My new little buddy!

I have been looking forward to using this sweet little Greeting Farm guy since he arrived in the post. I'd been thinking of using blues and browns, and when I saw that Samantha at SPCC had chosen SU colours Ballet blue and Soft suede, along with Basic grey for challenge #14, I decided to release him from his packaging and get stamping!

He was such fun to colour and cut out, although his hat changed colour big time when I heat embossed him!

To create the wall background I used some clipart and grunged it up a little with Versacolour. I used a cute, and slightly grungy Prima Clear stamp to add a little motivational graffiti. I've made this card for my friend's son Matthew, so perhaps the graffiti message should read 'Please, for the love of God, just do your homework!'

I added a little scalloped edging and the brown ramp, but otherwise kept it simple and just popped everything up with dimensionals. The colours of the card are much closer to Samantha's palette in real life. We have been enjoying more sunshine today and I don't think my camera can cope!

Well, I'm still not sure that I like 'man' cards but sweet 'teenage boy' cards are fun!

Wooohoooo!

Well doesn't my blog look swanky with it's lovely new button!!!

I am so thrilled to have made the Top 5 over at SPCC for this little card!

A big thank you to Samantha! I think she supplied great colours for this challenge.

As part of this Oscar acceptance speech I would also like to thank my wonderful husband, my weird but lovable parents, Custard the cat.......

Great blog candy!

Just a quick 'heads up' to let you know that the inspirational Samantha from SPCC is offering some yummy blog candy over at her personal blog Scrapmaster's Paradise.

Doesn't it look nice, nice, nice?

Love birds!

I had been thinking about using pink and green on a card, but wasn't sure which other colour to bring in. How very kind of Samantha at SPCC to give me a helping hand and suggest Yo Yo Yellow!

As I don't have any Stampin' Up inks/papers I had to use a mixture of Versacolour inks and watercolour pencils to get as close as possible to her lovely colour pallete.


This little card is for my sister-in-law and her husband as they will be celebrating their Wedding Anniversay later this month. Thankfully my sister-in-law seems to be making a slow, but steady recovery and is now back home with her husband and beautiful baby daughter.

As I had enjoyed using those little Pink Petticoat bird images on my last card I decided to use some of the others from the download package. This cute little couple seemed perfect for an anniversary card.

Once again I lifted those teeny tiny wings on dimensionals, and also raised the little heart and added lots of Sparkles!

I didn't have any cardstock of the right colour so I applied Versacolour 'Orchid Pink' with my favourite blending tool (a dried out Wetwipe!!!). Then I stamped with that beautiful Hero Arts Design Block to give additional texture. Some spotty ribbon and Hero Arts pearls in black seemed to finish things off nicely!

I also added some faux stitching with my fabulous new gel pen. A few days ago I ordered some Uni-ball Signo broad gel pens from Cult Pens. They arrived today and are simply wonderful! They flow nicely and don't leave any gaps. I am officially in gel pen heaven!

I managed to get over to see Jacquie and the kids yesterday. I had such a great time, and even got to meet Hannah's lovely boyfriend Ryan. He is such a gentle and intelligent young man, who obviously cares alot about Hannah.
Matthew was really pleased to see me, and while I appreciated this I had a hunch it was something to do with the rather lovely carrot cake that was served at lunch! Jacquie's husband is currently away working in Beijing. Anthony isn't a big fan of cakes and cookies so whenever he is away his family go feral and load up on sweet things!