Rainy Days...

'Rain or Shine' ... and on the inner 'You're a friend of mine'.

A card to cheer up a friend and also for the the challenge at http://tandastamps.blogspot.com/where the theme is rainy days.
I used this great sketch which is the challenge at http://cutie-sunday.blogspot.com/ this week.


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The stamps for both the image and the sentiment are by My Favourite Things. I stamped and paper pieced the raincoat. The rest of the image was coloured using Derwent Inktense pencils.

You're having a laugh...

This week the team at http://www.mytimetocraftchallenge.blogspot.com/ want us to share some fun images, amusing one liners or whatever we think would to make them smile!

I chose this large stamp by Stamps Happen.Inc as it certainly makes me smile. The smug look on the cat who caught the 'mouse' and the real mouse peeping round the corner of the monitor says it all.

I coloured the image with Lyra Aquacolours - they were wonderful for getting all the shades on the cat - and used a Letraset Promarker for the screen as it gave that a lovely flat finish.

Lilac butterfly birthday...

As soon as I saw the sketch at http://sketchsaturday.blogspot.com/ I thought it would make a perfect opportunity to use one of my new embossing stencils by X Cut. This one is called Spring Swirls and is really pretty having both butterflies and flowers on it.

The butterfly image is a rubber stamp that came in a collection I bought on ebay ( I love ebay) and I really don't know who it was made by, but I love the image and it was a great fun to paint with water colour pencils.

My card is also perfect for the challenge at http://stampchallenges.blogspot.com/ where the instructions this week were to create a birthday card.

Materials used:

• Lilac shaded card by Kanban - the colour is deeper at the base of the card than at the top and I have used the lighter shade for the cuttlebugged piece
• X Cut embossing border 'Spring Swirls'
• Butterfly rubber stamp
• water colour crayons - Faber Castell
• silver brads, vellum, white organza ribbon and silver sentiment peel offs from stash