I love days when I get to play and experiment, it doesn’t always lead to a card and sometimes in fact often can lead its way right into the trash can but sometimes I can get something I quite like from it.
Today I was playing around with glimmer mists, I had to dust them off first as they had been sitting on the top shelf in my craft room, I took a cream rose and spritzed it with the golden shimmers mist.
I used the Cuttlebug to emboss a background piece of card and found some guilding cream to highlight the embossing.
I used a Pumpkin bottom pearl from Wholeport to dangle from the silk ribbon bow, they are so pretty with the little jewel on the top.
Its blog hop time again and your chance to win one of two $5 credits for Mo's Digital Pencil too...so don't forget your comments on our DT's blogs along the way...our wonderful host this month is our fabulous Alice and the theme is incorporate some Flowers
The blog hop order is
Alice, Mina, Pops, ME, Gretha, Kerttu, Debby.Y, Heidy
I decided on Bastian with Bear from Mo’s Digital Pencil
Teals, Creams and Browns, coloured with Copic markers and chalk pencils, Lace from Wholeport and pretty satin ribbon, flowers are from Prima.
I think it all came together quite nicely
Next up is Gretha and she has made something jaw dropping gorgeous to show you.
Don't forget to leave comments along the way as there is a couple of spot prizes on comments left
Ribbon Carousel challenge, a simple Birthday card for me today using Stampin Up rubber stamps and Vintage Seam Binding ribbon
This is the second week of May and we are giving you some fresh inspiration for this month's theme.
What is this month's theme?
CELEBRATIONS!
So hop over to the blog here to see what my team mates have created and enter the challenge for a chance to win an amazing prize.
Something totally different for me, minimalistic, Clean and Simple.
At this time of year I always panic over what to do for my Daughters Birthday card, each year I struggle, buying one is impossible as they are all far to girlie, i need a card that would do for either boy of girl, nothing flowery, no shoes, flowers, handbags or cutie.
This year I had something in mind but new I was going to have to design it myself. I needed a cutting file for the silhouette. So I sat down at the computer and started to design my own.
The sneakers/ Plimsolls are in three layers, the sole the main front with tongue and the side fastening laced up with twine.
It wasn’t easy to make but I love it now that it is completed.
If you like it, leave me a comment and I might be persuaded to give the template both as a silhouette cutting file and a hand cutting file.
I was thrilled to bits yesterday, I was feeling good, up at 06:10 and out on my bike by 06:45, Chris has the patience of a saint with me, keeping at my pace when he could easily double lap my speed, we set out and it was a battle against the elements, the gusty wind battered us in the open but it was good to be out and about.
We headed into Sunderland and stopped at McDonalds for a coffee to recharge my batteries before heading out from the shelter of a built up area. I felt good so we headed further away from home, we even found some cycle paths that we didn’t know was there, the cycle paths in Sunderland are much better than in Seaham, they are a much easier ride, tarmac rather than shingles, our council has much to learn on this front.
I’ve had one or two scary moments on the shingle paths as my bike had quite skinny tyres which are much better on road, Chris swapped the tyre for a continental tyre, I little thicker but still a hybrid tyre so that I wouldn’t skid on them damn shingles. It does mean however that I have to work a little harder, hey ho!
So I got home very satisfied with myself, I did a 20 mile ride with the wind in my face, totally shattered but also totally fulfilled.
I was so looking forward to getting back out there today, up bright and early again, I was aching from yesterdays journey but I thought I could ride that off, how wrong was I? We headed off again in a blustery wind but I felt quite weak, I soon realised it was just too much for me so after around 4.5 miles I decided it was time to head back home, I told Chris to keep going as I didn’t want to spoil his ride and that I would head back home, of course he would hear none of it and he headed back home with me.
I was feeling quite deflated but again Chris boosted me up telling me that I should still be feeling very proud of myself from yesterdays ride. So I'm sitting now with a cup of tea made for me by my wonderful Man.
