Now that's my cup of tea!

Its been a while since I have had time to play in the Tuesday Trigger Challenge at Moxie Fab World but after seeing lots of amazing cards inspired by this photo I had to play along.

Just a small card only 4x4 but I have managed to use some of my favourite flower stamps. 

Its a long Bank Holiday weekend here in the UK but as usual the weather isn't playing ball and it rained yesterday and today, lets hope it improves tomorrow.

All Sweetness and Light!

I have had such a busy weekend with lots of tidying and having a huge clear out ( I have been needing to do this for ages).  I feel so pleased with myself but I have had no chance to visit blogs or my favourite sites at all.  I have just found five minutes to upload a card I made on Friday for this weeks Tuesday Trigger "All sweetness and Light"

Here is my card, its pillow shaped!  I love the delicate design of the bed linen and just coloured the white embossed image of the "Flower Dot "stamp from Hero Arts in similar colours.

I hope I will have time tomorrow to visit a few blogs :0(

Tuesday Trigger:- Feather Weather

This is the cute inspirational photograph for this weeks Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger challenge, I love those sweet little Blue Tits, they are regular visitors to my garden and we even have them nesting some years.

Here is a photo I took last year of mum collecting insects for her chicks.

This is the card I have created, I love this postcard shape and have been using it alot lately!

"Envy becomes you"

I have found time to play with this weeks Tuesday Trigger challenge cat Moxie Fab World,  aren't those shoes gorgeous, I love the beautiful green colour.  

I have used an old Hero Arts stamp "Antique Brocade" for the background stamping in Lime green and then clear embossing.  The flowers are hand rolled using some Cosmo Cricket polka dot paper.

The weather here has turned decidedly autumnal its wet cold and miserable, hope its better where you are and you are having a fabulous weekend.

A Pin Therein!!

Its been quite a while since I had time to play over at the Moxie Fab Blogs "Tuesday Trigger"  but once I saw this cute pincushion with the sweet hexagons I had to have a go.  I love the chintzy material and that inspired me to use some scraps of chintzy paper ( a great way to use scraps!!)  Unfortunately I don't have a hexagon die so I just used a computer art program  to print off a shape and then I used it a blank!

I have used a piece of felt for the middle so I could stick the pins through.

This is the last weekend of my summer holiday and I am back to work on Tuesday, the six weeks have flown by and I am really not looking forward to going back to school!!

A Partridge in a Pear Tree.

Just a quick post today as my DD is due home from University today and I am so excited, I haven't seen her foe a couple of months and we have lots to catch up with.

Yesterday I had time to make a card for this weeks Tuesday Trigger at Moxie Fab, I saw the photo and fell in love with the stunning cushion.

Here is my card although I am not happy with the photograph, its a dull rainy day here and I just can't catch a good image.

The little stamp is one I have had in my collection for a while, its made by The English Stamp Company and as you can see is a lovely image of "a partridge in a pear tree".  I have stamped and embossed it in silver on some PP and then layered onto some silver card. I then added some stitching with a silver pen.
The background flourish is by Hero Arts and I have just stamped it in silver on white and layered it onto some blue card.

Looking forward to breaking up for the holidays tomorrow and I have two weeks off, Yipee!!!

Tuesday Trigger.

The Tuesday Trigger challenge over at the Moxie Fab World blog is a new one for me,  I have been following the blog for a few months but this is the first time I have had a go at one of their challenges.
I love the inspirational photograph, the colours and the beautiful white flowers in the vase along with the blue flower on the cushion all inspired me to make this mini card,

I have stamped the white card  with the Basicgrey/ Hero Arts sweet threads flower using versamark ink and then brushing with perfect pearls for a shimmer. I then stamped the flower again onto another piece of card using Pool Adirondack ink and, using the same ink and a paint brush coloured in the flower.

Here is a close up of the background.

I am looking forward to the weekend now, my first week back at school has been really busy.  We had 87 new 7 year olds starting school this week and its always a hard week!