Just a birthday card.....

I hope you are all having a lovely Mothers Day, the weather has been gorgeous here and I've had a wonderful day. I had some lovely presents from the children and went out with my daughter to do a spot of craft shopping, managed to fit in a visit to Starbucks for a yummy vanilla latte.....while the boys went to football.

Here's a card I finished off yesterday during my tidy up.... I found some images already coloured, this is one I started last week at the demo at the local library.

Love this cute CC design stamp, and just had to bring out the MME Bloom & Grow papers seeing as the weather has been spring like here over the last couple of days. Prima flowers finished off with a matching pearl brad and a cute lil' bead cap I bought from a bead shop in Devon, must get some more of these. The layout is from the challenge at Just Christmas and Birthday cards. The edges are distressed with spiced marmalade distress ink, one of my favourites, sentiment from Cuddly Buddly and punched shaped made with SU! punches.

Am off now to enjoy a lovely roast dinner, have a great evening.

xx

Anya in the Pink (and Lilac)

I've had a very productive day in my craft room today, had a bit of a tidy, made a couple of cards, discovered stash that I forgot I had .... and made a star card for a 21st birthday. Here's one of the cards that I made and I am entering it into the Anyone for Anya challenge this week, which is

'Mum's The Word'

I just love this cute Miss Anya image, which my lovely friend Susie sent to me recently, thank you so much, you know I'm going to have to buy these now!! I coloured with some girlie pinks and lilacs today, which is not my usual colour selection but I enjoyed working with them. I raided my paper cupboard and found this lovely lilac pearlescent paper from Craftwork Cards, the flowers paper is DCWV and the pink cardstock from the Paper Mill cut with my lovely Martha Stewart double loop punch set. I added a couple of prima flowers, I really wish I had bought a couple of packs of these in other colours - more for my shopping list ;-), a pearl brad from Papermania and finally a sentiment banner from Lakeland and I was done....

If only it was that quick, I had different pads of pack and cardstock all over the place while I was making this card!

I am also going to enter this card into the Cupcake challenge which this week is

Flower Power.

Am off to make my DT card for Creative Card Crew now and fit in a spot of sewing, mmmm or shall I bead?

Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Creative Get Well

Running a bit late with this posting today, I tried to schedule it last night but silly Mr Blogger wouldn't play the game.....

The challenge at Creative Card Crew this fortnight is Get Well Soon, a good choice Claire Ellen with all the germs around at the moment. The sponsor this week is Truly Scrumptious Crafts, see the pics below for the wonderful prize on offer




Here's my card for this challenge. Love this new stamp which is from the City Girls collection from Whiff of Joy, I ordered a couple of these stamps on release day Thursday 4 Feb and it arrived 2 days later, how's that for delivery, thanks Katharina.



The papers are from a new paper pad I treated myself to on Saturday, they are just delish, got matching flowers but thought these prima ones matched better. The layout is the sketch from the Whiff of Joy challenge this week.

Papers = Papermania Aqua capsule collection
Brads & ribbon from stash
Coloured with copics
Punches - Martha Stewart double loop and Stampin' Up! super oval and scalloped oval.

Looking forward to seeing what you come up with this fortnight.