Jo’s Calendar Card Box

What a scorcher of a weekend we have had!

And what a great day we had Saturday with Jo in Holt Village Hall making her Calendar Card Box (go to my side bar to Jo’s blog for more details and how to buy the class project) – such a great challenge for us all but with her organised class, so easy.  She had cut up everything and presented it all so professionally as now we only expect from Jo!! No Pressure hey my friend!!

We had a great day using new Cottage Wall papers and SU card for the box, learnt to make our own beads from card and finished a lovely project from 10.30-4.30.  We had a lovely table my friends Fleur and Anna and I and met some lovely people, aren’t crafters so so nice! Her Mum Shirley had laid on a wonderful lunch and MIL’s cakes, as much tea and coffee and treats as you could eat.  Jo had done a raffle and bingo with lovely prizes, thoroughly spoilt we were.  Now we can’t wait for the next one…

Well done to both of you and Thank You again for a lovely day…

Take care

LOTV again

Morning

Just a quickie post this morning. 

I did this card the other day and forgot to post it, loved the bright greens, definately my colour for the season!

I just love the LOTV stamps and hope to add even more to my collection! Another simple one, coloured in with Copics and Promarkers, with a little lace doily behind as a frame, just a few flowers from Craft Obsessions and paper from STampin Up cut with my new Anna Griffin lace punch.  Hope you like it.

Take care…

52 in 10 – Prompt 23

Afternoon

I am behind doing the 52 in 10 but now am picking the ones I want to do, hopefully to go back to the ones I left out later.  I know I don’t have to do them but I really would like to.

This I finished last night, no 23 prompt about favourite places in your home town.  Mine has to be the beach, for walking on, sitting on and walking along side!  Don’t much like going in the sea these days but just love the Hengistbury Head to Sandbanks stretch of beach we have here between our town towns of Bournemouth and Poole.  I have lived in both, love them both, so tend to group them together.

I did this with my DCWV papers, what a great pack of summer papers this was, liked every one of them! with a few embellishments…

We had to use ribbon on this challenge which I threaded through hand cut holes (must get a ribbon punch!) and stitching, well I cheated and ‘hand stitched’ but liked the overall effect. Hopefully I can catch up at our Saturday crop.

Take care…

Colouring In!

Afternoon

Well I sat there in the sun after dead heading my roses just loving the heat and remembered I had a few birthday cards to make for this weekend.  So off I went to start colouring in.

This first one is using the gorgeous LOTV stamps, done in pale washy colours using mainly promarkers and again the Martha Stewart punch for a frame, LOTV sentiments too.

I just love colouring in, it is such a great therapy for me though my fingers are still hurting after the rotten virus I had a month ago making it painful to hold a pen etc.

The second one is my new stamp from David at Craft Obsessions, she is so cute this Pirate Girl from Magnolia, again done in simple colours but this time Distress Inks and watercoloured (still practising this and have yet to master the face painting really) but still like to try.

Back at work again now and then David and Brenda’s crop on Saturday at West Moors so a few more days to get all my stuff ready for that.

Take care…

Sweet Pea card

Morning

It is so long since I posted anything on this site – think I ran out of steam with everything before I went on holiday and now I am back I have been way too busy!

So just a quickie card this morning, this is from the stamp set that was our gift from Jo and Jenny at our last Extravanganza, Sweet Pea, love the little bird and the flower stamps.  I have done this one in the SU soft subtle shades and used my new Martha Stewart punch (QVC) which also makes lovely frames.  Just simple to get me started again.

Take care…

Back home now

Morning

Well after being away in the sun I don’t know wether it is nice or not to come back to the rain! I know the gardens need it desperately and am pleased for that.

My hubby and I drove down to Port Grimaud in the South of France for five days, gloriously hot and gorgeous beaches  then we drove back up into Switzerland via Monaco and the Italian coastline (so so pretty) via nearly 100 tunnels and over vast bridges. The Italian autoroute was just lovely, fantastic scenery which I would love to have captured on photo if we had not been driving, not many view points unfortunately.  Then up through the mountains between the two countries through to the Grand St. Bernard Pass, still so much snow in the mountains, to wonderful temperatures in Siviez where we were for another five days.  We did lots of walking and just sitting reading books (if you know Mike just getting him to sit and read is amazing) then drove home yesterday.

I am back at work tomorrow so won’t be posting anything much ’til the weekend.  Hope everyone is OK. Take care…

52 in 10 – Prompt 20

Afternoon

Well, I was sat thinking what to do this afternoon – I have been feeling poorly since yesterday with a virus (headache, shivery, sore throat etc) so I made a page for the 52 in 20 from Karen, very simple is all I could manage then I got the spacing wrong for my title!  So this was a prompt for your Ideal Job, mine would have been a Wildlife Photographer, and one of my favourite animals is the otter.  The papers were from David at Craft Obsessions Bo Bunny (a gift of love) and if you pull the Handle with Care tab it will reveal the hidden journaling.  As I say, very easy but wanted the photo to be the main item and with my headache, all I could do…

Take care…

La Blanche

Afternoon

And isn’t it lovely out! Yeah…  Though not feeling too bright today, ache all over and have a sore throat, yuk…

But have sat myself down to do a few cards after colouring in last night.  You know how it is, you look through your old stash, sorting out cupboards and boxes you haven’t looked in in a while and there were these lovely La Blanche foam stamps I got from QVC ages ago – how cute are they.  Yes, I know, I am still on a very cutesy theme!

Both are coloured in with Promakers with some old K & Co paper and Papermania Wedding papers, a few flowers and sentiments from Stampin Up, simple but I did enjoy doing them.

Take care and hope this weather stays warm…

SU Itty Bitty Buds

Afternoon

I had a little time today to play with my new Stampin Up stamps ‘Itty Bitty Buds’ which are very useful and made two very simple cards.  I have just added bold brights cardstock and ink dots to my growing collection so used these bright colours conservatively (if you can do that) in a simple design. 

This is Pixie Pink, Tempting Turquoise and Yoyo Yellow for the flowers (Kaiser Rhinestones for the centres), Green Galore for the stalks and corresponding cardstock (don’t they have lovely names!) and a little bit of ribbon from my stash as I had no pink SU ribbons, sentiments also SU.

Take care and hears to a good week weather wise!!

More LOTV Cards

Well, I told you that Lily of the Valley stamps would become a firm favourite of mine, and what with the footi on TV and the men in both tv rooms watching different games, I am card making this afternoon after scrapbooking this morning -aah, that’s the life…

I have made a card for my friends Karen adn Mike who are moving this week with the Teddy in the Shed stamp, just thought it would make a cute ‘moving’ card.  Coloured in Copic and Promarkers as usual, I used the blue card from SU Soft Subtles and the paper is from Papermania, a pack I seem to be using a lot lately, made it into an easel card with the Best Wishes stamp from SU along with the oval punches.  Where would I be without Jo and Stampin Up!

The second card is the Boy on the Computer stamp, so cute – I just love it.  Coloured as always, with cardstock again from SU soft subtles, the sentiment and square punch SU –  I just love the baby blue and banana colours together, buttons from my stash.

Have to stop now and make tea, made ten cards this afternoon which is great.

Take care…