sometimes the pieces just all come together....

Yesterday whilst reading through my bloglist, several themes just blended together for me, and this is what I made..

A postcard from Skegness :D

Anything Goes Challenge #99 is By the Sea, Country View Crafts asked for "Quotes and Sayings", while Inspiration Avenue wanted Postcards. Sounded like the perfect combi to me :D

This is a photo of my hubby and youngest son following me to "the perfect spot" on the beach at Skegness...

I printed is out onto a 4 x 6 piece of card...

 Stamped some letters out onto scrap card, inking the edges for a little definition...

 then glued them onto the "postcard" to form the classic sea-side quote :D

I think this would be a lovely way of "scrapping" holiday pics, and you could write little memories on the back, as if you had been sending the cards home whilst on holiday.

It is also my "Piece a Week", and my Paper Saturdays challenge entry

Enjoy :D XXX

..to be a Pilgrim!

Welcome to the Glitterbabes 18th challenge!!! Wow time sure is flying this year :D doesn't seem like 5minutes since Stef allowed me a place on her dt!! As it is an Anything Goes challenge this week I asked her if I could use these gorgeous little "pilgrims" for my card.

Now I know some people shy away from stamps n digi's because they don't think their colouring techniques are good enough, but fear not!! A lot of Stefs images include a pre-coloured format. I coloured my background paper(another of Stef's images "grapevine") with promarkers, but for the "Pilgrim Boy" and "Pilgrim Girl" I used the ready coloured versions(just faded them a little to age them). All the images are printed onto handmade paper, which I ragged the edges on the background to distress. The ink from the promarkers hardly spread at all, just enough to give a lovely look of faded linen :D

This week the dt is being joined by the Lovely Dawn Lotharius, who makes some amazing stuff!! So why not pop over and leave her some love?

I am entering this card for the following challenges;

Sir Stampalot October Challenge "Autumn Breezes"

MAWTT#69 "colouring with Promarkers"

Stamping Vacations# Occasions Oasis challenge "Thanksgiving"

Sentimental Sundays#26"Distressing"

:D XXX

Different yet somehow the same ...

I made 2 cards last night, for totally different challenges, that somehow feel the same? Maybe it's the crawling thing? Anyway, bear with me cos I might get the challenges mixed up haha!

The 1st card is totally clean n simple, just love this cute image. He is called " ff Willie" I've included the ff bit cos I can't for the life of me remember where I got him from, so if you recognize him PLEEEEASE let me know so I can give proper credit! I an entering him for Anything Goes Challenge Blog#8 "Stars" and Digital Tuesday#68 "Happy Birthday"

The 2nd card I made with the secret freebie we got for the "Flash your Freebies" challenge at Pollycraft this week called "turtle hugs"(soo sweet). The second part of the challenge is to make a card with it and the theme "think green". The sentiment is from Paulette at Create with TLC, and I am entering this one for Pollycraft"Flash your Freebies" part 2 and Just Inspirational #4 "use a digital image"

Phew! That felt longer than it looks! :D

Enjoy XXX

Update : We think that "willie" may be a Pollycraft image :D