Paperback writer

I had my sponges out for a little play to make this bookmark for a Father's Day gift earlier on in the week. The book (or prop), just in case anyone is as "interested" or as geeky as my husband, is The name of the rose by Umberto Eco and it cost him ten pence in a second hand book shop (maybe too much information there, hee hee). I've seen the film, it's the one with Sean Connery and a very young Christian Slater as monks - great story.

Have a great day & see you tomorrow xx

Supplies from Stampin Up - Stamps: Organic grace & botanical blooms. Card stock: whisper white, old olive & kraft. Ribbon: old olive grosgrain, ink: old olive, bashful blue & basic grey. Misc: jumbo eyelet in pewter and ribbon slide from the hodgepodge kit.

Pretty in pink

Some of you are probably thinking this is very familiar. Is it cheating that this card gets its own post but I am on a daily posting challenge with myself and I loved the little boy one I did a few days ago so much, I did one in pink hee hee!

This weekend I am going (for the first time as it is a bit of a trek for me) to a crafty market. I may do one in the future, depends on what the competition is like (if it's too good maybe not - chicken I hear you cry, ha!). Will let you know if I find any kindred spirits there ( they've go to be hiding somewhere in South Wales, c'mon Swansea show your crafty self to me LOL!).

Have a great day & see you tomorrow xx

Supplies from Stampin Up - Stamp: best yet, card stock: pretty in pink, whisper white & kraft. Ink: black stazon, misc: linen thread & pretty in pink button. Paper: tea party designer series paper. Other brands: elephant stamp, white brads and pink staple from stash.

Sweet like chocolate

Ok so you've probably noticed I've had the stapler out on the last couple of projects -I quite like it. This wedding cake stamp was stamped onto kraft with a brown ink - I think it looks a little like chocolate sponge, mmmmm. My best friend Rhian had a 3 tiered chocolate covered cake at her wedding, it was delish.

Have a great day & see you tomorrow xx

Supplies from Stampin Up - Card stock: Whisper white and kraft. Paper: Chocolate chip & tea party designer series paper. Stamp: Best yet, misc: linen thread & latte button. Other: Wedding cake stamp from onefourzero, white brads, staple, ink from colourbox in chestnut roan.

Blinded by the light

Ok I know the colours may be a bit scary Mary for you and I thought the same at first when the idea for this card came to me. But it really has some zing to it in real life , it's so way off left field from what I usually do, I like it. The sketch was taken from my favourite forum ILWS where the lovely Morwena posts regular sketches to inspire us.

Feeling a lot better today and would like to say a big thank you to you for the well wishes.

Have a great day & see you tomorrow xx

Supplies from Stampin Up - Stamps: fresh cuts, card stock: tempting turquoise, real red & whisper white. Paper: summer picnic designer series paper, ink: real red & black stazon. Ribbon: tempting turquoise grosgrain. Misc: tempting turquoise brads.

When I'm feeling blue

Don't stand too close as I have the dreaded lurgy! I've got the hots, the colds and the septic tonsils. Which all together make me feel generally bleh ! This milk carton gift set was made a few days earlier to go with the card from yesterday for no particular reason, only that I love making them and had not done a baby boy one. Check out this post for the baby girl one and details of where I had the template from.

I'm off to bed for a hot date with a lemsip and a hot water bottle ha !

Have a great day & see you tomorrow xx

Supplies from Stampin Up - Stamp: best yet & yummy, card stock: whisper white, bashful blue and kraft. Ink: bashful blue, creamy caramel, versamark & black stazon. Paper: bashful blue designer series paper, ribbon: whisper white narrow grosgrain. Misc: linen thread, white embossing powder and earth elements buttons. Other: white grosgrain, elephant & dot stamp from stash.

Little blue

I love this little guy, he's so cute and was one of those bargain 99p stamps from somewhere. But stamping him onto to some quality paper from Stampin Up he looks really good, I think, oh goodness don't get me started on scrutinising my work, stop it Emma lol!

Weather's cooling down a bit now ( am I aloud to say thanks goodness) it was a bit too hot for me. Although the scamp had our back garden turned into a little holiday park, with pools, slides, barbecues etc - lots of fun though.

Have a great day & see you tomorrow xx

Supplies - Stampin Up: Stamp: Best yet, card stock: whisper white, bashful blue & kraft. Paper: bashful blue designer series paper. Misc: linen thread & bashful blue button. Other: Elephant stamp, white brads from stash.

Cockles and mussels

Ok tenuous title link time. So the theme of the card was scallops and got to thinking about my title. Hmm, scallops, in the background of my brain came floating the song cockles and mussels alive, alive ho and thought yeah that'll do, their all crustaceans sort of LOL!

This was an uber simple card really just to show off one of my birthday presents from last week. Is it wrong to love a piece of metal ? Because if it is I'm in trouble. This is a spellbinders pierceabilities die - one word, gorgeous, and I have only had a little play. The possibilities with this are going to be amazing - can't wait to have a proper go.

Have a great day & see you tomorrow xx

Supplies from Stampin Up - Stamps: Yummy, card stock: old olive, so saffron & whisper white. Ink: Old olive & so saffron, ribbon: so saffron striped grosgrain.

Fly away with me

This card was inspired by the recent purchase of ' cards' the magazine. Now I haven't had a magazine since discovering Stampin Up and belonging to one of the best forums around - In love with stamping, along with some of the most fantastic friends I have made, I had all the inspiration I ever would need. Until I came across a thread on the forum about this magazine where everyone was raving about it ( you naughty girls always getting me into trouble hee hee). One trip into town a few days later, I had a quick nosey in WHSmith at the mag, oohhh it was lovely -pure heaven on those glossy pages.

The original card was made by Heather Bowser and as soon as I saw her card I had to make my own version ( I tried googling her - ouch that's sounds painful, but could not find if she had a blog or anything to give her full credit). I used different stamps and also a different type of fold on mine. Hope you like ;)

Have a great day & see you tomorrow xx

Supplies - Stampin Up - Stamps: Best yet & organic grace, card stock: sage shadow, whisper white & kraft. Other Ink: Colourbox chalk chestnut roan & versamark. Victorian butterfly stamps by Cynthia Hart

Ladybug ball

More ladybirds for my upcoming sale, getting a bit nervous now eek! It feels that I am leading a double life since starting my blog. This is because I haven't told any family, colleagues or local friends about it. It's like 'by day she is the mild mannered medical secretary and by night she is Super Blogger!!' well not quite but you know what I mean. I think I was a bit unsure how all of this would go and of course if I liked doing it and I do - I love it.

If you would like to make one of those cute little notebooks I have my own instructions here.

Keep on shining Mr Sun, have a great day & see you tomorrow x

Supplies from Stampin Up - Card stock: Basic black, real red and kraft. Paper: Dashing designer series paper (retired). Ribbon: Real red wide grosgrain. Other - Black paper twill from Ikea, black ribbon from stash, 1" book rings, black and white gel pen from stash.

Lavender's green

Post party paper, ribbons and pens are all used to make a this little wedding card for my stash. Now for my birthday I had this beautiful paper and ribbon from the lovely Kate and my son bought me a sort of taster copic set (only five pens - just to try). So limiting myself just to the five copic colours on a card, it was a happy accident they co-ordinated beautifully with the papers and ribbons.

I am back at work now :( but I don't mind because only another three weeks 'til I'm off again hee hee. Have a great day & see you tomorrow xx

Supplies - Papertreyink: Ribbon & paper. Stampin Up - Stamp: Botanical blooms & cheer and wishes. Card stock: Perfect plum, whisper white & pale plum. Other: Memento black tuxedo ink, copics, white brads, versarmark ink, wedding cake stamp from fouronezero.

Pop, pop, pop music

This little popcorn box was made from the beautiful gifts I received for my birthday from the lovely Kate. This box was inspired by a recent outing with my Mum, who took my son to the local KFC as a treat. He had a kid's meal which contained a little box of chicken popcorn. My husband bless him, always thinking of me brought home the box, as he thought I might like it (what a weird gift you maybe thinking lol). I deconstructed it and thought hmm, I could do that. If you see below it was easy just to trace round it , add some score lines and voila.



Have you had any great and weird finds like this one from the most unlikely objects?

Have a great day & see you tomorrow xx

p.s the lovely Aimes (check her out now before she gets too famous !) asked about the distressing I did on a couple of my cards yesterday. I use an old pair of scissors and open the blades and using just one side of it drag it down the paper / card repeatedly until I get the desired effect - hope it helps x

Supplies (I am doing a lot of guessing as they were a gift) - Papertreyink raspberry fizz paper & ribbon. Stampin Up: Whisper white card stock, misc: linen thread. Misc: Black stazon, pink chalk, sentiment from stash.

I'm torn

More vellum and a similar card to yesterday but with a twist of torn and embossed white vellum. It has been glorious weather here in Swansea over the last few days. So I will be taking advantage of this and heading on down to the Gower, a beautiful part of the country (even though I say so myself).

Have a great day whatever you do & see you tomorrow xx

Supplies from Stampin Up - Stamps: Fresh cuts, card stock: kraft, whisper white, basic black & white vellum. Ink: Stazon & versamark. Ribbon: Whisper white grosgrain. Hardware from the hodgepodge kit. Other: white brads from stash & white embossing powder.

Daddy dearest

A little something for my Dad, either for Father's day or his birthday, which are quite close together, but I haven't decided yet. I wanted to use this stamp for a masculine card and quite like the outcome.

Hope everyone is enjoying the beautiful weather, have a great weekend & see you tomorrow xx

Supplies from Stampin Up - Stamps: Fresh cuts, card stock: Kraft, very vanilla & chocolate chip. Ink: Chocolate chip, ribbon: chocolate chip grosgrain. Misc: Brads & frame from hodgepodge kit & linen thread. Other: Alphabet stamps from studio G.

The winner takes it all

Good morning all, I have been trying to think of what to do with vellum and thought it might be nice to make something 3D with it. It's a cute little love note box with a vellum lid stamped and embossed.

Also today I would like to give special mention to three lovely ladies Aimes, Sara & Kate who I know, that if they lived down the road from me, we would be the best of friends popping round and chatting all day long, having fun. They have all been so kind and supportive and have bestowed on me this award "for a blog whose content or design, in the giver's opinion, brilliant".


The conditions of the award are:

I must thank the person who gave me the award, list their blog and link to it.
I must list 10 honest things about myself (oh god help us lol).
I must put a copy of The Honest Scrap Logo on my blog.
I must select at least seven other worthy bloggers & list their links.
I must notify the bloggers of the award.

Brace yourself, here are my 10 things:

1, I love the banana sweets you can get from your local market.

2, I live in my pyjamas (when I am not in work obviously lol).

3, I have very long naturally curly hair ( which I hate sometimes as it gets frizzy).

4, I get a little queasy about things that come in squeezy tubes, e.g. toothpaste, tomato sauce, etc (go figure ?).

5, I love to dance & sing (I am no good at it by the way but I still try).

6, I have three freckles on my right upper arm all in a row next to each other and nowhere else on my body.

7, I was a huge fan of INXS as a teenager and was madly in love with Michael Hutchence after seeing them live at Wembley.

8, When I was nine we went on a family holiday to San Antonio. We went to see a show where The Three Degrees were playing and they invited me and some other young girls on stage to sing with them!

9, My favourite colours are any shades of blue.

10,I love all sports(probably because I can't play any of them ha!) and saw the New York Yankees (baseball) at the Yankee stadium in New York.

Now to pass it on to some lovely people:

Joanne

Claire Brennan

Judy

Jo

Leann

Jenny

Natalie

Sarah-Jane

There are lots more people obviously that I love to visit but for now have a great day & see you tomorrow xx

Ingredients from Stampin Up - Stamps: Polka dots & paisley. Card stock: Tempting turquoise & white vellum. Paper: Polka dots & petals designer series paper. Ribbon: Tempting turquoise grosgrain. Misc: Versamark ink & white embossing powder.

The wonder of you

I am still on such a high from the most excellent birthday yesterday. After being brought croissants and freesias in bed first thing in the morning, to opening some lovely cards from family and friends (especially the one from my son which had a broccoli family on the front doing a funny, which he thought was hysterical ). I heard Mr Postie deliver something that went thud, those are the best one's :), my servant for the day brought the letters to me and of course I went straight to the large one (thinking I haven't ordered anything, have I )?

To my absolute delight on opening, out poured the delicious card above and stash sent by the angels themselves - well from Kate actually. I had no idea she even knew when my birthday was ! - what a talented, generous and thoughtful friend I have truly made. I am so lucky to know her and so grateful to be part of her life (gush, gush - sorry). I have had so many wonderful messages from fellow bloggers, I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Normal service to resume tomorrow, but just had to share with you what amazing people there are out there. Have a great day & see you tomorrow xx

Your my inspiration

As you can see I do get my inspiration from the oddest places sometimes. Why only last week I got some from my jammie's lol. This literally was inspired by the little woven shopping bag I bought from Tesco's. I must also give praise to the legendary Angie at chick n' scratch for the tutorial of the the ladybird. I came up with the wording on my card from a silly song my husband and I used to sing to each other jokingly (picture it now, we were like Sonny & Cher but him without the mustache and my bottom being slightly larger ha!). You know the one 'your the lady, your the lady, that I love. Well I though it might make a sweet anniversary, sorry or valentines card.

It's my Birthday today so we will being going out for lunch and a run round the park (not so much of the running for me though after a big lunch lol) with my hubbie and little one. I can tell you to now what I will be getting as a present, as it is my longed for wish come true and become a Stampin Up demonstrator.

Have a great day & see you tomorrow xx

Stampin Up - Card stock: Kraft, whisper white, real red & black. Ink: Versamark & signo white pen. Misc: white embossing powder. Other: Black paper twill from Ikea & alphabet stamps by Studio G.

Oops I did it again

So I was having a lovely afternoon, mooching around looking at some blogs and saw that Stamp with us, a fantastic Stampin Up challenge site, had a great challenge to use 2 x ribbons, 1 x flower, 1 x button and 1 x patterned paper. This sounded like fun and proceeded to have a go producing, what I thought was quite a nice little card.

Hours later, after photographing and editing it dawned on me that I had got a bit carried away with the 1 x patterned paper bit. At first I thought ok so it's 2, but it is the same colour maybe I can get away with it until I realised that I have in fact used 3 x pattered paper. I was doing so well that in the first 5 minutes of making it I had to pull off brads and replace them with punched out card because of the challenge. I must be some sort of non conformist deep down ( I did try to stick to the challenge, honest guv' lol).

A special mention goes out today for this little cherub, Evee who lights up any room she is in and is such a joy to have as a niece. It's her 1st birthday today - Happy Birthday sweetness from your Auntie Em, Uncle Mike and big boy cousin Samuel - we love you with all our hearts xxxxx

Have a great day & see you tomorrow xx

Stampin Up - Stamps: Cheer & wishes, card stock: So saffron, pretty in pink, regal rose, whisper white & old olive. Ink: Regal rose, black & white pen. Paper: Old olive & so saffron designer series paper. Ribbon: Whisper white grosgrain. Misc: Old olive button

And now for something completely different

This is a little card I made for a colleague who has managed to 'escape' and is off to bigger and better things. I thought I would use Stampin Up's scrummy polkadot & petals paper, they are so springy and I love the colour turquoise. Still enjoying the beautiful weather here in South Wales - hope it's nice where you are.

Thanks for stopping by & see you tomorrow xx

Stampin Up - Stamps:Cheer & wishes, card stock: tempting turquoise, whisper white & so saffron. Paper: polkadot & petals designer series paper. Ribbon: tempting turquoise grosgrain. Misc: so saffron brad. Other flower from prima.

Finally

Phew, finished and delivered to my Mum today. This is such a wow present to give but it does take some work (especially for me as I never know when to finish and put down the card ). It's my Mum's birthday today (Pemblwydd Hapus Mammy) and as her main language is welsh a little nod to that.

Hope everyone is enjoying the Whitsun break, the weather is lovely here today. I have been to the Marina and eaten so much Chinese food that I may not need feeding again for a fortnight lol.

Have a great day & see you tomorrow xx

Where have you gone to my lovely

I have finished the stationery box for my Mum and this is another card from the set. I'm a bit in the dark about my blog at the moment as blogger is throwing a major tantrum and not letting me see any of my posts. Hopefully everything looks ok as I have had a few comments, unless people are being polite lol.

Hopefully you will see me tomorrow (I don't know if I will see me though ha!) xx

Stampin Up - Card stock: Whisper white, old olive & pretty in pink. Paper: Tea party designer series paper. Ribbon: Pretty in pink taffeta. Misc: Pretty in pink brad & hardware from hodgepodge kit. Other: DCWV sentiment.

Wishin' & hopin'

More cards for my little stationery box ( I meant to say when I posted it the other day that I had the instructions from the legendary Jacki Topa here). As we speak Mr Blogger is being spooky, one minute no pictures, next it won't let me log on arrrrrr. Hey ho, from today I am off work for a blissful ten days !! who hooooooo. But if my boss is reading this - I miss you all so much and of course, I would work for nothing on a volunteer basis but I have crafty needs to sustain LOL.

Any hoo, have a great day & see you tomorrow xx

Stampin Up - Card stock: So saffron, old olive & pretty in pink. Paper: Tea party designer series paper. Ribbon: Old olive grosgrain, misc: So saffron brads. Other: Doodlebug white rub-ons.