A quick Xmas tag!

I used another one of my coloured images from my little stock (thank goodness I had done a few in advance!) to make up a quick Xmas tag for this week's Tag You're It challenge!

"Hello again folks ... now I don't know about you, but I need mince pies and Christmas carols to get me in the mood for the festive season ... but each year, I leave my card and tag making to the very last minute and end up rushing them!! So, in an effort to get a little more organised and get you into thinking about Christmas before you end up in a last minute panic our challenge this week is to make a Christmas tag!"

Not happy with it, I like the image and the colours but not pleased with the overall look of the tag...never mind. I am sure I will be happy of it when I am rushing around like a lunatic the week before Xmas!

Cold as Ice!

I have completely lost my mojo today, I have dillied and dallied nearly all day not really able to settle into anything. Shuffled a few papers around, then put them away again. I have so many ideas in my little head but just enough time to really put any of them into action. At least the weather was kind enough to let the children have a little bit of time out in the garden this afternoon...it's like monsoon weather again now!

Whilst the children were out on the trampoline I gathered up my pencils and a few images and I sat and coloured.......very relaxing...well as relaxing as it can be with 2 children bouncing around and screaming at the top of their voices!

This evening I have made up a card for this weeks Tilda & Co Challenge using 2 of the images:

The sun is now drifting away very fast and soon it will be as cold as ice....
Using the colours Blue & white Only . Show us how cold your projects can feel this week.

I used the round sentiment download from the Dottie & George Xmas collection!

A quick challenge card!

I had so many idea for this week's Cat challenge over on My Time to Craft but I simply ran out of time to do much about them. Instead I resorted to using one of my "here's one I made earlier" images that I had already in my little box.

Not really happy with the colours on this, I struggled to find the right tones to match the paper!

A Friday Sketchers card!

Had to make a card for MIL today so I decided to use this week's sketch over on Friday Sketchers.

..and MORE blog candy!!!

Congratulations Sammi who has just achieved 5000 blog hits!! Well done!

She is having a bit of a blog party and has some candy up for grabs, go and have a look!

Dottie Goes- Pink, Pink, Pink!!

Over on Dotties World this week the challenge is PINK, PINK, PINK!

"Right, this week Karen wants us to go pink pink pink with our cards, she also wants us to add a bit of glam in the form of beads, jewels and/or charms you can use just one or loads it's up to you as long as your main colour is pink and you USE ONE OF THE CHARMED DOWNLOADS."

I decided to go for a "Pink Christmas" and had such fun colouring the images...I have coloured in a few extras so they are all ready in my little box for a "quick make card!" I was a bit dissappointed with Dotties wellies though, once I made them all glossy with my glossy accents they looked a bit too red for my liking. I had such fun with the Xmas tree from the Xmas Downloads collection. I paper pieced it by printing onto green card, pierced holes in each of the baubles and then spent a very relaxing time sewing on each of the little seed beads....I will HAVE to do more of these in different sizes..I just love the texture of it...and it make use of the huge amount of sead beads I have!!!!

MORE blog candy!!

Take a look over at Juliet's Paper Place there are some wonderful goodies up for grabs!

Up bright and early...

....well early anyway! The weather may be bright (for now with fingers crossed) but I am feeling rather groggy with a rotten, croaky throat.

Chris left at around 5.30 this morning as he has a meeting in Ferndown....so like a MAD,MAD woman, I got up with him, put on the dishwasher, washing machine and had a cup of tea and rather than go back to bed and make the most of the children being asleep....I got up and finished making a quick card for the Penny Black Saturday Challenge. I don't have that many Penny Black stamps...YET...but I do have two old ones that I got from another crafter a good while back! Yes more stamps that have sat in a drawer for years before I was confident enough to try basic stamping!

LOL...I think this stamp is great for men's cards and it fitted the sketch lovely.

Better make breakfast now, I have a busy day; going to the garage with my dad to get his car checked out, then lunchtime I have an appointment at the Opticians with Amelia.

And what have I achieved today...

...LOL......Not a lot!

I have made two cards...here is one of them-my attempt at this weeks Friday Sketchers Challenge. I used another one of my bargain £2 Sugar Nellie stamps and a tiny little flower stamp (unknown) that a lovely crafter sent me ages ago. Hmmmm now I am getting into my stamping, me thinks I may need for swirly florishy stamps next!

Blog candy alert, blog candy alert!!!

Look what Karen has got up for BLOG CANDY!!!!!! ........drool...what fabby papers!!! A gal can NEVER have enough paper!

Tilda ATC- Summer

After having a few days in panic mode over Design team work and stressing if my work is OK I decided to take a little "time out" today and just play. I used my new little foxy stamp earlier and I have just made an ATC for the "Seasons" Challenge over on Tilda & Friends ATC Challenge.

I have used 4 images I had already stamped and cut around, quickly made up the ATC cards and coloured 4 likkle faces and hair. Then I packed 3 away for another "time out day!"

I decided to work on SUMMER first. I am happy with the Tilda, I am happy with the overall design...but I want to scrape off the glitter now!!! (sad) LOL...bit too "in your face" for my liking, but it is Summery..LOL.

Free Circular Sentiment Downloads.

Using the free Circular Sentiment Downloads over on Dottie's World I made a card using Princess Dottie from the Dress up Dottie Collection - I have used this image several times before and I love it. I love using liquid pearls on her earrings and necklace and even the little buttons on her shiney shoes!!! ( yeah, I am just a big kid at heart!)

The sentiment downloads are so versatile and I am starting to print off different sizes to get the perfect size I want for my nestabilities etc... I was stunned when Karen blogged her card yesterday to see exactly HOW versatile they are...I would never have thought of printing the sentiment circle off that big!!

Anyway, enough of the waffle, here's my card.

Meet Foxy!

Now how can I resist a bargain seeing as I am looking to increase my stamp collection. This little Foxy Fellow was a mere £2.....and he is so quick and easy to colour too. Just as well as I am SOOO short of time at the moment.

I made this card for this weeks Spoon Full of Sugar Challenge where :

"we would love to see you use something that you have recycled on your card,It could be some scraps of card from your stash or some old scraps of material anything really it's up to you,let your imagination run wild."

This is what I used, basically I took a VERY old card I had made years ago and tore off the lovely bronze card and ribbon!

The circular sentiment is a free download over on Dotties World.....these are just so versatile check out yesterdays example by Karen!