Making it with Meslyn Challenge #7

okay, so where did August go?? the time has flown this month and I cant believe its september already! I guess the one plus point is that we can now take out our autumn, halloween and christmas stash without feeling too guilty!

this month's Making it with Meslyn Challenge is to make a card using the sketch below and for this I used Martha Stewart ladybird punches and also a Digi Image which was coloured with twinkling H2O's and added prima flowers and card candy with leaves which were cut on the robo.

please pop by the Challenge blog and have a go at the sketch as there all sorts of possibilities with this one! (oops I moved my embellishments around a bit..)

the prize for the winner will be
'taster pack for 2 fab Christmas ranges new to our website. Each pack contains papers, chipboards and decoupage tasters from 'Peppers Christmas party and 'Jolly Happy Christmas''

If you like the image which is just oh so adorable, please pop by Di's Digi Downloads where you can find it here.

Christmas!

well I forgot to post this card in early August when I finished it, and while sifting through and sorting out my photos I realised I hadnt, so here you go.

I got some gorgeous papers last month called Swell Noel from K& CO and when I saw one particular sheet in the pack I thought wow this was made for the stamp (or the stamp made for the paper!) which I found on ebay last year and hadnt cleaned up to use yet (it was used)
So, I dug that out stamp and in the end was pleased with the result and how the nested frames from the spellbinders lables came out too. the snowflakes are cut with the cuttlebug 3 flakes on one die, and I added pearls and stickles to finish

The image is coloured with twinkling H2O's as of course it had to be glittery, and I think they work well on this card rather than the other colouring techniques!


The sentiment is stamped and embossed with white embossing powder from purple gerbil (see right had link on my blog to their ebay shop)