Easel card for PTW sketch challenge ....................

There is a sketch challenge over at Papertake Weekly and you could win a lovely prize!   For my 'congratulations' easel card I used a LOTV die cut image, I made a Magnolia flower out of white thick paper and finished it with a spotty brad that's been in the stash box for ages.  I die cut a magnolia swirl and cut some paper lace with Andrea's new die from Papertrey Ink. It's very pretty and delicate, and I like the way it standards out from the dark pink background paper.  I can see us using it a lot!  I finished my easel card with white pom pom trim and red and white polka dot grosgrain ribbon and lastly some pink stick on gems

A birthday card for my husband .............

My husband likes nothing better than watching a cricket match, listening to a match on the radio, sitting in the cricket ground watching his home team Durham, reading a Wisden or looking through his vast collection of sport autographs and so on - so this LOTV image of the little cricketer was perfect for his 64th birthday card! (my hubby used to have hair a bit like that colour many years ago - not now!!)

 It pains me not to use flowers and sparkly bits, but I made do with a red brad I found in the brad jar which I thought looked just a little bit like a cricket ball!  My only other embellishment was some natural/brown saddlestitch from here.  I used a LOTV round sentiment stamped in cocoa brown ink and cut with a scalloped nestie.  The numbers were die cut with a Papertrey Ink die.

My card is based on this weeks' challenge sketch over at Papertake Weekly, where there is a fab prize up for grabs - please try and make time to pop over and check out the fabulous work by the DT - you've got a whole week to make your project based on the sketch and enter the challenge.