You make my heart happy card and hello again!!

Hi everyone, can't believe it's been 3 1/2 years since I last blogged. Thought I'd start it up again.

I've still been creating and sharing bits on my Facebook page. A lot has happened since I last posted, I was quiet unwell in 2017 and needed surgery to sort out a condition I was going through. Then when I felt well I found out that I was pregnant. We now have a lovely little boy called Joshua. He's 2 1/2 years now. We've also moved house and have been renovating it. We're all done now thankfully.

Right now time to share the card I finished yesterday. This is made using a stamped image by Lee Holland Called With Love. It's produced by Crafter's Companion.

I love how cute and fun this image is. I think this range of stamps will soon become my new favourite stamps. I colured the image using my spectrum noir colourblend pencils.

The backing papers are digital ones I've had a while on my PC from Nitwit Collections.

I've mat and layered onto a 7x7" card base with the papers and lovely coloured cardstock too.

Finally I stamped one of the sentiments from the stamp sheet and also added 3 gems to the corner.

Challenge time

So what challenges am I going to enter my card into? Well here goes:

Stamping sensations challenge blog - January everything goes - favourite stamp

Lili Patch of Crafty Friends Challenges

Dare to be Artzy - January

CD sunday Plus Challenges

613 Avenue Create - Challenge #1 January 2021

Well that's for now. Hope you have a good day

Be back soon

Rachel

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