Quality time in my craft room

Afternoon Crafters,

This morning i spent time in my craft room making a card a few cards, and also finishing off two ATC swaps i am involved with.

It felt great to sit there and craft until i decided i had had enough, i haven't done this in quite a while.

I will wait until i receive the ATC's from the rest of the group before i post the ones i made, to be fair on the groups, incase they peek.

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This is a case from the wonderfully talented Andrea Buckland,

I did put my spin on it, but i am not totally happy with it at all, it is amazing how we can hit and miss sometimes, i think this one is a miss, i did have my mum in mind, as it is her birthday tomorrow but i'm not so sure, now that it is finished.

I also finished a few christmas cards, 

This is one i remembered to take a photo of, i tried a few different things here, i stamped directly on to my ribbon, and also the tree is made using a teabag fold technique

Here is another one, i made this end of last week. 

I was asked to make for a friend of my son's girlfriend's birthday

Oh well i had better go back to the drawing board for a card for my mum's birthday tomorrow,

Oh on a final note, i was picked as one of the top three winners for last weeks Try Stampin on Tuesday's sketch,

Here is my badge

Have a great weekend

TST #17... Lets play a game.......

Hello Again,

I have gone from no posts to two posts in one day,

this is a very quick post, as i have left it to the very very last minute to put up my card for this weeks challenge over at

Try Stampin on Tuesday

Here is the sketch this week

And here is my attempt at it,

This is where the game comes into play, as i did this card in such a hurry, lets play spot the boo boo's.

i have to say this is one i would rather not blog, but i did challenge myself to do each and every challenge over at this fantastic site.

i had an idea earlier in the week, but it completely has gone, so i had to wing it.

As for the last card i posted, it won me a prize...yay me, it won the colour challenge that i had created it for.

thanks so much to CherylAnn for her brilliant new site, i am having a blast...

if you do not want to miss out on the fun please click here to sign up....

Try Stampin on Tuesday #12 & JAI #66

Afternoon Stampers.

How is everybody today, i have had a very busy day. 

One of those days in which there is not enough hours to get every thing done even working at full speed.

Todays creation was created for the TST (Try stampin on Tuesday) weekly challenge.

The sketch this week has me a bit worried, as this weeks sketch is out of my normal scope of cards i do.

Here is the Sketch

I decided on doing a card i have wanted to have a go at for a while.

A criss cross card.

As i was about to blog this i thought i might do a bit of blurfing first, im glad i did as over at Just Add Ink, their weekly challenge was

Just Add Flowers

As mothers day is approaching fast.

And my card fits their challenge perfectly

Here is my master piece

i absolutely love how this turned out

Here is a picture of the insert

This is perfect as my sisters and i got our mother a voucher for a complete relaxation massage for mother's day, and this will fit nicely in the pocket as well.

Well i had better go and complete the rest of the items on my every extending list

take care

Vintage Birthday.....

Morning Stampers,

Well i don't believe it we had a whole day yesterday without rain, i even got two load of washing dry out on the line, oh my gosh this is well worth celebrating. It was a great weekend, it felt good to have my son back home, when he is older i can let him go (i hope), but at the moment with him being only 16 home is where he should to be

Over the weekend i had a friend who had a birthday, i won't mention names as she might not have got her card yet, and i know she doesn't blog hop often due to her very busy life, so i think I'm fairly safe.

 Alot of the times I'm limited in my creativity as i don't have lot of ribbons, so if i have a card to make and it involves ribbons, i am limited to a few colour choices.

  As i have now got the pastels i will have to experiment with these and plain white ribbons and see what i can come up with and hopefully widen my choices, Does anyone have any good ideas about colouring ribbons

Then after making this card i have realised that it suits the new Just add ink challenge this week. so i will be submitting this there.

Without further ado here is it

Card:  Real Red, Whisper White, Kiwi Kiss*

Stamps:  Vintage Vogue, Short & Sweet

Ink:  Kiwi Kiss*, Regal Rose, Real Red.

Other:  Border punch and other SU punches, SU Ribbon, Swirly embossing folder, Pearls, Dimensionals 

* Denotes retired SU items

Happy 60th

Morning Stampers.

Here's to a great week ahead.

The other night i received a phone call asking if i would do a special card for a good friend of my mother's, she is celebrating her 60th birthday this week.

 After looking through blogs and splitcoasters for great ideas, i came across a fantastic design, it was just what i was looking for.
So i CASEd it, however i did make a couple of subtle changes. Take a look at the original here.


 Anyway here is my card.

Card: Certainly Celery, Chocolate Chip, So Saffron Whisper White

Stamps:  Vintage Vogue, SU Numbers, Happy Moments

Ink:  Certainly Celery, So Saffron.

Other:  SU Rhinestone brads, Certainly Celery Ribbon, Dimensionals, Stamp-a-ma-jig

very first posting

Well i have done it, i have created my own blog,

I like to have fun with challenges so most of my postings will be scratching that itch after seeing a wonderful challenge.

So here goes with my first post.

This was Created for the Clean & simple weekly challenge,

                      

I only used one Colour along with one ink colour. Su Whiper White & SU Soft Suede. 

This technique was one i had seen on Bron Heslop's site, and have used alot latley