MAWTT - Hazel's Sketch and Some News....

Hello... good morning! I hope you are all doing ok... we have a new challenge for you over at..

Moving Along With the Times 

and our lovely boss Hazel has created this fab...

'Sketch'

So we want you to follow this simple sketch... lots of scope to create ... you can rotate it or flip it... just as long as we can see the sketch on your card! and we really look forward to seeing all your fab entries! :-)

(closing date of this challenge is 8pm BST Wednesday 5th June 2013)

and we also have an announcement!

 this is going to be the last challenge with MAWTT for a while as we are taking an extended Summer break.... The team works really hard and just needs some time out to recharge their batteries....

but the good news is....

MAWTT.... will be back..... :-)

(Sue says in Arnie Schwarzenegger Voice!)

on

Thursday 3rd October 2013 

YAY!!!

(so please keep the date in your diaries for our relaunch)

but I will remind you.... 

But we still have one more challenge to go!!.... and we would love to have you all join in ... it would also be lovely if you could find time to visit the Design Team girls at  MAWTT  ... to see all their gorgeous cards ....and to give them some love ..... xx

I thought I would make a nice bright and cheery card!... and as you can see... I'm still going through my pink phase!! LOL this gorgeous Mo image was a freebie on Mother's Day... So adorable!!

Image: Mo Manning - 'Thanks'

Papers: Bo Bunny - 'Isabella'

Dies: Memory Box - 'Corner Bow' and 'Precious Hearts'

Flower: Bo Bunny - 'Blush Daisies'

Nailheads: JosyRose

Sentiment: computer generated...

Image: Mo Manning - 'Thanks'

Coloured with Promarkers and Copics

Ah well... I found this post quite hard to type up... I know MAWTT is returning but I will miss it so much... but I'm sure when we return in Autumn ... we will all be revitalised and gosh... it will be time to start on those Halloween and Christmas Cards!! Yippee!! my favourite time of year!! ;-))

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

SweetStamps - 'Flowers' 

Fab'n Funky - 'For the Girls' 

Simon Says - 'Anything Goes' 

By the Cute & Girly - 'Flowers'

Creatalicious Challenges - 'For the Girls' 

The forecast says rain for today! so perfect for staying in and crafting ! ;-)

Not long until weekend... and hopefully the weather will be a bit brighter by then!!

Take Care

Love and hugs

Exciting News - I'm a Diva!

Good Morning.... I hope everyone is ok today... I just wanted to tell you my exciting news...

I'm now a DT Member

 for the wonderful...

Divas by Design!!!! 

Yay!!  I was so pleased and honoured to be asked to join the team and I'm really looking forward to getting started... my first card will be on 19th June... as we are settling into new Teams.... but I'm looking forward to seeing all your lovely entries this week...

we have a brand new challenge.... 

'Tie A Ribbon'

and we are sponsored by the adorable 2 Cute Ink

We hope you can join us for this fab theme....

Hope you all have a lovely day... it's dull today but at least it's dry... for now!! LOL

Will be back tomorrow with a card...

Love and hugs

June - Strawberries and Tennis?

Hello... I hope you are all well... big hugs to anyone who is not feeling good... :-)

I haven't posted for a while.. so thought I'd post this card that I made last year but didn't show.... it was for a friend's birthday in June...

and can you believe that June is just around the corner... a month that makes me think of Strawberries... and long hot days... ice cold drinks.... bees buzzing.... tennis... ah well we can dream.... LOL

Image: Digi Darla - 'Cupcake Annie'

Papers and Elements: Raspberry Road Designs - 'Summer Goodness'

Candi: from Stash

Sentiment: Computer generated

Image: Digi Darla - 'Cupcake Annie'

but the way the weather is going......... let's just hope we don't have any of the white stuff for Wimbledon... can you imagine.....

Just Joking.... I have photoshopped the wonderful McEnroe!! remember the good old days when he played Jimmy Connors and Bjorn Borg... and the wonderful Chrissie Evert, Martina Navratilova and Evonne Cawley etc... ooh what wonderful matches they had back then...

I hope you all had a lovely Bank Holiday... the sunshine was lovely while it lasted wasn't it... but alas... back to dull and rain again today... perfect weather for crafting or reading though! :-)

Thanks for all your lovely comments... I really do appreciate them all... will be back with another creation very soon!

Love and hugs

Pink and Girly with Sparkle...

Hello!!...  I thought I would show you the card that I made for my daughter's Birthday... 

My lovely blogging friend Ira gave me these gorgeous toppers for my Birthday... they are all sparkly and very pretty! sorry that the photos don't show the sparkle very well !!!  I've not done a very good job of photographing this card at all!!! The papers are from Prima - 'Rondelle' pad. 

it was quite a quick card to make but love how it came out... and my daughter loved it too! :-))

I would like to enter the following Challenges:-

Crafty Creations - 'Keep it Simple' 

Charisma Cardz - 'No Digis Allowed' 

Tammy's Scrapin Corner - 'Pink and Girly with Sparkle' 

Thanks for all your good wishes re my dad... he is doing ok now... the seizures do leave him wiped out for days but guess it is natures way of the brain healing... I am mega tired at the moment since I missed a night's sleep... I'm really struggling this time to get back into a normal sleep pattern... hence me posting this at night... LOL - feel like I'm on shift work... 

My daughter had a lovely Birthday though and we enjoyed the weekend... lots of very scrummy party food and cake... and we watched Skyfall on Saturday evening which was really good! 

Will catch up with you all very soon.... take care...

Love and hugs

MAWTT - Colour Theme

Hello... good morning! I hope you are all doing ok... it's time for a brand new challenge over at

Moving Along With the Times

This week it's the turn of Team A... and our lovely boss Hazel is hostess.... she has chosen the fab theme of a

'Colour Theme'

So we would like to see projects using the gorgeous colours above ... aren't they fab... they are like 'Northern Lights' and so I thought it would be really good to make a Christmas Card with these colours...

I made my own papers again so that I could match up the colours... and I've used a very cute Mo Manning image called 'Winter Fairy Halla'

Image: Mo Manning - 'Winter Fairy Halla'
Papers: made by me...
Flower: Prima - Perle Bebe 'Almanac'
Die: Memory Box - 'Corner Bow'
Pearls: From Stash

I've coloured cute little Halla with Copics and Promarkers... and added some Star Dust Stickles on wings, pom poms and 'frost' breath! 

The challenge this week is just for fun...

For more details of the challenge... I hope you can hop on over to MAWTT and you can also see my Teamies gorgeous creations for your inspiration.... I really hope you can join us for this fun challenge! 

I would like to enter my card into the following Challenges:-

A Gem of A Challenge - 'Things with Wings' 

Cupcake Craft - 'Lots of Layers' 

Crafts & Me - 'Use a Digi' 

Fab'n Funky - 'Your Favourite Embellishment' 

(Stickles and Pearls)

Simon Says - 'Flower Power' 

Our Creative Corner - 'Anything Goes' 

Natalie and Amy - 'Things with Wings' 

Sparkle Challenge - 'Favourite Festive Colours' 

Thanks for all your lovely comments on my last card... I just have to say... Kath mentioned about her grandma having coats and hats like in my Paris card... well my grandma did too!!!... isn't this a wonderful photo of my gran!! I'm not sure where the photo was taken... but probably Llandudno, Wales... as she loved to holiday there....  I think this will have been taken @1928

I apologise in advance if I'm a bad blogger for a couple of days... we've been up most of last night with my dad as he had another bad seizure... he isn't too well bless him... he has a lot of other health problems at the moment too... 

 So I'm hoping we can catch up with some sleep in the daytime maybe... and hopefully we will all feel better by weekend... as it's my daughter's 28th Birthday on Friday!! Ooh it seems like only yesterday that she was a baby!!! Am I really that old? LOL

Take Care and will see you again soon...
Stay warm and snug! :-))

Love and hugs

Paris Fashion....

Hello... I hope you are all well... it's a bit dull here in Manchester UK but perfect weather for crafting... :-) so I thought I would do a 'Fashion' card for this month's theme over at Heck of a Challenge.... and so I had a search and found this fab 'flapper' image at Free Vintage Digital Stamps... isn't it sweet?

I made the papers on computer ... but looking at it now I think it's a little too 'busy' !! and this card has been such a pain to photograph... I think maybe my auto focus is very confused as to what to focus on and has just gone very cross-eyed!!! LOL I give up trying to get it any clearer... sick of the sight of photos of this card now!! do you have days like that?

I made the 'words' paper by typing some of the main Fashion Capital Cities on a graduated pink background with some little hearts inbetween... and the other paper I used some black Art Deco type shapes on pink background .... I layered up the papers and mounted the image with 3D foam pads and then added a Prima flower and some pearls...

So quite a quick card... but hope you like it.... I seem to be going through a 'pink' phase!! 

I would like to enter the following Challenges:-

Lexi's Creations - 'Happy Birthday' 

Paper Crafting Journey - 'Anything Goes' 

Heck of a Challenge - 'Fashion'

I can't believe it's Wednesday already!! I am a day behind with the Bank Holiday...
I am tired today... not sure if it's the weather but my eyes are closing now... not good at 5pm!!! LOL hope I feel better after something to eat... but I think I will have an early night tonight!! ;-)
Hope you are all well ... Big Hugs to those who are not feeling good...
Love and hugs