It's all about the Pastels....and not the fruity kind

So it's on to the next challenge over a Passion for Promarkers and this week the theme is to use pastel colours.

I am definately a 'pastel' kind of girl, so I couldn't help but to be drawn to this weeks challenge, and here is my entry.

I made this card using the single elephant and rhino stamps which are available from Stamp Addicts. You may not think that they are particularly 'girly' but I think that they are cute enough to work in this case.

The backing papers and the alphabet letters are all from Crafters Compnanion CDs and the lacy edging is done with one of my lovely Martha Stewart border punches.

The guts over at Simon Says Stamp are also having an Anything Goes challenge this week, so I thought I would enter this card for that one too.

Thanks for looking.

Sharon x

I made the Top 5 Passionista!

I am so excited to have made it in to the Top 5 Passionista in the Passion for Promarkers blog, with one of my Stamp Addicts Cards using the Bat out of Hell stamp!

It was one of my crafty ambitions to be a winner on a prestigious blog and this one certainly qualifies in my book.

Here's the card that got me there, but you shouldreally pop over to the blog to see the other fantastic creations - you can find them here.

I just wanted to say thanks to the lovely crew at P for P, for picking me this week. You have  really made my day!

Sharon x

I love Pippi Longsocks

Morning everyone! Well it's shaping up to be a lovely sunny day once again in our neck of the woods. I now have a bunch of  snow drops blooming at the end of my garden and I always take this to mean that Spring is finally on it's way. And if that's not enough proof....I actually managed to get some washing dried on the line yesterday for the first time in months (how sad am I to get so excited about that!!!)

I also managed to fit in an enjoyable bit of time crafting yesterday, and this is what I came up with, using the adorable Pippi Longsocks from Sugar Nellie. For me this is one of those 'instant smile' images.....both cute and cheeky at the same time, and she's really easy to colour in too.

I've tried to keep this card fairly clean and simple. I found a scrap of blue card which was just the right size for the matting and then coloured Pippi to match, using my Promarkers of course! The polka dot embossong folder has been dusted off once again and the whole thing finished off with a scrap of Organza ribbon.

I'm going to enter this card in to a few challenges:

Allorts - Free and Easy February
Cute Card Thursday - Things With Wings
My Mums Craft Shop - Ribbons and Buttons
Secret Crafter - White on White
CES - Blues and Creams
Less is More - Don't Scrap It.

So that's me done for today. I hope you all have a lovely day and thanks for stopping by.

Sharon x

Flower Power

It's a very quick post today as there are only a couple of hours left on this week's Cute Card Thursday challenge, which happens to be 'Flower Power'.

I finally got round to finishing off a card which I started a few weeks ago, following a sketch from another challenge. I missed the boat on that one, but at least I will be able to enter it for one challenge if I get a move on!

Sorry that the picture is particularly rubbish (even by my standards!) but the weather is so gloomy round here today that I can't seem to get any decent light.

Anyhow, as you can see I have used a lovely LOTV image for this card, plus some papers that were lurking in my stash! The only trouble is that, playing around with this image just reminds me that LOTV had some gorgeous new releases out earlier this week.......I am still doing my best to resist the temptation!

Thanks for stopping by.

Sharon x

Some things really are as simple as black and white.......

The theme over at Passion for Promarkers this week is Black and White, so here is my attempt at a bit of monochormatic madness.

The stamp is Bat Out of Hell from Stamp Addicts and as you can see, I have stuck to various shades of black and grey to colour him in.

As for the backing papers - I didn't have any with musical notes so I took the plunge and drew it myself.....hope you like it!

I'm going to enter this card for these challenges:

Passion for Promarkers - Black and White (of course!)
Allsorts - Free and Easy February
One Stop Craft - Create your own background.

Thanks for visiting once again!

Sharon x

Totally Twins

Well I am pleased to say that I managed to get my 'Twins' new baby card finished this weekend, and here it is.......

This was the perfect opportunity to dig in to my Humphrey stamps once again, and this time I stamped out the elephant twice for the boy and girl twins.

I also had to adapt the senitment by adding an 's'  - hopefully I got away with it!

I'm entering this in to a couple of challenges:

Crafter's Companion - Anything Goes
CES - Spots and Dots (it's hard to see but the backing paper is spotty, as well as the dotty embossing on the top.

Thanks for looking.

Sharon x