JUGS285, WAW175 inspired by Angie

This card was inspired by a few things.  The layout was inspired by a Birthday card from my sweet friend Angie.  The colours were prompted by the Jugs challenge but the choice of pink was because we both wore something pink to a memorial service on Saturday for a lovely lady, Andree, who would have been 50 on 23rd March but God had other plans and took her to sing in his heavenly choir last October.  The sparkly bits were also because of Andree - she loved life and enjoyed it to the full.  The stamps are from Stampin Up - haven't pulled them out in ages. 

This is also being entered in the Word Art Wednesday challenge as I will be sending it to a friend in Devon whose Birthday is soon.  My normal choice for her would have been horses - check out the Word Art Wednesday scripture!

Angie's Christmas

It is a bit much when you send someone a Christmas card and then ask them to photograph it.  Cheekily I did that with this card as I posted it off to Angie, without taking any photos.  This was one of my personalised cards so I wanted to be able to share it. Angie's black cat Storm gets to feature on her blog quite often but Lilbit less so.  Storm is the more inquisitive one checking out that star.  I tried to get their colouring roughly right.

 

Happy Christmas to Angie and the Bode crew including the feline members.

Happy Birthday Angie

Angie and I have never met but we have shared so much via email the last couple of years I feel I know her quite well.  She is a very supportive friend and I wish her the most wonderful Birthday.  I know her card made it as she shared with me earlier in the week.

Her husband is off work today so I hope they have time to go out for coffee or lunch and are able to spend some time together at this very busy time of year.

This is the large card I sent to the USA as a "parcel".  The image was coloured with pencils and some sparkle added with Wink of Stella pens.  The trio of flowers has a brad through the centre.

Thanks for looking and please drop by Angie's blog to wish her a Happy Birthday

Queen Angie - QFTD204

Angie (Oh My Paper on Splitcoast) has become a great long distance friend since we both started working together for Marks Finest Papers.  I was thrilled for her this week as she has been away for a well deserved break and has been picked as Queen for the Day at Splitcoast.   I love peeking at her gallery and blog and she is a great champion of mixed media and pretty cards. 

I love this circle card she produced for someone undergoing surgery and I used it as the inspiration for my card.

I used the Marks Finest Papers set called Huge Blooms with black embossing powder on watercolour paper that I had shaded with distress inks.  The blue shading does not show up too well in the photo but is actually prettier in real life.

A variety of dies were used and a little glitter added to the butterfly.  Thank you Angie for the inspiration - twice in one week!

Special Day - Angie's Birthday.

Today is hopefully a lovely day for my friend Angie.  We have never met, maybe one day, but she has been a good friend to me.  She is due to be going out with other local friends today and I hope she has fun.  She had a wonderful weekend away with her family.

This is the card I made for her using the newly released MFP set called Butterfly Essence and Huge Blooms.  I used a pink sparkly embossing powder on it, and Copics to add colour.

detail - showing sparkle

inside

Thank you for looking and please check out the post below for the MFP blog hop.

Happy Christmas Mum

Thanks to Angie Bode I recently visited Prickley Pear stamps and found 2 lovely dog stamps - a Golden Retriever and a Springer Spaniel which you can see here.  I have also been seeing lots of wreaths created by Kittie Caracciolo so I tried one on this card for my Mum.  It is a big card 7" square but I wanted to make something worthwhile with this image which I have coloured to look like Mum's maniac Tess.
I used dies to cut the ring, a holly punch and a Martha Stewart punch on the greenery.  Red pearls were added for holly berries.

Thank you for looking - have a peaceful Sunday.