THINKING ABOUT YOU

Hello again on this very wet morning and it looks like it could be here for the weekend which is a shame as Bury is getting ready to receive the Olympic Torch tomorrow.Tonight I am staying at my daughter's so that tomorrow we can watch the torch pass by right below her apartment so we will get a really good view and hopefully get a picture so that I can show you it next time.

Todat my card was inspired by the sketch over at waltzing mouse sketch challenge and the colours from colour q.

Thought I would try something a bit different and use some acetate on the front of the card and give the effect of the white butterfly flying in the air. You will notice that once again I have used one of my favourite flowers in fun foam as well as the butterflies.

craft items used :

Spellbinders - Tags Five, Beaded Ovals, Grand Squares

Cheery Lynn - Exotic Butterflies Small

Waltzingmouse - Fancy Phrases, Pic-nic Patterns

Color Box Pad - Coral, Turquoise

Hobbycraft Ink Pad - Yellow, Light Blue

acetate, fun foam and ribbon

Well off  now to pack a bag and fingers crossed that for a couple of hours tomorrow while the Olympic Torch is in our town that the rain stays away.Enjoy your weekend where ever you are and hope your weather is better than ours.

Take Care

LIZ X

IN THE GARDEN JUST FOR YOU

Quick post today as the sun is shining for the last time this week  according to the weather people and today's card is very appropriate as I have used sunflowers and lots of yellow.

I find it hard not to have any flowers on a card but this time flowers were the theme and I love making my own although on this card I have used a button as well.

The recipe for this card is as follows:

Waltzing Mouse Stamps - Compact Sentiments

Papermania Capsule - textured cardstock

Lilli of the Valley - Milly Flower Power

Color Box ink - Sunflower

Spellbinders - Bitty Blossoms

Crealies die - Creative Flowers

Promarkers

Yellow fun foam

Ribbon and beads

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

cr84fncolorchallenge.blogspot.co.uk

liliofthevalleythursdaychallenge.blogspot.co.uk

Thanks again for looking and hope to see you soon.

LIZ X



HOLD CHRISTMAS in your HEART

It's time again for the June Blog Party over at waltzingmouse.blogspot.co.uk and the inspiration for this blog is this photo.



For my card I have taken inspiration from the colours and the panels on the wall and created this Christmas Card. The sentiment I used made me include some heart shapes using Spellbinder Dies and the stamping using Waltzingmouse stamps.

This is my first time entering WMS Party Blog as last time I missed the time slot so this time I had it marked down in my diary so as not to forget again.

Believe it or not the sun is shining so off to do a bit more gardening so take care until the next time.

LIZ X



JUST FOR YOU

Going out with my daughter today so before I do a quick card to post wich I actually did late last night but had to wait until this morning to get a good picture in the daylight.

The colours I used were inspired by the challenge over at colourQ.blogspot.co.uk/ and even though there were three shades of blue the green made me think of leaves of sort so tried to work the others colours around flowers.

cardstock - Papermania Capsule textured

Spellbinders M-Bossabilities EL-005

Waltzingmouse stamp set - Vintage Labels 4

Cheery Lynn die - Exotic Butterflies Small 2

Marianne Design dies - LR0133 - LRO128

Off  to meet my daughter and maybe fit in some shopping as well so take care.

LIZ X



WELCOME WITH LOTS OF FLOWERS

This morning I spent doing some hedge trimming in the garden will the sun was shining as the weather forecast said it would be rain by this afternoon and sure enough my cue to go back to my craft room and relax.

Over at polka doodle challenge week 23 is Lots Of Flowers which is not very hard for me as I love using flowers as embellishments and the more the better. Have just bought their new CD "Picknix" collection one and it has some fabulous images on it including this adorable bird house which I just had to use for this challenge.

Coloured the image in using my Promarkers and mounted it onto some blue card. I gave myself a bit of a challenge to stick to 3 colours for this card so as not to get carried away with colour as this image has so many details and even though I say so myself I think it works quite well for this picture.

Do enjoy the rest of your day and remember only 1 more day till the weekend.

Take Care

LIZ X