Glitter Me Silly

Ok, so I’m stretching this a bit and hoping my bosses Gina and Denise over at Passion for ProMarkers are happy to accept a teddy bear as a “creature”.  It’s just that I was SOOO keen to use this little stamp from my new Papertrey Ink set, Baby Button Bits!  I have coloured him in powder blue and pastel green (a perfect mach for PTI’s Aqua Mist I might add) and then used the blender pen to give him dots (by bleaching out some of the colour).

The polka dots and sentiment, button and ribbon are all aqua mist and the DP is from the Pretty Pastels paper set.  Don’t you just love that sentiment?

The rest of the design team (whose animals all have a pulse!!) have made some gorgeous cards as always so please pop on over for a wee look.  

Big hugs,

Caryn xxx

Ok, I’m actually sitting here feeling rather proud of myself thank you very much!  Why??  Because I have just redesigned my blog all on my own without any help from ANYONE else!!  I have been feeling somewhat bored with my black background and header for a while and have been after a much cleaner, fresher look.  I didn’t know where to start so googled and found this site, Musings of a Housewife and in nice, plain, simple to understand words, she explained how to do it!  I looked around on the web for a picture of some diamonds (glitter, geddit?) and hey presto – a brand new header.  I am so pleased with myself and it hasn’t even taken me an hour.

My goodies arrived on Friday from Papertrey Ink and I am officially in love!  I have had a few bits and pieces (some stamps, card, a couple of ribbons etc) for a while but it’s mostly Christmas stuff and I just haven’t been in the mood to do Christmas cards recently (I wonder why!!).  Anyway, I have now bought a few new stamp sets, ribbons, buttons, more card, papers etc, and spent a couple of hours bonding with them last night.  I feel like I’m starting again with crafting – like I’ve got new life!!!!  I made a few cards – 4 of which I can’t share just yet as they’re either DT projects or they’ve been sent to people who would probably see them if I posted them here.  So here is the one I CAN share.

All supplies are PTI.  The stamps are from the Baby Buttons set (OMG it’s gorgeous) and they were stamped in Dark Chocolate ink.  The cupcake has been paper pieced in papers from the Pretty Pastels range and the “frosting” is white Flower Soft (reminds me so much of dessicated coconut – yum).  I’ve used my Labels nesties to make an aperture in the card and put a peice of acetate behind on which to mount the cupcake.  Behind the window on the inside back of the card there is a matching nestie shape stamped in Aqua Mist using the Polka Dots Basics stamp set.  Finally I’ve put an Aqua Mist button on the cake and dragged out my trusty old sewing machine for a wee bit of stitching.

Right, better go and do some HW (shudder).  Chris has taken 4 of the kids to Deeside ice-skating so I’m going to tackle the task of sorting the washing out!!  What else are Sunday’s for!!!!  (Don’t answer that – I was being sarcastic!!)