Birthday card for Jane

I was up late last night getting this card made for a friend at work whose birthday is today. She likes green, which is also my favourite colour so I decided to use these papers from MME which are in shades of green and orange. This Penny Black stamp is one of my favourites too and must be the stamp that I have used more than any other. The flower heads have been shaped then attached with Pinflair glue gel and finished with a sprinkling of Glamour Dust.

Smooth White card - 6"x6"
Rubber Stamp - Penny Black 'Whispers'
Papers - MME Bloom and Grow
Green textured card - DCWV Mat Stack
Adhesive Pearls - Papermania
Sentiments - Papermania

Thanks for looking.

Lynn x

Passion for ProMarkers week 47

The challenge last week at Passion for ProMarkers is to 'create your background using only your promarkers' so I decided to have a go. I've used ProMarkers to create my checkered design, colour the image and the other layers too. The image was on a sheet bought at a craft fair recently but doesn't show who it was created by, and the rest of the card was created with just smooth white cardstock coloured with ProMarkers and a sentiment created on the pc. Thought I wasn't going to get this entry in when I realised that my son had borrowed our camera. He brought it back last night but then it slipped my mind that the challenge ended today at 9 am so here I am at the last minute (well almost) hoping that I've made it in time.

Colours used
Ivory, Blush,
Apple, Meadow Green,
Pastel Blue, Cornflower, China Blue,
Cool Grey(1 & 3),
Shale, Cocoa & Black

I enjoyed the challenge of creating my own background and have done a few more similar ones using different colours which will be useful for other golf themed cards.

Hugs, Lynn x

Baby Girl

A quick baby card that I made today for a friends daughter who has just had a baby girl. I had made another card but decided at the last minute that I didn't like it so this one was put together in a few minutes. I was really pleased with the simplicity of it, and the soft delicate colours, but the photo doesn't do it justice. In real life it looks so much nicer but it's gone now so no chance to take another photo. The background is from a pad of 'Baby' papers by HOTP that I have had for ages, and the focal image is actually an embroidered motif. The current challenge at Simon Says Stamp is 'A card for a child' so I'm going to enter it there and hope that it qualifies.

Patterned paper - Paper Pizazz from HOTP
Motif - Pink Pineapple
Sentiment - unknown stamp
Teddy & Feet charms - Mei Flower
Ribbon - my stash

Thanks for looking and any comments left.

Hugs, Lynn x

Gina's 60th Birthday

This is the card that I made for my husband's cousin who was 60 yesterday (Monday). I hadn't met her before yesterday when we went down to her home near Northampton. To cut a long story short ... hubby hadn't seen his 3 cousins for many years as they lost touch after his dad then their dad both died within a short time of each other, and the families lived many miles apart. Last year we made contact through Genes Reunited and were invited to Gina's 60th party yesterday. As we were on holiday in Austria last week and onlygot back late on Saturday I had to make the card in a hurry on Sunday. I had been told that she loved cats so used this image (I think it's Penny Black) that I got in a swap and Pink Petticoat digital papers that I had previously printed. On the way down I realised that I hadn't taken a photgraph of the card so had to do it on the back seat of the car, much to my son's amusement as he can't see why I need to take photographs of the cards that I make. I wasn't sure that it would turn out alright as we were moving at the time and I expected it to be blurred but it's ok ... modern technology eh.


The visit was a great success and we met several relatives for the first time and were made very welcome.

Thanks for looking and any comments are most welcome.

Hugs, Lynn x