Congrats

Hooray hooray it's Saturday! Today I have a card I made at Amy's yesterday. It features the owl from the set, Fox & Friends. I stamped the image in Pear Pizzazz, Tangerine Tango and Chocolate Chip.

The sentiment is from the same Hostess set as yesterday. Here is a lesson: USE A STAMP-A-MA-JIG! I stamped the sentiment on to the card first time sooo wonky I had to stamp it again and punch it out so I could stick it on straight(er)!

My sister came over today and we had a lovely little trip to Farnham, predominantly to visit Maison Blanc. Love that cafe!!

Happiness Shared

A pretty little card for today! It's made with the set Happiness Shared and coloured using a blender pen with Pretty in Pink and Regal Rose ink for the bloom and Old Olive for the leaves/stems. The background stamp is Bella Toile. The sentiment is from the Level 3 hostess set, Occasional Quotes. Such a pretty hostess set and it could be yours if you host a party!

After watching the Royal Wedding I went to my downline, Amy's for a bit of cardmaking relaxation. Ruthie was there and we had a great time chatting, crafting and making her house messy!!

Monogram copycat

Just a quick one today. This was a total CASE from pg 9 of the Mini catalogue. Love the bright colour combination and it was fun to scrunch up the cardstock.

The flower is an A La Carte stamp from the main catalogue stamped in Pumpkin Pie. The sentiment comes from Thank You Kindly (pg75, main catalogue) - I used half of the sentiment and then punched it out using the Window Punch.

We had a quiet day today and it has disappeared in a flash. Time clearly flies when you're enjoying time with your family!

Fruity Fun

We're making the above project at Craft Club later this afternoon - I wonder if anyone will see this before we meet?! It uses the fab set Tart & Tangy. A really fun set that is so versatile. Some images were coloured with markers and others used ink pads. The colours are Daffodil Delight, Wild Wasabi, Real Red, Rose Red and Early Espresso. A large oval was punched out of the Whisper White pillow box die cut before stamping and adhering; the hole was covered with plastic to make a window.This was our little Easter Bunny on Sunday. She spent quite a lot of time helping her Grandma in the pond! Stinky!! This is the work we've been doing on the garden - conifers removed, concrete posts holding up trellis dug out and the pond attacked with a pick-axe!

It was hot work and we were really fortunate to have family on hand to show us how it's done!!

Hello all! It's been a busy few days. Here is a sunny card to share with you. The central flower image was shown to me by Maggie at the Make It show earlier this year. You use the flower image from Ornate Flowers stamp set and colour it using markers. In this case I used Elegant Eggplant and Rich Razzleberry markers and layered the image on Elegant Eggplant card..The base card is Old Olive and has been run through the Big Shot to emboss it. Some wide grosgrain Rich Razzleberry ribbon finishes it off. This was the card that everyone made at parties I ran last month. Obviously you "pimp" the card and add bling such as brads, glitter or buttons but I quite like it kept simple.

Today I've not bee 100% and spent a lot of time resting as I've not been functioning. Guess I've been doing a bit much. Anyway, yesterday and today my parents and sister came over to work on our garden.We have a very long garde that had been neglected prior to us moving in. Two years later and we're finally tackling it!! Above you can see DH and my Mum sorting out some shredding. We've removed the conifers that lined our back wall.Due to the hot weather we all needed to cool off. Here is my Dad showing Munchkin how to eat ice lollies! Cute!!

And of course we needed lots of sun protection - Munchkin got quite attached to the cream!!

Watch out, I'm BUZZ-y

This door hanger was a cheap chipboard base I bought from my local garden centre. It was great fun using my Distressing Kit and new Botanical Gazette patterned papers to decorate it. I used the bees from another sheet of paper in the set to cut them out (I was too impatient to stamp, colour and cut) and layered with Dimensionals.

The leaves at the bottom of the piece was from Nature Walk and stamped in Always Artichoke ink. To finish there is chunky Champagne Glass Glitter along the roof and a little ribbon and a giant button! Phew. This glitter is super easy to use and since the grains are quite large you don't get it falling everywhere.

Hope you are still enjoying the heat and sunshine. Munchkin ate her first ice-lolly today! Lovely sticky fun.

Another beautiful sunny day! This card is quite masculine but I guess the sentiment looks a bit feminine!!

The colours used are Night of Navy, Chocolate Chip and Very Vanilla. I used a little Crumb Cake for contrast that matches the delicious seam binding ribbon. Mmmm. The main image was stamped in Chocolate Chip and comes from the set, Nature Walk. A little patterned paper (Botanical Gazette) and a few Tiny Tags and voila!

We had a fantastic day out in the sunshine, playing with the chickens and eating out of doors. Lovely!