Valentines Gift

Hi everyone. Much nicer weather this week - still chilly but at least dry and no sign of snow. This has been made for my son, Jack to give to his wee girlfriend for Valentines Day.

I used the birdhouse templated from Magnolia Ink magazine once again - I love this wee gift box and it is so easy to make. Filled with Cadburys Dairy Milk Miniatures this time. For the card, I used my circle scalloped Nesties and went for a shaped card - first time I've made one of these but you will all be seeing lots more because I love them - so cute and dinky, lol.

The sentiment was done on the pc. The papers are from Divine Digital and only cost me about £1.50 - what a bargain and they are gorgeous! The flowers are punched with small and medium retro punches from the desgn paper and cardstock. The lace is from my stash as are the gems and ribbon. I have also added a wee trim of lace to the bottom each side of the birdhouse roof.

I can enter this into quite a few challenges so... here goes:

1. Crafty Cardmakers - Digital Delights (sentiment and papers)
2. Cupcake Craft - Red and White all over
3. Stamp with Fun - Hearts (heart papers)
4. Creative Card Crew - Valentines
5. My Time To Craft - Hearts and Kisses
6. Stamp Something - Love Something
7. Stamping for the Weekend - Valentines Themed
8. Sweet Stop Sketches - Fantastic Sketch (card - certainly challenged me!)
9. Cute Card Thursday - In The Name of Love
10.Simon Says Stamp - What's Love Got To Do With It?
11.The Pink Elephant - Mushy Gushy Valentine
12. ABC - N is for New (papers)

Phew - Think that's the lot. I am never quite sure when combining that many challenges - but there are just so many brilliant ones out there that we all want to enter and so little time to do them all in that needs must, lol.

Thanks for taking the time to look. Please leave me a comment if you stop by - I love to read them and pay you a visit in return

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Your Tweet

Hi everyone. Hope you are all well. I had a much better day today than I did yesterday - I can tell you. This gift set has been made for 3 challenges:

1. Sketch Saturday - Fab sketch by Ria
2. ABC - 'N' is for New
3. Cute Card Thursday - Spots and Dots.

I have used the same WOJ image as the last card again coloured with Twinkling H2Os, Copics and Watercolour Pencils. The papers are new digital ones from The Creative Cottage. The ribbon, button and brad are from my stash. The scalloped circles were done on the Bug using my Nesties. The sentiment is done on the pc. The birdhouse has been made using the template from the Christmas Magnolia magazine. It's been filled with some fudge.
Now, this has been made for my sister because she spent her whole day off driving me around yesterday. Do I have a story for you...

Yes...I can hear you all groan well, not any where near as loud as I groaned yesterday morning when my car started to belt smoke out from under the bonnet. I had only been to drop Jack off to school and back to my mums when it happened. Could smell a wee bit burning but thought it was just because I needed a bit of an oil top up! HA! Understatement of the year. I had a spare 5 minutes before leaving for school and thought I would do the oil but... couldn't get the bottle open so, shut the bonnet, jumped in and drove down to get Jack from mums and take himk to school...YES! YOu guessed it...I never put the oil filler cap backon before I drove off! Oill all over the engine and smoke everywhere.

So, stayed very calm and asked my sister to drive me back home and then follow the route I had taken to try and find the cap. Couldn't find it and suddenly remembered the snapping noise I had heard when driving off for the school! YEP...I had driven over it and crushed it to pieces. Now, you may well be having a good laugh and thinking that it couldn't get any worse...I spent the whole day phoning and visiting garages and parts dealers to get a price for having the engine cleaned and getting a replacement cap and being given the wrong part and being told the parts in and then told that it's not in, etc, etc. Eventually, at 4pm I managed to get one from the scrap dealers!!

The good part of this horrible story is that the cap only cost me £4 instead of £14 and...the Gunk I bought to clean my engine was only a fiver instead of the forty quid the garage wanted to do it!! Also, I will NEVER forget to put the cap back on again

Allsorts Week #37 - A Sketch

Hi everyone. I hope you are all well. I am much better today - just a wee bit of a sore throat now. I am most definitely cheered up too - I was the lucky winner of Paula's fab candy. I am delighted. Thanks Paula. Here's a wee pic of what I won.

Gorjuss, ehh!

Also, I know I posted this before but, I was also lucky enough to receive it again.

I have been presented with it from the lovely Rachel. I love to be given these - even if I am useless at passing them on, lol. I think that it lets you know that other people appreciate you. Thanks Rachel.

And at last, onto the card...

This one's been done following the brilliant sketch over at Allsorts this week where they are also having a DT call. I have used Willow with Flower Basket from Whiff of Joy Spring 2009 Stamp Kit. She has been coloured with Twinkling H2Os for her blouse, head and waistband, flowers and shoes. Watercolour pencils for her hair and basket. And, copics for her trousers and skin. The paper is a double-sided one from All My Memories. I used my mums new distressing tool for the first time - will need to add one to my wishlist (funny for someone who doesn't like distressing, ehh). The bit white cardstock has been through the Bug with the Stylised Flowers embossing folder and then I used crystal ice stickles over the embossed pattern and also round the punched flowers. I used pink stickles on her bracelet and round the pink flowers on the dp. The sentiment is also from WOJ. Brads from my stash.
Here's another pic because I can't decide which is the best, lol. Think this one shows all the sparkle better. Really pleased with the end result of this one.

OK. Think that's everything. Mum just told me that the gorgeous new City Girl stamps are on the WOJ website. Can't wait to get my paws on these wee darlins, lol.

Thanks for taking the time to look. Please leave me a wee comment so I can come and visit you.

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Sketch and Stash

Hello everybody. Another quick post tonight. Still feel rubbish so going to have a bath and get into bed nice and early. Did manage to make a card this afternoon whilst Steven was at nursery - mainly so as not to fall asleep, lol!

This one follows that fab sketch over at the Sketch and Stash Challenge Blog. It can also be entered for Stamp Something Challenge where the theme is 'Delightfully Delicious' - how that cake looks, don't you think?- and, for the One Stop Craft Challenge whose theme is personal - I have used lots of green which is my brothers fav colour (Celtic fan). The image is a Duston Pike freebie and I have coloured it with copics. This is only the second time I have used them so don't look too closely. The circle and scalloped circle were cut on the Bug with Nesties. The papers are Basic Grey - Lemonade. Ribbon from my stash and sentiment on pc again. Sorry for the rubbish photos - can't get a decent one at all.

I have made this for my younger brother who has been given a promotion at work. Hope it's ok for him.

Thanks for taking the time to look. Don't forget to leave me a comment so I know you've been and I can return the visit.

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You Passed

Hello everyone. Very very quick post today as I don't feel well this weekend - have caught some kind of lovely bug! This card is for Papertake Weekly - another of Dawny P's fab sketches, Digital Tuesday Challenge where the theme this week is to 'make men laugh' and also for the Fab'n'Funky challenge where the theme is 'to use any digi image or sentiment'

The image is a digi from The Stamping Boutique, called AJ the Racing Driver and is coloured with copics. The papers are from a Nitwits download - one of the first ones I bought - called Beep Beep. There is actually a border strip behind the image with lots of different road signs on it but you can't see it very well. The sentiment is done on the pc.

A wee bit paper and a 'congrats' for the inside.

I would also like to enter this into the new challenge blog which is starting on 18 Feb - 'I Love Digi Challenge'. They are having a dsign team call and would like you to make anything as long as it has a digi image.
Thanks for taking the time to look. Please leave me a comment if you have the time so I can return the visit

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Cherry Kisses - Crush

Hi everyone. Hope you are all well. This is a very quick post as I need to get Wee Steven to nursery. Wasn't sure if he was going or not because he got his swine flu jag yesterday and he wasn't that great this morning. However, calpol sems to have done the trick and he keeps asking when its time to go.

This is the card that wouldn't go right! I went upstairs to clear the desk last night because I was determined to make a card no matter what as I refused to waste these Basic Grey Lemonade papers so...I coloured the image (Pollycraft digi image - Cherry Kisses - Crush) with watercolour pencils and stuck it on with the flowers (hobbycraft) and the sentiment (daisy & dandelion) and I actually quite like it!

I can fit it into the folowing challenges:

1. Crafty Cardmakers - Love & Romance (Image)
2. A Spoonful of Sugar - Freestyle
3. My Time To Craft - Elegant Rose (Wee Roses)
4. Stampavie & More - Love Card/Valentine
5. Cute Card Thursday - Blooming Gorgeous (Roses)

Quite good for a card that was on its way to the bin, ehh!!

Thanks for taking the time to look.


ETA: Never got round to posting as blogger wouldn't upload any pics so...here it is now - better late than never ehh!

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Where is Mr Mojo?

Hi everyone. I have nothing to show you today. What a terrible blogger. Last week, I started on the Friday Sketchers Challenge and it all wentreally well untill I put the image on! Just wasn't right and nothing worked - not even usingh a different image. Obviously, it must have been the choice of papers for that particular sketch that was wrong but...I gave up and suince then, Mr Mojo seems to have gone walkabout! I've even bought a few images and spent hours blog hopping but...no sign of him yet.

I thought though that I better come on and pick up and pass on the award that was so kindly given to me by Mandy from A Sprinkling of Glitter.

I haven't been given this one before and am delighted to receive it. Now, the rules are that I must tell you all 10 things that make me really hapy and then pass this on to 10 people. So, here goes...

1. My Family
2. Crafting
3. Buying craft goodies
4. Blog Hopping
5. Reading
6. Chocolate
7. To see my children happy
8. Sunshine
9. Christmas
10. My Friends

Now, I am absolutely useless at this bit so I would like to pass this to everyone who visits my blog and would like to have this award.

This week has been really strange for me because Jack who is only 10 has gone away to school camp, Benmore. I didn't hink I would be quite as upset as I have been because Jack spends a lot of time at my mum's but, he is here every day after school and I spend most of the weekend with my mum so...it's hit me a lot harder than I expected! I even had a wee cry last night, lol! Anyway, it's only till Friday so...2 more sleeps, lol

Thanks for taking the time to look and thanks again to Mandy for my award.

Hugs

Suzanne x