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I'm all at sea with today's card. Ho!

My friend Fay asked me to make a card with a boat for a friend of hers who loves sailing and luckily, the Stampin' Up! Mini Catalogue 2011 has a fab new stamp called Sail Away.

I saw this design on the SplitCoastStampers site and just loved it, although it turned out to be quite time consuming because of all the different elements.



The edges of the sails were coloured in using Blender Pens and the three stripes of cardstock were run through the Big Shot using the Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder.



These were matted on to Whisper White and Crumb Cake cardstock then I tied some of the Real Ride Striped Grosgrain Ribbon around and ruched it using some Linen Thread.



All this also made the front of the card quite heavy, so I added a piece of Whisper White to the inside to balance it a bit and added a little stripe in opposite corners to complete the nautical theme.

Fay loves it and rekons her friend will too, so the hard work does pay off!

I have just passed one year of blogging, so to celebrate I have some surprise blog candy up for grabs. Please check out Friday's blog candy post and leave a comment to enter! You have until midday on May 6th.

I'm back at home for a few days at the moment and although I'm still battling with some sort of illness (the cold has now developed into a poorly tummy) I am managing to get in some quality time with the family, including Bodd! Pics coming tomorrow!

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Fairground scrapping

Yesterday I had a bit of scrapping fun with an old pic of myself and a former housemate, Vanessa.



We used to live together in Stockport and would go for a long walk at the weekends. One time we went to Oulton Park and had a go on the carousel there!



So for this page I started with a white background and coloured in a paper doily by rubbing my SU ink pads over it and coating it in Shimmer Paint. This turned out fab and is a great match to the horses. I used lots of different bits, including some different ribbons, Pearls and Gold Brads.



Lots of flowers and stars, and tons of Pearls and Rhinestones!



I used the Rub Ons for the title and scrolled the paper to match the one on the horse. His name is Troy!



I also tried out some Grungeboard.



And this is the journaling! Basically, we got on our horse anbd the carousel started going REALLY slowly. After a minute the guy in charge came walking round, looked at us and said: "There's too much weight on one side"!! That was it! So we had to move to balance it out with all the kids!

Was good fun to do this page, although it took quite a while to stick everything down!

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Scrapbooking again - something to brighten the day

I have quite a few scrapbook pages done now, ready for when my album arrives with the UPS man tomorrow!



This page features a few snaps from my holiday in Antigua a few years ago. I entered it in a challenge over at the SplitCoastStampers forum. The mission was to use two main colours and one accent and use embellishments in odd numbers.



My colours are Pumpkin Pie and Rose Red, as seen in the absolutely beautiful Sweet and Sour DSP. I adore these papers as they are so bright and fun. They fit perfectly with my outfits in the pictures and I chose Pacific Point to bring out the amazing blue sea.



The title is "fun in the sun" and I used a bit of ribbon and a few brads to add some more sparkle!

Tomorrow is my birthday (all cards and gifts greatly received!) and as well as waiting for the UPS man to bring me more Stampin' Up! goodies (I had to treat myself!), I will be off to see the stop smoking adviser and then spending the evening with my good friends Hayley and Helen drinking Cava and eating takeaway!

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