Friday Smile

Afternoon Everyone ...

... and happy Friday to you too.

I'm just dashing in and dashing out today but had to join in Annie's Friday Smile over at A Stitch in Time with this lovely photo of my delightful little great-granddaughter, Rhian.

Her mum, Jennifer, caught her watching the fireworks display this week - you can see that she is loving every moment, despite the rain :)

Here are a couple of photos of the fireworks too ... all lovers of the colour pink will have been thrilled with these :))

Okay, must go ... so much to do and so little time.

I hope you are all well and wish you a very good weekend.

Take care.

CHNC Week 149 - bling it up

Afternoon Everyone,

No time to join in with WOYWW today, sigh! But I do have this card to submit to CHNC Week 149.

For the challenge Hazel has requested that we 'bling it up'. The choice is ours - glitter, gems, sparkle and shine. Anything we wish, she says. So for my bit of sparkle I've kept the bling simple by using some fabulous zingy red dew drops for decoration.

The topper features another one of the inky backgrounds I'm having a passion for at the moment. This time I've used a shiny cardstock with Memento inks, Love Letter, Cosmic Copper (just a wee touch of this), Pear Tart and London Fog. Once again the camera, sans Ottlite, has altered the ink colours - the red looks pink, it's not, and the green looks much more yellow than it is in real life, it's not! I'm no expert but it could be because I've used a shiny surfaced card here - too much reflection, perhaps?

Here's a list of materials used: 

• square Kraft card base
• My Mind's Eye Darling Dear Six by Six paper pad - for the backing, the belly band, poinsettias, leaves and topper matting - practically everything, even decorating inside and back!
• a piece of shiny white card for the topper
• Spellbinders Layered Poinsettias die set and Marianne Creatables Chinese Rose (for the leaves)
• scalloped edge punch  
• Siesta Craft Lace border - decorating the belly band
• IndigoBlu Dinkie I Wish You A Merry Christmas stamp
• Archival blank ink pad
• red dew drops

As well as submitting this to the CHNC weekly challenge, I will also submit it to Hazel's Extra Challenge for November.

I almost forgot to add, that this is one of my favourite cards to date - I had fun making the topper, of course, I like the rather unusual colour combination in the Darling Dear paper pad and I love the poinsettias made in same papers.

That's it for today ... must fly, tons of books to box up before the boys, my 'all grown-up tall and strong' grandsons, arrive on Friday to do the hard work of lifting and packing them into a van to move them all over to our new home. Just 9 days to go now and it's all systems go here :)

I hope you are all well, take care and have a wonderful Wednesday.

Happy crafting,

Get Well Soon

Good Morning Everyone,

I trust you are all well and having a great day.

Although the card I'm sharing today features one of the inky backgrounds you can see on Sunday's post, I think you'll agree that it looks completely different from the two cards made up to now.

It's pretty and feminine, with tons of pink in several shades ... if you love pink, you'll like this :)

The base card is white but I've sponged the edges with Picked Raspberry, a Tim Holtz distress ink.

The pretty stamp set I've used here is from Kanban, Wild Flower Garden ... Kanban is no longer, but I believe this stamp set can still be bought on-line ... it comes in two parts, a leaf and fern frame and a floral stamp. I've stamped the frame, in Archival black, on to a piece of flowery patterned paper - from Wild Rose Studio Letters from Paris 6x6 pack and attached it to the base.

The floral stamp was stamped on to one of the backgrounds - this one was swiped with a variety of pink inks from ColorBox Cat's Eye Queue Clear Snap set in pinks/reds and Memento Dew Drop Angel Pink - and then matted on to a snippet of smooth black card.

The sentiment is from Wild Rose Studio Everyday Greetings. Pink gems were used to decorate the corners.

Once again I've managed to use up a couple of snippets of white and black card, not to mention using up some older stash, so I'm planning to submit the card to Pixie's Snippet Playground - Week 97 ... I think Di may just like this colour combination :)

Thanks for all the comments left recently ... I apologise if I haven't returned the compliment but there's such a lot to do when moving house, and it's keeping me away from my computer. Indeed, I consider myself lucky if I can grab half hour in the craft room and even that is getting more difficult as my stash slowly disappears, packed away to not see the light of day until after the move :(

Oh dear, time's up! Time to get back to the packing ... only 10 days to go. I'm assured that I will have a fully functioning kitchen in my new home by end of play today ... progress indeed :)

Take care everyone, and happy crafting,