Ooooh I was published!

I had a lovely surprise when I went back to Brum for the weekend, a letter from Cardmaking and Papercraft saying congratulations on being published and here is my stamps.... ummm pardon?!

So of course I've had to dutifuly go out and buy the magazine - and low and behold! an email I sent off in Feb has been published - see!

Lol! so there you go - I'd totally forgotten about it, so that was a nice surprise.

Anyway - no cards at the moment, trudging on with the cross stitch as I have under a month to get it done! eeek!

Hope everyone had a lovely bank holiday weekend - take care! and happy crafting x

Baby Girl

This one isn't for a challange, its for the lady whose job i'm now covering on maternity leave.

The image is LOTV and was kindly donated to me and coloured with promarkers. Wording and backing paper were done by me on my computer and the gems, candy and flowers are all from stash.

What do you think? is it ok? i'm really not sure on it.....

Thanks for looking and Happy Crafting!

New Job!

Well what can I say - I aim to please and i've obviously impressed someone, somewhere....

My older followers may remember that when I was offered the job I do at the moment with English Heritage - I was also asked if I would consider applying for the senior post as well, which I obviously agreed to.

Well, after a bit of a mix up with interviews last week, I underwent the ordeal of the panel again at 10am this morning - 3 weeks after I began work at the office......

At 11:05 I was offered the role!

So I am no longer a Heritage Protection Assistant - I am a Heritage Protection Co-Ordinator .... you may all go "oooooh" and look suitably impressed! lol!

Hope everyones had a fab day - mine's certainly been a high!

OOOOOH!

ooooh! I have lovely shiney new followers!

Hello lovely shiney new followers!

Hello my lovely loyal followers!

Bring on the weekend!

xx

LOTV and Stamp Something

The Lili of the Valley Challenge this fortnight is a Sketch and I thought it would be perfect to try with my other new LOTV stamp.

I also think it fits the bill for the Stamp Something challenge of 'Layered' as it has 4 layers of paper/card then a layer of embellishments.

All papers, ribbons and embellishments are from stash.

That's all - thanks for looking and happy crafting x

Simon Says & Pink Elephant (TPE63)

So this is a double whammy entry card - firstly for Simon Says whose challenge was 'lets go to the cinema' with the added element of dry embossing - well it just had to be done really didn't it, but I was struggling with a layout until this morning when Pink Elephant came out with this fab layout:

Problem solved!

So my inspiration was Alice in Wonderland and I used Mo's beautiful image of Alice and coloured her with pro-markers and used my cuttlebug to emboss the background. The papers are all from stash as are the flowers and pips (yes i'm hooked on them at the moment!). Think thats everything, so thanks for looking!

Happy Crafting x

Sketch Saturday

The last of my challenge cards I started at the weekend. This one is for Sketch Saturday and their layout of the week:

 

Again, this was just an excuse to play with my new Magnolia stamp really!

I coloured the image with - oh yes, you guessed it - promarkers and the circle is embossed with my script folder for the cuttlebug. Flowers and papers are from my stash, as are the letters for the sentiment and the ribbon. The candy pips are from my new collection which I got at the NEC

Think thats everything, so thanks for taking the time to look and take care! x