Penny Black inspired by Mac

Happy bank holiday Monday, hope your having a good day, I'm enjoying my last day's leave as I go back to work in the morning! Boo..............

Here is a card I made to give to my friend Sasha as a THANK YOU for having my dog Mac stay with her while we were on holiday, she goes to Egypt today but when shes back were going to the big craft fair down in Exeter, so I will put in some spends so she can treat her self.

This stamp reminds me of Mac, he loves sleeping on his back. I coloured the image with watercolours, coloured the flowers with shimmerz and mounted it onto some fun doodlebug papers.

I am entering the card into the following challenges: One Stop - Cute & Cuddly, Crafty Creations - The Farm (all farmers have a dog right? lol)

A double

Here is a card I have made which will fit two of this weeks challenges. Firstly Passion for Promarkers has a colour theme to use at least two of the following lilac, amethyst, lavender and aubergine.

It is also eligible for this weeks Stamp Something challenge - where the theme is Birthdays.

To make this card I used:
Image: The Greeting Farm - Anya
Medium: Promarkers
Paper: DCWV
Tools & Bits: Nestabilities, Mather Stewart punch, Sparkly Gems, ribbon, Craft Work Cards Sentiment.

Home again......

Hello to you all, firstly I would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who left lovely good luck, congratulations and well wishes on my blog in relation to my wedding, so kind of you all we had a brilliant time and have just returned from Mexico.

Mexico was amazing, its up there on my must return to list, above is a pic of the view from our balcony - we were spoilt. Every thing about Mexico was amazing, we even swam with whale sharks - which was just brilliant - a definite once in a lift time experience. The whale sharks were amazing, so big, beautiful and peaceful, there markings were amazing. There must have been over 100 of them swimming around.

I am looking forward to getting crafty - I cant believe I missed it whilst away - so hopefully I will be quite productive once tonight comes round.

In the mean time - I'm am sorting out my house which I rent out the latest scum bag tenant trashed it - stole the rugs and didn't pay £1500 rent, along with just about every other bill there is to pay - so before the wedding I shut the door had the locks changed and decided to sort it out when I get back. Its a right mess and he was only there a few months - I don't know how some people can live like they do. However its not all bad - its only a small town where we live - Ive tracked him down so will be returning his skanky abandoned sofa later - I don't consider it part payment for rent lol!

The pics are starting to appear, these were taken by my brother and cousin, the cake was amazing, made by my sister in law Claire-Louise, each layer was a different flavour made from her secret yummy recipes, she did us very proud.

We have a winner...............................

At last I hear. I just wanted to say again Thank you to everyone who entered the candy draw both in blogging land and over on the Do Crafts page, it has been loads of fun receiving such lovely comments and visiting lots of new stunning blogs - I have widened where I go hopping hugely. I would also like to thank everyone with your patience, as I have been delayed - didn't help when I changed my settings and I started typing in Chinese or something! Thought I was gona lose the computer through a window last night! lol

I used Random.org NO 5 was selected, so

Kathleen over at A Perfect Creation

you are the winner, please contact me asap, as your goodies are all parcelled up ready to post.

In the mean time I'm off to pack as were Mexico bound in the morning :) Will see if I can be technical enough to get a picky from face book onto here to show a pic of me in me frock on our big day. We were so lucky with the weather - not a drop of rain and a big blue sunny sky :) x

Thankyou............................

Thank you to every one who entered my blog candy and gave me so so many kind messages, it is really lovely of you all, I have not managed to visit all the blogs yet, but have found loads of new and amazing ones I will be looking at again and again.

I am apologising massively as I have not done the drew yet - all of a sudden my cool calm planning went totally wrong, and I have been a headless chicken since Tues.

So apologies again, I will do the draw over the weekend and let the winner know..........................

In the mean time I'm off to get married! x

Christmas in July.....

Here is a card I made for the One Stop Challenge, this weeks theme is Christmas in July.

I have used Anya Angel, coloured her with promarkers and the wings covered with glamour dust. I cut the image out using nesties, the papers are papermania, small snowflakes are a ribbon and the large snowflake is a sizzix die. The sentiment is doodlebug.

Anyone for Anyas?

***UPDATED - I have just learnt how to link to the pic, the pic should now take you to the scrummy new challenge! Far to bigger lunch today! ;) ***

Anyone For Anyas????? Great news, there is a new challenge blog coming soon dedicated to The Greetings Farms's Anya and her friends, sooooooooooooooo excited - a reason to buy more Anyas! lol

Dawny P has a fab sketch which you can follow if you want to be considered to be part of the DT. Hop over and take a peek.

Hope your all having a good weekend. x

My Blog Candy

******Open until 9pm Tuesday 4Th August 2009*******

In order to celebrate! my birthday this weekend, and my up coming wedding thought I would put together some candy to say THANK YOU to everyone who has visited/followed or just popped by to say hello, and left lovely comments.

I have made some lovely friends since I started blogging, and picked up lots of hints, tips and techniques along the way.

Last year when I was quite poorly it was blogging & crafting that kept me same!

You can enter as many times as you like, all you need to do is spread the word in blogging land by posting the candy on your blog and link back to me - and leave me a message to say you have done it - simple.

All my SBS23 sisters and followers are automatically entered.

The winner will be picked at random on the evening the candy closes, I will make contact with you.

I have included a few things from my favourite brands (I have many lol)..... All items are brand new.

Four 6 x 6 K & Co pads 36 pages in each pad.

The Greeting Farm Ian skater rubber stamp

Funky Kits - Porridge Pig rubber stamp

CC Design - Bitzy Bugz Bling Bride rubber stamp

Cuddly Buddly round 2 sentiments rubber stamps

10 lengths of spotted ribbon

5 lengths of gingham ribbon

6 reels of ribbon

Papermania Birthday embellishment

5 Hello Kitty silver Tibetan charms

3 Made With Love silver coloured heart charms.

Bag of mixed buttons

9 flower brads

Mulberry paper flower embellishments

Pot of pink flowers

4 in 1

Well I have stretched this card as far as I can! lol 4 challenges in one........

Firstly this weeks Lili of the valley & The Pink Elephant are both Animals - hope my cute stickeroo counts, I love them ;) A Spoonful of Sugar is swirls, (I have some very subtle swirls in the die cuts! lol) and Penny Black Saturday Challenge is soft & sweet.

Image: Penny Black Stickeroo

Card: Bazzil
Flowers: Prima

Other: Cuttlebug swiss dotts embossing folder, cuttlebug corner die, sparkly gems.

Thanks for stopping by, please leave a comment so I can visit you too. x

At last a card!

Whooooo...... Finally, I have a card I can enter all be it by the skin of my teeth! Blogger appears to be working better - not 100% but noticeably better which makes me :)

I made this card last week for the Passion For Promarkers challenge, the theme this week was gold & ruby. Today I finally remembered to pick up new batteries whilst out! So at last a card.

The stars are red glitter card - but due to the light fading they don't sparkle in the pic - never mind hay?

Image: Funky Kits

Medium: Promarkers

Papers & Card: DVWV

Sentiment: Craft Work Cards

Blogger probs

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh has anyone else being constantly kicked when visiting blogs??? I visit and a pop up appears stating operation aborted! I hate it, I have to find other ways in to visit - then it takes forever to load, its been like this sine my last card was uploaded.

Saying that it has been a bit better the last couple of days. I have a couple of cards to upload in the next few days, but I've put my camera in a safe place - well timed as I didn't have it for my hen weekend! Which was brilliant :) I'm so lucky to have so many lovely friends.

Apologies for not leaving comments - I have been trying and admiring your work from afar as a follower.

In the mean time I have seen some fab candy in Natalie over at Crafting Fun (who's crafting style I love) is celebrating 500 posts, and is giving away some lovely Popcorn stamp sets.

Win $1,000 at TheCuttlebugSpot.com!

I have just discovered that The Cuttlebug Spot is having a contest - "The Journey to 1,000"! They are trying to reach 1,000 followers by the end of July and need your help. To enter all you have to do is go to their site, sign up as follower and complete a few easy steps and you could win a $1,000 gift certificate to Custom Crops (www.CustomCrops.com)! GO NOW and check it out at www.TheCuttlebugSpot.com

Lots of dots

DOTS is the theme over at Stamp With Fun this week. I have used a Stampin Bella image - which I saw, laughed & brought! I don't know why but it tickled me........

Cut out the image with nesties, coloured with promarkers, mounted with 3d foam onto bazzil which was embossed using cuttlebug swiss dots folder, flat back pearls added for extra dottiness......

Passion for ProMarkers

Cutting it fine here lol here is my card for this weeks Passion for ProMarkers challenge, where the theme is Cinnamon & Pumpkin, I used a Sugar Nellie stamp, coloured it with ProMarkers added a brad to the star & covered it in sparkling glitter. Papers are DCWV, mounted onto bazzil