Three of a kind @ OLW

It's coffee break time so I thought I'd post my cards for OLW this week over at Jennifer's blog here.

This is this weeks requirements -

"The challenge is to make three one-layer cards.  Yes, three.  Make three cards all using the same image stamp but vary the occasion by changing the sentiment and/or ink colour and/or card stock colour.  You must use the same image stamp on each card."

I have to say deciding on a stamp was hard , knowing you had to vary the design and occasion on a One Layer Card .
These are my cards

The stamp is from Birds Galore by Inkadinkado and it's shape didn't leave me much choice for positioning on the card so I decided to change the way I used it instead . The first image is stamped on a sponged background , the second is embossed with silver powder and the third is chalked after stamping with Versa mark .

This challenge took some thinking about but I'm finally pleased with the result after several attempts :)

Thanks for looking X

Less is more #13 meets Clean and Simple

Morning everyone ,

It's Lucky dip week this week at LIM , our first because April happens to fall with 5 weeks .

In celebration of the success of this great weekly challenge blog we are required to make a Thank you or Congratulations card , it certainly is great fun and inspirational taking part , and was the first challenge blog to get me started on my blog. This week Kerry is a Guest designer too so hop over and check out the blog links .

Thank you Chrissie and Mandi X

I've decided to make a Thank you card and combine the design sketch from Clean & Simple too .

The buttons are made using dies from MFT that cut and emboss the buttons at the same time . The patterned card is Pink Petticoat digi papers , I printed onto various textures of light cardstock to get different effects including off cuts of glossy photo paper to make the shiny buttons . 

I've stitched a border and then used a quikutz needle die to embellish the sentiment , which is 'Fiddle Farts Dotty Font' which I bought from Helen's blog . The colours are following Emilie's Colour Combo for this week and this is the Clean and Simple sketch .

Thanks for looking xx

Scrap Map - A wedding page

Morning fellow crafters ,


Wasn't the pomp and pageantry spectacular yesterday , a lovely day for the bride and groom . What topped the day of for us was when the Battle of Britain memorial Flight flew in the skies above our little bungalow on there way back to RAF Conningsby , such a lovely roar of the Merlin engines and that unmistakable silhouette on the horizon , it only took them 15 mins to get here from London ....... a bit slower than the jets which passed 5 mins earlier !!


...... So the morning after the Royal wedding and over at Creative Craft world the Saturday sketch is up and the theme is Weddings .

I decided to scrap this photo because I like the different angle of the photo which was taken by a family member when the official photographer was busy snapping away .
The bride and groom are my sister in law and hubbie and our little girlie was a bridesmaid for the first time at their wedding and is in the foreground of this picture , needless to say it was an enjoyable day .
Here are a couple of close ups

This is my last page as Guest Design team member and it's been great joining them each Saturday at sketch launch , thank you Lou and team :)

Thanks for stopping by X