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Monday 16 April 2012

Happy Monday!

Hello there...hope you're having a wonderful Monday!

Today is my Birthday and so far its been a blissful day.....Joe had to go off to college this morning and so I had a nice little lie in and I've been crafting ever since! He'll be home soon and I have no idea what the afternoon holds for me!

Soooo....thank you to everyone who played along with my Birthday candy....the lucky winner, pulled from a hat, is Elaine! Well done hun, please send me an email with your address so I can post off your goodies!

I'm very pleased with my cards this morning.....here is the first one....


I know Easter was a couple of weeks ago, but I love this image and thought it went really well with my cute papers and buttons! I've been practising my Promarker colouring (inspired by the gorgeous Birthday cards that the Sweet Stampin DT sent me - thanks ladies!) and I'm actually really happy with this image. I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Allsorts - buttons and thread
DYSU - bling (I've added stickles to my easter eggs and butterfly)
CES - paper piercing (its around the blue paper)
Pollycraft - cute critters
Lili's Little Fairies - transport - I hope the pogo stick counts!

I've also made a second card this morning....


Instead of my Promarkers I've used my trusty pencils to colour this cute LOTV image. I've used my glossy accents on the window pane to try and make them look more glass like and I've added some stickles to the water drops. I love this fresh colour combo....not one that I'd usually go for, but I think it looks really pretty. I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Cute Card Thursday - Spring flowers
Cupcake Craft Challenge - in the deep end (add depth)
Papertake Weekly - april showers / water everywhere
Simon Says Stamp - April showers bring spring flowers

Pop by all the challege blogs mentioned to see the wonderful DT cards that have been created this week!

Thanks for popping by today, hope to see you again soon!

Wedgie xxx

23 comments:

Unknown said...

Happy, happy birthday wedgie!!! Hope it will as special as you are hun!! Both of your cards are truly adorable!!! Love the "glassy" effect!Thanks for joining my challenge over at The Cupcake Craft Challenge this week! Good Luck! Hugs and sunshine!

Natali said...

Happy Birthday Wedgie!!!
Beautiful cards with cute LOTV images. Lovely details.
Hugs
Natali

brenda said...

You've been super busy this morning Rachel, two great cards.

And Happy Birthday, hope you have a lovely day, I bet there will be some yummy cake if I know you.

Thanks so much for joining us at Allsorts this week and good luck.

B x

Donna said...

Too cute Rachel and such a beautiful design! Many thanks for joining in the fun at Cupcake this week :) Donna ♥ x

Happy Crafter said...

Happy Birthday Wedgie xx
I love your cards so cute :)
Hugzz Val xx

Vicky said...

Happy birthday Wedgie...! hope you are having a lovely day hun...and your cards are just so beautiful too :o)

big hugs Vicky xx

Tracey T said...

Happy Birthday Sweetheart! Hope you're having a lovely day. Hugs, Tracey xx PS Fabby cards, too!

Rhonda Miller said...

What cute cards. I saw you on Make it Monday.

downrightcrafty said...

two super cards adore the images on both of them, just beautiful
Hugs Kate xx

Fleur said...

Gorgeous cards, Thanks for joining us this week at ALLSORTS
HUGZ Fleur xXx

Tanya said...

Happy birthday! Lovely cards, I love the bunny one especially :)

Tags xx

nnalorac said...

So cute, Easter past or not. Love it. Seen it on MIM. Carolxx

Joey said...

Happy Birthday to you :)

These are two fantastic cards, love the softness of your colours. Thanks for joining us at Pollycraft. Joey x

Unknown said...

Hi Wedgie, hope the Birthday celebrations went well.I see you spend the bulk of it crafting , what a perfect way to spend a birthday.Good on you !!
I spent yesterday in bed again , thought I was a bit better on Sunday but....not. Off to docs today, but if this is a virus doubt she will give me any anti-biotics,but am coughing so much am making myself sick. Tims gone to London , just for the day on business, and so I have been up with the lark.

Mondays cards, I love these two cards , must get back into the faux stitching again, it looks so nice , cant tell if yours is real or not?
I love that cute Bunny.

I see your birthday candy was won by Elaine.....was that me ? Im not sure as I usually enter things as Elaine Wheeler, because there are lots of us Elaine's.
If it is me then whoopee , and if its another Elaine than well done to them.
Have a lovely day , even though you are 33 years old now.....you can still have fun. :)lol

Hugs Elaine

Jenny said...

Hope you had a really happy birthday. I would say that a sleep in and some crafting - my idea of perfect. Such a cute cute card! (and I did mean cute cute - not a typo) love it. hugs x

Unknown said...

Hi Wedgie,

Two super cute cards. Don't LoTV do just the most sweetest of images?

Lovely colour combos and the dotty paper on the first card is so pretty!

Glad you had a good birthday and a day crafting, what more could anyone ask for!!

Sarah

Elise said...

Oh these are SO sweet and darling! Thank you so much for joining us at Lili's Little Fairies!

Hugs,
Elise

Michelle said...

Happy Birthday, hope you had a wonderful day!!

Two fabulous cards!! Both the images are just gorgeous and you have done a brilliant job with colouring. Your doodling looks terrific on the second card.

Thank you for sharing with us at Make It Monday this week.

Michelle :o)

Rose said...

Gorgeous cards, I saw the bunny one at Make It Monday :-)

Rose x

Ren-Yi said...

What a super fun layered card. And even if Easter is over, it's still super cute. Thanks for joining us at DYSU.

Donna said...

Such a sweet and pretty card Rach! Many thanks for joining in with us at CES this week...hope you had a fab birthday sweetie :) Donna ♥ x

Shelly said...

Great cards Wedgie! I'm loving the glossy accent windows! Thanks for joining us at Cupcake, Shelly x

The Crafty Den said...

Hi Rach, what a gorgeous card. I love the cute image and glossy windows! Thanks for joining us at Cupcake Craft this week. Hugs, Denise x