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Boz Towers, Essex, United Kingdom
I'm a Red Hat Society member with a love of crafting of all sorts. A very proud mum to four fabulous children and Nan to six gorgeous grandchildren. I started work as a milliner and now have an abiding love of scrapbooking and card making.

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Monday 31 May 2010

A House Mouse Birthday Card.


I've fallen in love with these little creatures.  This birthday card is for my beautiful daughter-in-law over in Canada. I know I'm going to use this particular stamp, Exciting Celebration, quite a lot.  They stamp so beautifully.  The background paper is from Pink Petticoat, the image fitted perfectly onto a Nestability large oval scallop.  I used a MS border punch for the white trim and decorated it with pearls and lavender real silk ribbon.  The flourish is a Mariannes Designs I bought recently from Crafts U Love and I cut it out on some pistachio card printed from the same set as the gingham.  Most of the papers from Pink Petticoat do compliment each other.  Promarkers for the image and a Craftworks Card's sentiment mounted onto the ovals from the trusty SU punches and pearls and guipure lace leaves from my stash.  Just got to make a sturdy box for travelling now.  Thank you, Sarah, for these beautiful flowers.

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges
 One Stop Craft Challenge # 82 Swirls and Pearls
Quirky Crafts Challenge Girly Girl
Passion for Promarkers Challenge - Week 53
Stampavie and More Challenge # 96

20 comments:

Ali said...

That is lovely - arent those images gorgeous - bet your dil loves it xx

Scrappy Scatty said...

This is beautiful
xx

theboelemas@aol.com said...

Wow wow wow - stunning. Your DIL is going to love this so much. x

Susan (aka TomsMom) said...

That is BEAUTIFUL! It's so pretty, lovely colours and the pearls make it even more special. If you're very quick you can enter this into the Passion for Promarkers challenge (Anything Goes), be quick though as their new challenge starts tomorrow.

ladyjanet_56 said...

What a lovely card, lovely image & colours, good luck. Thank you for joining us at OSCC this week. Janet

Julie said...

Oh these are so cute!! Thanks for joining us at PFP and good luck with the draw! Juliexx

Spyder said...

Love this card Great colours and such a cute image, and PP does checks? oho I missed that one! Thank you for joining Quirky Craft's Girlie Challenge this fortnight!!

(Lyn))

The Crafty Den said...

Hi Jennie, what a beautiful card. Love the image and your colouring is fab. Thanks for joining in with our anniversary challenge over at PFP this week. Hugs, Denise x

Gem said...

fab card Jenny, that stamp is really cute and I love the pastel purple colours xx

Spyder said...

Hi Jenny! Mr Linky is working over on Quirky Crafts now, I'm putting in the cards I can, but I don't know your email, so if you'd like to add it to Mr Linky that would be lovely but don't worry if you don't it will still be counted!

(Lyn)

hassy said...

A stunning card.. your Dil is very lucky.. your colouring is fab and the punched edge and flowers and pearls are gorgeous.. wow!! :D Christine x

Spyder said...

Thank you Jenni...and now you've made me buy more PP!!

(Lyn)

Francesca said...

What a wonderful card, I love the sweet Image.
thanks for joining us at one stop craft challenge and good luck!
Hugs
Francesca

Sarah said...

Wow Jennie, I absolutely love this card, everything is perfect, what a lucky DIL to receive this xxx

Unknown said...

what gorgeous card i love the image, the colours, the flowers, in fact everything x

Karen said...

WOW!! That is so so pretty, cute image and beautifully made embellishment. Gorgeous!! xx

Jennifer said...

Hi! This is so gorgeous! I really love gingham at the moment amd the flowers finish it off to perfection! xxx Jenny xx

Choccy said...

What a beautiful card !! I love that stamp
Choccy xx

Kathryn said...

I love the lace!
Thanks for playing with us at OSCC!

Have a great day,
--Kathryn

PepPop said...

What a gorgeous card - love the house mouse stamp too. Jaqui x