WOW! I've been chosen!

WooooooHoooooooooooooooooo!
I've been chosen to be one of the design team members for the fabulous Bootiful Stampz range that have been beautifully designed by Sally. I will be working alongside Sally and Lesley who has been chosen to be the other design team member *congratulations Lesley! xx*
I'm so looking forward to working with these fabulous stamps, the quality is fantastic, the designs are varied and detailed yet easy to cut out to add to your project or to decoupage, they are absolutely lovely to work with.
Why not try them for yourself? you won't be disappointed with them, take a look at the designs available by clicking on the link in my sidebar, and you will be able to keep upto date with work that we will be doing by clicking on my design team logo.
I'm so delighted to have been chosen, Thank you so much Sally, can't wait to get to work! xx

ARTY GIRLZ challenge - frames

This week over at Arty Girlz the theme is 'frames', My Dad will be 65 in March, so I have made him this card from my kids. Just incase you are wondering, I haven't spelt Gramps wrong, lol, my kids call him Grumps, although I have no idea why because he isn't a grumpy person!

I used a couple of filmstrip diecuts that my good friend Rosie very kindly sent to me as a RAK.

I used them to frame the photos of my kids, I was going to use a photo of my Dad in the spare film cell but decided to draw a caricature of him instead to make the card more fun!

for my Mother...

I have just completed this card for my Mom, it's for Mothers day on March 2nd (early this year).

Over at Auntys, the team challenge for Feb is to use paint somewhere in your project.

This technique was first shown by Crissi, she did a fabulous card for her sons birthday, I followed her instructions and made one for my sons birthday too. I think this looks so effective, so I decided to use this technique for my moms card.

I started off by printing out a photo of a daffodil, I cut a piece of acetate to fit over the top then drew the outline of the flower with a permanent marker. I took away the photo and painted in the flower with acrylic paints on the reverse of the design so that the black marker still shows and you just see a coloured in flower as opposed to a mess lol.

I used my new purple cows paper cutter to make the paper ribbons and hand wrote 'Mother' with black pen then gold gel pen.

My Easter card entry

Sally from Bootiful Stampz has set a competition to design an Easter card and theres a set of bunny stamps up for grabs!

If you would like the chance to WIN a set of Bunny Stampz - here is what you have to do!
Easter is coming up soon, so i would like you to create an Easter Card.
It MUST contain pastel colours, can be any subject, humorous, traditional etc.

Here is my card, firstly I looked through my stash and realised i don't have much associated with easter so decided to hand draw 2 easter eggs, which I coloured with my watercolours then cut out, I stamped my large peeking bunny, coloured him in and cut him out also. I then glued these to some cream pearlescent card, added punched flowers, then layered this card onto green paper before mounting onto a white card blank. I didn't want a greeting to distract from the design so hand drew a small gift tag, cut that out and stuck it to the egg.

So, go on have a go yourselves! you could win some fantastic bunny stamps!! further details on the Bootiful Stampz blog.

Good luck xx

Papertake weekly challenge...

Here is my card for this weeks Papertake Weekly Challenge. This weeks theme is 'Blooming Gorgeous' and we are to use florals in our work, I chose punched flowers to adorn this birthday cake card, the inspiration for the card was taken from a magazine, when I saw it I thought how lovely! and wanted to try summat similar myself. I also think that this card design would look great for a wedding card.

Magnolia challenge #5

This weeks challenge over at Tilda & Co is one we can choose
You can Either Chose to do a ROMANCE Or you can chose to do BUCKLE
I chose romance as I had just made the background paper and wanted to try it on a card, I mounted it onto pale brown cardstock then used eyelets to fix it to the card blank.
I handcut a heart from the same light brown cardstock and used my watercolours to distress it.
Finally I added my magnolias which were painted with watercolours too. Hope you like it.

I've been tagged!

I have been tagged by Kerry from http://angelwings2.blogspot.com/
Here are the rules:
Link to the person that tagged you and post the rules on your blog.
Share 7 random and/or weird facts about yourself on your blog, we all want to know them.
Tag 7 random people at the end of your post and include links to their blogs.
Let each person know that they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog

1. I broke my right arm 7 years ago and had to have surgery to have two plates inserted.
2. I have a diploma in bookkeeping & accountancy that I did on a home study course
3. I have an official IQ of 139, altho I did score 155 in the initial Mensa test.
4. I collect frogs and have quite a healthy collection of trinkets
5. I'm a fan of Johnny Depp, he's GORGEOUS!
6. I have odd earlobes!! (tis true! one lobe is bigger than the other lol)
7. I don't like lamb, even the smell of it makes me retch.

Now I have to choose 7 friends, which isn't easy as I don't have that many blogging friends yet and the ones I do have have probably been tagged already, so to the following people, please don't feel that you have to respond if you don't want to.

Rosie
Storm
Lesley
Sally
Emma
Shellie
Crissi