Lost, one elephant...

Its Colour Inspiration Challenge time again and this week Kristina set us a challenge based on the colours of her manager's skirt! Love those shoes...

One of my friends from work is poorly at the moment so I thought I would make her a card. I love the little elephant from the Hero Arts set and have been looking for an opportunity to use him. With grey in the challenge I decided to go for it!

How I wish I had a better camera.

Whilst making the card I managed to mislay the little ellie. It took both myself and my very kind hubby about 20 minutes to find him, he had fallen onto the floor and was hiding amongst the patterns on the rug!

Dad, you are tree-mendous!

I buy alot of my supplies from the wonderful Papermaze. They are so helpful and friendly, and have a huge selection of great products. On their blog Scrap, Paper, Scissors I noticed that
they are having a Father's Day competition, so decided to enter the card that I made for my Dad.

I love making cards for the very special people in my life, and let's face it they don't come much more special to me then my Dad! He is funny, kind and caring and has the ability to be enthusiastic about just about anything and everything!

If you are wondering why there is a robin in the tree...

I just had to put one there because my Mom and Dad have a robin that comes to their garden every day to be fed by hand. They have called this robin 'Sid', although I expect that it is really a 'Sidette' and that she has a nest close by.

Card Recipie: Unity tree stamp - Giggle Grove set, Bazzills cardstock, Dots stamps from Hero Arts (I love it so much), Versacolour inks, Chipboard birdy - 2 Crafty, Scraptrends large dot, Ali Edwards Font.

Happy Father's Day for Sunday 17th June, hope you enjoy it however you celebrate!

What's the Buzz?

I made this little card for my friend's daughter, Katie. She is getting that little bit more grown up now so I didn't want to do anything too young.

The stamps are from Elzybells Arts Stamps. Elizabeth has created a lovely range of rubber and polymer stamps that are very cute and feminine. I like the fact that you can decide whether to order the rubber stamps wood mounted or not. A great space saving option. The Elzybells blog is now one year old and so Elizabeth has some offers that are worth checking out.

I stamped and embossed the image and sentiment, and then coloured using Versacolour inks. I decided that it needed a bit of a lift so added some glitter glue to the petals. The background image on the left hand panel is Hero Arts stamp 'Dots', again stamped in versacolour. I have to admit that am totally smitten by this new stamp!

I first noticed it a few weeks ago when the Hero Arts blog went 'Green' for the week. Tami made this gorgeous flower and used the dots stamp. I loved this flower so much that I decided to make one in pale pink tissue to use on the gift for my beautiful new niece Sian. The instructions are very easy to follow and the flower made the packaging look really fancy and special. I immediately ordered the dots stamp and am now deeply in love. I think I even dreamt about it last night!!!!!