Red dress

This is for an inspiration challenge over at my favourite forum In love with stamping. Where the lovely Kate gave this gorgeous little picture for inspiration. I used cameo coral and garden green textured card stock. The colour combination works well together and it's not what I would usually use.
Thanks for all your lovely comments yesterday too, they really do make me have the biggest smile :D

Have a great day & see you tomorrow xx

Supplies from Stampin' Up! - Stamps: tart & tangy and a bit of birthday cheer. Card stock: cameo coral, garden green and whisper white, ink: cameo coral & garden green. Misc: linen thread.

You're my inspiration

Upon my return a few days ago , I checked my emails and was thrilled and a little bit surprised to receive an email from a lovely lady, Dawn who asked me if she could feature my blog on her wonderful site Inspirational. I still get genuinely amazed that people like my work but I am my own harshest critic and was so touched to be asked as the other sites featured on there are amazing.

Thought I'd show you another little flower pot card but made this time with pastel colours for a different look.

Hope you can pop over and have a look, have a great day & see you tomorrow xx

Supplies from Stampin' Up! - Cardstock: almost amethyst, so saffron, old olive, pretty in pink & whisper white. Paper: tea party designer series paper, ribbon: whisper white narrow grosgrain. Buttons from the latte collection and old olive die cuts.

Didn't we have a loverly time.........

....the week we went to Cornwall hee hee. What a great holiday and glorious weather we had. Lots of swimming, walking and eating cream teas etc. We travelled to Port Isaac, Padstow and St Ives, where a pesky seagull nicked my rum and raisin ice cream - the swine lol. Such a beautiful part of the world and if anyone is thinking of moving down there, I may have found a definite gap in the market as there were NO CRAFT SHOPS ANYWHERE!

But we had lots of fun and apparently there were famous people in Port Isaac the day we went as they were filming a new series of Doc Martin there. I haven't got a clue as I don't watch much telly, but my mother -in law informed us it was the dopey policeman and the headmistress?

Great to be back, have a great day & see you tomorrow x

Supplies from Stampin' Up! - Stamp:cheer & wishes. Card stock: kraft, whisper white & basic black, rub-ons: hidden garden blossoms. Hardware from the pretties kit

Tea for two

I'm home today, I think, what I mean to say is, if this thing posts in the order I set it, otherwise I'm talking to myself which is nothing new for me lol. Hopefully by now I have at least ; a, eaten five cream teas - I know I am such a tourist for cream teas , b, swam in the pool and at the beach and c, laughed out loud a lot, I'm a simple girl really and that's enough for me.

Have a great day & see you tomorrow xx

Supplies from Stampin' Up! - Stamps: garden whimsey & organic grace, card stock: apricot appeal, regal rose, old olive & whisper white. Paper: old olive designer series paper, ink: regal rose, pretty in pink, old olive, certain celery & so saffron. Ribbon: regal rose & old olive wide grosgrain.

Sing something simple

What a surprise, kraft card stock just for a change, hee hee. I needed a couple of uber simple ones this week as I'm away and adore these rub-ons. Although I have to confess they don't like me so much, as whenever I get them out they seem to stick to everything, me, the table etc. I have to blame myself though as I am such a messy crafter, I have the whole dining room table to myself and seem to end up with 4 square inches of actual work space, lol.

Have a great day, wish you were here & see you tomorrow xx

Supplies from Stampin' Up! - Rub-ons hidden garden blossoms, card stock: kraft. Misc: basic black stampin write marker. Other companies: basic grey sentiment.

Song sung blue

A little simple number here, but the most gorgeous colours, tempting turquoise ;) Kate and rose red. I love the names Stampin' Up! give their colours but it does give men a headache generally. Not only do they have to get the colour in the first place, "it's blue?" nooooooo, I look at him disapprovingly. Ok, maybe they get turquoise, but then we add a whole new thing to it by adding another name to the colour too - poor blokes hee hee.

Still having a great day, hope you are too & see you tomorrow.

Supplies from Stampin' Up! - Stamps: (US) so many scallops, card stock: tempting turquoise, rose red & whisper white. Ink: tempting turquoise & rose red, ribbon: tempting turquoise narrow grosgrain. Paper: petals & paisleys designre series paper. Misc: rose red brads.

They call it mellow yellow

Still with fingers crossed your getting these babies, hopefully where I am is as sunny the day I took this picture. There are no artificial additives on this, apart from the soft edges and the name. This was inspired slightly by the one of the cards from the Stampin' Up! mini catalogue.

Have a great day & see you tomorrow xx

P.s. I forgot to say Kate, did you see me? the large lady with the long wild hair, waving madly out the window as we passed Taunton in the bat-mobile LOL.

Supplies from Stampin' Up! - Stamps: organic grace & yummy, card stock: so saffron, old olive, certainly celery & whisper white. Ink: Old olive, certainly celery & so saffron. Paper: so saffron designer series paper, ribbon: always artichoke narrow grosgrain. Misc: so saffron brads.

My boy lollipop

I know lollipop flowers again, but I can't help myself hee hee. With many thanks to Helen for the great tutorial on flower pot cards using A4 card here . Hopefully I am sunning myself by the pool today(please, pretty please :D) and you are reading this ha!


Have a great day & see you tomorrow from sunny Cornwall xx


Supplied from Stampin'Up! - Card stock: real red, pumpkin pie, old olive & whisper white. Paper: picnic & old olive designer series paper. Ribbon: pumpkin pie narrow grosgrain. Misc: die cut flowers, real red button, pumpkin pie felt flower. Other companies: PTI leaf green buttons.

Daddy cool

From my little guy to his Daddy, with a little help from me for Father's day, along with some lindt chockies, a bookmark and 3 hours of uninterrupted baseball on the telly. Bless him he is always so patient and is too good to me :D I am on my jolly's as we speak so hopefully everything is still working.

Have a great day & see you tomorrow xx

P.s forgot to mention that the most wonderful and talented friend, Aimes, who is always so thoughful. It was her birthday yesterday - Happy Birthday again lovely lady (got to call you a lady now, as you are the ripe old age of 27 ! hee).

Supplies from Stampin' Up! - Card stock: chocolate chip, kraft, old olive & whisper white. Paper: chocolate chip designer series paper. Misc: linen thread. Other: doodlebug white rub-ons & digi stamp. Ink: crayola.

Hey teacher

Hopefully back to some sort of normality today. Goodness I am so relieved that I can at least do some posting now and would like to apologise if I haven't been to my usual blogs and commented, normal service will be resumed after hols. I am attempting to publish future posts while I'm away next week, so fingers crossed, spit over your shoulder, never cross on the stairs and all that jazz I will still have daily postings.

Wish me luck & see you tomorrow from sunny Cornwall xx

Supplies from Stampin' Up! - Stamp:tart & tangy, card stock: real red, kraft & very vanilla. Ink: real red & old olive. Paper: dashing designer series paper, ribbon: real red wide grosgrain and linen thread. Other: doodlebug lily white rub-ons.

HELP! I need somebody

Oh my goodness, what a day and night, phew. It got so bad my husband sent, no ordered my to lie down in a dark room I was hyperventilating so much LOL. My computer was DEAD, for the last 24 hours nearly. I do not know what happened, I tried the usual turning it on and off, defrag, disk clean up, everything but no logging on to anything.

After much stressing & panicking on my part my hubbie said listen there's nothing we can do tonight, let's try again in the morning. I was a little sad because I had kept a clean record for the last few months and had posted daily. After much twiddling by my husband all morning, he also threatened it with a hammer! at one point he fixed it enough for me to post - hoorah!

I am now totally exhausted and need another lie down in a dark room with all the worry lol and I am going away next week aaarrrrggghhh! (sorry about the picture too but there was no way I was even attempting to go into to photo editing.

Have a great day & hopefully see you tomorrow xx

Supplies from Stampin Up - Stamps: a rose is a rose & oval all, paper: holiday treasures, card stock chocolate chip, ruby red & old olive. Ink: ruby red & old olive. Misc: chocolate chip wide grosgrain, ruby red brads.

He was a skater boy

Be gentle, what do you think ? As I've previously mentioned my little dude bought a few copics for my birthday and I have also added a few myself. I now own the massive amount of 11 copics, I know I'll be here til next Christmas collecting them hoo. This is my first real attempt at colouring with them and I have to admit yes I need lots more for the shading and everything but I quite like it.

This is for a very good friend of my son, whose birthday it will be on my return from holiday next week. We are going on a sort of charabanc to Cornwall, all the family in the mystery machine hee hee, heading for the coast.

Have a great day & see you tomorrow xx

Supplies from Stampin' Up! - Card stock: chocolate chip, basically black, kraft & whisper white. Misc: pewter jumbo eyelets. Other: Stamp: skater Ian, bo bunny papers, alphabet stamps from studio G and chestnut roan chalk ink.

Just one look

Well this is unashamedly a case of a card from a very talented lady, Kristina Werner here. There is a lot of debate about casing, but I am from the camp that says we're all here to share and enjoy each other's work as long as you give credit to the original artiste. I have to say that I would be very flattered if anyone cased me. I usually can't get away with her style but when I saw the card I knew I had to try it.

Would also like to mention another super talented lady - Claire Brennan, it does not seem enough to say she oozes creativity and has some of the most amazing work out there, but is so thoughtful & kind too. But I would like to give her a little mention as she has just launched her own design stamps and at the moment is revealing some exclusive sneak peaks of her new sets - it's so exciting!

Have a great day & see you tomorrow xx

Supplies from Stampin' Up! - Stamp: A bit of birthday cheer, card stock: kraft & rose red. Paper: picnic designer series paper. Ink: Chocolate chip & bashful blue for sponging. Misc: white rub-ons from the hidden garden blossoms set. Other: ribbon from stash.

You spin me right round

Ok, so I think I have gone truly mad. You know when you look at something and think a, could it work and b, can I get away with it? Hee hee. Well that's what I thought when hubby and son brought the thingamajig (see picture below and have a go at naming it if you like) home after a trip to the early learning centre. You know it's one of those spiral spin around madly with a pen thing? So I get out a cameo coral Stampin' Up! marker and gave it a whirl! What do you think?

Anyway it's for another great challenge over at a passion for papertrey. I know , I've done another one!

Have a great day & see you tomorrow xx

Supplies: From PTI: Kraft & melon berry card and melon berry swiss dot ribbon. Stampin Up: Whisper white card, basic grey and cameo coral ink. Other: small pearl from stash.

Three little birds

I knew as soon as I saw the template for this cute little bird house I had to try it. I would like to give a huuuuuuuge thank you to the amazing Nichole Heady for the free downloadable template found here. You can make one of these little houses in next to no time (well for anybody else who isn't like me and goes on fuss overdrive on everything hee hee) thanks to her template.

I would also like to thank the super ladies over at a passion for papertrey. I entered this card here for one of their excellent challenges and guess what I didn't win but I still got a prize - how brilliant is that, so thank you ladies, I can't tell how much it made my day. If you can imagine, Kate & Steph, I am wildly kissing & hugging the screen LOL!

Have a great day & see you tomorrow xx

Supplies from Stampin' Up! - Card stock: Whisper white, certainly celery, pretty in pink, so saffron & kraft. Ribbon: certainly celery wide grosgrain, so saffron striped grosgrain & pretty in pink striped grosgrain. Buttons from the latte collection and pretty in pink. Other: birdie & home sweet home stamp from stash.

Roses are red dilly dilly

I love this colour, it's called rose red and looks lovely with all sorts of colour combinations, but I kept it simple here. Made a little set of doodads for the crafty fayre, one little key chain post-it-note and larger clip holder one (tutorial here) and my own design note book (template here).

Have a great day & see you tomorrow xx

Supplies from Stampin' Up! - Stamp: garden whimsey, card stock: rose red, whisper white & kraft. Paper: rose red designer series paper, ribbon: rose red stitched grosgrain & whisper white grosgrain. Misc: rose red ink, button from latte collection & linen thread. Other: book ring & post it notes.

Free as a bird

Mmmm, I love these colours, for some reason they remind of a kingfisher. Maybe it has to with all the Spring Watch I have been watching over the last few weeks! I have just a lovely day at the Mumbles craft fayre, with a bit of crazy golf and chips on the sea front thrown in. I had a nosey at the craft fayre, which was held at a quaint old hall, where I was very brave and chatted to some of the ladies at their stalls, who were really friendly. I have put my name down to do one next month - so we'll see how it goes!

Have a great day & see you tomorrow xx

Supplies from Stampin Up: Stamps: polka dot & paisley, card stock: chocolate chip & whisper white. Ink: pumpkin pie & bashful blue. Ribbon: brocade blue grosgrain, misc: linen thread. Other: tag from stash.

Nobody knows the trouble

Well the first thing on my list to get is a set of circle nesties as you wouldn't believe the trouble I had cutting this card out. The problem was , I wanted perfect circles and without the nesties it's pretty hard to achieve if you cut them out by hand. In the end I had a brain wave and thought 'what this card needs is a bit of distressing' and so solved the problem of them needing to be 'perfect'.

This is for a challenge (I've got one right, hoorah! I hear you cry) over at A passion for papertrey, where the lovely ladies, Kate & Steph asked us to produce a circle card. I had a go, which in itself is an achievement for me , but I'm not sure if I like the card - hey ho.

Have a great day & see you tomorrow xx

Supplies from Papertreyink: leaf buttons and the rest were a present :D so haven't got a clue of the details sorry ). Dream stamp from stash.

Mistakes, I've made a few

I have really got to stop blog hopping when it's : A late and B when I'm tired, because with my brain it's bound to end up in disaster. I 'll explain, I popped around to Stamp with us site, a great challenge & inspiration site for Stampin Up, this weeks theme was (or so I thought) celebration and hence the card I made above.

This morning on my usual hop I was seeing some lovely cards that people had entered for this week's Stamp with us theme and it suddenly dawned on me that everyone's cards had something to do with congratulations - doh! and not celebration. Anyway I think it's a pretty card, but yet again I have failed to actually submit a card and this is beginning to become a bit of a habit for me hee hee - hey ho.

Have a great day & see you tomorrow xx

Supplies from Stampin Up - Stamp: a bit of birthday cheer, rub-ons: hidden garden blossoms. Card stock: whisper white, so saffron & chocolate chip. Paper: so saffron designer series paper. Ink: chocolate chip, ribbon: chocolate chip narrow grosgrain. Other: pierceabilities from spellbinders.

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.