Twinkletoes

I HAVE TO SHOUT THIS FROM THE ROOFTOPS

2010-11-20T08:55:00.000-08:00

Karla is on the front row 2nd from the right

My Darling daughter has got through to the finals of The Genee.
This is an international competiton, 71 candidates entered and 7 girls and 5 boys got through to the finals.
I have struggled today getting tickets as karla didnt think she would get through to the finals so didnt get any in advance. But i succeded in getting 4 so my mum and dad will be able to see their beautiful granddaughter dance.

We are so proud of her

2010-11-04T15:53:00.000-07:00

Well i have been away far to long from blogland, SORRY,

I have been a little stressed out lately so i havent uploaded anything for a while

First off ......... This is a birthday card for my very good friend Anna. I hope she likes it.

this is the inside of the card
Its my dads birthday on saturday and for once i have made him a card and posted it well in time for the big day (normally its a week late)

Inside of Dads birthdat card

This is a halloween card for my bestest friend Christine, (This was only 4 days late, as i hadnt seen her )

IMages on Anna's and Christines cards are from The octopode Factory. They are all drawn by the very talented Lily Chilvers go and visit her etsy shop and her blog. I love them <3>

Royal Ballet School Grand Defile 11 July 2010.MP4

2010-07-12T14:17:00.000-07:00

My Little girl.........Karla is the 7th lot on in the dark blue tutu's. (3 min 17seconds) She comes on from the left being thrown in the air by Bruno and is then front right, still being thrown in the air by Bruno. (she says she loves the lifts) She made me cry

Zentangle

2010-03-30T03:16:00.001-07:00

I had lots of fun doing this zentangle (sounds posh doesnt it, just another word for doodling) i got the idea after visiting Milliande's youtube videos i have had a lot of insperation over the past few week thanks to Sue Roddis and Sarah Anderson who have both ran wonderfull art journaling workshops at The Cubby Hole in Crewe.
I had always wanted to do something for me.. That i didnt have to make for someone else or give it away and then wonder if the other person liked it or even just appreciated how much work went into producing it.
I just wanted something that i could produce using all the art stuff i had bought and only used a couple of times, and also be able to use all the wonderfull stamps that are just lying around waiting to be used.
I dont want to pour my heart out for everyone to see, these two wonderfull ladies gave me the kick start that i needed and i cant thank you enough.... x x x

Anyway here is the Zentangle that i did hope you like it............

Art Journal workshop at the Cubby Hole

2010-03-29T16:46:00.000-07:00

Well on saturday i went to a fantastic workshop at The Cubby Hole in Crew. We did an Art journal workshop with Sarah we had lots of fun getting messy and i cant wait for the next workshop. Thank you everyone for the wonderful company. This page is nearly finished still needs a few tweekes here and there

This page is going to be my spring page i need to add my words and again tweek it a bit

I love these birds from stampotique originals This page i painted but havent decided yet what im going to do with it yet..........Thank you Sarah it was a fab workshop and you fitted in fine and i hope you will be running a lot more workshops for us.

Art journaling

2009-11-28T14:05:00.001-08:00

I went on an art jornaling workshop run by Sue Roddis at the Cubby Hole in crew we had loads of fun getting messy and i really enjoyed myself even though i am suffering with a cold.
This is the first page that we tackled
First choose some scrapbooking papers glue them onto the page. then splodge on some paint

next draw a circle where you want the sun/moon. and some simple house shapes. then paint inside these shapes with gesso.

next paint the sun/moon and houses then overstamp and add your words. outline the shapes with charchole and smudge this will make things pop off the page.

2010 diary

2009-11-28T13:59:00.000-08:00

This diary started life as a purple diary from poundland. I thought i would make it my own so i paintedit didnt like it so painted and inked it some more until i came up with this. I love it!!!!

I have been away far to long .......Sorry!

2009-10-24T11:48:00.001-07:00

Sorry that it's been such a long time since i last blogged. I hope that i still have some followers. I have been so busy and oh so stressed. My darling hubby has had to give up his courier business. and we have been under a lot of pressure financially. anyway enough of the moaning. here are 2 cards that i have made recently. the first was made at a local craft class that i have started attending. it's an unusual folded card but i really enjoyed making this one. all stamps are from Stampin up..

This card was made for a halloween card swap at The Cubby Hole My friend and i recently went to this shop for the first time it is FAB

The house stamp is one i bought from spiral whisper. the skellinton i bought from Blade rubber stamps on a recent trip to London to visit my daughter Karla. The card is fab i bought it about 2 years ago from a local craft shop and have been trying to work out what to use it for then a light bulb went on and here you have it a lovely halloween card.
This was a plain whit envelop which i attaced with glimmer mists and a flock of bats stamp

Happy Birthday Tilly

2009-06-07T04:20:00.000-07:00

Well as usual i have forgotten yet another Family Birthday It is my neices birthday today and she is a big 4. I thought i would make her a very special card. I saw the tutorial for this on mjm-thearttart.com and i think its fab.

I hope you like this.

Day 4

2009-06-04T11:27:00.000-07:00

These are my creations for day 4 as guest designer on Elzybells

This is my take on a tunnel card. This is fab as it folds flat and fits into a normal size envelope.

Day 3

2009-06-03T11:35:00.000-07:00

What's your all time favourite product?
I think it would have to be rocker blocks, I didn’t like the look of them when they first came onto the market, but after having an operation and not being able to stamp I found them to be a life saver. As you, do not have to put much pressure on them.

What do you like to see on a card?
Flowers!

What item would you not be without?
I would not be without my paper trimmer

Do you have a specific process when making a card... do you plan your card before starting or does it take shape as you create?
I usually have an idea in my head of what I would like my card to look like but I also let it take shape as im making it

2nd day as guest designer for Elzybells

2009-06-02T12:59:00.001-07:00

A baby is...

It's the second day of Tracey's guest designer spot and she has a fabulous new baby card to share!
Where do you get your inspiration?
I like to blog hop and get lots of ideas from the wonderful people that have blogs thanks to you all for sharing your fantastic ideas.

What's your favourite technique?
I like to stamp and colour in using my prisma colour pencils and blending with low odour thinners and paper stumps

What's your favourite Elzybells stamp?
I love all the girl stamps as they remind me of how my daughter used to draw her little girl pictures when she was little. But I must admit I did fall in love with the little penguin and I had a fab time stamping him up and giving him a flocked belly. So simple but oh so cute!

2009-06-01T13:30:00.000-07:00

Wow i was asked a while ago to be guest designer for Elizabeth over on elzybells and i am now the guest designer for June. I am so pleased with myself i could just pop. These are the photo's that she has featured today.

my lovely fairytail castle with dragons, Knights in armour, prince and princesses. I loved making this card. I made the template for the castle myself.

The next card was following on the fairytale theme with the princess and the frog. This was going to be a tunnel card but as you can see it changed shape as i was making it.

Hope you will pop over to Elzybells blog i will have a card on there every day this week.

I'm the Guest designer on Elzybells

2009-06-01T13:20:00.001-07:00

How long have you been stamping / how did you get into stamping?
I have been stamping for about 10 years on and off. I first got into stamping when my mum and I went to the NEC we saw lots of people demoing and decided to give it a go. So we bought a few stamps (that we shared) and an inkpad each.

Do you enjoy any other crafting hobbies?
I enjoy all aspects of crafting and if something catches my eye I will give it a try. I have had a go at cross stitch; I love altered art and being able to incorporate stamping into this. I have dabbled in scrapbooking but I still struggle with 12x12” pages and prefer making smaller layouts or mini books

Would you say you have a particular stamping style?
I don’t think I have a particular stamping style but at the moment the styles of stamping I like the look of are vintage, grungy and cute.

You're invited to a party......

2009-05-16T12:57:00.000-07:00

Wow just look at this Over on dotties world they are having a revamp and are celebrating their birthday in style with a party. I cant wait and see what games we are going to play and what the prizes will be.

They are also giving away some fantastic blog candy. Go on make yourself a cuppa pull up a chair and go and check it out here

****** Happy Birthday Dotties world ******

2009-05-02T11:39:00.000-07:00

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Look at my friends art work

2009-05-02T02:54:00.001-07:00

A good friend of mine Julie is doing an art course at the local college one of her units is based on Emotions this is the art work she has prodused for that unit. She was really unsure whether to submit it or not. she bought it along to see what our reaction were to the painting and then decide. We all loved it. So good luck Julie i hope you get a good mark.

A Birthday card for my lovely 17 year old daughter

2009-05-02T02:37:00.000-07:00

Well what a busy week it has been.
Last sunday it was Karla's 17th birthday and she had asked us to go visit her in London we had said yes before we realised it was the London marathon that day, so instead of going into the center of London we took her to Camden market. It was fantastic we will be going again!!!
Karla bought along 2 friends Aimee and Antonia, so i made them each a favour box with some little mint chocolates in them. All the girls had a fab time and all wished they had lots more money to spend.
The stamped image was a gorguss girl stamp from funky kits and the pp's were basic grey two scoops. Hope you like the card?

My card to my mum on mothers day

2009-03-22T13:19:00.000-07:00

While surffing the net i came across Elains fab blog she makes fantastic exploding boxes. Well I followed the tutorial she has on her gallery blog and this is what i made for my mum for mothers day (I also made one for my darling hubbies mum).
Why is it men are hopeless when it comes to remembering special occassions. I ordered my mum a lovely boquet of freshias from Geurnsey. they arrived on saturday. unfortunatly my mum wont get this card until tomorrow (but she got the flowers) Now DH hadnt even thought about mothers day until my mum rang to say thank you. Oh well my son also takes after his dad because i didnt get anything off him and when i asked very nicely for a cuppa i then had to wait 2 hours. Karla is let off the hook as she is away at school and we normally do something when she comes home (which is next friday) Hope you like the card with a difference............... Made with..... textured black cardstock. gold mirriboard. Basic grey PP (scraps) Basic Grey swirlly stamp, stickles. silver Wire, Red ribbon. Lamminating pouches cut into thin strips
Stamp... Bought from redicut a couple of years ago its by Anna Griffin.

Had a laugh today at work

2009-03-05T12:27:00.000-08:00

It was world book day today so we had to go dressed as a character from a book (guess what i went as?)

You guessed it the white rabbit from Alice in Wonderland. (And i wasn't late for work)

The kids had lots of fun the cook did us proud at snak time we read the hungry catterpillar and she did all the food in the book for the children to try. then for lunch we read the Gruffalo and had scrambled snake (taglatttelli) and owl ice-cream for desert. (she made itin the shape of an owl with waffers for a beak and ears and currents for eyes. Then for tea we read goldilocks and three bears and we had Porrige for tea. we had lots of fun!!!!!

Captured fairy jar

2009-03-05T11:51:00.000-08:00

This was our project at college this week. It used lots of different techniques. staining paper with walnut ink, then stamping a flowery background. coloured the fairy in using prisma pencils and blended with sansador. we then placed oasis in the bottom of the jar then added pot-pouri. i found a scrap piece of hessian for the lid then again decorated it with pot-pouri.

Ihope you all like it. I loved making this

Baby Boy card

2009-02-19T13:02:00.000-08:00

Lauren Meader over on my time, my creations my stampendence
Designed this lovely baby grow card.

When a friend of my mums asked if i would kindly make her a card for a newborn baby i jumped at the chance to make one of these. I hope she likes it.

The front of the card The inside of the card

2009-02-16T11:37:00.000-08:00

Over on Hunnybunnycards Barbara was sent this lovely prayer so i hope she doesn't mind but i thought i would share it with everone who follows my blog.

Dear Lord,

Every single evening

As I'm lying here in bed,

This tiny little Prayer

Keeps running through my head:

God bless all my family

Wherever they may be,

Keep them warm and safe from harm

For they're so close to me.

And God, there is one more thing

I wish that you could do;

Hope you don't mind me asking,

Please bless my computer too.

Now I know that it's unusual

To Bless a motherboard,

But listen just a second

While I explain it to you, Lord.

You see, that little metal box

Holds more than odds and ends;

Inside those small compartments

Rest so many of my friends.

I know so much about them

By the kindness that they give,

And this little scrap of metal

Takes me in to where they live.

Please take an extra minute

From your duties up above,

To bless those in my address book

That's filled with so much love.

Wherever else this prayer may reach

To each and every friend,

Bless each e-mail inbox

And each person who hits 'send'.

When you update your Heavenly list

On your own Great CD-ROM,

Bless everyone who says this prayer

Sent up to GOD.com

Amen

dotties world cards

2009-01-21T08:41:00.000-08:00

Dottie and George back to front collection

This card was made using the new download collection over on charmed cards and crafts its the Dottie and George back to front collection designed by the very tallented Louise. (I love this collection, its one of my favourites.) I have decoupaged the flowers to give it a little more dimension.

The inside of the card is just as detailed as the front.

Girl about Town

Its my friends birthday on friday and i made this card as it suits her to a T she seems to have a passion for shoes

I hope she likes it

Sorry about the lighting this photo was taken at 7am. As i was dropping the card off today and it was the only chance i had to photograph it.

2009-01-20T04:48:00.000-08:00

i am so sorry about the lighting in these photo's. I did these recipe cards for a cupcake swap that im in over on uk Scrappers. The recipe is printed off the computer and i used a clear cupcake stamp (this was 99p from a local craft shop). I used some pp out of my scrap box and the lovely Tilda stamp coloured using my prisma pencils and sansador.

I am a member of a stampers 10 group (stampin up) run by monica. She sets challenges each month and you get a little bag of goodies. This was our challenge. (i love it)

I attend a craft class on a monday evening at our local college Tina who runs the class is so tallented and comes up with some fantastic ideas. this card was supposed to be a femaile vintage card but i wanted to make a masculin card so i used the base idea off Tina then altered it by using some of my paper artsy stamps. Next week we are making a double diamond card. Then we are capturing a fairy in a jar (I cant wait)

I hope you liked these cards will be back tomorrow with some cards made from the new designes of Dottie and George over on Charmed cards and crafts

I'm still here

2009-01-17T11:10:00.000-08:00

Sorry for not being a good blogger lately but before christmas the whole family took it in turns getting this horrible flu bug. (it was a really nasty little bug). Anyway then we went on our jolly holidays. oh what fun we had. walking along the beach in the lovely sunshine on christmas day, Then on new years eve we went to a free concert on the beach where we saw UB40 it was fantastic. 20,000 people and we were right at the front

I thought i would show you some of my holiday snaps.This is what it was like on our first day. We had left a cold and wet England to land in a warm and sunny PortugalChristmas morning sipping champagne cocktails as they were free karl got a little carried away and had about 8 (you wouldnt beleive he doesn't drink)Now it must have been warm for me to take my cardie off.Every christmas day we have chips and egg its a tradition we even took to PortugalThis is the stage on the beach ready for the new years eve cellebrations. (look right next to the sea)UB40The concert was fantastic.

When we were waiting for our flight home they said it was -10 at Gatwick. when we got there it had gone up to 0. The following day we got up for work. when we opened the curtains this is what greeted us (now someone is taking the mickie)

I hope i didn't bore you to much with my holiday snaps.

I will try and post some crafty things tomorrow.

happy christmas

2008-12-20T10:47:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone

Hope you are all ready for christmas, we are all packed and ready to fly off to portugal for a fortnight so i wont be arround until next year (that sounds really weired) so Happy Christmas to you all.

Lots of love

Tracey

Pink Gem blog candy

2008-12-07T01:16:00.000-08:00

Janet is giving away some fab blog candy over on pink gem designs, this is to celebrate 5000 hits to the site. if you haven't seen any of janets designes then go check them out they are super cute.

Blog candy

2008-12-02T12:51:00.001-08:00

Over on Dotties world Louise is giving away some fab blog candy. This is in celebration of her birthday so go check it out. x x x x x x

Happy Birthday Louise x x x x x

2008-11-24T16:55:00.000-08:00

the lovely Maddy has presented me with this award. Thank you so much. I would like to present it to all the followers of my blog. at the moment there are 6 of you following my blog so please pick this award up;
This blog invests and believes the PROXIMITY - nearness in space, time and relationships!These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind blogger's aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in prizes or self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers! Deliver this award to eight blogger's who must choose eight more and include this cleverly-written text into the body of their award.

2008-11-24T16:07:00.000-08:00

Ive had these stamps from Elzybells for quite a while and have been trying to think of a wow card. after a lot of thought i decided i wanted to make a castle card and here it is....... i have made these three cd folders for karla, my sister in law lisa and my mums friend lorraine. they each contain cd's that i have recorded for them off sky plus. The first 2 were made using stamps designed by Janet Roberts over on pink gem designes

I think janets designes are fantastic. she has just introdused Jack Mimies brother, go over to pink gem designes and check them out.

fantastic blog cndy

2008-11-22T12:51:00.001-08:00

Debbie is offering some fantastic blog candy. so go and make a brew pull up a chair sit back and admire her fab work. she is such a tallented lady.

Crafty Muse

2008-11-22T04:47:00.000-08:00

I am so naughty i forgot to upload these yesterday (slap on the wrists) I was so busy (working with darling hubby and going to a Paul Weller concert i totally Forgot) then this morning i went to my local craft shop for a demo by Amanda Bateman but she didnt show up. so at last i'm adding my contribution to the crafty muse challenge........

The challeng was to use the colour purple. I was out of my comfort zone on this one as i find purple hard to work with, So i hope you all like the results.
Go and check out crafty muse as Sammi has added a few more designs on there including som boys...

2008-11-18T10:12:00.000-08:00

I went blog hopping the other day and came across a class set by crafts by caroline. I love the shape of this card.
The stamps are all sarah kay. The pp are from a case of papers that my darling husband bought me from costco. (i only used scraps)

completed college project

2008-11-18T09:52:00.000-08:00

This was our project at college last week. It contains lots of techneques. This will be my parents christmas card this year as i know they will appreciate all the hard work that went into it.
The card was made using 5 A4 pieces of white card as the main structure.

Inside the card.

Thank you Tina for such a fab class.

Crafty Muse is now open

2008-11-09T07:50:00.000-08:00

Crafty muse is now open. I was very pleased when Sammi asked if i would like to be on her design team. She has set a fortnightly challenge this weeks challenge is..............

"Our first challenge is to use Angelique with flowers ... So we are giving her away as a freebie image so that you can play!"

If you would like to take part hop on over to Crafty Muse and collect your free image.I thought i would give Angelique a little dimension. i took some silk flowers apart cut one of the layers in half and glued them together. i then got some glitter glue and added it to the petals.
I also decorated the inside of the card to match the front of the card.

Dottie black, white with a splash of colour challenge

2008-11-04T12:17:00.000-08:00

This week on Dotties World Adele set the challenge

Black, white and a splash of .........COLOUR!!!
I want your creations this week to include one or more of the Charmed Download images and to be only 3 main colours. Black, white and one colour of your choice. You can use as many tones of grey and of your chosen colour and you can obviously use a skintone and haircolour ( I am feeling generous! LOL )but that's it.

This is what i came up with. Sorry about the photo's i had to put the card together whilst out in dh van. I used the paisly cuttlebug embossing folder ( I did this bit at home) I used one of the fantastic new images designed by louise. you can find this lovely fellow over on charmed cards and crafts I used lots of different shades of grey. and the hint of lime green to colour him in. i used my prisma pencils and sansador.

I hope you like it

3 posts in one day

2008-10-27T02:59:00.000-07:00

Here are some of the christmas cards that i made this weekend.

This one is using the lovely penguin stamp from Elzybells art stamps
I think he is so cute. I have put flock on his tummy. To make the card i used white card stock. cuttlebug swiss dots embossing folder. I then cut a scalloped frame using a circle punch and a scalloped circle punch. For this card i have used the snowflake cuttlebug embossing folder. white organser ribbon coloured paper. the image is again from Elzybells art stamps, she is coloured using prisma pencils and blended with sansador. I have then used diamond stickles on her wings and on the tree.

Penny Black week 20 challenge + A spoonful 0f sugar Challenge

2008-10-27T02:35:00.000-07:00

My best friends daughter has just left home to attend uni. she asked if we could send her halloween cards, This fitted in lovely as i wanted to enter the spoon full of sugar challenge which is 'Halloween' and i have also entered the penny black challenge for the first time.

The challenge was

Bump In The Night
As Halloween is approaching we would like to see your spooky cards/projects this week.
As always it's entirely up to you what you make - card, atc, altered art etc... As long as you use at least 1 Penny Black Image.

Ihave used black card, orange bazil bling. The cuttlebug haunted house embossing folder, i also used the spider web embossing folder and then cut the web out with a craft knife, I then used distress inks to colour it. The spider was from a local supermarket (it was a ring but i cut the back off and glued it onto the card using silicone glue) The penny black image was.....kitty witch from the margaret sherry collection.This is a picture of the inside of the card, again i used black card stock. orange bazil bling, the other half of the spiders web that was used on the front of the card. The penny black image used here was "Brown bag monster" also from the margaret sherry collection.

Juliets blog candy

2008-10-27T02:28:00.000-07:00

Juliet has some fantastic blog candy to give away she is celebrating 10,000 hits on her blog, so go grab yourself a cuppa and visit her blog. (she is a very talented lady and was featured on the insperational blog this week)

Dotties Challenge

2008-10-21T09:07:00.000-07:00

"Make something using a Charmed download but IT CAN'T BE A CARD!"

This is the challenge over on Dotties world set by Louise.

I was in the middle of a project that i was finishing off for my monday craft class and i had the fab idea of making it into a halloween cake, then louise sets this wonderfull challenge.

Each of the pieces of cake are filled with sweets ready for halloween.

pp is karen fosters halloween papers. card is orange bazil bling, flowers are cut using xcut flower punch. spiders web is a magnolia stamp from the recent autumn collection. and of course dottie downloads

2008-10-08T11:09:00.000-07:00

This weeks challenge over on dotties world is set by Juliet.....

This week, I'd like you to create something on the theme 'Love is......' and I would like to see a message or journalling on the FRONT of your card. As usual, you must include one of the Dottie downloads

Well i had lots of fun with this challenge. I decided i didnt want to do couples so i twisted it a little and as i'm away from home this week i had limited resources.

I made this card whilst travelling around in darling hubbies van. so im sorry about the quality of the pictures.

The images were the ready coloured images from the rock and roll dottie and george that can be found over on charmed cards and crafts The stage was a pre colored image from the christmas collection. PP were from my mums scrap box as were the buttons and the wire. the words were printed on the computer.

2008-10-04T09:55:00.000-07:00

here are some atc's that i have made they are all using magnolia stamps. I thought i would enter them in for the design team call over on tilda and co challenge blog.

Blog candy

2008-09-29T13:37:00.000-07:00

Angeljakki Has got some fantastic blog candy go and check out her blog. she has some fab cards on there.

2008-09-27T11:52:00.000-07:00

Here is my design for the dotties world sunday challege This week the challenge was set by adele with a little help from Jack her son.

"Jack suggested that I made a card using triangles but I am going to open up the possibilites and ask you to make creations with bold geometric shapes. This could simply be part of some patterned papers or a fancy shaped card...the choice is yours BUT I want to see some geometric shapes as a main part of your work....no cheating and telling me the brad is a circle!"

And this is my card

I have used red and green card stock and a piece of gold mirror card. I have made one of these cards before so i used that as a template. the green card i cut into triangles then used the cuttlebug embossing folder (christmas baubles) I matted and layered the triangles. The main image is from the christmas dottie and george downloads this is one that was already coloured, i have added some snow writter and glimmer dust on the fur trim to give it a little more dimension. I then went mooching through all my christmas stamps and used these to decorate the other sides of the card with bit of ribbon from my scraps box.

2008-09-22T05:00:00.001-07:00

Thank you to everyone over on Dotties world for all the lovely comment on my card.
I was very busy yesterday as i went to the Great Northern papercraft extraviganser. for the first time this year they ran a breakfast workshop. I chose Blonde moments as i love Dyans classes. we did a tag class using blonde moments pigment powders. It was run by Dyan Reaverly and her lovely assistant Kirsty Wiseman. (pictured bellow)
Here is my tag book using everything Blonde moments can be purchased from Art from the heart.

The class was well worth the money, you got a drink and a muffin, the kit to complete the project and we also received a goody bag of blonde moments stash.

Dotties world challenge "Go Green"

2008-09-20T11:09:00.000-07:00

Wow i cant beleive it.... I was chosen to be the next guest designer for Dotties world. I am over the moon.

I have had to put this onto my blog really early as i'm going to the great northern papercrafts extravaganser today and it takes 2 hours to get their. so i wont be back until late.

Well here is the challenge it was set by Karen this week

"Everything today is set on environmental issues, so lets GO GREEN! it really is that simple, show me how green you can get! But this is a green dish with a few extra ingredients, sprinkle it with three buttons or brads, season with a little ribbon, and finally add that special little "recycled something"

This is my card

The image is from George at work which i coloured with my prisma pencils and blended with sansador i then cut him out and decoupaged him to give him a little depth. i added 2 eylets and threaded 3 pieces of wire twine through (this is my recycled bit as the twine was used to wrap my parcel up that i received from art from the heart when they sent me some blog candy). I then matted and layered the image onto scraps from my ever increasing pile of paper. as you have guessed it is Blonde moments "citrus fling" papers. (I love these papers). i then added my 3 flower brads.

I loved doing this challenge. i think my darling hubby has got used to me crafting whilst delivering parcels in his van. (i now have a mobile craft room)(how good is that)

ooohhh i cant wait till next weeks challenge.........

2008-09-20T09:17:00.000-07:00

I am so proud of karla she has surrvived 2 weeks fending for herself in the big city. She has now mastered the tube, and yes she did get to Harrods for the friends who were with me when i got a frantic call from her saying she couldn't get a certain type of weights that she needed for monday's ballet class. (I was fretting as there wasn't anything that i could do anyway a friend of hers had got some from Harrods so karla being karla decided to go and get some. she went ALL BY HERSELF ON THE TUBE, very brave i thought). Anyway today she has been to school this morning (but it's saturday i hear you all shout) yes karla has to do half a day of school on saturdays. She then went for a mooch around Covent Garden with one of her school friends they then went back to the boarding house. where they got showered and changed and then went shopping in oxford street. WHAT IT IS TO BE YOUNG. she is going food shopping in a bit, then do her weekly washing before sitting infront of the tv with a large bowl of pop corn.

I DO MISS HER.........

Dottie challenge

2008-09-16T11:51:00.000-07:00

Hi folks

sorry i havent been around lately but time seems to have run away with me this last couple of weeks. I am now working for my darling hubby, he has his own courrier franchise and is rushed off his feet.

Anyway i wanted to make Karla a little something as she is feeling a little lost in the big city, having to fend for herself. so i thought of making her a name plate for her door at the boarding house, I had the song title Dancing Queen and the picture of ballerina Dottie all planned as this fits karla to a T.

I used Ballerina dottie coloured with prisma pencils and blended with sansador then decoupaged. i used an old ribbon that i saved off a chocolate box. The papers are londe Moments Minaisie moo. the background usinf 12x12 and the letters using 6x6. The letters were basic grey ones that i used as templates.

Blog candy

2008-09-10T12:26:00.000-07:00

Nickie is celebrating 20,000 hits on her blog with some fantastick high hopes stamps and basic grey papers. go and hae a peek but make sure you take a cuppa and some biscuits because you will be inspired.

Also crissy on crissy's art and heart blog is also giving away some blog candy. Please go and check these 2 blogs out they are fab

Hi

2008-09-07T13:41:00.000-07:00

Hi to you all. I havent been crafting for a couple of days, My darling daughter has gone back to school today. We had to take her to her boarding house in barrons court, London. She has just finished 5 years at the royal ballet lower school, and is now starting a new adventure at the upper school in covent garden. She is sharing a room with a girl called Greta who is from Norway. At the lower school they had lots of rules and regulations and as they were in richmond park they wern't allowed out of school until the weekend. Now she is in upper school they have some rules and regulations but they are allowed out until 10pm. They have to cook for themselves and they have a 20min. journey by tube to school. anyway thats enough of my angsiety i'm sure she will be fine.
i'm off for an early night as i have to go to work with hubby tomorrow and we have to be up at 4.30am.

awards list

2008-09-04T02:11:00.000-07:00

Well my darling hubby owns his own courrier business and as the schools have been shut he had a backlog of parcels that needed scanning in and sorting out so he asked if i would go into the depot and sort them for him. He said there were only a couple of hundred and it would take a couple of hours. (there were 418 altogether and it took most of the afternoon,)
that is the reason i didnt get back on here till now.
Anyway down to business. I have to choose 7 blogs that i would like to give this award to. They are....
1..Becky
2..Louise
3..Kitty
4..Adele
5..Lea
6..suzie sunshine
7..Sammi

I know that some of these lovely ladies have had this award before but i would like to acknowledge that i find their blogs so inspiring. Thank you x x x

ooohhh my first ever award.

2008-09-03T04:55:00.000-07:00

This award is off Tracey

Thank you so much i am very honoured. Now i have to choose 7 other blogs. if you dont mind i will mull this over and get back to you later with a list. (As i have to go to work this afternoon ...Yawn)

Rules:

1. The winner can put the logo on hers or his blog.

2. Link the person you received your award from.

3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs

4. Put links of those blogs on yours.

5. Leave a message on the blogs of those you've nominated.

Blog candy

2008-09-02T12:53:00.000-07:00

Adele is giving away some blog candy she is celebrating 15000 hits to her blog. go and have a peek and leave her a comment. her blog is so insperational.

115 days to christmas (Dotties world challenge)

2008-09-01T13:36:00.000-07:00

This is my card for the Dotties world challenge set by Juliet. I wanted to keep it quite plain and not overpowering as i liked the structure of the card by itself. It was simple to make and only needed 2 pieces of card.

Busy bee

2008-08-29T12:40:00.000-07:00

Well i have tidied the draws in the living room looking for a form from karlas school. I couldn't remember if i had to pay her school fees or if they owed me. as she is going to The Royal Ballet Upper school in covent garden. and she has to board in Barrons Court which is 9 stops away on the Tube. Anyway i found the letter and they owe me, so that will pay for her food.

Anyway in between looking for this letter i have been crafty again today.

Firstly i have made a card for Sammi This is for a chance to win her blog candy. It looks blue in the picture but it is Purple.

I quite liked this stamp so tried it in a couple of different colour schemes. The flower is hand made using a scalloped circle punch.

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Another christmas card. I had made this up on my crafty day but couldn't find the right ribbon at the time well you would be supprised what i found whilst cleaning draws today.

On wednesday when i was having fun with Halloween Dottie i printed this image off but it was far to small. It was destined for the bin, well for some reason it was left on the side and here you are a piece of jewelry.

And finally

This card was made for me by my mum. Thank you it is a fab card. (obviously you can use othe chocolate bars when making this)

oh dear what have i done????

2008-08-28T16:09:00.000-07:00

Well karla was bored so i asked her to put a few songs on my blog. She has definatly put a few on 103 to be exact but she deleted my old juke box. I didnt get chance to check what she had put on but i do know there is deffinatly going to be McFly.

so you now have a choice skip through the play list until you find something you like or turn the volume down on your computer......

I love her to bits and i am very grateful. Thank you sweetheart x x x x

I've had a craft day

2008-08-27T11:56:00.000-07:00

Well i have been crafting all day and i have had lots of fun, the only downside is i've made lots of mess and it will take ages to tidy away. Oh well let me show you what i have made.

I made another christmas card I love making these word circles, The tree is from Dotties Christmas downloads.

When i saw the Halloween Dottie and George i couldnt wait to buy them. I spent all last night cutting them out and then today i had fun making stuff. This is flying dottie

I put Dottie on some ascetate so it gives it a little more dimmension. The stage is from christmas dottie and george. then i have added some stickers that i got from the pound shop.

This is a picture of the inside of the card. The frog and the bat are poundland stickers.

This is a little trick or treat sweet bag for Karla to take to school (closer to Halloween) I make her one every year and fill it with sweets.
I know she's 16 but it is now a traddition that she has one of these little bags.

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And finally Adele over on dotties world set this weeks challenge.

This is the first challenge that i have done.

You had to ust a tag (mine is orange in the top corner) you also had to use hearts (on the Umberella) and flowers (top corner)

Blog candy for our heroes

2008-08-26T00:16:00.000-07:00

I have copied and pasted this plea from Emma all you have to do is make a couple of extra christmas cards. Go on have a read.....
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Blog candy for our heroes...

After the wonderful response to our Christmas cards for the troops plea and after much discussion with Tina, Sarah and everyone else we have decided to offer some blog candy for this very worthy cause...As some of you have already started making your Christmas cards...do you fancy making a spare one for the Troops in Iraq or Afghanistan? All you need to do is make an extra one...leave it blank inside so a member of our fantastic Forces can send it home to a loved one.Everyone that sends a card to me to forward on to SOS will have their name put into a draw for a huge bag of ribbons from craftyribbons.co.uk. Send two cards and you get your name in twice!If you would like your name putting in the draw then drop me an e-mail and I'll tell you where to send them.All cards need to be received by the beginning of October.So girls...start spreading the word and lets give our boys and girls some Christmas chee
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Go on give it a go......... I know that it means a lot to the troops as my husband was in Iraqu in 2003

Thank You

christmas come early

2008-08-25T11:02:00.000-07:00

Well i havent blogged for a few days as i have been working on my christmas cards. I know, i know christmas already you are shouting. But yes i have made a start, i have only made 20 and i started them on friday and have just finished them. as i have said before im a bit of a techno fobe and it took me a while to get the writing just how i wanted it. Anyhow here it is.

I just adore this stamp it's from penny black i have coloured his body in with prisma pencils and blended with sansador. His hat is coloured using a red sharpie pen, i have used a snow writer and glimmer dust for the fur. on his eyes i used anita's glossy liquid to give them a bit of a shine. I did the wording by following a tutorial that i found on Dotties world (hope you like them)

Blog candy

2008-08-24T14:53:00.000-07:00

Spiral whisper are giving away some fantastic blog candy to celebrate 10,000 hits to their web site. They have some fantastic stamps for sale designed by some very talented people. Go and check it out and leave them a comment

proud mum moment

2008-08-21T11:28:00.000-07:00

Karla got her GCSE results today she got 2 A's, 6 B's. and she took an AS which she got a C

I'm so proudof her as has worked so hard. x x x x x

I have just completerd my tardis ATC's the theme is 'Time' I also did this for a dr who swap on UKScrappers.

2 cards today

2008-08-20T11:18:00.000-07:00

I made this card for a girl at work, she is going on maternity leave tomorrow. But as i also leave my job tomorrow i will give it to her friend to pass on when she has her baby (yes she does know she is having a boy) All the elements for this card were printed from the cute companions cd. It was really quick and easy to make.
The background for this card was also from the cute companions cd. I had coloured and cut the image of Tilda out a while ago. (using prisma pencils and sansador) and i thought she would look good on a plain and simple card. Hope you like it.

More blog candy

2008-08-19T12:54:00.000-07:00

Sammi is celebrating 5000 hits on her blog and sssshhhh it's also her birthday so she decided to have a blog party. go check out her blog.

Sammi helped and encouraged me to set this blog up so im sending a big THANK YOU to her.

Just because blog candy

2008-08-19T12:31:00.000-07:00

Juliet is giving away some fab blog candy "just because" so go and check out her fab blog.

Another Dottie

2008-08-19T11:18:00.000-07:00

I made this card and Gift bag (filled with chocolates) for a work coleagues birthday. The naughty Dottie pictures were from charmed cards and crafts and were coloured in using my prisma pencils and sansador. the pp is spring fling by blonde moments which can be found at Art from the Heart

for the gift bag i followed a tutorial that i found on Kitty's krafty blog thanks kitty. here is the tutorial link I think i will be making a few of these bags for christmas.

Good Luck card

2008-08-18T11:40:00.001-07:00

These are my 2 pregnant dottie cards. The Dottie images are from charmed cards and crafts ,

The papers are spring fling by Blond Moments .

Rubbish ATC swap

2008-08-18T11:29:00.000-07:00

I have made this atc for a swap on ukscrappers, we were asked to make them out of things that we would normally throw away.

thick card that came in packs of envelopes.
the paper is used envelopes
bottle tops
Tim Holtz stamp
Distress inks (brocken china. mustard seed. spiced marmalade,

Blog candy

2008-08-14T16:28:00.000-07:00

Enfys is giving away some fantastic blog candy. So go and check out her blog and leave a comment.

HOOOORRAAAHHH

2008-08-13T16:14:00.000-07:00

I have done it added links, got them to work and i even added a button linking to Dann99. Thank you so much to sammi you are a star. (i can do links yipee)

2008-08-13T14:02:00.000-07:00

I've had a hectic few days but i have had a little play with my blog and i now have music and i am able to see what time it is as i've added a clock. i'm so proud of myself.

I still need to work out how to add links i'm such a techno fobe. well i will be back soon i hope

My first ever blog

2008-08-12T13:49:00.000-07:00

Well this is it i have set up a blog. Thanks to sammie for all your help and encouragement.

The only thing is i have this blog but i haven't got any recent craft projects to show you so i will show you one of my digi layouts.

This is chris my darling son. we went to purtugal and he insisted on wearing this hat for most of the holiday.