Hello, crafting friends!
It's Mothering Sunday in the UK today so I hope those who are celebrating will be spoilt :) Now, what would I like to do today? Hmm, maybe a little crafting...!
I've spotted some 'lucky' and 'green' challenges around Blogland so that's what's been on my mind, and I thought it would be the perfect moment to reach for my new Caring Hands stamp set by Waffle Flower. I stamped the crossed fingers hand, coloured it with alcohol markers, then added a lucky four-leaved clover from a very old Clearly Besotted set. Once I'd added a stem with a marker, I cut the whole thing out and attached it to a pale green circle layered with die cut vellum hearts
For the background, I used Background Builders Classics by Uniko to stamp a diagonal pattern onto a card panel in shades of green ink. I trimmed this to size with a Stitched Rectangle die by Heffy Doodle, then added my hand circle. Finally, I stamped a good luck sentiment from Uniko's Simply Said Blocks, snipped it out, and popped it up with dimensional pads.
CHALLENGES
I've used the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches, flipping it upside down, and the theme of luck at CASology. The photo at Inspired By also helped with the luck theme and I've stretched out the green rainbow into straight lines! The challenge at Just Add Ink this week is Just Add Green, which I have done :) I shall also share this card at NBUS, the place to share our Never Before Used Schtuff! Thank you to all these challenges for entertaining me for a couple of hours!
AND IN OTHER NEWS
It's been a difficult weekend with my little Eva. When she was a pup she was quite anxious so I had to train her to overcome her fears one step at a time. I often forget now that she ever had these kinds of problems but every now and then, something triggers her. Fireworks is an obvious one, but a strong wind often makes things seem alive and that can worry Eva. Yesterday, we were walking past a building site where there was a fabric barrier, and a gust of wind sent the fabric billowing out in front of us. Poor Eva tried to drag me into the road to get away from it and has been quite jumpy ever since. We will need to return to training for a while.
