Cards and gifts, more stamps and a new great neice!!!

Got home to find my mail man had been busy was I was away.... a lovely parcel from Suzanne Czosek.  I was the lucky recipient for this months Card chain challenge organised by the wonder Deborah..  Here is the wonderful card I got from Sue as well as some very special goodies from her stash.  Talk about getting lucky!!!!

 

I can wait to get stuck into using some of these goodies.

Next parcel was my order from Stampin; Up!  They had a special on and if you spend over so much you got a free set of stamps.... so I got 2 sets of sentiments and got the third set free.... plus some dimensionals ( just love the size of these ones) and some Dazzling Diamond  glitter.  So know I must have a sentiment for every occasion....

And to top it all off on Sunday 7th my niece in Australia had a little girl.... Chelsea Jade.  She has twin brothers who are three - so now Vicky and Nick have a lovely little family of three!!!  Here is the card I made for them.  Used some Dazzling Diamond glitter on the wings of the fairy princess.  I used Swiss Dots CB folder and Label 8 nestibilites to make the base card.  All lovely and pink for a little girl.  

thanks for stopping by .  Hope everyone is having a great start to the week.                                                                           

CCC - card from Pia

I got a lovely surprise today.  Pia from Denmark send me a wonderful card as part of Deborah Nolan's card chain challenge.  In the parcel from Pia wasn't not only a beautiful card but some goodies from her stash - some lovely papers, ribbon and some wonderful pins....thank you Pia and thanks to Deborah for thinking of this wonderful  idea.  She is starting the next CCC so visit her blog to join it.... you never know where your card might come from.
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Birthday goodies

I am still off sick- back to work tomorrow but this morning I decided to go spend my birthday money ( thank you Mum and Dad) I visited Stampzone and got some goodies. I finally got the raindrops background stamp by Hero Arts and another butterfly set - just a little one with some butterflies and dragonflies on. It was super cheap - but quite soft polymer so will have to treat it with care. Plus some flowers by Kaisercraft in fawn so I can colour if I want.

I also decided to do a black and white card for Hero Arts challenge this week. I made this card using my Spellbinders film strip die which I cut and embossed in black. I used the cut out piece to make the mask to stamp the flowers. This is Doodle flowers by Inkadinkadoo. Layered it onto black and white card stock. Sentiment by Hero Arts CL129 Anytime messages. I checking the Flickr group before posting the card and notice one of the others had posted a card with a film strip on it as well...... great minds think alike. Hers had animals on it.....see here. I ended up adding the black & white flower after a bit as I just felt it wasn't quite finished.

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