Charisma DT - Jokes and Laughter

Morning all, it's Thursday again, Charisma this week, the theme is Jokes and Laughter.

I have used a cute Pink Petticoat image, coloured with promarkers, added a load of glamour dust, a few flowers and yummy brads. I ran the base card through the big shot in an embossing folder.

Hope you enjoy the sunshine, we had a busy day yesterday dressing a beautiful venue in the Somerset country side for a wedding today - it's gona be a gooden.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
My Mum's Craft Shop: All that glitters + DT Call.
C.R.A.F.T Challenge: Flowers
I Love Promarkers: Anything Go's.

Candy Winner

Rufus - Congratulations, you were the winner on Randon.com, yes I gave up, as blogger would not load the image! If you could e-mail me at rhodes_sally@yahoo.co.uk I will post it to you. x

Lovely sunshine

Morning, what lovely weather we have had, a whole weekend in the garden - was much needed, I have full respect for the strength of weeds now! lol Our shamefully neglected garden is now a pretty lil picture - and don't my legs know it! lol

I apologise for not posting the candy winner yet, I will give blogger/me one more chance to upload the random.com image otherwise I will just announce it later - I am trying to not let it beat me, but the days are passing!

I have made this card with one of my fave stamps, its so much fun and always makes me smile, I think I was inspired by our lovely blue sky's we have been having. I coloured her with promarkers, mounted the main image with 3d foam pads, then heat embossed the sentiment, and also 3d mounted that. The 1st blue layer of card I stamped a background Penny Black butterfly stamp in versamark to add some pretties. Oh and not forgetting a dousing of glamourdust in her wings!

I am entering the card into the following challenges:
Stamp with fun: Birthday
Cupcake: Lots of layers
Flutterby Wednesday: Fairy
Sir Stampalot: Ladies Fashion
My Mums craft shop: Anything go's & DT call.

Charisma DT - Black, pink & green

Morning, can you believe it is Thursday again, thank you to everyone who stopped by and left lovely comments about my sweet tree - it went down a storm at the weekend.

This week at Charisma the theme is:

BLACK, PINK & GREEN

It had me a bit stumped to start with this challenge, but I got this lovely new stamp out (which I brought at the craft show at Bristol a couple of weeks ago) I have eyed it up for ages, but seeing it in real life, I had to have it, lol.....

I stamped the image in black ink and used clear embossing powder to make it shine, and drew a boarder around it. I added a green strip of card, a ribbon and some bling gems. It took me about a week to decide what sentiment to add on/be brave enough to add on, as I did not want to ruin it - as I quite like this one! What a wimp, after all, I could have made another!

I will be back later today to like it to some challenges.

Happy Thursday everyone. xxx

Sweet Tree and candy

Hi, I just wanted to say a very big Thank you to everyone who has left kind comments in relation to my sweet tree. I will get round to THANK YOU all individually I promise.
I will be making another one of another kind over the next couple of days, so be sure to pop back.

Sweet trees are a part of our business at Big Event Boutique, they came about by messing around for a friends party, we did a sweet bar and wanted something a little bit different - voila!

I have lost loads and loads of pictures, however, back them all up now. If you would like to see more of our work, please visit our Facebook page. If you were to like our Facebook page, you would see all the newest designs - we mess around with various things, they all look so much better in real life.

Talking of sweet things, if you would like to win a little bit of candy, please enter my draw here!

It's Thursday which means another Charisma challenge. What a fantastic response we had to last weeks theme, thank you to everyone who took part.

This weeks theme is

Weddings/Anniverserys

I have made this sweet tree for my cousin Sarah, who's anniversary it is this weekend, like me she has a naughty sweet tooth. I have started making sweet trees to compliment the sweet bars that we hire out, flying saucer trees are by far the most popular, yum yum....



and here is my little Emmie or Lula Belle as we call her modelling it! lol.



Dont be allarmed it's intended wont mind Lula Belle touching it, as Sarah, my cousin is her god-mama to be.

The sweet tree is made of flying saucers, in the base there is jelly beans, mushrooms and of course mini tubes of love hearts. Now to wrap it up in loads of cling film. x

I am going to enter this into the following challenges:
Papertake weekly: Anything Go's
Craft your passion: Anything Go's
Lollipop Crafts: Make a gift
ABC Challenge: Ribbons, there is a blue ribbon under those flying saucers. x

A lil bit of candy

I have a lil bit of candy for one lucky person.



In a moment of giddyness I brought 2 copies of Paper Craft Inspirations magazine, and did not realise until I got home! I am blaming the baby brain! lol It seems such a waste for it to stay in a neglected pile.

So if you would like a chance to win, please fill in the link below.

Anyone can enter, you do not have to be a friend/follower - although it would be lovely to make new blogging friends.

All I ask is you spread the word on your blog that I have a little candy, you have until 10.30pm on Sunday 10Th April 2010 - Good Luck.

Thank you.

2 for Clean & Simple

Two posts in a day, this is what happens when I clean the craft room! lol....
Over at Clean & Simple they have a sketch, I had to play along, I came across my quickcutz snowflake die and a bit of glitter cars, and got cutting.
Here are the two cards I made.
The sentiment was stamped with white ink and heat embossed with clear embossing powder with a stamp that came free with a magazine last year.
I am looking forward to batch making this year, I am going to use the lovely big snowflake from cuttlebug.
I would also like to enter these cards into this weeks For Fun Challenge: the theme is Christmas.

A little simple notelet

Happy Monday every one. Another week is here, and were a quater of the way into the new year - scary how fast it's going! It will be Christmas before we know it.

Well I had a little play in my craft room last night, well it did start out as tidying it up, but that did not last long! lol I found these little flowers I have had forever and decided to make a little notelet card, I have these flowers in several colours, and thought I could make several in different colours, they are very quick and simple to make. It's not my most favourite creation, but it;s good fun.

I am entering this card into this weeks Less is more challenge, where the theme is a touch of red.

Charisma DT - Sparkles & bling

It was my turn to choose this weeks theme over at Charisma & I chose what I like best!

Sparkle & Bling

I hope you like it. It was also my turn to post and edit the challenge blog! OMG!!!! Did I feel the pressure? Yes I did!!!!! How I have just it all for granted lol.

To make the card I used, a Penny Black image, that has been stamped out forever and never used. Coloured with Promarkers, doused in glamour dust, sparkly gems agged, card is bazzil, paper I've also had forever and never used.

I am going to enter this card into the following challenges:

Cards for men: Embossing - (baby man card counts right? lol)

Penny Black Saturday: Recycling - old stamped image and old papers.

I love promarkers: Emboss it - embossing large dots.

Paper Pretties: Bring on the bling

Charisma DT - Card for a teen

Morning, what a lovely sunshiny day it is here in Somerset today, hoping it stays (forever).

It's Thursday again, which means a new Charisma challenge. I think my mojo was messing around this week - if only you could see the recycling bin! lol.....

In the end I went for this sophisticated pretty lady fairy girly from Stampin Bella - I do love Stampin Bella images. Maybe my mojo was Awol as I was determined not to use a Penny Black image - and the mojo went into shock! lol.

Any ways, IRL its small, sweet and pretty.


Happy Thursday everyone. x

Hedgy Birthday.

I have had this image coloured for a while, and just not used it, so I thought as it is my brother b'day coming soon it is ther perfect image for the cake loving monster! It was coloured with promarkers, I added diamond glaze tto the candle flame and parcel.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Cards for men: Sketch & DT call
Stamp Something: Something sweet
Paper cutz: Your choice
I love promarkers: Men's card

When I saw the challenge over at Less Is More - I had to have ago! Unsure what to use or how it would turn out (got through a few card blanks lol) and last night I came up with this. I know it is less is more, and I have coloured it - this image is to gorgeous not to.

I waited to take a pic today, and what a lovely sun shiny day it is, until I managed to grab a second to take the pic! lol...

I loved this card until I stamped the sentiment!!! Oh well, cant have it all, and I'm sure a craft work card sentiment will cover it lovely!

I am entering this card into the following challenges:
Less is More: Off the page
One Stop: Clean & simple
Paper Sundaes: Keep it simple
Secret Crafter: Flowers for Mum
Little Claire: Flowers.

To make this card I used:
Image & sentiment: Penny Black
Medium: Momento, water colours

Spring is in the air

Hello, what a lovely sunny day it has been here in Somerset today, the sun shone all day and gave us a taste of summer, I do hope its a good one.

Well I have managed to make a couple of cards, which I throulghly enjoyed doing.
I made this card for my friend Sascha who has been in a car accident, she is super fit, and I can imagine she is climbing the walls with a broken collar bone and sore knee! It's a good job she is a tough cookie.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:
Papertake Weekly: Anything Go's.
Penny Black Allsorts: Welcome Spring.
Sir Stampalot: Spring is in the air.
Cute Card Thursday: Signs of spring.
Fab n Funky: Spring into action.

To make this card I used a Penny Black image, coloured with water colours with glamour dust on the stamens, the papers are Pink Petticoat and sparkly gems.

Charisma Thursday & an update.

Well it's a Charisma DT holiday for me this week - Thank you Carly.

I had the week off as my little girl went back into hospital on Monday to have her corrective surgery.

She has amazed me every day since she was born back in June - 9 weeks early! She was born at week 31 weighing 3lb 6oz, after my waters went at week 29 - reason unknown. At 5 weeks old 36 weeks gestation and 5lb 2oz my little Lula Belle (Emmie) was coming home we had done the discharge paperwork, I was going in to stay overnight with her to bring her home, and when I went in the hospital she was back in an incubator, being treated for all sorts of infections, and we were told we could lose her. Unbelievable as hours earlier she had been fine. We had to wait 24 hours for the labs to do their thing, and we were finally told she had septicemia, and altough not out of the woods she was getting better. What a relief, so the next morning we had a phone call to get to the hospital asap as she was going to Bristol for emergency surgery - they would not tell us why, when we got to the hospital we were told she had necrotising entrocolitus (NEC) two words I will never forget. We went to Bristol and the amazing Mark Woodward who performed her op gave us 3 possible situtations to the awful infection that is NEC. NEC is basically a premmie thing they dont thankfully all get it, and they dont know why they get it. NEC is where the gut, or parts of the gut die. (Septicemia was as a result of her perferated gut) The best option would be to cut out the bad bit and sew her up, middle option cut out the bad bit, give her a stoam, let her grow and recover and put her back together when she is bigger and stronger, and the third was there was nothing they could do! The wait felt like an eternity. We were lucky, and had the second option, a stoma, our beautiful little girl had what we called a tummy bum! It has been emotional, and funny, and frustrating amongst many things, but at the same time we are eternally greatful for it, as without it - we would not have her.

Today my beautiful brave little girl came home, which is amazing as yesterday she was still on morphine.

I can honestly say I have never been so excited to see poo in a nappy! And now she's showing off about it and there is no stopping her.

So as life returns to normal, and I am not wresteling with stoma bags and wandering baby hands, I am hoping the bath/tea/bed routine will no longer take 2 hours each evening, and I will be able to do more crafting, and be a much much better blogger. x

P.S I have a couple of pics - but blogger wont let me add them at the mo. So will be back with them later. x