We're going for a picnic!!

So....... as I spent the whole day colouring and cardmaking yesterday, and the sun is shining today, we're going out for a picnic! We're off to somewhere in the Yorkshire Dales..... so wonderful at this time of year. Hope my bad back holds out for some walking!

Yes DEFINITELY getting carried away......

OK - I'm definitely getting carried away - but I just love this image. She's sooooooo ladylike and beautiful to colour. Which one do you prefer??????

Eloise Greengrass - 2nd appearance

Eloise here looks more regal in her lilac - done much the same as her pink friend, but using purchased handmade paper and card for the backing. Do you think I'm getting carried away?

Let me introduce Eloise Greengrass.....

This is a lady I can't resist....... She's from Stamping Bella and is sooooooo beautiful and graceful! I decided to colour her image with Promarkers, then I 3D'd her skirt and flower an added Glamour Dust of course...... I then put her on two circles I'd created with Nestabilities, then put her on a background of card and paper that I'd created using Starburst Stains (which are truly YUMMY to use!) I added some jewels and she was done!

Phoebe Ketto

Yet another Stamping Bella image - this time let me introduce Phoebe Ketto...... Isn't she cute???

Lavender BittyBloom

Well I've gone a bit mad with Stamping Bella Stamps - I just love this little Lavender Bittybloom!

A little Bittybloom...........

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It's a rainy wet day here in Yorkshire - so I turned to my lovely pastel colours and created this card using a Stamping Bella image called Bluebell Bittybloom. Isn't she gorgeous? I used my nestabilities to create the circles, then stamped the image in black and coloured with my promarkers. I 3D'd another image over using sticky pads. Then I used my prismacolour pencils to create the blue-ish shadow around her. A little dusting of glitter, and she was magical! Hope you like her - she makes me feel like spring is here even though looking out of the window doesn't!

(PS - I have to thank a new friend called Paula over in the States for giving me some inspiration after looking at her images on her blog - my mojo certainly regained momentum!!)

Pretty flowers.........

Hope you like this pretty bunch of flowers - maybe for Mother's Day? It uses my scalloped oval nestabilities, a pretty stamp from Hero Arts that I've had in my stash for a while, and some beautiful paper that I think I bought in the USA. I've used my sakura glaze pens to add dimension to the stamped image - and added a ribbon to finish off. I used Liquid Pearls in the scalloped edges for extra effect!

Sunday

It's been a beautifully bright day here in Yorkshire today - so we've made a start out in the garden. How wonderful to get some fresh air! Loads of jobs done - but we made a quick dash inside about 4 pm when it got chilly........ was time for hot chocolate and feet up! More carding tomorrow - I'm looking forward to it. May get to play with my distress inks!

Yet another cupcake!

This card made my mouth water while I was making it! It's from an idea by Jolene at Pieces of Me - with my own special touches! I used a gold corrugated card for the base of the cake, and cut white glitter card for the top icing. I then put some very fiddly tiny pieces of coloured glitter card as the 'hundreds and thousands' on the white icing! I used my nestabilities for the scalloped circle and the actual circle - finding some lovely pieces of backing paper from my stash for the background. And then a heart and some handcut leaves for the top! Mmmmmmmmmm!!!

Cupcake Anyone?

This is my first attempt at a cupcake card and I have to thank Valita's Designs and Fresh Folds for the idea and pattern! The base of the card uses a top folded pale brown card, overlaid with vellum run through a crinkler! I've done direct to paper with an adirondack ginger inkpad to create the 'baked' look. Then three layers of different coloured yummy icing are overlaid on top of each other (all with different textures created by my spellbinder wizard machine), plenty of glitter is added, a cherry is punched from a one inch circle punch and covered with Glossy Accents for shine - then it is all rounded off with an attached ribbon and sentiment! Mmmmmmmmm!!