Monday, September 28

Cooking Up A Card!

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John would be proud of me if he was here right now ... I managed to follow a recipe :0)

Some of my friends out there know that I don't cook ... ever ... well I have about three times in the 10 years we have been together :0)

So today when I saw the recipe challenge on The Pink Elephant Blog ... I had a minor panic attack ... on closer inspection I saw that all I needed was a punch, some polka dots and a tag ... Now that is the sort of recipe I like!

Mabel Lucie Attwell provided the image ... with the help of The Artistic Stamper of course along with the larger flowers from The Flower Power range and the rest of the card is either Bazzill or distress inks or a small flower punch without a name ... the holes from a hole punch ... a tag aASproject30909nd some spotty ribbon.

For those of you that wanted to know what I did with my art ... the answer is ... some of it is DT stuff and has to be submitted ... I make most of my own cards for friends, family etc., ... the rest of the cards I sell for charity ... I keep the odd few bits I make ... that I actually like and the rest just gets dumped in plastic containers that I go through from time to time and shudder ... wondering what on earth I was thinking when I made them!

I am keeping my beer mats though ... even the ones I don't like ... they will be a colour chart for my distress inks to use as a reference.

That's all folks! Thank you for popping by!

29 comments:

Hels Sheridan said...

Gorgeous...love this image, tis my FAVE of them all...well for today at least LOL Hugs hun x

Beth aka BR-T said...

This is just wonderful the colors are perfect for this fun stamp! Beth

Ginny said...

this is about the only kind of recipe I can foolow too..lol...fab job :0)

Anonymous said...

Fabulous card!! The image is adorable. Love the embellishments you used! Great job!

Jennie -The Artistic Stamper said...

Like this card.. a lot :)

Victoria said...

lol at the recipe horror!

Great card, sweet little iumage and beautifully shaded

Victoria
x

Tinkertaylor said...

This so cute I just love these stamps, they're on my wish list.

Chris said...

Congratulations on following a recipe, Linda. lol Lovely card.

voodoo vixen said...

Oh my, you have been playing nicely Linda!! Love your beer mats, they are gorgeous!!

Julia Dunnit said...

Another beauty, what a fab image. Bet he'd laugh out loud if he knew what we refer to as recipes!

Hazel said...

Lovely card - Lucie Attwell takes me back to memories of childhood x

Carmen said...

Can't believe you 'dump' some of your work in containers! What a tragedy, they should be out on display or in my home, round my wrist :) ;) Have you never thought of doing a craft stand? Your stuff is gorgeous.

Anyhoo - to the card today, I love this one. Can't believe I didn't spot these images at Ally Pally but then I did spend out pretty quickly.

Andrea said...

a beautiful card Linda and am loving all the stamps that you used, colours are perfect xx

shaz earl said...

Fabulous card Linda... those images are so cute x

Annie said...

Great card Linda - I love that image. Know what you mean about recipes - I had a panic at the end of my card as I forgot the dots (sheesh how crazy am I?)

Ann xxx
TPE

Diane said...

Darling card...love the colots and the flower is awesome....had a good laugh over your "recipe" dilema....at first I thought they wanted a recipe card...and I was thinking "huh"...too funny!

Heather said...

Very pretty card and I love how you used flowers.

Net said...

What a sweet image! Fab card Linda.

Who knows you even start cooking now!

Chriss Rollins said...

MY GIDDY AUNT, YOU HAVE BEEN BUSY!

I am going to kill him ... slowly with a bone folder and possibly a pokey tool ... mind you that would have to be submitted for evidence and I could n't manage without my pokey tool ... so a bone folder and a pair of deckle edged scissors then :0)
ROFPMSL X

LOVING YOUR WORK X.
ARE YOU TOOOOO BUSY TO TAKE ON AN ATC CHALLENG FOR OCTOBER 31ST...MAKING 5 HALLOWEEN ATC'S SWAPPING 4 WITH OTHERS TAKING ON TH CHALLENGE OVER HERE.

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CHRISS X

Kim Dellow said...

Oh she is so cute, love the flower too! Kim

having a {me} day said...

This is just so adorable! Sweet image. katxx

vikkithescrapjunkie said...

You have done a super job with the recipe Linda, Super colouring and i love those flowers they are fantastic.
Love n hugs
Vikki xx

Angelnorth said...

Great vintage look, love the little age tag!

Heavenly Anarchist said...

how lovely!

Liverpool Lou (Anne) said...

Gorgeous card Linda :) Great idea for the beer mats - to use them for colour reference ;)
Anne xx

Linda said...

Thanks for posting a comment on my blog and now I have found yours!
I am a challenge junkie too. Your cards are precious and I just love the vintage look of the ML Attwell images.

Donna said...

Super sweet little card Linda, love the gorgeous image :) Donna x

LORi said...

Absolutely Adorable!!! So happy you shared with The Pink Elephant this week!! Can't wait to see what you have for us next week!!!

Hugs ~ LORi

Sheri Gilson said...

Adorable!! Thanks for playing along with us at The Pink Elephant this week!!

Sheri

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