Purple Rain

I seem to be having colour blocks lately. This image was stamped for me by a kind friend - I didn't know what high hopes were, so she sent me one so I could see. I have used some doodlebug flocked brads - I'm flocking mad - and the paper was bought at the Glitterpot and was just in a plain wrapper so can't say who made it (it was jolly expensive though, not at all my normal type of purchase but I was looking for some paper with a Japanese feel and this fitted the bill).
The main image stamp on the one to the right was also stamped by a dear friend, with doodlebug flocked backing paper and sentiment by Cuddly Buddly. Both cards show my rather cavalier attitude to colouring between the lines, I think it's because my eyes are getting worse as I get older. Perhaps I should invest in a magnifying glass of some sort. As a complete aside when I washed my hair this morning I got out my rarely used hair dryer (I'd rather let it dry naturally as my hair is quite coarse and I worry that it will look like straw if I use much in the way of heating implements) Anyway I noticed it was called a "Big Shot" - obviously a bit of subconscious crafting crept in when I bought this, so now I have two Big Shots!

The Green, Green Grass of Hove

I'm in a bit of a green phase at the moment and still loving the Doodlebug flock paper. The image is a Sugar Nellie, the sentiment Cuddly Buddly and I learnt the stay put bow technique from here The other card is using a stamp from Elzybells. I went a bit mad and bought loads of them, mostly dog images, but a couple of girl ones and a couple of cat ones so you will be seeing quite a few of those in the coming weeks.I don't seem to have got the hang of colouring between the lines but that's no big deal.I am having such fun colouring so now, that the end result is immaterial, I enjoy the journey.

Wedding Bells

I wanted to make a wedding card for a friend who's getting married (duh!) but had no inspiration so I decided to CASE a card from Heart's Prints but in fact the end result looks nothing like the one I had my eye on. I wanted to incorporate some lush plum velvet ribbon as her outfit will have plum accents and it just developed a life of its own. Plain but not unpleasing. I've got some little pearl sticky-on things that would look cute on the clangers, but I can't find them underneath all the debris - I need to organise my stash, because I can never find what I need.

Hmmm! Not a happy bunny!

When I matched up the brown of the Bazzill Bling card to the background of the Bon Bon Daydream Glittered Cardstock in the shop the seemed to match beautifully but of course as soon as I got it home it didn't match at all. But that's not really what I'm unhappy about - I've made this card for a girl at work who's just had an operation and she loves owls - but I can't give it to her because the blessed brown card that I've cuttlebugged won't stay stuck on to the Glitter card. I've noticed before with things that I've embossed with the cuttlebug folders didn't stay stuck but I thought it was because I was using cheap Asda roller strip sticky stuff and this time I used my 3 times the price, scrapbook adhesives permanent E-Z runner but still it keeps falling off. I don't know what to do. Anyway here is my stash from Saturday when I went to the Glitterpot with Linda, George, Other Linda and Donna. What a wonderful bunch they are - I had the best time.