Ooh La La.....

Morning peeps hope you all had a lovely weekend, at least the sun shone for a couple of hours yesterday in fact I managed to sit outside for half an hour before another black cloud came over, so I spent the afternoon finishing off my cutain pelmet which was 10 metres before I ruched it up......that took some machining, but now its up and I can now play with my new toy that hubby brought me for decorating the dining room, I promised myself I'd only play with my new Zutter machine after I'd finished otherwise I'd get distracted....well you couldn't blame me could you?

Today sees the start of another challenge at Ooh La La Creations, the theme is......WHISKERS. For my card I have used the sweet mice weddng image from the new Cd, which has lots of lovely designs on for all occassions.

have a fabbie week
hugs n smiles

Sugar Creek Hollow....

Afternoon fellow crafty bloggers, firstly thank you for your kind and supportive words, they are of a great comfort, also a big hello and wave to my newest followers, hopefully I'll catch up with everyone on Sunday when I have a whole day to myself.....phew sure do need it.
Todays challenge at Sugar Creek Hollow is.....Summer Days, which can be interpreted how you want, think beach, summer flowers, and rain.....lol. Don't forget that we want to see your vintage or shabby chic style for our challenges.

For my card I have used holiday as my inspiration. I have used the Dark Room Door Venice collection stamps for the main image, the suitcase is a B Line stamp and the the images on the film strip are from Crafty Individuals, talking of which they have some new stamps out including large clock faces, birds and lace stamps, I just need to get time to play with them all.The image I coloured with H20s and stamped images onto the back ground paper.

Hugs n smiles
P.S....at least I can start knitting again now I know I'm having another Grandson, hopefully that will help with the diet....lol

Polka Doodles.........

Morning peeps, apologies again for not getting round to many blogs again this week, things seem to take over any free time that I have and I have had another stressful week with two breavements on our in laws side of the family and taking Mum again for assessment, we are trying to sort out a Power of Attorney and its been so hard having to watch Mum go through them testing her recall memory and watching the frustration on her face when she can't remember certain things, hopefully things will stabalize after her medication kicks in.....just need things to get on an even keel again.
On the good side my daughter is having another boy so Ethan will have a baby brother to play with comes December, well he might have to wait abit longer before he can play with him.

Today sees the start of another challenge at Polka Doodles and the the challenge this week is to make a gift card, I just love the sweet bumble bee image on the Sugarplum Daisy Cd so I've enlarged the image and the layered it up adding glitter to the wings and flower, then I made a tag to pop into the front pocket which you can add a gift card to.

Here comes the rain again just as I'm about to set off to work......yay I love paddling in water....lol
hugs n smiles

Cup cake.....

Morning peeps I'm showing you another quick and easy card using the delicious cup cake image.....yummy. I used the background paper from the Home Collection on the Picknix Cd, I also layered up the heart, cupcake on top of the background paper and then printed off another two cupcakes so that I could layer these up on top of the original, I added micro beads and star dust stickles for the icing and voila a delicious yummy card, all I had to do then was add a bow, faux stitching and candy.
Hope you enjoy it and its calorie free.....lol.

hugs n' smiles

Sketch n Stash...........

Morning peeps I'm like a bus this weekend, I don't post for a week and then its three posts all at the same time, well three in two days which is a bit of a record for me. I had a lovely day at the class yesterday with Lin Brown doing lots of painting and stencilling and bumping.....not done that before but I shall certainly be doing it again. I can't show you the fininshed project yet as I didn't quite finish mine so I've got some homework to do....lol, however I can you show my card for this weeks challenge at Sketch n Stash.

The sketch this week is by our fellow teamie ........Gemma

we are sponsered by Kenny K for this one and the winner gets to choose 5 digis



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For my card I chose shopping Madison to colour in, I have tried to give her a shabby chic look by distressing the edges of the papers which are from First Edition Daydream, the rolled flowers I aded a gem to the centre of them and added doodled lines.

Challenges.....
Crafty Calender.....flowers.
Crafty cardmaker....make your own flowers.
By The Cute and girly......a day at the .....shops
allsorts.....flowers
hugs n smiles
catch up with you all later

Studio 12.....

If you haven't heard about the new blog Studio 12 pop over here to take a peek, every day there is something new from the team including altering, scrapbooking and card projects. Nikky from Polkadoodles has designed a new collection called Picknix, now I have to hold my hand up and say I am not really confident with digital Hybrid crafting, in fact I am a beginner but not to be deterred I thought I would give it ago, now the great things with this Cd is that you can layer up and then print or print off different elements and then layer up adding your own embellishments, there are papers, digi images, cutting files, embellishments and sentiments on the CD. I have to say I just lurvvvvve the papers. I distressed the edges of this paper from The Home Collection on the Cd using Tea Dye distress ink and machine doodled stitched the edges, then I just added roses, pearls and a ribbon to finish off.....oh I forgot to tell you there is Candy as well for one lucky person.

Ready Teddy Go.......

Morning peeps....yay we had a day without rain yesterday (well most of it) in fact we were quite busy selling ice creams. I'm at a class today with Lin Brown who is teaching at The Bead Scene in Pottersbury near Towcester. I went there on Wednesday with hubby, Ethan and my Mum, I just wanted to see how far it was before I drove there myself, there is a sweet old fashioned cafe there and we had afternoon tea which consisted of scones, cream and jam served on a cake stand with fresh stawberries, grapes and kiwi fruit, all the bone china teacups, plates and saucers didn't match which added to the charm and the tea pots had hand knitted tea cosies on them......how sweet.

Well its the First of July and the start of a new challenge at Ready Teddy Go, this month the theme is .....UP UP AND AWAY, you can interpret this anyway you want but your project must include a Teddy.

Our sponsers this month is Mei Flower who have donated this fabbie bag of stash.

I have used Teddy Bea blowing bubbles,coloued in with Prismas, I used papers from First Edition......

Challenges
Paper Shelter....punches or dies.
Poodle Parlour......cute and cuddly.
Sweet Stampin'......scallops.
Crafts 4 eternity.....bears
Ribbon Girl.....girly

Sugar Creek Hollow.........

Afternoon peeps hope you are all still afloat after the down pour we had the other day, think this summer will be on record as the wettest, just wish the sun would peek out and brighten up the day. Well I had a few days off and I must say it wasn't the best mini holiday I have had, spent most of it running back and forth from hospital, doctors and dentists. Found out that Mum has the same problem as myself with an under active Thyroid which also explains some of her symptoms for being tired all the time. Then on Thursday I had my PDR which I hate anyway and I was so upset that some one (presumabbly a member of staff) has made a remark about me that has gone on my PDR as part of I could do better section, that had me in tears for the best part of the day, now I've got to go back and put on a happy face......

.....Anyway enough of my ramblings at Sugar Creek Hollow this week we have the theme of .....VINTAGE CHILDREN, being as we are being sponsered by TLC Creations.......they gave us an image to play with which reminds me of the old Janet and John books that I had to learn to read with when I was little.

The winner gets $10 to spend in store

I printed the image on linen textured card and coloured it in using promarkers and prisma pencils, I then sprayed with Crafters Companion shine spray and then wiped Tea Dye distress ink over the top, wiping off the excess. The papers are from Prima and fit the theme perfectly.

Challenges
Party Time Tuesday......anything goes.
Bearly MIne.....anything goes.
Creative Inspirations.....anying goes.
Fab n Funky....cute and girly.
Creatalicious.....anything goes.
Charisma ....anything goes
Chocolate Coffee and cards......anything goes.
Totally Papercrafts.....use a digi

Hugs n' smiles

Ooh La La challenge

Morning peeps hope you all had a lovely weekend despite the rain here again in Blighty,I'm off this week.....yay, I was kinda hoping for some sun when I booked my holiday, but I guess I'll be doing some more decorating, this time my sons room.Although I have still got to shorten some curtains.


This morning sees the start of another challenge at Ooh La la creations, the theme this fortnight is .....MYSTICAL MAGIC....a great theme I think for fairies, wizards and magic cards. For mine I used the CD called Fairies and Blooms all of the elements and papers are on this cd, love the deep purple and teal colour combo.







Challenges
Delicious Doodles.....1,2 3 recipe, I image, 2 rosettes and three papers.
C.R.A.F.T....purples, pink and green.
Creative Card Crew....1,2,3 recipe, 1 image, 2 rosettes and 3 papers

Got to take Mum to the hospital today for an MRI scan, shes getting very fretful but after this I hope that is all the tests that she has got to have.
hugs n smiles

Our Creative Corner...........

Two posts in one day, you'll be geting fed up of me but I just had to share this card with you as I was asked a while back to be a guest designer at Our Creative Corner, and the theme that they asked me to join in with is .....DECADE.... as one of the ladies is celebrating her 10th wedding anniversary. So the challenge is to use ten of something or use the number 10, I decided to make a card that could either be for a wedding anniversary or a wedding and I used 10 hearts on this card, some are stamped,others are embellishments or part of the design. The background heart stamp is from Crafty Individuals.This is the first time I've done an 8x8 card and it took some filling up but its a great size for collage cards which I love doing.

Sugar Creek Hollow.....

Afternoon peeps,hopefully you are all having a rain free day, today sees the start of another challenge at Sugar Creek Hollow.....the theme this week is CIRCLES, I thought I'd try stamping on calico with Archival ink and then colouring the image in with Promarkers, if you just dab on the colour rather than brush it on it doesnt run in the threads of the fabric, the image is a B Line stamp, I used Dark Room Door Parisienne stamps for the word Paris and the Eiffel tower.The doiley behind the top circle was spritzed with glimmer mist and then stamped with a text stamp





Challenges
The Stampman.....time or travel.
Stampin' for the weekend.....show us your style (love vintage)
Crafty Ribbons....CAS.
Delightful challenges....anything goes.
Paperplay.....use a die.
Divas by Design.....use a die.
Try it on Tuesday.....anything goes.

Hugs n smiles

Polkadoodles......

Morning peeps I won't go on about the weather as its unbelievable other than to say I have started to collect wood incase I need to build a boat. Yesterday we went to the garden centre for a coffee and ended up buying a patio table, chairs and parasol, they will all end up inside the house again along with the sunlounger I brought a few weeks back, we might get to use them next year.......lol.

The challenge theme this week at Polkadoodles is.....TROOPING THE COLOUR, basically we want to see lots of different colours, my card is about as colourful as it goes, the papers and images are from the Sugarplum Daisy Cd, the bird and sweetie bumble bee are on wobblers so that they ......wobble.



Challenges
Craft your passion......folds

Oh well better get ready for work and battle my way through the rain.
hugs n smiles

Sketch n Stash.....

Morning and many thanks for all your lovely comments of support, first time I've looked forward to a new week, lets hope that this one is a vast improvement on last weeks.....mind you my Grandson keeps a smile on my face, hes going through the Why stage and after an exhaustive list of whys he comes up with a little quip that has us in stitches.

Today sees the start of a new challenge at Sketch n Stash and this week you get to chose which sketch you want to follow from a long list.....you must say which sketch that you are following though, cos we check....lol

We also have a sponser this week Dis digis



The winner gets to chose 5 digis

For my sketch I chose one I did awhile back and used papers from Papermania as my old stash. I stamped these Fizzy Moon cute bears with Memento and coloured in with Promarkers, on top of the punched heart border I put pearl heart embellishments, the heart die is by Joy.







Oh well I'm off today so I'm hoping too get the decorating fininshed that I have had on the go for the last few weeks.....I actually find it quite relaxing to do. I hoping to start my Sons room next week, one of these days I'll put my feet up ..........lol
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