DooHickeys Only!

Hi everyone,

I'm back with a card I made at the beginning of the week, I really felt inspired by

MDUC's Doohickeys only challenge

 so thought I would have a go. I was surprised how many I managed to squeeze on and I'm sure I could have probably put a few more on too but I thought that might have been pushing it!

It has a very English country garden feel to it, and I'm so pleased with the final result. The doohickeys used were: cloud, heart love branch, tree, fence and grass edges, doily flower, leaves and tea bench. The cloud (with LOTV sentiment), branches, tree, grass and leaves were all cut from white cardstock and coloured using DI's and SU daubers so that some white still showed through. I cut two of each size doily flower from water colour paper, painted with worn lipstick and dusty concord DI's.

The machine stitched paper layers are the gorgeous Maja Vintage Spring 6th of April and I still can't believe I managed to cut into it!

The bench and fence were frantaged with aged silver and the fence also has a bit of pearlized mica fragments on it too.

A couple of other challenges I would love to enter with this card:

Bunny Zoe - Stitching

Magnolialicious - Anything Goes

I do hope you like my card, thanks for popping by today!

Hugs,

Many happy returns....:0)

Hi there, hope everyone is well in blogland. Just a quick post, it was my son's eighth birthday last Thursday and I made him a card based around Truly Scrumptious' challenge sketch as it had an optional extra theme of birthday card too. The slide out section that reveals Joshua's name looks a bit primitive but it was the best way I could create the idea I had. Needless to say Josh was thrilled with his card, who could ask for more?

I used: SU and distress inks
SU designer button
SU Round tab punch and Totally tabs stamp
Greetings Farm - little boy image from OA-Happy Day
Papers, string and alphabet stickers from stash

I would like to enter Truly Scrumptious' challenge this week.

Thanks for looking, your comments are always appreciated.

Nicola xxx

Birthday Wishes

Hope everyone is ok in blogland, so sorry I have been awol for so long. I seem to have been busy doing nothing, time slips through my fingers sometimes without any real achievement. The last few weeks I have been settling into my new routine, two children at school now instead of one and little girlie starting preschool. It has taken me a while to re-adjust and now I have got my head around it I can get back to normality.
Just a quick post tonight, it was my son's fifth birthday today and he was really pleased with the card I made him as he loves Scooby Doo! The decoupage Scooby and background paper was from a pack, used a lot of scraps; paper, ribbon, and an ancient 'birthday boy' stamp!






Thanks for stopping by, hopefully it won't be as long before I post again!
Nicola xxx