My First Easel Card

Well I have been testing out my Martha Stewart Scoreboard so decided to try an easel card.  It's only a small card but I am quite pleased with it for a first attempt!!!

I'd like to enter this into my first ever challenge.  The challenge that I would like to enter this card into is Moving Along With The Times Easel Card Challenge, Pile It On Easel Card Challenge and Pollycraft Monday Challenge.

I used

Backing paper from DCWV - Flower Parade

Prima Flowers and Bitty Blossoms

Ribbon from stash

Punch - Fiskars Scallop

Ally Pally Big Stamp and Scrapbooking Show

Woohoo - going to my first craft show on Saturday 10 April at The Alexandra Palace, Wood Green, London. I am hoping to see some good demos to help me with some of the stamping things I bought whilst in the US.

If anyone is interested in finding out more about the show, you can find out here.

More Paper Flowers!!!!

Ok so decided to try to make some smaller flowers to see how they looked! They are much more fiddley to make especially the very tiny one!!! Here's a pic with a punched cutout next to it to show you what I used and I have put a dime alongside of them to show the sort of side scale.





I prefer the larger flowers personally!!!

Handmade Paper Carnations

I found a great tutorial for flowers made from card here at a Blog called Wendymade & all things Crafty. It was so easy to follow that I had to try it!!! The flowers look great, I was very pleased with the result!!!

My Stash From the US!!!

Well I'm back on British soil and slowly unpacking my suitcase full of craft stash!!! Here are some photo's of what I have found so far!!! Will post more as I unpack!

The MS punch is fab and was something I bought last minute!!! It will be great for handles on gift boxes or baskets!

Martha Stewart Score Board

I am so pleased that I managed to get my hands on one of these. I wanted one for a while but it was only available at Michael's but not at my local one in Fremont!!! The manager told me that they would be re-vamping the MS section and carrying more of the line so to check again. This week Michael's had a special 50% voucher in their e-newsletter so I went there thinking of getting a MS punch when I suddenly spotted a whole pile of the Scoreboards. They were priced at $19.99 so I got it for $9.99 plus tax - what a bargain. It is very big and has many different size lines. I can't wait to test it out!!!