Enjoy the ride!

Hi everyone, hope you're all doing well. After last week's shock, I've picked myself up, dusted myself off and the fighting spirit has returned. I've been carrying on with making cards as it's been keeping my mind occupied so I have 3 cards to show you this week! I just hope there's no more bad news to come (we're seeing Mum's oncologist tomorrow). We did have some good news though as Mum saw her surgeon this week and he said that her wound finally looked like it might be healing so she wouldn't need an operation on it. He said he thought maybe she'd be able to start chemo in 2-3 weeks so we are praying that the oncologist agrees tomorrow.

Did you all see Strictly last night? I can't believe I missed the first one, we were late coming home from the football!! At least they seem to have a better line-up of people this year. I think I actually recognise all of them!

So anyway, onto my first card....

My sis moved house on Friday so this is a moving house card for her. She lives in Clifton and every year they have a hot air balloon fiesta there that they go to see but next year (due to the house move) they will actually be able to watch it from their roof terrace so I thought this card would be really apt and a bit different from all the usual moving house cards.

So the stamps are from the Everyday Button Bits from Papertrey Ink. The balloons are all on one stamp and the grass in a second stamp. They are a little tricky to colour if you want to do variations in colour but I decided to use brush markers as they were more accurate. Do you like how I coordinated the threads in the buttons to match the baskets?!! The papers are My Mind's Eye. The sentiment is from the PTI stamp set.

I'd like to enter this into 2 challenges:

Crafty Creations- transportation

Cute Card Thursday- play on words

Crafty stash used: Stamps (PTI); Brush markers; Nesties; Papers (My Mind's Eye); Assorted cardstock; Buttons (Bunny Zoe Crafts); Thread (Argos); Gems (Wild Orchid Crafts)

My second card is a Christmasy one. I love this image so much, especially the mousie with the scarf and gloves on! I coloured with watercolour pencils and outlined with a copic pen. The 2 papers are Fancy Pants and I did some machine stitching around the edge. The giant snowflake was recycled from an old Christmas card as was the little snowflake actually! The sentiment is a K&Co rub on.

Here is a little close-up

So I'd like to enter this into:

Simon Says Stamp- Holiday fun

Pollycrafts- Christmas with no red or green

Crafty stash used: Image (Penny Black); Watercolour pencils; Copics; Papers (Fancy Pants); Assorted cardstock; Stitching; Snowflake embellies (recycled); Rub on (K&Co); Flowers (Wild Orchid Crafts)

And lastly a little Sizzix created card. I used the Bigz scalloped card die to make the card base. Paper is by Cloud 9 Design. I created Kendra using an assortment of papers and cardstock - I do love these die but they are SO fiddly!! Sentiment is a K & Co rub on again. The snowflake I won in some blog candy.

Crafty stash used: Scalloped card and Kendra dies (Sizzix); Papers (Cloud 9); Assorted cardstock; Sentiment (K&Co); Snowflake

Oooh, before I forget I got in the Top 3 at Winter Wonderland last week for my snowman card! Yay!

Hope you have a lovely week x