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Monday, 19 April 2010

Some crafting this weekend ...

I have had a really busy weekend ... Dave went away on Friday night so I had to do swimming with both girls on Saturday. Beth decided to swallow alot of the pool and the teacher ended up jumping in to help her as she was choking ... not good!
We went to a party run by a manic 60 year old clown in the afternoon.. not brill either!! However my lovely firend JoJo turned up at 6.45pm on Saturday sp the girls went to bed and we set the worlds to rights .. wine and crisps were involved!!

We took the girls back swimming today and Beth was fab... not fears and worries and she was even caught removing her armbands as she "didn't need them" Me and JoJo thought she did!!

Anyway I did squeze some crafting in and made a couple of cards, whilst JoJo crotcheted the most amazing scarf .. need to train her to make flowers!!!

This card is for the Just Magnolia Challenge this week which is a sketch.
Tilda is from my stamp kit and I coloured her using distress inks .. I did some blending of colours to create the right ones for the papers. I distressed the background. I distressed the papers and stickle the flowers and edges of the image. Punched flowers, pearls and ribbon finish it off.

For my next card I thought I would kill a few challenges in one go!!
Friday Sketcher - sketch
Wags n Whiskers - ribbon
Basic grey Challenges - gold, blue and white
Totally Gorguss - charms
Sweet Stampin Challenge - In Stitches
One Stop Craft Challenge - things that fly
Allsorts - In Stitches
Stamp Something - Something Layered
The image is coloured using promarkers and copics, and I faux stitched the dp in white and black pen. The papers are matted onto gold cardstock. I added white ribbon and ties a bow with a teddy charm attached.


17 comments:

stampingheaven said...

Fabby cards as always Cathy. Love them but Tilda is just adorable and the papers you have used on both are lush. Have a super day. Hus Ali x

Rica said...

Gorgeous Cathy, such a fabulous use of the colours and I love that pretty image.
Thanks for playing along with us at BG.
hugs Heather xx

Victoria said...

fantastic cards I love the tilda one especially xxx

Lorraine A said...

Gorgeous cards Cathy :-) I love the new Tilda image, very cute
:-) Perfect colouring as always :-)

Luv
Lols x x x
p.s glad Beth is OK ! tell her not to drink it as there won't be any left to swim !! :-)

Queen La Rubba ~ Rachael Doxsee said...

Love both cards! Lov'n your DPs and color choices! Just FAB! WOnderful stitching!! Thank you for joining us for this weeks "Sweet Stampin" challenge! I look forward to seeing more of your incredibly gorgeous crafty works in the future!
HUGS
Rach ~ Queen La Rubba
If you haven’t already, I invite you to hop on over and enter in my candy give away, I will send anywhere!!

Fleur said...

Great cards, very pretty.
Thanks for taking part in my first ALLSORTS challenge.
Hugz Fleur xXx

Mina said...
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Mina said...

two stunning cards Cathy, I love your distressing and colouring on your Tilda...thanks for joining in with the Just Magnolia challenge
Mina xxx

debby4000 said...

Oh they're both gorgeous Cathy.
luv
Debby

Pops x said...

These are stunning i love everything about them, the images are sweet and the colours are just perfect hugs Pops x

Lady Hopwood said...

Hey, just call me the lifeguard!

Emma Lockley said...

both cards are beautiful


thank you so much for joining us this week at Sweet Stampin, i hope that you will join us again soon
love emma xxx

Pam S. said...

Your Tilda card is gorgeous Cathy! Lovely design and all! Beautiful painting!
Pam Going Postal

My Creative Outlet by Janna said...

Two gorgeous cards! Thanks so much for playing with us at Stamp Something!

Janna :)

Sharon Caudle said...

Fabulous cards, Cathy! Love them both! Thanks go much for joining us at WnW!
hugs!
Sharon

antheam said...

Ooooh, this is so adorable. I love that teddy stamp! Thanks for joing us at BG Challenges,

Anthea & the BG Challenges Team.

Lacey Stephens said...

Cathy! These are both totally gorgeous!! I love all of the layers and your beautiful coloring on the Wags 'n Whiskers Card.
Thank you so much for playing along with our challenge. We have another fun one this week...a sketch :-) We hope you can play along again!! Big hugs!
~Lacey
Wags 'n Whiskers DT
www.stampandcreate.com