Delightful donkeys

 

We've had many pets over the years, but one that Geoff has always held out against is a donkey :(.  I think a donkey would look perfect alongside my Norwegian Fjord horse (and of course the Welsh pony) but hey, sometimes you can't get everything in life!  So of course I fell for the donkey image on the new Joann Sheen DVD by Glynn Williams and had to make a card with it!  There are special decoupage images on the CD but I simply printed out 3 times and made my own decoupage.  I followed the sketch at Pear Tree Designs, adding a leaf border cut with my new MS punch that I bought at the NEC.  The sentiment is a Personal Impressions stamp, DP is Papermania and I used my first ever MS punch to make a scalloped border underneath, I think it's called Baroque and it doesn't have the markings to line up that are on the current punches.  A piece of raffia and some green gems finished it off, hope you like my donkey card.

My card is for the following challenges:

Pear Tree Designs - sketch

Cards for Men - animals, I've kept it un-fussy and used raffia not a ribbon bow so it can be a man card

CD Sunday Challenge - the natural world

Craft Your Passion - 2 of anything (2 donkeys)

Lexi's Creations - anything goes

Crazy4Challenges - square cards

Raise the Bar - scallops and curves

Stamp Insanity -punch drunk - used 2 border punches

PS I have candy - do please join me and play along here

DT Posting - Fred She Said - Pink Blossoms Set

Every week the Fred She Says store has a 40% offer on a digi and this week I got to choose which one to put on sale!  I LOVE the flowers that Tracey produces, they are different from anything that is made by anyone else, as far as I know.  So it's no surprise that I chose some of Fred's Flowers:  here is the Pink Blossom set used in my card.  You don't like pink?  No problem LOL, the pink, blue and purple blossom sets are all reduced, you can buy them at this great price here.  You get great flowers to build up and use as well as 8 co-ordinating sheets of paper to print out.

I like the different effect I got with my flowers:  the main one has each petal folded, the ones by the senitment are softer and rounded.  I added a Papermaina clear stamp sentiment, lots of Stickles, a Cuttlebugged Nestie, some stitcihng and some gems.  It's very pink, very girly and fun!
I'm entering: Lexi's Birthday Challenge ,  Craft Your Passion's Glitter and Sparkles Challenge and Papertake's Sparkly & Bright Challenge .