What a week!

Again it feels like I've neglected my blog but I just haven't had the time to craft! We had a hectic week as we had a Tribunal this week against the education department to get a place for our son at a special school in another county. It went really well and we won!

I couldn't even get near my workspace as it was too untidy but last night I spent a few hours re-organising my craft cupboard so everything would fit in and be easy to grab too. So now I should be able to squeeze in a bit more craft time in between sorting out the house and changing furniture!

Anyway, to give me a head-start, here is a card that I made last week:

The card is a 5x5" size and had to be made as once I mounted this cute stamp, I had to stamp it and colour in the image! The image is C.C. Designs Swiss Pixie called "Miss Rosalie with Roses" from Quixotic Paperie. I coloured it in with Promarkers which is a change for me and added some stickles glitter glue to the roses which doesn't really show here. I used a Martha Stewart edger punch called Hydrangeas to edge the card and brushed a little Distress Ink on the sides. The sentiment stamped on the tag is from Whimsy Stamps, also from Quixotic Paperie.

Using up images..

I have lots of stamped images that have been coloured in and are just waiting to be made into a card. Most are in a box but some are still on my desk. Last week I had a can of diet coke on my desk and a box fell off the shelves above it and diet coke spilled over some of my things! I was devastated but luckily not too much got ruined. I was worried about some CC Designs images I'd recently coloured, but luckily only the white card got wet so I was able to save them by cutting out the image. So, three days ago I thought I should just start using some of the images that I have laying around and made these two:

This one is very simple, when I put the image onto the card, I felt that I should leave it rather than clutter it with anything extra as it would hide the cupcakes! The image is Whiff of Joy and the background paper is Doodlebug.

This one is a CC Designs fairy called Gretal. She is coloured with Copics and put onto Nestabilities circles. I used the Doily Lace Martha Stewart punch for the strip behind the circles and then my new Quickutz Photo Corner die for the corners. The flowers are Prima (of course!).