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I have it on the best authority that this is the best way to go in blogging. This is a try out post.

My First Blog Candy

I'm offering some wonderful blog candy this month. You'll need to get in quick as it's free tickets to the Newbury art Stamps show which takes place on the 26th and 27th of July, at the Newbury Racecourse.

I have 4 tickets in total. I'll send them out to 4 lucky winners.
To qualify all you have to do to qualify is:

Post a link to this blog on your own blog.
Leave a comment on the comments page for this post to let me know that you've done so. Once I've checked it out I'll add you to the draw.

The draw will take place on Sunday the 20th July.

I'll let you know by Monday the 21st if you've won, and send them out the same day.

Lilac Dragonfly and Pink Flowers in a Row

I think that the title of this post sounds rather like a nursery rhyme and that has made me feel far more cheerful. God knows I need cheering up with this miserable weather. I'll stop going on about it and get down to crafting now, I promise.

Today's entry is another of my calligraphy pen flower cards and I've also used the dottariffics to make the border at the bottom.




What I did and used.

1. First fold a sheet of A4 card in half to make an A5 size card.
2. Then put green dotd where you want the flowers to be placed and load the light pink calligraphy pen with a little of the medium pink and get to work on those flowers. It really is easy. All you need to do is small fan shapes around the dot that you placed on the card. Sometimes I made them bigger, sometimes smaller. On others I held the dark tint to the outside. It's up to you. There are no hard and fast rules.
3. Now draw in the stems in and add a few buds.
4. To make the border across the bottom of the card cut a strip of pink card with a scollop scissors of a template. Cue a strip of white card slightly thinner so that when the white is placed on top of the pink, the pink can be seen.
5. Use the thick end of the dottariffics in pale green to draw lines on the white strip.
6. Tie a know in some pink ribbon and tape in place behind the strip of border card, Now stick the border card to the base card.
7. Stap out a sentiment and stick it to the base card with 3d foam pads.
8. use 3d foam pasd to add the dragonfly.
9. Draw a dotty border around the edge of the card and hey presto your card is finished.

What I made on a rainy day.

It's been an awful week, weather wise so it's been a perfect excuse to do some crafting. I know, I know, any excuse.
This card is the result:


It's made with the Kuretake Calligraphy pens and a little bit of scrap paper that I had lying around. It makes me smile too as it's in sunny colours to counteract the rain.

Rose Hip Watercolour

Well my 5 watercolour classes came to an end today and I'm going to post some of the things that I painted. This is the first. I'll decide if the others are good enough to post as I go along. Im afraid that I'm my own worst critic. I'm not as bad as one lady in the class though. She rips up all of the things that she doesen't like. I try to rescue them.



This took me quite a while as I wanted to make the rosehip stand out from the foliage behind it. I wanted to make the background hazy, honest.