Mother's Day

Well I actually managed to get my Mother's Day Card made, although i'm still too tired to feel inspired so I hope it's alright.

I used the bunny image from Penny Black's Garden Friends set and I coloured it using Promarkers and Whisper Pens. The Mothers Day sentiment paper I printed off my lappy and the pattern paper (including the flowers) is from my K&Co pad - I think its Citronella.

Thanks for looking!  xx

Update on life!

Hiya!

Oh i'm back - it's been mad since I got the job offer last week - I don't know if i've been coming or going or just been..... but I think *fingers crossed* that everythings settling down again now. I've not got any crafting done as I just haven't been around - lets see, the job offer came in tuesday afternoon, then wednesday I was at the museum working and in the evening I went to see Sleeping Beauty - the ballet with mum (the tickets were her birthday present from one of my brothers). Thursday I was at work in Wolverhampton and then on friday I started making arrangements to view flats in Bristol for the following monday, then saturday I went to see Alice in Wonderland at the Imax - it was incredible! and sunday was church and then various other chores, errands and tasks that needed doing, mainly ironing!

Monday saw my parents and I back in Bristol looking at flats and lets just say, it was the day from hell! other than the fact that renting is so expensive in and around the city centre (which is kind of a given) you don't actually get anything for your money! I was looking at bedsits in Clifton - a good 40 minutes walk from where i'll be working - and they were just short of £600/month! for 1 room with a shower room off it!!!! ok now I know I can be a snob at times but seriously?!? *shudders at the memory* other places we looked at just made my skin crawl, I lived in better digs as a student! So finally we found somewhere, which was just outside the original amount I wanted to pay per month but its really nice and only 10 minutes from where i'll be working - after about 6 hours of non stop hunting. Then we get to the joys of council tax - I feel for anyone living in Bristol - I thought Birmingham was bad on its council tax but in comparison its pittance! *sigh* it must be paid though....So the end result? well the landlord excepted my request yesterday and we sent off the deposit and agency fees to secure it straight after (nearly £900 in total - ouch!) and its all now pending on credit checks and references to see if I get it..... *prays nothing goes wrong*.

Thus, I have not been around- or more realistically in any fit state- to craft so forgive me! I need to make mum's mothers day card so thats the plan for today and then I have a few others I could do with getting sorted to have on hand for next month as I don't know how much crafting i'll get done in the first couple of weeks after I move to Bristol, but my mojo has gone walkies so this could be easier said then done.

Anyhoo, other than the fact I will have no money for the forseeable future to buy new crafting goodies thats the update on things to date! Hope all are well - I think i've caught up on everyones blogs now - lovely cards all round!

Take care and happy crafting!

xxx

I have a job! sort of.... well i'm off to Bristol anyway!

Woop! I have a job - with English Heritage no less, but i just don't know what it is - ok i'm not going mad, I promise! it's just that the job I applied for is mine, but the senior role has also come up and they want me to apply for it - cool! but what it means is that I have no idea when I start....

So, I'm working for English Heritage and I'm moving to Bristol but I don't know for which job or when.

I have one sentiment for all of this - *eek* - I'm excited but scared witless and I'm all of a fluster but I just had to share xx

Wedding Favour Boxes

Never again! That's all i'm going to say! Well that's not all i'm going to say and most likely I will do this again but at the moment - nooooooooooo!

So to make some sense of all of this rambling I will explain: My church does this event called a wedding preparation day for couples who are to be married at the church in the year ahead. The event is to teach them the shocking statistics of divorce rates and make sure that they understand what they are commiting themselves to - after the fantasy white wedding that is (if that doesnt drive you to wanting to call the whole thing off in the first place that is).

Anyway, the whole event has been a massive success since it started 2 years ago, and this year they also have other vicars from the diocese coming to see what its all about by request of the bishop - oh joy of joys! lol! so mayhem all round - but hey!

Because this years event is going to be so much bigger than either of the previous years - due to the sheer numbers of couples getting married, my vicar decided to do a new twist to the seating arrangements and set the whole thing up like a wedding breakfast with a seating plan and place names etc etc - pretty cool actually! but he then decided on wednesday night that he fanced favour boxes too so phoned me and asked if I could run some up - by last night! eek- oh and could I do 7 designs (different designs for each table) in a range of numbers (depending who was seated where).....ummmm ok? ha! never again will I be so idiotic as to agree to doing this again, well in so short a time- especially as I was in work all day thursday and friday.

But anyway, I finished them and this is what I came up with:

 

Pink hearts in pearl card with double mounted foam hearts on a swing tag, tied with pastel pink ribbon

Green hearts in pearl card, with heart flourish from cuttlebug die, tied with forest green ribbon

Pink handbags in pearl card, with large paper flower - centred with pink gem and tied with pale pink ribbon

Purple handbags in pearl card with 'love' postage stamp from cuttlebug collection impressed in mink pearl card

Purple pyramid in pearl card, with heart embellishments in mink pearl card, tied with pale purple ribbon

Teal pyramid boxes, decorated with pale bronze pearl embellishments with teal gems, tied using pale teal ribbon

Purple truffle boxes in pearl card (image shows front and back), with large paper flower - centred with clear gem and tied with pale purple ribbon

So there you have it - all the boxes made up: 7 pink hearts, 8 green hearts, 7 of each of the pyramids, 4 of each of the handbags and 8 of the truffle boxes = 45 boxes in total.

All materials from my stash, except the base card stock - and before anyone asks; no I do not have a machine which cutes these boxes, they are all hand drawn and cut out!

Hope they go down well - I don't know how they've been recieved as I'm currently at work *shush they don't need to know i'm on here* so mums dropped them off.

Thanks for looking everyone! Hope you have a fab weekend and happy crafting! xx

Tilda thanks

Just a note of thanks - I had this Tilda all coloured up with no where to go - well that's just not acceptible! so here she is standing proudly on this fab paper which is part of the K&Company Citronella collection. Image is watercoloured and highlighted with whisper pens; ribbons, buttons and other card all from stash.

Nothing fancy but I hope her new owner likes her (and the card)

Hope all are well - happy crafting! x

I Made The Top 5!

Wow! I can't believe it! I made the top 5 at Cupcake Craft Challenges for my 'Keep It Simple' Card - I'm honoured and somewhat amazed!

What a lovely end to my evening! :D

DP2 - Clean and Simple

The challenge over at Mo's Digital Pencil this week was 'clean and simple' : Use white or cream cardstock, your image from Mo's Digital Pencil, and one ribbon.. it's that simple... and, no additional layers!
EEK!

Well in principle this should have been an easy challenge - Mo's images are so beautiful you don't need to do anything fancy with them, but in practice?........ well that is another story entirely. This is the 4th attempt at this challenge and I still hate the finished item - I don't think i've done the image justice but it's the best of a bad batch, so here it is:

You can be brutal in your comments! I won't be offended.

The image is called 'inbetween' and i've coloured it with watercolours and then my whisper pens- with the exception of her dress which I have then highlighted with a glitter pen (hard to see on the photo -sorry).

Thanks for looking and I hope you all have a fab weekend! xx