Easter Wishes

Sorry I haven't blogged for a while been busy looking after Grace this week and we had a busy time doing some crafting and drawing watching Movies and a visit to Waddesdon Manor where we did an Easter Egg Trail, Grace loved finding the clues and answering the quiz and best of all she loved the Cadbury's Egg.
I made the above card using Warren from Craftworks Cards and papers from Nitwits.

Hope you all have a Happy Easter and lots of choccies.

Tim's March Tag

Well I finally made Tim's tag for March, I was dithering over this one as I didn't have any of the elements I needed, so I improvised, I used a music background stamp and a Hero Arts Butterfly die I already had, and the little metal flower I have had in my stash for years, knew it would come in handy one day. Below is the Tim's original tag, not too bad considering.

After a week of lovely sunshine, it is cold, grey and murky here today, just in time for the Easter Hols, Why does it always do that?

" Anything Goes."

Thursday sketch challenge at Lili's Little Fairies is anything goes. The papers are Nitwits.

The weather here is like summer and all the Spring flowers and Blossom are beautiful, and we have our Blackbirds nesting again in our postage stamp courtyard garden, they return every year and this year they have 3 eggs, the only problem is trying to keep the neighbours cats out. Last year they managed to kill a baby fledgling. But I suppose that the nature of Cats.

Well it seems that Spring has Sprung here today . for the first time this year I hung my washing outside to dry.
I made this card today using the Sketch from Wednesday Stamp Club but won't be posting it on the site as I missed the deadline, where did the week go.
It's been a busy week, On Friday my freezer broke, so I had to buy a new one, We decided in the end to buy a new American style fridge/freezer as I'm always moaning that my fridge was too small. But they couldn't deliver it until Tuesday. what to do with all that food, as I caught it in time it hadn't defrosted, luckily my neighbour's freezer was empty. We also had to remove a cupboard in the Kitchen but it's well worth it ,is fab and I have so much more fridge space now. We eat a lot of fruit and veg, so I needed the extra veg box.
That's enough waffle on to the card. I used paper's from My Minds Eye, Follow Your Heart

 

Pink, Orange and Yellow.

 
Hope all you Mother's out there, well here in the UK anyway, had a lovely Mother's Day, I did, I spent the day with my Daughter Nicola and Grandaughter Grace.
I made this card last week and forgot to post it. But that's OK as there is time to play.
The image is by Lili of the Valley and the papers are Nitwits. One Birdie Lane Too. ribbon from The Ribbon Girls.
The sketch is by Sweet Sunday sketch, and the Colour Challenge is by CR8FN by Mona Pendleton.

Love this colour combo, they are so vibrant and reminds me that summer always follows spring, well some years it does, but first we need the Spring, when I woke up this morning there was a thick frost.

 

Sending Hugs-My Minds Eye challenge 33

Another challenge. Oh how I love a challenge! Well not really it depends on the challenge, Card challenge's are easy, it's the challenges of life that are more difficult. But that's another story.

Here's the sketch for this card  which over on My Minds Eye blog

Sending You Warm wishes

More My Minds Eye paper, this one is lost and Found Sunshine. And the sketch is by Nina B at The Crafts Meow. Sentiment is by Hero Arts.
Wish it would warm up here, we had lovely weather yesterday afternoon, but today it'd been freezing, it's always the same we get to March and you think Oh come on I've had enough of winter now.

 

Just for you

Another fabulous MME paper pad
and another fab challenge sketch.from Freshly Made which I turned as I didn't want to hide that fab paper with a ribbon.

 

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.