wow, look at this blog candy!!

Jill over at The Stampman is giving away All TwElvE nEw dIstrEss Ink pAds [or the reinkers if you already have the ink pads].  How cool is that?  Jill, you're so generous :)

Just head over to Jill's blog and leave a comment, and if you have a blog, spread the word!  You have until Mother's Day this Sunday to enter.

ps whilst you're over there, check out the sneak peeks of Tracey's new designs, and Jill's tv dates for craft creations :)

funky flowers on an icy morning

I love frosty mornings.  And it was so nice to have our first proper frost on the today, it makes it feel like Christmas really is just around the corner!

Over on The Stampman blog, Jill is giving away some Christmas blog candy, and as a winner you can pick one of these fabulous stamp sets by Kay Carley:

Daisies are one of my favourite flowers in crafting so I got out my sewing maching last week, along with my cuttlebug, and had a great time making these cards using the funky flowers stamp set...

I stamped a LOT of flowers out on a piece of white card and then sat, cutting them out, whilst in the cafe whilst George climbed at the climbing centre.  That meant I could play about with layering them, and making a background piece.

 

The turquoise piece hiding away there is some starburst stain paper Jill gave me at the Port Sunlight show.  I love detail white embossing powder and got it out to make the next background...

The word is from the fancy flourishes sheet.

All my cards used to lean towards being very plain with central images and it wasn't until I made this one that I realised it's been ages since I made cards like that!  Don't you just love the swiss dots EF?!!