Even Boys Can Have Cute!

Afternoon all, and a very Happy Easter to you.  We enjoyed a wonderful Mass this morning, the Church was full to bursting with daffodils and spring flowers and it was a truly lovely service.  Toad is already back on the chocolate after his Lent fast but is saving his beer til tonight.  I haven't touched the crisps yet but I do keep opening the cupboard door to worry them.

Anyhoo, you know me and cute, I just can't resist it, and who said boys can't have cute too?

Ingredients for this are

Stamped Image  Nellen Snellen Jippee-Yeah

Medium  Distress Inks (ReInkers), edges inked in Brushed Corduroy distress ink

Papers & Card  Melissa Frances "Attic Treasures", and pearlised brown cardstock

Sentiment  Hero Arts

Extras  Cheery Lynn corner dies, basic hole punch

I'm in danger of slipping into another brown phase of cardmaking so off to play with something more colourful!

Hugs, Sxx

Ribbons n Bows Take 2

Having scanned the rules over at LILI'S LITTLE FAIRIES I can't see a mention of one entry only so here is my Take 2 on the Ribbons n Bows theme this week.

Before you all shout - I did say that I don't do ribbons and/or bows - let me clarify that, I don't do FABRIC ribbons and/or bows.  Paper ones work just fine (grin).

Ingredients

Stamped Image  Lili of the Valley

Medium  Distress Inks (ReInkers)

Papers  First Edition

Ribbon & Bow  Lili of the Valley

Sentiment  Craftwork Cards

Is anyone else watching The Voice on BBC?  Really enjoying the interaction between the judges, particularly Will.I.Am and Danny!  Interesting concept, looking forward to seeing where it goes next once the auditions are over.

I might, or might not, be back tomorrow, depends on how the day pans out, so if I am not I shall take the opportunity to wish you all a very Happy Easter.

Hugs, Sxx

LIM # 62 - Colour Challenge

Morning all.  A hosepipe ban in place and it's rained all night, lol.  Seriously though, we are in one of the areas of the country in drought and we need soooooo much rain to put things even halfway right.  Bring on the wet!

Mind you, it is lovely and sunny this morning, so far.

Today at LESS IS MORE the ladies have a Colour Challenge for us and it is Three Shades of Green.  I'll be honest - since being forced to wear a bottle green school uniform for five years, I developed an allergy to green, but it is getting better as I'm getting older and I was determined not to let my teenage prejudice get in the way of me having a go at this!

I masked and sponged the background with Distress Inks in Forest Moss and Shabby Shutters, then I inked up some card in Peeled Paint and die cut the Cheery Lynn butterflies.  Hero Arts sentiment is also stamped in Peeled Paint.  Then I added mint green pearls to the bodies of the butterflies to give a bit more dimension and texture.  Voila.

Hugs, Sxx

We Have Lift Off!

Before I start ranting this morning (because it could be our computer and not Blogger) has anyone who has upgraded noticed that you can only have one tab open from your Reading List?  You click on a second blog and instead of opening another tab, it just overwrites the first one.  Or is that just me?  Makes it awkward if you are entering multiple challenges!

Anyhoo, one or two of you asked about my issue with ribbons and bows (yesterday's post), well I can't do them.  It makes no difference how hard I try, how carefully I place the ribbon and/or bow, they simply do not look as if they are part of the card - they just look plonked on as an afterthought.  I guess I'm simply not a girl for excess frippery.

Which brings me very nicely to today's challenges:

Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge - Clean And Simple

Stampin' For The Weekend - Ready, Teddy, Go

And the other lovely this about CAS cards is there aren't too many ingredients to remember

Stamped Image  Lili Of The Valley

Medium  Tim Holtz Distress Inks (ReInkers)

Clouds  Woodware

Sentiment  Hero Arts

Hugs, Sxx

Give In Gracefully? Nah!

There comes a time in the life of a woman of certain years when she really ought to know when to give in gracefully, to know when she is beaten and admit defeat, rather than carrying on blithely and making a complete arse of herself.  Unfortunately I haven't reached that stage yet.

This week, of all the darned weeks, Lili's Little Fairies are offering a four week GDT - but the theme of the challenge is Ribbons n Bows.  Aarrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!  Oh well, time to make myself look a complete fool yet again.

Ingredients for this card are

Stamped Image  Lili of The Valley Ride With Me

Medium  Tim Holtz Distress Inks (ReInkers)

Papers  A mix of black n white from DCWV and Dovecraft

Red matting layers are white card edged with Poppy ProMarker

Ribbon  Fantastic Ribbons - dotty black organza

Extras  Flower punch, spacer and crystal brad from stash

I'm off to hide now until the shame wears off.

Ooh, meant to mention, yes, the Dear Customer Services letter was mailed yesterday.  Let's see if I get any kind of responses, lol!

Hugs, Sxx

Dear Customer Services

Dear Customer Services,

I like Jelly Babies. They make me smile. They taste nice, and they don't make me feel quite so guilty as some other confections do.

However. Why are there so many orange Jelly Babies? I recently opened a bag that was probably 75% orange. Now this is just not playing fair.

I will eat the orange ones, under sufferance, but readily hold my hand up to these not being at the top of my favourites list. The plan is – eat an orange one, then have another colour (preferably pink, a rare creature) to neutralise the taste of neat orange squash, but that bag contained so few non-orange that I had to resort to Plan B, skewer the orange ones on a paperclip to form an orange Jelly Babies kebab and give it to my friend. I do not like giving away my Jelly Babies, I am very selfish with my treats.

Other stores make their own version of Jelly Babies and their orange flavour is more mandarin but, I am afraid to say, yours is toxic.

I know you are going to tell me that the bags are filled randomly but it is surprising how much randomness affects the orange ones. Or is it that they just breed faster?

I would like to buy a bag that has more than its fair share of pink random filling, but I think I stand a far better chance of winning the Lottery.

Yours, demanding more colour equality

Fat And Cuddly

Afternoon all - how's your day?  Do you have sunshine?  We do, but it is quite cool today, but lovely and bright.  Don't want to worry you but I did hear the weather man mention the S word as part of the forecast for the coming week.  Eeeek.

Anyhoo, I've been getting inky this afternoon and popped on to show this happy card I made - it wasn't intended for any challenges as I made it for the fun of it, but it does fit nicely for the Moving Along With The Times theme of Cute and Cuddly.

Yes, he's cute, yes, he's cuddly, but I also think he's just a teensy bit fat!!

Ingredients for this card:

Stamped Image  Lili of the Valley - Patchwork Daisy

Medium  Tim Holtz Distress Inks (ReInkers)

Papers  Basic Grey Manilla (all distressed with Victorian Velvet Distress Ink)

Sentiment  Personal Impressions

Dies & Punches  EK Success daisy punch, Marianne Creatibles leaves

Extras  Card Candi

You may have noticed a small change my blog header, I've been trying to think of a name to "brand" my cards for sale and, because I paint with ink so much, Squirrel's Ink seemed to make sense, and it contracted to Squink quite nicely! 

Right then, time for me to get prepping some vegetables for dinner so I'll see's ya later.

Hugs Sxx.

Less Is More - Lucky Dip

Afternoon all, hope you are having a good weekend so far - it is a little bit chillier here in the east today with a bit of a bite to the wind.  We have been spoiled this week so normal temperatures have come as a shock!  Still, it is still a beautiful Spring day, and a good reminder what time of year it really is.

This week, LESS IS MORE have a Lucky Dip challenge and have provided a Photo Inspiration.  I admit to a huge beaming smile when I saw this earlier.

Credit where credit is due, and I must thank the wonderful Debby for directing me to this stamp a couple of weeks ago, so a big thank you hunny, I love it.

There are many flowers that I love, but my particular favourite is the humble daisy, it just fills my heart with joy as they are such happy flowers and always a sign of sunshine and warm days.  I know many lawn lovers hate them but I like nothing better than to see a green lawn full of these little loves.

The stamp is a single daisy head from Hobby Art, which I masked and multiple stamped.  A touch of colour with ProMarkers and matted on a piece of soft green paper from Prima.  A Hero Arts sentiment and a few pearls to finish off.

Right, I'm off to finish an exciting project (for me) that I can't tell you anything more about until Easter Monday!

Hugs Sxx

Patchwork Butterfly

Well, what can I say, obviously the sneak peek of this card didn't work so guess I now know not to try that  idea again!

Here is the card anyway, my entry for Lili's Little Fairies Challenge of Anything Goes

Ingredients:

Stamped Image  LOTV Patchwork Butterfly

Medium  Distress Inks

Papers  Prima Meadowlark

Sentiment  Hero Arts

Other  EK Success flower punch, Tesco tiny butterfly punch, Card Candi, a lot of white card smothered in Dusty Concorde Distress Ink

Be back tomorrow with something else probably, but not until later in the day.

Sx

Winter Wonderland DT - It Takes Two

Well lookie here, a week before Easter and we are celebrating Christmas!  Yes, it's Friday and that means it is time for another WINTER WONDERLAND challenge.

Thanks to everyone who joined in with last week's Photo Inspiration challenge.  The winner and top 3 will be posted on the Winter Wonderland blog on Sunday as usual.

So, on to this week - our theme it IT TAKES TWO - so we would like to see your cards created using an image that feature two things - two snowmen, two robins, two trees, two Santas - you get the idea.  And our Sponsor for this week is the ever amazing SIMON SAYS STAMP

The DT have been busy again and provided lots of inspiration for you to ooh and ahh over.  Here is my card:

As is usual for me, I have kept the layout nice and simple.  I can't tell you what make the papers are as I won them in a candy but they are gorgeous colours.  The stamp is from a House Mouse set "Mice and Cosy" that I bought from Joanna Sheen, I just could not resist it.  The sentiment is from the same set.  A gold border and a couple of gems to finish off.

Looking forward to seeing you over at the challenge with your wonderful creations.

Hugs Sxx

Ooh, you little tease!

Hi all, sorry but was a bit late home tonight, which ate into my Thursday playtime, which means I didn't get my card finished ....... so here is a tiny sneak peek of what's to come

Will be back in the morning with my Winter Wonderland DT for you and, hopefully, back on Saturday with the completed version of this sneak peek.

Hugs, Sxx

Anything Goes at Sweet Stampin'

Oooh, has anyone else been daft enough to click on the Upgrade Now button?  How can something look so different and scary!  I know I'll get used to it but I'm not a great one for change for the sake of it.  I confess to being a great believer in If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Anyway, you didn't come over here to hear me ranting on about progress and technology did you (no, really, you didn't) so here is my card for this week's SWEET STAMPIN' CHALLENGE

Ingredients for this card are:

Stamped Image: Wild Rose Studio - Feeding The Birds

Medium:  Distress Inks

Papers:  Prima - Meadowlark, and DCWV cardstock

Border Punch: Martha Stewart

Corner Dies: Cheery Lynn

Hugs, Sxx

Less Is More - Combine Three

Evening all, well there's not very much I can tell you about my entry for this week's LESS IS MORE challenge where the ladies are asking us to combine three previous challenges.

The three I chose to use are:  No. 3 Spring, No. 9 A Touch of Red and No. 23 Something With Legs.

What can I say?  I used LOTV's Blossom, painted her in Distress Inks, used a Hero Arts sentiment, and matted on a layer of ProMarker edged card.  And that's it.  Got to be one of my shorter descriptions!

Hugs, Sxx

Penny Black Bunny (and a Winner)

Happy Sunday folks.  We managed to maintain radio silence this morning until on the way home from Church when we heard the news that today's Grand Prix had been suspended because of torrential rain - so thankfully we still don't know who won and can sit down in a little while to see the BBC highlights show.  Fingers and toes crossed for Jenson!

Two Penny Black challenges today ......

Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Easter

Penny Black And More - Springtime (second entry)

I know it's not the done thing to sing your own praises, but I am so thrilled with how this card turned out.

Ingredients:

Stamped Image  Penny Black Pansy Bunny

Medium  Tim Holtz Distress Inks (ReInkers)

Papers  Dovecraft Back to Basics III

Sentiment  Personal Impressons

Extras Cheery Lynn corner dies, Marianne Creatibles leaf dies, EK Success flower 

punches, and Card Candi

Now I must announce the winner of my Lucky Dip Comments Candy - and the first name out of the hat is

Lynda (Zippy's Zone)

Well done hun, ping me an email and we'll talk candy!

And speaking of candy - don't forget to get your name in for my Blogoversary candy

Hugs, Sxx

Sugar Plum Fairy

Grummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmblegrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.  That's not me.  That's the noise our computer is making this morning.  It's on a go-slow, actually it's on a go-very-slow, which is always worrying!

So, how are we today then?  Is the sun shining for you?  It's a beautiful spring day here, and I've just seen the most enormous buzzy bug outside.  Not sure if it was a European Wasp, a Hornet, or some sort of Bee, but I do know that I ran away from it very fast.

Anyhoo, I have my card for this week's LILI'S LITTLE FAIRIES CHALLENGE which is a Sketch from Jacque.  

Ingredients are:

Stamped Image  LOTV Dainty Dancing

Medium  Distress Inks

Papers  Basic Grey, and DCWV cardstock

Extras  Nesties and Cuttlebug dies, lots of gems

I turned the sketch over because of the way my image is facing but at least you can still identify it as the right layout!

Off for a haircut this morning.  How does hair go from looking perfect one morning to totally uncontrollable fluffiness the next day?  Is there a particular day that hair grows faster?

Hugs Sxx

The Day Is Upon Us .....

Hip hip hurray, this blog is three today, Happy Blogday to me!

And what better way to celebrate than with PRESENTS!  Ooooh!

How would you like a £20 gift voucher to spend at

LILI OF THE VALLEY

or

BUNNY ZOE'S CRAFTS

or

THE GLITTER POT

You win, you choose!

This blogoversary candy will be open to Followers only and the usual blah-blah-blah applies

Leave a comment

Link to your own blog

Candy will close at midnight BST on 20th April

Hugs, Sxx

Indian Kitten

Being a country girl, I have seen my fair share of wild rats over the years, but I had quite a surprise tonight coming home from work when, as a passenger in my friend's car, I spotted two of them, running around bold as brass in broad daylight!  Both were quite large, fluffy and looked to be in good health.  I hope this is not a sign of the times and plague is about to break out ...........

Anyhoo, what I popped on to show you was this little card I made

Ingredients:

Stamped Image  Nellie Snellen - Indian Kitten

Medium  Distress Inks

Papers  Basic Grey - Pyrus

Sentiment  Lili of the Valley

I know it is only a very simple little card, but I love the combination of colours, and it really did make me smile while I was making it.

Hugs, Sxx

This, That, And The Other

Hello everyone!  Phew, that's Monday over with then (grin), another day nearer to the weekend, lol.  

I have a simple but sweet little card for you tonight for my entry to this week's Penny Black Saturday Challenge of This That And The Other (Anything Goes).  

Ingredients for this card are

Stamped Image  Penny Black - Sweet Talk

Medium  Tim Holtz Distress Inks (ReInkers)

Papers  A very old pad of K&Co

Extras  Wild Rose Studio sentiment

And I must say thank you to four lovely bloggers who have nominated me for

So many thanks go to SARAH, to JOEY, to MARIE and to JILL

The rules are that you have to nominate 15 other blogs but I never was one for rules so I am going to nominate EVERYONE that I follow because I take inspiration from each and every one of you and my blog would not be what it is without you all.  

And I have to tell you seven things about me:

1.  I love the smell of my cats paws (and he lets me sniff them)

2.  I knew within three hours of meeting Toad that I would marry him

3.  I can't swim very well

4.  My favourite snack is Ready Salted crisps

5.  I used to write poetry

6.  I am still friends with my first real boyfriend - he is now married with two children

7.  Toad biting his nails drives me up the wall

Thank you to everyone who has enquired about my welfare after my stupid fall - I'm ok guys, honestly, just left my back somewhat sorer than usual.

Hugs, Sxx

Birthday Fairy

Afternoon all.  Well, I'm still a bit sore and battered!  That will teach me to dash upstairs with an armful of washing and not look where my feet are going.  Not to be recommended.  But I have been totally cheered up by the first race of the 2012 Formula 1 season!!  I won't tell you the result in case you have not seen the race yet - but it's a good one!

Unusually for me, I have found a few challenges for today's card - normally it is just one or two, but I guess I struck a lucky week, so this is my entry for

Cute Card Thursday - Happy Birthday

Lili's Little Fairies - Butterflies And Fairies

Dutch Dare Card Challenge - Dots And Stripes

Fussy And Fancy Friday - Fairies

Stampin With The Dragon - Things With Wings

Crafty Sentiments - Things With Wings

Papertake Weekly - For The Girls Or Mum

Ingredients for this card are:

Stamped Image  Lili of the Valley - Little Dot Birthday Wish

Medium  Tim Holtz Distress Inks (ReInkers)

Papers  Wild Rose Studio

Sentiment  Lili Of The Valley (came with stamp)

Extras  EK Success Butterfly punch, pearls from stash

Hugs, Sxx

Knock On!

A very quick one as we're meant to be on the way to the Oldies and I still need to get the roast in on timer.  For today's earlier post please click here

This week LESS IS MORE are challenging us to use Masking - something I only ever seem to do for my LIM cards, but it is a fun technique and I should really use it more often.

In honour of the Six Nations Rugby and an interesting match later today - England v Ireland - here is my card.

I've used the Papermania Nostalgia Pastimes set and stamped the rugby guy in Memento in Tuxedo Black, Paris Dusk and Rich Cocoa,  Sentiment is from the same set.  A bit lazy as I only used one mask but I think I twanged something when I fell earlier and didn't have the energy to sit and do more just now.

Hopefully I'll feel less sore tomorrow and will come back with something more interesting.

Hugs, Sxx

What A Silly Cow

You may recall that I mentioned I had made mum two Mother's Day cards, one soppy and one silly.  Well, here is the silly one at last.  Mum has a thing about black and white cows so I just knew this Molly Blooms stamp would work.

The sentiment is computer generated - it was a case of holding my breath and keeping my fingers crossed as our printer doesn't really like heavy weight paper and this is on Bristol Board!  Cow painted in Distress Inks and the matting layer is a piece of First Editions.

Not much chat from me today - had a little accident this morning and am still a bit shaken up.  It was my own fault though - I fell up the stairs.  Don't even ask.

Hugs Sxx

Winter Wonderland DT - Magical (Fairy or Angel)

Hellooooo my lovelies!  Not only is it Friday, it is also WINTER WONDERLAND day and we have a brand new challenge for you.   But before I get down to details, I must say a big thank you for all the wonderful entries for last week's challenge - choosing the Top 3 is going to a tough one for the team!

So, the theme this week is Magical - we would like you to create a Christmas card featuring an angel or a fairy.

And our sponsor this time is The Emerald Faerie Garden.

As always, the Design Team have pulled out the stops to bring you some wonderful inspiration.  Here is my card for this week.

Ingredients: Whiff Of Joy stamp, Distress Inks, Personal Impressions sentiment, papers from leftovers box, and Glamour Dust

I really hope you can join us for such a magical challenge this week!

Hugs Sxx

A Couple of Quickies!

Hi all, hope this Thursday evening finds you well or, if you are feeling low and poorly, feeling better very soon.

Only a quick post tonight as once Toad is out of that bathroom it will be suppertime and I am starrrrrrrrrvin' hungry.  So if you are sitting comfortably, then I shall begin .....

I was so excited to find my batch of new stamps from Bunny Zoe's Crafts on the doorstep when I got home from work that I could not resist playing with this little chap

Nellie Snellen - Indian Warrior 

Hero Arts Sentiment

Chestnut ProMarker edged matting layer, Tea Dye distressed edges

And at lunchtime I picked up the new edition of Card Making & Papercraft because I knew there was a collection of Adam Pescott stamps free with the magazine

There are six animal stamps (cats and dogs) and some accessory stamps too.  And again, just couldn't wait to whip one out of the packet.  The cupcake and sentiment are from the set but the fancy corner is a LOTV.

Thanks ever so much for coming over to see me, it means so much, really it does.  I am slowly catching up with commenting (you guys don't half turn out a LOT of cards!) so if I've not visited recently then I am on my way.  That makes me sound like Santa .......

Ho Ho Ho 

Hugs, Sxx

If you can't do it straight, do it round

After my disastrous attempts at this week's LESS IS MORE "Script" challenge and the nothing-straight issue, I found a way to get round it, so to speak ...........

The March hares were a free stamp with Craft Stamper magazine, stamped in Memento Rich Cocoa, and the script is a Hero Arts stamp done in Memento Potters Clay.  Many Post-It Notes were harmed during this production.

Hugs, Sxx

Bunny Talk!

Afternoon all - isn't it the most glorious spring day?  Wonderful sunshine, perfect temperatures - oh if only it was like this for the whole of the summer, I would be the happiest squirrel alive.  With all this fur, when the temperatures start to rise it gets quite uncomfortable and my tail droops, but today is my idea of heaven on a plate.

Now, we've not had the coldest of winters this time around, apart from a couple of nights of minus something silly, so can you explain to me why our car battery keeps going flat?  To be fair to the car, it is coming up for fifteen years old and until recently we have not had a mite of trouble with it, but this flat battery lark is sending me up the wall.  You simply never know when it is going to happen - fine one day, flat the next.  And the garage fitted a new one when we had the MOT in November.  Rather than jump start it again, Toad took the battery off this time and it has been on charge for twenty four hours - in the kitchen, naturally (sorry, isn't that thing attached to the house called a garage?) so I am keeping my paws crossed that it will last for a few days.  I've got my already rearranged repeat blood tests on Tuesday and I'm going to be a tad annoyed if the bugger won't start!

Anyhoo, enough of my ranting and rambling - I have a card for you!

Penny Black Saturday Challenge - The Young Ones

Penny Black And More At Allsorts - Springtime

Ingredients for this card are

Stamped Image  Penny Black "Bunny Talk"

Medium  Tim Holtz Distress Inks (ReInkers)

Papers  Crafts Too - Spots and Stripes, DCWV yellow cardstock

Extras  Memory Box flourish die, Nesties, hole punch

I'm feeling a little sad that some of my Followers have decided to leave me - it's taken a long time to build up to the numbers I had reached so to see that going down again is a bit glum, especially as I'm coming up to my third blogoversary in a couple of weeks time.  I know we all have so many reasons for un-following (had to do it myself with some when I reached capacity) but it is like losing a friend.  Sorry to see you go, but you are always welcome back at any time, and thank you for following as long as you have.  TTFN.

Right then, I need to get some roast potatoes in the oven so that we can sit down to dinner before the England v France rugby match kicks off at 3.00 so you will have to excuse me, must dash!

Hugs all

Sxx

Bring Me Sunshine

T'is me again folks, back with a card for this week's CUTE CARD THURSDAY challenge, which is a Sketch and for today's SWEET STAMPING CHALLENGE which is Lots Of Layers.

I put my paws up to having had a bit of a crafty spend this week and amongst the goodies were three pads of Prima papers.  Gosh, they are gorgeous.  The first one, Meadowlark, I used on my Lili's Little Fairies Card yesterday.  Had a fun time with another one today.

Ingredients for this card are

Stamped Image  Sugar Nellie - Posy Pip

Medium  Tim Holtz Distress Inks (ReInkers)

Papers  Prima - Sun Kiss

Gently edged each piece with Tea Dye Distress Ink

Sentiment  Hero Arts

I do love it when a plan comes together - this one worked well!

Hugs, Sxx

Waaaay Overdue For An Eye-Test

Morning all, how are we on this bright and sunny Saturday morning?  We had a little visitor in the garden this morning.  A small black and white cat wearing a red collar.  I very quietly crept out the back door and stood there, in my fluffy dressing gown and tatty slippers, calling gently but it seemed to have vanished.  And then I saw a little nose peeking out from behind a flower pot.  Bless.  Talk about timid.  Mum always reckons that I am Dr Doolittle when it comes to cats but this little chap wasn't having any of it.  Never mind, I'll wear him down eventually!

Anyhoo, I need my eyes tested.  I made two cards for today's LESS IS MORE OLC Script challenge, and they are both on the squint.  I'm terribly short sighted at the best of times, take my specs off and I fall over, but for reading and crafting I can see much better without them ..... or so I thought.  Oh well, back to the drawing board, but you might as well have a chuckle at these two in the meantime!

Penny Black eye chart stamp (how appropriate) and a Woodware alphabet print stamp

Hero Arts "Happy" definition stamp and a Hero Arts Happy Birthday from a clear set

Vince has just jumped in front of the screen, so now, not only are things on the huh, they are black and white and fuzzy! 

Right then, off to play with something that doesn't matter too much if it's not straight.

Hugs Sxx

It's Friiiiiidaaaaaaaaaay!

Whoo-hoo, it's Friday, so that means my weekend starts in eight and a half hours.  Not that I'm counting or anything, lol.  I can cope with anything knowing that tomorrow is my time.

Anyhoo, I had a fun playtime last night and made my entry for this week's LILI'S LITTLE FAIRIES CHALLENGE which is Ribbon & Lace.

Ingredients for this card are

Stamped Image  LOTV Baby with Teddy

Medium  Tim Holtz Distress Inks (ReInkers)

Papers  Prima - Meadowlark

Sentiment  LOTV Circular Sentiments

Ribbon  Cream Picot Edged from Fantastic Ribbons

Border  Martha Stewart punch

Extras  Sissix Architectural Accents corner, EK Success retro flower, Card Candi

It's not often you will find me putting ribbon on a card (it never behaves itself) but the lace border was just crying out to have ribbon weaved through it.

Hugs, Sxx

Are You Bored Yet?

Evening all.  Well, what a contrast to yesterday!  We've had glorious sunshine, albeit a tiny bit chilly, all day.  It was the perfect day for sitting in the conservatory to paint.  I'm making a new rule - only go to work when it's raining.  Do you think I'll get away with it?  No?  Oh well, a girl can only dream.

Are you bored with my CAS cards yet?  I hope not as I have another two for you tonight.

The first is for my brother-in-law's birthday

This Fizzy Moon was a magazine freebie and as he is quite small compared to the normal stamps he was the perfect size for a CAS card.  Sentiments came with him too.

And for nephew's birthday two days after

Love this little Meljen mouse.  I've paper pieced the balloon, and I managed to screw up the sentiment stamping so had to overstamp it.  Hope it doesn't look too awful.  I'm sure Michael won't notice anyway, lol.  Mind you, if it had been a £5 note he'd have spotted it straightaway.  Boys!

Well as it is Thursday it means it is my night for a couple of hours crafting while Toad does the Wii Fit so I'm off downstairs for a little play.

Hugs Sxx

Mwah! Kisses!

Afternoon all, how are we mid week then?  Been a day of sunshine and showers, but more showers than actual sunshine - got caught in a belter of a downpour at lunchtime.  Still, it will save on having to shower later. It's ok,  I'm kidding!

Anyhoo, here I am with my entry for this week's SIMON SAYS STAMP challenge and I have a feeling it is going to be a busy one this time with a theme of Mother's Day/Special Girl.

I have made two Mother's Day cards for my beloved mum, a soppy and a silly, so I thought I might as well share them both with you but I can't as I've not taken a picture of the silly one yet.  D'oh!

Here's the soppy

I've just realised that I've developed a bit of a "thing" for Mo Manning images lately but this one, "Kisses", from Penny Black is so big that it's not left room for anything else on the card!  So I went for a pretty First Editions paper and a LOTV sentiment that says it all, keeping the card simple and letting the image do the talking.  Image is painted in Distress Inks naturally ☺

Hugs, Sxx