If friends were flowers, I'd pick you!

Hi everyone!

I just wanted to quickly post a card that I have made this evening, for one of my best friends.  She has recently helped me through a difficult time, and I wanted to show her my appreciation.  I love the sentiment on my stamp:

     "If friends were flowers, I'd pick you!"

It really sums up our friendship.  

I've cut out a paperdoll at 3.5", used PKS Funshine Faces stamp, cut out the wedding dress on PDDU and highlighted it with my white gel pen.  I also cut out the flower strip from Plantin Schoolbook twice, once in green and once in pink and just cut off the flowers.  There's a bit of Pebbles Chalks to highlight my girl's cheeks, some metallic silver gel pen to give her earrings and a necklace, and some other metallic gel pen highlights.  The base of the card is a yellow/cream Bazzill Weave, with a background of Creative Memories Gazebo paper (it has a pale green soft pattern through it).

Hope you like it!

Deb. xoxo

Word spread very quickly...

My son's teacher "volunteered" me to help with the decorations for the opening of our new building (courtesy of the Federal Government grants).  Our local member of both federal and state parliament were to attend, as well as other dignitaries, and with my evolving talents courtesy of my Gypsy, I was asked if I would prepare some decorations.  For sure!!!  Anything involving paper, my (new at the time) Gypsy and Expression was right up my alley!!

I made a free-hanging sign to put against a black blinds backdrop "GRAND OPENING 2010!" in our school colours of bottle green and gold, using Plantin Schoolbook capitals and shadows at 11.5" - looked pretty effective behind the lecturn!

Then I made a "Welcome to our School" sign for the entry way, using the Calligraphy Collection font (welded!!), and I made the corner features using rectangles from George & Basic Shapes, and curlicues from the Celebrations cartridge.  The "Welcome to our School" sign is still up today - the kids in the new building, "The Palace" love it!!

So, word was spreading very quickly about this new talent in the school community, and this talent (due predominantly to the Gypsy, IMO) was about to be harnessed for the greater good in the form of the Fundraising Committee...!  Whoa-boy, back up the choo-choo and LOOK OUT!!

D.