Tag...

She made me do it! She really did! She told me I had to make and send her a tag when I returned her disk and camera memory card that my DH recovered the corrupt piccies from, but I didn't have time, so I made one to send on later and surprise her with!


Hope she liked it! HAHA!!

Materials:
Tag: Stationery store.
White/holographic card: A14 Paper & Board.
Printed strip of paper: Cosmo Cricket.
Chipboard letter: Making Memories.
Ink: Promarkers.
White Pen: Sakura.
Gems: Patti's pretties.
Glossy Accents.
Flowers: Prima.
Brad: Stash.
Doodling pen: Sakura.

Inspirational Card Sketches #25

I love Dawn's sketch this week over on Inspirational Card Sketches.

The girls on the Design Team have come up with some fantastic work too. If you pop over and have a look I just know you won't be disappointed!

Inspirational Card Sketches #24

I hope you got the chance to visit Inspirational Card Sketches this week and played along with the challenge with myself and the rest of the Design Team.

This was the card that I made...


Materials:
White pearlescent 6" square card.
White/holographic backing card: A14 Paper & Board.
Pink spotty card: 3 bugs in a rug.
Rectangular flower strip: Cosmo Cricket.
Shaped diecut paper: Tesco gift bag.
Greeting: Cosmo Cricket.
Button: Stash.
Fineline pen: Stabilo.

Rosie-Dee's Challenges - No.42

This week's sneaky peek for Rosie-Dee's looks a little like this...


Please pop on over to the blog where you'll find some fantastic work from the very talented Design Team.

I've been colouring with my Promarkers

I'm loving my new Promarkers at the mo.

The image came from Lily-Boo's Boutique who very kindly sponsored us on Inspirational Card Sketches a couple of weeks back.

I printed her out larger than I orginally planned for my Design Team card (A4 in fact!) and then wondered what to do with her. So, after I got my Promarkers, I hunted her out of my box and coloured her in!


She's not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, and I'm sure there are very many, far more talented, Promarker artists than I am out there, but I like her, and she's mine!

Just got to think what to do with her now... any suggestions?

Just a couple...

Remember the photos of Jacob & Freya I posted a few days back? Well I wanted to use them large to create a couple of scrapbook pages. I think that sometimes bigger really is better! HAHA! So I came up with these...




Thanks for this little 'FREYA' embellishment Tracey, I've been keeping it for that special LO which I think I've found!

I even got the Promarkers out and had my first go on acetate!

Materials:
Cream & White Bazzill.
1st LO - Embellishments - Amy Butler.
Stamp: Tim Holtz.
Inkpad: Stazon.
Title: Created and cut on the Craft Robo.
Tab: Cut on Sizzix.
Gems: Stash.
Pink diecut paper: Tesco giftbag.
Scallop punch: Fiskars.
Fineline pen: Stabilo.
2nd LO - Bling swirls: Prima 'Say it with Crystals'
Brads: Stash.
Journalling spot: BasicGrey Rub on.
Floral corner: Acetate from Heidi Swapp.
Pens: Letraset Promarkers.
Fineline pen: Stabilo.

Nowt better than a sort out!

I am in the process of organising my lappy as I'm running VERY short on space. All my photos are therefore moving to my external hard drive.

While doing this, I found these....



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They're all made from a wallpaper sample book that Elaine had - gorgeous to work with and so good for covering notebooks too.

I'd forgotten I'd made these AAAAAGESSSSSSS

These 4 were made with my favo Sticky backed plastic from Fablon!

Inspirational Card Sketches #24

Here's my sneaky for this week's challenge on Inspirational Card Sketches...

The DT have come up with some truly awsome work this week, and we'd love to see you there. It would be great if you could join in with the challenge too!

x

How gorgeous?!

These two are my wonderful children...



Both Will and I are SOOOOO very proud of them both. They have impeccable manners MOST of the time and have never let us down when out in public. They are bright, intelligent, articulate, love the outdoors, eat well and enjoy exercise.

And I loves them both more than life itself.

But, they're growing up far too quickly. Where did my babies go? Who substitued them for a teenager and a gorgeous young lady? Huh?

Answers on a postcard please! LOL

Summer Fayre at School

We held our first every summer fayre at Freya's school on Saturday. The sun shone for us which is always a blessing especially with a British summer, eh?

(You may remember me asking for help {here} a couple of weeks back). Well, the lovely Karen and Nicki were kind enough to send me some goodies to use with the children on my make and take cardmaking stall. The stickers that you both sent to me went down an absolute STORM. So much so in fact that they all but decimated my stock as well as the loads that you sent down. They were all so creative and had such a great time. Anyhoo... the stall raised £16 for the school.

Our goal was to raise £400 which we thought would be a realistic amount for our first event. We only formed our Parents Association in April of this year and to hold our first event just over 2 months later, we think was a fantastic achievment.

We raised....... £1026.87 and we think that there is still more to come in. Just how amazing is that figure? We couldn't have done it, of course, without the help and support of some of the parents, teachers and teaching assistance at the school, not to mention our dinner ladies. The hubbies were fantastic, helping out where needed too (beat the goalie, slam dunk basket ball, photography etc). We even managed to get the most amazing Zac Effron look a like and (even though before I Googled him, I didn't know exactly who Zac Effron was - sorry!) he was an amazing likeness. The girls (and some of the boys) queued to have their photos taken with him. We managed to get over 200 people through the gates in the 3 hours that we held the Fayre. Even the Police and the Fire Brigade arrived with their vehicles. We've now got to think of what else we can do to keep the momentum going... any ideas?

Inspirational Card Sketches #23

Well, you've had your sneaky of this weeks Inspirational Card Sketch #23 so here for your pleasure (or pain!) is the whole card.

What d'ya think?



Materials:
White 5 1/4" square card.
Lime paper: 3 Bugs in a Rug (reverse)
Pink scalloped card is velvet cardstock cut with my Fiskars Clouds scissors.
Image was from a stamp swap and coloured with my new toys... PROMARKERS!!!
Ribbon from a gift bag.
Gems: Patti's Pretties.
Buttons: Stash.
Stamp: Adornit.
Inkpad: Stazon.

Wedding Anniversary

I'm having a bit of a catch up as I've not done any proper posting for a few days. All the new stuff had been scheduled as I knew I'd be really busy this past week & weekend.

Anyhoo.... Will and I celebrated our 21st Wedding Anniversary on Thursday. 21 years married!!! Can you believe it, I must have been all of 7 when I walked down the aisle by my estimate (I wish, HAHA!) We celebrated being together as a couple for 25 years in April of this year.

We've grown up together, become parents together and (hopefully) will grow old together too.

I luvs him ya know! Except that the git wrote my anniversary card all in French and made me translate it if I wanted to know what it all meant! What an old romantic!
x

Rosie-Dee's Challenges - No.42

It's a new month, therefore it's a new theme over on Rosie-Dee's. Not only that but our FANTASTIC Design Team join us for the very first time! We are in awe of their talent and thank the 8 of them for wanting to join us.

We also see our very first ever Guest Designer for the month of July. Lots of you will know her work, but to see exactly WHO it is, you'll have to pop over and see this talented lady's work for yourself!

The challenge over on Rosie-Dee's this week was to use the colours of Black & White. I had a wedding card to do and thought that this would be an unusual colour combo to use.


Materials:
White A5 card.
Black card: The Works.
White fineline pen: Sakura.
Fine black pen: Stabilo.
White/black flocked sticky backed plastic: Fablon.
Ribbon: Ribbon Mad.
Butterfly: Die cut on the Craft Robo.
Flowers: Prima.
Brad: Stash.

Can you help please...?

This post will remain at the top of my blog until 4th July. Please scroll down to see new posts. Thank you.

I am a member of the Danesholme Junior School Parents Association in Corby. We are holding our first ever Summer Fayre on Saturday 4th July in order to raise funds for the school.

What I'd like to ask all those lovely crafters out there is for a little help please. Can you donate any cards or gifts that we could sell to raise those much needed funds?

I'm running a craft stall and also a 'make and take' stall for the children to have a go at crafting their own cards, so anything such as peel offs and basic crafting items like embellishments that you no longer use/need would be VERY MUCH APPRECIATED.

Please Email Me for further information or for my address to send your kind donations to.

Thank you so much for your time taken to read my message and thank you to those who help out.

X

HUGE thanks go to Karen and Nicki for their kind and extremely generous donations of the following:

Karen:


Nicki:

Look what we grew...

We've taken a bit of mum and dad's garden over for a veggie plot so that we can eat the fruits (well, ok, the veggies) of our labour. It's not a huge plot in the scheme of the size of mum and dad's garden and how much dad grew when we were kids, but it'll provide enough food for mum and dad and us to enjoy.

Mum and dad were away at the weekend, so I went down to do some weeding and to liberate some veggies for dinner and came back with these...




There were more than 3 pea pods, honest! But I LOVE raw peas straight from the pod so I snaffled them ;-)

Not only did I come home with loads of taters, I got carrots, peas, radishes and 2 HUGE courgettes too! (these'll be used in some yummy roast veggies this week). AND... I boiled some fresh beetroot that I pulled. These are now sitting in vinegar pickling away! Can't wait!

We had the veg with a cabbage that dad cut for me in the week. Home grown, organic and wonderfully tasty! Can't beat it!

Ooh, do you like my arty piccies btw? HAHA

Inspirational Card Sketches #23

Dawn's sketch this week over on Inspirational Card Sketches is fab!! Dead easy to follow and loads of ways to interpret it!

You need to go over and check it out and have a go, you really do!


As usual, here's your sneaky peek... the 'full monty' is on the ICS Blog!

You still here? Get over there and see the amazing work that the DT have come up with! See you there!

x

Bridal Shower mini book

I made this little paper bag book for a lovely lady called Kate that was marrying her very handsome young man, Joe. Kate's boss very kindly held a bridal shower at her house so that we could all send Kate on her merry way to wifey-dom!

Kate is just starting out on her crafty journey and she made all her own invitations etc. So, to help her remember her evening, I made her this little paper bag book...















Anne (our fabulous hostess and creator of the most fabulous food and to die for deserts!) had arranged some great games for us to play.

We each had to wrap up a little pressie that began with our first names. Kate had to guess what was inside each parcel.

We had to take with us a recipe that began with our surname.

Kate was dressed in an apron with loads of small kitchen utensils attached to it. We had 2 minutes to memorise the apron, then write them down.

One game I was REALLY surprised at was getting points for various contents of your handbag. Now, I thought I carried loads of crud in my bag, but some of these girls..... They totally wiped me out on the points scale I can tell you! There were one or two ladies there that may have broken the 'carry on' baggage limit on a plane! LOL.

My boss, Lea (aka can't cook won't cook!) was made to give a pastry making demo, much to our hilarity. Can't say that anyone wanted to eat it but it did look sort of ok, and judging by Kate playing with it, it must have felt ok too!

We all had such a wonderful evening together.

I've been lucky enough to see some of Kate's wedding photos and she looked totally stunning. Kate and Joe got married at Kelmarsh Hall in totally amazing surroundings on a gloriously sunny day!

Wishing them many, many happy years ahead of them.

Promarkers

I have seen so many wonderful creations recently using Promarkers that I had to dig out one that I received free on a magazine quite a while back to have a play with.

They're pretty good, so I treated myself using a 20% off voucher that was emailed to me from Letraset.com

I bought myself the mixed pack of 12 Promarkers and a blender pen, then sat back and impatiently waited for them to arrive, and arrive they duly did on Friday. Never one to let sleeping dogs lie, I got to work straight away and played colouring in some images that I got quite a while back on an image swap.

These are what I created...


Yes, yes, I know I have a LONG way in the using of Promarkers properly stakes. But as a first attempt...? I'm bloody impressed guys I can tell ya!

You may just be seeing some more coloured creations from me. I've been watching tutorials on Youtube and also on the Passion for Promarkers blog too.

Inspirational Card Sketches #22

So Miss Moneypenny... my card this week that I made for Inspirational Card Sketches looked like this...


Such fantastic digi stamp images to work with from Lily-Boo Boutique. Loved them. Even layered them up - woo hoo me! HAHA!

Materials:
White A5 card.
Papers: Cosmo Cricket - Honey Pie.
Digi Stamp image: Lily-Boo Boutique.
Ribbon: Ribbon Mad.
Butterfly: Craft Robo.
Watercolour Pencils: Derwent Aquatone.
Flowers: Prima.
Buttons: Stash.
Glitter: Stickles.
Stamp: Autumn Leaves.