Sunny Sunday

Howdy everyone...hope you're enjoying your weekend. For some strange reason we've had 2 days in a row of sunshine here in Glasgow...somethings gonna happen...guaranteed...I might just start getting the Ark ready lol.

I found out yesterday it was a friends daughter's 18th today so I thought I'd better rustle up a card for her. I wish it was that easy! I can't remember the last time I made a 'quick' card...an hour is quick for me these days lol. Four hours later this is what I came up with...

I know Rebecca's 18 but I couldn't resist using Birthday Cake Robyn. I think posting Gaynor's cards the last couple of days put me in the mood.

Now you can't tell from these pictures but I have 2D'd the green balloon...that's about all I could manage lol. I hope Rebecca likes chocolate cake :-D I went a bit crazy with the glitter...again!


What do you think of the 18 on the balloon? I'll let you in on a little secret....I designed a set of numbers a while back specifically for this image though you can use it with any image you want. I wanted some numbers to fit in the balloon and I got the samples last week and have been itching to try them out. There is 0 - 9 in these linear numbers, 0 - 9 in bubble numbers and 4 sentiments in the set and I think it will be a set that I'll be reaching for again and again. It will go perfectly with the Robyn and Jack images :-D

I'm liking how the photography is turning out though I'd like to have a fuzzy edgearound the picture but haven't quite found the button to do it. I'm sure it's not as simple as that so if anyone has Photoshop Elements 8 and know what I mean and how to do it can you share with me?

The Magnum & Lily card has been in the works for about a week and I finally managed to get it finished yesterday. Now that's definitely not a quick card lol. I'm not sure I've done the image justice...I think I should have made the card bigger but I had it all sewn up and didn't want to waste it. I've used my Copics and Promarkers on this one...it's funny but I like to use the markers for different things...or maybe it's a case of not wanting my Copics to feel left out with the new markers in town!




The twill was originally white and I didn't have any ribbon to match the pp so I coloured the twill with a Copic marker and it now matches perfectly :-D

Look at Lily singing her little heart out ... maybe Magnum has his earplugs in lol.

I remembered I bought these tiny little bells from Mei Flower one or 2 SECC shows ago...ok I didn't actually remember...I was looking for something else and found them lol...and thought one would look a nice addition with the button. I printed the sentiment on the computer and punched it out with my SU! window punch.

I think I'm slowly catching up. I'll have some news for you tomorrow on the new Christmas Nikki's...I think you're gonna love them!! There's also more Jack's that are waiting in the wings :-D

Ok...that's it for me today. Thanks for stopping by.

Catch ya later x