Fairy

This is my card for the latest sketch over at Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2. It is a bit late in the posting but we had a surprise visit from my brother yesterday tea time when I was making it. Anyway, better nearly late than never.
The image is Lili of the Valley, white card is from the scrap box, sentiment is Hero Arts, ribbon is American Crafts, flowers are from the jar on the shelf and the brads are from the brad box.

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Purple Passion

The theme this week over at Allsorts this week is Purple Passion, I love purple so started on this card the other night.

Was wondering what else to add to it besides the papers, image and sentiment so just settled on the little purple gems and I think it's enough. 

The base card came from Whichcraft a few years ago, image and papers are Lili of the Valley, sentiment is Woodware and the white and lilac card are from the snippets box under the craft table.

The blue tits are busy to-ing and fro-ing feeding their young, we know they are busy when the washing line starts bouncing

Probably not the best pic but they don't stay still for too long.

Hope all my UK visitors have a lovely bank holiday weekend

Weekend makes

We had a great time at a workshop at Whichcraft on Saturday where we made these beauties using Woodware Stamps

When I got home I made a start on this card for the challenge over at Sweet Sketch Wednesday

Then I noticed on Kevins blog that the Graph it colour challenge has Oranges and lemons for their theme so thought I would enter there too.

I have used a stamp from Lili of the Valley and coloured it with copics, the orange card is bazzill bling and the dotty and gingham paper has been in the box for quite some time.

The flower is an imagination crafts stamp stamped onto the bazzill and then cut out.

The pearls are Prima

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Back from our travels

We have been away visiting family in Scotland for a few days, among other things while we were away we visited the Kelpies in Falkirk

It was a really interesting day out and we had a little laugh when we heard that all the parts were engineered and made in Yorkshire ready for assembly on site.

So having missed last weeks Sweet Sketch Wednesday challenge I settled down to do this weeks this afternoon. Here is the sketch

and here is my card

The image and the papers are Lili of the Valley, I used Copics to colour the image.

Base card, Kraft card circle and sentiment from Craftwork Cards, I have embossed the circle with an embossing folder which I think came from Samuel Taylors and  then brushed over it with Stampin up craft ink in Whisper white. The little stars are Studio Calico.

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Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 -12

So here is my entry for this weeks sketch over at Sweet sketch Wednesday 2
and here is the sketch



The image is from the Crafters Companion Mulberry Wood CD but I have adapted it as it only had the one bear and I wanted two, the sentiment is from a Woodware stamp, the pink card is coredinations and everything else is Craftwork Cards.

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Best laid plans

So I had planned to have a whole day crafting while we were off over Easter. It didn't happen.

First we got distracted by this little chap bobbing around the garden and in and out of the nest box, fingers crossed they have taken up residence with us this year

Then today I was in the mood for baking so baked a loaf 

used the bananas up with some banana and sultana buns

then thought I had better use some of the rhubarb out of the garden before the stalks got too big so I made crumbles

Then I found the time to make a card for Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2, not quite as last minute as last week, although last minute was good for me as amazingly I won! 

So here is this weeks sketch

another great sketch which will definitely be used again.

Here is my card

I twisted the sketch so that my Digistamp boutique image would fit.

The base card is a 120mm scalloped from Craftwork cards, image is coloured with Copics as are the punched hearts in the right hand corner.

Lilac card is American Crafts and left over from a mermaid card I made a few weeks ago, flower papers came free in a magazine, white card has been embossed with a Sizzix embossing folder and I think the trim came from The Range.

Thank you for visiting and for putting up with all the waffle and I have just twigged that Allsorts  Challenge blog have Birds and Feathers for their challenge this week so I will enter this there too.

Easter Greetings

Something simple for Easter Day.

Hope anyone visiting is having a lovely day whatever you are doing.