Vintage lady with rose...

Isn't this dreamy lady smelling a rose just beautiful? The image is one taken from a collection of 4 designs on an A4 sheet by Kanban and each of them are rather special. Strangely enough as I was making this card my dear friend Irene was also using one of the images on the same day - spooky!!

If you would like to see Irene's card please visit her at All Occasions, Cards, Papers and More - she has used one of the other images in the set and made a really wonderful card.

My card is for the challenge 'Vintage' at the One Stop Craft Challenge.

Materials used:

• Kanban image and Kanban roses backing card
• plain coloured matching card from stash
• cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder
• Cricut used to cut flowers (schoolbook cartridge)
• Woodware leaf punch
• ribbon, pearls and paper rose from stash

Black and white flower silhouette...

I adore the sketches at Mojo Monday. Every week there is a stunning layout to follow, but this week is a specially important one as it is also doubling up as a challenge on the Stampin' Out Alzheimer's (SOA) event.

If you haven't heard anything about this please check it out. It's a very special event organised by Susannah Boyd to raise funds to stamp out Alzheimers. You can see a video by Susannah about the event at Paper Craft Planet .

There are masses of things going on at the SOA event including freebies (oooooooooh love those), giveaways, discount at various stores and great competitions. Don't miss out as the whole thing is only taking place for a short time - so if you want to join in please donate and sign up now.

My card is also for the challenge set by my friend Cynthia at Rainbow Lady's Challenge Blog. This week Cynthia wanted us to think black and white with a silhouette stamp in the design. I do hope my silhouette flower by Hero Arts will be acceptable.

An award...

This morning I received this lemonade stand award from a very talented lady. I you haven't visited Torico at Stamparadise then go and look right now - Torico hand carves her own stamps and then does the most amazing cards with them.

Thank you so much Torico for thinking of me, especially as this award is one to say thank you to bloggers who show great attitude and gratitude. I believe I've received and passed on this award before so I won't list names, but to anyone visiting my blog and leaving such kind comments please feel free to snag the lemonade stand for your blog if you would like it.