Something beautiful...

For some totally gorgeous girly stuff follow this link:
Lucy and see the beautiful jewellery of the talented Lucy Wallis.

I always get compliments when I wear her jewellery.

Her new range is called 'Brighton Rock' and really is a sweet treat for the eyes.

In addition to her website, Lucy has an etsy shop: http://www.lucywallis.etsy.com/

Hope my lovely hubby asks me what I want for my birthday!!!!

Papertrey Candy!

If you live in Europe and love Papertrey go to this link for a fab giveaway:
http://apassionforpapertrey.blogspot.com/
I adore Papertrey, (so feminine and classy) but I cannot afford to pay the shipping costs to buy from America.
Keeping my fingers crossed for this one!

Colour Inspiration #53

I had to sit Kristina's last challenge out as I was so busy with work and the day-to-day stuff.

It's Bank Holiday this weekend so I've been able to play along and as I don't do 'primary' colours very often it really was a challenge...

A big thank you to Kristina for making us 'go for it' with all these great colour combos.

I just fell in love with this little elephant stamp when I saw it. I know it is one of those stamps that will get used over and over.

I've made this card for my best friend Jacquie. She is very busy training to be a teacher, plus being married, running a home, coping with two fabulous (but 'spirited') kids and running a scout group. I don't do anywhere near as much as she does, but never seem to get enough time to pick up the 'phone or drop by as much as I'd like to.

Hope she gets the joke on the word 'herd', being a trainee teacher she might give me lines instead!

Card Recipe: Bazzill Cardstock, Versa Colour - Black, Judikins Embossing Powder, Prima Marketing Elephant Clear Stamp, Double Scroll Clear Stamp by Rhonna Farrer, Hero Arts Raindrops, Circle and Edge punches, lots of white gel pen.

I also got to meet my beautiful new niece for the first time on Saturday. She is soooo gorgeous.

Not sure about this one...

I made this little card over the weekend. I find it hard to make cards when it is pouring with rain outside, and it did nothing but rain on Saturday and Sunday.
The paper is by Bo Bunny. I knew it would look great with Bazzill Kraft. It is a double-sided paper so I knew I had something that coordinated well. The little blue button was one that I found in a local haberdashery store. I can't stop using Ali Edwards Everyday words set at the moment, and I am equally addicted to the Hero Arts Raindrop background stamp.

Happy birthday Cleo!

My old cat is now 18, it only seems like yesterday that she was a little kitten. I bought her a new bed as a present... I think she likes it!

Beautiful baby!

Well there just had to be a picture of my new niece didn't there?

She's teeny tiny, and oh so cute.

She's arrived!

My brand new niece put in an appearance at 4am on Wednesday 13th May 2009. Little Sian weighed in at 5lbs 10oz and apparently has long legs and looks just like her Dad! So pleased, can't wait to meet her.

Big hugs and congratulations to my sister-in-law and her husband.

...and guess who felt the need to make them a card?

Hope they like it. As you can see I am still on my 'it's the small things' kick. But as she is such a little, bitty baby it somehow seemed just right.

Card Recipe:

Cardstock - Bazzill

Ali Edwards Official Font (love it!!!)

Fiskars edge punch

Basic Grey Button

Hero Arts Raindrop stamp on some very old scrapbook paper from my stash

Little pearls

Judikins clear embossing powder

Versacolour - Raspberry

Stamp - Flower from Scraptrends

Colour Inspiration Challenge #51

Today I was at Reading Buddies listening to my two favourite little guys reading their books.
The one was reading his first non-fiction book and was so excited to tell me all about hurricanes, tornadoes and floods - and how 'everything just goes whooooosh!!!'.
The other asked me at the end of the session 'did I read good today?'
I told him that he did, he had tried really hard, even though he was obviously tired and lacking staying power!

This set me thinking that sometimes it is 'the little stuff' that makes your heart sing, so I came home and made this little card to celebrate the small things that make us smile.

(I seem to have had my own 'one layer' challenge going on!)

Card Recipe:
Plain white card from my stash
Ali Edwards - Everyday words stamp
Scraptrends - flower and dot stamp that I have had forever
Judikins Clear embossing powder
Versacolour inks in brown, yellow and pink

It's Colour Challenge time!

Kristina has taken me by surprise with the latest Colour Challenge as I was all set to play along with the Caardvarks Challenge.

Decisions, decisions!

Hop on over to Kristina's blog for all the details...
http://www.kwernerdesign.com/blog/

or to the Caardvarks blog for their challenge which is all about {quotes}.
http://caardvarks.blogspot.com/

Just saying hello!

The sun had 'got it's hat on' (as the song goes) so I was able to photograph this little card today. This is the one that took me so long at the weekend. I made it for my sister-in-law,
I hope it makes her smile!

Card Recipe:
Bazzills - Limeade
Scrapbook Paper - Daisy Bucket Little Black Dress/Black Tie Affair
Fiskars edge punch
Sentiments and butterfly - Hero Arts Clear stamps
Ribbon from my stash

Congratulations Lucy!

Just wanted to congratulate Lucy for winning a day on the Hero Arts Blog with Jennifer.
If you haven't already discovered Lucy's wonderful cards check out her blog right now!
http://hedgehogsandladybirds.blogspot.com/
I love everything Lucy does, but have a real soft spot for that cute card that she uses as her blog banner. Can't wait for her day on the blog to see more of her beautiful creations.

Don't you just love Bank Holidays!

Loving the fact that I can be super lazy as it is May Day today.

I finally finished my card yesterday. It didn't turn out how I wanted but I will post it asap. The weather is too dull to take a good picture today.
Instead here is a card I made about a fortnight ago to say thank you to a friend for her help and support while I was off from work with my broken wrist.
Once again, I have used the lovely template that Kristina Werner shared. I really do love her blog and drop by virtually every day.



Card Recipe:
Plain white cardstock from my stash.
Scrapbooking paper: Little Yellow Bicycle/ Love Letters - Lace Kiss
Sentiments and teeny tiny leaves are from Hero Arts
Woodware punch and Cuttlebug
Versacolour Ink: Olive

It's a good day!

No card to post yet as I am still working on it.
You know what it's like when it just will not come together!
Birmingham City Football Club are back in the Premiership, the sun is shining and my wonderful hubby is painting the spare bedroom as part of a makeover that is turning this room into a craft space for me!
Happy, happy, happy... now if I could just finish that card.

Body Shape update

...and I seem to be somewhere between an hourglass and a cello! Not sure how to take this really. Check out Trinny and Susannah's website to view the results of their online bodyshape survey. If you scroll to the bottom of the page you can find your bodyshape - if you dare!
http://www.trinnyandsusannah.com/misc/body-shape-survey

Babies, babies, babies!

It's all babies at work at the moment!

My friend Mo now has a grandson and my friend Sonia a granddaughter.

I used a template from the lovely Kristina Werner's website to create these two little congratulations cards for their daughters and son-in-laws.

The blue one celebrates the arrival of baby Isaac and the pink one celebrates the arrival of baby Lacey.

Card recipe:

Bazzills cardstock.

Hero Arts sentiments.

Shoes stamp - Personal impressions.

Pink - Urban Lilly: Soda pop collection/Poppy

Blue - Sassaffraslass: Sew Fine/Emiline.

Coloured with Watercolour pencils and plenty of glitter glue on the pink shoes for a little girly touch.