oooooooooooooh so cute...

Rachel at Papercraftsbyrach has got the cutest candy on offer and the most gorgeous Lili of the Valley wedding card on show too.

Do pop over and check it out.

Be quick the draw is at the beginning of August.

oh wow what an honour...

I've had a fantastic surprise today.  There I was browsing and updating Challenge Mania when all of a sudden I nearly choked on my coffee to see my beach scene card (the one in the post below) featured on Practical Scrappers!  Oh my what an honour - not only featured, but the Grand Prize Winner - squeal, squeal!
If you've never visited Practical Scrappers please do, because the work on show from the DT is really brilliant and each day brings new inspiration.  A really great site.

Summertime...

Another beach scene card this time made for a forum Round Robin that I'm involved in.  The card has been received so I can safely put a photo on here.

It is actually a scene that would have worked great with the acetate style of card in my post below, but this time I decided to do a flat version.  The background was created using Crafty Ann's beach scene digi.  I must admit I did remove Ann's chairs from the scene to make way for my stamped ones.  Ann was fine about me doing this as she loves to see her digis used in different ways.

I think the two ladies are by Pink Cat Studios, but the stamp has been in my collection for so long I'm really not sure.  Great stamp though and it seems to make an appearance each summer alongside the lovely smaller shell stamps that were also in the set.

The scene was built up in stages - printed on blue card first of all and then white so that the palm tree could be coloured using Promarkers and finally sandpaper cut out to create the beach.  Time consuming, but great fun.

My card is for the challenges at...

• Sir Stampalot - Lazy Hazy Days of Summer
• Practical Scrappers - Stash older than one year (my stamp is way older than that)

Off for some retail therapy now.  Have an amazing weekend everyone.

Ann xxx