Happy Mothers day!

Hi all...

Just wanted to pop on here and share another 

Mothers day card and hope that all the mums around the world have enjoyed a little bit of pampering today...

 

I started the day quite early with a cup of tea and a tin of chocolates from my daughters, then we set off to watch my eight year old sing in the school choir at a special Mothers day service in our local Church.

The children sang beautifully and then handed out posies of flowers...

 

Yesterday our school choir competed in the Chichester Music festival and won the Primary School Choir category...

They really are excellent!

 

 

 

 The rest of my day consisted of a little bit of crafting and then out for some food in Smith 'N' Western...Ribs and Chicken...Yummy!

 

 Relaxing now with some TV before bed and then another busy week...

Thanks for popping by..

TTFN

xxxxxx

A flower for Mum...

Good Afternoon everyone....

I'm back with a Mothers Day card...

and I've kept it along the CAS lines....

 White space with a single stem...I used all my daisy punches in various sizes, layered up with a pearl centre.

I couldn't resist buying these felt leaves from The Works...

Irridescent butterfly and K&Co alphabet tiles are great for finishing touches...

I also had to add lots of glitter!

Some challenges...

CraftyCatz...Mothers Day

Papertake Weekly...Mum/one for the Girls

Allsorts...Say it with flowers

Hope you have all had a good week...

It's nearly the weekend...so I'm really hoping that I can do some crafting.

It's been a couple of weeks since I had a good session in my craft room.

Wild Rose Studio have got lots of new stamps and papers, including Bella, who is a baby elephant. I am waiting for my DT parcel to arrive...so I can make some cards to show you...and look out for Paula Holifield, a very talented cardmaker who is the newest WRS DT member...

Thanks for popping by....

TTFN

xxxxx

 

Lent Artwork for school....

Hi all...

Just sorting out some cards to show but first I thought I would show what I have been doing at school. 

Lent display with some artwork....

                                       Jesus goes into the desert....

 

The devil speaks to Jesus...

In our assembly, Father Andrew depicts the Devil as a woman with green eyes....

 and so begins the temptations.

Jesus is cold, alone and hungry....

Jesus proves his worth and the Devil gives up....the angels come to take care of him and Jesus travels again...

Our lenten path is filling up with footprints and I will photograph the whole display to show just before Easter...
Hope you like my drawings....
Back with some Mothers day and Easter cards soon...
xxxxxx

Give us a hug...

Hello crafty bloggers...

Hope you are all having a nice week..

I can't believe it's a week since I posted a card...very naughty!

We had a lovely weekend away with friends who live on the Oxford/Cotswolds border so lots of fresh air walking to the pub....

This beautiful church is a stones throw from their house.

So here's a nice Spring coloured card using a Penny Black stamp.

Coloured with my promarkers...a touch of glitter..

lots of paper flowers and die cut swirls...

This glitter butterfly was from a Hobbycraft pack that I got in the sale...99p for a pack of 8...

I got these little pearls from Bunny Zoes.

Some challenges...

Delightful sketches...Spring colours

Little darlings...Pearls

Penny Black at Allsorts...Spring

I've been very busy doing some artwork for school...I hope I can photograph it and show you soon...

I am selling at a Table top sale in school tomorrow...so fingers crossed it will be busy and the mums will come and buy before pick up time...

Thanks for stopping by my little blog.

Please leave me a comment and become a follower and I will do the same for you!

TTFN...xxxxx 



One for the Boys...

Good Evening all...

Here's another of those rare male cards....Quite basic..not too fussy!

 I used this great Football boy stamp from Wild Rose Studio...

The black dot paper is from DCWV.

Coloured in with Promarkers...

I'm never sure what to do with embellishments on mens cards...

I had another stamp set with some accessories on it so used the backpack, ball and cone as a little bit of added interest along a strip of green card.

 

Some challenges...

Simon says stamp....Anything goes

Cupcake Craft...Boys and their Toys

Crafty catz...Something beginning with B...Boy, Ball, Black, Back pack

Stamp Scrap and Doodle Saturday...A manly Card

Dream Valley...Just for men

I arrived home today to find my new Tildas have arrived...so exciting!

I now have the Castle and some Princessess and the beautiful horse...so time to start perfecting the masking technique...

Thanks for stopping by...

TTFN

xxxxxx

Less is More...Don't scrap it!

Happy Sunday Morning..

Hope yours is Easy...so far mine is.

Although I do have a few dilemmas with my cardmaking today...

I'm a very organised kind of gal...and a bit of a perfectionist and sometimes crafting pushes the limits...

My craft room for example starts off nice and tidy and then turns chaotic and messy quite quickly.

 

It becomes the dumping ground for all the things that the family don't know what to do with..sports bags, shopping bags and this week...an old tv turned up on my sofa from DD2 bedroom, so it's now on my desk cos it still works and I can't just get rid of it!

 

This now follows into my cardmaking...as I am trying to have more CAS style but also love using up all my stash!

The Less is More challenge this week is to use your SCRAPS!

 

 

How many bags, boxes of those do we all have?

I have quite a few and I must say I do love using them...

So from out of some of this lot I decided to start on an Easter/Spring card...

 

and it turned out quite pretty....

 

I used 2 flower punches and an egg punch and cut slithers of green card for stems.

 

 I even used a scrap that had little bird/chicks on and cut them out...(not so simple...bit fiddley)

 So it did start out as Less is more...but I had to stop myself as I could have added more....

I do hope the Lovely Limettes think this still qualifies!

Allsorts Challenge Blog have an Anything Goes...so that maybe the real mantra for the crafting day....

Thanks for stopping by...TTFN...xxxxx

CAS Boo with flower...

Good Evening all...

A CAS card this evening...No stamping or background papers, no layers or ribbon! No jewels or glitter!

 

 

 Two challenges this week that asked for a CAS card...

 

Less is More...and their CAS challenge theme was to use Die Cuts/Punches...

My Boo Bear is a die and my flower is a Punch.

 

and Lets Craft and Create...Who have chosen CAS as their theme this week.

I wanted a simple sentiment to fit any occassion so I used my Night and Day Alphabet Sizzlets....

and I just had to add a button on to my flower...

It's nearly Friday and the weekend again!!!

Have a good one...

back soon!

TTFN

xxxxx

Paws for thought...

with The Crafty Ribbons Challenge!

Time for a Wild Rose Studio card...

and this was one of the first stamps that Dulcie (owner and illustrator of WRS) sent me when she asked me to be on her DT...

I so love all her cute animals and especially the cute kittens.

Coloured with Promarkers and lots of glitter and gems added to the flowers...

The WRS range of products also includes all these lovely background papers

and sentiment stamps!

The Organza ribbon is recycled from the blanks cards and envelope pack.

I'm also linking this card up to the 

Do you stack up challenge

which this week is 'Layers'...

Thanks for dropping by....TTFN x

A Bear celebration....

Good Evening all...

Sunday evening and it's all go getting two school uniforms and P.E kits ironed and ready for back to school tomorrow. Girls are having baths and showers so I just have a little bit of time to show you a card.

Last bit of crafting today....(sad face)

I'm sorry to say that I can't remember where this digi came from but it is so cute and I really enjoyed colouring in all these little bears having a lovely party.

Coloured with Promarkers.

 I added a couple of die cut balloons tied with some twine along the side with a my Happy Birthday sentiment.

 I highlighted some areas with glitter, the pressie dots, cake icing and hats and the bears noses.

Some challenges...

Tuesday Throwdown...Entwined...use twine

Bunny Zoes crafts...Celebrations

Card Makin mama's...Happy Birthday

Aud Sentiments...Have the word Happy in your sentiment

Crafty Anns...Bold and Bright

Paper crafting Journey...Make it Cute

I hope you have all had a good weekend, especially those blog friends who were lucky enough to be at the big show in Birmingham...

Thanks for popping by....

TTFN

xxx

Boys Rock!

 

Good Morning all...

I'm up early today...not sure why but by 6am I just was wide awake.

So I have been up doing some colouring and now I'm going to tidy up the garden a bit and plant some sweet pea seeds.

But first a card to share for the Creative Card Crew challenge of Masculine.

  Using my Sizzix Sizzlets...lots of boy things!

Computers, Football, Rockets and just to boost his ego...Boys Rock!

 

 This was made for my friends son Jacob...also my little daughters bestie!

Hope you are having a good week...as always when it's a week off work...goes by in a flash and I'm not sure whether I have made the most of it but I hate rushing around so time spent on the sofa reading should count as re-charging the batteries...

Please agree with me so I don't feel so guilty.   :)

Must get on now!

Back soon...xxxxx

Bring on the cake...

Hello there...

I'm having a nice week off...been to visit family and had a day shopping and a day relaxing at home. My eldest daughter cleaned her room while my youngest went to multi sports club at the sports centre...so I got to watch a couple of films and read my kindle...and do some blog hopping!

My time to craft have a great theme this week...Bring on the cake!

This should be my mantra...

 This is a Sizzix die lent to me by a friend... Once I had cut and dresssed up the die pieces it was just a case of jazzing it up with glitter and beads...which brings me onto the next challenge

ABC...J is for Jazz it up!

I have a few more of these up my sleeve which I will show another day...

Hope you like...leave me a comment and I will come visit you.

TTFN

xxxxx

Flower Power...

Good evening all...

I've had a lovely day today... started with breakfast with my friend in the Village Cafe, then home to make chocolate brownies with eldest daughter...Hubby called off his football match after a pitch inspection so he was at home.

Did some cleaning and moving around of a few bits and bobs in the hallway, so created some more space and I do love a nice clean up...

then had a colleague from school pop in for a cuppa and a chat before she went off on the train to Brighton for dinner.

Then I cooked a nice Spag Bol and had a tall glass of cold fresh and fruity Rose sat down with my family. 

So now here's a card for you...

 Back to using my original sizzix dies...I love using my dog one to make these cute dalmations...

The flowers are a punch and I added button centres and glitter. 

Fence die with some hand cut grass and a touch of doodling...

My dalmation has a lovely shiny dew drop nose...

Just a little shiny butterfly to finish...

Some challenges...

Let's craft and create...Flower Power

Alphabet Challenge...A is for Animal Antics

Moving along with the times...Cute Critters

Hope you are having a nice weekend...I'm looking forward to a week off spending time with my girlies.

Catch up with you soon...

xxxxxx