a few cards...........

hello all!! it is sunday evening 5:57. it was a great day - i woke up early, did two loads of washing, made 3 cards, listened to two sessions of Joyce Meyer's Breakthrough series, had lunch, went to church, came back just now and quickly threw a chocolate cake in the oven ( i bought Marius one yesterday as a treat and it was HORRIBLE - i am not sure if mine will be any better, my cocoa expired in 2007 ((luckily he does not read my blog)) and i had no castor sugar - but hey, worth a try!!) and now i am really catching up on blogging!
i have had an alcohol fillable pen for almost a year now, and i have not even opened the packaging. now that i have a shop with LOTS of them in stock, i thought it was time i opened mine up, and saw what it could do! and this is the result! i filled it with Sunshine Yellow Alcohol ink, as i thought it could be nice as a highlight.

i stamped the image on a transparancy with Stazon and then flipped it over to color it. i am still a bit new at this technique, so it looks a bit stripey! i colored the leaf with my Copics. i then cut a piece of the transparancy out with my craft knife and glued it with Glossy Accents to the tag that i punched. added an eyelet, some rope i colored with my chestnut roan colorbox ink, matted it a few times and stamped the image with an MSE sentiment. definately something i will do again!! i am going to invest in a few more pens - i am sure one could really have fun with it! i am entering this card into the challenge at unscripted sketches this week ( use your imagination!!

this is just a card that "happened" because i had the sentiment stamp lying on my table and the circle punch from my layout for SSS. nothing to it - a few different sized circles layered on top of each other, some matting and 3 diamante's! i am entering this card into the wildflowerpatch challenge this week

this one also developed because i wanted to PUNCH a flower, but forgot that my retro flower punch was at the shop. i then remembered that i saw somewhere that you could make a flower from punched hearts. ( trust me, i had something different in my head). assembled the flower, stamped the little butterflies (doodlebug) punched more circles to make the "scallop" border and used white glitter EP for the sentiment! i am entering this card into the challenge at allsorts ,the wildflower patch and flutterby