green Galore, Whisper White

The next OSW I did featured another Summer Mini Caty set - In the Stars. Here I was going for a kind of masculine look and endeavoring to use colours that I don't usually...here it is...

Here's the cards one by one...

Now with this last card I was trying to kill two birds (so to speak) and do Nerine's layout challenge...but...now that I look at it I think I may have gone two far from the sketch (the whole OSW panel is kind of an add on! oops!) I leave it to Nerine's discretion as to whether it qualifies...

This was the sketch...check it out at Nerine's blog

Stamps: In the stars, Short & Sweet
Ink: Summer Sun, Really Rust, Always Artichoke, Elegant Eggplant
Paper: Summer Sun, Really Rust, Always Artichoke, Elegant Eggplant

OK, last but not least, here is a sample card from my third OSW. This one featured the Garden Whimsy set and the colours are Taken with teal, Night of Navy and Close to Cocoa.

I hope you all enjoyed that HUGE post!! I'm sure that's got to be one of my biggest ever! Thanks for the inspiration Mel and Nerine!!

I'll be back in the next couple of days with not one but TWO scrapbook pages I made today!! So come back and visit again soon...