Dream Valley Challenge 82 - Things with wings!

Hiya!

Well, I don't know about you but I'm having a lovely weekend - enjoying all this beautiful weather! I almost forgot to do my Dream Valley post..... :-)

This time we'd like to see

Things with Wings!

I've chosen to use a beautiful owl stamp from Woodware. It was just screaming at me to be paper pieced so I've used some lovely summery papers given him a bit of a patchwork effect...

From this angle you can see the glittered edges and 3D gloss I've used on his eyes.... And I just love the sheen on the ice-cream-y coloured card candi :-)

Now, as is usual these days, I'm completely up to my eyeballs in things to do so I must leave it there. But don't forget to pop over to Dream Valley to join in the fun :-)

Love 'n' hugs,

Dream Valley Challenge 27 - Mother's Day

Hiya!

It's time for another challenge from Dream Valley.  This time we would like to see what you are making for Mother's Day.

I've used my lovely new stamp Teddy for Mum from LOTV that I bought with the voucher I got for Christmas from  the beautiful and talented Clare. Thank you very much, Chicken! You'll be able to see the other goodies I bought in the near future....

I still haven't quite got over my recent paper piecing bug so here's some more :-) I coloured the shine on the balloons with a white gel pen. And then I had some fun with a make-up sponge and some ink to do the sky....

The sentiment is another from Sentiments 4 You....

I also used:

Papers - Papermania Henbury Lane

Promarkers

Nesties

Recycled cake ribbon

Crealies leaf die

Flowers from stash

Challenges:

CRAFT - Mother's Day

CES challenges - Flower frenzy

Crafty Ribbons - Celebrate your Mum

Creative Inspirations - Anything goes

Let's Ink It Up - Show us your flowers

Simon Says Stamp - Anything goes

Don't forget to pop over to Dream Valley for more Mother's Day inspiration!

Love 'n' hugs,

More little monsters.....and an award!

Hiya!

Just a quick post to show you some of the cards I've been making while I've apparently disappeared off the face of the Earth!

I loved making George's Little Monster card so much that I made a few more.... Got a bit of a paper piecing bug too :-)

Close up of the image....

and sentiment from Sentiments 4 You.....

And one for Charlie's little friend at playgroup....

Oooops - he's got a wobbly tooth!

And I also want to say a huge thank you to Diane for giving me this lovely award:

I really feel like I don't deserve it because I've been a really bad blogger lately. To try and make it up I'm offering this to ALL my lovely followers. Hopefully normal service will be resumed at some point in April after all the wedding excitement has died down :-)

I'll be back tomorrow with my DT card for Dream Valley and I'm putting together a tutorial that someone has asked me for so I'd better get to it!

Love 'n' hugs,

My Little Monster

Hiya,

Today is my little monster's 6th birthday! Happy birthday, George!!!! This is the card I made for him using a new set of stamps I got called My Little Monsters from Recollections.

I paper pieced him using papers from the Rich Green collection from Papermania - the first paper pack I ever bought! I'm surprised I've got any left :-)

The sentiment is from Sentiments 4 You....

Then some ribbon, a button and some card candi.... Simple! Love the colours though. I've always been wary of using red and green together since my tutor yelled at me for doing it in a presentation at uni (because of red-green colour blindness....) but I really like this one!

A BIG Thank You

I just want to thank everyone for their patience while I flit in and out of blogland..... My posts are few and far between and my commenting is getting worse! I completely missed my blogaversary altogether!!! To make up for it I will be offering some candy to my lovely loyal followers once I'm back from our honeymoon :-) The wedding is creeping up on me quite quickly now and I've still got so much to do - eeeek!

I'll be back again when I've got a spare moment :-)

Love 'n' hugs,