Whiff of Joy DT - My stairstep tutorial on the Whiff of Joy blog

Good Morning Everyone! I hope you are well. I have a tutorial to share with you today on the Whiff of Joy Inspirations blog. 

I have decorated my card with the adorable Maya watching a ladybug, which is available here from Whiff of Joy. I am entering my card into this fortnight's Whiff of Joy Challenge which is to make a stairstep card.

Have a lovely Saturday!

Jane

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Sugar Nellie Fairy Faye release day!

Good Morning Everyone! It's release day at Funky Kits today!

You can see and buy all the lovely new stamps here and there is a blog hop too! You can read all about and join the blog hop here.

Have a lovely Friday!

Jane

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A Summery Gorjuss Girl

Good Morning Everyone, it's my day for posting on the My Mum's craft shop blog today and I am sharing a card made with one of the new Gorjuss Girl stamps! I have been in love with the adorable Gorjuss Girls images for a few ywars now and was thrilled when Kitty took delivery of all the latest stamps. There are so many to choose from an each one is so lovely to colour in. I recently had a big colouring session lately and this little cutie was one of the images I brought to life with my Promarkers. I have coloured her in bright and summery colours for a nice fresh feel instead of the dark gothic colours on the packaging. I love how different these look when coloured in brght colours. This image is called 'Fallen' and is available here in the shop.

The papers I have used are from the Echo Park 'Hello Summer' paper pack which is available here and added my layered papers to a scalloped card base. I added some ribbon and a sentiment stamped on a tag from the Dienamics notched tag die and stamp set which is available here.  I topped the tag with a bow tied from twine and a die cut butterfly also from the set. I added some Hobby House flowers and pearls as a finishing touch. I hope you have a lovely Thursday!
Jane
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Sugar Nellie Blog Hop - Day 3 - Fairy Cakes

Good Morning Everyone! Welcome to my blog for Day 3 of the Sugar Nellie Baby Fairies sneak peek blog hop. If you are following the hop, you should have come from the lovely Anita's blog.  We are all previewing the adorable 'Fairy Cakes' stamp today which will be released on Friday at Funky Kits.I love this little fairy's hair and she looks really cheeky flying away with her cupcake! 

I used some gorgeous The Girl's Paperie papers layered onto kraft card to create my layout adding stiching around the edges of all the layers. I coloured the image with Promarkers adding some glitter  to the wings of the adorable baby Fairy. I added a very old sentiment from my stash cut out with a ticket die and decorated the card with a wooden button, flowers, some gingham bias binding and spotty button from the Ribbon Girl and some gems. I hope you are enjoying the hop so far, your next stop is the very talented  Vicky.

Make sure you leave comments along the way for the chance to win some sweet Sugar Nellie candy , only a couple of days now until release day! Have a lovely Wednesday!
Jane
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Sugar Nelllie Blog Hop - Day 2 - Lil' Sweetpea

Good Morning Everyone! Welcome to my blog for Day 2 of the Sugar Nellie Baby Fairies sneak peek blog hop. If you are following the hop, you should have come from the lovely Astrid's blog.  We are all previewing the adorable 'Lil' Sweetpea' stamp today which will be released on Friday at Funky Kits.I love this little fairy a lot and I think the little Ladybirds are adorable! 

I used The Girl's Paperie papers layered onto kraft card to create my layout adding stiching around the edges of all the layers. I coloured the image with Promarkers adding some glitter  to the wings of the adorable baby Fairy. I added a Tina Wenke sentiment cut out with a shaped die and decorated the card with a wooden ladybird, button, flowers, a label tied with twine and finished with a gem swirl and some gems. I hope you are enjoying the hop so far, your next stop is the very talented  Vicky.

Make sure you leave comments along the way for the chance to win some sweet Sugar Nellie candy and I will be back tomorrow with another sneak peek of the new stamps! Have a lovely Tuesday!
Jane
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Passion for Promarkers DT - Ice cream/cupcakes

Good Morning Everyone! I hope you had a good Monday. It's my team's turn this week to show our cards for the Passion for Promarkers Challenge and this week, the theme is....Ice cream or cupcakes. So we would like to see your Projects featuring some sweet treats this week! I have been treating myself to some new digis this week and this image 'Sweet treat Wryn' is one of my favourites!

I coloured her in to match the Echo Park 'Hello Summer' papers and added some glitter to the ice cream. I distressed the edges of the layers before adding them to my card base. I cut out Wryn leaving a small border and then added her to the card base with foam pads. I finished with a spotty button, some flowers and some stick on pearls to finish. I hope you will be able to join us for this week's Challenge, we have a fab sponsor as usual, Joanna Sheen who is offering a £10.00 voucher to the winner

and the blog is packed with lots of great inspiration from the DT. I hope you have a lovely Tuesday and I will be back soon with my card for the Sugar Nellie blog hop.
Jane
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Sugar Nellie DT - New Release blog hop 'Sprinkle some Love'

Good Morning Everyone! Welcome to my blog for Day 1 of the Sugar Nellie Baby Fairies sneak peek blog hop. If you are following the hop, you should have come from the lovely Vicky's blog. We are all previewing the adorable 'Sprinkle some love' stamp today which will be released on Friday at Funky Kits. This image is my favourite from the new release so I am thrilled to finally be able to show it off today!

I used October Afernoon papers layered onto kraft card to create my layout adding stiching around the edges of all the layers. I coloured the image with Promarkers adding some glitter glue to the wings of the adorable baby Fairies. I added a Tina Wenke sentiment cut out with a ticket die and decorated the card with a wooden button, flowers and finished with some gems. I hope you are enjoying the hop so far, your next stop is the very talented Astrid.

Make sure you leave comments along the way for the change to win some sweet Sugar Nellie candy and stay tuned as I will be back tomorrow with another sneak peek of the new stamps! Have a lovely Monday!
Jane
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It's Strawberries & Cream Giveaway Day on The Ribbon Girl blog!

Hello Everyone! I hope you are well. I am dropping by quickly to let you know about a giveaway on the Ribbon Girl blog. In the hope that they can bring on the summer sunshine Andrea and Mary are having a Summer giveaway and Summer means strawberries so our giveaway today has a strawberries and cream theme!

Today's giveaway includes lots of pretty ribbons, cluny lace, top stitching thread, organza rose ribbon, lace edged bias binding and charms.
To enter the giveaway, pop on over to the Ribbon Girl blog and take in some inspiration from the Ribbon Girls while you are there!
Enjoy the rest of your Sunday, I will be back in the morning with a sneak peek of the new Sugar Nellie stamps!
Jane

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P.S: there is still a week for you to join in with the Ribbon Girl colour challenge here

Whiff of Joy DT - A travelling Henry

Morning Everyone! I recently needed to make a card for a Friend celebrating a special birthday. She happens to be a bit of a globe trotting adventurer so I chose to make a shaped card using some Studio Calico papers and decorated it with 'Which Direction' Henry who is available here from Whiff of Joy.

I made the card by creating a template in Word and printing it on to my patterned paper and onto kraft card for the base. Henry was coloured with my Promarkers and I cut him out leaving a small border. I paperpieced his map with one of the maps on the papers.

I had so much fun colouring Henry in, I coloured him in again and added him to a little notebook which is Passport sized so is a perfect notebook to plan travels in.

Here are my matching set of Henrys! I decorated the card with wooden buttons and charms and a few little stick on pearls as a finishing touch. The little sentiment is from Lili of the Valley.
I hope you have a lovely Saturday!
Jane
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My Mum's Craft Shop DT - Kaisercraft Tigerlily

Good Morning Everyone! It's my turn to post on the My Mum's Craft Shop blog today and I am sharing some makes which I put together last night using papers and die cuts from the Kaisercraft Tigerlily collection which arrived last week at My Mum's Craft Shop. I have made a special card for my Mum as it's her Birthday soon.

To make the card I cut a piece of black paper from the pack and layered a piece of gorgeous patterned butterfly paper on top, I sewed around the edges and then wrapped the layers with Ribbon before sticking them to the card base. I die cut more black paper with a Spellbinders postage stamp die and layered a square cut from text paper on top and sewed around the edges before adding to the card base with foam pads. I added some die cut Butterflies from the Collectables pack and a sentiment and then added one of the new Hobby House flowers to the centre of one of the Butterflies. I finished with more letter stickers and some gems and pearls. 

There are so many die cuts in the pack I used one to stamp on and to add the sentiment to the card insert. Kitty has also taken delivery of some fabulous little Kraft boxes in the past few day and I couldn't resist decorating one with more Tigerlily papers.

To decorate the box, I layered up strips of paper and added some stitching and stuck them around the box and simply popped a Butterfly on top with a flower centre. I finished with more gems and pearls to match the card. I hope you have a lovely Thursday!

Jane

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Sugar Nellie DT - A Ribonita in a pocket!

Good Morning Sugar Everyone! I hope you are having a good week so far, it's my day for sharing a project on the Sugar Nellie blog today. I have been very busy and haven't had much time for crafting but I locked myself away in my little Craft Room last night and had a play with one of my Ribonita stamps which had not yet been inked up! This beautiful little doll is called Lolitta and is available here from Funky Kits.

I have used a pocket card blank which has been in my stash for a couple of years, I bought them when I was very new to crafting and found them when I was having a tidy and they are great fun to decorate. I covered the tag and the pocket with Thrift Shop papers by October Afternoon. I love the colours in this pad and the combinations and patterns are some of my favourites ever! I have used some pleated ribbon, lace and flowers from The Ribbon Girl .

The pocket was also decorated with October Afternoon papers and some flowers, buttons and a kraft swirl. I also added a beautiful resin flower from The Ribbon Girl. The little wooden birds have been in my stash for years! I really love them but can never find them when I want to use them!  I think they look great with these papers.

Here is a picture of both the tag and the pocket together, These were so much fun to make and Lolitta was the perfect size to sit on my tag! I hope you have a lovely Wednesday!
Jane
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Guest Design Team call at My Mum's Craft Shop

Hi Everyone! We are looking for some Guest Designers at My Mum's Craft Shop!
Read on for all the details on what you need to do to apply! This info was posted on the Shop Blog yesterday.

Jane
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Do you love to create cards and projects to inspire others and want to be part of a lovely team using the latest craft products? If so read on to apply for our Guest Design Team.

Our Guest Design Team call is now open until July 15th
We are looking for several designers to join our Shop Design Team as Guest Designers for a month each until the end of the year - with the possible option of continuing after that time as permanant.
You must love to make cards and other projects. As we specialise in Rubber Stamps

You must be able to work with these on most occasions. You will be required to promote where possible our products and latest new products that are available on our website.

Requirements:-

*An active blog with postings several times a week
*Be on Facebook - as our DT group is there!
*To post 1 project week on your blog (minimum) using our products
*Post us some of your creations for us to show at exhibitions & in our shop.
*Link to products used on our website in blog postings
*Promote MMCS on forums, facebook etc where possible

What You Will Receive:-

*A Monthly DT Kit (Inc new products)
*Discounts on all products
*Featured Designer & projects on our blog
*DT Badge for your blog
*Possible extended designing term

Application Info:-

Contact Info (Name, Address, Email)
Blog Url & Link to Picasa/SCS Gallery/Facebook Gallery (If applicable)
Bio (About yourself, how long you have been crafting etc)
Any Crafty Acheivements
Current or Past Design Teams (Although experience is not required)

If you are interested in applying for our Design Team please email us mymumscraftshop@gmail.com with the subject line 'Design Team Call', please feel free to ask any questions also.
The closing date is July 15th 2012 and we will email you if successful shortly after this date.

Good Luck everyone!

Ribbon Girl Colour Challenge DT - Pink/Purple/Green

Good Morning Everyone! I have been looking forward to today for ages! Today is my first official Challenge as part of the Ribbon Girl DT! The colour combination we have for you to play with this month is fabulous! It is....

PINK/PURPLE/GREEN

I have made a card using an adorable digi from By Lori Designs and coloured her in to match the colour scheme and the papers I used from the DCWV Baby Mat Stack. I have used lots of goodies from The Ribbon Girl. After I had stitched my layers of card together, I wrapped them with bias binding and then with ric rac before adding the layers to the card. I added a cluster of flowers including the beautiful little blossoms and some purple rosebuds, I curled the stems of the tiny ones to make little springs. I added a small spotty button to the top left corner and finished with a sentiment by Hero Arts and some little gems.

I hope you will be able to join us for this month's colour Challenge. The DT have made some wonderful things to kick start your inspiration! The Prize will be a lavender mini ribbon kit from the Ribbon Girls

and the very generous ladies over at Lili of the Valley have given a £10 voucher to spend in their online store (http://www.liliofthevalley.co.uk/)

You can see all the fabulous DT and our wonderfully talented Guest Designer Mandi Projects here

Have a lovely Sunday!
Jane
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Sugar Nellie DT - A Sassy Saturday...

Good Morning Everyone! It's finally the weekend and right now the Sun is shining so things are looking up! My thoughts always turn to holidays at this time of the year so I thought I would ink up my 'Travel Lite' Simply Sassy stamp and create a card using some holiday and travel themed Crate paper backing papers.

I kept the layout pretty simple and distressed the edges of my papers before sewing around them. I added brads and a few embellishments and some Jenni Bowlin tickets I had stamped with a sentiment.

I coloured my image with Promarkers and then cut her out leaving a small border and added her to the card with foam pads. I really love colouring my Sassy stamps and love this one's hair in particular!
I hope you have a lovely Saturday!
Jane
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Whiff of Joy Release day Blog Hop - Introducing Maya

Good Morning Everyone and Welcome to my Blog where I am sharing a card made using one of the brand new images which are being released today at Whiff of Joy. If you are following the Whiff of Joy blog hop you should have come here from the lovely Sonja's blog. I have used the adorable Maya with toadstools on my card and coloured her in using my Promarkers to match these lovely My Mind's Eye papers which are from an older pad. I created a layout by matting the patterned papers onto plainer  ones and sewed around the edges with my sewing machine.

The sentiment was created using a ticket stamp and die which is also being released today, the sentiments are in german but I added a sentiment from another Whiff of Joy set to the blank ticket.
The flowers are from various places and the ribbon is also from Whiff of Joy. The gorgeous resin flower is from The Ribbon Girl. I added some little vintage mother of pearl buttons and some stick on gems as a finishing touch. Thank you so much for stopping by and I hope you love Maya as much as I do! Your next stop on the hop is the lovely Lori.
 Make sure you leave comments along the way as this month, 6 lucky commentators will each win one of the stamps from our new release. There are 6 secret stops on the hop, so be sure to leave a comment on each one of the DT's blogs. You just don't know which ones are the lucky ones!  At the end of the hop, go to the Whiff of Joy World of Ideas Blog, let us know that you have left a comment at each stop of the hop by entering you name using the linking tool that you will find at the end of that post. A complete list of the hop is also at this blog, just in case you get lost along the way!
The hop will remain open until midnight CEST (Central European Summer Time) Monday June 18th. Winners will be announced by Katharina on her blog.

Have a lovely Friday!

Jane

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My Mum's Craft Shop DT - Tilly

Good Morning Everyone! For my usual Thursday post on the My Mum's Craft Shop blog this week I am sharing some projects made with some of the gorgeous new Wild Rose Studio stamps and papers which are now back in stock at My Mum's Craft Shop. I was inspired by the papers in the 'Man About Town' pack to colour 'Tilly with Gift' in shades of grey and red. She was great fun to colour in! I created a layout using three different papers from the pack and added some stitching with red thread to tie everything together.

I cut Tilly out leaving a small border and added her to the card with foam pads. I added a sentiment cut using Dienamics dies and finished with a large bow and some gems.

As I had so much fun making my card, I made a tag to match using my new Dienamics tag die. I created a similar layout to the card with more stitching and coloured 'Tilly with presents'  with my Promarkers before cutting her out and adding her to the tag with foam pads. I finished with more ribbon and some gems.

I hope you have a lovely Thursday!
Jane
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Whiff of Joy DT - New release preview - Catching the Moon

Good Morning Everyone! I am very excited today to be able to share a card with you which was made using one of the new stamps from the upcoming release at Whiff of Joy. This adorable little Gnome image is called 'Catching the Moon' and will be available for sale on Friday from the Whiff of Joy shop.

I used My Mind's Eye papers from an older pad and coloured my image to match them with my Promarkers.

The ribbon I have used is available here from Whiff of Joy and the sentiment is from a set which will also be released on Friday from Whiff of Joy, there are lots of lovely sentiments in the set and they are perfect for cutting out with a Nestabilities die. The buttons I used are from my stash. Make sure you check out the rest of the Whiff of Joy DT blogs for some more previews today and tomorrow and make sure you join us on Friday for a blog hop to celebrate release day.

I can't wait to share my next card with you as I will showing you the adorable Maya!

Have a great Wednesday!

Jane

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Passion for Promarkers DT - Lots of layers

Good Morning Everyone! I hope you had a good Monday. We have a great new Challenge this week at Passion for Promarkers chosen by the lovely Denise. The theme is 'Lots of Layers' so we would like to see at least 3 layers on your cards this week. I have made a card using a Pollycraft image and a sentiment from an old Elzybells set. The papers I have used are by My Mind's Eye from the 'On the Sunny Side' pad. I layered them onto red cardstock and sewed around the edges.

The image was coloured with Promarkers (of course!) and I cut it out leaving a small border. I added a small bow from yellow ribbon from my stash and some paper flowers which I have in my tin on my craft desk. I finished with a small spotty button and some red gems.

I hope you will be able to join us for this week's Challenge, we have a great sponsor this week. The Digistamp boutique are sponsoring us and the winner will receive 6 digi images! Make sure you check out the Challenge blog for all the details and some fab inspiration from the DT.

Have a great Tuesday!

Jane

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Whiff of Joy DT for the Whiff of Joy Challenge

Good Morning Everyone! Just a quick post today to share a card I made using the fabulous sketch fro this fortnight's Whiff of Joy Challenge. I am leaving in a few minutes to go to the Sue Ryder sale in Nettlebed. I have used My Mind's Eye papers on my card and the image is the Whiff of Joy Good Luck gnome. One of my favourites!

I masked the gnome off and then overstamped using the Whiff of Joy Essentials Background stamp. Unfortunately, I stamped the words upside down! The border die cut is also by Whiff of Joy and is available here. The sentiment I used is from Lili of the Valley.
I hope you have a lovely Saturday!
Jane
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My Mum's Craft Shop DT - Inky fun with Creative Expressions stamps

Good Morning Everyone! It's my day for sharing a project on the My Mum's Craft Shop blog today and I am showing an altered frame I made using some of the gorgeous new Creative Expressions stamps available from My Mum's Craft Shop. The stamp set I have used is called Steampunk Flowers and is available here. I started with a light coloured wood box frame and removed the glass and took it all apart before staining it with Vintage Photo Distress ink. I kept going until I had the depth of colour I wanted sanding it down in between coats to achieve a distressed look. When I had finished staining I stamped the flower with cogs over the frame using Archival ink.

I created the picture inside the frame by blending Vintage photo distress ink onto white card and stamping around the edges with Vintage photo and Tumbled Glass inks. I stamped the sentiment with Archival ink and then put the frame back together before adding the flowers. I made these by stamping onto grunge paper and colouring them with distress inks and heating them with my heat gun to shape the petals. I added a Tim Holtz ticket on a pin holder and some Steampunk charms from my stash, some paper flowers and some Butterflies and little stick on pearls to finish.
I hope you have a lovely Thursday!
Jane
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Pretty in Pink Pippi

Good Morning Everyone!It's my day to post on the Sugar Nellie blog today and I am sharing a card made using the adorable Pippi Longsocks stamp which is available here from Funkykits. I coloured her in with my Promarkers in shades of pink with touches of green to match the little Frog and to pick out the green in these beautiful strawberry patterned Crate Paper papers.

I created a simple layout using scraps of paper which were in my scraps basket layering them onto woodgrain paper and sewing around the edges with pink thread. I added some pink gingham bias binding to hide the join in the papers and added a doily behind Pippi which I also found in my scraps basket. The sentiment I used is from Melissa Frances.

Here is a close up of my coloured in image. She is so much fun to colour and I love the little frog, I have a phobia of frogs but can just about cope with cute stamped ones like this! I added lots of glitter to Pippi's wings to make them sparkle and I finished my card with a cluster of paper flowers and some stick on gems. I hope you have a lovely Wednesday! I am hoping for a quiet day today, we had a great day out in London yesterday celebrating the last day of the Jubilee but I am very tired now!
Jane
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Sugar Nellie DT Call

Do you fancy joining the Sugar Nellie DT?.....

Jane
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Whiff of Joy DT - Sharing in your sorrow

Hello Everyone! I hope you are having a good Weekend, we didn't go up to London today as it hasn't stopped raining since this morning but I have been watching some of the Pageant on the TV and it looks amazing! So many beautiful colours on show! I have a card to share with you today which I made using one of the lovely new stamps which were released last month at Whiff of Joy. This image is called 'Sharing in your sorrow' and is available in the shop here.

I made my card following this week's sketch at Sketch Saturday and used papers by Prima from the Madeline paper pad. I coloured the image with Promarkers and paper pieced the little girl's dress with a paper from the pad. The sentiment I used is from the Whiff of Joy 'General Sayings II' set.

Here is a close up of my coloured in image, I added some blue around the image and blended it out with my blender pen. I added some punched Butterflies and flowers from my stash along with a little wooden button I bought at the NEC and one of my favourite spotty buttons from the Ribbon Girl.
I have some exciting news to share with you regarding this month's release at Whiff of Joy, we will be
releasing stamps which feature a new Character called Maya by a brand new illustrator!

Maya is adorable! I know you are going to fall in love with her just as I and the rest of the Design Team have! We will also be having Blog hop to celebrate the release day on the 15th.

Have a lovely afternoon and evening!

Jane

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Sugar Nellie DT for the Sugar Bowl Challenge

Good Morning Everyone! I hope you are well. The Sun is hiding today and it is very grey and overcast. I hope it clears later on and stays dry tomorrow as I am hoping to go up to London to see the River Pageant. I made a card yesterday for my Grandma's Birthday using the latest sketch and theme from the Sugar Bowl Challenge. The sketch by Kiki is fabulous and the theme is 'shades of violet' so I dug out some of my Tilda papers which are in lovely shades of purples and pale violet.

I have used one of my favourite Leanne Ellis images, True Love, which is available here from Funky Kits. I coloured the image with my Promarkers and cut it out and mounted it onto some polka dot paper. I added some little glass gems with glossy accents and some beautiful flowers and gingham bias binding and a pearl pin from The Ribbon Girl. The sentiment I have used is from Penny Black.
I hope you have a lovely Saturday, I am off to clean the house quickly now!
Jane
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A cute Birdie Brown Robot

Good Morning Everyone! I hope you are well and are looking forward to the long weekend. I recently discovered Birdie Brown digi stamps through my wonderfully talented Pollycraft teamie MaryJ. 

She makes fabulous bright cheery cards and her colouring skills are amazing! I treated myself to the very cute 'Robot with a balloon' and now have a huge wish list of images I want to buy as this was so much fun to colour in!

I coloured the robot in to match this fun cogs paper from the Bobunny 'On the Go' pad. I added  a panel of My Mind's Eye paper to the centre of the card and stitched around the edges with red thread. I added a sentiment from Penny Black and a cog and screw top brad from my stash and finished with some stick on pearls. I have a day off today so I am off now to do some crafting!
Have a lovely Friday!
Jane
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