Oh my Peony sprung a surprise on me

I had a huge surprise sprung on me yesterday, what I had thought was going to be another white peony (a new plant) turned out to be a soft pink, isnt it gorgeous, so with the white bush thats next door to it, you can just see one of the flowers below the pink one I now have a red, white and pink peony bushes in my garden, this is the first year is has actually bloomed so I had forgotten that I had bought it.

As you can see the pink one is on the left and three white blooms on the right, you can just see the remains of the red one at the back, its looking a little brown now.

My pinks have also done well, these are in a pot by my back door,

and the patio rose has now got four flowers out.

As you can see my Clematis have also done well, I have a number of different plants along this fence, and why do they always want to flower at the top with nothing at the bottom of the plant.
I hope you like them, I love all these gorgeous plants.

My 1st DT Card for the "Anything Goes" Craftyhazelnut's Paper Patterned Challenge

As I announced last week Ive been invited to join Hazels Design Team for Craftyhazelnut's Paper Patterned Challenge Blogspot and this is my first DT card and I hope that you will go and visit the Challenge Blogspot and see all the new DTs cards.

Hazel has been running the Challenge Blog for a year now and as it had become so popular she decided to appoint a Design Team to give you some inspiration and also to help with the commenting.
And here is the Card I created for the 1st Challenge

I have used a Sherri Baldy image which has a very un-inspiring number its Image 749, I printed it onto white card then used my copic pens to colour it. The sentiment was one I created on my computer and then printed it and mounted it onto pink card.
The base card is a 6.50"x 6.50" white card with a first mount of bright pink card and the papers I have used are Bearlymine Designs, and I have used two of the "Love Dreams" papers, although these are now not available to buy Im sure that a lot of you have them already in your stash as Donna only just closed her shop when the new VAT charges came into force.
As you can see I used the red heart paper for the first layer and the second I have used a pink paper and a heart border punch from Martha Stewart.
I then placed a pink heart doily behind my mounted image which was then stuck towards the left center and the sentiment at the bottom on the right. I created a floral spray with pink roses of several sizes and placed them in the top left hand corner with some punch out leaves behind them. And the final flourish is the two heart gems in the top right hand corner.
Now that youve have seen my Card I sincerely hope that you will pay a visit to the Craftyhazelnut's Paper Patterned Challenge Blogspot and see what the rest of the very talented Design Team have created for your inspiration and hopefully you to will want to take part in this "Anything Goes" Challenge.
This Card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://www.craftysentiments.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://diecuttindivas.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://fattastictuesday.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://inkychicks.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://www.ttcrd.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://craftingfromtheheartchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://www.craftyourpassionchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://cutiepiechallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://dreamvalleychallenges.blogspot.ca/ 

Designer Sunset Patio Rose

A couple of weeks ago we went to our favourite Garden Center in Raglan and as hubby had a voucher we put it towards this stunning Patio Rose, in fact I nearly missed it on the table as the other roses were yellow and white and this one was tucked at the back, but Im so glad that I did as its just stunning its called Designer Sunset and from the shot pinky red on the end of the petals its not surprising it got that name. Its also smells lovely to,

Its been a long time dream of mine to have white peonies in my garden, and I have bought several plants without success, I dont have a problem with the red ones but white has been elusive up until the last couple of years, last year I had one flower and this year I have at least two and hopefully four more, Im so thrilled at this I just had to show you them.

A Card for Sundays with Santa Facebook Challenge

Good Morning Crafters, this weeks theme over on Facebooks Sundays with Santa Challenges is "For than one Fold" and I had to give it some thought as to what I would create as there are quite a few different folded cards old there, and this is the one I came up with a double fronted folded card.
I have used Sue Wilsons strip die and cut it out twice. I then mounted it onto red card that had glitter added to on double sided sheets, and my diecut panels was then mounted on top with foam.
The base card is a 8"x 8" white card with a first mount (inside) of red card and then I printed a verse on to white card and placed it on top of the red first mount.
I then placed the two front panels on the two sides and placed two poinsetta flowers that I had left from my last card and a red pearl was popped int the centers of both.
This Card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://craftyhazelnutschristmaschallenge2.blogspot.co.uk/
http://lifeindetailschallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/
http://liastampz.blogspot.co.uk/
http://natalieandamy.blogspot.co.uk/
http://onecrazystampercom.blogspot.co.uk/
http://papercreatorscrafts.blogspot.co.uk/
http://petalluchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/
http://doodleartifacts.blogspot.co.uk/
http://slslinesdigitalstamps.blogspot.ca/
http://sugarandbetty.blogspot.co.uk/
http://12monthsofchristmaslinkup.blogspot.ca/
http://thesistersofcraft.blogspot.co.uk/

I have been asked to join Craftyhazelnuts Design Team

I was surprised by a request from Hazel of Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge to join the Design Team and will start my 6 month term from the 1st of July.

A Card using the ArtbyMiran Image

Good Morning Crafters, well I discovered on Saturday that I had won three digi images by ArtbyMiran and also found out that she runs a challenge over on Facebook and this is the image which you can buy at a discount to create the card for it.
This image is called "Bubbles" for the obvious reason and I printed her onto smooth white card before colouring her with my copic pens, I then cut her out with my rotatrim and mounted her onto blue card for the mount. The sentiment is one from my stash and has been stamped and mounted in the same way as the image.
The base card is a 7"x 7" white card with a first mount out of blue card the papers I have used are from Sweetshoppe Designs and this set are called "All Wet" mind you I stupidly went a bought it again as I couldnt find it in my folder but the total wasnt £5.00 so I suppose it wasnt wasted really but how stupid can you get. I have used four of the papers and two of them have bubbles on them the first layer and the second which has had a Martha Stewart border punch used on it, the third paper is rings and the fourth spots which I though finished it of.
The mounted image was placed in the middle towards the top with the sentiment in the bottom right hand corner, and the final flourish are the 6 dew drops in the top two corners.
This Card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://avenue613.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://ameliatworks.blogspot.co.uk/p/current-challenge.html 
http://lacysunshine.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://eclecticellapu.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://www.fairytalestamper.blogspot.de/ 
http://greatimpressionsstamps.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://lilpatchofcraftyfriends.blogspot.com.au/ 
http://scrappyhands.blogspot.co.il/ 
http://www.scribbleandscrapcrafts.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://artbymiranchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/

Crafters Companion "Flights of Fantasy" Card

Good Morning Crafters, Ive been playing with images from the new "Flights of Fancy" CD from Crafters Companion and thought you might like to see the result. I printed this beautiful image onto white card then used my copic pens to colour it.
Afterwards I used a Nestabilitie Labels Die to cut it out and a fancy one for the mount. I also used the same die set for the sentiment.
The base card is a 7"x 7" white card with a first mount out of mauve card, the papers are also from the same CD and I have used three of the designs, the first one is a mauve all over one and the second is a butterfly one and the third which I took into the colour changer on the cd and make it into a pink colour, I have used a Martha Steward Butterfly border punch on these and layered them up as shown. Then down the middle I have used a hemp ribbon with a lace border and a pink satin ribbon on top.
To finish of I have used 6 mauve pearls and put three at the top on the right and the other three on the bottom on the left.
This Card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://crafterscafeblogchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://craftingbydesigns.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://fabnfunkychallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://frillyandfunkie.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://inkyimpressionschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://inspirationdestinationchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://pennyschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://kraftinkimmiestamps.blogspot.ca/ 
http://www.wordartwednesday.blogspot.co.uk/