Time for Tea...

Good evening all.

Schools Out for Summer...

Yey!

The last few weeks of term were manic...had to say Goodbye to a few teachers and the Headteacher of the village school where both my girls have attended.

Lots of tea parties, dinners, celebrations and assemblies.

 I've actually made quite a few cards but just not found time to post them up...

Love all the Brit themed embellishments, papers and die cuts from Kanban.

I ordered mine from Kitty at My Mums Craft Shop.

What could be more British than our love of Tea.

This card was made for the leaving Headteacher who started off our Friday

'Tea on the field' afternoons during the summer months about 5 years ago.

  

 So, I'm off on holiday now. I do hope the weather continues to stay bright and sunny for the Olympics.

Back with more chat and cards and maybe some holiday pics in a couple of weeks!

Keep Crafting!!!

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The Tortoise and the Hare...

Evening all

Time is not on my side at the moment.

Another week since my last card, but I do have a little something crafty to share with you today.

A new school display on the theme of The tortoise and the hare.

The new year 3's have come for their day visit and were read the story in class, with discussion afterwards focussing on perseverence, never giving up how ever long it takes.

Then they wrote a goal for the new school year on a stone along the path.

  

  Lots more displays on the go at school....and as children and hubby are out this Saturday I may get some cards made!

Thanks for visiting my little blog!

TTFN

xxxxx

Just a little card...

Well lovely peeps...

I am showing you a quick little card that I made for a birthday.

Still so busy catching up with displays and transfer day things, end of year production scenery etc etc...

 

I looked through all my stash of things that I had previously stamped and found these butterfly squares.

 

 I used them as a background...mounted them onto gold and then added a card butterfly 3D sticker.

I do have some lovely Wild Rose Studio images coloured in just waiting to go but just don't know when I will be able to visit my Craft room.  :(

Hope everyone is well.

3 weeks to go and then it's Summer???

Ha ha...xxx

Back before then I hope!

Good luck in your new school....

Hello all

Well just when I thought things couldn't get any busier at work...

The dreaded phone call came.

OFSTED! 

At least we got it over with before the summer holidays and before all the staff changes happen.

The outcome will be disected next week!

Still on the school theme here is a card made for a leaving teacher...

 She leaves to be a Deputy Head at another local school.

I love this Kraft paper...numbers and stars on it, perfect for school themes.

The ruler is actually from a paperchain set from East of India.

 

 

Sizzix Owl for Wisdom. Paper pieced together.

 I printed the sentiments on the computer...and added some punched stars!

Some challenges...

Paperplay...Use a die

Allsorts...Any die will do

Paper Crafting Journey...Feeling Krafty

Wags'n'Whiskers...Use Kraft

Delightful Sketches..Anything Goes

Crafts and Me...Anything Goes

Thanks for coming to visit me.

Hope you like my card.

I will have a few more of these to show you as we have 3 teachers leaving and one special needs support TA retiring this year.

(I will be taking over her role)

Please leave me comment and I'll come visit you too.

TTFN

xxxxx

Dad..Happy Fathers Day!

Hi all..

WOW! What a wet week.

Well here on the South Coast we have been knee deep in water.

Bognor Regis has been especially bad.

I gave up trying to get home by car on Monday and ended up leaving my car at the station and getting on a train.

My main route in to work has only just opened again so I have had to go the long way round all week....It's been a nice day today so fingers crossed for a normal trip to work tomorrow and a proper clean up around the town...

It's Fathers day today!

Just a very simple card for my dad...

 

Kraft card base with just a couple of layers...

The sentiment panel is recycled from one of my daughters birthday cards...

I added a large punched heart and some sizzix die alphabet letters.

Charisma Cardz have a male themed challenge this week...so pop over there with all your dad cards!

Normal Sunday night routine now..tea, baths, ironing school uniforms...

Exciting stuff!

ha ha...Thanks for dropping by!

xxxxx

Little China Girl...

Hello lovely blog addicts...

I have been absent again this week. My excuse is that it's half term and I have both my girls at home and hubby on lates so we have been out and about doing some shopping for holiday and finishing off some DIY jobs.

We even managed a trip to IKEA!

My family were very good and I think they enjoyed themselves even though they wont admit it!

 

Back to some cardmaking...

 

 

This is Mia...one of the very sweet characters at Wild Rose Studio.

All the papers are from WRS as well. This paper pack is brand new and called Vintage Rose.

 

Mia is coloured with Promarkers. I couldn't resist adding lots of glitter to her parasol.

I found these flowers in my stash which match the colours really well.

Circle stamp sentiments ..also new at WRS.

Some challenges...

I love Promarkers...For a little Girl

Papertake Weekly...Anything Goes

Creative Card Crew...Song inspired

(My little China Girl by David Bowie)

I've spent today making bookmarks for my class to attach to their end of term gifts.

Will show you when I've finished.

We're off to a Live music night at the village rec area tonight to raise money for the new Community Hall. There is a special ceremony to cut out the first 'Sod' and a leading Queen Tribute Band called 'Flash'...the lead singer looks the spit of Freddie

Thanks for popping by...

TTFN

xxx

Rule Britannia....

Hello all...

Here in Great Britain we are feeling very patriotic and this is showing in our cardmaking...

In my little corner of West Sussex, the local school has had a fabulous Jubilee Fair and at the school where I work we had a whole day of celebrations...

making crowns, bunting and having our own street party.

This is a new stamp from Wild Rose Studio...little Bella with balloons and I have used it a few times but I just had to use the Red, White and Blue colour scheme.

Coloured in with Promarkers and shaded with pencils. 

 I added some heart die cuts from a new Kanban kit and an oval greeting. I layered these on with foam pads for extra dimension.

 The Blue gingham and Red spot paper is also Wild Rose Studio and I added a red organza bow and some red ric rac.

My favourite thing at the moment is bunting so I had to have a little bit of this above the balloons.

Some challenges...

Delightful Sketches...Red, White and Blue

Craft Your Days Away...Red ,White and Blue

Creative Card Crew...Dimension 
My Mums Craft Shop...Red, White and Blue

If you are in the UK...enjoy your day whatever you do.

We will be watching the London Celebrations on the TV and then having a bit of a do with the neighbours.

Thje bunting is up and the BBQ's are being primed.

Fingers crossed for a dry sunny day.

TTFN

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SLUGS AND SNAILS....

Hello there peeps...

Wow...It's scorching hot out there..

I have to say I have spent most of the weekend outside.

Quick trip to town yesterday and we sat on the beach for an ice cream before coming home.

 Today has been spent sitting on the garden hammock chatting to my sister who came to visit...

One stop craft Challenge theme this week is 'One for the Boys' so I can show you some more boy cards that I made with Sally-ann Hancocks digi stamps.

I coloured in two digis with different colours and made the cards up at the same time...

No frills or fuss for these boys...the masculine paper is from DCWV Retro pack.

Hope you have enjoyed the sun this weekend....

I'll be back with more cards and chat soon...

weather permitting!

TTFN

xxxx

Rocket man....

Evening all...

Been so busy that I have actually forgotten to post anything this week...Shocking!

I am covering for someone off sick in the afternoons so I'm virtually doing full time at work at the moment...

I checked out some challenges and saw that 

 Lets Craft and Create have a theme of 'Stars in their eyes'

Thought this little fella might fit the bill...

This cute digi is coloured with Promarkers...I used my new metallic silver one on the rocket....

So I'm also entering this card into

I love promarkers Challenge this week which has an 'Anything Goes' theme.

Lots of stars and glitter...

I used a circle die to cut out the moon and a couple of different size hole punches then layered orange behind the yellow.

Makes a nice change to do a boy card...

I've been drafted into the Jubilee Day/Party Commitee at school, so I'm looking up lots of crafts that we can do with kids aged 5-11.

We are having tables set up outside with decorations and bunting.

Should be good fun!

Thanks for visiting my blog...please leave me a comment and pop back soon!

TTFN

xxxxx

In the garden with Penny Black...

Hello all

I'm back with a cute Penny Black hedgie card for 

Penny Black Saturday Challenge of 'In the garden'

 I used a Stickeroo on a background of chalked grass and sky which I then mounted on yellow and green.

I've had this lovely Gingham paper for a few years now...I think it was from Lakeland...I used to like their Craft dept.

The little bee was mounted onto cards and then cut out and stuck on with foam pads for some added dimension.

Two different sized flower punches...layered up and a round birthday Wild Rose Studio sentiment stamp in the centre.

Lime green ribbon for a stem and leaves.

Crafting has been very eratic at present as we are having our hall, stairs and landing painted and in a townhouse that's quite a job...

Lots of things have been dumped in my craftroom...shelves, pictures, and hall furniture.

I've also had a birthday so had a busy weekend with friends and went to Brightons Amex Football stadium for a beautiful meal in the hospitality suite.

Hubby is a referee and was running the line on the Sussex senior Cup Final.

 I'm not exactly a football fan but it was such a lovely day weather wise.

 

The teams were Whitehawks (from Brighton) and Crawley Down.

Whitehawks won 2-1.

So enough from me this evening...thanks for dropping by my blog and reading all my news.

TTFN

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Celebrate with Bella...

Happy Sunday to you all.

It's still cold and rainy around most of the country but that's not a bad thing for us crafters...extra time to stay inside and craft!

I have lots of things in the pipeline...

New display boards to design for school and a painting commission!

plus of course cardmaking....

 I have been using my new Wild Rose Studio stamps and papers...and made 

another card with Bella the baby elephant.

This is just such a sweet and clever image.

Bella is holding a flower surrounded by balloons looking adoringly up to...???

Could be her mummy, daddy, auntie, grandma, big sister...

This stamp can be used for so many occasions!

As it's been Mother Day in the USA, I think this is her Mum and she is showing her how much she loves her on her special day....

I've added a string of bunting to add to that feel of a celebration...and have coloured the balloons in soft ice-cream summery colours...

 Lemon flower with a lilac button to tie in with the background paper colours...

 One last close up of Bella...I used Promarkers and pencils to colour her in.

Challenges...

Papertake Weekly...Anything Goes

One Stop Craft...Celebrations

Let's Create...Special Occasions 

Thanks for stopping by...please leave me a comment and become a follower and I will come visit you too...

Happy Crafting!

xxxxxx

A Spring Bouquet for May is on the way!

Good Afternoon all...

Wow Blogger has changed...took me a while to work out how to do a new post!

Once again the week has flown by and left me way behind with my crafting.

But here is my card for the Penny Black Saturday Challenge this week which is May Day Spring theme.

I just love these Stickeroos...

 I'm still into adding a little string of bunting on my cards, especially on spring and summer themed cards. I love using up all those little scraps as well...

 The white picket fence is a Sizzix die...it looks like this little hedgie is rushing past my garden to get to the party...

Sentiment is a stamp from Wild Rose studio and you may see a lot of these on my cards at the moment as I love putting them in the centre of my punched flowers.

I am also entering this card intoThe Creative Belli challenge of Animals.

 Well, at least with all this horrible cold rainy weather we seem to be having...no-one is that keen to go out so I'm hoping to do some more crafting today and tomorrow...

Stay warm and dry!

Thanks for visiting me and please leave a comment, become a follower and I will do the same for you!

TTFN

xxxxxx

 

Bella the Elephant...

Good afternoon crafty bloggers...

It's been a busy week back to work after the Easter break and I've been feeling a bit tired so any spare time has been spent cardmaking rather then on the laptop...

I had some gorgeous stamps and papers sent to me by Dulcie and Matt 

at Wild Rose Studio and the main character in the new range is this little cutie...

Bella the Elephant.

I coloured with Promarkers and used blendable pencils to add a little bit of finer contrast in the shadows.

 The Bella paper pack is in lovely girly pinks and lilacs and has bold and gentle spray florals...spots and dots and some butterflies.

 WRS have also produced a stamping set of 6 very versatile circle sentiments.

One of which you can see here...I have threaded my green ribbon stem through it on this card.

and some challenges...

Paper Crafting Journey...Use 3 or more patterned papers

Paper Playtime.....A Birthday card with a sentiment

Card Makin Mamas...Make it Girly

Wags'n'Whiskers...Anything Goes

Check back here for my next Bella card or pop over to the WRS blog and check out lots of new stamps and maybe some news about the new DT members!

Just sitting watching the London Marathon on TV and enjoying seeing our beautiful Capital city bathed in sunshine...and all the incredible people raising money for some fantastic charities...

First celebrity finished, the model and presenter Nell McAndrew!

2 hrs and 54 minutes....Amazing!!!

 What an inspiration...makes me want to get my running shoes on!

Have a great Sunday!

xxxxxx