Love is in the air.....

Oh wait, no it's not! lol! But with Valentines round the corner and everyone else I know all loved up and in relationships, all the pink and hearts and gushing of love and what feels like 101 blog challenges on the topic I felt I had to at least show willing.....

So here is my, bare minimum, acknowledgement to the festival of love:

I used the stunning free Saturated Canary Digi image, my first of this range and hopefully not the last, and teamed it up with lots of pastel pinks and my first ever attempt at doing blond hair. I think it turned out ok - what do you think?

The papers are from a 6x6 paper pack that came free with a magazine aaaaaaaages ago (i've lost the front cover so sorry I can't tell you what make it is). Finished it off with some ribbon and beautiful roses from Joanna Sheen and thats about it.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

• Crafty Catz - Pink and White
• Allsorts - Free and Easy (entry No 2)
• Oh-la-la!  - Be my Valentine
• The Pink Elephant - Pink
• Everybody Art - Love
• Joanna Sheen - Love is in the air

Thanks for dropping by and Happy Crafting!

Daisy, Daisy.....

Good Morning!

Bare with me this morning as this is a longish post. I'm aware I've been MIA from blogland for about a week and that's due to two things. Firstly, issue's surrounding my unemployment - which I won't go into, but will just say have had me fuming and taking a stance against government. On the other hand, a happier note was this year's Church Wedding Preparation Day. At our church, any couples wishing to get married in the year ahead have to attend a prep day to discuss the realities of the service, their reasons for wanting a church service (if not regular attendees) and various other bits and peices.

It's the 5th year that this has been run and if you're a regular to my blog you'll have seen various cakes and favour boxes I've made in the past. Well this year I decided to do something a little bit different and went with a daisy theme. But who just wants pretty flowers for their favours, it was time to add  sweet twist to the design and I made these:

Using 5p lollies and a Sizzix Daisy Die (the irregular daisy) and a leaf die from a different flower die set I created the daisys. The stands were just printed card which I scored and created a triangle fold with a small slit in the top for the stick to go through.

Having finished with the favours I needed to make the centrepieces, which really needed to be small and so came these:

More daisy's in white, with a couple of yellow daisys up top and some green crysthanamum styled heads to give the whole thing some colour. So when the table was laid, this is what it looked like:

 But you can't have a wedding preparation day without a cake and this year mum created this.....

..... which she was still icing at 11pm on Friday night! lol!  The whole thing was a huge success and I only wish that I had taken before and after shots of the buffet - it's relatively scary what 30 people can munch their way through! lol!

But as mum and I started the endless and thankless task of washing up (as the industrial washing machine had packed up - again!) the heavens opened and the forecasted snow began to decend. So at 3:40pm, just before we finally managed to leave I took a couple of shots of the church with it's white dusting:

Thank goodness we left when we did, for an hour later - after having a cup of tea this is what our back garden looked like:

Nearly 5 inches in total! but sadly it's nearly all gone. Oh well.

So that's about it - I'd like to enter the favours into Allsorts Challenge of Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting!

Be someone, not something

Morning all,

Just a quick card to share with you today for Tiddly Inks colour challenge:

green, yellow, orange, blue

I decided to keep it really clean and simple and make a card that I can use as a 'just a note' type thing for my friends. I decided to use the stunning steampunk range and used Aidan and Priscilla with the victorian chaise from Make it Crafty.

As normal the image is coloured with promarkers - I'm not entirely happy with how her dressed worked out, but I'm missing the middle orange colour in the range so it's quite a jump. The paper is another from my yummy new My Minds Eye Paper pad and I simple layered 3 flowers top and bottom and added gems to the centre to give it a lift.

So that's about it, thanks for dropping by and happy crafting!

My Dad, My Superhero!

Afternoon all,

How are you today? I hope the weather where you are is better than here - we've had it all, torrid downpour, sleet, snow and brilliant sunshine - it's enough to make you feel quite ill. But thankfully I haven't needed to go out today and so I could concentrate on making my dad's birthday card.

I knew back at the start of January that this little image of Mo's was going to make a reapperance on my dad's card - he's just too darn cute! This time I coloured him with my watercolour pencils and mounted him on an oval background which I coloured in using chalk inks and glittering up the edges.

The pattern papers, ribbon and buttons are all new stash that I purchased with my gift voucher for winning Crafty Catz challenge a couple of weeks ago. The papers are from a 6x6 My Minds Eye pad called Blink of an Eye.

This is only the second Trifold card I've ever made and I have to admit I don't know why..... its slightly more time consuming making sure all the pieces of paper are the right size and going in the right direction - but it's so rewarding to make. I think this style may crop up a few more times this year.

I would like to enter this into Creative Inspirations and Simon Say's Challenges of Anything Goes and also into Mo's Challenge of - All My Favourite things; mine being - my dad, awsome digi images, mastering a new style and playing with yummy new stash.

That's everything so thanks for dropping by and looking. Whatever else you get up too - Happy Crafting!

I suddenly fancy a cream tea.....

Afternoon all,

No card for me today, as I've been busy making strawberries.... not the edible kind, but it has left me with a strange craving for a cream tea, lol! You may remember back in september I made some strawberry earings - well one of my christmas presents was the matching braclet and knecklace kits. So I've been busy making strawberries galore and this is the final outcome. 

I love it but at the moment I can't face making up the matching knecklace, as it's just so fiddly - I might cry!

But until then I have this little gem to wear and the other kit is safe and sound waiting for me. Not a lot else to share - I'm busy working on a piece of cross stitch as well at the moment, I only started it....oooooh about 6 years ago *hides in shame* maybe i'll get it finished before easter if I keep forcing myself to do a couple of hours a night?!

Until next time, thanks for popping by and happy crafting!

Pretty Pastels

Morning all,

How is everyone today? Staying dry I hope?! Today's card is for Truly Scruptious's Challenge - Something Forgotten. Yet again, I've dug out a Magnolia stamp that I haven't used in so long I had totally forgotten I had it. Ooops! I think I need a new stamp filing system so they don't get so overlooked!

This was a birthday card for the fabulous Mina over at Pinkpuds, who I know has recieved it so I can share:

The image and butterflies are coloured with promarkers. The pink circle is coloured with chalk inks. The circles were cut from various papers using a punch and the buttons are from stash. I hope it's just a fun and sweet card - I don't think there's much logic to the layout, I sort of went with the flow of things.

Nevertheless, it is what it is and I hope you like it. Thanks for dropping by and happy crafting.

Colours of the Nation

Hello!

I'm a bit late posting this morning as I was caught up with a job application, so forgive me. But I'll try not to ramble so we can get straight onto this double challenge card. Allsort's set the challenge of a celebration of nations and Mojo Monday provided the perfect layout for it.

Clearly I am from the UK. I wish I could remember where I got this cute digi from, but I'm failing too, but isn't he just gorgous?! and perfect for this challenge with. I coloured him with promarkers and the wings are stickles (what else?). The pearls are actually pastel blue but the camera's bleached them out. The papers are from an SU pad of papers and the ribbon is from stash.

Its not 100% perfect but it'll do as my mojo is still MIA. I hope you like it though.

Thanks for dropping by and happy crafting!