A May Magnolia.

Despite the rain yesterday, I still managed to be in the spring mood to create a card using my Magnolia stamp.  It's great when an idea floats into your head and you think, yep that colour and that colour with that piece of this and that, then you come to do it and you just can'r get it right or it's not how you have the image in your mind.  Well, that is what is happening to me at this moment in time.  Bring out the band for CONFUSED dot com.

However, pulling my brain together (somehow) I managed a simple-ish card.

 

Parenthis shaped card, covered in paper from my own stash.

Spellbinders Scalloped Ovals Large.

Colouring medium Promarkers:

Skin = Coral, Dusky Pink & Blush

Clothing = Duck Egg, Cool Aqua, Pastel Blue, Cinnamon & Sandstone.

Hair = Umber, Walnut, Shale, Sandstone & White Sakura Pen

Paper Tea rose flowers from Hobby craft, pink stickles to glitter egdes.

Two handmade tissue paper roses spritz with cosmic shimmer mica mist.

Liquid Pearls for around image.

This card I would like to enter into the Just Magnolia Challenge 105 Anything goes with optional real or faux stitching.

Need a Holiday to recover from the last one!

Thank you to all those whom have posted comments, I appreciate your time for stopping by and the lovely and wonderful things you've had to say.

I know I have been M.I.A this week and the same will happen next week. Why? Well this week just gone was the mother-in-law's 80th Birthday, so The dear hubby and I took her on a taster cruise to France. This is a lady who has never had a passport nor been out of England.

We boarded the Royal Caribbean's Independence of the Seas from Southampton for 3 days (to Le Havre & back). Ordered a bouquet for her room and a cake for the Dining room, Whisked her on a trip to olde gay Paris and treated her to ice skating shows and theatre productions. I think she will sleep soundly this week, although for us it was stressful and tiresome so timing is perfect for next weeks cruise on the Liberty of the Seas with our Publican's wife and few fellow pub goers!

 

Forward of the ship docked in Southampton.

Stirngs, the ice show in Studio B.

Haha! Couldn't resist!

Independence of the Seas  own Orchestra in the Theatre.

Signing off til next weeks cruise update!! (oh and some RCCL scrapbooking too!)