Thursday, 30 April 2009

Melt my heart like April Snowflake!


Hello .... still off work today and not feeling great - slept till nearly 11.30 am so I must have been feeling bad! Just managed to sit down for an hour or two to make a card to take my mind off it. I recently bought a few new (to me!) Sugar Nellies including this adorable Christmas stamp "Snowflake" - as my target of one Christmas card per week is currently running about 13 weeks behind I thought it might be good to reduce the deficit lol!

This card is for the new Sunday Sketch & Stamp Challenge - loved this week's sketch. My card is actually quite a lot more sparkly than the picture shows, but I guess that's English springtime for you (April showers and all that ...very dull here today!)

Recipe:
Main image: Sugar nellie "Snowflake", watercoloured and decorated with Glamour Dust;
Sentiment: Penny Black;
Paper: BasicGrey "Figgy Pudding";
Supplies: White pearlescent card punched with MS "Scalloped Dot" punch; snowflakes die cut using Cuttlebug small snowflakes die; ribbon and gems from my stash.

Just off to put my feet up now and have a cup of tea ... hope you are all having a good day.

20 comments:

Riet said...

Wowww Pauline,what a beautiful card,l love the stamp and colours.

Hugs Riet.x

Arianne said...

Great card!
Thank you for playing along with us at SS&S!

x Arianne
SS&S-team

SemSee said...

One word ... stunning! Thanks for playing along with us at Sunday Sketch & Stamp. x

Sunday Sketch and Stamp said...

Oh, I like that you've used the sketch for a Christmas card, and I just love everything else about this card too. Maybe I should get started on my Christmas cards?

Thanks for taking part in the SS&S Challenge.

PinksyDoodles said...

This is a beautiful Christmas card - I love the colours and your Sugar Nellie is gorgeous.
Clare x

ella bella said...

beautiful card Pauline, love the colours combo you have used and the gorgeous papers such a lovely image to.
hope you feel better soon
Tracy x

pinky said...

Wow its beautiful, you produced this will feeling sick!!! Hope getting better doesn't scare your mojo lol.
Pinky

Helen said...

This is gorgeous Pauline - your new stamp is fab! I love blue and brown for Christmas cards too...
Helen x

Nilla said...

Adorable card! hugs from Nilla

cats whiskers said...

What a fabulous card Pauline, I just love that cute WOJ image and your colouring is stunning the papers and embellies set the whole thing off to perfection
Hugs Jacqui x

debby4000 said...

Oh she is adorable, fabulous colours too.
luv
Debby

Debbie said...

A gorgeous card Pauline. I love your new stamp, fabulous detail and papers. What a great idea to make a start on your xmas cards...wish I were that organised. Debbie x

Marcea said...

Wonderful card hun - gorgeous colour combo and image. Hope you feel better soon - I feel dreadful too :o(
take care
-x-

Victoria said...

This is outstandingly pretty and I also adore the card beheath. Both coloured fantastically and beautiful flowers/snowflakes and papers used.

sorry I have not visited all week we have had the front of the house rebuilt due to a failed lintel and have had no internet connection! Hope to be able to catch up with all your wonderful cards over this long weekend x

clare said...

Hi Pauline..WOW..this is gorgeous hun..and love how you've turned the sketch in to a xmas card..so love the image and the colour combo.
thanks for taking part in our first challenge..and we do hope you can join us again at SS&S
clare x SS&S DT

Barbara said...

Pauline, what a stunning card! Beautiful take on the sketch. Thank you for taking part in our first SS&S sketch. I hope you continue to show us your fresh ideas.

Barb
SS&S Team

Bev said...

Oh this is gorgeous hun! Love the adorable image and the fabulous choice of papers. x

Kaz said...

Another gorgeous Pauline creation......love it!

Tasha said...

Wowzer stunning christmas card - that image is so so adorable! love the BG papers you have used they look awesome
love tasha xx

Vicki said...

Gorgeous card Pauline, I have looked everywhere for this stamp and finally found it at funkykits! It looks so nice in the blue - I stumbled on your blog whilst looking for the stamp on google, I live in Liverpool too, nice to have found you!

Vicki x