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Friday 16 April 2010

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.

Thursday 15 April 2010

Project of the Month Blog Hop - Buttons

We will hold this every third Thursday of the month , we aim to give you a little inspiration and hopefully a few Oooo's and Awe's along the way, The Dream Team is made up with some of the most talented ladies so be sure to give them all a visit.

The Hop is starting with Cheryl this month & the theme is Buttons

Smell the flowers with Baby Fairy Flora she can be purchased from Digital Pencil Too, would she make the perfect card for a little girl or even from a little girl to send to someone?

I coloured her with Promarkers, added pretty papers a piece of lace, BUTTONS, Pearls and ribbon and finished with a bit of love.

Attention to detail...

A blossom made with scalloped circles spritzed with water and scrunched into tiny balls then opened up carefully and layed to one side to dry, once dry I threaded a narrow ribbon through all of the circled and threaded on my first button as the centre of the flower then tied the ribbon into a bow.

My second button you will need to look closely for as it is a pink tinted glass flower, i popped a pearl on top to make it a little easier to see and some punched foliage behind it.

Be sure to pop over to Liza next I just know she will have something amazing to show you.
If you get lost along the way I have a full list of the Design Team on my side bar.

Tuesday 13 April 2010

Mother To Be...

Isn't this the most beautiful sight? love this Mother to be.. image.

perfect for either congratulating parents to be or even Grand- Parents to be or how about a Mother to be that is going on to Maternity leave from work.

I coloured the digi stamp from Digital Pencil Too with Promarkers, I used the baby congrats embossing folder from Cuttlebug and buffed pink chalk over the words and also a script stamped in pink on the opposite side to the embossing. Nestabilities to cut out the image, Ribbon and pearl pin to finish.

Attention to detail...

An oval pearl pin pushed through the ribbon and the point secured between two punched heart shapes.

Super Girl - New Card

What a carry on! I bet you all thought I'd gone AWOL, well I got myself a new Superduper computer that my original software just didn't like and I've had to start afresh with photo editing programs and the likes.

So I thought this digi image Superdupergirl was very appropriate to be the first card added from my Superduper new computer. The image is by Mo Manning who never ceases to amaze me with her artistic talents.

Attention to detail...

The white background was embossed using the Cuttlebug Dvine Swirls and 3 cherry blossoms edged with a red Copic Marker added on top of the background.