Blog Candy Giveaway

Just an extra post today to let you know of a couple of blogs giving away blog candy, the first is this one.... http://lildebstampscrap.blogspot.com/2008/05/blog-candy.html. There is tons of stuff in the giveaway and you have until 14th of June to register.

The other one is http://heidi-kortoggodt.blogspot.com/2008/05/hanglar-blog-candy.html but it runs out today, so you will have to be quick. Hanglar stamp and images for this one....

And one more blog candy giveaway of hanglar images, this is on until tomorrow.
http://www.hjemmehoscharlie.blogspot.com/
Thanks to all the generous blog candy giveaways.

And yet another blog candy giveaway.... http://going-buggy.blogspot.com/ you have until 5th of June for this one.

Ooops I forgot....

I remembered last night when I got home from work at about 10pm that I hadn't updated my blog.... was too tired after eating my chinese to do it, so here goes for todays one...

Have received lots of stash lately and still have more to come, yesterday I got my Stampin Up parcel from Monica, (http://monicas-passions.blogspot.com/) I am buying 12 ink pads a month and the matching cardstock, plus a little extra, this month it was a stamp-a-ma-jig so that I can get my images stamped in the right places. I also received my new Sugar Nellie stamps yesterday along with a little freebie one which was very welcome, thank you Karen from http://www.funkykits.co.uk/. Today I received my prize from SarahsCards (http://www.sarahscardsltd.com/), a gorgeous card kit which my daughters are already trying to steal from me, plus my new Tim Holtz bits from http://www.craftobsessions.co.uk/, sprockets, jump rings, ball chain, hanging clip things and a new cuttlebug embossing folder. I have had an email from a lady in US who I buy my Stampin Up stamps from that they dont sell in the UK and she has my 6 sets which she will be posting out to me Monday, have also had a dispatch e-mail from a place in france where I have bought some new stamp pads and stamps too, so look forward to receiving them next week.

Haven't made any new cards since Thursday as DD sprung it on me that she needed another 10 thank you cards made which made the total 25, all finished now, so will get on with some making of my own.... Here is the thank you card I made...

I changed one of the photographs I had taken of Caleb (my new grandson) and changed it to black and white, cut out a white square and blue scalloped square using nestabilities dies, ribbon from stash, computer generated sentiment, gems from stash and the base of the card was made using a cuttlebug embossing folder.... quite simple (glad about that as she needed 25). Teamed them up with pale blue envelopes and now everyone who bought baby Caleb a gift gets a lasting reminder of him too.

A couple more cards that I have made recently.

Paper was Basic Grey Two Scoops, scallop made using Fiskars Threading Water border punch. Sentiment is a rub on from Timeless Transfers, green flower is a prima flower, blue flower is from my new Petaloo Dahlia Box Blends, lace and brad from stash.

This card was made for my daughters 15th birthday, paper is Basic Grey Cupcake, buttons are also matching Basic Grey Cupcake, circles cut from nestabilities dies, cupcake cut from a sizzix cupcake die, gems from stash. Cardstock was Bazzill card.

Off to create, although I am helping at Sunday School tomorrow so need to swot up on what we are doing there... have a good day all xx

What a Surprise.... I'm a Winner....

Well I couldn't believe it when I stumbled across the winner thread of the May Prize Card Challenge on UK Scrappers as the winner was ME!!!! Totally surprised as there were so many gorgeous cards entered..... I win a card kit from http://www.sarahscards.co.uk/. Thank you so much Sarah for your generous prize. Here is my winning card....

The image is from Rachelle Anne Miller designs which I bought from http://www.sirstampalot.co.uk/, it has been coloured in using Prismacolour pencils, sansador and paper stumps. The scallop edging was made using the Fiskars Threading Water Border Punch, the paper is Basic Grey Sugared, with matching bazzill cardstock. The flowers are from my stash and the buttons are also the Basic Grey Sugared collection. The green swirls you can just see down the edge of the flowers were cut using my Cricut Expression and SCAL software and the sentiment was computer printed.

Some new bazzill card and flowers arrived for me today, they were a bargain as they were 50% off from http://www.scrapfairies.co.uk/, so decided to stock up on everyday things, especially the colours of flowers that I am short of.... hopefully tomorrow my new stash from Stampin Up should arrive, really excited about that, plus hopefully my new sugar nellie stamps from http://www.funkykits.co.uk/.

Here is another card I made this month...

I am loving these really big eyelets, I think they are from We R Memory Keepers, the stamps are from http://www.ourdailybreaddesigns.com/ in the US, the image was coloured using watercolour pencils for the sky and copic markers for the rest of it. Image and sentiment were mounted on corrugated cardboard, the spotty card was made using the swiss dots cuttlebug embossing folder. The card looks much more vibrant in real life, took the photo on a rainy day (surprise surprise).

One other card for today....

The faith panel was cut using my new Home Accents cartridge for my Cricut Expression, the ribbon is Grey Taffeta from Stampin Up. The scallop edge was made using Fiskars Border Punch Threading Water. Flowers were made using a punch with gems from stash. Quite simple although it did take quite a while to make.

Off now as we are going to see Sweet, Showaddywaddy and Rubettes at Cliffs Pavillion in sunny Southend in a minute as we are going for a tapas meal first, should be a nice walk along the seafront in the rain!!! lol

c's ya tomorrow with hopefully some photos of tonight for all you oldies who may remember these groups!!

Take Care xx

Two Days in a row... cant be bad

So this morning we all went for our Dentist check up, luckily all I needed was a de-scale and polish, and all but 2 children needed to treatment except for a de-scale, unfortunately 20 year old needed the most and she now needs to pay for her own treatment too.... maybe that will stop her eating so unhealthily!!! Doubt it!!

Caleb my grandson is now 10 days old and went for his weigh-in today, he has very nearly re-gained his birth weight so the hospital are pleased with him and they have both been discharged. DD has been having trouble with her new house, it keeps flooding when they use the bathroom, to say she is dis-pleased is an understatement so they had the plumber back Bank Holiday Monday and Tuesday and it finally seems to be fixed thank goodness, not good for her having stress of having to vax up water from her new carpets and dry them out with fans especially as baby was less than a week old when it first flooded. This also means that she can take her kittens home now, 2 of my cats had kittens, one had 4 and the other only had one, she is having one from each litter and we are keeping the rest, DH calls me cat lady!!! rofl

The new challenge is up at http://sweetsugarchallenges.blogspot.com/, check it out and leave a comment with a link to your entry, bit of a tricky one this week. Dont know quite how it happened but a couple of the new sugar nellie stamps fell into my basket yesterday, and they were dispatched today, unfortunately they normally take 2 days to get to me from the other end of the country, but fingers crossed for tomorrow anyway. You can buy sugar nellie stamps from http://www.funkykits.co.uk/.

My car has gone to have its MOT tomorrow, fingers crossed yet again (maybe I need to cross my legs too) that it will pass, especially as I am a bit limited tomorrow as to when I can pick it up, off to see Sweet, Showaddywaddy and Rubettes, really looking forward to it!! We are also having a meal at a restaurant first, well a Tapas restaurant as I loved the Tapas we had in Barcelona last year.

Here are a couple more cards that I have made.

The image is Sugar Nellie fisherman (from http://www.funkykits.co.uk/), the paper is Scenic Route, the scalloped edge was made using the Fiskars Threading Water border punch. The fish were cut using a quickutz die, the metal frame is from We R Memory Keepers, eyelets set into fish using my new Big Bite and sentiment printed on computer, brads from stash. The image was coloured using Prismacolour pencils, sansador and paper stumps.

This was the card I made for DD and Son in Law for their babies birth, image is a Tilda image, I had bought both the boy and girl one as they didn't want to know what they were having. Stars were cut using the Star Nestabilities and then embossed with the Swiss Dots embossing folder, the scallop edge again was made using the Fiskars Threading Water border punch. The congratulations was cut on the cricut but for the life of me I cannot remember which cartridge I used. The ribbon was from my stash, the paper is K&Co Hopscotch. The image was coloured using copic markers.

The image is from Stampin Up "Loads of Love" set, you can buy this from http://monicas-passions.blogspot.com/, the sentiment is also included in the set. The scallops are spellbinders nestabilities, the image was coloured in using copic markers, the flowers and ribbon was from my stash. The paper is Basic Grey Cupcake collection. Cardstock came from Papermill shop.

Just finished this one, paper is My Minds Eye, Kaleidascope collection, gromlets from We R Memory Makers, scalloped edge, Fiskars Threading Water border punch, sentiment is Hero Arts, stamping design is by Rachelle Anne Miller, you can buy these stamps at www.sirstampalot.co.uk, I have coloured them in using Prismacolour pencils, sansador and paper stumps. Ribbon from stash, small scallop edging was made using a circle scallop nestabilities die, check out Monica's blog http://monicas-passions.blogspot.com/ and watch her tutorial on how to make scallop edges using various methods.

I will be back tomorrow, c,ya all then xx

Ooops I did it again......

Another month has passed and no blogging, this time I really am going to try and update every day, but lots has happened in the month.

DD has finally had her baby, only 6 days late and numerous visits to the hospital beforehand, she gave birth to a gorgeous baby boy on 19 May 2008 at 9.28am and proud nana was there at the birth..... how wonderful.

These are photos of him less than an hour after he was born....

I have also had my birthday and I was truly spoilt, got a new flash for my camera, tickets to see Boyzone on 1st June at Wembley, also off to see Sweet and Showaddywaddy and Rubettes this Thursday (yes I am showing my age), and we also went to see Def Leppard at Carling Club in Islington a couple of weeks ago, a very small venue with 200 tickets and 300 guests, it was absolutely awesome.....With my birthday money I bought a set of 120 prismacolour pencils which arrived from America in less than 2 days, I also bought a couple of new cartridges for my expression, Weddings and Home Accents, also the box which holds 8 of these cartridges.

I have also splashed out on some copic markers, I now have 88 of them and they colour so brilliantly, here is some photos of a box I made for them, unfortunately as I expanded my collection the box is now to small.... lol, the box I originally made which was too big now holds them.

Today my Crop-a-dile Big Bite turned up along with my Tim Holtz idea-ology bits, game spinners, philosophy tags and trinket pins. I will be posting a couple of Tim Holtz style cards in the next cle of days once I have transferred them from my camera to my computer.

Here are a couple of cards that I have made that are ready to be posted...

I stamped the pink card with Stampin Up stamps and coloured them in using my Marvy Le Plume markers, the image is a Magnolia stamp called Tilda in Petticoats, this was coloured in using Prismacolour pencils, sansador and paper stumps. The scallops are made using my nestabilities dies.

I used MM Noteworthy paper for this card, a Shabby Chic Magnolia Tilda image coloured with Prismacolour pencils, sansador and paper stumps, the green leaves are a quickutz die cut and the sentiment was computer printed. Doodling done by hand, scallop circle is a nestabilities die. Flowers and brad from my stash.

More MM Noteworthy paper on this one, Magnolia Stamp - Paris Tilda and little birds also from Magnolia. Sentiment is computer generated, green leaves from a punch I have, nestabilities die cut scallop square, swiss dots cuttlebug embossing folder. Image coloured using Prismacolour pencils and sansador and paper stumps. Flowers, brads and square gems from stash.

Will be back with more tomorrow.... take care all xx

Bad Bad Blogger.......

Okay, so not sure what went wrong but I haven't posted for over a month. I thought it was only a few weeks too..... doh!! So I have been really busy in that time, I have made loads of cards, 3 small Baptism albums for 3 people in my church who have been Baptised, I will post these in my next couple of posts as I need to made the picture sizes smaller.

DD is moving into her new rented house soon which is actually a house my aunt rents out. It has always been rented and never been empty, so as there is a month crossover from when my son moved out of there into a flat that he is buying and my daughter moving in, my aunt has been spending lots of money refurbishing it. So in the last 2.5 weeks DD and SIL have been very busy, kitchen gutted, papered, painted, new units, tiled and the new ceramic tiled floor will go down this week, new cooker arriving next Monday. Bathroom gutted, new bathroom now fitted and in the process of being tiled, we needed to buy an extra box today, hopefully that will be finished tomorrow and then the floor can go down in their too. They have decorated their bedroom, just need the time to get out and buy a piece of carpet for it, the babies room has been painted but as DD is the demon laminator and she wants laminate flooring in there it will have to wait until she has had her baby due in 3 weeks time, although they have been and bought it today. Hall is in the process of being painted and they have a carpet waiting to go down. The lounge was already nicely decorated, it is just full of decorating stuff at the moment. So they have been really busy and hope to move in this weekend just intime for the birth of baby, although unfortunately the lady they have been renting from has not even advertised their flat yet, so that means they will have to fork out extra rent this month for both places as they had a six month contract on their flat which doesn't run out until 3 June, very unfortunate as DDs DH was made redundant last Wednesday, he had Monday and Tuesday off to decorate, went back Wednesday and arrived home a couple of hours later with a redundancy letter, so bummer to that!!

Anyway, here are a few cards that I have made lately.....

These last 2 cards were made for the Sugar Nellie Challenge blog here:- http://sweetsugarchallenges.blogspot.com/. You can find these cute stamps here at www.funkykits.co.uk.

I met a really nice lady a couple of weeks ago, her name is Sally and she was interested in seeing all my cutting machines as she runs a crop every fortnight and wanted to invest in a cutting machine. She came here and I showed her how they cut and she fell in love with the cricut expression. She is now the proud owner of a cricut expression imported from US. Her crop is every 2nd Wednesday at Writtle College in Chelmsford between 7 and 10pm. It costs £5 per evening and you receive a free protective page and use of equipment and papers on your first visit. Just ask if you want more details as everyone is welcome.

I was totally taken aback yesterday when I received a gorgeous RAK bag through the post. No name, so cannot thank this person in person (IYKWIM) but if you are reading this, a very big thank you. The items are lush, they include ribbon, chipboard shapes, photo corners, metal embellishment, bottle top, fibres, paper clips and much more, thank you so very much. It is my birthday on Sunday, so I will look on it as an early birthday present!!

Off to make some more cards and break open my new SU stamp packs.... lol

Have a good evening all xx

Wow, twice in 1 week.....

Yesterday I went to the Paper Mill Shop to replenish my stocks I used for DD's wedding paraphernalia, and wow, it has changed. The boxes are smaller, but some of the colours are nicer, and I didn't spend as much as I normally would have as the boxes are cheaper too. Daughter was well impressed with my constraint and I spent less than £6 in there, which is more than can be said for my trip to Pets at Home..... lol I needed a big big bag of food for the Great Dane pup and little pug's bling collar has seen better days, so bought her a new collar, also lots of bones to help stop dogs chewing my kitchen (or the small dog bed is the latest casualty), and some denta chews to help prevent vets bills for bad teeth!!

Have made a card for our Sugar Nellie Challenge here.... http://sweetsugarchallenges.blogspot.com/. Please come along and join in, we had lots more people this fortnight, but more cards mean more inspiration for the rest of us. Just wait until the next fortnight, that will be a real challenge for you all....

And here was my card for the challenge before this one, didn't get round to uploading it before...

the subject was black, white and pink.

Have 5 new additions to the household, our cat of 1 year had her litter of kittens monday night and she had 4, all are thriving at the moment, but one of them is really small, so fingers crossed for it, then her mum who is 3 had a single kitten Tuesday night, they are now nursing them all together, thought mum would have some more, but so far she hasn't...... she is not distressed, but quite happy nursing the kittens and looking after them so maybe 1 is all she is going to have. It was quite big, and she wasn't massively fat. Here are some pics....

This picture of my dogs also amused me..... this I guess is a definition of a dog pile.....

Yesterday I received my 3 new Sugar Nellies which I bought from http://www.funkykits.co.uk/, have only used the Monkey so far, but am quite pleased with the results...

Have been out today, and instead of buying the children Easter Eggs for Easter I have bought them all books. They do like reading and so thought I would save their teeth this year. Have bought the older 2 and their wives/husbands small egg each, but the others all have books. They will get Easter Eggs from their older siblings, my mum buys them Easter Cakes and they get eggs from their Dad, and seeing as they are always arguing over who is eating whose, I thought I would save myself some stress..... lol (in my dreams).

Thought I might blitz my house this Easter, I always seem to be tidying up, washing, ironing and cleaning, but I guess I never do any deep cleaning like pulling out the fridges and the washing machine, tumble dryer etc and cleaning, I rarely clean the top of my cupboards in the kitchen, dont often clean the skirtings either, so that is all going to be done this weekend. I will get everyone to join in, one can have a duster and go round dusting the tops of the walls and all the corners, they already have a room each to keep tidy, so I will make sure they have tidied the room they are supposed to do, another can go around wiping the skirtings, another dusting the shelves and window ledges, I will clean the windows and wash the covers and mats, DH can do the hoovering, hopefully then we can knock it all on the head quite quickly, apart from the kitchen, which is bound to take longer!!!

Have a good Easter all xx