Birthday Wishes

Well hello there, dear friends. Trust you had a sizzling weekend. And now its the start of a brand new week. We've having some home improvements done - nothing fancy, just the usual maintenance bits and bobs like weather proofing the exterior walls, reflooring the roof-top terrace, replacing a few wonky roof tiles and retouching the painting-work. Most importantly we are also taming our angry bougainvillaea and over-zealous creeping ivy. They're pretty but completely out of control. With all this confusion at home crafting is a little tricky right now. But here's my MojoMonday #252 contribution - can't miss that! I'm using colours from The Ribbon Reel Challenge #34 "Retro".

Here's my card:

I'm using papers from Basic Grey's "Sweet Threads" 6x6 pack. It has all the colours  for the Ribbon Reel challenge. The sentiment is from WMS Basket Additions set. For embellishment I have twine and a single pale pink mulberry paper rose.

The the wild roses stamp is from a freebie set called "A Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady". I coloured it with Spectrum Noir markers. Did some out-of-the-box die-cutting and tied a yellow bow around the rose that's sticking out.  

Here's a close-up of the wild roses. Need more practice my colouring. Good news is with the wallet-friendly Spectrum Noirs  I don't feel so bad playing with colour blends as I do with my Copics. 

See? I haven't forgotten my pop dots! And everything is stitched down tight in case of gale force winds.

Here's the inside of my card. Still stitching away...

Dies

Spellbinders Labels 14 S4-290

Spellbinders Labels 20 S5-026

Inks 

Memento Tuxedo Black

Memento Potter's Clay

Tim Holtz Tattered Rose Distress Ink 

You'll also find me at Stamp & Create "Stitch It Up" and  Paper Pretties Monday Challege #52 "Anything Goes".

Thanks for taking the time to check out my blog. See you again at my next post? Until then take, have a rockin' week.

Beijinhos!


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