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Tuesday, 28 April 2009

Spots and stripes ... and a splash of green and blue

Beth has started pre-school and my free time seems to have shrunk into nothing ... how logical is that!!! Ellie has taken herself off to bed this afternoon complaining of not feeling well, ad Beth is sleeping off the excesses of this morning LOL!! So having done the ironing, made pizza dough for the children's tea, I sat down to have a go at three challenges:
Papertake weekly - spots and stripes
Stamp with fun - a fab sketch by Bev (which I have rotated)
A Spoonfull of Sugar - blue and green
I'm not sure about it now I have done it ... but there you go!

I watercoloured the image and distressed the edge in green ink. I cut out the image and matt with my trusty nesties and layered up the patterned paper onto blue from the same pack. I haven't any circular sentimens so I layered up a couple of buttons and fastened with ribbon. I added some green and blue wire ... haven't used this for ages. The space is in the top left corner is where the sentiment will go when I decide what to put.
Recipe:
Stamp(s): Sugar Nellie Rockpools
Colouring Media: Distress inks
Papers: My Minds Eye Everyday Tango
Embellishments: buttons, ribbon and wire from stash

25 comments:

LINANNA DESIGNS said...

Really love this card, the papers are gorgeous and what a lovely image too! hugs Linda x

Donna said...

Fabulous card, love the colours. Donna x

nessy said...

lovely card cathy ~love the sweet image ~and all the detail ~stunning
vanessa

Riet said...

What a beautiful card Cathy,l love the stamp.

Hugs Riet.x

lilacanglia said...

beautiful colours, super card,
hugs
Angie

CraftyC said...

How could you complain about your card Cathy, its gorgeous and I love the colours and beautiful stamp!
Clairex

Nicky said...

Brilliant card love the colours - there is a little something on my blog for you

Alexandra said...

your card is very pretty!

hugs
alexandra

Jane Carroll said...

great card cathy

hugs jane x

Sylvia said...

fantastic card! love everything about it.. all those lovely little details.. just perfect!
{love} Sylvia

Linda Elbourne said...

A fabulous card - so much detail!

Kim Piggott said...

Such a gorgeous card!
hugs
kim x

Samantha - Shop Blog said...

Cathy as always another brilliant card! I love the image to soooo cute! and it goes so well the colours! ACE card!

stampingheaven said...

Fabby card Cathy such a cute image. love it.

Joy said...

Fab card, super image, cool colours xx

Macpurp said...

oooh I love this! the wire is a fab idea!

lovely colours.

love tina x

Bev said...

Fabby card hun, that colour combo is just stunning and those papers work so well with the beautifully coloured image. x

Nilla said...

Stunning card! Great colours and you did a great job colouring, love the double button! hugs from Nilla

poupetteval said...

so cute !! lovely card

Tasha said...

Wonderful card Cathy loving th image and fab papers
love tasha xx

Mona said...

Hi,
your card is so wonderful, great take on the sketch.
Hugs Mona (SWF-Team)

Michele said...

Gorgeous card Cathy. Love the images and the colours you've used. Hugs Michele x

steph said...

Lovely card! Thanks for joining us for the PTW challenge!

tina46 said...

your card is so cute. I like it.
Thanks for joining us this week.
Hugs Tina46
(SWF-Team)

Cardmaking Galore said...

Great summer card!