A little playing around...

So proud of myself - I've changed my blog! Okay the background was just an easy copy and paste from the Cutest Blog on the Block site, but for the header I had to a fair bit of playing around with colours and all sorts of gadgets in a photo editing suite that I haven't done before.

Really pleased with myself, especially as I did it all without loosing my blog completely!

If you too fancy a change check out The Cutest Blog on the Block - they have some really funky designs and really are easy to do. The link is on their motive in the top left corner of my blog.

Pink Elephant Summer Challenge

Yes this week at The Pink Elephant we are celebrating 'Summer' ! I know we don't seem to have really had one yet properly in England this year, but we can always pretend and in any case I have loads of happy memories of being on the beach at Great Yarmouth in the rain making sandcastles. No offence to Great Yarmouth it was probably raining everywhere else in England too.

My Summer card has a cute Cuddly Buddly stamped image for the focal point. I coloured the image with Promarkers and then realised that none of my pinks matched the paper I had chosen to take to Irene's with me. Yes this was made at Irene's and she encouraged me to use her pearls, which I really like as an addition.

Due to the non matching colours I decided to do some paper piecing - hmmmmmmm make mental note at this point to never ever paper piece images that have loads of detail. It took many layers to get the right finish on this card, but I do like the end result.

The shells are from a stamp set by Pink Cat Studio.

No cards for a few days...

I'm going to stay with my dear friend Irene.

I'm still going to be around and checking out my favourite blogs, but won't be posting till Monday when of course it's Pink Elephant day.

Have a great weekend everyone.