My Time to Craft - On the Spot

I love this image by Dustin Pike, which is perfect for a get well well card following an accident. I just used one for a member of our choir who took a bad tumble whilst skiing and broke his hip. His wife always said he went too fast!

So here is the spotty old dinosaur again, (the image, not the choir member) for the challenge of On the Spot, from My Time to Craft.

Not only is the image spotty, but so is the paper, which is a digi download from Cuddly Buddly, called Fairy Fun - Willow. It really is a lovely shade. I coloured him with my Copics and mounted the image on Nesties.

I'm also entering it into the Challenge from Charisma Cardz, whose theme this week is Animal Magic

The Spellbinder tag has 10mm ribbon slits and I didn't have any ribbon of a suitable colour in the appropriate width, so I used two narrower ones and overlapped them slightly to go through the holes and then opened them out to be side by side at the edges. I quite like the effect and I shall probably be trying that again sometime!

Do join in the fun with our challenge this week!

Getting back into the swing!

I love the gentle colours in this photo inspiration picture from The Shabby Tea Room. I'm afraid that the colours in my picture look a little harsh in comparison, but in fact they too are gentle.
I am entering it for several challenges.

The Shabby Tea Room - Embrace the white (photo Inspiration)

Alphabet Challenge - White

Allsorts - No DPs

Papertake - Anything Goes

Crafty Ann's challenge #11 - To someone Special

The sentiment is a stamp from Cuddly Buddly, which fitted perfectly into the largest Spellbinders die from the Butterfly set. It is a quote from Galatians and reads 'The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.'

The embossing, using lightly pearlised paper, is Cuttlebug, as are the die cut flowers.

This beautiful piece of ribbon is from a wonderful secret Santa bundle I received last Christmas.

Sunshine Award

I feel so pleased to have been offered this award from the most talented Helen, of Ellephantastic Cards and Crafts. She is the most amazing and successful crafter... her knitted characters have appeared on TV and her digi images are simply superb. Her Roger the bear is just SO cute; if you use any of her images and let her know, she may showcase your card on her blog! I've just spotted one of mine on there!

Under the terms of the award I must now...

• Pass it on to 6 bloggers
• Put a link to your nominees within your post
• Let your nominees know that you are passing this award along to them by leaving by leaving a comment on their blog
• Link to the blog of the person who nominated you for this award

It's difficult to choose just 6 people from all the fabulous friends and crafters in Blogland, but in no particular order I would like to pass this on to

Wipso, who makes the most amazing stitched (dumfed) pictures,

Paula, a most faithful follower of my blog who leaves such encouraging comments,

Sallie, who is also a most frequent visitor to my blog

Victoria and Ikki, true blogging friends and

Julia, whose wit often brings a smile to many a face!

With the very best wishes ladies and thanks again Helen.

Home again!

I wonder if anyone has wondered why I haven't been cardmaking as prolifically as usual for the last 4 weeks... well, I have just arrived home from a month holidaying in New Zealand, returning via Sydney, as you can see from this picture, which was taken on April 1st or it might have been the 2nd... it was Good Friday there anyway. (I think my camera was on UK time)!

We had a wonderful time and made many new friends from amongst others on the tour. The flight home was not as tedious as I had anticipated, with just one refuelling stop in Bangkok.

I managed to get the cards for my DT spots done before I went away, and once the laundry has been sorted, I hope to be back to making cards once more!

One piece of unfortunate news was that one of my freezers had somehow become switched off and so we were greeted with 4 drawers of rather smelly, defrosted food in varying stages of decay!!! YUK!