My first challenge this year!

I was inspired to enter a blog challenge after seeing a sketch on a blog that I subscribe to with email updates. The sketch was for Papertake Weekly Challenge and was this:

I loved the sketch as it was simple with nice clean lines so I set to work and came up with this:

The image I used is a beautiful rubber stamp from Lili Of The Valley and I coloured her with Polycolour pencils. The background papers were in a download kit from Nitwit Collections and the sentiment and "Word Window" punch are from Stampin' Up! The punched border was made with a Martha Stewart border punch called Eyelet Lace.

I really enjoyed the challenge and being in time to enter it too!

Thanks for dropping by, Claire.

It's been sooooo long...

It's been so long since I updated my blog. It's partly because of my M.E./CFS as I live in two-hour time blocks between rests and when I'm feeling really shattered, this is too much effort! It's also partly because I wasn't entering any challenges because of a lack of time and therefore I didn't feel as if anybody would come to my blog so there was little point.

Anyway, I have recently started to make cards for my childrens special school. They are sold in the staff room and all of the money goes to the "Friends of" charity that pays for trips, toys and equipment etc. I find it a real honour that people find my cards good enough to buy and am thrilled when I need to make more to stock-up the box!

I have got lots of cards to update my blog with so they will start to filter through soon I hope!

Thank you for visiting my blog.
Claire
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