Just a complete and utter softee for anything that looks sweet and wow how sweet does she look. So enjoyed putting this card together, everything just seemed to fall into place.

She was the other new goodie which was delivered on Friday and as they say …. leave the best till last. Coloured her with Copics, added pearls and lots of stickles bling to the umbrella, also to the buttons. The bottom layer of the pretty yellow flower is made with a very delicate lemon lace which I am slowly running out of, good job I am back home to the UK next week as I need to stock up on my lace again.

Entering for:
Simon Says Challenge – Pearls and Lace

Really enjoyed making this card, hope you enjoy looking.

What a lovely Saturday we had, went to a BBQ at Sandra’s …. it was really for the men’s benefit so they could watch England play but what a disappointment …. should have won …. ah well Sandra and I had a good time. Now I am not a football person but I do love to watch England.

It’s my turn to set the challenge for Crafty Angels this week and as you can see I am still so in love with the Pinkpaislee papers that I thought it would be lovely to see what everyone else’s fave paper is at the moment so I set the challenge …. that it would be brilliant to see your:

In Vogue Designer Papers

Laura gave us this delightful Magnolia Stamp (among other delightful goodies) but because I was in a hurry to go out when it came I hardly glanced at it. Started to make my Boys Card …. decided to paper piece the image, picked the papers and colours, it was only when I stamped out the image I realised Edwin was Tilda. In her hand she is holding a horse halter …. (thought it was a skateboard) …. not sure what that is …. Google here I come.

Used one of my handmade flowers and made my own charm, sentiment is a rub on. Ribbon and papers can all be bought online here

Anyway she turned out quite girly in the end I am sure my granddaughter Lauren has a friend who is into horses.

Crafty Angels time and this week we would love to see any of your Easter creations.

Very late last night taking the photo and not very happy with it but best I can do at the moment.

Will have to pop back later with info as I am off to the hospital this morning… fingers crossed today is the day the pins come out of my finger.

Back with Update

Trying to type left handed and with one finger….very frustrating.

Seven months later and the pins in my finger are finally out….yippee.

Bandaged, stitched and strapped up but what a relief to finally be free of pain.

My finger eventually realised there was a foreign body in there and an infection set in about three weeks ago…not very nice.

Andrew says… just like me takes a while to cotton on….he can have that one only because he ordered my pro-markers….now you know why he bought me them, to cheer me up…(broke the mold after him).

What am I like…. still managed to do my papercrafting….taking a lot longer though….. colouring, piecing, cutting paper, making bows, sticking and pasting all kept me happy….little voice in the background says…. well most of the time.

Next hurdle is in 2/3 weeks, medication is being changed,wonder what new challenges that will bring.

Thanks Laura for a fun time as usual and thanks Marie for all your hard work with the shop.

This is the card we made yesterday and hopefully will get a chance later to post the other tit bits we made as well.

Added more bling to the card last night, also fluffy stuff, liquid pearls and stickles. She is so adorable and we all coloured her in with different materials, some used Copics others used Pro markers but I used my faithful watercolour pencils… just love them. The papers we used are from the Magnolia range and they are just gorge (bought a couple yesterday couldn’t resist).

My Martha Stewart around the page punches arrived this week – yummy or what – just had to try them out. I used the loop first and the next card will have the fanned shell on it. They add such a lovely element to your card.

Sweetheart Tilda is going into the Just Magnolia Monochrome Challenge. She was stamped with StazOn Cherry Pink onto the pale pink paper and then cut out. Stamped her a few times to try out colouring but she looked better in the flesh so to speak.

Papers were a download from Digital Scrapbook Pages. Flowers and leaves were punched from the same paper. Roses and beads were added to the middle of the flowers. I printed off a double sided piece of paper with the bright pink and the pale pink so I could fringe the edges. Tilda is sitting on a stamped image from Papermania and the edges were coloured with copic markers (tried to match the rose colour but didn’t quite manage it… another excuse to buy more).

Not a nestability in sight wow didn’t think I would make a card again without one.