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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.

The lovely people that drop by ~ thank you.

Sunday 8 August 2010

These are a few of my favourite things.

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens!  Now I can't get the Sound of Music song out of my head, I shall  play at being  Maria all day now!  The talented Sarah is now a DT member of the Craft your Days Away Challenge Blog and the challenge this week is Favourite Things.  My favourite seems to be Vintage, I love soft and muted tones of papers and flowers and script images.    This card is for my Mother in Law whose birthday it will be very soon.

The inspiration for this card came from Antonia's Attic and the gorgeous card Toni made.  I've used an 8" square card to show off the gorgeous paper from a pad called Ella Bleu.  The image is from a Clarity Stamps and I wanted all the tones to be muted like the paper so I've stamped her in brown onto blue card from DCWV Linen Closet and embossed her with some Gelly Powder that is supposed to have a coffee scent..  The roses are from my stash and Wild Orchid Crafts.  Sentiment is from Craftworks Cards.

I'd like to enter this card into the following

Craft Your Days Away Challenge ~ Favourite Things

Simon Says Stamp ~ Sing It Baby  (they've not heard my voice!)

19 comments:

Karen said...

Stunning!!! Sooo elegant and beautifully composed. I love everything about it xx

Scrappy Scatty said...

wow absolutly lovely xx

dragonllew said...

Gorgeous card love the papers, roses & swirls.

Sonia said...

This is an elegant card, love it.
Hugs Sonia xx

Julie (elysia2003) said...

Very elegant! It's gorgeous. xxx

Doreen said...

This is just beautiful,love the bp.Thanks for sharing this with us at CYDA.xxx

Susan (aka TomsMom) said...

Flourgirl has already said the first two words that came into my head - beautiful and elegant!

theboelemas@aol.com said...

Wow, wow, wow - what a stunner! This card is too beautiful for words - your MIL is one lucky lady. x

Ali said...

Beautiful - so elegant xx

Fifi Folle said...

Very elegant, it's gorgeous. x

Unknown said...

Hate to copy but it is very elegant. Love how it all flows together, very beautiful xx

Angie - Bumble Bee's Craft Den said...

Gorgeous card - love the colours that you have used and the paper is so pretty. It is a very elegant card!

craftygranny said...

Beautiful card i love it.

Liz said...

A very beautiful card all your work is just perfect! Thanks for joining our First Challenge at CYDA
Hope you join us again
liz xx

Antonia said...

Wow now that is elegant Jenny I love your stylish colours and the flowers are lush. I have used that stamp again recently too in fact I am just about to blog the second one xx

Sarah said...

Oh wow Jennie this is absolutely stunning, I love everything about it and so will your MIL. Thank you for joining us for the very first Craft Your Days Away challenge xxx

Donna said...

Such an elegant pretty card, and beautiful soft colours. Thanks for joining us at CYDA.
Hugs, Donna x

PepPop said...

Beautiful! Love the sepia tones - stunning. Jaqui x

Addams said...

Lovely card. what a lovely backing