A Pink Princess

Hi crafty friends,

At the beginning of July, Hannah (my daughter) joined the design team at 'The Paper Variety'challenge blog and I thought I would play along this week as they have a tic tac toe board to work from .... I hope family members can play along too?
I also combined this with the CASual fridays challenge which is to make very CAS design on a 4 x 9 card, and how about this  .... this weeks sponsor is Lawn Fawn , one of my fave companies although I decided to not use LF stamps on my card :)

This is so not like me to make a girly card, but I've had this idea for a while in my head since I picked the Studio G crown stamp up for a pound at Hobbycraft :)
I'd also like to take this opportunity to pay tribute to Mr Tim Holtz for having the genius idea to drill a row of holes on a gridded acrylic ruler, it makes hand-stitching straight lines so much easier :)

I've added beads and gems to the stitched background and the crown for a little sparkle and dimension, here's a close up ...

Here's the Tic Tac Toe board over at The Paper Variety, I've used PINK, STITCHING and CARD ( obviously!) the challenge is open until Tuesday ...go check it out :)

Yesterday, in the glorious sunshine, we put our tent up on a trial run for a camping weekend we have planned and also to check the mice in the loft haven't used it as a comfy nest over the winter ...I'm pleased to say they haven't :)
I'm glad we took it down again last evening tho as it looks like a scorcher today, not the weather to be in a tent in !!!

Please check back tomorrow as I have my first card to show you as a design team member at St Lukes Charity Card Challenge, until then, thanks for looking and enjoy the rest of the weekend X