Rush rush rush ....

.... I started the card for DH's grandmother yesterday morning, thinking we were leaving for the party at about 3.30 and I had loads of time.  The kids were at the cinema with DH, nice quiet house, no hurry on me.  So I changed a few bits as I was going along, experimented with things, broke out the crackle paint and the rock candy stickles, until they came home at 1.30 and he said we needed to go at 2.45.  WHAT?!!!  So I put it all together in a massive hurry, photographed it, got changed, into the car, painted my nails one at a time every time we hit a red light, and now as I look at the photos, I realised I forgot to stick pearls on the image.

I've used Martine's lovely sketch on this fortnight's Basic Grey Challenges, and broke into my gorgeous new BG Capella papers, which are my absolute favourite of their recent releases, I love the colours.

I'm also entering this card on A Spoon Full of Sugar (celebrations), Crafty Creations (use your favourite stamp - I do love this set), Creative Inspirations (Distressing), Quixotic Challenges (Emboss it), Simon Says Stamps (pink/blue and green and brown - all here I think!) and ABC Challenge (Vintage).

I was faffing about with three of the set of these Hero Arts stamps, two with leaves, trying to get them to look like a bouquet, and it wasn't working - so I cut the leaves off two of them and just used them with the one single flower.  And I had meant to put tiny pearls on those little circley bits, but ran out of time.  Here's an image close-up:

Recipe:

Papers: BG Capella

Stamps: Hero Arts "Peeking Posies"

Colouring Medium: Prismacolour pencils and sansodor

Other: Nestabilities, Cuttlebug Embossing Folder, Crackle Paint, Distress inks, Maya Road Pins, lace from stash, needle + thread

Thanks for looking!