Everyday Enchantment

I just adore these papers and can't use them enough! They are the free Everyday Enchantment papers which you can get during Sale-A-Bration from Stampin' Up!

 

The SU Many Marvellous Markers are on my wish list, however as I don't have them yet I use my ink pads to multi colour stamps. To get the Lucky Limeade & Calypso Coral on this image I inked the whole thing in Lucky Limeade and then using a baby wipe took some ink off parts and used the corner of the Calypso Coral pad to ink the flowers. It's not a accurate as colouring in with a marker, but I like the effect.

This stamp is also form a free Sale-A-Bration set, 'Fresh Vintage'.

I used this week's sketch from InkSpire Me.

Thanks for stopping by

Happy Crafting!

Going Green

Have you guessed what my new favorite stamp set is yet? Yep, 'Tea Shoppe', I promise to use something else later in the week... maybe!

So seeing as everyone is going green at the minute for St Patrick's Day coming up I thought I'd join in. I've used Luck Limeade & Always Artichoke with a touch of Daffodil Delight.

This card is based on Tsunami Rose's day 41 sketch. I think this is a fab idea, she has set herself the challenge to blog a sketch a day and as the title says this is day 41. Please check out her blog, and there is also a Facebook group you can request to join.

The ribbon on the card is Artichoke denim ribbon, from Stampin Up and the punched flowers are punched with the 5 petal punched from card stamped with the 'Fine Flourish' background stamp.

Right, time for Holby City!

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Another award

Oh my, I've been given another award and not from one blogging friend but from 2! Thank you Debbi & Abbie.


As always with blog awards there are conditions..

•  Thank the person who gave you this award. 
•  Include a link to their blog. 
•  Next, select 15 blogs/bloggers that you’ve recently discovered or follow regularly.
•  Nominate those 15 bloggers for the Versatile Blogger Award, include a link to this site.
•  Finally, tell the person who nominated you 7 things about yourself

Debbi & Abbie linked to and thanked.

Now 15 blogs I have recently discovered or follow regularly. I'm having trouble choosing as I follow hundreds of blogs and the ones I want to pass this too are ones with not many followers, out of all the ones with  not many followers I follow there is no one who hasn't already had this an passed it on! So my list is a work in progress.

Tea Shoppe

I really need to get a 'Happy Mother's Day' stamp, it would finish this card off perfectly. For the meantime though I'm happy with how this has turned out.

I've used this weeks Mojo Monday sketch with the 'Tea Shoppe' stamp set from the US SU catalogue.

My favourite colour here, Pumpkin Pie which I've used with Cajun Craze.

The ribbon is the whisper white satin trim organza ribbon from Stampin Up which you can colour any colour you like with ink pads, markers or alcohol pens. I did colour it with Pumpkin Pie but as I put quite a bit on it looks more Cajun Craze.

Well that's it for today.
Happy Crafting!

Sunday Scrapper

 

As promised, something crafty!

I've spent a few hours this afternoon on this layout of my niece with her fiancé and bottle of Moet at her 21st last July.

The warm colours of the photos led my straight to the new Spice Cake papers from Stampin Up's Spring Mini.

I used this week's new sketch from Creative Scrappers and had lots of fun tearing my paper!

Thanks for stopping by

Happy Crafting!

Blog Award

Well it's been a few years since I've been given an award by a fellow blogger, so I've very pleased and thankful that my friend Debbie has given me the Liebster Blog award.


Liebster is German for Dearest, but can also mean Beloved or Favourite.


Now with all blog awards there are 'rules', and Liebster is no different:

1. Thank your Liebster Blog Award presenter on your blog - done
2. Link back to the blogger who presented the award to you - done
3. Copy and paste the blog award on your blog - done
4. Present the Liebster Blog Award to 5 blogs of 200 followers or less who you feel deserve to be noticed (see below)
5. Let them know they have been chosen by leaving a comment at their blog.

I'm passing this on to - 

Catiecuddles Crafts - My friend Catherine who gives me tons of inspiration

Diane's Mutterings - My friend Diane who has tons of lovely and varied stuff on her blog and is fun to read.

Crafty Aunty - Another friend here, this time Mara, if you love knitting (even if you don't) you have to check her socks out.. I am the proud owner of a pair. She does have paper crafty things on there too.

Rosiee's Place - You guesed it, my friend. This time Jackie, who doens't blog often but when she does boy is it worth the wait :)

I'll be back later with number 5 (ran out of friends with blogs) and something crafty.

Happy Crafting

Scrap Saturday

I'm really glad to get scrapping again, haven't done much in the last few years but these gorgeous free papers from Stampin' Up! have really got me inspired.

Sale-A-Bration is still on till 31st March, and you can get your hands on the Every Day Enchantment Designer Series paper, or one of the 4 fab stamp sets for every purchase of £45 plus p&p. Email me for more details about getting in on my last order as a demonstrator and how to earn your free Sale-A-Bration set.

Any way, back to my layout... The picture is me with my mummy at my niece's 21st last July. I think there should be a picture of me every now and then in my album, but definitely not too often though.

As I've already said the papers are from Sale-A-Bration, the brads & ribbon are sneakily got from the US Sale-A-Bration as are the stamps used for the tea cups. They are from the US set 'Tea Shoppe' which I adore! 

Now US demos can't sell out side of the US, but if you have a friend in the US who will order from their local demo for your then that's just lucky!

If you know my mum you would understand why the layout is embellished with tea cups... Mum is literally T-Total, she drinks tea or tonic water, so the tea cups made sense!

 Credit where credit is due, the label for the journalling is a cutting file from Creations by AR. The layout is from this weeks sketch over at My Little Sketch Book.

Right off to finish next Thursday's DT offerings.

Happy Crafting!