It's been ages

Hi there to all my new followers, and I must start with an apology. It's been ages since I last posted, things have been a little up in the air lately, what with one of my friends going through a tough time at the moment and another friend recovering from a second knee op, life is a little hectic you might say. Just when I think I might have time to myself I end up ferrying my son about because his car has decided to die. Oh well that's life I suppose. Anyway I did manage to make a card in recognition of what my friend with cancer is going through at the moment, hope you all like it.  It's made with my favourite dies (although I say that each time I use a different die lol) these ones are the Parisian Accents, very delicate dies and they give a lovely lacey feel I think.  This 'Booby Love' image is from http://saturated-canary.myshopify.com/ pop over and take a look at Krista's images if you don't already visit, she is an absolutely amazing artist.
For those of you that may be interested I have taken the plunge and bought some promarkers, quite a nice selection to start with, and I will be adding some flexmarkers in a little while I think, I am having fun playing with them, but not ready to show my results just yet and I will take years of practice before I am ever as good as you lot.  Anyway that's all for this visit, heaven know's when I'll be back again. See you soon I hope. Linda xxx

Sunshine on a rainy day

Hello everyone, I'm in a bit of a sad mood today, I've recently found out that a very dear friend of mine has cancer.  It's at times like this that you have to be positive for the friend but at the same time I'm worried sick about the outcome, it is making me feel sick with worry, so while waiting for a phone call from her this morning to tell me about visiting times at the hospital, I just had to distract myself and make this card, which will be her birthday card.  So I have choosen a bright card with sunny colours on it hopefully to cheer her up a bit, as she is feeling rubbish alot of the time with all the chemo drugs.  I hope you like it, it's spellbinders again I'm afraid, but they are my favourite.

And here's a picture of some cupcakes I made as well, still on the cheering up theme.

Your thoughts please

Today I have decided that it is time I got myself some colouring pens, the question is which ones, there are so many different ones on the market at the moment, I really don't know which ones to choose.  Should it be Whispers, Spectrum Noir, Promarkers or others I haven't even heard of.  So I thought the best thing to do is to ask all you lovely crafters who read this to give me your opinion on the ones you use, if you would, and that will help me make up my mind.  I want to be able to blend colours almost seemlessly without any pen strokes visible if that is at all possible and also to be able to shade the colours so that it looks natural and not obviously pen coloured.  Now I know alot of what I want to do will depend on my colouring talent (which may be in doubt) but the theory is that if I start with the best I can get then my amature efforts won't look so bad.  Tell me what you think please, it will help alot.
I will leave you with that thought and look forward to hearing what you think.  Linda xxx

Roses

Just having fun with the spellbinders rose creations and bitty blossoms dies, I just love the way the flowers turn out, this card was made with an embossing plate on the back card, that was then heat embossed with clear embossing powder to make it shine. The card front was folded back with the persian motif die half cut and the other half embossed so that when the front is folded back half the die stays facing forward, bit complicated to explain, I got the idea from Sue Wilson on her www.particraft.blogspot.co.uk/ she is certainly a good source of inspiration.  Anyway after all that it was fairly straightforward to just decorate with a flower arrangement.

Same roses and similar arrangement in another colourway.That's all for now, enjoy looking. It's been another lovely day hear again beautiful sunshine hope it's nice wherever you are. Love Linda xxx

I've just won my first challenge

Today I won my first Challenge held by Teri at http://www.deliciousdoodles.blogspot.co.uk/.  The competition was to name the above image that Teri had just created and my winning name was ..."Friends Forever".  I am so pleased that it was picked and my prize was this digi image she has drawn.
So as soon as it was e-mailed to me I got cracking and put this card together, it's such a lovely image, and it was a beautiful sunny day here today, so I just had to keep with the sunny fresh colours.  The images that Teri has on her blog are lovely and well worth a visit.  I hope you all had a lovely Easter and that the weather wasn't too bad, it has been a mixed bag here, but thankfully more sun than rain.  Thanks to all my lovely new followers and for looking and commenting on my blog, I know there's not much here yet, very little time I'm afraid, but all comments are really appreciated, thank you once again. Lots of love Linda xxx

Wee stamps

I have just visited this ladies blog she is the designer for the wee stamps and she does some fab images, go and take a look, she also has free digi stamps on her blog.  Well worth a visit.  http://www.sylviazet.blogspot.com/

Card No 2

THIS ONE'S NOT PURPLE!!!!!
I must be feeling unwell, just went for a mouch about on different blogs and came across Krista's blog at
http://saturatedcanary.blogspot.co.uk/  wow wow wow, what more can I say that lady can certainly draw, her images are simply amazing, this was a free digi download, but I have since ordered more.
I have just coloured this with colouring pencils as I don't yet have any promarkers or the like and I did try watercolouring but I'm not happy with it (every one else is mind you) I'm just fussy I never think my work is good enough.  The side banner on the card is from spellbinders bordabilities,  one of the best systems ever invented in my opinion, and the flowers are the bitty blossoms from spellbinders so easy to make have a go.  These were made in plain white card then spritzed them with mica spring pearls.  Hope you like it. That's all for now, see you soon. xxx