Pretty in Pastels

This week's theme at Passion for Promarkers is "pastels". I stamped this adorable Gorjuss image a few weeks ago and it's been sitting on my desk ever since, waiting for me to get chance to colour it in. You usually see the Gorjuss images coloured in quite dark/sombre colours so I thought why not be a bit different and see how she looks in pastels? As it turns out, she looks lovely... :)

The Gorjuss image is coloured in with my Promarkers and cut out and the patterned papers are from a 6x6 pad of, quite frankly, scrummy Webster's Pages papers that came free with the latest edition of Simply Cards & Papercraft, which dropped through my letterbox today. A lovely coincidence as the colours were just perfect for a pastel card.

I used a Martha Stewart border punch along the bottom of the papers and used my Sew Easy tool to sew a blanket stitch joining the two different papers together. The layered label shapes for the sentiment were cut with Nesties. I attached my coloured image with foam pads and added layered paper flowers, held together with brads, and some snippets of gem swirls, coloured with my Promarkers.

I'm famous!! :D

Ooooh I'm so giddy! I've been published! :)

My subscription issue of Simply Cards & Papercraft came in the post today and I sat idly leafing through it while my daughter ate her lunch... I got to the Reader's Gallery page and immediately thought that one of the cards looked familiar... and then realised it was because it was one of mine! :D

I took a closer look and, sure enough, there was my name under the card and the details of the products I used to make it:

I submitted some cards for one of their competitions last year and although I didn't win the competition, the submission rules did state that they would keep all the cards submitted and may choose to feature them in future issues. I'd had no expectation of that happening and this was such a lovely - and unexpected - surprise! It's the first time any of my crafting work has been published in print. :)

And, even better, it says in the mag that all the readers whose work was featured on the page will receive £10 worth of stash from sponsor Abi's Crafts. Something else to look forward to.

But honestly, that's just an added bonus.... I am just mega giddy at seeing my work in print in a craft magazine! :D