Happy Mother's Day

Hello sweet peeps,

Happy Mother's Day to all those celebrating it today. What a lovely Mother's Day I had at Aleeza's school this morning. The teacher organized a picnic with lots of fun surprises for us mums and kids. It started with a story I read about a lion who wanted to love followed by vase painting, playing snakes and ladders and twister. All of us got snacks and had lots of tasty treats at the end of it. To make it a real rosy finale, the teacher took a silk rose bud for each mum put it in the vases we painted and made the kids present them to their respective mums with a handmade card (which the kids made earlier in class). It was such a touching and affectionate affair - my best Mother's Day to date.

Now to my card... simple, embossed, sponged with TH walnut stain, butterfly stickers and punched ones as well. I coloured the punched butterflies with water colour pencils, markers, and glitter pens. Wished the glitter would show in the picture as it does in real life. I have used liquid pearls to add more dimension.

Down below is Aleeza's teacher giving a demonstration of painting on the ceramic vase with glass paints.

Wish you a happy day, afternoon, evening or a plain night night.

Love,

Monica 

For a baby girl

Hello sweet bloggers,

Here is another card that I have made for the bazaar on the 14th. I had made a similar looking one earlier and it sold so I thought I must make a repeat and here it is. The stamp is from Penny Black and the ribbons, pearls and flower is from my stash. The leaves have been embossed but I don't think that is doing much to them.

I will enter this card in the following challenges:

http://craftingforallseasons.blogspot.com/ - monochromatic

http://divasbydesignchallenge.blogspot.com/ - anything goes

http://whimsyinspires.blogspot.com/ - anything goes

http://ladybugscraftsinkchallengeblog.blogspot.com/ - baby cards

Will come and visit your blogs now.

Love,

Monica 

More gingham coming your way

Hello sweet peeps,

I had this red and white gingham lying on my table and my blog buddy Sandra sent  these cute sheep chipboard images, so I thought why not make a card combining the two. Incidentally sheep images sell very quickly for some reason. I have a confession to make though - these chipboard images were sent for little Aleeza but I just could not keep my hands off them. And Aleeza was kind enough to share so I went for it.  The sentiment is handwritten with an American Craft permanent marker. I could have come up with a witty sentiment like "Happy Baaday" but my hands had a mind of their own... 

I will enter this card in the following challenges:

http://www.craftysentiments.blogspot.com/ - use a sentiment

http://creativecraftchallenges2.blogspot.com/ - animals

http://flourishes.org/ - use black accents

http://www.craftdoormagazine.com/ - anything goes

See you later.

Love,

Monica 

My new stamps

Hello lovely bloggers,

Here is my card to show you today stamped with my new Penny Black clear stamps and coloured with Faber Castell water colour pencils. I had this doily sitting around doing nothing on my table for months now so I thought I should use it before it wears out. And this gingham paper seemed to match perfectly as did the buttons (I just find buttons hard to resist specially when they match perfectly) and the embroidery yarn. I do think my colouring is improving... lol.

I will enter this card in the following challenges:
http://cardmaniachallenges.blogspot.com/ - flowers
http://getinkychallenge.blogspot.com/ - floral fun
http://lovetoscrapchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/ - anything goes

Love,

Monica

I do like this colour combo

Hello sweet bloggers,

Thanks for the kind comments on my last card. I would like to welcome my newest followers - thank you so much for joining my little blog.

Here is a card I have made with an image sent by dear Shirley-Anne along with other lovely stuff. This image was already layered on to a frame so all I had to do was to stick it with foam dots on the card. the floral tape is the same one as on the previous card. The flowers have been punched on paper that was crinkled first and then painted with water colour paints. I have used liquid pearl in gold as flower centres. As usual it took me forever to arrange the flowers and the swirls and am still a bit unsure how they look. However I do like the colour combination on this card.

I will enter this card in the following challenges:

http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.com/ - anything goes

http://sisteractcardchallenge.blogspot.com/ - anything goes

chttp://sisteractcardchallenge.blogspot.com/- buds, blooms and blossoms

See you later.

Love,

Monica 

An anniversary card

Hello sweet peeps,

Here is a card I made a few days ago with washi tape and some kind of floral fabric tape and cotton lace. The roses are from a longer length of lace and the flourish is from Sizzix. It is a single corner flourish and what I did was to snip it into three pieces to balance it with the roses. Even though this is a quick card, it took me a long while to get the positioning of the flourishes right. In the end, I do like the way it turned out and hope you do too.

I am going to enter this card into the following challenges:

http://catchthebugblog.blogspot.com/ - anything goes

http://mytimetocraftchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ - sentiment as the focal point

http://cardmakinmamas.blogspot.com/ - washi tape

See you later.

Love,

Monica 

For a darling baby boy

Hello sweet bloggers,

I hope you are having a good Saturday...

Here is a quick and simple baby boy card to show you today. I have used two kinds of papers, blue ribbon and buttons from my stash. This is a card to add to my collection to sell.

I will enter this card in the following challenges:

http://asimplefive.blogspot.com/ - anything goes

http://simplycreatetoo.blogspot.com/ - all about babies

Love,

Monica