Hippy Chick

 Hello my friends, and I hope your weather is as nice as it is here today in North London.  Sunny, warm(ish) and a light breeze. Perfect!

Today's card was made yesterday but couldn't get it uploaded here as my neck has been playing up the  last couple of days.  Can't put my finger on where the pain is tho but it doesn't feel like it was before my op - I do wonder if it is muscular as I am using muscles that have been asleep for over 3years.  I had a lovely warm soapy bath last night and that helped a bit.

I have used the gorgeous Hippy Chick and coloured her with my Promarkers (not sure I like the black and white look but have to try it).  The DP is from My Craft Studio Professional and is just a simple background paper with a floral design - perfect for this hip chick I think!  The black scalloped paper was made using an Xcut edger and the flowers I made all by meeself!!  They are hard to make out on the pics but all I did was cut a circle of black paper, then cut a spiral shape into it and coiled them together!! Hey Presto flowers!!  I like the distressed look on these fab Simply Sassy images so I did the edgs of the card I used with my scissors - can't get the hang of the distress tool I bought - may be I need to try another brand - any ideas girls?

Ingredients:~
Hippy Chick Rubbr Stamp from Funky Kits;

PMs used~ Cool Grey 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5, Ivory, Blush, Dusky Pink, Pastel Pink;

DP from MCS Professional;

Ribbon and stamens from stash;

Xcut edger punch;

handmade flowers;

Rubber sentiment stamp from Paper Makeup Stamps (got it in a gift).

I am entering this into the following challenges:~

Pear Tree Designs Stamped Images;

FabNFunky Make Your Own Blooms;

Scrapbook Sisters Black and White;

Divas by Design and

Truly Scrumptious.

Thanking you very much for your comments - they are much appreciated.

Jenni's Birdie

This is my second post fro tonigh tso pls scroll down to see anothe card.

This particular card has been made using Jenni's fabulous new Birdie image.

I paper-pieced the image using a freebie paper from somewhere and then stamped swirls and flowers on the body of the bird to compliment the paper.  The brown main DP is a fab brown coloured freebie from Bearly Mine (sorry it looks a dire green colour in the pic - think the light in the kitchen was all wrong for it).  The stunning ribbon is from The Works and it is such a lovely colour of mocha it matched perfectly.  The buttons are pink too even tho they look an awful peach colour ~ I really want to get into my craft room very soon so that I can set up a 'photo' area where the light will be ideal.

This is my first twisted easel but I am not entirely sure I like the 'shape' so think I will stick to normal easel cards from now on.

I am entering this into the following challenges:~

FabNFunky Buttons and Bows;

Bearly Mine Vintage Easel and

Scrapbook Sisters Card Challenge Birds.