Two Awards from my two friends, Hanna and Georgia

Two awards from the lovely Hanna and the second one is also from the fabulous Georgia two amazingly talented young crafters.

I would like to pass these awards on to all of you that have left me wonderful comments during the past few weeks. Thank you all - I appreciate them so much and have been unable to return them as - firstly I lost my internet connection, then I was in the UK for a couple of weeks and had limited computer availability. Please help yourselves and if I visit your blogs and see you haven't  I shall shout and stamp my feet at you!!!

Sketch Saturday

Thanks to having lost my internet connection most of both Saturday and Sunday I managed to make a couple of challenge cards. This one is for Sketch Saturday - a sketch by Terry which was an absolute dream to follow.

I used one of my new Tilda's, (didn't think when I bought them at the NEC that I wouldn't get to use them until Easter was practically over - I should engage brain more often!!)

Tilda is coloured with distress inks, cut with oval nesties and mounted on Magnolia's paper Somebunny loves you, on which I also stamped the sentiment by Personal Impressions. The dp is some SU sent to me by the fabulous Martine as part of my birthday rak.The three cross strips are cut with a Friskars punch and wrapped in a blue scalloped edged ribbon.  The flower is Papirloftet, the pearls from the Hobby House and the leaves cut with a Carla Craft punch.

I shall be back later - I have a couple of awards to collect and publish and..............
guess what was waiting for me when I returned from the UK..............some of the Sweetpea Stamps that I ordered back in at the very beginning of February - where on earth have they been for two months???? -  (the January order has still not arrived).
The lovely, generous Lynette from SweetPea stamps  told me to offer them as blog candy if they ever showed up, so I will be putting them up as blog candy very soon, hopefully later today.

Basic Grey DT

We have a wonderful sketch by the fabulous Martine this week at Basic Grey this week and a brilliant prize for this challenge which has been very generously donated by our one and only sponsor Simon Says Stamp, is a fab $25 spending spree to the Simon Says Stamp Superstore :),Just think of the goodies you could get with that, you lucky ducks :)

 I was about to say I chose to do an easel card - I didn't - I just made the whole card upside down, had to cut the front off and decided the easiest way to deal with this was to turn it into an easel card.  Haven't done this (made the whole card upside down or back to front) for ages, hope it isn't a phase I'm going into lol.

I used one of Eline's digi Easter babies, available at Squiggly Fly, and colour it with distress inks. The papers are Lily Kate, one of my all time favourites, the image frame is cut with a Nellie Snellon die, and the borders with an MS deep cut punch. I cut out the two little rabbits that come with the image and used them to 'hold' the sentiments which is by Personal Impressions.  The flowers, lace, pearls and ribbond are from my stash and the two leaves cut and embossed by hand then I inked the edges.

I've just arrived home from the UK, so I suppose I should empty my cases and do some washing - ugghhh!! Still if I do this today I will get tomorrow to play with the goodies I bought last week at the NEC.

Hope you're all having a wonderful Easter break.

Just Magnolia GDT

There's a special monthly challenge this week at Just Magnolia: We don’t have a tutorial for you this week, instead the challenge is Fold It! So you need to have a minimum of two folds on your card/project. Remember your creations must have a Magnolia image on to qualify for the prize draw. The winner will be chosen by Random Generator next week so to be in the running all you need to do is ensure you have at least one Magnolia image on your card and link your card (not your blog) in Mr Linky and have your card posted by 8pm UK time next Thursday 8th April.

The unstructions for this multi-fold card can be found on the fabulous Stapmartic blog together with a couple of other great designs. Tilda is coloured with Copics, cut out and 'sat' on the ribbon which is used to tie the card. I can't for the life in me remember what the papers are called - I should have written them down before I left home!!  The pearl swirl is Papermania, the long leaf hand cut and scored and the rest of the pearls, feather, ribbon and flowers are from my stash.

The card with the front 'flaps' open - the edges are stamped with Magnolia's New Year Swirl.

The edges are again stamped with the New Year Swirl stamp - the centre border cut with the Spellbinders Spades die, the circle cut with nesties and staped with a Stempelglede grunge stamp and the sentiment is Lily of the Valley.

On the back I've used the rose image from Magnolia's winter collection, cut it out and attached it to a Spellbinders label which I used to attach the ribbon to the card.

Copic Creations DT

Flowers are the theme at Copic Creations this time and there is a fabulous prize of a $25 gift voucher from Paper Garen Projects.

I used this image I've had for ever, which happened to be the only flower image I could find, Where my others have disappeared heaven only knows as I haven't seen them since I moved. See the list of Copics used at the bottom of this post.
I the edges inked with distress inks. The papers are MME, the frame cut and embossed with Spellbinders curved rectangles, the borders with an MS punch and a Spellbinders Spades border die. The ribbon and pearls are from my stash.

Copics Used
Y0000, YR0000, YR00, YR02, E31, E37, E49, E77,  E95 and (leaves)G0000, Y0000, BG93

Using random org the number for the mini candy for the last challenge is


27

which is

Melissa

email me with your address sweetie so I can get your card and stamp off to you.