Baby Note Card and Pastel Pencils for sale

One of the Mums at Freya's school was due to have a Baby Girl during the Easter break, this is the card I made...It is a note card style, I got the inspiration from a card in an old issue of PaperCrafts magazine,
The image is from the Stampin' Up! 'Year after Year' set, coloured with Copic markers and highlighted with a clear Spica pen, paper is from a Tinker and Co download, the Ric Rac is Making Memories as is the Safety pin, I cut a notch to hold the front flap and put a little clear bauble on.
The inside is below....
The little round image is one from a set that Stamping Caz designed and offered on the Cricut Forum ...some time ago now! Thanks Caz
The Sentiment is Pink Petticoat , oh and the cardstock is Bazzil
I like this card , just not sure about the fact it doesn't stand on it's own, it needs propping

I have been sorting through my craft stuff and in an attempt to make some space I have found a few bits to try and sell, I have a set of 24 Derwent Pastel Pencils...
I don't think I ever used these pencils ! I had to sharpen the blue one (third from right) as the lead ( or whatever it's called!) was broken when I got them home. You can read more about them here.
I am offering them for £14.00 + £2.00 p&p, I can accept payment by Paypal, email me if you are interested or with an offer.
Thanks for stopping by
Nicola

Quick Post

Just a quick post to show you my last Easter card, for this one I have quilled a little Bunny and some flowers....I have matted the quilled bits onto Stampin' Up! So Saffron, this also forms the card base.
The patterned papers are from the DCWV Pocket full of Posies stack, the sentiment is Pink Petticoat, and the ribbon I've had for ages!
I have added a doodled frame and some faux stitching using my SU white gel pen.
Hope you all had a lovely Easter Sunday, back soon
Nicola

Happy Easter

Another post ! I hear you say, yes you're right this is unheard of recently,

but I have a couple of cards to show so why not!!
Here is the first...
I based the layout for this one on this sketch over at Splitcoast stampers,
The patterned paper is from Funky Fairy,
The cardstock is Stampin' Up! and the image and tag is from Pink Petticoat.
I've coloured the chick with Copic Markers and then cut and matted it with Nestabillities.
I've added some ribbon and a bit of glitter and stitched round the panels , oh and the scallop edge was cut with my SU corner rounder punch.

Here is card number 2...This is also based on an SCS sketch you can find here , I altered this one slightly to fit with my design,
The cardstock base is SU, the patterned papers are by DCWV from their spring glitter stack, image is as previous card and I've just added a flower and rhinestone to finish off.
Well that's it for now, hope you all have a lovely Easter,
Nicola

Hello again! and a card

Yes it is me, I haven't fallen off the face of the earth, well not yet anyway!!

I'm sorry it has been so long, we seem to have had so much going on and then to top it all off the girls and me have been poorly, first Evie, then Freya and now me, I think I'm on the mend now but I still don't feel great!
For a couple of weeks we had been hard at work on our garden ( I say we, my role was more supervisory!).
A couple of years ago I had the idea to get rid of the grass and have one half filled with play bark and the other gravel, I thought it would be easy to maintain but let's just say it was not my greatest idea ever, soooo, we decided to have the garden turfed again!
Here are some pics
The before with the play bark taken up
And the new turf, we will be adding in stepping stones later
And a cute one of Evie 'helping'!
Now I just have to try and keep the girls off of the garden for a couple of weeks, not Good timing with it being Easter Hols!
Anyway hope I haven't bored you with that! I do have a card to show as well...

The image is by Pink Petticoat
and I have coloured it with Copic Markers (love these things!!)and then cut it out and matted it using Nestabillities dies. The papers are a download from Tenivo this lady has a gorgeous selection of papers you must have a look!
The ribbons are HOTP and the little baubles are from my local craft shop.
I have added a little sparkle with some glamour dust and also inked most of the edges
Hope you like it!

These last few weeks I've realised that I don't have time to blog as much as I first tried, I struggle to find time for my cards since I started my job, so from now on I'm going to try posting weekly and see how it goes but please don't give up on me , I don't get that many visitors here but the occasional comments I receive about my cards are so nice as I don't have many crafting friends to bounce ideas off!!
Thanks for stopping by
Nicola