Singing in the rain

Evening all.

Been a bit quite in blogland this weekend, what with Ben's party and DT commitments, but here I am with a new post. 

Despite the weather everyone seemed to have a great time on Saturday at the party. There were a few muddy bums from slipping in the mud when the rain stopped and fun was had outside by kids young and old. The abiding memory will be the utility room overflowing with wellies!

So with a couple of challenges mentioning rain how could I resist.

Over at Less is More they are asking for a link to the song 'Singing in the Rain' and Inkspirational have the cue word SPLASH!

Here is my card. The main inspiration for this was Chrissie's card with James the Bear, only I used Tilda in Summer Rain and the sketch at Seize the Sketch but I was too late for this one, boo.

I coloured the image with Copics as usual. and the DP was in the stash.

OK that's it for the card but I would like to share a picture of Ben's birthday cake made by Nich's very talented friend, Fliss from Little Moo Cakes, Manchester.

Ben loves Super Mario so he was a very happy little boy!!! It tasted great too.

Bingo at Fantasy Stampers

Good morning everyone, another fortnight since our last challenge at Fantasy Stampers 

so a new challenge awaits. 

This Saturday the Challenge is a Bingo Board.

PINK	PEARLS	LACE
TAG	FLOWERS	CHARM
TWINE	BLUE	BUTTONS

For my card I chose the middle line, Pearls, Flowers and Blue.

I think I got the jackpot just with the flowers on my design!

My friend gave me a set of the new Papermania papers just after Christmas and this is their first outing.

With all the lousy weather we have had I thought this Tilda in the Summer Rain was a good choice to go with them. Hopefully we won't need the wellies this summer as well.

The sketch is from Sketch n Stash, and the ribbon, papers, pearls as ever were from the stash.

The flowers were cut from one of the papers using a couple of Sizzix thinlet flower die sets, then distressed using an emery board. The background paper was trimmed by hand to the printed lace edging then distressed also. The beige papers were cut and distressed then backed with white card, also distressed. Some stretchy open weave ribbon was wrapped around one end of each rectangle. The lacy border was cut  from white card using a Cheery Lynn Doily Die. It's a pig to cut out but the effect is worth it! Tilda was stamped on a die cut oval and coloured with Copics as follows:-

Skin - E000, 00, 11,R20

Hair - Y21,26,YR24,E25

Boots, umberella - B32, 34, 39, 95,97, C0,3

Dress - E40, 41, 43, C0, 3

Well that's that, thanks for stopping by, Why don't you pop over to Fantasy Stampers and join in the fun?

I shall enter this card in the following challenges:-

Sketch n Stash #28

Addicted to Stamps and More - Make your Mark

Penny Black and More - Make it Sparkle

ABC Challenge - Flowers