Saturday, 14 November 2009

Lilly of the Valley Blog Hop...


Just found out about this on my friend Chrissie's blog.

Lili of the Valley are having a blog hop to celebrate the release of their new stamps. The stamps are just amazing and if you join in the hop and check out the DT's blog you'll have a chance to win one or maybe more of these fab new stamps.

Want to know more? Then head over to their challenge blog before it's too late.

Friday, 13 November 2009

Snowflake sketch - and it's PINK!...

Well Laura will be proud of me with this card (which may be hers at Christmas depending on what else I get done). It's PINK - well it is in real life - what is my camera playing at? I had an awful time trying to get a photo due to the mirri card anyway and ended up taking the photo at a tilt, which is not bad but not perfect.


As you can see I've used Robin's gorgeous snowman digi again - it's just so cute!! This time I wanted the whole card to be be bigger and have more oomph so I used an 8" x 8" base card to matt and layer on to.

The snowflake was cut at 5" using my Christmas Cricut cartridge - I just love the way you can cut variations of the snowflake shape and layer them up decoupage fashion.

Materials used:
  • Robin's digi snowman image
  • Cricut Christmas cartridge
  • Pink glitter card, ice gold card, silver mirri card
  • scalloped circle and plain nestie
  • gems and silver peel offs from stash
  • Sketch from Friday Sketchers (last week's sketch)
  • Promarkers to colour snowman - touched up with ultra fine glitter
Challenges :
oh uh just gone to schedule my post and have realised today is Friday 13th - eeeeeeeeeeeek stay safe everyone - with the weather as cold as it is and it being 'that day' on the calender maybe it would be a good time to have a 'duvet' day.

hmmmmmm yep it definitely is Friday 13th - spot the error on my card - poor Mr Snowman his carrot nose needs colouring!!!

Wednesday, 11 November 2009

Snowflake sketch...


I've been wanting to use the amazing sketch at Friday Sketchers all week and I've actually only just made it before the sketch changes tomorrow. I just thought it was such a great idea to have a snowflake frame like this to mount an image on.

The image I've used is from Squigglefly and was designed by my talented team member and friend, Robin Willis, from The Pink Elephant. Isn't that snowman just so cute and I love the words that go all the way around the image - 'Snowmen have cold hands and warm hearts'.

Materials used:
  • icy lilac mirri card
  • white ice gold card
  • snowman digi by Robin Willis
  • X-cut snowflake corner punch
  • scalloped and plain circle nesties
  • snowflake cut on Cricut
  • gems from stash
Challenges:
Have a great day everyone and I hope it's not as cold where you are as it is here.

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