Stuck?! Sketches 1st May Challenge - Unique

Welome back to my blog today where I'm sharing a DT page for

Stuck?! Sketches! 

I hope you will feel inspired to join in and be eligible for one of the lovely prizes.

The paper range is mostly all from Kaisercraft, Indigo Skies Collection. 

 I was delighted to find the little heart button in my stash.  The beads are from a previous project; 

I just scattered them along the stitched circle.  

The Making Memories alphas are shimmery IRL 

and work well with the sequins on the "Veil"

So happy to used them, as they are dated 2008!

The fabric star is from Charms Creations, one of our frequent sponsors.

Our girl is crazy about cats, so I popped on a wooden embellie to keep her company.

The delicious pink floral paper is by Cocoa Vanilla, the Wild at Heart collection.

Yay! I finally got my hands on some and even though this layout was finished, 

I had to cut into a piece immediately.   I'm sure you understand! 

The journalling is on the back of the page and it reads.

These photos were taken on one of the last full days we enjoyed together.  We had been to the toy library, where you pounced on this black sequinned skirt and brought it home for dress ups.  You immediately decided it made a much better veil than a skirt and asked for some photos to be taken.  Without any direction from me, you assumed all sorts of different poses and angles, saying, "Just because it's a skirt, it doesn't mean it can't be anything else does it Granny?"  "Absolutely not" - I agreed.  So, you ate lunch in it, danced in it, reluctantly took it off for your bath and asked longingly if you could take it home with you.  You were quite happy to leave it here though, when you heard that it would be waiting for you next week when you came.  

14th December 2016.

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They are donating a $25.00 gift certificate

They are donating a $20.00 gift certificate

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Crafty Cardmaker's Challenge and Freshly made sketches card challenge.

Hello again, welcome back to my happy place.

Today I'm sharing two cards with you.

The first is for a challenge at

Crafty Cardmakers  

Where my friend Margaret Mifsud is a DT member.

Many of the techniques I've used are inspired by her beautiful cards.

The challenge is to use Pearls or other Gems on your card.

I used some Pion paper and a Heartfelt Memories die.

The gems are from my stash - I think they are from Kazzaz.

The flowers are an assorted mixture left from other projects.

The Prills add a touch of softness to the cluster.

I've added some punched (Martha Stewart) strips to decorate the inside.

The next card was made for a Freshly made sketches challenge,

but I ran out of time to enter, so here it is.  

In an attempt to Stash Bash and not buy any new products

I used scraps of Maja papers and an older, much under used Stamp.

I heat embossed the the stamp on watercolour paper and then used

various colours of distress inks to colour the poppies.

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Just for fun - Lindy's Stamp Gang Challenge using Stampotique stamps.

Hello Scrappy friends, thanks for calling in today.

I have something completely different to share with you.

I own a few Lindy's Stamp Gang Magicals that are under used,

as well as three Stampotique stamps which rarely see the light of day.

LSG April challenge prompted me to liberate them from their 
hiding places and make a few cards.

Not my usual style, but I'm really happy with the way this one turned out. 

I used the heart stamp by dabbing it directly into a puddle of Magicals. 

The Angel and the Heart Banner were stamped with Versamark 

and coloured with various Tombow pens.

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