Thank You!

Good afternoon. What a damp miserable day it has been all day - so the best course of action was to hide away in my lovely little crafty haven and have a good old crafty play :o)

I was sooooo very very lucky this week to have won these scrummilicious goodies:

Helen's 4th Blogoversary Candy

 Lisa's 4th Blogoversary Candy - £20 voucher from Natalie & Amy's

Here's what I bought :o)

And finally this adorable stamp from LOTV from the mini blog hop that I won at Fleur's blog

 So I'd like to say a mahoosive THANK YOU to you all for your very kind generosity :o)

I had a little play with the Sheena Douglass Silhouette Grasses stamps I got  from Natalie & Amy's and here's what I came up with:

 I started with a plain piece of white card and inked it with Fired Brick, Dried Marigold and Frayed Burlap Distress Inks - I like these rich Autumnal colours - and then spritzed it with some water.

 Then I stamped the corner swirl image from the set using Flitter Glu and added some Gilding Flakes.

I also stamped the main floral image and one of the sentiments from the set using the Frayed Burlap Distress Ink.

I added a few Martha Stewart punched butterflies - coloured with the Distress Inks and a few adhesive pearls added to the centres.

The background for the image topper was made using co-ordinating cardstock panels embossed with my favourite butterfly embossing folder and my new Couture Creations 'Tied Together' embossing folder with a little scrummy gold ruffled edge ribbon.

Sentiment - Creative Expressions

Challenges I would like to enter:

Crazy Challenges - Thank You card 

Totally Gorjuss - Thank You

Heck of a Challenge - Anything Goes

Natalie and Amy's Challenge - Anything Goes

Unique Crafter's Challenge - Anything Goes

Dilly Beans - Autumn Colours

Bearly Mine - Fall Colours

Loves Rubber Stamps - Make your own Background

Papertake Weekly - Autumn Theme/Colours

Paperminutes - Autumn

Right I'm off to make Cottage Pie and Yorksyum Puddings (that's what Jack used to call them when he was about 2 years old and it has stuck in our house lol!!!) for tea, then settle down to watch some X-Factor and Downton Abbey this evening.

Thanks for your visit.

Catch ya laters.

TTFN