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Wednesday 25 February 2009

Fabby Day and ABC Challenge ~ C

Firstly had a fabby day today with Emma and Katy, what a laugh we had, and we were women on a mission...lol. We had three stores of The Range to choose from, and we choose Scunthorpe, hoping to get our hands on the Daisy and Dandelion stuff, we choose the wrong one, so consoled ourselves with a coffee and sarnie, before hotfooting up the M180 and A15 to Brigg where the local garden centre sells Docraft stuff, nope still no luck, though we did manage to get the latest Creativity mag with the D&D stickers. Off we zoomed again over the Humber Bridge hitting all the school pick-up traffic to the Hull Range, and hooray mission accomplished. We got our hands on three of the D&D stamp sets, the papers and decoupage weren't yet in and they had already sold out of the Candyfloss & Marshmallow stamps. Feeling a lot happier, we then went for a well deserved coffee and cake, I missed out on the cake as there wasn't much choice left and there's not many cakes I like except chocolate. Katy took some piccies which she has now posted on her blog, you can see them here. Thanks girls for a wonderful day.


Now onto my card I've made this evening using 'Squeak' from the Bubble and Squeak D&D stamp set. It's for an order from my MIL for her neighbours soon to be 2 year old, which fits in perfectly for this weeks challenge over on ABC, C is for Childs Card.




Coloured Squeak with watercolour pencils using a waterbrush, then stamped the balloon, also from the set and coloured with copics and doodled a string between the balloon and Squeak, added a little clear sakura stardust using the waterbrush to the hearts and balloon and black sakura glaze to the nose and outline of eyes.. Chalked the background with brown and pink shimmer chalks and inked the edges in pink. Matted onto beige card from scraps and cut round with decorative scissors. Attached some pink ribbon with a knot across top corner then mounted the whole thing onto pink card from scraps. Paper is from the PM 'Love' papers and again inked the edges with pink. Stamped the sentiment, again included in the set, directly onto the paper with brown stazon. To finish added some die-cut pink sparkly flowers with a pink prima flower and flat heart pearls. The '2' is a die-cut from Kanban.

Hope everyone's had a fab day, thanks for looking.

16 comments:

Bev said...

Oh so cute!! Love that iimage you have used Joanne. Your day sounds wonderful, gald you had such a good time x

Moni said...

Waw fab card, love the image and you colored it beautiful! Sounds you had beautiful day! :) Hugs, Moni

Lorraine A said...

Gorgeous card Joanne, very cute image and lovely papers :-)
Sounds like you had a fun day driving around like lunatics trying to find your goodies ( ever heard of yellow pages ha ha )
Lorraine

Anonymous said...

Hehehe your day sounded great....
beautiful card hun...
YOU GOT THE STAMPS....yahhhh!!!!!
I still have not got mine, the week end put pay to that, but i go to the range every friday with mum, so fingers crossed...
HAVE FUN WITH THEM !!!!!
Hugs Angel

Anne said...

Well you certainly had a good old day Joanne, glad you got what you wanted in the end lol
Love your card, Squeak is just sooooooooo cute

Debbie said...

Gorgeous card Joanne love the cute bear image.
Sounds like you had fun..so happy you acomplished your crafty mission! :) Debbie x

clare said...

im sooooooooo jealous you lot got your hands on these stamps before me...but im glad you all had a great day,its a shame you cant make the NEC..but hoepfully one day we'll all get to meet up.

what a gorgeous card..love the colours and you've coloured it in so lovely TFS goodluck with challenge xx hugs clarexx

cornishmist - thats me ju x said...

Love the card joanne, it sounds like you had an exciting day look forward to seeing your other creations ju x

Linanna DESIGNS said...

Hi Joanne, so glad to hear you all had a fab day out, and some retail therapy too!! i just adore this card you've made, you certainly wasted no time. I still havn't inked up my stamps yet. I hope you have a good evening, hugs Linda x

Wellnifty said...

Looks like you had a great time, why is it always the last place you look that you find the thing you're looking for...always happens to me too.

Love the card, really cute image

Chris x

Emma said...

Aw gorgeous card Joanne...my stamps are still in the carrier, boo hoo!!
The papers are lovely too.
Emma x

Sue said...

Hi Joanne,this is suer gorgeous,really pretty papers adncolours.

So pleased you had a fabby day,oh you should have given us a shout,i am only 25 minutes from Brigg garden centre and about 30 minutes from Scunny.Mind you,you lot may have encouraged me to spend..lol

Sue
xx

Katy said...

Fab card honey :) love the stamps!! Get them out of the carrier Emma!!

xx

Ali Watson said...

Fab card so cute. Thanks for joining in the ABC fun this week.

Louise Emma said...

Wow Joanne! That is absolutely gorgeous xx

Victoria said...

a wonderful card - thank you for joining us on abc this week

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