Darnell's Gift Bag

Hi everyone,

Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments.  I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

In Darnell's own post about her Grand Tour visit, she mentions a guidebook that I gave to both her and Shirley, about Port Sunlight village.  She also mentions how great a guide I was for them; a compliment which I very humbly accept!

Obviously I couldn't just give them the book, I had to create something to put it in!  So I turned to one of my Stampin' Sisters, Caroline Hallett, for inspiration and instructions and created some of her Big Hallet Bags; changing the dimensions to accommodate the books and a little extra gift, which I'll say more about in another post...

There are stunning rose gardens in the village, so I took my inspiration for the tag from those (they looked much better in person)...

Card: Botanical Blooms DSP and Whisper White
Ink: Flirty Flamingo and Sweet Sugarplum
Stamp sets: Rose Wonder and Thoughtful Branches
Tools and embellishments: Scallop Tag Topper Punch
Adhesives: Sticky Strip (retired) and Tombow

Challenges...
#88 Let's Hear it for the Girls at Crafty Gals Corner
#215 AG at Brown Sugar Challenges
#163 AG with a sentiment at Aud Sentiments

Whatever you're doing this weekend, have a great one!  I'll be back on Monday with another Grand Tour creation, so I hope you'll join me then.

Reminder for House of Cards

Hi everyone,

Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

Here's a quick reminder of my card for this month's End of Term blog hop at House of Cards. The challenge is open until June 15th, so if you've not entered yet, there's still time.

For full details of the card, please see the original post. Thank you.

I'll be back soon with another creation, so I hope you'll join me then.

End of Term Blog Hop for House of Cards

Hi everyone,

Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

It's the 1st of the month and that means it's time for a new challenge at House of Cards and this month it's also the End of Term blog hop. These last six months have flown by!

Here's the photo inspiration for this month...

And here's my card. I've teamed the sponsor image from the Blossoming digi stamp set from MHK Designs with stamps from the Botanical Blooms stamp set from Stampin' Up!

Card: Flirty Flamingo, thick and regular whisper white
Ink: Flirty Flamingo, Peekaboo Peach and Emerald Envy (background) and same color Stampin' Write markers (image) from the 2016-2018 In Color pack
Stamp sets: Botanical Blooms
Tools and embellishments: Ovals Framelits (retired) and Wink of Stella (I promise, it's there!)
Adhesives: Tombow and Stampin' Dimensionals

Please now hop around and see what my amazingly creative teamies have for you...

HOC Blog | Mynn | Sue T. | Cohenna | Donna | Dotty Jo | Em (you are here) | Emily 
Heather | Jane | Judy | Karen | Katarzyna Ewa  | Katy | Leslie | Linda

Merethe | Merlina | Michele | Paula | Rocky | Rosi | Ruza

Shawna | Shirley | Steph | Sue N. | Susan | Tina | Toni

Challenges...
May/ June at MHK Designs
#314 AAG at Craft your passion
#178 AG at 613 Avenue Create
AG at TTCRD

I'll be back soon with another creation, so I hope you'll join me then.