Pink and black

Hello my sweet friends! How are you doing? I hope you've been enjoying the week so far. I've been busy with work stuff, but I am enjoying it. My throat is getting better, which I'm very happy about. Looks like honey and lemon did their magic. In case anybody wants a recipe for a home-made "medicine" that helps getting your immune system better, here it is ...

What you need:

1 liter honey

6 lemons

1 ginger root (be careful with ginger, because it has a very strong taste; remember you can always add more, but you can't take any out)

What to do with those stuff:

Squeeze lemons and either squeeze or grate ginger root (if you grate it, make sure it's very, very finely grated) - I prefer to squeeze ginger root though, so I get juice out of it. Mix everything together and voila, you're done. :) Easy peasy, right? Again, be careful with ginger, because it has strong spicy taste. I love it (I love spicy things) and I usually use one big root (sometimes even more), but you might want to start with a small root or only half of the root and then add more if you want. You can either drink this on its own (a table spoon of this syrup in the morning and another one in the evening seems to work just fine), or you can make a tea out of it. Just put some syrup into the tea cup and pour hot (not boiled!!!) water over it. Yum! I can't have ginger right now (boohoo :( ), so I was making this mixture without ginger. It was ok, but I missed that spicy "touch". ;) Anyways, this thing is awesome - trust me, better than those pills etc. - and it helps. And it tastes sooo good too! ;) Maybe this is also an idea for the Christmas gifts this year - to give to your loved ones. :)

Ok, enough about that now. Let's talk some crafty things ... Today I'd like to show you a card I made with some leftover scraps of Prima's paper. Most of them are scraps from the Romance novel paper pad, which I absolutely love (I don't want to throw away even the tiniest little piece).

I love pink and black colour combination and even though I'm "scared" of using black on my projects I thought I'd give it a go. I created the background using several stripes of paper, which I inked with distress ink. As you can see I used lots of different lace and some flowers on this card.

I didn't do any stamping for a change. Instead I chose those beautiful butterfly die cuts to be in the center of my card.

In the center of each butterfly I put a crystal - you can never have too much bling, can you? ;)

So much from me today. Have a wonderful day! :) xx

I'd like to enter my card to the following challenges:
Cheery Lynn designs: Things with wings
Deep ocean: Shabby chic
Papertake weekly: Animal magic
Frilly and funkie: Stamps be gone
Scrap and craft: Butterflies
Craft heaven shop: Anything goes
Simon says stamp (Wednesday challenge): Die crazy
Craft-alnica: Živali
The ABC challenge: R is for recipe (pink, dies and/or punches, lace)