Bloomin' Birthday

Hello lovely people,

I am sooooo happy that it's Friday and am looking forward to catching up with friends tonight and tomorrow and then a chilled out Sunday.

 I do love Springtime with all the pretty flowers and brighter days and I think this is reflected in my Dies to Die For DT card this week!

The stamp set I used has some lovely patterned welly boots but I chose the plain version for my card so that I could stamp them on the stripy DP...and ooooh, I would LOVE a pair of wellies like these!

The sentiment is also from the set and I've tucked it into a memo pin, then used flowers to cover the sharp end.

I've been mixing and matching MFT papers again, so the chevron and stripy boots are from the Sweet Celebration pad, the plaid is from (unsurpisingly!) the Plaid patterns merry & bright pad, and the green spotty is from the Lucky Prints pad.  Phew, that's a lot of pads...but isn't it fab how well they go together?

Oh, and the leaves are from a Lawn Fawn pad called Let's Polka in the meadow, and the flowers are scraps from my stash!

If I've tempted you with any of the lovely supplies I've used then you can go straight to the individual products via the thumbnails at the end of my post or just pop over to Dies to Die For and have a little browse around!

I wish you all a fabulous weekend whatever you are getting up to :-)

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

Lovely things I've used from Dies to Die For;

Bloomin' Boots stamps - Taylored Expressions	Bloomin' Boots dies - Taylored Expressions	Plaid patterns merry & bright - My Favorite Things	Lucky prints - My Favourite Things
Sweet celebrations by My Favourite Things	Let's polka in the meadow - My Favourite Things	Stitched circle scallop frames - My Favourite Things

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Other ingredients;
Sue Wilson for Creative Expressions - Camellia complete petals, Spring Foliage
memo pin, ivory button twine and pearls - from stash

Football on repeat

Hello lovely people,

I have a work colleague who asks me to make birthday cards each year for her granddaughter and grandson.  The grandson absolutely loves football and supports his local team, Forest Green Rovers, so I often try to incorporate that into my card.

It's a good job there are lots of football themed card images around and I haven't run out of ideas yet!

This year, as you can see, I went for a pair of football boots coloured in FGR colours.  Of course, I appreciate that the boots can be any colour, but I just thought it would be a nice touch.

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

Card recipe;

Image: Football kit part 1 - Time for Tea

DP: from stash

Twine: Ivory button twine - The Ribbon Girl

Dies: Mini tags - Mama Elephant

Sentiment: Mini messages - Mama Elephant

Copic colours;
Uh oh...I tidied these off my desk before I wrote them down so no idea, sorry!