Tranquility - Boat Scene

Tranquility at its best.

Teal and Kraft Card and Espresso and Ocean tides ink pads, button and twine and twill tape a bit of blending, a boat scene stamp, Nestabilities label dies an argyle embossing folder and a water brush all helped to make this card.

Most of the image was water coloured but for those eagle eyed amongst you, you will see the edging to the Argyle Embossed Kraft card and the shading below the boats, this was both done with Promarkers.

The Boat scene stamp has no maker on the side of it, it was bought a few years ago at a craft fair. The other stamps (Compass and round swirls ) are from the Father Knows best stamp set by PTI.

If you would like this card leave me a comment and I'll do a draw for it.

NOW CLOSED _ Promarker Blog Candy

I have some wonderful candy to give away to 1 lucky winner.

As you know I love working with promarkers so I thought this is the prize that I would love to win if I'd never tried them.

The prize is 2 sets of the promarkers and a handy wallet to keep them organised.

Set 1 colours: Pastel Yellow, Pastel Pink, Blush, Ivory, Apricot, Orange, Terracotta, Grass, Sky Blue, Pastel Blue

Set 2 colours: Cool Aqua, Poppy Red, Henna, Dusky Pink, Sandstone, Saffron, Petrol Blue, Cool Grey 2, Cool Grey 4, Black.

A Letraset Wallet you can customise your own pallet. It holds up to 24 ProMarkers.

I bet you are wondering just what you need to do to win this candy.

Firstly spread the word about the Blog Candy, that means add the details and a link back to this on your website or blog and leave me a comment with a link to where it is, if you dont have either of these contact me via email.

Secondly, leave a comment on every card that I show this week.
This is the only way to win.

Good luck everyone, I'm sure that whoever wins this will be just as thrilled with these as I am.

I will close the Blog Candy Draw on Saturday 24th April

NOW CLOSED

Vintage card - Ophelia

My first love when I started card making was/is vintage, I love the soft muted tones, the romance and the dreaminess of a by gone era. This stamp is called Ophelia, for those that don't know Ophelia is a Character in Hamlet wrote by William Shakespeare and she fell in love with Hamlet and was so rejected by him that she went insane.

I used olive green and wine coloured ink, pretty cherry blossoms a text stamp by Stampin Up and a bit of love to finish the card.

Attention to detail...

A close up of Ophelia, distressed edges, notebook spiral punch used too, you can see the vines in the bottom right corner, just very thin pieces of card wrapped around my tweezers into a spiral shape.

I found the most pretty ribbon in my local haberdashery, hearts, shear ribbon and beads, what more could I ask for?

Glorious Day

This is Jacks first sit on grass, it is my neighbours garden as we don't have grass in ours, he giggled every time his little hands touched the grass.

We went out for a stroll this morning then after dinner he got to play on the grass.

I got a vidoe took of him trying to crawl and if I can work out how to upload it from my phone I'll add it later.

Children love to be out and about, they are so much happier in the fresh air.

Slimming Thread

I have had a really bad week of should that be naughty week ha ha.

I always start the week with good intentions.

I did go the the Slimming World club and I did loss 1/2lb but really it was more down to luck.

I really struggle for main dinners only me on the diet and the others in the house not wanting slimming foods (sigh), but I have to get back on track this week, so if you have a favorite none fat Dinner you make please let me know in the comments.