Starting school

***Scroll down for Wednesday's post on "Unity Addict Mood Challenge" Great prize to be won!!*******

My little niece will start school in a couple of weeks time, so I thought I'd make her a little card. I have worked my colours round the PlayDateCafe Challenge for this week, which are black and white with a bit of green :)

I searched through my jolees to find a blackboard embellishment - but in vain..............so I made one myself from black paper and lolly sticks. Cute eh?

I am chuckling at the "a" for apple on the card, as she is already reading and counting! LOL! Hope she won't be bored :O. Hope you love school Holly, I already know you love to learn x

My next little concoction for you, my lovely readers, is a Christmas card!!! Yes really!! O I know its August, but a girl has to think ahead - you know what I'm saying? This card is for the {ippity} challenge over at Splitcoast. I hope you likeeeee ;) I punched "Christmas" along the top, Paper is from Papermania, and stamps from {ippity} Season of Joy x

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And last..but not least, is a wedding card which I made today - a week or so belated, but i don't think they'll mind.......here it is .....

Stamps and paper used here are Papermania.

That's it for today, thanks for reading and supporting my blog. I also want to say thank you for your lovely comments on my previous "mood" post about my Dad - I was touched, your thoughts meant a lot xxx

Have a good day ((((hugs))))

Unity Addict Challenge

Mood Challenge Card
Just arrived back from holiday yesterday. We had a wonderful time in the sun, meeting up with friends and generally kicking back and enjoying ourselves :) As we were in the USA, I got some great crafting supplies too - just could not resist!!
Today I am hosting the Unity Addict's Challenge 12! Today it is a Mood Challenge :)You have to make a card that reflects the mood you are in - sad, happy, crazy, excited - anything at all! Please join in - you will  find the details over at Splitcoast Stampers. I chose to make a "subdued" mood card. Here it is:

My card was made when I was in a kind of serious, subdued mood and I started by choosing some blue paper which really suited my mood. As I was cutting it out, I began to remember my Dad, who passed away almost two years ago, and everything fell into place as the card became a little memento of him. I knew it would be an unfussy card – he liked things plain and simple; and yet classy (he appreciated good quality).

He was old fashioned in many of his views, yet kept a youthful and optitimistic outlook on life, even when he was 90! This is him just before he blows out the large flame on his birthday cake candle! :)
I embossed a frame in light blue, as it reminded me of how traditional he was. The {ippity} sentiment is from “Just Wanted to Say” and I stamped it on top of “A bit of burlap” - which reminds me how he loved the country and spent his boyhood days on his grandparents' farm.
I knew I just had to add gold into my card, expressing how valuable and precious my Dad was to me, and how he was always there for me, no matter what.

I embossed leaves from “You are right where you should be” in two different shades of gold, and added a beautiful gold ribbon (my best for the best Dad ever x) and the little gold brads to finish.

I hope you like it, and I can’t wait to see what everyone else comes up with – every single one will be unique – no two moods the same! Get the deets over here now! (Unity Addict's Challenge 12)

Blessings and hugs,

Elisabeth x

Inspiring Provence

Today, as the rain pours down here from the heavens, I'm going continental,  inspired by the Playdate Cafe! I love these warm colours of the terracotta pottery that is used in Provence, reminds me of crops of olives and grapes and the hot sun shining all day long. I stamped and paper pieced a flower from {ippity} Now and Always, and the sentiment is from the set Delightful Little Things (also from {ippity}) The yellow background cardstock is also stamped with A Bit Of Burlap {ippity}

I then trimmed my card with some country gingham ribbon with garden twine tied around at pleasing intervals!

I love, love love my ippity do dah, ippity day, evrythin special going my way :) Yes, I am completely bonkers! Gotta get away from all this rain, no blog for a wee while as I'm off on my holidays, Yay!! Sun, sun, sun, here I come :)

Hippity Hop

Welcome to my corner of the hop, if you haven't started at the beginning, you can find the full list of blogs here. I had some time at the weekend to craft with my friend Lucy, it was so much fun, we were on a mission to make easel cards, and we made a jolly good stab at them, even if I do say so myself.
This card will be sent to another friend who is going through a bit of a hard time just now, so I hope she finds some encouragement from it.

 I used {ippity} Devoted set and the paper is from Papermania's Rose Garden. Candy brads from Craftwork Cards. I thought I would enter this into two challenges; one is the Playdate Cafe, who are taking their inspiration from red, pink and white colours this week, the other is Unity Addicts Challenge, Let's Get Sentimental! the task being to make the sentiment the focal point of the card. You can find their challenge on Splitcoast Stampers.
That's all from me today, time for you to hop over to the next blog, its another Elisabeth! Enjoy!
love
Elisabeth x

Craftwork Card Sketch 3

This is for the new Craftwork card sketch - its a thank you card for my lovely mum who gave us a wee gift for our wedding anniversary yesterday:

The paper is all from their new range and the wee flower is made from their scalloped circles which I sprayed with water and then scrunched up. The ribbon and tag is SU.

...and would you like to see the card i made for darling hubby yesterday? Love the paper on this, its from a great little collection by Papermania. (can't remember the name :o )

thats all :)

Love Susan Branch!

Don't you just love Susan Branch? I just visited her website again for the first time in ages, and I love her style of journalling. One of these days i am going to start a journal and maybe imitate a little bit of her style. If you don't know what i'm talking about, check her out here. I haven't seen any new stamps from her in a while, some of her sentiments are so wonderful. Go enjoy yourself for an hour - it is like being immersed in a warm bath of comfort and scented candles and bubbles, o Susan, you have inspired me...here i go burbling on.........................:)
I downloaded this wallpaper for my laptop from her - isn't it d-r-e-a-m-y.

Ahhh Summertime . Love it.

Hugs to you today
Elisabeth x

Lucky lucky lucky me :D

I just found out that i won a prize in the Make the Day Special blog hop!! Make the Day Special is where I get most of my ippity stamps from.
So lucky! It is a set of four gorgeous Christmas cards made by the extremely talented Jo at Here I go Again. Just look at this:

Isn't it fabulous! They are so delic, i want to put them on my own mantlepiece - now!
I am so happy to be picked. Thank you, thank you, thank you :D

Today is my wedding anniversary and I have to go make a card for dh who will be home soon ;)
Thanks for popping in.

Enjoy your day x