In the Pink

Morning! There's a new challenge starting today over at Sunday Sketch and Stamp and this week, it's a great sketch by Francesca - here's my card (and if you don't like pink, look away now LOL!)

Ingredients:

Image - Magnolia Tilda watercoloured with Distress Inks.

Papers - Magnolia and DCWV cardstock.

Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts.

Sentiment - Craftwork Cards.

Other - Rub-on Lettering from DCWV, Crafts Too Hearts Embossing Folder, Pearl Hearts from My Crafty Heart, WRMK Distressing Tool and Gems from stash.

What do you think of my watercolouring with Distress Inks? I've been practising, so expect to see more images coloured this way - I actually love sitting colouring in this way, I find it really relaxing but it takes such a long time - or it does me anyway!! I've coloured Tilda with one of my newest coloured 'Picked Raspberry' and think it's lush!!

I'm also going to enter my card into the following challenges:

• In the Pink - Challenge #12 Distressed.
• Crafty Calendar - Love and Marriage.
• 2 Sisters Challenge - Challenge #129 White and Red and/or Pink.
• Creative Corner - Challenge 5 Love and Hearts.
• Card Makin' Mamas - Love.
• Sweet Stampin' Challenge - Love is all around.
• My Time to Craft - Challenge #207 'Love is in the Air'.
• Inspire Me Fridays - Always Anything Goes.

Don't forget to hop over to Sunday Sketch and Stamp and check out my teamies amazing cards and join in with the challenge, of course - I can't wait to see your take on the sketch! Bye for now..............xx

Ahoy Matey (and a Proud Mum Moment!)

Evening! It's time for my second GDT post for Paper Cupcakes and this week, there's a fab freebie image to work with (it's only free til Wednesday though, so make sure you hop over and grab it quick!) and it's a recipe challenge - 1 embossing folder or dry embossing of some sort, 1 or more die or punch, 1 ribbon, twine, string or something of the like, 1 or more buttons and use glitter or some sort of sparkle. Here's my card:

Ingredients:

Image - 'Ahoy Mate' by Paper Cupcakes coloured with Spectrum Noirs.

Papers - Rusty Pickle.

Dies - Tim Holtz 'Weathered Clock' die and MFT die-namics 'Mini Flag' dies.

Other - Docrafts embossing folder, Vintage Photo distress ink, Eyelets, Crop-a-dile and Twine, Black card and Pirate coin buttons - all from stash. For the glitter part of the recipe, I also used my sakura stardust pen to highlight the writing on the flags but I don't think you can see it very well in the pic!?!

I'm also entering my card into the following challenges:

• The Crafty Pad - Challenge 188 Autumn Colours.
• Crazy 4 Challenges - C4C154 Anything Goes with an Autumn twist.
• Digi Design Challenges - Use more than 1 Die Cut or Punch.
• Crafty Ann's Challenge - Autumnal Colour Scheme.
• Fun with Shapes and More - Challenge 117 Cards with an Animal.
• Raise the Bar - Challenge 111 'I believe I can fly' Anything with Wings.
• Our Craft Lounge - Challenge 134 Use Twine.
• Digi Haven - Fins or Feathers Free digi challenge.

Phew! I think that's it. Don't forget to hop over to 'There's Magic in the Air' with Paper Cupcakes and join in!!
Before I go, I just wanted to share my 'proud Mum moment' with you - my son, Sam started secondary school today and of course, I couldn't let him leave this morning without the obligatory photo shoot! Here's my handsome boy in his new uniform:

(Sorry, I can't get it to appear the right way up - if anyone can tell me how, I'd love to know!) Just turn your head sideways for now ;-)
Hope you like my card and piccie. Thanks for visiting..............xxx