Crafting day!...

Good afternoon, dear Blogging buddies!  Today, I have thrown caution to the wind and sat at my crafty table ALL DAY, creating!  I needed a bit of time off from the festivities and was totally inspired by the uber talented Jen's cards from Deconstructing Jen - I am loving her style of cards at the minute and although I don't have a lot of dies like she has (I'd love to spend a day in her craft room!) I always find HUGE inspiration from her designs!  I have ended up with 6 cards...yes, that's right 6 and another one ready for a topper to go on!  So, I will have some crafty makes to share with you up to the big day - I will be scheduling them, so they may be short and sweet (I need to find a quicker way of posting as it takes me an age to upload pics, crop and write a blog post, so am going to try doing a card recipe rather than boring you all with the details!)

So for today's card, I have taken inspiration from THIS card that Jen made...

Card recipe -

5x7 Chocolate Brown card base

Orange gingham and green leaf paper from Lawn Mower Set

Red polka from BBQ Set, both A Play on Words CD

Kraft card for mat and layering

Marianne button flower and leaf die

Spellbinders Labels Eleven

Distress Inks - Rusty Hinge, Walnut Stain and Peeled Paint

Polka Dot Satin ribbon

Narrow brown Satin ribbon

Pearls

...I created the sentiment in PS and added a printed insert to finish.

Hope you're having a totally terrific Thursday and I'll be back tomorrow with some more craftiness!

Hugs,

I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges :

Sentimental Sundays 

#237 Anything Goes until 20th

Sister Act Challenge

Anything Goes until 8th Jan

Creative Fingers Challenge

Anything Goes closes today

Crafty Creations

Something to Die For until 23rd

Scribble and Scrap

Anything Goes until 20th