Just Inklined to Blog Hop–Pleats

Its that time again for the Just Inklined Blog hop and this month I am the host and I have chosen Pleats as the theme.

The blog hop start with me so you are at the right place, I know all of the girls have been working hard on their projects so remember to leave them all a comment for a chance to win a spot prize.

The image I used is called Poppy Cluster and it’s gorgeous, it is one of the new digital stamps and can be found here

So on to the pleats, I used a Martha Stewart border punch on some red card and scored lines on my ScorPal and carfully pleated and added it behind my image. I used Copic markers and Prisma pencils to colour the Poppy Cluster.

I used some prima resin poppies and a Cheery Lynn flourish die.

I also used some gorgeous pre-pleated ribbon from Ribbon Carousel behind the image.

Hope you like it and got a little inspiration, you now need to hop over to the wonderful Tammy’s blog as she is next on the hop and don’t forget to leave comments.

Cowgirl

Another card to showcase from the Victoria Case Stamp images, I didn’t think I would get a card made today as I’ve been cooing over my new great niece Amelia Grace, I hate to say it but I forgot to take my camera with me but I’ll take so pictures later to show you, she’s such a doll.

Cowgirl available here

She’s a bit cheeky don’t you think? Coloured with Copic markers and Prisma pencils and edged with Spellbinders edgabilities.

I sort of sensored the close up with my watermark ha,ha.

I also used a memorybox flourish die and twistered it to make a corner and added gems from Mei Flower to the flower centers then used my trusted Cuttlebug to emboss the base card with a sizzix embossing folder.

Fabulous Evening

We had a wonderful night out last night, Great company and great food. The boys hris and Russ could hardly get a word in edgeways for Sheena and myself and the chat just flowed, I love nights like that.

We all had so much to talk about and boy did we laugh, Sheena and I decided on the same meal of Lamb until we were asked what we would like then all Sheena could see in her mind were the wee bah lambs that she had just made into craft stamps ha ha, so pork it was for Sheena, if you haven't seen her latest rubber stamps you must go and check them out here, they are brilliant.

Nail Results

Ok nails are done, I have to say they are much better than they were but not as good as I would have liked.

As you can see from the pictures below I didn’t have much for them to work with. I struggle to grow my nails with the psoriasis and I would have like to have kept them totally natural but because I wasn’t totally happy with the result I painted them.

Before pictures

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After Pictures

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Ok thats it, we’re off out for our meal with Sheena and husband Russ and i’ll try to get some pictures if we come up for breath.

Especially for a Lady

Geesh it’s been hot, I managed to get my washing dried outside today, I love that. Tomorrow I’m going to treat myself and have my nails done as the sunny weather makes me want pretty nails. then tomorrow night I’ve a date with husband Chris and we are going out for dinner with Sheena Douglas and her lovely man Russ.

So onto my card, keeping in the theme of sunny days and thinking of afternoon teas I reached for the new Nitwit collection of Time for Tea and came up with this.

Isn’t it pretty? I used one of the spellbinders oval frame dies from the pierceabilities range, I played around with the time for tea collection in my graphics program to make the center piece.

I used the Mei Flower gems top and bottom of the card,I love the graduated sizes of them all on one card.

Finished it off with a pretty sheer lemon ribbon and a Prima stick pin.