Sunny Saturday Greetings!

Hello there, thank you for visiting....hope your having a lovely weekend!

 

I am currently half way through my two weeks summer holiday from work......most of the last week has been spent out in our back garden - sadly not enjoying the sun - but in our continuing overhaul project. This week has seen us rotavating, raking, sieving and all other number of tasks that make me feel achy and grubby come the end of the day! Yesterday was especially warm, so we decided to give ourselves the day off today and this morning was spent with a bit of retail therapy and general mooching around Bluewater shopping centre ( I got the most gorgeous Tinkerbell costume for our Grand-daughter Erin in The Disney Store, £25 reduced to £6.19!!!!) This afternoon I managed to finish this card that I've fiddled about with for days!

 

This card features:

• LOTV stamp
• coloured with promarkers
• Nitwit papers
• wooden heart and tag from stash
• papermania dome stickers
• sentiment created by the talented Kerry (Pickle)

I would like to enter this into:
passion for promarkers challenge - summer lovin'
i love promarkers - in the garden (hope this is garden-y enough)
robyns fetish challenge blog - use kraft card stock

off to visit my Mother for dinner soon, so will catch you all later xx
 

Simply Mousie.....and some views from the weekend!

Hello there, thank you so much for stopping off here today.......hope the week has started well.

 

I have the rest of this week at work then I have two weeks off from work (woohoo!), if we don't go away during August (and we're not this year) then I try to get a good jump on my Christmas cards....my friends at work always find this a little odd, but to me (and I'm sure you folks too) it makes perfect sense in this as time seems to fly by once you get into the Autumn months! 

 

Went CaS for todays card! For someone who really isn't good with Mices, I do use this Christmas image a lot, lol!

 

 

My card features:

• Mousie image from Sylvia Zet
• coloured with Promarkers
• Sentiment is own creation
• Hobby House pearls
• ribbon from local drapery store

I would like to enter this into these challenges:

Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge - Inspired by a Christmas carol

christmas stampin all year long - Clean and Simple

The Glory of Christmas challenge - use Ribbon

Crafty Calendar - Christmas in July

Cute as a buttonchallenge - Christmas in July

My time to craft - Christmas in July

i love promarkers - Clean and Simple

 

The rest of the post is pretty picture heavy......this is a just a few of the snaps that were taken on our day out at the Olympic park yesterday.......

 

 

It was a very wet and soggy stadium that greeted us!

 

 

The Arcelormittal Orbital

 

Cameron got to try these bikes, and has a new found respect for the athletes that would use these as they are quite a weight to operate!

 

My gorgeous kids!

 

 Megan and the Olympic Rings

 

The Wetlands Walk -  glorious tranquillity amongst the  chaos!

 

The Aquatic Centre 

 

 The Velodrome

and back to the Stadium

Thanks and hugs for visiting today xx 

 

 

Boys and their Toys!

Hope you've had a good day today, even though the weather has been bleh!!!

 

I had an absolutely wonderful day out with my kids today, we took the train to visit the Olympic park in East London. The Anniversary games have been going on this weekend and today was Paralympic day. The weather was lousy, first thing, but a little drier come the afternoon, so we walked for hours around the park visiting the various event venues.....oh my giddy aunt, my little legs ache now!!! I will share some of my photos from today in my next post.

 

Back to my card for now though, and I noticed that the theme this week at Sweet Stampin is Boys and their Toys, which gave me the perfect excuse to dust of this little beaut!

 

 

 

My card features:

• Hanglar & Stanglar image coloured with Promakers
• paper from Bo BUnny
• dome stickers from papermania
• apologies, can't remember where this sentiment came from

I would like to enter this into:

sweet stampin challenge - boys and their toys

addicted to cas - chevrons

 

Off to bed now, for a much needed sleep....catch up with you all tomorrow, night-night xx

 



Fluttering By...to say Hi!

Hello there, hope you are having a good weekend so far. Any idea what's happened to the weather, lol, as always the schools break off and the grey clouds just roll on out! I had high hopes for a trip to the beach this weekend, which never panned out, but heigh-ho, I can always hit my craft desk to keep myself entertained.

 

Aside from doing a bit of DT stuff today, I also made this Clean and Simple creation, I had spotted that the theme for the Allsorts challenge was Butterfly's, and I had just the embellishment in mind!.

 

my card features:

• Sentiment created using Alisa font
• wooden butterfly from The Works
• brown dome stickers from Hobbycraft
• Kraft card from Limetree crafts

I would like to enter this into:
allsorts challenge - add a Butterfly
brown sugar challenge - anything goes
aud sentiments challenge - anything goes

thank you so much for you visit xx



 

The One with the Drum!

Hello there, hope you are having a great week so far! My kids schools break off for the summer holiday this week, Cameron had his first day off today and when I came home from work at 11am he was still sound asleep - oh the joys of teenagers, lol

Its been a crazy, busy couple of weeks here for me with our big stocktake at work, last week. Happily it has been a quieter and more relaxed week so far and its been lovely to have the energy to do a bit of crafting when I've got home from work!

I bought this adorable stamp at the Sincerely Yours show back in May.....and I am ashamed to say that this is the first of the poor wee bear getting as much as a sniff of ink!

This card features:

• Stamp from Kanban
• coloured with Promakers
• Plaid dp from Nitwit
• Crafts Too embossing folder
• Papermania Denim Blue Dome stickers
• Sentiment - Zipty do font

I would like to enter this into these challenges:
Without Words - blue and brown
Crafty Sentiments - anything goes

Enjoy the rest of the day!

More from The Crafty Freinds and our Punches!

Hope you are having a great weekend, are you up to anything exciting?

After such a wonderful response to our first challenge back in blogland, its time for a new

Crafty Friends Challenge

our theme this time is

Use a Punch

our lovely sponsors are

  

 and

Star Stampz

my own DT card features:

• Peekaboo image from Digi stamps 4 joy
• coloured in promarkers
• spellbinders die cut
• Fiskars daisy punch
• papers from Anna Marie designs
• pearls and ribbon from stash

we do hope that you will join us for another fab challenge!



More than one fold with Creatalicious!

Hello there, hope the week has got off to a good start for you!

So today its time for a new Creatalicous Challenge
and our theme is

More than one Fold



our lovely sponsors are

Crafty Sentiments Designs

Prize - 3 digis of winners choice

Crafty Sentiments Designs is an online base family company own and run by Suzette, the images are cute fun and make any cards and projects look amazing.

Suzette and Justyna are the main artist, all images are exclusive to Crafty Sentiments Designs and there is lots of digital stamps available, sentiments, rubber stamps, crafting CD's, exclusive Crafty Sentiments Designs dies and much more. www.craftysentimentsdesigns.co.uk you can also find us on facebook, printerest and twitter.

& 

Simon Says Stamps

who are offering a $15 gift cert
.

My DT card features

• "Friendship" my very favourite CS digi
• coloured with promarkers
• Gingham paper from Nitwit Stack
• Flowery paper from The Works
• Zipty Do font for sentiment
• Sizzix tag die and Memory Box Savannah border die
• flowers, lace and peg from stash

inside view of my criss-cross card

My fellow teamies have made some amazing cards, so please stop by for a visit!