Lili Of The Valley

As I had a wedding card to make today I thought I would get out my little LOTV wedding stamp! This couple are so cute and as with all LOTV stamps, it's lovely to colour too.

Papers - Snippet folder
Mulberry roses - Wild Orchid Crafts
Other paper flowers -  My mum's stash :)
ribbon and sentiment - my supplies


I'm going to enter this card into the following challenges


Di's Snippet Challenge
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes theme with the optional extra to add a heart or do a 'love' theme.
Allsorts challenge part 2 Free and Easy February
Simon Says Stamp - Love Is In The Air


Thanks for looking :)

Kathy's Waffle Sketch File

The February sketch challenge is now up on Kathy's Sketch File and this month we are treated to two versions of the sketch, a square one and a rectangular one!
This is my first project using the sketch

and here are the sketches.

 I used the square sketch for my card but I've already done a lay out using the same sketch and I'm also going to be very brave and try to do a double LO using the rectangular sketch.


Materials used are
Blonde Moments - Sugar Dumpling paper
Pink Petticoat - heart paper
Everything else is from my stock and the papers are from my snippet folders so I'm entering my card into Pixie's Crafty Workshop Snippet challenge


Please join in with us and show us what you can do. Don't forget that you can use the sketches any way round you like and as long as we can see the sketch it will be ok. Leave us a message on Mr Linky and we will come and take a look.


Thanks for looking and we look forward to seeing what you come up with.

What's on your work desk?

Well peeps, Wednesday has crept up on us once again and it's time to show my messy desk to the world again! Not sure what I'm talking about? Then take a look at Julia's Stamping Ground and all will be revealed.

I'm currently making an album for a lovely couple who are celebrating their Ruby wedding anniversary this weekend so I will carry on working late until it's finished, by Friday at the latest :0 


I wish I was a tidy worker but I have tried, believe me, but I can't work unless everything is out around me lol (oh and I need the ever present coffee on my desk) Even when I had the shop and tried desperately to keep it tidy, it didn't work. I do sort everything and put stuff away before I plough through the next order though......then the mess all starts again :)


My target for this week is to get through every post on WOYWW, something I haven't done yet.


Thanks for looking and I will be back later.

I Heart You

Have you seen the new release on the Funky Hand web site yet? It is absolutely gorgeous :)  There is a total of  approximately 20 different papers, an alphabet and an image sheet, and the price..........£3.19!!! Don't take my word on how lovely it is, see for yourself.

 and here is what I made with it yesterday.

I will add a tutorial on how to make the bag just as soon as I get my weddings out of the way first :)
Take care, back soon and thanks for looking.

Black & White

DH was working last night and the event was a 60th birthday. They had a black and white colour scheme, which I overheard them telling a member of staff at the wedding fayre we did a couple of weeks ago when they came to view the venue.

The papers used are from Doodlebug but I can't remember the name of it. I've also used an off cut of silver mirror and black card, ribbon snippets, flowers and diamantes are from my stock and the sentiment is from Craftwork Cards.


The card will be entered into Di's Snippet challenge and
Allsorts challenge Part 1         


TFL x                                        

Get Funky!

Good morning from a very white and bright Scruff's Corner, I hope everyone is well this morning and managing to keep warm in this horrible cold weather! I don't mind the snow especially if I don't have to go out in it but I absolutely hate the cold. I would love to hibernate at the beginning of November and wake up at the beginning of March ready for my big girl's birthday :)


So onto the Get Funk! challenge. It's my turn today to post my project over on the Get Funky! blog. Lou (Loopylou) set the "January Blues"challenge for this month and she wants you to make a something blue. It doesn't matter what it is as long as it incorporates something from Funky Hand. As always, Anice has provided a freebie paper for those who would like to take part but don't own any FH products.

Papers used are from Xmas Presents on the Twelve Crafters Crafting cd and Birthday Boy on the Happy Happy Birthday cd. If you haven't got these cds yet you really don't know what you're missing, they are both fab!!


I'm entering my card into Di's Snippet challenge as my first one this week. I only made my challenge 'projects' this week as I've been busy with wedding stationery.


Thanks for looking and I hope you manage to join in with us on our Get Funky! challenge.

Wedding stationery

It's Wednesday again and I can't believe it's it's a week since my lap top was so poorly. Luckily I didn't lose anything it just caused my son 24 hours of blooming hard work! I'm still trying to recover and change passwords as I visit different sites as all my history was wiped so my passwords went along with that, I'm getting there though.


So now onto the real reason of my post and that is because today is What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday #139 which is organised by the lovely Julia on her Stamping Ground blog. I would like to offer huge apologies for not visiting anyone last week but I had a bit of a computer problem (see below). I will make sure I poke my nose into the craft spaces this week though and thanks for all the visits I got.


My desk

as you see, I'm in wedding stationery mode at the moment. These will be finished and collected today then it's straight onto the next lot of 75 which are going on Friday :)


Also while I'm here, take a peep at Crafty Linby's blog. She has some fab candy on offer.

Right, back to my invitations now so I can take time later to start visiting the WOYWW bloggers later. 
TFL

WOYWW 138

Yes folks, it's that day again. Not much going on on the Scruff's Corner desk this morning (see post below) so I'm taking the time to sort out my wedding stationery albums and am also redesigning my brochures ready for tomorrow.

He did take a break from about 2 am and I'm just waiting to see if I can turn it on.....I daren't incase he hasn't managed to sort it lol

If you want to know more about these mad crafters who post pictures of their desks on a Wednesday then take a trip over to Julia's Stamping Ground for more information.

Thanks for dropping by.

What a day!!

What makes insignificant little geeks sit in their lonely abodes and spend the days writing viruses? I picked one up, on my lap top, this afternoon and my poor son has been sat for nine hours so far trying to sort it all out for me!

I was having a mooch around the internet this afternoon trying to look for wedding stationery colour trends for  and all of a sudden my lap top went stupid. However, the virus showed itself as a system checker and it was only when I couldn't get rid of it by running task manager and shut down that I realised something was wrong.

I'm up to my eyes in stationery orders at the mo and have the first in a series of wedding fayres starting on Thursday evening and am having to redesign my invitation album all at the same time, so this I can definitely live without, you little grot!!

Of course it goes without saying that I haven't backed up any files and both my C and D drives appear to have been trashed :( Luckily though, hubby did my accounts for me at the end of October and he still has a copy on his machine and when we had my old lap top fixed just before Christmas I never wiped any of the files off it so it is still how it was on the day I knocked it off the arm of the settee and DD2 hasn't wiped anything from it either. DS appears to have managed to save my Party Nights folder which has all of my wedding work, photos etc in it so I think I should be ok once he can sort it for me. He is busy clearing everything off it now ready to reinstall Windows in the morning. I shall make do with working on this one until after Friday and then start sorting out my folders etc.
....and after all that it hasn't worked :( He has run spyware, malaware, and heaven knows what other 'aware and is no further forward than he was when he started. The newest report is that the files appear to be hiding behind whatever the virus has dumped onto my machine. It looks as though it might have to go into the poorly lap top hospital which isn't good really as I have three wedding orders on the go and the files are on that machine.

I think I might just go and sit in a corner, bury my head in my hands and cry *sob*

Anyway, I did manage a couple of quick challenges this morning

These stamps are from the same Seedee set I used the other day for the dress card I made. I don't know what any of the papers are today as they are all from my pink snippet file. The gems, button and ribbon are all from my stock. The challenges I'm entering the card into are as follows
Pollycraft - Warm It Up (as in teapot ;))

DCM - Kitchenalia

Colour Create - pink, green and a handmade flower

Secret Crafter - food and drink

Passion For Promarkers- recycle (the ribbon on the flower is from a blouse)

Delightful Challenges - distress / vintage

Thanks for looking, see you tomorrow :)

Going Buggy

Well here we are at the start of another week. Does it seem a heck of long time since Christmas when in fact it was only four weeks ago!!

It is terribly windy outside which is blowing rain clouds over occasionally so I plan to spend the majority of the day in my craft room :)

So my first card of the week is for the new Going Buggy challenge. Enfys' challenge is to use

GREY, WHITE AND RED or Black,White and Red. I've used the black colour combination however my border does fade to grey (there a song in there somewhere :))

The flower 'paper' is actually a Stampin Up wheel which I have had for a couple of years and keep forgetting I've got it. I have a few of them and I could do with getting them out with the rest of my stamps. The red scripted paper is from Pink Petticoat,the flowers are Prima, the sentiment is from Craftwork Cards and the gems, brad and ribbon are from my stash.

I'm also adding my card to the Cute Card Thursday - their challenge is music and dance

Di's Snippet Challenge #4

Something blue.....

I was playing with some blue papers the other day, making my DT card with the lovely blue freebie paper from Funky Hand, when I decided to make a start on an album for the sister of a very special friend of mine. Carol was 50 the week before Christmas and wanted an album to put her birthday photos in.

I've used the sketch, again on it's side, from Kathy's Waffle Sketch File image is a See Dee stamp from years ago, it is one of my favourite clothes stamps but I always forget about it, and am going to add my page to the following challenges

Pixie's Crafty Snippet challenge as the small pieces of paper are Funky Hand snippets (I must be heading for a turn on the roundabout now :))

Anything Goes Challenge blog and their challenge this week is Anything Goes

Funky Hand - January Blues

Secret Crafter - Anything goes with blue

Sir Stampalot - Monochromatic

Thanks for looking!

Snippets

I'm hoping that Di might let me have a go on the slide as well as the swings now I have managed another Snippet card

I turned these bits (without the images)

into this card

with the addition of a Prima flower and a diamante.

Feathers

I posted this picture of my desk and have had quite a bit of interest in the feathers (and the mucky screen - thanks Di, it has now been cleaned  :))

 So yesterday afternoon, with a lot of sticky gluey fingers the feathers turned into this commissioned fascinator.

It's made onto a headband covered with ribbon. I hope my client likes it :)

Flower power

Before I posted the little notebook to Kath yesterday I made a card to put in with it to say thank you for joining in with our blog hop. Kath let me know this morning that she had received her parcel so I can post it here. I meant to do it this afternoon but I got side tracked and forgot lol.

The flower is made with one of the doily dies by Spellbinder, a bit of Tattered Florals die by Tim Holtz and Sizzix Daisy die #2. the flower and frilly borders are cut from my left overs from my DT notebook and the card blank was from Lakeland years ago. I thought I had used them all but I keep finding them. The brad and lace are from my stock.

I shall add it to Di's Snippet challenge my first one of the week (sorry Di :))

Tfl

What's on your workdesk Wednesday

is here again and it's to go for a nosey around the desks of crafters from all over the world. Don't know what I'm wittering about then take a trip over to Julia's fab blog, The Stamping Ground for all the details.

I shall try to do better this week, I spent far too much time reading the blogs I visited last week and didn't get round many blogs at all. This week I shall visit quickly and make a note of the blogs I want to revisit then I can do it all at my leisure :)

Thanks for visiting.

Kathy's Waffle Sketch File

Our new sketch challenge is live on the Kathy's Waffle Sketch File blog and as usual it's a goodun :)

I love this sketch and I used it for my DT card by turning it on it's side.

I used paper from the First Edition Hideaway pad and the sentiment is from a Debbi Moore stamp set.

We would love it if you could join us for our challenge this month.

I am entering my card into the following challenges

C.R.A.F.T challenge Celebration
My Time To Craft Your Favourite Embellishment (mine are flowers and ribbon :))
Pollycraft Challenge Blog BINGO I chose the first vertical line - Ribbon, sparkle and flowers
Anything Goes Challenge Blog Anything Goes

Thanks for looking and we look forward to seeing what you come up with.

The winners

The overall winner of the free papers Funky Kraft Stash and Steam Funk is Totty Teabag so well done. You will need to contact Anice to sort out your prize. The answer, by the way, was varnished.

The winner of my little notebook is Kath- The Reluctant Blogger

I will get it in the post in the morning Kath.

Sewing box

My prize from Craftseller arrived on Friday and it is abolutely fabulous and oh so posh :) I had great fun sorting out my sewing stuff and throwing away the Quality Street tin! lol

Isn't it just lovely :)

Less Is More

Why are simple one layer or no layer cards so scary to make? I find it far easier to chuck papers at my cards and hide bits with ribbon or flowers or something :)) having said that I do like the more simple cards rather than cluttered and I really, really stuggle with distressing and things like shabby chic although I do like to see that sort of thing, I just can't do it!

I'm pleased with this card after the initial shock of stamping and colouring straight onto my card blank lol I even got the chalks out to colour it as I didn't want my Promarkers seeping through to the back of the card.

The image stamp is by Elzybells (no longer trading which is such a shame)
sentiment stamp - Papermania
chalks
tiny gems on the flowers - Anita's

I'm entering this card into the challenges
Less Is More where the subject ONE LAYER CARD, with the subject of BIRDS and

Daring Cardmakers where Zuzana would like

MIRACULOUS SOCIAL NETWORKS

dare for you.
I would like to see Facebook, Twitter, Skype, You Tube ... on your cards.

You can use funny sentiments, colour scheme, fonts, style, layout or PC image.

This is the start of my first week catching up from distasterous week last week. My chest is still very sore and my ribs hurt from coughing but I have quite a few things to do. I have another couple of cards to make today as they need to be in the post asap, a fascinator to start and a couple coming this afternoon to discuss their wedding stationery....another lovely day.
Thanks for looking.

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.