My Mum's Birthday Card

I made this birthday card for my mum at the weekend.  I'm trying to get out my comfort zone and try new things, so I tried to use more patterned paper on this to see how it went as I tend to have more white space on my cards.  I'm also trying to use up stash before buying paper/card etc. as I have a mountain of stuff to get through, so I managed to use some old crystals I had and some lace I bought ages ago and haven't found a use for, which I thought it went quite well with the aged look the papers have.  I coloured the stamped image with prismacolours, blended with sandador and paper stumps, and then highlighted the flower and stem with my H20's (it doesn't show so well on the photo).  The background of the flower was done by blending in chalks that had a hint of glitter through them (again doesn't show on pic).

Products used : Basic Grey Infuse papers ' Instill', 'Suffuse' and 'Lace', Inkadinkadoo clear stamp set 'Doodle Flowers', Twinkling H20's, Pebbles Inc. Shimmer Chalks, crystals and lace from stash.

We've all got to start somewhere...

Well, I'm finally getting round to my first post.  Took a while though.  First all my camera batteries were dead and by the time I charged them I'd been barred as blogger though this was a spam blog (presumably because of the delay between signing up and actually getting round to doing anything with it lol). It's now been unblocked and my batteries are charged, so here goes...This first photo is of a card I made with my new Penny Black Beach Hammock stamp.  I loved the stamp when  I saw it in my local craft shop but didn't have a clue what I'd use it for but bought it anyway (of course lol).  I'm pleased with how it turned out and got the chance to use my new Prismacolour pencils for the first time. Any suggestions for other sentiments to go with it are greatly appreciated, as all I could think of were 'relax' and 'take it easy' . :)  Thanks for looking. 

Products used: Penny Black Beach Hammock rubber stamp, prismacolour pencils (blended with sansador and paper stumps), Basic Grey Phoebe paper 'Ashbury Street'.