Halloween

Are you getting spooked yet with Halloween coming up!! I hope my grandkids will be with this card I made them, especially delivered by granddad too, (it will be hidden till the spooky day arrives) Brian has to go to the UK for his treatment on Wednesday and they have no idea he will be there when they get home from school, so a big surprise for them.

The images and tickets are from Whimsy, don’t you just love this little girl or should I say witch ! and the cauldron pot with glitter bubbling away, something brewing I think lol. 

Close up of the verse

I have entered the following challenges:

Stamp for the Weekend – Halloween / Fall

Stamp Something – Halloween Somethings

Glitterbabes – Halloween

One Stop Craft Challenge – Halloween

Digital Tuesday – Stitching – Faux or Real

Paper Cutz – Anything Goes

Thanks for looking at my creation and have a lovely Sunday.

Male Easel Card

Male easel card for you today and I have to say I do find male cards a bit challenging but with this LOTV image (yes another LOTV image lol) I found this one quiet ease to make for a change, I have several brothers who go fishing so I am sure this one will come in handy.

The green paper is from Basic Grey and the brown diamond is from my scrap box, lucky for me it happen to have the name on which is a good thing as I could not remember using this before lol, its from All My Memories.

The ticket comes from a new web site I found recently called Sentiments 4 You and the talented Lynne makes these and a great selection of other digital sentiments to download as well, this one is a freebie, she also has a blog candy going on at the moment.

Recipe for rest of the card:

Buttons – Stash
Dragonfly – Hobby Craft
Gems – Creative Cafe
Medium – Copic
Ribbon – Bo Bunny

Challenges I have entered

LOTV – Autumn

Charisma Cards – Autumn

Papertake – 3 of a Kind

Totally Papercrafts – Buttons and Bows

Stamp For The Weekend – Autumn Colours

Sir Stamp a Lot - Autumn, Buttons and a Bow(s)

Craftalicious - Anything Goes

Simon Say Stamp -  1 Image and 2 Patterned Papers, 3 Types of Embelishments.

Thanks for popping by my place its so good to see you and also read your comments, I do appreciate it.
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Christmas with LOTV

Hi All
Today for a change we went for lunch to Trader Vic’s as him in doors fancied sitting in nice surroundings near the sea, so I am writing this under the influence of Pina Colada’s and boy were they good and Brian even managed a beer and the food was delish too, perfect day.

Good job I finished the card this morning or it might have ended up a little wobbly a bit like me really lol.



LOTV don’t you just love these images? I know I do and this one is especially a favourite of mine, I knew I had to have this one as soon as it was brought out. I gave her lots of stickles, glossy accents and gel pen, plus distressed the paper with a bit of Timmy. I also got to use some of my new stash I brought back from the UK, ribbon, flowers, bling, charm and pin, so delish and just perfect for Christmas.

I have entered some challenges:

All Sorts – Song, Walking The Dog by Rufus Thomas

Secret Crafter – Distressing

Basic Grey – Sparkle

Bah - Humbug – Cuties

Glitterbabe – Anything Goes

Recipe

Papers - Basic Grey

Image - LOTV
Medium – Pro Markers
Sparkle – Stickles, White Crystals, Sakura Gel Pen
Charm – Bunny Zoe’s
Sentiments – Computer
Ribbon – Joy Crafts

Shine – Glimmer Mist, Glossy Accents

Poinsettia Flowers – Orchid Crafts

Distressing Ink – Timmy, Antique Linen
Pin – Hobby House
Gems – Kaban

Thanks for popping by my place and I hope you all have a good night, see you all later.

Hugs

Wedding Pictures and Challenges

Hi Everyone I have had a full week of getting the house in order and the usual boring things of doing when one gets back from away ie grocery shopping, cleaning and so forth and I am back to being in my craft room and ready for some challenges.

First I would like to congratulate Papertake Weekly Challenge on being NUMBER ONE in the Crafting Blogs Wooohoooo how fab is that and well deserved, as there challenges are fantastic and very varied.

It also happens to be their 3rd birthday and they are holding a blog hop, go check that out and see what’s its all about. Their challenge for this occasion is to pick a favourite challenge from the last 3 years, now that’s a challenge as their are lots of my favourites in there.

I decided to go with Thank You from December 2009 challenge as I have lots of Thank You cards to make. I used a nessty to cut the image out and embossed round the edges, the flowers on her headband and dress I used a glitter copic pen the rest was coloured with Promarkers, flowers were glittered with Stickles, they are pale purple but they look black so do the gems in the corners and the bottom they are from Prima and the Punch is a MS.

The inside to match

I have entered it into a few challenges:



Papertake – Your choice from the last 3 Years

Die Cut Dreams - Recipe; 4 flowers, Gems, Emboss, I embossed my nesty & use a punch.

Spoonful of Sugar – Sparkle

Incy Wincy– Glitter and Sparkle

Basic Grey – Sparkle

Stamptacular - 5 Layers


Now a couple of wedding pictures, the first is of my hubby Brian and grandson Leandro.

Grandchildren together

Thanks for popping by my place its so good to see you and also read your comments, I do appreciate it. Have a good night all and I shall be round to see you later.

Hugs

It's good to be back

Hi everyone I hope all is well with you all and it's good to be back in blog land again.

I am now back home after my travels in the UK, first my news, Brain and I went to see the specialist and we got good news (about time too) his cancer has stabilized for the time being that’s really good news that we needed, he still has to have therapy but it seems to be working this time and if all goes ok he does not have to see him again until next year.

He will be monitored here in Bahrain for any changes, so darn happy things have finally changed direction and fingers crossed it stays that way, all we have to do now is get some weight on him as he lost 23 kilos, so out come the yummy cakes.

Our son’s wedding went great and I will post some pictures later, we all had a good time and to see all the family and friends again was fantastic, oh plenty of bubbly too.

I did lots of shopping with my friend who we stay with and she even took me to the Ally Pally for the craft fair, ohh spent far too much there but it was so tempting so I gave into my temptation, as you do, now this does not take a lot for me to give in lol I have the will power of a jelly fish as DH would say, all I can say is good job we had a good baggage allowance :-) 80 kilo all together and I had 79 of it lol, I so loved that day.

More of my antics later in the week so now onto my card, I have been making cards for a Breast Cancer coffee morning that my friend is holding on Sunday
and this is one of them using my new stamp from LOTV and coloured with promarkers my new best friends.

The inside I have used a new MS punch, love this punch.

I have entered into some challenges:

Papertake – Sketch

Creative Card Crew – Flowers

Cup Cake – Pink and Brown

Stamp Something – Celebrate


Thanks for popping I do appreciate your visits, I will see you all later as I have a lot of catching up to do with my blog hopping.

Please note my new email address, top left of the page, I had to change it, I had been hacked and someone was sending emails from my address.

Hugs

Sunny in London

Hi my blogging buddies, I hope your all crafting like mad and enjoying your day. I am in London and the sun is shining which makes a change from the rain we have had since I got here.
My friend here has just got a new cabin in her garden, for here crafting, its just beautiful and I am helping her put all her goodies away, ohhh I want to get crafting lol.
I am going to Yorkshire tomorrow for a little hol to see my mum and other family and we are both looking forward to it.
Brian is doing very well and the doctors are very pleased with his progress and we are pleased and happy, it also gives you an uplift and things look brighter.

I will be round later to see what you have been creating, all for now.

Hugs

Going back to the UK again for a little while

Hello my blogging friends

No card today as I have beena bit busy packing to go back to the UK tomorrow plus I had work men in doing the AC’s that broke down, 3 of them in all, so my craft room has been out of action too.

I am having my carpets in the 3 bedrooms replaced with tiles while I am away so all personnel stuff ie clothes bit and bobs, a darn lot clothes and bits and bobs as I found out, had to be removed, I am now totally pooped and I still have packing to finish.

Unfortunately Brian has not been too well so I hope this next cemo we will see some results, he has his cemo again on Friday at the Royal Marsden and then 2 weeks later we go back for his scans to see if this cemo is working or not, I just pray we get positive news this time around and things will be on the up for a change.
We have our son's wedding to look forward too, I can not wait to see Brian in his top hat and tails, somehow I don't think that hat will stay on long :-)

I shall still pop round and see you all, be good while I am away ok sort of good then lol.

Hugs

Wedding

Hi to all and I hope your all having a good day.

I have now finished my sons wedding card and box and would like to show you my results. For the past two days I have been struggling with this wedding card, as it had to be just perfect. Sorry had trouble taking pictures, no matter how I tried I kept getting shadows or too much shine.


In the UK I bought these little creamy white flowers (the ones with the sparkly bit in the middle) and wanted to incorporate them into the design, well trying to get them to stay were I wanted was a nightmare, in the end I had to get the silicon glue out, then pack little objects round them till they set and I had to do the same on the box aggg I hate waiting and these had to be left overnight, but success it worked.

I also sprayed the flowers and paper with pearl glimmer mist and left to dry over night too. I added sparkle to wedding dress and tiara with a silver glitter pen also to the front of the dress and flowers I add tiny gem stones. This is on of Linnie's images and can be found Here




Close up of the flowers.






The box is one I had laying around which had green leafs on, I sanded it all down and covered it with white mulberry paper then covered it again in matching wedding paper from K and Co called Elegance and adorned it with the same flowers and pearls, a bigger size pearls as the little ones looked odd.

Close up of the flowers on the box

Together

I have entered the following challenges.

The box into Sir Stamp a Lot Challenge, which is Bring on the Bling.

Creative Card Crew – Sparkle and Shine


Hope you like my little creations and thank you popping over and looking.

Hugs

What a Day!

Hi All
What a day it is here! its hot and humid, thank goodness for the AC’s plus I got to ironing for 3 hours, how lucky am I lol. How many clothes can you use in 4 days!! well by my pile a darn lot and was I glad when it was over, treated my self and hubby to a nice cuppa and Raspberry and White choc muffins that had just come out of the oven, great timing that, so so yummy, bless! Brian could only eat half so I just had to finish it for him giggle.

In my craft room this afternoon I had a commission card to finish for a friend and this is the result, oh before I tell you about it, she has ordered four more just the same so I will be busy tomorrow, which I love (better than ironing) anyway I digress so back to the card I followed the sketch from Papertake Weekly Challenge which I loved doing, good job as there is another four to do, so thanks for a great sketch this week, it also happens to be one of my favourite images too which is by Pinkcat Studio.

I will list the rest of the ingredients for the card in the recipe section below, I don’t know if anyone reads this bit or if it is even helpful but a lot of my friends order cards they have seen here and at least I know what I used to make it as I can not always remember (age thing lol).




The inside I used the same papers and also a MS snowflake punch.

I have entered it into the following challenges:

Papertake Weekly – Sketch

Creative Card Crew – Sparkle and Shine

Spoonful of Sugar – Christmas

Susie and Vikki Christmas Club– Poinsettia



Recipe

Papers - Basic Grey
Image - Pink Cat Studio

Medium – H2o's -Shimmers, Angle Wings

Snowflakes Punch - M.S
Leaf Punch - Mcgill

Sparkle - Copic Pens and White Crystals

Charm – Hobby House

Sentiments – Computer

Pearls Ribbon – Stash
Shine – Glimmer Mist
Poinsettia Flowers – Fred She Said
Distressing Ink – Timmy, Old Paper


Thanks for popping by my place and I hope you all have a good night, see you all later.

Hugs

Quiet Day Today

Hi all,
Today has been a quiet day in the house as Brian is not feeling too well and I am trying to keep quiet in the house as he is in bed resting, this is just one of the effects of the cemo therapy, it makes him feel quiet sick and tired some days, I do feel for him and I wish there was more I could do but sleep is the best therapy.
Thank you to all for the emails and enquires into how Brian is feeling I really appreciate them.

I got to go to my craft room as house work is out of the question and I got a few images coloured, tided the room and made this card (craft room a mess again).




I used an image from Pollycraft called Codi and some new papers I have had for ages and not used, in fact I had forgotten all about them till I was tidying up, I also have flowers (flowers I have used on the card) and butterflies to match.

I distressed ever inch of paper with distressing ink, I love my new distressing tool I purchased can you tell lol, I added faux stitching then layered it all up with foam pads.


Onto the inside and out with my new tool again lol, told you I love it, I thought it lacked a bit of something so I added a punchy bit to the bottom and adorned some more of those flowers and now I like it.

I have entered some challenges

Pollycraft – Stitching – Faux or Real

Pink Elephant - Ribbon and Sparkle

Cup Cake - 2 Ribbon – 2 Papers - 2 flowers

Crafty CardMakers - Birthday

Recipe for this card:

Image - Pollycraft

Papers and Flowers - K and Co, Poppy Seed

Distressing Ink - Broken China, Tim Holtz

Distressing Tool - Tim Holtz

Medium - Pro Markers

Sparkle - Copic Glitter Pen

Sparkle Ribbon and other Ribbon - Joy

Faux Stitching - Copic Liner Pen

Punch - MS

Sentiment - Computer

Pins - Stash

Well that’s all for today and as Brian is still resting I am going round on a blog tour to see some of your creations. Thanks for popping by place today I do appreciate seeing you.

Hugs

Elephants in a Rush

Hi everyone.
Just a quick card tonight, the image is by Lyn from Spiders Corner, this was a little treat for us all who follower her and to celebrate her reaching 300 followers, congratulations Lyn on your followers.

If you fancy this image (who wouldn’t) just pop over to Lyn’s, I’m glad I did and I hope she will have another image soon, thank you Lyn.



Now I have to say I am not that good at elephants and I think its a bit too grey, but hey next time I shall just do the shading bit as I think that will work better.

Challenges for this card:

Crafy Catz – Animals

Basic Grey – Pearls

Totally Paper Craft – Rainbow

Recipe
Image – Lyn Spiders Corner
Papers – Basic Grey
Distressing Ink – Tim Holtz, Weathered Wood
Pearls – Hobby House
Medium – Water Colours
Glitter – Copic Pen
Ribbon – Joy
Sentiment – Computer
Corner Punch – EK


All for tonight and have a good night all.

Hugs

Hi Everyone I'm back again as I wanted you to see this beautiful candy from Tiet.
Now are these stamps just too cute or what !!! just right up my street, she also has the most amazing creations.


http://cardsbytiets.blogspot.com/2010/08/candy-time.html

All for now.

Hugs

Glitter Overload

Hi everyone and I hope you have all had a sparkly day like I have, as you can see from my card I have to show you, it’s rather sparkly and glittery, Stef from Glitterbabes would be proud of me with all this glitter lol.

I got a bit carried away once I got started hence glitter in my hair, all over my craft area and I don’t how I managed this!! I’v even got glitter in the kitchen, I wonder if Brian noticed any in his dinner tonight, if he did he kept very quiet about it.





I carried it through to the inside too, do you think I went a bit over board? errr me thinks so lol but I did have fun!.

I had so much fun I made a tag to match with the leftover’s

I did find some challenges to enter it into, thought I might struggle with the glitter overload.



Friday Sketchers - Sketch

Bah Humbug – Angels and Fairys

Christmas Stamping– 2 Designer Papers

Stamp Something – Fairy Tale Somethings. I interpret this as Christmas Fairy Wishes

Character Cafe – Bright Sparkly Card

Cup Cake Craft – Lace

Winter Wonderland – Tag It


Recipe for this card and Tag

Papers - Bo Bunny
Image - Christine Dark
Distressing Inks - Tim Holtz
Lace - Stash
Bling - Kaban
Sentiment - Computer
Leaf Punch - Mcgill
Medium - Copic, HO2
Glitter Pen - Sakura
Flowers or Snowflakes - K and Co
Glitter - Stampendous


Thanks for popping by my place its so good to see you and also read your comments, I do appreciate it. Have a good night all and I shall be round to see you later.

Hugs

Commision Card

Hi everyone.
I hope your all having a good week, I am as Brian is doing very well, just a bit tired today so no work for him, so while he slept I went off for coffee and cake (so yummy too) to a girl friends who wanted to purchase some of my cards.
To my surprise there was a couple of my other friends there too, it was so good to see them again after such a long time, plus the added bonus was they wanted to see my cards too.
I was so delighted that they loved my cards and as a result I got a few commissions and a few sales :-), so today’s card is a commission one for a friend who wanted a snowman on the front.




I also used the punch on the inside of the card but it’s hard to see the detail in this photo.


I have entered it into the following challenges.


Mojo Monday – Sketch

Cute Card Thursday – Open Theme

Die Cut Dreams Christmas Club – Snowmen

Crafty Card Makers – Punchy

Dutch Dare – Anything Goes


Recipe
Paper and Tree Rub on – Basic Grey
Image - Pink Cat Studio
Medium – HO2
Snowflakes and Border – MS Punch
Sparkle Copic Pens and Stickles
Bling – Kaban
Sentiments – Computer
Ribbon – Bo Bunny


Thanks for popping by my place and looking at my card and I shall see you all later.

Hugs

Commission Card

Hi Everybody It’s been a busy time at my end since I last spoke with you, Brian arrived from the UK on Wednesday night as is doing very well, I think the change of scenery has done him the world of good, he has good and bad days which is only to be expected but on the good days he goes into work for a couple of hours a day, although he does gets very tired, then we know its time for him to rest and take it easy, the time he is at work is good for him mentally too and to see everyone has given him a real boost.
The dear man also brought my computer back, yeh got my digital images, he also brought with him some of my crafting goodies and new stamps I had bought. The card I created last night is with one of the new stamps and is a commission card for a friend I hope she likes it.






Inside with the same colours

I have entered it into a few challenges.

Basic Grey – Pearls and I have used Basic Grey papers.

Glitterbabe – Colour combo of Purple, Pink and Black plus Sparkle.

Creative Inspirations – Recycle – The butterfly is from a card I received.

Kaboodle Doodles - Somthing Metal on your card.

Stamp Something – Photo Inspiration.

Pennys Challenge – Anything Goes.

Simon Says – Sing It – Fairy Godmother from the Shreik 2 film, sung by Jennifer Saunders.

Recipe I used for this card.

Papers -Basic Grey
Image – Lily of the Valley
Sparkle – Copic Glitter Pen and Stickles
Shine – Glossy Accents
Metal Butterfly – Recycled from another card
Medium – Water Colour Pencils and Copic Pens
Punch –Martha Stewart
Ink – Memento
Distressing Ink – Victorian Velvet by Tim Holtz
Pearls and Flowers – Prima
Brads and Spacer – Hobby House
Sentiment – Whiff of Joy
Verse inside – Circa Design

I hope you all have a good day and thank you for visiting me, I really appreciate your comments.

Hugs

Surprise

Hi all I had a nice surprise yesterday Linnie asked me to join her on her new challenge blog called Whoopsi Daisy using her fab images and I was delighted as I used to design for her before I had to go away, I had to give up all my design team post’s as I could not give the commitment I would have liked to do when I went away.

The bad news is I have to go away again at the end of this month as Brian’s cemo will be due and his scans, plus our son is getting married in September so I will not be back until the beginning October, I will be joining Whoopsi Daisy then and I am so looking forward to working with the super DT girls again, just to let you know the challenge over there is Blue and Green this month.


So onto my card, this one is for a friend of mine who has been a great support to me through Brian’s cancer and I wanted to make her something special, I have entered it into a few challenges.

Inside with matching papers


Challenges

Crafts 4 Eternity – Sketch and include Bird(s) and Pearls

Die Cut Dreams – Gingham

Creative Inspirations – Anything Goes

Lily Boo – Anything Goes

Sir Stamp a Lot – Bring on the Bling

Creative Card Crew - Cute and Girly

Thanks for popping by my place and have a really good day.

Recipe

Image – Fron Linnies Daisy Collection Sheet 52
Medium – Copic and Pro Markers
Inks - Tim Holtz
Bling – Prima and Hobby House
Papers - K @ Co Paper Pack – Poppy Seed
Ribbon – Bo Bunny
Flowers – Hobby Craft
Pin and Charm – Hobby House
Sparkle – Copic Glitter Pen

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Fantastic Candy

Jak’s is have a fabulous Blog Candy, it will run for 1 week and then she will choose a winner on Sunday 8th August at 10pm, so what could you win?


Beautiful images too

Keeping my fingers crossed