This is one the best sketches I think I have ever followed. It is from this weeks challenge over at Friday Sketchers. At first glance it looked a bit tricky to me but when I started, the whole thing just fell into place so well. This is the last of the SU! papers from my prize from a few weeks back. I have loved them so much that I am now hosting a party (21st April – if you’re near the Wirral you’re welcome to come along!) so I can buy some more stuff. I could be converted to SU! The Gorguss girl has been cut out and popped. I am so pleased with this card which I have made for my niece Ellie whose birthday is in June – how organised is that?!

So I have managed to combine 2 great challenges with this card. The first is for A Passion For Papertrey whose current challenge is monochrome. I still have some of the GORGEOUS papers and ribbon left which was given to me by the equally GORGEOUS Steph so have gone for my favourite colour – PINK! Which leads me nicely on to The Secret Crafter Challenge which is “Favourite Colour”. I did ruminate on this for a wee while as I have colour phases – have been enjoying orange of late – but when it came down to it, PINK is the ONE!

The papers are PTI Raspberry Fizz and I ADORE them. I will cry when I have used up the last of it. The flowers are also PTI stamps which I had left over from a previous card – it’s great when you find a use for something you had previously discarded. The ribbon slide was buried in my stash and I have added little frosted blings to the centre of the flowers. The little floral trim down the sides is actually hiding some rather dubious stitching but I don’t want to talk about that!!

Hope you’re all well on this bleak afternoon. I am loving all the comments in my blog candy post about your favourite crafting items. I have even discovered a few things I never knew about!!

Happy crafting everyone.

Hugs,
Caryn xxx

Here is my take on this week’s Charisma Cards Challenge which is a lovley sketch. I don’t really like the way it has photographed theough, the orange ribbon is much more subtle in real life!!

Not much time to chat tonight as my hair is dripping wet and I still have the lunchboxes and Olivia’s cooking stuff to organise for tommorrow. Someone tell me why I had 5 kids?!