Molly Blooms

I hope you all enjoyed Valentine's Day and received lots of nice surprises, and of course - love! I didn't have a secret admirer, but my daughter surprised me with some yummy embellishments for my cardmaking. She's a sweetie! Thanks for all your lovely comments, I really do appreciate you taking the time out to visit my website!

I have been itching to ink up this gorgeous Molly Blooms stamp by Clare that came free with Simply Cards & Papercraft Magazine and I have to say - I love this stamp! You will have to forgive me if it keeps popping up on my cards!! The image is mounted on Nellie Snellen Die Cut Frame.

I am entering The Sweet Stop Challenge and so using this week's sketch which I love!!! I will definitely be using this one again.

The backing paper is Sally Moret paper that came free with Crafts Beautiful magazine and was called Spring Paper Collection. The gingham paper is from Papermania Red Hot Paper Pack. I have only used two design papers and no more than 4 flowers, so it's great that I can enter it into the Creative Inspirations (Wednesday) Challenge 'Plain & Simple'.  The flowers are Petaloo Colour Me Crazy mini delphiniums, coloured with Pastel Blue Promarker. Wavy Scissors were used for edging. The sentiment was made on computer and then mounted on nestability. Pink card was from Papermania Sizzling Red Hot Pack. Bow, pearls and gems are from stash.

Colouring for image:

(Promarkers unless otherwise indicated)

Skin: Vanilla and R20 Copic

Hair: Tan

Scarf: Pastel Blue and G85 Copic

Top and socks: Cocktail Pink

Jeans and Shoes: Pastel Blue & Blender

Gift: Pastel blue and G85 Copic

I would also like to enter this into the Truly Scrumptious Challenge - Swirls and Pearls although I'm not sure if it qualifies for the theme. There are certainly plenty of pearls and I'm hoping that the blue wavy ribbons below count as swirls. I drove myself mad looking up the definition of a swirl. It said moving in a spiralling or twisting pattern. Oh I still don't know if it qualifies or not!! Lol - if not, just delete!

Swirls? and Pearls

I am entering into the following challenges:-

The Sweet Stop - Challenge 'SSS95' (ends 18 Feb)
Creative Inspirations (Wednesday) - Challenge 99 - 'Plain & Simple' (ends 22 Feb 9pm)
Creative Cottage - Challenge 33 - 'Fabulous Florals' (ends 1 March)
Truly Scrumptious - Challenge 51 - 'Swirls & Pearls' (ends 1 March 5pm)