Love Parchmentcraft

Hi guys,

I have made two cards this evening. The first is a One Layer Card with a love theme. As the base card used is purple I used purple and yellow to stamp the hearts and sentiment to the bottom of the card front as these colours are opposite each other on the colour wheel. To finish the card I rounded all the corners.

This card is being entered for the following challenges:

OLS #12 Attractive Opposites (colours, light/dark, plain/stylised)

aud sentiments #123 Anything Goes

The Card Concept #27 Love  (CAS)

Craft Your Passion 245 Anything Goes

simon says stamp Wednesday Have a heart

The second uses the Parchment craft technique for the main image. I used a stencil free gift with Papercraft Essentials back in summer for the main parchment design. This was layered onto a dark floral paper to make the butterfly really pop. Green floral card was used as a base layer with two separate strips from the Papermania Botanicals range, one a floral design and one a butterfly design. Alphabet washi tape was wrapped around this panel before it was attached to the base card, and the butterfly panel layered on top. A paper flower finishes the card.

This card is being entered into the following challenges:

Sweet Sketch Wednesday Sketch 42

SOS #185 Not your normal paper (the dark floral and botanical strips)

MMM Twentieth Century Style

CCM #130 Something Old (Parchment and dark floral paper)/ Something New (Flower and washi tape)

Creative Card Crew 79 Shabby Chic

Simply Create Too #77 For a female/Mother's Day

crafting by designs Anything Goes

Country View #23 Use Something New to you (flower embelishment/washi tape)

vs sweet ideas #30 Something New

Audio Book Review

Undead and Unwelcome by MaryJanice Davidson

The vampire king and queen have gone to return a body to the werewolf pack and are having to walk on eggshells to ensure a war does not ensue. They also find out that the vampire queen’s half-brother has an unnatural ability. Meanwhile, at home her half-sister is causing chaos due to her lineage to the devil (her mother).

The blurb on the back of this ne should be ignored as it puts you completely out of perspective and the book has nearly finished whilst you are still waiting for the ‘main event’ to happen. The main event in this book is the two separate colonies – one werewolf and one vampire. Sinclair and Betsy have to ensure that they can explain the death of one of the pack members well enough to the werewolves to prevent a war – especially as the werewolves are a close-knit family and vampires are not, so a war would be very one-sided. At home Laura, the sister, is harassed by devil-worshippers and so finds a way to make use of them – but not how Sinclair and Betsy would appreciate.

This is VERY Americanised and over-the-top, however this does make it humorous. There are ot really any suspense filled areas, but it is a light read (only five CD’s long). It gives you a brief background before the story starts, but this leaves many questions. It seems that there may be a prequel that needs to be read also. It is not a typical vampire and werewolf story, being a lighter read than most, and also turning many ideas on their heads. This is a good book if you like the less serious stories, however if you like your vampire stories to be full of suspense, then it is probably best to avoid this one.