WMS Blog Party

Hi all, I'm back!! We returned from The Gambia at 2.00 am this morning, so I'm slightly bleary eyed!

Fashionably late to this month's blog party at Waltzingmouse Stamps, when I went away last week I didn't have time to create a card so I had resigned myself to not joining in this month :-( However, I was delighted to find we can link up until 6.30 pm GMT tonight, so I pulled out a few bits and pieces!

This month's theme is 'Spring', my favourite time of year.




Being short on time (two suitcase won't wash themselves!), I used the little floral image from Spring Baskets that was already coloured, attached this to the little basket which had already been stamped and cut with a nestie oval, just had to do a quick bit of shading with my Promarkers.



Used a pre-cut fancy tag, and stamped the sentiment in Paris Dusk, added a few blue gems...



Attached the basket oval and sentiment to a polka dot piece of Kanban card, which I had already cut to size for a different project but didn't work out.
Finally I stamped the butterflies in Paris Dusk onto a white Linen card base and voila! All in all, it took me around 20 mins! That is a record for me!

I'm also entering this into CES Challenge for Spots and Dots, and I Love Promarkers Challenge which is looking for Nature.

Well, The Gambia was gorgeous, but as you can imagine, we saw such grinding poverty that a lot of the population have to live with. The education has to be paid for there, and quite literally, they have nothing to work with. A couple of the residents in our hotel had been to The Gambia many times before, and always bring paper pads and pens to distribute to the local village schools. 25% of the children there can't afford to be sent to school, and they desperately want to learn. It really made me appreciate the quality of life we have here, and the fabulous chances our children receive, we are so lucky.

We are going to collect the kids at lunchtime today, they were staying with their grandparents in Southampton, I can't wait to get some cuddles with them!

I'll be round to blog hop tomorrow, as I really must have a bath, get the washing on, do some shopping, and get my babies!

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline