Serendipity Stamps Blog Hop

Hi all, I'm here this morning with a card featuring a new stamp from Serendipity Stamps. All the Design Team are featuring the newest range of stamps today, and I am showing off this fabulous 'Hello World' stamp, which is a large one, big enough to cover a whole card.

I simply stamped it in Raspberry Adirondack ink, and layered with some raspberry pink card, wrapped with some matching thin ribbon.

The next blog on the hop to visit is   . There will be a random $20 voucher prize for the Serendipity Stamps shop for a commentator from one of our blogs, so make sure to comment on all the blogs to be in with a chance to win!

The next stop on the hop is Vickie Zimmer.

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline

Swan Masque

Hi all, it's been a while since I last blogged here, tpo be honest I'm struggling with my creativity at the moment. I'm into my colouring with my promarkers, and i just gotr myself some Distress Markers, which are taking a bit of getting used to!

So I coloured this amazing image from Rick St. Dennis a little while ago, and I finally made her into a card for a Facebook Challenge on the Rick St. Dennis group.  There are so many images to look at there, for all kinds of tastes. There are some fab Halloween images, and some are sooo spooky, but of course my favourites are his elegant ladies. And this is one:

She is called Swan Masque,  and I coloured her with Promarkers, and spent more time on the Swan head dress than her hair! Such a fabulous image to colour, as are all of his images.

I teamed her with some Papermania paper and some new dies, from Sue Wilson and Spellbinders. As usual, I had trouble extricating my card from the Spellbinder die, so I tried again with the Cut Rite wax paper, and it worked like a dream. But they still annoy me! No other die I have ( and I have a few from several different companies) give me this trouble.

As the dies were quite intricate and detailed, I just added some sparkly gems to the corners, and left it at that.

I would like to enter this into

 Tuesday Throwdown - Sparkle

Crafty Catz - B is for Blue

Thanks for stopping by today,

Pauline

SSCB #30 - Shades of Grey

Hi all, I'm here today with a card for this month's Serendipity Stamps Challenge Blog. This month the theme is Shades of Grey, and the Design team have been asked to create something that means something to us!

I am a coffee addict. I can't start the day without at least two large cups of coffee. And I love meeting up with friends for a gossip with a coffee! So I chose to use this lovely image from the Table for Two cling set.

 I used some grey patterned papers as a background, and cut a fancy border in silver mirri card, which I layered onto some dark grey card.

I stamped the image in London Fog, and cut using a fancy circle die, then layered this onto some dark grey scalloped card. The grey twill bow was created using the ribbon from my Mother's Day bouquet, which we celebrated here in the U.K last Sunday.

Inside I stamped the matching sentiment, and added a pearl brad to the bow.

 And finally I added some punched butterflies and some metallic chrome gems.

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Do stop by the rest of the Design Team to find out a little more about us!

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline