More love and slush!!

Last minute again, must get more organised! Just realised that Crafty Cardmakers Hearts and Romance challenge finishes today, and I really wanted to do this one.

I also want to enter it into the Stampin' for the Weekend challenge, which is Love is in the Air - Valentines Preperations!

I followed the brilliant tutorial on making a heart shaped easel card, which Vix did (you can find it here), although I cheated slightly. I persuaded my faithful friend Polly Pazzles the die-cutting machine to cut all the bits out for me (except the cute couple). She really is a great friend to have!!!

The picture once again does not do it justice, as the tungsten light messes with the colour a bit. The large heart at the back is actually white linen card, same as the white heart stopper.

And staying with the Peacock theme................

I seem to be stuck in Peacock mode today, love the colours. This card is for Anyone for Anya - Sketch challenge.

I think I have mentioned before, the while bored at home over Christmas, I stamped all my "cute" stamps, and scanned them into my computer to use as Digi Stamps. This means that I can work with them either at the shop (where the stamps live) or at home. It also means I can re-size them too, and that is what I have done here. Doesn't matter how big she is, she is still gorgeous.

This is the sketch.

All creatures grunt and smell......................

Sorry, that should read All Creatures Great and Small, which is the theme for the Passion for ProMarkers challenge this week.

Any colours are allowed, and I used the opportunity to use this lovely peacock stamp from Graphicus Elusive Images. The papers are printed from Artylicious Peacock Summer. My friend saw one of my other cards on which I used the same shape mounts, and thought they were cut with Nestabilities, but they aren't. I used my Fiskars Corner Cutter scissors on them.

I wonder........................

whether this card would qualify for any of the "Love"/"Hearts" challenges that are around at the moment.

I think I may enter it into the Secret Crafters Saturday Challenge, which is "Hearts", and maybe the Papertake Weekly, which is "Love Actually".

Watch this space..................I may come up with something else a bit cuter!

Crumbs, nearly forgot about this one!!

I have been going to do this challenge all week, but totally forgot about it until about 5 p.m. today. I thought I was going to miss it because I had to teach class tonight, but then I had a brainwave! Tonight's class was Masking, so I decided to try and tie my card in with the Passion for ProMarkers challenge, which is Colour Combo - Pastel Green and Blossom, I might still be in with a chance. Hope I still have time to enter...............

Just Magnolia...............sketchy challenge.

I spotted this challenge last night, so I got Polly Pazzles (my Pazzles Inspiration die cutter) to cut out all the bits for me, and I finished it off today with the Magnolia stamp.

This is for the Just Magnolia - Jay Jay's Sketch challenge.

A new challenge!

It was lovely to meet Jen from Phoenix Crafts Blog when she visited my shop yesterday. I checked out her blog (practically as soon as she had gone through the door!), and, along with lots of gorgeous stuff, I found a link on there to ABC challenge, which I found very interesting. The idea of this challenge seems to be working through the alphabet. This fortnight they are on M, and M is for Masking is the name of the challenge. I like masking, so I decided to give it a go. I found the Magnolia stamp I wanted to use, but as for something for her to sit on...................well! I went through ALL my stamps and the only thing I could find was this Sweet Pea corner stamp, not very realistic but very cute!