Daughter's 8X8 Bday card

God I feel so old - I can't believe my daughter Lynne will be 26 year old on 7th June!  Where have those years gone cos I don't know where?  She started her first Uni placement (she is doing Advanced Diploma in Nursing at Uni of Herts at Hatfield) this morning and loked very smart in her crisp royal blue uniform.  Wouldn't let me take any pics tho!! 
I am sorry for not being a good buddy this last week but someone banged into me at a very fast rate on Thursday and I had vertigo all afternoon and evening but ok now.  Then my big (and only) bro arrived with his fiancee from Holland on their way to Perth.  Had to laugh as his new Sat Nav took him from Dover all the way thru the Blackwall Tunnel and up thru Hackney, Stoke Newington and Tottenham then onto the A10 to get to ours when in truth he should have nipped onto the M25 and been here in a couple of hours instead of the 4 it took them!!  Same thing happened on their journey north to Scotland on Saturday....they ended up going thru Jedburgh as they were so fed up of the woman's voice of the darned thing!!

Anyways onto this card for Lynne............

Using this stunning image, I coloured her with PMs (details below) then mounted her onto pearlised brown then dry embossed gold mirri card.  The card is 8X8 and I have to say I have LOVED working with this size so gonna have to get some more for future projects.  The red and gold spotty card is from The Works that I bought ages ago - and it seems to breed in my stash!!  I followed a sketch and added decorated corners using red embossed card and the same brown card and added a gold coloured ribbon from my stash.  Onto the flowers which I made meself he he - chuffed to bits as they cale out exactly as I hoped for.  All I did was use my Bigshot and a Spellbindeer ans cut 8 of each size, spritzed them with water and allowed them to dry naturally - hence the curled up look - then stuck a fancy brad thru them both.  The sentiment I made on the PC - wanted to keep it simple so as not to distract the eye......sideways view show depth of card - or it is meant to he he........

This close up shows the glitter I added to her headpiece, her choker, her dress and her feathery behind!!

I am entering this into the following challenges:~

Dream Valley Flowers;

SketchNStash Sketch;

Creative Inspirations Glitzy and Bling;

Sentimental Sundaes Anything Goes;

Crafty Catz Give us a Quote/Sentiment;

Totally Papercrafts Recipe ~ 1 image/2 papers/3embs;

Birthday Sundaes Recipe ~ 3 embs/2 papers;

Sparkles Forum Challenge Recipe ~ 2 papers/1 ribbon/2 embs; and

Incy Wincy Girlie Creation.

Ingredients:~

Stamped image from Kanban (I think as it was a gift) coloured with PMs:

Ivory, Blush, Pastel Pink, Sandstone, Caramel, Cinnamon, Henna;

Papers and card from stash;

Ribbon, brads and faux rubies from stash;

Papermania Embossing Folder.

What we been up to and Lilly and Flowers

Our beautiful baby Sooty missed us when we were away at the weekend but I have to say sorry for misleading you all - we weren't in Norfolk but in Suffolk. Just sitting directly on the border apparently!  We stayed in a lovely wee village pub in a place near Lopham and Redgrave Fens.  We spent two days walking on them chasing the wildlife and enjoying the tranquility of the place.  I got this fab pic of a robin just at the start of our second very long walk and wanted to share it with you all.

We also came across these stunning ponies that live wild on the fens - there were warning signs up saying not to approach them but they approached us thru a fence I have to say tho they did let me stroke them for a while.

Onto my card for today now.....this is for Lynne's friends wee girl Lily Mai.  She is a gorgeous wee angel!  Using a digi stamp I won drom Digistamp Boutique last year (Lilly and Flowers), I coloured her with my good old PMs (colours below), used a Nellie Snellen Oval Die and then cut around the outer shape of the die to create the darker layer.  I used DPs I got from the fab Coops (thanks again) so dunno where they are from but they are stunning - such bright colours too!  The bunting is from a freebie stamp set I got a couple of months ago - are they called Molly Bloom or similar?)  Silly moo me thru the packaging out - how daft am I?  I paper pieced some of them so they stand out more.

Ingredients are:~

Digistamp 'Lilly and Flowers' from Digistamp Boutique coloured with PMs~

Ivory, Blush, Dusky Pink, Satin, Henna, Caramel, Cinnamon, Sandstone, Poppy, Ruby, Rose Pink, Moss & Marsh Green;

DPs were gift from Nic (Coops);

Ribbons and flowers from stash;

Sentiment CG;

Nellie Snellen Oval Die;

Molly Bloom? Freebie Bunting stamp set.

I am entering this into the following challenges:~

Passion for Promarkers Fit For A Princess;

Moving Along with the Times Anything Goes;

Birthday Sundaes Anything Goes Birthday;

Dream Valley Flowers;

Pollycraft Anything Goes;

Craft Your Passion Anything Goes;

Pear Tree Designs Free for All and

Digistamp Boutique May Competition.