A favourite embellishment...

The challenge at Stamp Something this week is to use your favourite embellishment on a card. Hmmmmmmmmm, I would be lost without organza ribbon and gem stones so I decided to show this 8" x 8" Christmas card made with the new Messy Rabbit Christmas stamps by Joanna Sheen.

I wanted the Messy Rabbit scene to be the focal part of the card, but to add interest and lead the eye in I added an embossed border with organza ribbon round it to the lower part of the card. I tied a couple of extra lengths of ribbon around the first knot in the ribbon to give it more oomph and then added a die cut snowflake (another of my favourite embellishments - I have quite a few) and a diamond gemstone.

The card is really glitzy (and hard to take photos of) as I used silver mirri card embossed with Merry Christmas in cerise and matching plain cerise mirri board for the matting and layering.


The central image of Messy with a snowman was coloured with Promarkers and then cut out and matted onto the black card. The tree is a stamp by Art Impressions and was done in the same way. The fence is a Magnolia stamp, which means that this card also qualifies for this week's Magnolia challenge - embossing.

Check out the happy accident - when reaching for my glue pen to use to adhere the glitter I picked up a white Sakura Glaze pen by accident - oooooooooh the snow was far snowier using that!! Will be using it again in the future.

Thanks in advance for any comments (preferably nice ones!).

Ann xxx

Carol Anne's Boutique...

If you have never visited Carol Anne's Boutique then you are really missing out!!

Big time!!!

I was introduced to Carol Anne's blog by my dear friend Irene who wanted me to take a look at the wonderful vintage images that Carol Anne so generously shares with everyone so freely on her blog. Since then I have visited her blog often to view her lovely vintage photos and cards and we have become blogging friends.

Now she is very kindly offering a wonderful gift to one lucky person. Just look at the photo - aren't those flowers just beautiful? If you would like to take part pop over to Carol Anne's Boutique and say hello. You may just find yourself becoming one of her blogging friends in the same way as I did some months back.

I hope you do.

I'm back...

and we had a fabulous time. Such beautiful towns and harbours. The houses in both Rouen and Honfleur are just amazing buildings - sooooooo pretty and very unusual.

In all the excitement of getting ready to go away I forgot to schedule my Pink Elephant work. This week our challenge is 'Back to School' - so do check it out.



For my contribution I did two laminated pencil control sheets, which would make a great little game for any 'just starting nursery' three year old. Unfortunately my photo is horrendous as the laminating has caused glare, but I think you will get the idea.

The 'little one' uses a whiteboard erasable marker and starting at the cat uses the pen to trace along the dotted line to the mouse in the first one and to the food in the second. It's good fun and really helps young children to learn to control a pencil while also training their eyes to move from left to right as we do when reading.

As the card is laminated the pen can be wiped off and used again and again. It's nice to have one for the child to keep too so these could be scanned and printed out to be used with normal crayons.

I think the cat and accessory stamps I used are by Woodware and are from a clear set with lots of little extras such as a paw print, fish, etc.