Try Stampin on Tuesday #38

Afternoon Crafters,

It is that time of the week again, it is time for a new challenge over at

Try Stampin on Tuesday

And as usual it is a great sketch.

My mind is else where at the moment so i made a pretty simple card, but i am happy with the results.

When i first saw this sketch i had a much better card in mind, but i have so much happening on the home front that i went simple

Here is my card

(sorry for the photo quality)

I have used an older retired stamp set, which i seem to go to quite often, Bud Basics

To finish it off i have done a bit of spritizing with the early espresso pen, which i think finishes it off nicely

Now back to my home front.

 my daughter has had very long and hard road these past few years, with hassles from school and other outside issues, she had been asking since we came back to live here(NZ), if she could return to Australia, so after one low(almost depressive mood) too many, my hubby and i made the big decision to send her back to live with her Grandmother and attend school over there.

As a mum this has been a very hard decision to come to, there have been many tears already, and many more to come, as she is leaving on Tuesday next week, we need to get her settled into school as much as possible before the holidays so come next year it will be better for her.

On the bright side she will be coming home at Christmas time as her grandmother is also coming back for a holiday. 

Just Add Ink #58

Morning Stampers,

Wow two posts in two days now im on a roll.

Over at Just Add Ink this week is a challenge....

The challenge this week is to ... Just Add Amanda or Danielle.

As both of these Co- founders of the DT team are leaving their postions.

So as a real lover of Danielle's work i jumped at the chance to CASE something of her's.

this card was made for a challenge over at

CASE Study Challenge

Here is the original work

Click here to go over and have a look at the other wonderful work of Danielle's

Here is my attempt at the same card....as i didn't have the same Fifth Avenue Floral stamp, i used one i had from the retired Bud Basics set.

But as you can see i still have a bit of practicing to do on my bows.

Now i have a few of Amanda's work in mind to CASE so i will be back early next week to show you the outcome of that CASE