Saturday, 4 April 2009

Stripey Sketch Saturday

Where does the time go these days ... I can believe its already mid afternoon and I have hardly done any crafting, well non apart from the time it took Dave and the girls to go to the shop for some bread and milk. I have done the cleaning, gardening, tidied up outside ... being a childminder both inside and outside need a lot of tidying after the whirlwinds have gone ... and I have them full time next week, not just after school. So my week will be lots of tidying and no crafting!
On a better note, I have won this month's Secret Crafter prize so I am looking forward to doing a bit of shopping later on!
Well onto the card I have made for this week's Secret Crafter (Stripes) and Sketch Saturday.

I love the Making memories papers but haven't used them for ages, so out they came for the stripes. Melinda is coloured in using promarkers due to the small window of crafting time I had! She is matted onto papers from the same pack. I rotated the sketch, and used ric rac fro the scalloped edges. I tied some ribbon through a clear button and made it the centre of my floewr. Some simple brads finish the sketch. I wanted this to be quite clean and uncluttered so no extra embellishments, swirls, distressing!
We are off out later to stay with friends overnight so I am going to go and do the packing, and will catch up with the blog hopping tomorrow.
Recipe:
Stamp(s): WOJ Helpful Melinda
Colouring Media: Promarkers
Papers: Making Memories
Embellishments: brads, ribbon, ric rac, flower, button all from stash

23 comments:

Riet said...

ohh wowww Cathy,what a beautiful card,l love the stamp and colour.

hugs Riet.x

Jane (Carroll's Creations) said...

great card cathy

congrats on the win

thanks for joining us this week on SCSC :)

Hugs Jane x

Jill said...

aww Cathy this is gorgeous I love the image, happy spending thanks for joining us at SCSC hugs Jill xx

Lesley said...

aww Cathy this is gorgeous!!! luv it...luv n hugs Lesley xxx

Hanna said...

How beautiful. :)

Bev said...

Gorgeous card Cathy. Love the image and the colouring is fab. Yummy papers also. Hope you're having a lovely weekend x

Helen said...

Fab card Cathy! Love the colour combo and the ric-rac!
Helen x

Just Tracys Crafts said...

Great card, Love the colours, you just reminded me I have those papers somewhere. LOL!!

Tracyx

Tracy said...

Melinda is so cute, lovley card

Desire Fourie said...

What a lovely elegant card. Great use of pinks. Good luck for next weeks child minding. Hugs from Desire

Helen said...

OMG Cathy...I've won us the candy on Camilla's blog! Check out PBFC for more details...
Helen x

Paul said...

Great card - the colouring of the image looks great. Also wanted to come over and have a look at your blog after having one of your ATCs from Becky's swap.
Thanks a lot,
Paul

Shannon said...

Love the card Cathy! I had to join in the challenge too!

kaz_za's crafty corner said...

copngrats on winnin the challenge... !!!and as a fellow childminder i know what you mean about tidyin inside and out...lol... i think i am a bit mad as having dogs i even disinfect my stones outside before the kids come to play...lol..!!! rite got to go.. kids are on way as i type...lol
kaz_za

CraftyC said...

This is gorgeous Cathy, and well done on winning last month. Thanks for taking part in this weeks SCSC!
Clairex

Becky said...

Gorgeous card Cathy!! Sorry to hear that you've got all those little Gremlins, I'd be completely grey by the time they went back school ha ha!!
Have a great week!
Love Becky xx

Neliz said...

Hi there!
Im Daniela, but most people call me Neliz. (That's also my nick name on all the places on the net)

Just wanted to go in here and say hi since im the newest member on DDCC :)

Hugs, Daniela/Neliz
(www.neliz.se)

Ps: Thats a Super sweet card!

Dawn Wheeler said...

Gorgeous card .love the colouring and the papers ,beautiful ,hugs Dawnxxxx

Steph said...

Great card. Love the colour combo. Thanks for dropping by my blog x

Anonymous said...

Love it love the stripy paper!! and the image is so cute too! :0)

Tasha said...

This is such a pretty card its such a cute image and a very sweet card
love tasha xx

Beth aka BR-T said...

What a fantastic card, love the ricrac! BR-T

tracie said...

Oh wow gorgeous card Cathy, love the pretty papers. Thanks for joining us this week at SS
Have a great weekend hun
hugs
Tracie :)x