Tuesday 9 October 2012

A Few Of My Favourite Things


Hello everyone, hope you are all having a good week. After manfully battling through the autumnal challenges I'm back in my comfort zone today with delicate pastel colours, butterflies and fluffy bunnies! :-)  I found this image already coloured  in my cupboard - I did it a while ago ready to co-ordinate with my LotV Nitwits papers but never got round to making the card; so all I had to do was decide on a layout and which papers to use from the pad, and I was away ... easy peasy!  Here's what I made.


As I've said before I think this is my all-time favourite LotV stamp; and it goes so well with these gorgeous pastel papers. I have to admit that I splashed out on 2 reels of ribbon (1 lavender, 1 green) and some cherry blossom flowers specially to go with the papers, but I foresee making a LOT of cards using this pad.  I also decided to ink up my new geisha scroll and one of the co-ordinating sentiments that arrived yesterday - I think they look really fresh with this colour scheme and  aren't restricted to being used with the geisha girl stamps.


Stamps: LotV "Patchwork Butterfly"; scroll from Geisha Companions Set and matching sentiment;
Media: Promarkers and Flexmarkers;
 Papers: LotV "Promises" by Nitwits;
Supplies: pearls and cherry blossoms from The Hobby House; ribbon from John lewis;
Tools: small, large and scalloped circle nestabilities; Martha Stewart "woodland branch" edge punch; Leone Em "Ash Branch" leaf punch.

Challenges:
Joanna Sheen - Down In the Garden
The Stamp Man - Butterflies, Birds & Bees
Papertake Weekly - All Creatures Great & Small
Top Tip Tuesday #87 - Things With Wings
Crafty Boots - Three 
(papers, flowers and pearls)
Craft Your Passion #131 - Hip To Be Square
Sentimental Sundays - Anything Goes
Deep Ocean #36 - Anything Goes

That's all for today - back on Thursday with my "Team B"  Lili's Little Fairies DT card :-)

13 comments:

Sue said...

This is gorgeous Pauline. I can see why you love this sweet image so much and your have coloured it beautifully. Such a pretty colour scheme too and I love the sentiment scroll.

Hugs Sue

Elaine Stark said...

I love this stamp. Your colours are beautiful and soft. Thanks for joining Top Tip Tuesday. Elaine

Dee's Craft Room said...

Oh, this card is soooo sweet, loving the pastel shades and the cute image.

Thank you for sharing your work with all of us at Crafty Boots Challenges.

Dionne

ribenaruby said...

Wonderful pastels Pauline! Great LOTV image, I've so many uninked ones, must remember to take part in their challenge and see the amazing creations too. Ruby x

Crafty Lark said...

This whole card is so pretty and I love your colours. xx Flora

Riet said...

So beautiful card,I love the image and the colours.
So gorgeous papers.

Hugs Riet.xx

Caz said...

This is lovely. Thank you for sharing with us at Craft Your Passion. And good luck.

Caz xx CYP DT

Anonymous said...

soooooo stinking Cute Pauline, Great to see you at Top Tip Tuesday challenge this time, hugs Samantha :0)

Donna Ellis said...

what a sweet little bunny card! I especially like the shading in your butterfly and the softness of the band and background!

alethea said...

What a sweet card!!! Love the soft colours you have used and that image is adorable!! Thanks for joining us at CYP for our Hip to be Square challenge! Hugsxx

Lisa said...

This image is adorable and so is your card! Thanks for joining us at Papertake Weekly :)

Joey said...

Hiya Pauline, this is fantastic, gorgeous soft colours and fab layout. Joey xx

Siobhan Fyffe said...

A lovely card Pauline. Such a sweet image beautifully coloured. Thanks for sharing it with us at The Stamp Man challenge.
Siobhan