Winter Scene...

A winter scene on the front of a simple shopping list book. These books are only about 15p at Wilkinsons and with just a decorated front they become something special - well I think they do.

I made this one at the Sheena Douglas workshop I went to a couple of weeks back. The sentiment is slightly crooked as there was so much going on and it's hard to concentrate on stamping straight with Sheena bursting with energy and enthusiasm right at the side of you. Anyone who has seen Sheena in action will understand I'm sure.

Since the workshop I've been wanting to do some more landscapes, but the right colour of Distress Ink - Faded Denim has proved really difficult to get hold of - even at the NEC nobody seemed to be selling Distress Inks and when I did find some they had sold out of that colour the day before. Will have to order some online!

Materials used:

• Distress Inks - Faded Denim and Pine needles
• Cut n Dry foam
• Sheena Douglas scene stamps
• white glaze Sakura pen and ultra fine glitter

Challenges:

• Cupcake Craft Challenge - Snow much fun
• A Spoonful of Sugar - Create a scene

Have a great day everyone. I'm hoping to make a really good start on Christmas cards today. I really wanted to yesterday, but started to sort out some papers and before I knew it I was buried under a sea of stuff that needed sorting.

Not to worry I've now found things that I didn't even know I had and some stuff that someone else must have bought cause it's really horrid!! The local nursery school will love it though.

Thank you...

It's Laura's last day tomorrow at the Care Home she has been working at for the past year. The other nurses and manager have been really good to her and she wanted a special 'Thank you' card to give them.

I'm hoping this 8" x 8" card will be special enough. Although I must admit to being a bit worried as there is no pink in it! What was I thinking of? There will be trouble!

Materials used:

• paper and card from 'All dressed up' stack by DCWV
• plain black card and black glitter card
• oval scalloped nestie
• floral stamp by Magenta (only part of stamp has been used - this stamp is just so useful)
  
• Pearlex paints - metallic and pastel set
  
• Anita's glitter border stickers
• ribbon coloured using Promarker pen
• gold peel off sentiment from stash

Challenges:

• Sketch Saturday - I used the basic elements of the sketch, but I did miss some of the features as a punched border would not have worked with my patterned border.
  
• Cuttlebug Challenge - Give Thanks
• Simon Says - Give Thanks
• The Pink Elephant - Be Thankful
  

Thank you for looking and have a great day everyone.

Pink Elephant Day...

Yeah it's Monday and that means a new challenge at The Pink Elephant and this week we have the theme of 'Be Thankful'.

I decided to use one of the fabulous designs from the The Autumn Splendor digi kit in the Wild Flower Kids range available at Stamp Happens. I really love this horn of plenty image - although I'm not too happy with the how my Promarker colouring turned out. Think I need more practice on shading fruit.

The sentiment is from the Hallmark Card Studio CD yet again - love the way you can lift the sentiments from the CD and print them out in lovely fonts to add your own cards.

Materials used:

• Horn of Plenty - Wild Flower Kids Stamps at Stamp Happens
• Sentiment from Hallmark Card Studio Deluxe
• brown card and brown gold dust card
  
• gold mirri card
• gold corner peel offs, brown brads, ribbon and lace from stash
  

It would be great to see lots of people entering our challenge this week - there are so many occasions when we want to say thank you to friends and family as well as celebrations such as Thanks Giving. I'm really looking forward to seeing what everyone comes up with.