Yay!!

This doesn't happen often, two posts in one day, and neither has been scheduled.

I eventually found the iPod the other day, after looking in all of the obvious places, like down the side of the settee, and the unobvious ones like the bathroom and the washing basket, William found it under a piece of paper on the radiator cover!!!

This is a hard week for me, everywhere you look there's Mother's day things, there are also so many challenges for cards for Mum. My Mam was really supportive of my card making, she actually crocheted quite a few 6" lengths of lace for me, which I'll now never be able to use. I'm missing her so much, I'm so glad of my two kids. As young as they are they are really helping me through these horrible days.

Well anyway, on with my card.

It's week #2 over at Midweek Magnolias, I was so pleased when I logged on this morning and saw that I was in the top 3 of their first challenge, yay!! This week there is a gorgeous sketch to follow. I love following a good sketch as I find that the card practically makes itself. I'm also entering this into It's A Magnolia Challenge where they want you to use two colours and white, my colours are Purple and Pink. I'm also entering this into the butterfly challenge at Deep Ocean Challenges.

The DP is all from Bildmalarna, and I've distressed the edges with Walnut Stain. I've also distressed the white Bazzill Bling with Walnut Stain and Gold pen. The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts.

I've coloured Tilda in with Distress Inks, I've tried a slightly different approach to her hair and I'm quite pleased with the results.

The theme at My Mums Craft Shop this week is 'Mum's the Word', and this week we're sponsored by A Day For Daisies. I couldn't make a card for this challenge, I did try. The girls there are lovely and were really supportive when I told them I had to dip out of this post, but I will be back next week.
Hugs,