Wedding indulgence

Morning everyone, isn't the weather glorious and how lovely to be able to spend time outdoors without needing to wrap up warm. Needless to say the dogs are fed up with it already and puffing and panting and lolloping wherever they can find a cool spot, but it didn't spoil their appetites when we had a barbie last night and all four sat drooling as they always do.

I thought I would share two of the cards I made for the wedding couple, well I did actually show the wedding cake a couple of weeks ago, but have just made the box so now it's complete.

The word book of their initials was created in Cricut design studio welding various elements together, covering with Best Creations DP, some decoupaging, ribbons, Magnolia flowers, gems a bit of stamping with Penny Black 3851E Blessing and all in all total over indulgence, but I think it's rather pretty. And I made a box with an acetate lid, added yet more ribbon and an edge using Martha Stewart doily lace.

I am entering the work book for The Crafty Pad challenge which would like to see "Over the Edge" so I am hoping the ribbon will count here, Charisma Cardz who would like to see something 3D so the flowers and butterflies fit nicely and Flutterby Wednesday would like "Flowers" with our butterflies or fairies. Also the card below is for this weeks Penny Black challenge which is "Lots of Dots" where I have used Penny Black 4037K mixed media and 3857H footnote, memento inks, Swiss dots Cuttlebug folder and spotty MME DP.

And finally another bit of over indulgence on the box for the Polkadoodle wedding cake card, lace, Martha Stewart embossed hears punch, flowers, pearls and a computer generated sentiment.

I will see all you lovely peeps when I get back, but I have scheduled a post with a little something for you which should pop up tomorrow evening courtesy of Mr Blogger.

Three into one

Good day all and what a wonderful sunny day it is here in the Fens, hope you are all having a bit of the same. Beet harvesting is well under way now and this weather is ideal for them, always hate it when it's wet this time of year as our single track roads........oh yes, it's pretty rural where we live......become a mass of mud. So I always get black looks from the Polish car wash team at Tesco when I take my mud laden baby in for her wash.......being a sporty number it sits pretty close to the road so the mud just piles up.

Anyway, enough jabber, this is just a quick post in my lunch break with a card combining this weeks Passion for Promarkers where Gina has provided a brill sketch and you can use any colours on your project, Everybody Art Challenge who would like to see punches and shapes on your card ans Creative Card Crew who's theme is scallops.

My image is Sarah Kay stamped in versafine black and embossed with detail clear and coloured with Promarkers. I have stamped her hat again onto my DP which is from Best Creation and decoupaged it and also made three roses from the same paper. The scalloped border is using Fiskars threading water punch and the leaves are also punched with a new McGill punch. The sentiment is one of four on a skinny cube SK-LG-207 from Stamps by Judith. Not the best picture I am afraid as despite the bright day seemed to get shadow in every direction.

Papertake Challenge

I thought I'd take part in some challenges and this one is for the Papertake Weekly Challenge. I had some lovely new brads which I've been itching to use which matched up well with some new paper from Best Creations so used these as my inspiration. The tiny owl from Hero Arts A4942 was an obvious stamp along with LP140 stamped with versafine black and embossed with detail clear. Owls are coloured in with Sakura glaze pens. The greeting is LL174 a set of four also from Hero.

Stamp Something Challenge Easter

This one is for the http://stampchallenges.blogspot.com/ challenge. I have used a Stamps Happen stamp 80036 which I've had some time but never used much but thought the bunnies were just right for Easter. Coloured with Marvy and Sakura pens, mounted on some Best Creations paper and finished off with a greeting, buttons and flower and swirl cut from Cricut Home Decor.

A Kaleidoscope of butterflies

At the risk of boring everyone silly with yet more butterflies, here's a few more. I didn't intend doing these cards, but soon after my earlier butterfly posts I received a call from one of the shops I supply with cards saying he was running low on "wings" - butterflies and fairies always sell well.

So I set about making a start on his order and thought I would share some of them with you. The products used are the same as my earlier post (Creative Expressions butterfly stamp and My Minds Eye paper), other than one of those in this picture which has been made up with Best Creation paper which I have used on several of today's batch.