Whiff of Joy Challenge #41

I had a text from a friend yesterday to say that her baby boy has arrived!  I know her through the National Childbirth Trust classes we attended when I was pregnant with Thomas and we’ve kept in touch since then.  Her eldest is just a few days older than Thomas and I have to admit that having two children under the age of two sounds like extremely hard work!!

I love the WOJ wedding and baby collection and as we have a few friends who are expecting this summer it was the perfect excuse to buy this one image.   I mixed my distress ink colours again, using mustard seed and tea dye for the dress and dusty concord and faded jeans for the swaddling.  The challenge is to use flowers – easy peasy as I love my flowers!!  My big flower is made with 5 punched retro flowers and I curled the petals around a paint brush and then spritzed it with glimmer mist.   The papers are BG wisteria and I’ve just added some lace, pearls and dew drops. 

You will probably see this image again very soon as another friend is expecting a girl at any time!

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Blue & green should never be seen…..

unless there’s beauty in between.  Well I think this Mimosa image is very beautiful and I’m having so much fun as a guest designer for these gorgeous Bildmalarna stamps.  I’ve tried mixing my distress ink colours for this card and I’m pretty pleased with the result.  The fantastic layout is from this weeks Sketch Saturday challenge and this card also qualifies for the Secret Crafter challenge (recipe: 3 buttons, 2 papers, 1 ribbon) and the Creative Card Crew challenge (one for the girls).

Here’s a close up of the lovely Mimosa;

 

Card Recipe:

Stamps:  Mimosa’s 2 flowers from Bildmalarna, Papermania sentiment

Colouring medium: Distress inks: Dress – Shabby Shutters, Peeled Paint, Pine Needles; Skin – Tattered Rose, Tea Dye, Worn Lipstick; Flowers – Broken China, Worn Denim; Leaves – Shabby Shutters & Peeled Paint

Papers: Kanban Vintage Poppy card, My Minds Eye

Embellishments: Punched flowers, buttons, pearls, Cuttlebug corner die

Tools: Labels nesties, medium & small retro flower punches

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Whiff of Joy 1st Anniversary Blog Hop

Woo hoo, its Whiff of Joy blog hop time and I was so excited to be chosen by Katharina as one of the guests to take part in this blog hop.  If you've come here from Shaz's blog then yay... you're on the right track and you're very nearly at the end of the hop.  If not, then visit Katharina's blog to make sure you start of the blog hop from the very beginning.  I'd hate for you to miss any of the fabulous creations with these adorable new stamps.

And isn't this little fella just the cutest?!  I thought he would be perfect for a thank you card as soon as I saw him.

 
He's been coloured with distress inks and tombow pens and then I added a border with an Autumn Leaves border stamp.  All my cardstock is Coredinations but I'm sorry, I just can't remember the make of the DP as it's been in my drawer for such a long time.  The flowers are a mixture of Prima, paper roses and punches.  I made the opening a bit different after getting the idea while blog hopping.  And as this is a special occasion I decorated the inside too using the same paper and adding a pearl to the flower instead of a rose so that the card will close!!

Here’s a close up of this cute little elephant

I hope you’ve been leaving comments as you hop around the blogs because one pre-selected blogger will draw a random winner from the comments on her post and the winner will receive the complete new stamp collection!

So now you need to hop across to the next blog which is Nicole’s blog and you’re in for a treat when you get there because her work is stunning.

I hope to catch up with you at the PaperCraft Planet party later on!

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Just Magnolia

It’s been one of those weeks where I feel I’ve been so busy my feet haven’t touched the ground but at the same time I don’t seem to have got anything done!   So it was nice to have a couple of hours this evening to make a card.  I’ve used Tab’s lovely sketch on this weeks Just Magnolia challenge.  I think I’ve only used this image once before so it was definitely time to ink her up again.  She’s coloured with my usual distress inks and I used Tattered Rose and Worn Lipstick to add colour to the background. 

 

Here’s a close up of this sweet little Tilda;

We had a shopping trip to Bluewater yesterday where I bought these gorgeous Papermania Regency papers and the flowers, buttons and lace are from my stash.  I’m also going to enter this card in the Creative Card Crew challenge (polka dots) and Papertake Weekly (pink & green colour combo).

Don’t forget the Whiff of Joy blog hop tomorrow evening, you’re going to love the new stamps!

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Truly Scrumptious DT Card

A big thank you to everyone who took part in our challenge last week.  I really enjoy visiting so many blogs and its fantastic to look at cards that have been made with one of my sketches!! 

Our challenge this time is a fab sketch by the lovely Heather.

 

The extra challenge this time is to use beads on your card.  I made this card last week as we went to a wedding at the weekend and guess what, I forgot the beads!  And the card has already been given to the happy couple so I wasn’t even able to add them on after.  So a slapped wrist for me but the rest of the DT have done a fantastic job so do pop over to the TS Blog and take a look.

I just love this WOJ stamp, its so much fun to colour.  I used my usual distress inks for most of the image but used Tombow pens to colour the foliage and I think I chose the wrong shade of green as it doesn’t complement the paper very well.   The paper is Anna Griffin and I used pale grey Bazzil card for the base and Bazzil Bling to mat my DP and image onto. 

I hope you’ll be able to join in our challenge!

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Whiff of Joy Blog Hop & Anniversary Party

The 1st anniversary celebrations start on Katharina's blog at 7pm on 25th July with a blog hop which will finish at Papercraft Planet with a party. There will be prizes to be won along the way and Elizabeth Bell and Alison Acton will be joining the party to answer your questions.

So make sure you put the date in your diary and we'll see you at the party!

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The hardest cards to make

We had some bad news earlier  this week; my uncle died suddenly of a heart attack.  He had suffered with Parkinsons disease for the last 5 years but was coping well.  Last weekend he was taken into hospital with a chest infection and they kept him in as a precaution.  He was due to come home on Wednesday but died suddenly and unexpectedly in the early hours of Tuesday morning.   The funeral is next Thursday but I won’t be able to go so I’ve made my cousins a card each to let them know my thoughts will be with them.

I find it so hard to find the right words at times like this but I hope these verses will be a of some comfort to my cousins.

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