Ribbon Holder...

A little while ago I made a present for my dear friend, Irene. It was a ribbon holder. I put pictures of it on my blog, like you do and had my socks blown off when I was picked out by the team at Inspirational for the holder to be featured on their blog.

They show such amazing work on there and to be picked out is just so special.

I was also shocked because although I liked the holder and I know my friend loves it I felt, like you do when you try something like this out, that I could have done it better!

Well here is the new improved 'all singing and dancing' version and the exciting thing is that the holder is being featured at The Pink Elephant this week as our very first tutorial!!

Isn't that just fantastic? So if you would like to know how I put the ribbon holder together do pop over to The Pink Elephant and check out the tutorial.

Thursday is going to be Tutorial day twice a month and I really can't wait to see what exciting things the other members of the design team have in store for us.

Cupcakes and chocolates...

Such an easy card to make using card and paper from my Kanban trip. I just love this printed card and the matching toppers. They were just so easy to put together.


Both prints seemed ideal to use in combination with this week's sketch at the Cupcake Challenge.


The brown card and candy pink paper used in the matting and layering are also from Kanban. The only addition I've made is the gold sentiment peel off and using my square nestabilities to create the focal point.

Sunshine Days...

One of the things I love to do with character stamps is creating a scene with them so I was really pleased when the challenge at Rainbow Lady was to make a scene of some kind.

I decided to use a combination of the Messy Rabbit stamps by Joanna Sheen and a tree by Magnolia. I suppose the idea for the rabbit behind the tree was inspired by the way Messy is usually hiding somewhere on the Joanna Sheen forum heading.

Torn green paper creates a grass like effect ( I hope) and the sky is some blotchy blue card I picked up at Kanban last week and I think that although it might actually be a faulty paper it resembles sky quite well.

As my card is layered and decoupaged to give it a 3D look it is also perfect for the challenge at Stamp Something where this week the team are asking everyone to think 3D.

I used Derwent Inktense pencils for all the colouring on this card.