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

Little gardener

Hello lovely people,

I am enjoying my week off immensely even though I haven't actually done any crafting!

So, my card today is not a brand new one, but one I made a few weeks ago for a work colleague to give to her husband for a special birthday.

Fortunately the image is so large and detailed that I didn't have to worry about filling the gaps on the card other than adding the name and age, but I think the fence detail works really well.

I was making this card in a bit of a rush so I didn't write down my Copic colours but I can tell you I had a lot of fun with the colouring as it's such a sweet image.

I've used the digi image for my card but you can also find it in rubber if you prefer.

I hope you are all having a good week whatever you are doing.

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

Copic colours;
Nope, didn't write them down :-(

Lovely things I've used;
The Gardener - LOTV
Various - Maja Design
Lovely fence - Magnolia Doohickeys

Tag: Sentiment tags - LOTV

Ivory button twine - The Ribbon Girl
Numbers / letters from stash

Autumn treats from LOTV

Hello lovely people,

It's a beautiful sunny morning here in Gloucestershire and I am just back from my Wednesday 'coffee date' with Dr. Hubby; we like to walk into the village once a week and treat ourselves to coffee (tea for Dr. Hubby!) and cake (carrot cake today - yummy).

So, I'm in a good mood now, and hopefully news of a fantastic sale at LOTV will put you in a good mood too.  Starting right now and running through until Sunday, there are brilliant offers available on selected rubber stamps, art pads and paper pads.

We are also having a Facebook challenge where we want to see your creations using any of the special offer stamps and of course, there are wonderful prizes on offer so we hope you can join us for that :-)

Here's a little inspiration using one of the special offer images and I kept it really simple for this design as I love the paper far too much to cover it up!

This cute image fell into my basket during one of my shopping sessions at LOTV several months ago but I hadn't got around to inking it up, so this was a perfect opportunity to do so.

I've made a cute girly card but this image would work well for men too...just without the flowers and all that pink!

Card recipe;

Image: Watering can - LOTV

DP: Romance and roses - LOTV

Twine: Ivory button twine - The Ribbon Girl

Seam binding: Pink tulip seam binding - The Ribbon Girl

Tag: Sentiment tags - LOTV

Dies: Circle stax - MFT Die-namics, Large frames frilly #10 - Go Kreate
Charm: Daisy chain - The Hobby House

Copic colours;
Watering can: T0/1/2/3/4
Bird / seed packets: E40/41/42/43
Seed packet picture background: B0000/000
Flowers: R81/83/85/RV17 & BV02/04
Leaves: YG25/G24
Label / flower centres bird beak: YR30/31
Ground: E42/43/44/47

I hope you will join us for the Facebook challenge; we can't wait to see all your lovely creations :-)

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

Challenges I am entering;

The Ribbon Girl (any image)