Blue flower

Blue flower, a photo by sally_sherfield on Flickr.

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Its been another dull cold day here in the UK, where is our summer.........I have made this card for the current CAS-ual Friday Birthday challenge and the Third Birthday challenge over at the Simon Says Blog.

Hope you are having better weather where you are.

Distress Markers.

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I have been experimenting with my Distress Markers again, they are perfect to create shabby chic cards as the colours are not to bright. This Hydrangea stamp is also the perfect stamp as it has a lot of definition to the petals and leaves. The background writing is an old Hero Arts stamp that I have been hunting for, for ages.  Its called Italian Poetry Background , the script is so beautiful and perfect for cards like this,  I was lucky enough to find it on ebay last week and couldn't wait to ink it up. After stamping the flower I have added some water for a smudged look.

This card is for the current Hero Arts Birthday challenge and the Simon Says 3rd Birthday challenge.

Its a long Bank Holiday weekend in the UK and I had been planning to get into the garden but the weather is so wet and cold I am going to craft instead!!!

Hope you have a great weekend.

Woo Hoo 200 followers!!!

Wow I have reached 200 followers, well 201 to be exact and as promised I am doing a little giveaway.  I really appreciate every one that finds time in their busy lives to stop by my blog and leave such lovely comments.
I have collected together a few bits for my giveaway, and will get my husband to draw a name out of my basket    next Thursday 10th May.  The winner will have to be a follower of my blog.

Good Luck everyone.

Butterflies...

A Blog Named Hero has set a new challenge and this one I found difficult!!  The challenge is to "use a sentiment as something other than a sentiment".  Very tricky, this is what I came up with although I am not all together happy with it.   Never mind I will try to think of  something else.

Just a short post as I had some new stamps arrive in the post today and I can't wait to ink them up.

I now have 199 followers so one more and I will be having a giveaway, keep watching!!!!

Rainy Day's!!!

 The weather here has been wet and windy for nearly all of April, so this card with the rain is quite appropriate.  This is a digital image I have had for quite a while (not sure where I got it).  I have paper pieced the umbrella and coloured the rest with copics.  Its really hard to see and even harder to photograph well but I have highlighted the raindrops with a glittery gel pen, which looks effective in real life!!
I have made this card for the new challenge over at the Lily Pad "Simon Says Rainy Day Challenge" and the Simon Says Blog "Anything goes"

Sorry I couldn't resist adding a few more wedding shots,  here are the girls again Francesca and Rachel.

The beautiful bride Chelsie with her brother Michael.

And finally Francesca and Rachel with Rachel's brothers Lloyd and Matt.  If you are wondering where Tristan is, he has had a really exciting week being a session musician for his friend Greg Holden.  They have just finished a British tour and their last gig was London on the day of the wedding.

Hope I haven't bored you too much :0)

Thank you for all your comments, they are really appreciated.

P.S.  I have just noticed that I now have 198 followers, when I reach 200 I will have a little giveaway, so watch this space (Or blog.lol.)!!!!!!!!

Wedding Day!!!

Sorry no cards to share today as I have had a very busy few days,  My cousin daughter Chelsie got married yesterday and we had a family gathering to celebrate.  So good to all get together for a celebration.

My daughter Francesca and her second cousin were two of the bridesmaids and they looked so stunning.

 Here I am a proud mum and Auntie,  Francesca is on the left and Rachel on the right.  We were so lucky with the weather as it actually stayed dry for the photographs after storms all morning.

I couldn't resist adding this one too.

More Poppies...

I seem to be stuck on making Poppy cards at the moment, here is another for the "Virginia's View" challenge at The Lily Pad Blog.  Must be due to the fact the weather in the UK is really bad at the moment, after a fairly dry March, April has been non stop rain,  I can't wait for summer.....

Made this card by just using distress stains and inks, stamped the background, then inked some paper with Fired Brick and re stamped the image so I could cut out the poppies.  A really simple card, but I love the effect the distress inks have, so pretty.

Look at this beautiful inspiration photograph from the new "Virginia's view challenge" over at the Lily Pad,  I love poppies and had the Hero Arts Long Stem Poppies still sitting on my desk after making this card.  So I started creating straight away and made this card.

This is quite a CAS card for me but I held back with the ribbons and twine this time!!  The poppies have been stamped and coloured with Copic markers,  I then fussy cut them out.  On the card base I have just stamped the Summer sentiment twice with Bundled Sage distress ink and distressed. I then over stamped with the poppy image ,  next I adhered the cut out poppies and added some pearls!

Looking forward to a relaxing weekend after a busy week, hope you have a great weekend and thanks for visiting, I really appreciate all your comments.

Windows!!

 The second challenge over at "A Blog Named Hero has been set and this time its "Window Cards".  I have had a lot of fun making this card as it has used a few different techniques.

Behind the window is a panel made with the Meadow Silhouette stamp and my Distress stains.  Next I stamped and coloured the poppy stamp with copic markers and fussy cut out the image.  Thep pop dotted panel with the window has been over stamped and distressed with Old Paper and Frayed Burlap.

Here is  a side shot for a better view of the window, I am also adding this card to the current Hero Arts challenge for shaped cards and for The Lily Pad flowers challenge.

Hope you are having a great week, I had a fabulous time at The Dancing on Ice show last night, the skaters were all amazing, some of the lifts and jumps they did on the ice were breath taking and Torville and Dean were just mind blowing. I cant believe they are still doing all the tricks at the ages of 54 and 55.  Wish I was that fit!!!


Supplies : Stamps all Hero Arts, K5406, LL007, H5350,CG222.  Distress stains and Distress inks. Copic Markers.

Baby Boy!!

I have made another card for the current Hero Arts challenge using the second sketch , but this time turning it on its side.  The image is from the HA digi kit called Babies, after changing the colour I printed it twice on card and once on patterned paper.  I then cut our the stork and baby image and pop dotted it on adding a pop dotted bird wing too to give more dimension.

Tomorrow night I am off to London to watch "Dancing on Ice"  I am really looking forward to it, especially seeing Torville and Dean skate.