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I'm a bit asleep yet - got back from a week in Barcelona yesterday and it had been a 4 am get up.  Won't bore you with the details but suffice to say we were picked up at 6 am by a mini-bus from about a 1/4 mile from our hotel (the hotel provided a taxi to the pick up point but at 5.30 to ensure we got on).  Well - I say picked up - when we got on the mini bus there were no seats (how the driver did not know this I will never know) so we had to leave - walk back to the hotel and get a taxi which we had to fund ourselves.  Sixty five euros!

So apologies for any typo errors this morning.

Here is my desk - couldn't miss two weeks in a row - but as you see it is tidy.

The card you can see is a last minute one I did before I left for my friend's father's 65th birthday.  Had to use the image I got from Jennie (remember I said I had bought two from her for using in my steampunk journal) and this one seemed appropriate for Denzil.

The image is stamped and embossed in black, the glasses have Glossy Accents on them, the sign on his stand was re-stamped on cream cardstock and the letters are from a Hero Arts set which I love using.

That's it - now for a nosy at what everyone has on their desks at The Stamping Ground.

ps - I was busy before I went away making things to be uploaded whilst on holiday - now have got the comments published so thanks to everyone who went on my blog whilst I was in Sunny Barcelona and welcome to my new followers.

Butterflies or Insects

What would you class a dragonfly as?  Does it fall in the same category as a Butterfly or is it an insect?  Anyway, am sure it will do for the Lots to Do Challenge this week.

A bit of an unusual image, and I have no idea where it came from but I can tell you it is blue rubber!  Chas shuddered when he saw it - guess it is not pretty like most of the images you can get but I thought it was different and there would not be another in the challenge like it.

Stamped and embossed in black on white cardstock, I painted the leaves and stem with a mix of greens that I had scribbled onto a margarine tub lid (my palette when using Caran D'Ache) and then painted the wings with a couple of Twinkling H2o's to get a greeny blue colour.  I don't often mix the twinkling colours with flat ones but felt that the wings needed some sparkle.

For the background I stamped all over black cardstock with a Bolio and Versamark ink and then used Duo Blue Pearlex to brush over the top.  The thought behind this was that it would be similar to the wings of the dragonfly.  Finally mounted the whole on a Teal card and there it is - my entry this week.