Welcome, new baby

I can't believe that it's a month since I last posted on my poor neglected blog. My reason?......Well at the time I had a rather heavily pregnant daughter who didn't want to be on her own but unfortunately didn't have an internet connection at the time. Since the 20th July however, this little fellow has arrived and completely disrupted all our lives :) Meet Archie who has completely stolen his nana's heart!

He has made such an impact that I can't even remember what life was like before he arrived a fortnight ago!

The crafting didn't stop though. I did, however have a crazy few days trying to get all of his birth announcements and thank you cards made whilst carrying on with my wedding work.

 I have used an assortment of Clearly Besotted stamps and dies and Spellbinders Nesties.

I'm still making Thank You cards but have simplified it slightly for speed!
Thanks for dropping by and as life is almost back to normal my crafting will be back on track but I still have loads of photos to add here and to my FB pages etc.
Back soon :) xx

Flower power

As I mentioned last night, I made a card yesterday using both of the new downloads from Funky Hands, Funky Kraft Stash and Steam Funk they work brilliantly together :)

What do you think? I have used Nesties for the 'flower' and the centre flower brad and diamantes are from my stock.

Don't forget to call back later today when I will let you know who has won the downloads from the weekend blog hop and my little notebook giveaway.

Back later.

ICS Sketch #99

Our lovely sponsor this week is DZ Doodles. Not only is Diane (the owner) sponsoring our prize of 3 Free Digi images of their choice  to the winner this week, but she also sponsored our Designers with some images as well. The sketch this week is another by the super talented Stacey.

Image - DZ Doodles
Paper - Craftwork Cards
Sentiments - Pink Petticoat
Sakura Stardust pen
Nesties
MS punch
Everything else from my stock.

TFL

 

 

Wedding cards

Good morning all, after a gloriously warm and sunny Sunday we have returned to a cold and murky Monday! I did a wedding fayre yesterday so was glad that the weather was nice as it always brings out more couples than when it rains (or snows as it did the last time I was at that particular venue :))

The following cards were made for hubs to take to work, the first one was from last weekend but the other two were for Saturday just gone. Please excuse the awful photos but I took them quickly with my phone as my camera was up at the hotel.

images - Pink Petticoat and Stampendous
Papers - Pink Petticoat
sentiments - Pink Petticoat and lap top

Prima and ribbon flowers
Nesties
Martha Stewart punches
ribbons and gems are from stock
Kathy's Waffle Sketch File sketch on the third card

Thanks for looking

Today's the day!

It's the youngest DD's Prom this evening. The nails were done yesterday, the hair coloured the day before, hair appointment this afternoon and the rest of the day spent generally getting ready before being picked up by the limo at five o'clock. Oh to be 16 again. We just left school and that was that, besides, I don't think my parents could have afforded the cost of the blooming thing starting with the £25 for the ticket :) Oh well, we can't all laze about being spoilt, I'd best carry on working in order to pay for it lol

So, another card, another challenge. I downloaded Kathy's June sketch when it first went onto the blog but forgot all about it until last night. I was so surprised when I went back to the blog (to check I'd got it right) to find that I had used the same colour scheme as Kathy!! Great minds etc.....

Ribbons from Ribbon Oasis, rub on sentiment from Crate, flower is a Marianne Design Creatables die set and the butterflies are Martha Stewart, ovals are Nesties and the gems are from my stash.

Thanks for popping by.

One world, one heart

I got my two winner's gifts off at the beginning of last week and am pleased to say that Lorraine has received hers. Lisa is on holiday at the mo so hopefully it will be waiting for her when she gets back. I made a couple of small cards too to say thanks for entering my give away. I was unlucky again this year and didn't win anything :)

 

  

 

I can't remember which card I sent with which earrings! The card above was made using punched flowers, a handmade flower and rub ons.

The card on the right was made with a butterfly from The Digi Stamp Boutique, rub on sentiment, gems, ribbons and nestabilities.

Thanks for looking.

DewDrop Craftz

challenge this week was set by Sarah and she said she "would like you to incorporate a 'pocket' into your creation. This could be a pocket to hold a secret message.. money or even another part of the creation" The winner of this challenge will win a stamp of their choice from Nikki's shop

I made two cards for this challenge although I might have my wrist slapped for the first one :)

The pockets are in his shorts LOL The image is from DewDrop and he's been coloured with Promarkers. The backing paper is from a HOTP pad I found in a drawer and the sentiment circle is from Patti Picklicious.

This little Manga couple is so sweet and ideal if you don't want a super cutie image for a wedding card! Again I've used the PMs, the papers are from Papermania and my tag was just an oval Nestie. Eyelets, gems and ribbon are from my meagre (!) stash.

Just three more

.......Valentine cards to complete the shop box. I finally got them all finished and packed at about 2.30 this morning, yawn!!
The green Core-dinations card and the burgundy Bazzill Bling card have been run through the Big Shot using a couple of Cuttlebug folders. The green card was sanded slightly with an emery board and both were mounted onto black card before being stuck onto the card base. The hearts were cut from gold foil using a Sizzlits die and one of them was embossed using the Paisley folder. Burgundy and gold ribbon is from Ribbon Oasis

All papers and card are from my off cuts box and were ripped embossed and inked (not necessarily in that order ;)). The small heart and the Doodlebug brads are from my stash. I'm still in the throes of the big clean up from the new year and am tackling the drawers (of which there are plenty), the great thing being that I keep finding stuff I forgot I had (!) and the hearts are in that category LOL I am also being quite ruthless and have sorted a large bag of stuff to go down to the local primary school (old freebie embossing boards, stickers and papers off magazine covers, embellishments that I wouldn't be seen dead using etc :))

And finally for this evening......I cut the labels using my new Nesties using Bazzill Bling and inked the edges using a darker blue chalk pad, the letters are Doodlebug stickers and the ribbon and heart were on my table.

Well that's it for tonight. I'm going to have a quick blog hop before bed.
Take care and tfl

Last one.....

for this evening is Sketch Saturday I used my new Labels #1 Nesties for the first time (well they did only arrive on Saturday :)) and my (almost) new Martha Stewart punch and my new Snag Em stamps from Papermania (I can cope with a stash ban like this LOL) I stamped the flowers twice, once onto patterned paper then cut it out and paper pieced it. All the card stock and lace is from my stash.

That's it for tonight but I will be back in the morning with my Debbi Moore DT cards.

Take care and TFL