A Molly Bloom Challenge ...

There is a new challenge blog and their first challenge is 'anything but a square' and you must use a Molly Bloom image. Well that bit is easy as I love my Molly's and have a few quite a lot okay I have a lot of them!

I used 3 new stamps on this card, I've never made a step card and it was so fiddly I'll be going straight back to my square cards!! Anyway, there it is. Now it's finished I'm not sure about it but one thing I do love - those beach huts :)

Molly Bloom Stamps

Copics

Papertrey kraft card

I am entering this card into The Paperlane Challenge

Bloom and Grow

Goodness me I seem to have forgotten how to blog these days. I've just been so busy with work and some other stuff but I only have 1 week left at the day job then I am on holiday for a whole week and surely things might get caught up with then.

Today it is the new Papertake Weekly challenge and it is sponsored by the Ribbon Girl. The challenge is 'bloom and grow' which fits in really well with the Molly Blooms stamps that the Ribbon Girl sells. This is my card

Lots of Ribbon Girl goodies on this, October Afternoon papers and sweet little flowers from Wild Orchid

News ...

I am back at school now after the Easter holiday and it feels like I have been gone for months because of all the bank holidays we had here in the UK as well as the royal wedding of course. So with being a busy bee trying to get all my school work done I completely forgot to share my news ...

I have joined the Design Team over at Papertake Weekly Challenge!  The lovely Dawny invited me and I took all of about 3 seconds to say yes please. This is my first card for the challenge as a DT member which this week is an 'anything goes' challenge with the option of adding circles.

All of the ribbon, lace, pins, buttons, charms, dewdrops and of course Molly came from the Ribbon Girl shop and I added Stickles glitter to the puddle and water splashes and gave her welly boots a glaze of glossy accents to make them shine. The papers were October Afternoon. I made a coordinating box to keep the card safe as by the time I added all the prettiness on it was quite bulky.

If you love the Molly Blooms stamps you might like to wander over to the Ribbon Girl blog as there is a fabulous giveaway going on over there

Splashing in the Rain ...

I just adore the Molly Blooms stamps, especially this little puddle splashing Molly and she has the most perfect spotty welly-boots!  She just happened to be sitting on my desk this afternoon waiting for a few finishing touches when the postman brought a new supply of charms for the Ribbon Girl and look - umbrella charms!! They are so sweet and I love the brass colour - goes perfectly with the kraft cardstock and the distressed edges I gave to my favourite October Afternoon papers as well as the tea dyed gingham ribbon.

Ribbon, twine, spotty button, charm, Glossy Accents and Stickles - Ribbon Girl

Papers - October Afternoon

Molly Blooms stamp

Martha Stewart punch

Sentiment stamp - Papertrey

Kraft cardstock

Copics

Distress Ink

Welcome Mason ...

One of my colleagues is leaving next week as they are adopting so this card and it's own decorated box are my gift to her. I guessed that a gift card to spend on whatever she needs most would be very welcome so made a little pocket inside the card to keep it safe.

I followed the sketch at Friday Sketchers, all of the papers are Echo Park Little Boy, Ribbon Girl saddlestitch ribbon and that sweet little stamp is another of the Molly Blooms stamps. He is gorgeous, sadly not mine, but my lovely friend Jane sent me some stamped images of him so I got colouring straight away!

Hey l'il dude ...

This is a card that I made using one of the Molly Blooms stamps. I met the lady who designs these stamps on Monday and she was so nice and her cards and projects are divine!

(Papers - My Minds Eye, Stamp - Molly Blooms, Colour medium - Copics, Ribbon, twine and charm - Ribbon Girl, spiral clip - Stampin Up, Sentiment stamp - Waltzingmouse, Kraft cardstock - Papertrey)

There are a few things to note about the supplies that I used. The black gingham ribbon has a white background but to make it tie in with the colour scheme of my card I coloured it with my Copic pen (E42). Ribbon Girl is waiting on a delivery of cream based ginghams from America, they should be with us soon.  I tied on a bunch of natural button twine and added a little apple charm. The Ribbon Girl had a huge delivery of charms this week and they have all been listed and are on the website now.