Deep Ocean Challenge DT

Firstly I would like to thank everyone for your kind words via comments and emails this past week, I have been truly touched how many people took the time to offer sweet words. To be honest, I'm still not feeling that great about it and still cannot seem to muster the desire to craft. Luckilly I had one of my cards for The Hobby House created that I could use for my DT card at the Deep Ocean Challenge else I'd still be missing today. Our challenge for this fortnight is simply cards - couldn't be easier! I have used the sketch from Stamp with Fun for my card.

How gorgeous is this Bildmalarna stamp?? I've coloured her with Prismacolor Pencils blended with Sansador and I added a touch of stickles to her dress and under her feet.

The Hobby House is now stocking German Glass Glitter in many gorgeous colours and I have added some to all the flowers on my card, which also come from The Hobby House. As always, it is difficult to capture the sparkle in a photo but this glitter is so gorgeous in real life! The poinsettia was created with a Marianne Creatables die from The Hobby House.

I added a bow from the gorgeous ribbon and another blossom sprinkled with glass glitter.

Hope you like it and I've inspired you to join us this fortnight at The Deep Ocean Challenge - pop over to the blog to see the rest of the team's gorgeous cards! Thanks for looking! x

Sweet Rainbow Collection card

Woohoo!! I had time to play with some of my new stamps from the Magnolia Sweet Rainbow Collection last night and had so much fun creating the little scene for this card!! The gorgeous paper is by Pink Paislee and I've heavilly distressed it and sewn the edges. I am entering my card into Truly Scrumptious' challenge which is anything goes!

How sweet is this little Tilda?? I masked her so that I could add the Root Cellar Door stamp to the background so that she is sewing seeds in her little cottage garden :). I hae coloured the images with Prismacolor Pencils and I stamped a Stempelglede stamp around the edges with antique linen distress ink.

I added a selection of leaves and flowers from my stash. The gorgeous white blossom is by Prima and the rest of the flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts. The butterfly charm is by Pink Paislee and I also added a couple of die cut swirls with a doohickey die. The lace is from my stash.

To balance out all those flowers I added a Tim Holtz metal corner to the top corner of the image. The butterflies were punched with a Martha Stewart punch.

Hope you like it and thanks for looking! x

Whiff of Joy DT - Together Forever

Today I have a card to share with one of Whiff of Joy's sweet new images from the May release. This is Together Forever - aren't these cute love birds adorable?? I decided not to use a sentiment as I'm thinking this card could be a wedding card, anniversary card or a wedding invitation acceptance card!

I am still practising with my new Prismacolor pencils and decided to have another go at colouring onto kraft cardstock with them as I wanted to colour the birds a pretty pale blue which I thought would work well on kraft. I'm quite pleased with the results although I wish I hadn't shaded around them as it looked better before I did LOL! Ah well, still learning!

I had to add a feather of course, seeing as it is a birdie card LOL and flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts and Prima. The pink blossom was white and I sprayed it with Tea Rose glimmer mist and added stickles to all the flowers too.

The beautiful heart border is a Whiff of Joy die and I added some Tim Holtz flower ribbon, which I also altered with glimmer mist, and a butterfly punched with a Martha Stewart punch. The paper is from K&Co's Madeleine paper pad.

Hope you like it and thanks for looking! x