300 Follower Candy Winner, EXCITING NEWS and Sooooooooo much more

Good evening to you all in the land of blog

wow have I had a great week :)  so relaxing and getting everything organised.  But before I move on to all the exciting stuff - I got to show you this

Sam went shopping with Maz on Tuesday, to Tilly's who has now got 60% off everything, so I asked Sam if she would buy all of the remaining House Mouse stamps for me, so this collection cost me all of £30, thrilled and cannot thank Sam and her able assistant Maz enough, for getting them for me - should have cost me £80 whoop whoop!!!!!!! don't you just love a bargain. Cannot wait to use them, although one of these will be in my next candy as it is one I have from another set...........

Oh that reminds me my Candy, no honest I did not forget

well Mr Random was activated and he chose

Number 124, 

congratulations 

Mazza, 

if you would like to send me your snail mail details, I will get this posted on Saturday for you.

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO ENTERED and hope you all stay around for the 400 candy :)

I am shopping on the way home tomorrow from work for my 400 follower candy so will post this shortly

Now to those of you who have been so patient with my teasing, my exciting news

I have been selected by the fabulously talented Deb to join 

The Emerald Faerie Garden Design Team

Thank you Deb, I look forward to working with you all and in particular the ladies on Team B, which I will be joining :)

cannot wait till tomorrow to add all the new badges to my blog, thrilled to bits and adore these images, do pop over to the challenge blog and take a look round, join us and play along with the challenges, look forward to coming to see all your lovely work.

After all that this might seem a little dull, but maybe the images might brighten it up for you

Today I have created something just for me, yes I know this is not the norm, but intend to do more of this in the future, so relaxing.

So what have I created, well on Saturday before the pint got thrown over me (by accident) Matt said to me, you have made a card haven't you?, well think I did but then sold it, so had to quickly locate an alternative, phew................so in preparation for the next wedding, I made a wedding card

It is a while since I did a tilted easel card too. Think it looks as if I have been drinking as the image is angled too :)  The image is by Sugar Nellie and I have to say one never inked till this time, although I have had it a while.  The base layer is black pearlescent card, layered with Papermania Capsule Collection Mono papers.  The front sentiment is from My Sentiment Exactly the inner one I cannot remember.  The image and both sentiments have been air brushed with C3 from the cool greys.  The flowers are all from Wild Orchid, diamond stickles has been added for that extra sparkle.  The flourishes of diamanté are Prima from the Hobby House.  The edge punch is an MS hearts, the black ribbon added and a double bow to hold the easel in place.

I followed the sketch at 

but rotated it to fit the image size.

Here are some close ups

The flowers glittering in the top right hand corner

The flowers on the return

and the all important image.  This image has in the main been coloured in warm greys the darker grey W7, W5 and W3 whilst the lighter warm greys to contrast W3, W2, W1.  Her dress has also been lightly touched with the cool greys C2, C1 and C0.  A clear glitter Atyou Spika pen has covered her dress and the veil for a very fine shimmer.  G82 for the foliage and a pink Atyou Spika glitter pen for the tiny flowers.  Skin tones are E11, E000 and E00. A monochromatic creation.

I hope you like it

I would like to say thank you to all my wonderful followers for all their fabulous comments, thank you for taking the time to follow and comment on my creations, it means so much at the end of a hard day :)

I would like to enter this creation into the following challenges

Papertake Weekly - Sketch

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes and a fab blog hop

Simon Says Stamp and Show - Anything Goes and a combined fab blog hop

Bearly Mine - Flowers Flowers Flowers

Creative Card Crew - Anything Goes

Deep Ocean - Hearts

Oldie But A Goodie - stamp that is 6 months old and glitter

Party Time Tuesday - Anything Goes

Bunny Zoe's - Easel Card

Daisy Doodles Creative Challenge - Anything Goes

House of Gilli - Easel Card with flowers

Kaboodle Doodles - Easel Cards

Stamps R Us - Anything Goes

thank you

Enjoy the rest of your week

Hugs

Kate

xx