Penny Black Challenge - Romance

I received a set of Penny Black stamps today in the post just in the nick of time to enter this challenge. The stamps are gorgeous, but in the end I choose this sweet little hedgehog, the "love" sentiment is from the same set. The background papers are from Funkyhand's "It's Funky Too" CD and the ribbon is from my stash. I went for a clashing mixture of pinks & purples, quite bold for me, but I think I've pulled it off!

Stamp Something for your Valentine Challenge

I made this card with an Art Nouveau heart stamp I've had in my collection for ages, the small hearts were cut using a Cuttlebug Die and part stamped with the same stamp, the background paper is from the FunkyHand Too CD and the mesh behind the heart is from my stash.

Pollycraft Monday Challenge No. 8 & Kaboodle Doodle Challenge

Another Challenge card this time for the Pollycraft Monday Challenge & also for the Kaboodle Doodles Challenge as the theme for both of them this week is "love". The two birds on the fence came from the Pollycraft website and is one of their free downloads and I thought it was just right for this week's challenge. The backing papers are from the FunkyHand Seasons CD, the love heart & embossed paper behind the birds image have both been embossed with Cuttlebug Folders and the heart brad came with my Crop-a-dile.

Curtain Up!

Well here we are, decided to start blogging & so it's Curtain Up on my new blog & also, hopefully, Curtain Up on Cause Celebre, an Am-Dram Production I'm in tonight, unless it's snowed off of course!

Woke up this morning to a very white world, we still had some snow on the ground from Monday & so with this on top no-one's venturing very far today. Kev got to work this morning, but it took him 20 mins just to get out of our lane, so I'm going nowhere!

Some pics of the house and garden, Skye's not enjoying being out in the snow at all!

I've started to get back into my cardmaking, after a long break over Christmas & bouncing with ideas again, so just need to find the time to put them into practice. Yesterday I did a "Love" card, with Valentine's Day in mind, but could be used for other events too as it's quite close to Valentine's Day & may be a bit late going onto the website.

The card is an A5 aperture, the main heart has been stamped and embossed on red metallic card and the small hearts have been die-cut from another stamped heart. The background paper on the front of the card is from one of the Funky CD's and the paper behind the heart is a metallic mesh from my craft box.