Third post of the week!

Its me again.......with my third post of the week and its only Wednesday, do hope you're not getting fed up with me yet.

 

Todays card is one of the "makes" from the weekend when my Mum came over for a crafty afternoon. Of course, its always fun to have someone else to chat and craft with at times, but as she is my mum she is also duty bound to let me raid her stash and "borrow" a few bits here and there!!! That's exactly what I did here with this border piece that I fed the ribbon through, the ribbon is from my local haberdashery and has the most gorgeous pattern running through it. The papers are from Glitz and Fizzy Moon and this super cute elephant is coloured with the lovely promarkers. The sentiment is from craftwork and the flowers are from dovecraft with hobbyhouse pearls in the centre of the buttons.

I would like to enter this into these challenges:

crafty sentiments - animals

ribbon girls - birthday cards

crafts and me - anything goes

 

Before I go, I just wanted to share this photo with you, of my gorgeous daughter Megan, and it was taken as she was getting her hair done for the recent wedding. She will be 16 next month and I'm so proud of the lovely young lady she is growing up to be.

 

That's all from me for tonight, gonna have a quick browse at a few blogs then off to bed.......bye for now and thanks for stopping by xx

Thinking of you Diane.

Hi to you all, and thank you for popping in. I'd like to welcome my newest follower, Sarah, who is also one of our lovely new cutie pie teamies too - but not only that, but that's me now at 200 followers! Thank you all so much.......I might have to organise some candy to celebrate!

 

Anyway, onto todays card and this is one that I actually made a couple of weeks ago as one of my DT cards for the Crafty Friends challenge - however, due to our lovely leader Diane having some health problems at the moment, this challenge has closed for the time being. I decided to go ahead and blog this card, and say that my thoughts and prayers are still with Diane.

 

I have coloured the adorable PB hedgie with promarkers and added hobbyhouse pearls to the flowers. I also used a joycraft flower die and added card candi, the paper is from Bearly Mine designs and I added some sticky backed lace to finish.

 

I would like to enter this into these challenges:

crafty sentiments - animals

bunny zoes - pink and white

penny black at allsorts - in the garden (hope this is garden-y enough)

cute card thursday - anything goes

 Passion for Promarkers - Clean & Simple

Righty-ho, I'm off for a soak in the tub now, so i'll catch you all very soon xx

 

 

 

Cutie Pie Thank You's!

Hello, to you all..........hope there are still some of you out there, the last two weeks have flown by and as we have had family from Scotland down and staying with us, the blogging has had to take a back seat. But now its time for a new challenge with The Cutie Pies and our theme this time is

Thank You!

we are sponsored this time by our lovely friends at

who are offering a great digi prize, so its got to be worth a peep!

They also very kindly gave our DT some images and papers to play with and I have used these on my own DT card together with an embossed sentiment which was a Sizzix folder, also a cuttlebug embossing folder and flowers and pearls.

 

I would also like to welcome Sarah J and Jane to the Cutie Pie team as our new teamis, you can find out more about them on our challenge post, and also check out the other gorgeous DT cards.

 

Had a crafty afternoon with my Mum on Saturday, so I'm off to take some snaps of my makes which I will be sharing with you over the next few days, cheerio for now xx

The Cutie Pies get Pretty In Pink

Hello to you all, so its Monday and that means its time for a new challenge with The Cutie Pies, and who can resist this one as our theme is

Pretty in pink

 

We are lucky enough to have two lovely sponsors for this challenge


and one lucky winner will receive a $10 gift certificate for Sweet Stamps online store, but not only that,

are kindly offering a wonderful prize of three yummy digi stamps for a randomly chosen winner.

 

Our lovely friends at Pink Gem gave us some adorable images to play with and I couldn't resist using Little Gem with Rose for my own DT card. The image is coloured with the promarkers. Have used a Marianne creatables die to mount the image onto. The paper is Papermania Lucy Cromwell stack and have printed the sentiment onto this. The pink twine is from The Works and the flower charm and pearls are from Hobby house.

 

We have some wonderful DT cards to share with you this time and would love for you to take part, so click the link at the top!

 

I would also like to enter this into these challenges

in the pink - pink and pearlie

crafts and me - anything goes

i love promarkers - anything goes

a little bit crafty - die-ing for it

 

 

If I can put the pink to one side for a moment in favour of a bit of blue.........isn't it exciting that we have a new royal baby today, can't wait to hear what they've chosen for his name, I'm thinking James, Cameron thought "Dave" would be a bit nice!!!!!

 

the sentiment says it all!

Before I go any further, can I just say Thank you to those of you that responded to my previous blog post.....I found all of your responses comforting, and I have made a mental note never to fall out with any of you.....as I could end up getting a good kicking in!!!! Seriously though, I am very blessed to have some amazing blog buddies and you helped me get through a bad week, yesterday was a bit of an emotional one, but its done now.

 

Soooo, since the sun has been playing hide and seek in Kent this weekend, I decided to settle down at my craft desk - went looking for a sketch first, for mojo purposes - and this is what happened.......

This gorgeous H&S image was one of several that came with a birthday card a wee while ago, and was a little treat to colour! Have used the promarkers, of course. The border punch is from Martha steward, the papers are Lucy Cromwell Papermania (have just about finished my first stack of this and am on the lookout for another!!) The sentiment is from craftwork cards and was part of a candy win (thank you Sue xx) and is layered onto a memory box die. Buttons and ribbon from stash.

 

So, as I mentioned this card was based on a sketch, and that is this weeks

seems a little sketchy challenge

So this is my entry for this challenge.

I would also like to enter

i love promarkers - anything goes

 

Enjoy the rest of the weekend, and I'll be back tomorrow with a new Cutie Pie challenge, I will also make a more concerted effort to visit your blogs as well, as I know I've been a little quiet on that front over the last week xx

 

Bit of an unusual post from me today, and I will apologise in advance as I am not my usual happy self.

If you've followed my blog for a while now, you might remember that earlier in the year I was making sample Wedding stationary for my step-daughter and her fiance', after waiting for nearly two months for them to decide what they wanted I made the Wedding and Evening invitations, shortly after this my step-daughter had a conversation with my hubby (her dad) and told him that she didn't want him to give her away as she didn't want to "upset her mum and step dad"!!! As you can image my hubby was devastated about this, not least because he let my step daughter move in with us at 16 to get away from said step father, he taught her to drive, helped her find work, helped her when she wanted to move out and live with a boyfriend and then helped her move back in when it didn't work out and we even let her best friend move in with us too, as she faced becoming homeless. If that wasn't painful for him enough, when he commented that if he wasn't getting to be "involved" with the wedding, did she even want him there at all......the response he got was that he could please himself!!! So we talked together and made the decision that we wouldn't attend the wedding at all.

 I decided to continue with making the wedding stationary as I didn't want anyone to be saying that "we'd" not contributed anything to the day. However, every time I mentioned order of services or seating plans, I was fobbed off with excuses, for over three months.  Bearing in mind that the wedding is this Saturday (20th), my step daughter turned up at my house TEN DAYS AGO asking when I would be able to make order of service cards (x 60), reception seating plan and name place settings for 90 guests!!!!! I'd got hold of a large piece of card to do the seating plan so I agreed to do that, but that was about it......I do work 5 days a week as well!

When my stepdaughter emailed me through the guest list, I don't think she realised but this list was attached to another email that her fiancé had sent to the wedding co-ordinator at the reception venue thanking her for helping out at the last minute, as his fiancé's stepmum (aka me) had "become very

unreliable" God only knows how I managed to keep a civil tongue in my head when they came to pick them up last sunday!

 

I've been dithering around all week as to whether or not to blog these photos, but I reached the decision that its stuff that I've made and despite the circumstances I'm pleased with how they turned out - so there we go.

 

Seating plan

 in more detail, to show the embossing, this was also a feature of the invitations

"wedding box" for guests cards etc.

 

So, I'm sorry that this is a bit of a downer, I promise that my next post will be a more cheery one xx



Keeping it Simple!

Hello to you all, hope you're keeping well and enjoy this lovely spell of weather, and with today being St Swithens day and with it being so nice - hopefully it will last for a bit longer yet!

Don't want to bore you all with the details right now, but its been a really busy week/weekend, but Saturday night was time to party as, one of my very good friends from work celebrated her silver wedding anniversary with a big party. Quite a few of us from work were invited and had a great time, especially on the dance floor! Anyway, I just wanted to share with you the card I'd made for this occasion...

Try to keep it fairly simple, the silver card is from a box that I got in the Papermill when my local store closed (that was ages ago!!!) The bow from Hobbycraft and the wording is my own effort the font I've used is called Great Vine. I have used Cheery Lynn Celtic heart die as the main focus of the card.

 

Thanks and hugs for stopping by, catch you soon xx