With love...

This is one of my favourite Pollycraft stamps (although I actually love all their designs) mainly because the little sign is blank and you get three different messages in the set to use - 'with love', 'for you' and 'thank you'. All really useful and the girl is so cute too.

Hopefully my card fits quite a few challenges as my main challenge this week has been to try and transform my jungle back into a garden! Why do shrubs take absolutely no notice of their own labels? You know the ones attached to the pots that say things like 'minature plant' '2ft x 3ft' and then a couple of years later you wonder who planted that 7 foot monstrousity in the border.

Anyway on to the challenges...

• Cute Card Thursday - Nip and punch - my hearts are punched.
• Passion for Promarkers - use apple green and pastel pink
• Cupcake Craft Challenge - fairies

Materials used:

• Promarkers
• Cuttlebug border die
• Pollycraft stamp set
• small heart punch
• green and pink card and gems from stash
  

Clevers Corners Part 2...

In my last post I mentioned that I would have liked to have added ribbon to my card, but hadn't got anywhere near the right shade. Well my blogging/forum friend Ali left me a comment suggesting staining white or light coloured ribbon with the ink pad used for the stamping.

What a brilliant idea and it works really well - thank you so much Ali for this great tip.

Clever Corners...

My first card using the wonderful corner stamps by Clarity Stamps. They are just so much fun to use. I spent hours making all kinds of patterns before finally putting this very simple card together.

I would have loved to add ribbon to the card, but after searching supplies couldn't find any in the shade I wanted - time for a shopping trip methinks.

The leafy frame is actually made by using the leafy corner stamp 8 times to create the frame pattern - only possible with clear stamps. The background paper is one from the vintage range by Kanban.

A very simple notebook...

A little while ago I bought some tiny note books with the most awful cheap looking pictures on the covers. I thought they would be just great for altering. This is the first one I've got round to doing. Not much space to be creative on such a tiny cover, but I managed to fit one of the beautiful images from the Whiff of Joy spring stamp set, a ribbon and a couple of tiny gems in each corner.

My notebook is for the challenge at Stamp with Fun where the theme is 'anything but a card' this week.

Have a perfect day...

It's Monday and that means it Pink Elephant Day again - oh my it doesn't seem two minutes since we were all so excited to start the new Challenge Blog and now we're on week 17!! I really can't believe it.

This week we have a Recipe Challenge and the recipe is...

3 buttons

2 papers

and 1 sentiment!!!

I've used Royal Blue and Orange for my two papers, tiny orange buttons (2 round + 1 heart shaped button = 3) and one 'Have a purrfect day' sentiment.

A cute image of a cat with the fish bowl sneaked in on the act too - I'm hoping that's okay with the bosses! The cat is one of two cat images, accessories and sentiments from a clear set by Woodware.

Pop over to the Pink Elephant to see what the rest of the DT have come up with and I hope everyone will have time to play along with us this week.