A Challenge and This and That.

 
Two posts in 2 days, must be feeling guilty for not posting for nearly a week.
The weather here this morning is awful misty and damp, hopefully the mist and murk might turn into a bit of sun. We didn't get to the Garden Center yesterday after all, we went to see Grace and our daughter Nicola, she asked to stay for dinner which was nice. I am always amazed at Nicola's ability to russell up a delicious meal, even though we hadn't planned on staying.
Now onto the Card.
Another new paper pad and this one is Echo Park This and That. At first I wasn't sure about it,but I love the way this card turned out. I used Tim Holtz's New Tattered Floral Garland die for the flowers.
I used the sketch from The Sweet Shop Callenge Blog.

 

 

Ribbons Ribbons everywhere.

The weather here is very Spring like today, I think a visit to the Garden Center is called for I have some lovely Daffodils in the garden but it's lacking some primroses, and after the winter it needs cheering up. So did my Craft room. I thinks this may well do the job.
 
Sorry  it's been nearly a week since I blogged, I have been crafting I had a visit to MerlyImpressions which is a fantastic website and saw the ribbon dispenser by Kaisercraft and lots of more yummy stuff. I just love ribbons and they were getting a little out of control so I thought I would organise them, and organising seems to be an on going thing here. But I never seem to get anywhere, I hate throwing things out, you never know they might come in handy one day, well for these papers and brads that day came.

I used the Tim Holtz. Tattered Florals, Florishes and Wordplay dies.

MFTWSC61 and My Minds Eye

I can't get enough of these beautiful My Minds Eye papers at the moment. this one is Lost and Found Too, Breeze, and these are just perfect for this Male Birthday Card. Like most card makers I find Male Cards so hard to make, but this one was such a Breeze( sorry about the pun)

For  this card I used Lost and Found Too, Sunshine. I used the sketch below from the Wednesday Stamp Club at My Favourite Things for both and the colour combo for this one one which is by the lovely Mona at Cupcake's Creations, CR84FN49 the colours of which are Yellow, Kraft and Grey this week.

Just for you. Sweet Sunday challenge 153

It's been over a week since I blogged, it's not that I haven't been busy card making I have, just haven't made anything I can show right now. It will be Mother's Day here soon, March the 18th, a day when Mother's all over the UK wait for breakfast in bed, made by their little darling's, and wait and wait, but never get it. That's what I used to do, anyway.
I used a LOTV image and Sentiment stamp,  which I coloured using Promarkers and paper I printed from Nitwits. One Birdie Lane Too.
The sketch is by Sweet Sunday.

The Ribbon Girl challenge 16

The Colour Challenge at The Ribbon Girl this week is to make a card using the colours pink, brown, and cream. I used papers and stamps by My Minds Eye Blush. Ribbons are from The Ribbon Girl

Hero Arts. Thanks and Just Because.

It is sunny today but so cold, and can you believe it but according to the midday News today we are having a drought, so there's a hose pipe ban, so no hosing the car, as if, it's too cold it would freeze before it reached the car.
I picked up a new stamp set at the weekend by Hero Arts

I made two cards using both stamps in the set, papers are by My Minds eye.

12 tags of 2012

Well after a busy week I finally managed to make a Timmie tag. It was a case of make do and adapt. I pinched the heart idea from the super talented.Kath.
You can find the link to 12 tags of 2012 on my side bar.
It's half term which means a busy week as I looked after Grace on Monday. and we crafted all morning, Grace is learning to cross stitch at the moment we also made a Valentine card. In the afternoon we went to see the new Muppet Movie, which was a laugh, there is a whole new generation now Muppet Fans. Brian was also home this week, which made crafting difficult. We went to Cadbury's World,with Nicola and Grace and we ate ate chocolate until we felt sick.

You are Lovely - MME sketch 32

How quickly do the years go by, it seems like only yesterday that Grace was born and we were blessed with a beautiful grandaughter. I can hardly believe that she will be 7yrs old next month.
I love these papers from My Minds Eye.
Lost and Found. Blush
The large sentiment stamp is by Waltzingmouse Say it Loud
The tiny alphabet is from Craftworks cards 

The sketch is from the My Minds Eye Blog challenge 32, I turned the sketch as it fit my papers and the die cut element better, it has to be at least 80% MME products, I think that this qualifies.

Wedding Card

Blogging and Blog hopping takes up a lot of my time, and I'm rubbish at it, I hop onto blogs and don't always leave a comment, and then wonder why I don't get any either. I have noticed that if you put the effort in then maybe you might get some response from others. I love blogging and bloghopping, my cards have got better and I get so much inspiration from it, that it would be a shame to stop, so from now on I am going to try to be a better blogger, well we will see eh!

I was asked to make a wedding card for my neighbour the other day, she told me the colour scheme is blue and white. She is in the Bahamas at the moment (lucky thing) so I e-mailed her some ideas and she really liked the wedding card I made for my niece a while back. This is what I came up with.

I used Tim Holtz Weathered Wood to stamp the background then used Frost glimmer mist to colour the card. I also used frost to make the flowers which left them with a lovely shimmer. Then added some pearls, ribbon and lace which I bought from The Ribbon Girl.

The frame is from Waltzingmouse and the sentiment is Anna Griffin

I e-mailed the photo of the card to my friend and she e-mailed back to say she loves it so that's great. I do worry when I make cards for other people that they will like them, my friend is back home next week for a while so I can give it to her then, just hope she likes it as much in real life, so to speak.I think she will.

It is so cold here today, I think maybe some Housework first to warm me up. then the afternoon crafting. My craft room is on the 3rd floor of my house and it is always so much warmer in there, as we all know heat rises, but sometimes it gets too warn, never happy are we.

Cards with Heart

I don't usually make circle cards, but couldn't resisit the sketch from Card Patterns this week, and with Valentines just around the corner added some Heart. I just bought some new papers from Crafty Charlie, there's some fab My Minds Eye stock on there, which I'm loving at the mo. I used the Love Me papers for both these cards.

For this card I used the sketch from My Favourite Things.

WMSC80- Happy Anniversary

I just managed to take a photo before the Sun went down, today, We have had hazy sunshine today, and if you didn't know it was freezing cold out there you could almost imagine it was Summer(we wish eh!)

I have a couple of Anniversaries coming up soon, I used the sketch from Waltzingmouse Sketch challenge no 80. I used the Stamp set Say it in Style from Waltzingmouse. I'm loving these papers from My Mind's Eye, lost and found 2 collection. this one is Blush.

Pink and Green

Pink and Green. I love how beautiful these colours look together. I made a tag and a card. I used papers from Limited Edition: Birdsong and they are so pretty. some with glitter.

I used the sketch from Sweet Sunday 150, and I'm also entering this in the LOTV challenge which is to use your favourite stamp. Mine is Dandelion Clock. she reminds me of Grace learning how to blow and discovering the wonder of nature, in the form of the Dandelion.

Waltzingmouse sketch challenge 79

It's ages since I did a challenge, and as Mr Mojo keeps disappearing I needed some inspiration I decided to give the sketch challenge from Waltzingmouse ago. I have used this Season's of Love set from Waltzingmouse such a lot, and I thought it perfect for the sketch this week. The sentiment is from Say it with style set.

Blush

Mr Mojo arrived back with the arrival of some new papers by My Mind's Eye, Lost and Found2, Blush, I think you will be seeing lots more of these papers, I love them, I also bought the Rosy papers as well. Beautiful You sentiment is by Verve Stamps.

I used the Blush stamp set for this card which was inspired from a card by Lynn Frederick

Well the wind seems to have stopped blowing a gale and today is blue sky's and sunny, but freezing cold.

Mr Mojo missing.

I think Mr Mojo went away at Xmas, and has gone missing. I wanted to start card-making again so used the card idea and free papers, from the Simply Cards and Papercrafts mag.

Desperately in need of Inspiration, don't have much imagination at the best of times, thank goodness for all those wonderful card designer's out there, that share all their wonderful inspirational ideas.

Just for you.

Happy New year, hope everyone had a lovely Christmas and a fun New Year's Eve.

Brian is playing golf today and yesterday and the day before, making up for not be able to play last weekend, it being Christmas and all that.
So that means I had a chance to craft, I made a calender for Grace which I forgot to  take a photo of, and this card which I will enter in the Papertake Weekly Challenge. The sketch is by Dawny P, I love Dawn's sketch's, not too fancy. I was also inspired by her card.

The image is by Lili of the Valley and the papers were a frebbie in Simply Papercrafts mag.

I Love Waltzingmouse

Well how quick did that go! All that waiting and prepping and it's went so quickly. I hope everyone  had a lovely Christmas, we did, Brian and I  went to our Daughter's house for Christmas and stayed until Boxing Day. Grace was so excited and enjoyed every minute of it.
So I was a little late checking Claire's blog 

I love Waltzingmouse stamps, I have been using Claire's stamps for a quite a while now, and I love them. They are so well designed and such super quality. If you haven't visited them yet hop on over. Claire Brennan such a lovely and talented designer.

I have just won the spot prize on the Tag Challenge, which I am so pleased about. In fact I'm well chuffed.
You can see my tag on the previous post.

Gingerbread cookies

I made some gingerbread snowflake cookies at the weekend and took some over for Grace to decorate and put on her tree. Of course as Waltzingmouse have a tag challenge which I just realised ends on the 20th, I thought I would decorate the bag with a tag. I used the gingergirl stamp from the Oven Fresh. Set

Tres Chic

Well with all the christmas stash tidied away until next year, thought I would have a play with the £5 Goody Bag that I bought from Craftworks Cards. What a bargain! this will make lots of cards.