a touch of red to ward off the gremlins...

Good morning everyone bbbbbrrrrrr what happened to the weather...its blowing a mini gale here and so much rain that's falling horizontal...autumn has certainly arrived with a vengeance...I woke on Sunday morning to ever rose on my striped rose bush gone...the wind had blown every petal off them, I was gutted...I don't so much mind autumn arriving but please leave my roses alone lol...hows the weather where you are?...did you all have a good weekend, our Sunday lunch was lush but the menu was changed a little as the cream I had bought for the cheesecake has gone off so I changed to a orange kinda thing, a made up one with cream substitute but everyone loved it anyway so it turned out ok...I had one of those days yesterday, you know the sort, everything you touch turns out wrong...our beautiful Daughter is of to Dublin on Wednesday for a business meeting and I booked her the train for her, went to print the receipt and nothing not a thing, my printer wont even switch on...I have changed the fuse but that's about as far my electrical skills go...looks like a new ones needed, I managed to send it to Phil to print at work though, then I went to my craft room and discovered the pile of images I had saved have faded in the light...ok now that's a conspiracy isn't it...a broken printer and no images to colour lol, now my camera is acting up and the photos are turning out rubbish...I'm scared to move today just in case something else breaks or goes wrong...luckily I had this beautiful stamp to use today...its from Bildmalarna and is called JustMe Nr.6...shes a real beauty isnt she...I coloured her with my distress inks as you can see my colouring mojo is still a bit shaky and the colouring isn't the best I have ever done...the lush paper pad I used is the Teresa Collins 6x6" Paper Pad - Stationary Noted and all the sentiments and flowers I cut from the same pad, I love the blue and red colour combo in it dont you, unusual but it works so well...I finished with a scattering of pearls...everything I used except the pearls are from Bunny Zoe's Crafts...I made the sketch up as I went along but am entering my card for the Ladybug Crafts Challenge, Stamping Sensations Challenge and the Sister Act Card Challenge too...I'm off to put my head under a blanket and wait for the next breakage lol...whatever your up to today have a great one

Mina xxx

distress ink colours used

skin - antique linen, frayed burlap, tattered rose, spun sugar

hair - antique linen

outfit - faded jeans, fired brick, pumice stone

flowers - shabby shutters, fired brick, pumice stone 

Im forever blowing bubbles - Sketch Saturday + Ladybug Crafts challenge

Good morning everyone...bet your singing that song now lol...well my soup went down a bomb, so well there is none left as my Daughter and her o/h took the rest home with them...so not a drop for my lunch, I love to cook for them as it doesn't happen often and if it means that huge pan of soup goes home with them I'm chuffed to bits about it...I refuse to do the weather forecast today...er....well...maybe just say yesterday was lovely and sunny and I'm holding out hope for today too, see you just knew I couldn't do it didn't you lol...my card for today is using this incredible new The Little Mermaid digi from Crafts and Me...isn't she just stunningly beautiful, I coloured her with distress inks and glittered her everywhere but spread the glitter glue out so it was just a hint of glitz but that made it hard to see, I photographed her side on so you could spot it better below

I'm loving these digis so much they are such a dream to colour...I didn't want her to share the limelight with DP's so found some velvet flocked white paper and used that...all I need to finish this card off was some of these lush shiny beads from Kars hopefully to look like bubbles and a piece of white satin ribbon...well come on now do I ever not use ribbon lol...the sketch is from Sketch Saturday challenge and I'm also entering it for the WOW Challenge at Ladybug Crafts Ink TLT challenge...I think I will head out today and maybe treat myself to something nice...who wants to bet it will be ribbon lol...I always do that, I think right I will head into town and buy myself something nice to wear or have my haircut and my legs go their own way to the craft shop and who am I to argue with my legs...whatever your up to today why not treat yourself you never know you might even manage something other than ribbon
Mina xxx