A Gift...

I've made this plant marker for a very dear friend, who I know grows loads of things in her garden. I 'm hoping she will be able to use it to mark a row of seedlings or maybe one of her pots of produce.

Just before Christmas I saw these wonderful plant markers on sale and couldn't resist buying a couple with the idea of altering them and making them into more personal and special gifts.


As you can see they already had a black section which I'm guessing was to write the name of the plant on in chalk. However, it wasn't real black board type paint so I decided to bring the plant marker bang up to date. I attached a laminated piece of white card on the back and included a pen attached with a tag and bow as part of the gift.


I stamped Tilda with watering can (one of my all time favourite Magnolia stamps) on to shrink plastic. I also made a shrink plastic flower and pot, which is one of the stamps in the Messy Rabbit collection by Joanna Sheen.

I stamped the background of grass and the sentiment 'Spring in in the air' using a Studio G collection.

All the images were coloured using Sakura Stardust pens.


My gift is also for the challenge at http://magnoliameetsstampavie.blogspot.com/ where everyone was asked to make a gift using a Magnolia stamp.

I'm halfway through altering the other plant marker so do call back tomorrow if you would like to see how that has changed.

You are a star...

This card is just a small card to tell my daughter how proud I am of her coping with her new job, which has been quite a challenge.

I've used a star shaped card I bought at Lakeland some time ago, but it would be quite easy to use a graphics programme or a template to create similar cards.

I embossed the card using a star shaped brass stencil and then stamped this oh so cute little Penny Black mouse in the centre using Versefine Sepia coloured ink which I thought gave him a softer look. He was then coloured using a mixture of Derwent Inktense pencil crayons and All Night Media water colour crayons.

Then shaped inner was part of the original set and I really wanted to stamp 'You are a star' inside, but unbelievably I haven't got that stamp!! The nearest thing I could find was this gold rub on, which has served the purpose, but I would have preferred proper writing. That's just me being fussy though!


I think my card is perfect for the challenge at http://www.mytimetocraftchallenge.blogspot.com/, which this week is entitled 'Mice and Easy'! I am hoping that as I've used brown (well sepia) ink and his bowl of stars is pink it will also qualify for the challenge at http://pennybfriendssaturdaychallenge.blogspot.com/ where we asked to use the colours pink and brown.

I'm just a little bit excited...

Okay I'm so excited I found it hard to sleep last night. Yesterday I was featured on Inspirational - two cards and the ribbon holder I made recently.

It's just unbelievable. All the times I have looked at the most incredible work on there and now they have picked some things of mine out! I keep thinking someone will come along and say 'ooooh we made a mistake' - lol.

If you have time check out http://inspirationalcraftblogs.blogspot.com/2009/01/anns-beautiful-ribbon-holder.html.

Make a cup of coffee before you do though because if you haven't been to this site before you will be there a long time.