Pink Elephant Day - and it's Sketch Time!

I love sketch time at The Pink Elephant as Robin, Lori and Frances do such amazing sketches - so easy to follow, but yet so stunning.  This week sees a fab sketch by Robin and we are being sponsored by Stampotique Originals.  If you have never heard of Stampotique before then you definitely need to head over and check out their amazing range of stamps - just so different and totally unique.
On my card I've used is Topknot, which is one of the stamps in the range by  Jill Penney & Daniel Torrente.  I know my youngest daughter, Shelley, will love this image and she has said she wants me to make a Valentine card for her boyfriend to give her.  I hope she's told him about this arrangement! 

At Christmas one of my stocking filler gifts from Laura was a pack of charms - one in particular stood out as being perfect to go with this stamp especially combined with the computer generated 'Wild Thing' sentiment.  Shelley is a Hendrix fan - Led Zeppelin too - who would have thought that my idols as a teenager would be approved of my daughter many years later.  Weird!!
The snakeskin paper was some that has been in my stash for ages - sigh still got half a sheet left.  The heart leaves around the oval were stamped using a bargain stamp called 'Flower Hearts' that I bought in a sale recently. I painted the image using mica paint and tinted the edge of the oval with pearly chalk.
 Naturally my card is for other challenges too...

• Crafty Creations - Three different textures - smooth pearlescent card stock, mock snakeskin and cuttlebug embossed panel.
• Creative Inspirations - New Products - my stamps and the charm
• Raise the Bar - New Stash - stamps and charm
• Crafty Ann's - Embossing 

First day in new job today - eeeeeeeeeeeeeek!  This could seriously damage my crafting time!  I am excited though and hopefully today will be the start of something good.  Hope you have a good day too whatever you have planned.