Blog Hop of the Month–A bit of Verdigris

It’s that time again and this Months theme for the Blog Hop is A bit of Verdigris (the colour green)and Debby is the host and that is where the blog hop begins.

You should have landed on my blog from Pops if not hop back there.

I kept mostly to green with my card and I used Window Seat from Mo’s Digital pencil for my image, she’s perfect for teenage cards.

Coloured with Copic Markers and Prisma Pencils then matted and layered on top of a leafy embossed background done with the sizzix die on the Grande Calibur by spellbinders.

The flowers are from Orchid Crafts

Next up is lori and I know she will spoil you with something amazing.

Don’t forget to leave a comment as there will be 2 spot prizes for comments left on our blogs.

Mothering Sunday Free Background Papers and Verses

Mothering Sunday is nearly upon us and I guess most of us will be looking for that special verse to add to our cards, I can make cards all day but I hate searching for verses, luckily I have a lovely friend that came to me rescue and wrote some poems for Mothers Day. So I thought it would be fitting to share with you all and I also made some pretty papers in 6" x 6" sizes to go with them.

Pop over to Anita Poems and see for yourself

Background paper

Insert paper

Background paper

Insert Paper

I really hope these help you out, they would also make beautiful hand made cards for Sisters, Daughters, Aunts, Friends and Grandmothers

Scout Named Noah

We had a wonderful evening babysitting Jack and we took him over to see my Mam, he was in his Jimjams all ready for bed but he loves to visit her as not only is he the apple of her eye but he is totally intrigued with Jess her cat. We stayed for about an hour as that was as much as jess could put up with him as she is getting no younger and he has her scurrying from one room to another to hide from him.

I hurried back and got this card made, I think I have said before how much this character reminds me of Jack.

Scout Named Noah Digi Stamp from Sassy Cheryl 

The badge at the top is a real scout badge cut from my daughter scouting blanket Shhhhhhh don’t tell.

Lazy Daisy Mothers Day Card

This is such a sweet image that I thought it would be perfect for Mothering Sunday Cards and you could even colour theme is to your Mums Favourite colours.

Lazy Daisy Digi stamp from Just Inklined 

Coloured with Promarker pens and Prisma pencils, The borders are from Spellbinders Edgebilities, some pearls and blossoms and a pretty ribbon to finish.

I used backing papers from My Memories Suite Digital scrapbook software you can save a fortune doing this. If you go for the software remember to use my code to get your $10 discount and a $10 coupon for more papers and sets my coupon code is

STMMMS48868 Enter the code on the shopping cart page At My Memories Suite

Oh Baby!

We have two babies that will arrive into our family in the next couple of weeks so I thought I’d best get cracking with something pretty. One of which will be Kim and David's, I guess most of you remember the tragic loss of their beautiful baby boy Layton and I know many of you gave so generously when I did the fundraising for meningitis in his memory.

I love Mo Manning's baby images, so beautiful and this one is no exception.

Baby Boy b is from Mo’s Digital Pencil 

Coloured with Copic markers and prisma pencils the swirly embossing is a sizzix embossing folder and as this is an 8 inch card I used the Grande Calibur from Spellbinders to do the embossing. I don’t have a raspberry plate so I used the cutting plate and the B plate for the Cuttlebug.

The gorgeous ribbon is from Ribbon Carousel