toadilly three

I don't do a lot of 'cute' stamping but actually when I do I quite enjoy it, especially the colouring!!! Plus this stamp is soo adorable!

This is a birthday card for the son of a dear friend of mine across the pond - since the lovely chap is turning 3 I thought this trio of toads would fit the bill, as would the uber-bright colour scheme!! They were coloured with Copic markers, as was the number 3 shaped chipboard.

I hope you have a toadilly fantastic day ho ho!

Recipe:
Stamp - Penny Black
Cardstok - YoYo Yellow/Glorious Green (Stampin Up)
Other - Circle Nestabilities/Cuttlebug bubbles embossing folder/Copic markers/On Board Lots of Letters (Stampin Up - retired)/green brads

weekend sketches

Happy Monday! I hope a good weekend was had by all! On Saturday I treated myself to one of life's pleasures - a morning spent drifting around a bookshop. Somebody once said you have never have too many shoes. For me you can never have enough books.

What a wonderful few hours, with mellow tunes in the background and soft leather chairs to kick back on, to flick through exquisite collections of photography, design, cookery, art and everything else in between.. heaven. I just wish there was time in life to read them all!




I didn't get to do any sketches over the weekend but here are three cards from sketches I made two weekends ago. I used the Pocket Silhouettes set and Sweet Always papers for all three.








This was for Taylor's sketch - I went for a shabby, patchwork to match the sketch. Firstly adhering the paper panels then sewing them. The messy stitching was intentional by the way!

Recipe:

Stamps - Pocket Silhouettes

Ink - Chocolate Chip

Card/Paper - Whisper White/Chocolate Chip/Sweet Always DSP

Other - linen thread/buttons/circle nestabilities/sewing machine

Next up one of Julie's Mojo sketches - these are always fabulous. All the squares were cut with nestabilites. I paper pierced along the white panesl and again messily stitched around the card.

Recipe:
Stamps - Pocket Silhouettes
Ink - Chocolate Chip
Card/Paper - Whisper White/Chocolate Chip/Regal Rose/Sweet Always DSP
Other - crafter's tool kit/circle punch/brad/square nestabilities/sewing machine/chocolate chip ribbon






And finally Amy's sketch - I loved this one, it came together so easily. Again I paper peirced around the white panels. The flowers were stamped with one of the stamps from the One of a Kind set, and punched out with the matching Boho Blossoms punch.Pink brads were added to their centres and popped them up on dimensionals.





Recipe:
Stamps - Pocket Silhouettes/One of a kind
Ink - Chocolate Chip
Card/Paper - Whisper White/Chocolate Chip/Sweet Always DSP
Other - Regal Rose ribbon/pink brads/crafter's tool kit/rectangle nestabilities/boho blossoms punch/sewing machine/scallop edge punch

Thanks for stopping by today!

congrats!

Today I want to welcome my new downline Jenny - congrats on becoming a demo Jenny, I know you'll have lots of fun! Here's a card I made for her using the Bloomin With Beauty set.

I coloured the flower with Copics and pierced around the edges using the Crafter's Tool kit. The tag is a Spellbinders ribbon tag die, stamped with 'congratulations' from the Sale-A-Bration Congratulations set.

Recipe:
(All supplies Stampin Up unless otherwise stated)

Stamps - Bloomin With Beauty/Congratulations
Ink - Memento black
Card/Papers - Whisper White/Real Red/So Saffron/So Saffron DSP
Other - Very Vanilla grosgrain ribbon/scallop edge punch/spellbinders ribbon tags/red brads/Crafter's Tool Kit/Copic markers


Jenny's also tagged me with a fun game - to show the bag/purse we were using on the day we were challenged. So here's mine - nothing fancy, but nice and roomy and I love grey at the moment. And yep if you thought it looked like a doctor's bag that's exactly what it is (well not a real one, the design obviously, no stethoscopes in mine lol!)

In addition to the normal junk it always contains:

-My iPod
-A Leica digital camera
-Philosphy lip gloss (Raspberry Sorbet - yumm!)
-several pens (they seem to breed in there!)
-Moleskine notebooks - one of my favourite things. I have several, all over the place - I love that Bruce Chatwin used these when he was documenting his travel around the world. I'm forever jotting down ideas for work, quotes, to-do lists, and of course ideas and inspirations for paper-crafting.

Play along if you want - tell us a bit about your bag/purse!

Have a great weekend everyone and hope to see you again soon!

weekend sketches

Thank you so much for all your support for our new PTI blog - so glad you all like it!

Here are three cards I made based on sketches over the weekend using the Tart and Tangy set and Summer Picnic papers.










First up - apples! This is my take on Beate's sketch, this was more challenging than the others but I love doing it. I pierced around each of the horizontal panels with the paper piercing tool and mat from the crafter's tool kit. The edges of the vertical panel were punched with the scallop edge punch. The sentiment is from the One of a Kind set, positioned with my old friend the stamp-a-ma-jig.




Recipe: Stamps - Tart and Tangy/One of a Kind
Ink - Real Red/Old Olive markers
Card/Papers - Whisper White/Real Red/Bashful Blue/Old Olive/Summer Picnic DSP
Other - Crafter's Tool Kit/Real Red grosgrain ribbon/button/red floss/Scallop Edge punch






This is for Amy's sketch challenge - I coloured the strawberries with my SU markers and again used the stamp-a-ma-jig for placement. Sentiment is from the Circle of Friendship set, pierced around the edges as on the image and Old Olive panel. The long white vertical panel is embossing with my (much-loved!) Swiss Dots Cuttlebug embossing folder.





Recipe:
Stamps - Tart and Tangy/Circle of Friendship
Ink - Real Red/Old Olive markers
Card/Papers - Whisper White/Real Red/Bashful Blue/Old Olive/Summer Picnic DSP
Other - Crafter's Tool Kit/Real Red Grosgrain ribbon/ circle punches - 1 inch, 1 1/4 inch, 1 3/8 inch/Swiss Dots Embossing folder/Cuttlebug






And finally, Taylor's sketch. You can't see from the picture but the cherries are coated with Glossy Accents so they're very shiny! I love this matching cherry paper from the Summer Picnic Paper Pack. The ribbon is threaded through holes created with a Making Memories slot punch.





Recipe:
Stamps - Tart and Tangy
Ink - Real Red/Old Olive markers
Card/Papers - Whisper White/Old Olive/Bashful Blue/Summer Picnic DSP
Other - Crafter's Tool Kit/Real Red Grosgrain ribbon/ corner rounder punch/petite oval nestabilites/scallop edge punch/Bashful Blue ribbon/slot punch

Thanks so much for visiting - I haven't forgotten about a blog candy so will get that sorted very soon!

Colour challenge

This was my card for the most recent Colour Combo Challenge set by Carole over at In Love With Stamping. We were challenged to use Basic Gray, Certainly Celery and Ballet Blue - I adore this colour combination! Very trendy!

Stamps are Pocket Silhouettes and the sentiment is from the Level 1 Hostess Set, Best Yet. The tiny butterfly is from Live Your Dream, cut out and adhered with glue dots.

I used my markers to colour the sentiment in the blue and green, layered it on punched out circles. The grey base layer of the sentiment was punched out with the scallop circle punch; I then punched out the scallops with my 1/8th circle punch to make the lacey effect. The ribbon was threaded through a ribbon slider from the hodgepodge hardware kit to provide some interest.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Recipe -
(All Stampin Up unless stated)

Stamps - Pocket Silhouettes/Best Yet/Live Your Dream
Ink - Basic Grey/Certainly Celery/Ballet Blue
Card - Whisper White/Basic Grey/Certainly Celery/Ballet Blue
Other - cuttlebug swiss dots embossing folder/circle punches - 1/8, 1 1/4, 1 1 3/8/scallop circle punch/ certainly celery grosgrain ribbon/hodgepodge hardware/brads

male birthday

Yesterday's Inspiration and Themes Challenge at In Love With Stamping is men - or rather to make a card for a man, not easy is it?!

I like this colour combo for masculine cards - Bashful Blue, Choc Chip and Very Vanilla. The star from the In the Stars set was stamped in Chocolate Chip ink and punched out with the star punch - I love that it co-ordinates perfectly with this stamp...so easy!

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Recipe
(All Stampin Up)
Stamps - In the Stars
Ink - Chocolate Chip
Card - Chocolate Chip/Bashful Blue/Very Vanilla
Other - Star punch/crafter's tool kit/cuttlebug embossing folder/linen thread

With sympathy

This was made for a friend of my mum's whose mother recently passed away; I wanted to stay away from the traditional purple sympathy colours so reached for the (retired) Le Jardin papers and used So Saffron/Always Artichoke and Chocolate Chip for the colour scheme.

I used the Stampin Up markers to colour the flowers and also to ink up the sentiment in 2 separate colours.

Recipe:
(All Stampin Up)

Stamps: Close as a Memory
Ink - Markers - So Saffron/Always Artichoke/Chocolate Chip
Card/Papers - Chocolate Chip/Always Artichoke/Very Vanilla/So Saffron/ Le Jardin DSP
Other - nestabilities/cuttlebug/crafter's tool kit/button/embriodery floss/Always Artichoke ribbon


I also wanted to share a photo of one of my cats, Ella, today - it's hard to get a good picture of her because of her colour but in last week's snow she really stood out! She's quite a character (which is another way of saying she's very mischievous!) and likes nothing better than to sit on my shoulder while I'm crafting!



Thanks for visiting today - and a big thanks for helping me to reach my first 5000 hits! When (or if!) it ticks over 5000 I'll get some blog candy sorted!

Have a great week y'all!

K xx

Spotty thank you

This was my sample for last week's Inspiration and Themes challenge on In Love With Stamping - I took inspiration from the Cath Kidston dotty fabric and came up with this. I wanted something clean and zingy and this colour combo dies the job!

I used the Seeing Spots set, masking the circles as I stamped them using eclipse tape.

Thanks for visiting today!

Recipe
(All supplies Stampin Up)

Stamps - Seeing Spots/Wonderful Words
Ink - Tempting Turqoise/Real Red/So Saffron
Card - Whisper White/Tempting Turqoise/Real Red/So Saffron
Other - brads/eclipse tape

Clementine cake

Over Christmas a friend who was visiting asked me for the recipe for my favourite cake that she really liked - instead of just emailing it to her I made this card and enclosed the recipe.

I don't eat wheat so it's easy to feel a bit left out when there are yummy cakes and treats around! But this cake is sooo delicious! Really moist and a heavenly orangey smell. Here's the recipe if you're interested (it's a Nigella recipe):

Clementine Cake

Ingredients
4-5 Clementines (about 375grams)
6 eggs
225g sugar
250g ground almonds
1 heaped teaspoon baking powder

Method
1) Put the clementines in a pan with some cold water, bring to the boil and cook for 2 hours.
2) Preheat the oven to 190 C/Gas mark 5. Grease and line a 21cm Springform tin.
3) Drain and when cool, cut each Clementine in half and remove the pips.
4) Pulp everything – skins, pith, fruit – in a food processor (or by hand).
5) Beat the eggs. Add the sugar, almonds and baking powder. Mix well, adding the pulped oranges.
6) Pour the cake mixture into the prepared tin and bake for an hour, when a skewer will come out clean. (You probably will have to cover it with foil or greaseproof paper after about 40 mins to stop the top burning.
7) Remove from the oven and leave to cool on a rack. When the cake’s cold take it out of the tin.

You can also use an equal weight of oranges or lemons (for lemons increase sugar to 250g, and optionally add a glaze made of icing sugar mixed to a pasted with lemon juice and a little water)

Recipe (for the card!)
(All supplies Stampin Up unless stated)

Stamps - Tart and Tangy/Yummy (Sale-A-Bration set)
Ink - Pumpkin Pie/Always Artichoke
Card - Whisper White/Pumpkin Pie/Always Artichoke
Other - scallop edge punch/circle punches/brads/swiss dots cuttlebug folder/Always Artichoke ribbon

Thanks for stopping by today!

Baby girl

Here's a simple card I recently made for Karin and Dave, who run In Love With Stamping to congratulate them on the birth of their baby girl. Congrats guys!

Recipe:
(All supplies Stampin Up unless otherwise stated)

Stamps - Cause for Celebration (Lvl 2 Hostess set)/ Congratulations (SAB catalogue)
Ink - Memento black
Card/Paper - Choc Chip/Whisper White/Regal Rose/Tea and Crumpets DSP
Other - Crafter's tool kit (for the paper piercing)/ Regal Rose ribbon/ circle punches/Copic markers

Raspberry blooms

Happy Saturday everyone! I'm snuggled in front of a roaring log fire as a write this, looking out to a picture postcard winter white garden. Yesterday we had the heaviest snowfall I can remember since living in the West Country - I know it's been disruptive but I can't help but love it.

Remember those stunning Raspberry Fizz Papertrey papers? I have been totally addicted to them - it is THE most uplifting colour.



Papers and cardstock are Raspberry Fizz, while the stamps are Stampin Up's Botanical Blooms from the Sale-A-Bration catalogue - I used the single outline flower and masked it so they overlap slightly. I then coloured them with Copic markers.

The circle semtiment is from Stampin Up's Circle of Friendship set, mounted on circles punched out with SU circle punches.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Recipe:

Stamps - Botanical Blooms/Circle of Friendship (SU)
Ink - Memento black
Card/Paper - Raspberry Fizz c/s and papers (Papertrey Ink)/ Whisper White (SU)/black (SU)
Other - Raspberry Fizz ribbon/Copic markers/Spellbinders dies/circle punches

Bloomin with eggplant

I couldn't wait to get my hands on this stamp (Bloomin' with Beauty) and colour it! I used my beloved Copics and even though I'm not a huge purple fan I like how this turned out and might even use it more! The purple is Elegant Eggplant - a beautiful rich colour.




It was made for a family friend who's had a long stay in hospital - the sentiment on the inside reads 'Hope you have a speedy recovery' (from Stamping Bella). Such a handy sentiment to have on hand.

Hope everyone's still enjoying the snow - ours is all but melted now but it was fun while it lasted...wait...ooh it's just started again!!

Recipe
(Stampin Up unless stated)

Stamps - Bloomin with beauty
Ink - Memento
Card - Kraft/Elegant Eggplant/Certainly Celery
Other - Crafter's Tool Kit/Purple brad/Cuttlebug embossing folder/purple ribbon/copic markers/square nestabilities

colour challenges

Isn't all this snow gorgeous!! It's a particular big deal for those of us down in the West Country as a snowfall this heavy is a very rare ocurrence! It's just magical isn't it?! I love how quiet and serene everything feels with a heavy snowfall, just mesmerising! Even better that it brings out the little kid in us ;)

Today's cards are two Colour Combo Challenges from In Love With Stamping. The first is last week's effort - the combo was Lovely Lilac, Barely Banana, Chocolate Chip and Gable Green. This really was a challenge - that Gable Green just wasn't doing it for me! This is what I came up with after a lot of mucking around - it's been a while since I made a circle card....




The circles were die cut with nestabilities (making sure to leave a few scallops uncut as a hinge at the top), the Barely Banana layer is embossed with the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder.

The stars are from the In the Stars set, cut out and mounted with dimensionals. The '4U' are from On Board Lots of Letters (retired) that I coloured with markers.

Recipe:
(All supplies Stampin Up unless otherwise stated)
Stamps - In the Stars
Card - Chocolate Chip/Barely Banana/Gable Green/Lovely Lilac
Other - Circle nestabilities/cuttlebug/Swiss Dots embossing folder/linen thread/On Board Lots of Letters/Lovely Lilac and Gable Green markers



The next card is for a colour challenge from a few week's ago when I was without my laptop. The colours were Real Red, So Saffron and Regal Rose.




The flowers are from the Best Wishes and More set - stamped once in Real Red then again in So Saffron. I cut the flowers out then punched out the inner circle of the So Saffron flower with the 1/2 inch circle punch and layered it on the red flower.

You can't see it very well from the picture but the red base is stamped with the sanded backgrounder with Real Red ink.

Recipe
(All supplies Stampin Up)

Stamps - Best Wishes and More/Sanded backgrounder/Best Yet (sentiment)
Ink - Real Red/So Saffron/Basic Black
Card - Real Red/Regal Rose/So Saffron
Other - pink brad/scallop punch/1/2 inch circle punch/Real Red grosgrain ribbon

Thanks for stopping by - enjoy the snow if you have it, and keep safe and warm!

Yummy cupcakes

I love sketches - especially when you're in a hurry! This is a card for a friend which was made in a bit (ok a lot!) of a last-minute rush - it's an old Taylor Van Bruggen sketch that I've been wanting to try for ages.


Stamps are from Crazy for Cupcakes, coloured with Copic markers. Papers are from the Tea and Crumpets pack - I love pink and brown together - such a classic colour combo. I mounted the pink brads on circles of Chocolate Chip cardstock punched out with the 1/4 inch circle punch - gives a nice extra dimension.

I topped each cupcake with some pink stickles - don't they look good enough to eat...mmmmmm!

Thanks for stopping by and hope everyone has a great weekend!!!

Recipe:
(All supplies Stampin Up unless stated)

Stamps - Crazy for cupcakes
Card/Paper - Chocolate Chip/Whisper White/Pretty in Pink/Tea and Crumpets DSP
Other - Cuttlebug Swiss Dots Embossing folder/Petite Oval nestabilites/Chocolate Chip Grosgrain ribbon/pink brads/1/4 inch circle punch/Copic markers

Rose silhouettes

A friend of mine recently had her car stolen and burnt out so I wanted to make her a cheery card to let her know I was thinking of her.

I had my car burnt out when I was on holiday in France with 3 schoolfriends after we finished school (a loooong time ago!) and it was a terrible experience - not least because it was the last night of our holiday and we had absolutely everything we took for our 4 weeks away (apart from our tent) in the car. Passports, money, clothes, and worse of all all our photos and journals - oh and a video of me bungey jumping!

So I hope this card cheered her up a little bit as I really felt for her:


I stamped the leaf stamp from the Pocket Silhouette stamp set in Regal Rose ink then cut out the ovals with nestabilities. Papers are from the Sweet Always paper pack and Pumpkin Pie ribbon divides the paper panels. The sentiment is from the Level 1 Hostess set Best Yet - stamped in Regal Rose ink and layered underneath a frame from Hodgepodge Hardware.

That's it from me today - have a great day and hope to see you soon!

Recipe:
(All supplies Stampin Up)

Stamps - Pocket Silhouettes/Best Yet
Ink - Regal Rose
Card/paper - Whisper White/Regal Rose/Pumpkin Pie/Sweet Always DSP
Other - Pumpkin Pie grosgrain ribbon/Hodgepodge Hardware/Pink brads/Oval nestabilities/Cuttlebug/Dimensionals

Thank you!

... to everyone who sent me birthday wishes and cards on Friday - I was so touched! I had a lovely day and received some gorgeous handmade cards from some of my blogging buddies so I'll show you them when I've got them photographed.

Speaking of photography...lookie lookie at my new toy:


I've always been passionate about photography but as a hobby it's slipped recently so it was a new years' resolution to get back into it again. A few years ago I took some photography classes and would love (and need!) to take more. While I totally embrace the digital revolution I'm glad I learned the traditional darkroom methods and was able to experience the deeply satisfying creative process of taking a photograph and carrying out the whole developing process by hand.

I hope those skills stick around, but for me now it's all about the digital! So here's introducing my new SLR - I'm so grateful to my family who helped me to buy it and I can't wait to get cracking with it! As a kickstart I started on Friday a 365 project - I know most people start these on Jan 1st but mine will be a personal photographic document of my 35th (eek!) year starting from my birthday. Don't worry I won't bore you with them all hehe!

I'm fascinated by the power of images to tell a story and often think had I not chosen to be a journalist and tell stories in words I would have liked to have told them in pictures. Re-awakening this hobby is also making me more interested in how we can combine our images with our papercrafting so am planning to do more scrapbooking and photo-cards in the future.

Ok - to today's card. Another valentine's with an old Splitcoast colour combo which I just love - Real Red, Basic Black and Kraft. I love love Kraft - projects take on such a different feel with it, I really must use it more!

I used a Julee Tilman sketch for this and again used the hearts from Stampin Up's Best Wishes and More set - cut them out by hand and mounted them on the circles which were created using nestabilities. The kraft circle and the upper half of the kraft background layer are embossed with the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder (can't get enough of it!).

I used the paper piercing tool from the Crafter's Tool Kit to pierce along the bottom of the card and top and bottom of the red layer. The brads are from the Hodgepodge Hardware kit and mounted onto circles of basic black cardstock punched out with the 1/2 inch circle punch. The sentiment is from the Best Yet set.

Thanks for stopping by - see you soon!


Recipe:

(All supplies Stampin' Up)
Stamps - Best Wishes and More/ Best Yet (Level 1 Hostess set)
Ink - Real Red
Cardsotck - Kraft/Basic Black/Real Red
Other - Hodgepodge Hardware/ circle nestabities/Cuttlebug/Swiss Dots embossing folder/Crafter's Tool Kit/Dimensionals/Stamp-a-ma-jig

Belated challenge

Just catching up on posts I missed when I was 'off radar' - Carole's Colour Combo challenge last week on In Love With Stamping was a fun, bright one - she took colours from Stampin Up's Rainbow Sherbet papers - Tempting Turquoise, Gable Green, Green Galore and Apricot appeal. I don't think I'd ever have put them together but that's what great about challenges! Anyway, anything with turquoise is A-OK by me!


The flowers are stamped using the Polka Dot Punches Sale-A-Bration set (offer still on til Feb 28th - a free set from the Sale-A-Bration catalogue with every £45 you spend from the main catalogue - contact me if you're interested!) I punched them out with the 5-Petal Flower Punch which it's designed to fit. Turquoise brads added to the flower centres then mounted onto squares punched out with the Scallop Square Punch.

The sentiment is a single 'friend to friend' stamp from the Pocket Silhouettes set, stamped repeatedly with the help of the Stamp-a-ma-jig to get the placement right.

Such a wet, gloomy day here but I spied the first snowdrops of the year poking up through the earth, lovely to see the first signs of spring!

Recipe:
(All supplies Stampin Up unless stated )

Stamps - Polka Dot Punches/Pocket Silhouettes
Ink - Greet Galore/Tempting Turquoise/Basic Black
Cardstock - Whisper White/Gable Green/Green Galore/Tempting Turquoise
Other - cuttlebug swiss dots embossing folder/turquoise brads/dimensionals

I'm back!

Hi everyone, 4 weeks after I killed my laptop I'm finally all set up with a shiny new one and can get back to blogging - it feels like forever! But the time off has allowed me to make quite a few cards so I look forward to sharing them.

So a Valentine's card today - made with Stampin Up's Best Wishes and More set. I'm not sure you can see the sparkliness of the heart but once I stamped and cut them out I coated them with Versamark ink, heat set some Heat and Stick powder to make them sticky then sprinkled them with Dazzling Diamonds glitter - serious sparkle!



The upper half of the white layer is embossed with the swiss dots cuttlebug folder, the hearts are popped up with dimensionals onto black cardstock punched with Stampin Up's scallop square punch.

That's about it for today - off to watch Barack Obama's inaugaration. What a historic day :)

Looking forward to hopping round everyone's blogs in a bit too, it's been a while! Take care everyone and see you soon!

Recipe:
(All supplies Stampin Up)

Stamps - Best Wishes and More/Seasonal Wishes
Ink - Real Red/Pretty in Pink/Basic Black
Cardstock - Whisper White/Basic Black/Pretty in Pink/Real Red
Other - cuttlebug swiss dots embossing folder/Pretty in Pink ribbon/black brads/dimensionals/Heat and Stick powder/Dazzling Diamonds glitter/scallop square punch

Sparkling bird

Happy Christmas week everyone - hope you're all managing to stay sane!!

This is a Christmas card using non-Christmas colours. I took inspiration for the colours from this beautiful May arts ribbon and used Always Artichoke and Really Rust Cardstock to match it.

I adore this Inkadinkadoo bird - I embossed it with some beautiful copper embossing powder - it's sooo sparkely IRL! I cut birdie out with labels dies, sewed around the edges of the card and finished up with some matching dew drops.

I've been visiting blogs quickly but haven't had time to leave comments I'm afraid. I'm loving seeing everyone's festive creations though! Thanks for visiting and enjoy the run-up to the big day!

One of a kind

I love challenges - they really expand your creativity. Carole sets great colour combo challenges fortnightly on In Love With Stamping and this week's is Old Olive, Pixie Pink and Whisper White, I don't think I would have put this together myself so it was fun to play along! I ditched the first card I made (too much pink!) and much prefer this attempt.

The top half of the card is covered with paper from the I Wish scrapping kit, and on the bottom half I stamped the small flower from the set with Old Olive ink.

All stamps are from Stampin' Up's One of a Kind set - I stamped the flower in Old Olive ink, coloured it with a Pixie Pink marker then cut it out. The scallops on the pink layer were made with the scallop edge punch.

Right, gotta run - the final of Strictly Come Dancing is about to start -YAY, so excited! For my overseas visitors this is the UK version of Dancing With the Stars and it's safe to say I'm a HUGE fan! So if you're watching - enjoy! And a big hello to my blogging buddy Bekka who is going to a Strictly party - have fun girl! I think I'm going to get major withdrawal symptoms on Saturdays after this week lol!

See you soon I hope!

Recipe: (all supplies SU)
Stamps - One of a kind
Ink - Old Olive/Pixie Pink marker
Card/Paper - Old Olive/Pixie Pink/Whisper White/paper from I Wish scrapping kit
Other - Scallop edge punch/Corner rounder punch/silver brad from hodgepodge hardware/dimensionals/stamp-a-ma-jig