Thinking of you

Not much crafting here atm - not feeling too great with a cold and sore throat - keep having coughing fits and hardly any sleep last night. Anyway, I've just managed one card.

This is for sketch 30 on Cards and things:

I've used the colours for this week's Design Dollies colour challenge: 'black, yellow and turquoise'.

It's also for :

Simple doodles 17: 'you're on my mind' - thinking of you
Cupcake 90: 'buttons'
Pink elephant 66: 'recipe: yellow, designer paper and buttons'

Papers are BG offbeat and the sentiment is a Hobbycraft stamp.

They say that cheats never prosper!

Think ink Tuesday 19 on Artful inkables - 'makeover' - was just right for this card. It is a bit of a cheat really. For my sale at WEF on Friday evening I wanted to make an easel card as a sample for anyone wishing to order one.

With all that was going on with John having been in hospital and lack of sleep etc I just didn't really feel like starting one from scratch, so I did a makeover on a card that originally was made for Easter. This time the card is for a birthday - and the inside within the easel is different from the original card.

The stamp is a lovely Stampotique one, the papers are BG and the flowers Craftime, with the addition of some punched edging and ribbons.


I'm linking for a few other challenges, but if you think it's cheating because it's not completely new, then I'll understand if it's not acceptable:

Stamp insanity 8: 'easel does it!'
Creative craft world 5: 'easel cards'
The crafty pad 70: 'give your project a punch - the edging along the bottom
Practical scrappers: 'punches'
Delightful sketches: 'pull out your punches'
Cutie Sunday: 'garden'
Crafty angels 34: 'one for the girls'
KL stampin n scrappin 29: 'easy as 123 - 1 type of ribbon, 2 designer papers, 3 embellishments (flowers)'
The secret crafter Saturday 82: 3 embellishments (flowers, 2 papers, 1 image
Crazy amigo: 'birthday'
Creative craft: 'bloomin marvellous' flowers
Scrap-creations Going Grey 9: 'anything goes' (BG papers used)
Tuesday taggers: 'using it again - let's recycle' - the whole card was 'recycled'
Prairie fairy 18: 'recycle'
Penny's challenges 28: 'shapes' - shaped card
Simon says: 'birthdays/celebrations'
Stampotique: 'think out of the box' - a different idea to use an original card as the basis for a 'makeover'
Wednesday stamper: 'flowers'
C.R.A.F.T. 49: 'birthdays'
Lili of the valley 52: 'here comes summer'
Alota 34: 'flowers'
Clearlyistamp 13: 'April showers bring May flowers'
Crafty Ann 14: 'anything goes'
ECP 12: 'spring'
Stamp something: 'birthday somethings'
Catch the bug: 'flower power'
WhoopsiDaisy: 'as you like it'
Daisy doodles: 'flowers'
Hope stamps eternal Cupcake inspiration 58: