Thank You!

I just wanted to pop in and thank those who've visited and commented on my posts over the past couple of weeks. My mum died last week, and while it was expected, it meant that we had to travel north to arrange the funeral and start to get her estate sorted out. Although I'm back home at the moment, it looks like I'll be 'on call' to go up again soon, so I doubt I'll be posting much this summer. Any posts you see have most likely been scheduled in advance, and I've got several more scheduled, but I don't know if I'm going to want to do much cardmaking in the immediate future.

I really appreciate those of you who take the time to visit - reading your comments (on my phone as I don't have internet up there otherwise) was a wonderful boost at a difficult time. Thank you.

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge 51

One of my favourite themes at Crafty Cardmakers this time - Butterflies! I think if I were to sort my craft goodies by theme, butterflies would probably come third to flowers and fairies!

I started with the butterfly - a beautiful digi from Delicious Doodles which I printed and coloured with Sakura Stardust pens in a range of blues, greens and copper. I then made some paper using the same image, coloured digitally, in Photoshop Elements.

The flower is from Prima, and I coloured it using Twinkling H2Os, and finished it with a sticky gem which I coloured to match using a Promarker. I used a Martha Stewart border punch. The 'stem' ribbon was coloured with Promarker, and the card was finished with a bow.

Hope you can join us this time!

One Stitch at a Time Challenge 72

This week at One Stitch at a Time, we're challenging you to show us your swirls and pearls! Our sponsors are

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This week, I had an image from Sylvie to work with.

Isn't that a lovely image! I framed it and added the sky detail in Photoshop Elements before printing and shading with Promarkers. For the background, I embossed some card with two Papermania folders in my Wizard.

The swirl was cut with a Spellbinders die, and I followed its lines with some grey pearls I've had for a while. I finished the card with some Glimmer Mist.

 A close-up of the pearls!

Hope you can join us this week!

One Stitch at a Time Challenge 71

This week at One Stitch at a Time, our theme is 'Flowers'! Our sponsor is Joanna Sheen.

This week, I had a lovely image from Beary Dust to work with.

I coloured the image and background with Promarkers. The pink layer was punched with a Martha Stewart border punch. The flowers are bits from my stash, and the paper is some of the lovely MME pad called 'Springtime'. And that's it - really quite simple!

Hope you can join us this week.

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Creative Craft Challenges where the theme is 'pretty blossoms',
Simon Says Stamp where 'anything goes',
Sarah Hurley where they want 'colouring',
The Rubber Cafe where they want us to use Spellbinder dies (label die used to cut image.)
Card and Scrap where they want dies or punches,
Emerald Faerie where they want 'girly'