A Pink Cottage Garden

Hi all...

How about another Wild Rose Studio Annabelle card?

I love this stamp of Annabelle in her Cottage garden feeding the birds.

 Coloured with Promarkers....This time using soft pinks and shades of green, shabby chic style.

 I used up some scraps for the punched flowers...and added a couple of glitter die cuts of butterflies and flower beds.

 Martha Stewart doily edge punch and a pink flower trim..slightly distressed with bead centres...

Some challenges...

I love promarkers...Anything Goes

Cupcake Craft...Flowers

The Shabby Tearoom...Summer Cottage theme plus

use the photo as inspiration..some distressing/shabby elements  and a sentiment.

Less than a week to go before I'm back to work and my girls are back to school...September is nearly upon us and the summer will be ending.

We are planning a last minute weekend away to the beach...

Thanks for visiting and I'll catch up with you soon...

xxxxx

Krafting away...

Good afternoon all...

Another mixed week weather wise, sun and rain most days here in West Sussex. My youngest daughter had her 9th Birthday so we went to 

Paultons Park and Peppa Pig World, which I have to say was very good.

I also made the top 3 over at I love promarkers...so Thank you to them for choosing my Annabelle and her birdhouse in the Garden challenge.

 

My card today is another card that I made for a leaving member of staff at school...

 The little butterflies were made using a heart punch as the wings and beads layed along the centre for the body with a touch of glitter.

 A great way to use up some of the off cuts that we crafters have laying around our craft room...I know I have a basket with lots of bags all sorted into colours.

I recently bought some kraft card so wanted to use some of that.

It was just a case of arranging them in a heart.

and some challenges...

A blog named Hero...use Kraft

Paper Crafting Journey...Anything Goes

Craft Your Days away...Anything Goes 

Hope you are having a great weekend..

More from me soon...

xxxxxx

Annabelle in the garden

 Hello again.

I'm back from my hols...two weeks in Los Gigantes, Tenerife and boy was it lovely and sunny and hot!

We were right by the sea with views of the volcano and mountains.

A sunbed overlooking the sea...

 The poolside snack bar...

 The Quiet Pool.

 Shame that the weather here in the UK is so up and down at the moment...

(It's raining in Sussex today)

However, here is Wild Rose Studios' Annabelle in her garden feeding the birds. Let's hope that we can persuade the nice weather to stay.

Stamped and then coloured with promarkers.

The background papers from Wild Rose Studio compliment the stamp range beautifully...

I added a few die cuts around the image.

Very cute birdhouses, flower beds and some animals, butterflies and hedgehogs.

Some challenges for this card...

I love Promarkers...Gardens

Belli Challenge...Winged things

Simon says Stamp...Animal Antics 

Thanks for stopping by my little blog. I have more cards to show soon and if you love Wild Rose Studio then prepare yourselves for some of the most gorgeous  Annabelle and Bella the Elephant Christmas stamps coming soon...

They are adorable!! 

TTFN

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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