Make a Wish

Evening everyone,
hope you have all had a lovely weekend.
I have had a full house and we have just had the
most wonderful slow cooked lamb,
thanks to my new Nigella recipe book.
Delicious!

Here's a card that I finished this morning.
I followed the wonderful sketch over at

Sketch Saturday
I definitely did not want to miss out on the chance to win
a £15 voucher from

Bunny Zoes Crafts.

She has a fab selection of goodies in her online shop.

I admit a made a boo boo with this card.

I was going to turn the ribbon under the pink card,
but I got carried away on my sewing machine and
stitched the card down before I realised.

Recipe:
Stamp - Penny Black coloured with whispers pens
and stickles glitter.
Design Paper - DCWV Nana's Nursery Baby Girl
Border is made with a Fiskars lace punch

The flowers were punched from the DP
and I added some stickles glitter to them.

Heart charm is from the Hobby House
Sentiment from Craftwork Cards
xxx

Best Wishes Edwin

Oh dear...

I can see that the football

is going to seriously interfere with my crafting.
I made this card inbetween watching the first game of the season,

and just have time to post it and tidy up,
before the second game comes on!

I followed the sketch from Roxy, over at Charisma Cardz.
You still have plenty of time to give the challenge a go,
and you could win a fab prize from

The Cutting Cafe

Recipe:

Stamp - Magnolia Guitar Edwin,
coloured with whipers pens.
Design Paper - Dovecraft, Masculine
Ribbon from my stash.

Card candy from Craftwork Cards
xxx

The Circle of Friends Award

It was so lovely to recieve this award the other day from

Penni.
If you haven't see her blog, pop on over there and check it out.

Penni is on the DT for Stampin' for the Weekend
and she makes amazing cards.

If you visit her you're sure of a warm welcome.

I'd like to pass this award to 5 lovely ladies
(it was so hard to pick just 5)

each of them has taken the time to visit me and leave
warm and encouraging comments.

Thankyou to everyone who visits and comments.

I really appreciate it.
xxx

1 debbies

2 Kinglake

3 Poppet
4 debby4000

5 Francesca

Bath Bubbles

Post number 2 from me today.

Isn't it amazing what you can get done,
when your hubby is away on business??

My card follows the sketch, by Camilla, at
A Spoon Full of Sugar.
There's a lovely prize this week,
donated by Silly Monkey Crafts
so give the challenge a go and check out the
fab work of the DT.

This is one of those lovely stamps that just cries out for you
to add some glitter and sparkle.
It's hard to photo though!

Recipe:
Design Paper - Papermania, Raspberry Champagne.
Stamp - from the Penny Black Bubbly set.
Coloured with whispers pens.
I added some stickles glitter to the bubbles and
a few sticky pearls.
Sentiment from Craftwork Cards
xxx

'Tis the season to go shopping!!

Well... not quite yet,
but you have to ready, don't you?
:-)

This week's challenge at Simon Says is to make
anything BUT a card.

I chose to alter these little notebooks -
one for each of my girls.
They can use them to jot down Christmas ideas

and party and present lists.
Don't forget to pop on over to Simon Says
and check out what projects the DT
have made.

Recipe:
Small notepad, covered with K & Co Peppermint Twist.
Penny Black Hedgie, from Christmas Critters Set,
coloured with whispers pens and stickles glitter.
I found some old, glittered Christmas tags,
that I used to cut the scalloped circle
and I took the thread off them, to tie around the notebook rings.
The sentiment was done on my comp.

xxx

Blogger Help

Help!!!

I have just logged into my blog and when I go
to my dashboard,
all the blogs I follow have disappeared.

:-(
Anyone got any ideas what's going on?

Are they gone for good, do you think?

I don't know how I am going to find everyone again.

Update
Phew... sorry about the panic there..lol*

All my blogs have now returned.

Thank goodness.

I have learnt a huge lessone though and will save a copy of
them all to my hard drive.
xxx

Christmas Production Line

I tried something a little different today
and took inspiration from the hugely talented Michelle Wooderson
and her 'mass production' idea.
Pop on over to Michelle's blog, Mish Mash and have a look around.
I promise you, you won't be disappointed.
She has loads of fabulous ideas.

I went with this week's great sketch at
Sketch Saturday
I stamped and cut all the pieces I would need,
and punched and glittered the snowflakes.

I coloured all the stamps,
making 2 Millys pink and 2 green.
Then I began to assemble the pieces - like a little production line.

Recipe:
Stamp - Pink Gem Designs - Milly on Reindeer,
coloured with whispers pens and sprinkled with Diamond Dust.
Design Paper - K & Co, Peppermint Twist
Snowflakes were punched and covered withDiamond Dust.
Sentiment from Craftwork Cards.
Ribbon from my Stash.

New House Party

Hi there everyone....
My youngest daughter is moving out soon.

She will be starting her 2nd year at Uni and is moving
in to a new house.

She is sharing with 1 other girl and 3 boys,
so I made this little gift as a house warming present for them
and tried not to make it too girly.

For the card I followed a great sketch over at
Stampin' for the Weekend.
Pop on over and check them out -
they are a fab challenge blog with lots of brilliant work form their DT.

Card Recipe:

Digital Stamp - Dustin Pike, coloured with whispers pens
and added glossy accents.

Design Paper - DCWV, Nana's Nursery, Baby Girl
'Party' stamp - My sentiments exactly, Adrienne's.
I made the other text up on my comp.

I made a small tag for the Jack Daniels,
using the same design paper
and again made the text up on the comp.
I wrapped some paper round the cokes and added another
Dustin Pike image.

I know the pics aren't great,

I really must practice my camera skills.
It's on my long list of things to do!!

Have a good weekend.
xxx

Fairy Doodles

Shhhh!! Don't tell on me,
but these stamps just jumped into my
shopping basket yesterday.
I am practicing my

"oh, those, I've had them for ages!" speech,
in case hubby spots them.

They were just way too cute to miss though,

don't you think?

This is my entry for this week's

Truly Scrumptious challenge.

It's a great sketch by Mina, that I just turned on it's side,
so my stamp would fit.
You can also add some bling to your card,

(I added some diamond dust to the fairy wings and wand).

Check out the DT work - all very different styles,
but all equally fabulous.

Recipe:
Stamp from a Buzzcraft, Fairy Doodles clear set,
coloured with whispers pens.
Design Paper - Papermania, Sweet Nothings
Ribbon, blooms and brads from my stash.
xxx

Spoil Yourself Silly

Well, I really had to rack my brains for this week's

Die Cut Dreams Challenge;

the theme is 'Fashion Frenzy'.
Their DT work is so great though,

that I really wanted to give this one a go.
I ended up using a fab digital stamp from Pollycraft
and added some extra shopping bags.

I still struggle with colouring digital stamps.

I use watercolour pens and my printer ink bleeds terribly.
If anyone has any tips, I'd be glad to hear them.

Recipe:
Digital Stamp - Pollycraft, Cherry Kisses,
coloured with whispers pens and twinkling H2O's
Design Paper - DCWV, Nana's Nursery, Baby Girl
Text Stamp - from the Penny Black 'Bubbly' set.
Adhesive ribbon from my stock.

Covered Stamp File

Any other Virgo's out there?

If there are, you'll know what I mean when I say I love to
categorise and organise all of my craft supplies,
just as much as I love to make cards and projects.

This morning I have been sorting through my stamps
and decided to stamp them all and put them into
plastic sheets, in a ring binder.
(Separated into the different makes, of course!).
It will be so much easier to flick through the folder to see what I have,
rather than get all my stamps out.

I have covered the file,
using this week's lovely sketch from

Sunday Sketch & Stamp

Check out the great work from the DT
and if you enter this week you could win a £10 gift voucher
to spend at The Craft Barn

Recipe:

Stamp - Magnolia, Tilda with puppy and Old bench,
coloured with whispers pens.
Text Stamps - My Sentiments Exactly, Adrienne.

Design Paper - Papermania, Rich Yellow
Bloom, card candy and ribbon from my stash.
xxx