Happy New Year everyone...

I had such good intentions for making a fabulous Happy New Year card to post today - even found the perfect image at Whimsie Doodles, but I just can't as my rib muscle is still so painful.   Wouldn't mind, but I didn't even think I had any muscles!!!

Anyway as you can see it's another card made using one of the stamps from the Favourite Flower collection by Joanna Sheen and I'm actually not going to say this one is my favourite - I do like it, but not as much as the rose, hydrangea and the sweet pea stamps.

Hope you have a fun time bringing in the New Year and do take care. Pulled muscles or broken bones are no fun - I can vouch for that.

Another favourite flower...

Oh dear disaster has struck - I've done something to a muscle under my ribs or thereabouts and it's really painful to sit crafting or on the computer (hmm I know - why am I writing this post then? - well blogging is totally addictive and I'm only going to write a bit!).

Can't make any cards at the moment so grabbing the opportunity to show another of my sample cards for Joanna Sheen's Favourite Flowers stamp sets.  I think yesterday I said the hydrangea was my favourite - hmmmm well actually I love this rose too and the sentiment that accompanies it.

As the challenge at My Time to Craft is 'anything goes' my card fits that challenge well.

Hope whatever it is that I've got doesn't stay around too long I've got toooooooo many things to do.

The Stamp Man and my best crafting project award...

The Stamp Man has a great blog hop going on until January 3rd and part of the event involves looking back over your past year and picking out pieces of work that you are really proud of.  Sounds easy, but oh my when you look back through the months it gets really hard to choose.

I decided that I was really proud of the way I finally got to grips with Promarkers.  When I first started with them I found them so hard to use successfully (not helped by the fact that the type of card I had was useless), but now I love them and use them all the time.

For my special piece of work I've chosen  a card I made as a sample for Joanna Sheen when the Favourite Flowers range of stamps were released.  I loved doing this card even though the hydrangea took ages as I used three shades of Promarker and coloured the flower heads petal by petal.  The butterfly was part of the set too and was also coloured with Promarkers. 

Do pop over and visit The Stamp Man to join in the fun.  There are some great prizes on the blog hop and also if you join in the awards you qualify to display the 'Best Work Award' on your blog.