A pensive fairy........

I'm afraid I haven't a clue who made this little fairy stamp - no doubt someone will tell me and I can post it, it was from an image swap ages ago - she's pretty though isn't she? It was such a detailed image that I kept the card really simple. The labels were cut with nestabilities (long shaped labels), and the scallop border was cut with another die I got from MFT. I bought it because I really like using perfectly plain scallops on cards, and as far as I know, all the punches out there are quite fancy. I used a Studio G $1 ink pad in blue to ink all the edges. The base scallop card and sentiment oval is from Craftwork Cards - I thought she looked a bit pensive, so the 'thinking of you' sentiment seemed to go well

I added tiny bits of glitter, using a fine quickie glue pen then some glamour dust

Promarkers used:

skin - blush and soft peach

hair - sandstone and buttercup.

mushroom - satin and khaki
clothes - pastel blue and powder blue

Thank you all so much for your birthday wishes, loads of you leaving me messages here, and loads writing on my wall on Facebook (which I go on so rarely, that when I got a bunch of emails saying that someone had written on my wall, I was thinking 'wall? what wall? I haven't got a wall!'), and stacks of lovely emails as well. I am on a bit of a poor internet connection at the hotel, so any visiting of your blogs to say thank you, will have to wait until the weekend.

We spent a lot of time today at the Metropolitan museum. So there I was, looking at all the fabulous impressionist masterpieces thinking 'ooh, look how he coloured that shadow, I could do that with ice grey 3' - I tell you, alcohol inks are an addiction.

The hotel is lovely, the room service prices are astronomical - $25 for a plain ice cream, plus $5 delivery plus 20% service charge and tax. What a blessing that the first thing you see when you leave the hotel is.........................Dunkin Donuts!! And what a blessing that my friend Carol got me a DD gift card for my birthday. Thank you Carol - how well you know me. As for DD crazies, I haven't seen one yet, but I have seen some very strange looking people wandering about, including one woman who was probably an apartment dweller on the upper west side, running across the road, apparently oblivious to the yellow cabs hurtling past her as though they were at a race track, in her pyjamas and a pair of slippers (no, they didn't have twinkling lights on the toes)

I'll be back tomorrow, although my American friends will probably be up to their elbows in preparing turkey, stuffing and green beans - good luck with that :)