I'm Back - With a Dreamy Birthday

Welcome

I would especially like to welcome Mia and Joanne who are new followers.  I would love to follow you back, but I cannot find a link to any blog - please let me know in the comments if you have one.

Edit : Mia has contacted me, and this is the link to her blog - please pop over and welcome her.

A big thank you to all who commented on my last post - I simply needed time out to sort out the myriad of tasks that arrive when you are on your own - like removing hedges, painting fences, organising maintenance and repairs on the house etc.  Life is vaguely under more control now.

 I have also come to the decision that I may not be able to visit everyone as much as I did, (at least not until after the end of summer when the gardens etc do not need so much attention).  I was starting to stress over not keeping up the visits to you all, but I am sure you will understand if  I am not so frequent in my comments.

I have been crafting some while 'away' - not as much as I may like, and I have yet to make my Christmas cards, although I do have a 'plan' in mind....

Today's card was made for a young man on the cusp of adulthood.

I stamped and embossed the balloon image (from Krumspring Stamps, now in recess) and then filled in the design with watercolour paints. I then masked the image and applied some silver spray, which can just be seen in the above picture.

I the background was loosely watercoloured, and then I randomly stamped the word Dream over it.

The base of the card was covered with two strips of washi tape, and the sentiment added on top of that. The words all came from a set of Hampton Arts Colour Me  series of stamps.

I am linking this to:

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge #70 - Anything Goes

Crafting From The Heart Challenge #185 - Anything goes

Pammie's Inky Pinkies Challenge #1748 - Anything Goes

Unicorn Challenge #27 - Anything Goes

Lemon Shortbread Challenge #55 - Anything Goes

Everybody Art Challenge #413 - Anything Goes

Digi Chooseday Challenge Week #48 - Anything Goes

Creates and Makes Challenge #17 - Anything Goes

Crafty Sentiments Challenge - Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday  Challenge Weeks # 310-311   -Anything Goes

Thank you for visiting, and for all your support!!

Time Out

Hi folks

Just to let you know that I am taking a bit of time out for some self care - life has sort of snuck up on me and I need some breathing space.

I will be back !!

Thank you all for your amazing support over the past year.

Take care 'til then.

Scrappy Stripes

Welcome

I made this card for a couple who have been through a very difficult time recently.

I started with the base panel, which had been made some time ago using snippets of paper and gluing them to a card layer sized base - this can be done over some of those oops pieces that sometime occur - at least they do in my studio!!

I decided to emboss that layer before anything else, and as is so often the case, the embossing folder was a tad shorter than my base, so to overcome that, I tied the silver cord around the blank areas, which takes the eye off the lack of embossing.

I stamped the scripture on a snippet of blue card, that matches the partial layer behind the main one, and die cut it with a M.B stitched die

I tried mounting it on blue sparkle card, but it looked flat, so then tried the pink and it worked!

The final detail was a couple of strips of bling in the corner.

I am linking this to:

HeARTfelt Stamping C hallenge - Anything Goes

Creates And Makes Challenge #16 - Anything Goes

Digi Chooseday Challenge Week #44 - Anything Goes

Lemon Shortbread Challenge #53 - Anything Goes

Through The Craft Room Door Challenge - Anything Goes

Artistic inspirations Challenge #189 - Anything Goes

Crafting From the Heart - Anything Goes

Pammie's Inky Pinky Challenge #1744 - Anything Goes

Pixie's Crafty Workshop Weeks #305 - 306 - Anything Goes using snippets

Word Art Wednesday Weeks #306,307 - Anything Goes