Strawberry fields forever

Good morning and Happy Friday everyone (wink, wink, cough - it's my birthday today!).  Well lots of things going on over the last few days, it's my monthly paper crafting class today - helloooo ladies.  Yesterday was my beautiful Niece Evee's 3rd birthday and in honour of her sheer beautifiullness and butterfly obsession I made her this card.  I also bestowed upon Evee (amongst other things) her very first stamp set and ink pads (all butterflies and pink ink - of course).  I will be entering it over at creative card crew (anything goes) and sweet stamping challenge blog (in the garden).

As promised  last time this is the cake my husband made for my Mum's birthday last week - it's was even more delicious than it looks, if that at all possible - double yum!

Hope you have a great bank holiday weekend everyone - I maybe partaking in some 'big shot' retail therapy by the end of this day - whoo hooo!

Supplies from Stampin' Up!

Card stock: Basic grey and whisper white.  Paper: subtles designer series paper stack in wild wasabi.  Misc: dazzling diamonds.  Other:  cluny lace, jute twine, cosmo cricket material girl paper, pins from stash, pink cat studio Betty butterfly digital download and sentiment generated from pc.

'Case' of you

ETA: this was my 'lost' blogger post from last week - which I found thankfully :D

 

Yes indeedy this card was to go with my mother-in-laws altered album from this post.  I 'cased' it from the lovely Caroline's card from here ( I LOVE this set - it's Stampin' Up!s growing green).  I used my pastels on these images for a change - forgotten how easy they are to work with.

Have a great day all x

Supplies from Stampin' Up!

Stamps: growing green and occasional greeting.  Ink: basic black and concord crush.  Card stock: Whisper white and concord crush.  Paper: lap of luxury DSP.  Accessories: basic pearls, dazzling diamonds glitter and pastels.  Other: kraft recycled card blank from stash.

Night owl

Howdy folks and hello to Monday.  This little card that was given to my Mum at the weekend from my son to celebrate her birthday.  It was such fun to make my little owl a co-ordinating outfit to match lol!  I will be entering it over at craftycatz weekly challenge of anything goes.

Hope your weekend went well - I am still stuffed from the most ENORMOUS strawberry and cream sponge cake (pictures to follow) my husband made for my Mum, I don't think I need to eat again until Thursday hee hee!

Supplies from Stampin' Up!

Ink: Concord crush.  Card stock: Sahara sand, concord crush, old olive, early espresso, whisper white and bashful blue.  Paper: concord crush designer series paper (hostess).  Tools: two-step owl punch, little leaves die, 3/4" circle punch and mat pack and piercing tool.  Other: Papertreyink sentiment from birthday bash sentiments.  String from stash.

Free bird

Morning, not long now until the weekend (phew).  Not up to much though, off to my Mum's for  a hearty lunch.  It's her birthday next week and I did (honest) offer to take her out to lunch but she fancied a home family meal instead (I do go bearing crafty gifts, flowers and chocolates though) :D

Hope you have a great day & I'll see you soon x

Supplies from Stampin' Up!

Stamps: Every moment and occasional greetings.  Ink: Black stazon, early espresso and old olive, so saffron, soft suede and bashful blue for water colouring image.  Card stock: Water colour paper, early espresso and so saffron.  Accessories: old olive 1/8" taffeta ribbon.  tools: Vintage wall paper embossing folder. 

Oh dear what can the matter be

Well, what a funny couple of days it has been!  It felt very odd with blogger down :(  Hey ho at least only one of my scheduled posts disappeared (where did it - spooky lol).  I completely scrapped it and started again with a new brooch card.  Goodness, I do LOVE Stampin' Up!s new butterfly die and I nearly kept this for myself!  I will however be putting it over at my shop later this week (if I can part with it hee hee).

I will be entering it too over at crafty creations (anything goes), cupcake craft (in the garden) and moving along with the times (2 B's).  Have a great day everyone and see you soon x

Supplies from Stampin' Up!

Ink: concord crush and crumb cake.  Card stock: crumb cake.  Tools: beautiful butterflies die and Manhattan flower embossing folder.  Other: Papertreyink felt and button.  Jewel pins, jewel and seam binding from stash.

Memories

Morning!  getting back in the swing of things since my hols.  I am still smiling to myself, fondly remembering the happy days of my recent trip :D  This little gift was made for my mother-in-law on mother's day.  You can see it's a little from the norm for me but she LOVES pink and pretty (secretly I do too but it doesn't usually like me).

As you can see, it is an altered photo album which I picked up at a local brick a brack sale where my friends Barbara and Ruth were running a table for their church.  I painted around the edges with off white acrylic paint then covered it with sewn panels of card and paper.  There's not a single stamp on this! (I know) it's a mix of rub-ons from Stampin' Up! and die-cuts.

I will be entering it over at charisma cardz 'no cards allowed', papertake weekly's 'punches or die-cuts' and lets craft & creates 'sew lovely' challenges.  Have a great day everyone.

Supplies:  Basic grey paper, Stampin' Up!s retired rub-ons, beautiful wings embosslit die, basic pearls and blushing bride card stock.  Papertreyinks doily die cut in vintage cream card stock and tea dye inks.  Martha Stewart crystal coarse glitter Other: pink twine, jewel pins and pink organza ribbon from stash.

Summer breeze

Hello! oh it's good to be back.  We had such a FUN time though.  Lots of dancing with my niece, steam train rides with my son to pretty little harbour towns (where I might have found a little nick nack shop where to feed my *need* I purchased a bit of ribbon :0)  We had such great weather too, for which I am so grateful.

Thanks also has to go to you for keeping any eye on this place while I was away with your fabby comments :D  Anyway back to the business that is card making and this one I made the evening I got back from Butlins (I think I may have been having slight withdrawal's!).  I will be entering it over at fabnfunky's no paper challenge, papertake weekly's anything goes with optional round thing and abc-challenges 2 images or more.

Have a great day everyone (back to work for me - boo).

Supplies from Stampin' Up!

Stamps: Silhouettes sentiments (hostess), A to Z and hopeful thoughts.  Ink: basic black and sahara sand.  Card stock: Baja breeze textured, basic black and whisper white.  Accessories: designer button from neutrals set and baja breeze seam binding.  Tools: scallop trim border punch.

Life is like a butterfly

And what a mighty fine butterfly it is (don't you just love the shape of this die!).  Lots of new goodies on this card - I think I made it the moment a new shipment of  Stampin' Up! goodies landed on my table. 

I'm home today! and probably will have one happy and very tired little boy on my hands :D

Supplies from Stampin' Up!

Stamps: curly cute, ink: early espresso and crumb cake.  Card stock: crumb cake and always artichoke.  Paper: sweet stitches DPS.  Accessories: bitty button, linen thread, rose red seam binding and rose red button.  Tools: vintage wallpaper embossing folder and Bigz beautiful butterflies die.

I can see it in the stars

Well as I look into my crystal ball a la' mystic Meg I predict I will be having lots of fun, maybe at the beach, maybe by the pool - who knows!  It's funny sitting here before I go away on my hols thinking when this will be posted and what I'll be doing!

Have a great day all x

Supplies from Stampin' Up!

Stamps: trendy trees, ink: whisper white craft.  Card stock: early espresso and wild wasabi.  Paper: sweet stitches DSP.  Accessories: springtime vintage big designer button, daffodil delight 1/8" taffeta ribbon.  Tools: vintage wallpaper embossing folder.

Leaving on a jet plane

Well maybe not a jet plane but a people carrier LOL!  Yes it is the Fuge/Dowling annual sharabang to Butlins Minehead!  It's time for the coming together of families for all the fun of the fair, with I'm sure lots of embarrassing dancing by myself with my adorable niece (grins secretly as I LOVE to dance rarely get a legitimate reason to do so these days hee!).

Anyway all my posts this week will (hopefully) will be scheduled before my holiday :D  This little card was for my dear friend Aimes, who recently moved into her new pad.

Have a great week everyone, I'm not going to even mention that I blubbed like a good un at the Royal wedding which was so beautiful ;D

Supplies from Stampin' Up!

Stamps: Neighbourhood wheel.  Ink: basic black, old olive, bashful blue, concord crush and pastels for colouring.  Car stock: whisper white, old olive, bashful blue, concord crush and crumb cake.  Paper: (retired) old olive and bashful blue DSP and concord crush (hostess) DSP.  Other: Jute button twine, sentiment from a really old (a la can't remember) clear stamp and MFT banner die.

I'm getting married in the morning

Well it may look like I planned this and you'd be right lol!  With lots of wedding and flower challenges out there I thought it would be perfect to post this card today. I have such fond memories of previous royal weddings with nostalgic scenes of street parties and flags when I was small - happy days.  I will be entering it over at a passion for papertrey, lets create and stampin for the weekend.

I have class this morning in which my husband has made seed cake and an apple madeira cake for the occasion - lucky us :D  Have a wonderful day everyone however you celebrate.

Supplies from Stampin' Up!

Stamps: Four frames.  Ink: basic black.  Card stock: very vanilla.  Accessories: crumb cake seam binding and basic pearls.  Other Stampin' Up!: Manhattan flower embossing folder and decorative label punch.  Papertreyink: communique sentiment, dotti biscotti paper , kraft card stock and tea dye ink.  Misc: sewing machine.

Baby face

Hiya! another make and go card from me today and hence the on my work desk photo sorry.  A really super quick sweet baby card too (I know using my now well used vintage wallpaper embossing folder). Well that's all for today - it's just a bit crazy at my house at the mo with class prep and holiday prep :D

Have a great day everyone x

Supplies from Stampin' Up!

Stamps: All in the family and jumble alphabet.  Ink: Versamark and basic black.  Card stock: blushing bride, crumb cake and whisper white.  Ribbon: blushing bride stitched-poly ribbon.  Other Stampin' Up! stampin pastels and white stampin emboss powder.

I've got a bucket full of

It makes me chuckle as I think of when I gave these to my niece and son on Sunday.  I don't know if they could quite believe that these were carrots with sweets inside them hee hee!  The little buckets came in so handy too, as after they had eaten the contents they proceeded to fill them with the the findings of the the Easter egg hunt in the garden.

Lots of challenges with an Easter theme too, I will be entering these over at cupcake craft, my time to craft and sweet stampin challenges. 

Hope you and  a wonderful weekend - it was simply gorgeous here :D

Supplies from Stampin' Up!

Card stock: Marina mist, rose red, early espresso and garden green.  Paper: nursery sweet and retired pumpkin pie designer series paper.  Ribbon: rose red (retired) and marina mist grosgrain.  Template for the carrots from the digichick shop.

Thank you for the days

Yay for the long weekend that's all I say! and hoorah for the short working week :D  Going to have to be super quick today, I am practically out the door to the beach typing this.  Just have to mention my new papery love for Stampin' Up!s sweet stitches designer series paper.  It's going in to the dimensionally themed challenge over at cupcake craft too :D

Have chockyliscious weekend everyone x

Supplies from Stampin' Up!

Stamps: Curly cute.  Ink: whisper white craft ink.  Card stock: Rose red and daffodil delight.  Paper: sweet stitches dsp.  Accessories: rose red button, linen thread, early espresso narrow grosgrain ribbon.  Tools: Scallop edge border punch, corner rounder punch, mat pack and piercing tool.

One more cup of coffee

Morning!  I am feeling decidedly pleased with myself about this card - you know why?  Well I am going to be totally honest with you and admit that it took me 4 years to learn how to tie a half decent bow! I know I just couldn't comfortably do one without tying them a hundred times before giving up.  So since I got the hang of them I challenged myself to learn how to do a double bow - eek!  Thankfully after watching several  YouTube instructional videos I decided to have a go and I have to say I really like the effect.  I would love to hear if you too have conquered any crafting demons. 

This card makes me think of chocolate coffee cake and luckily for me choccy is theme over at moving along with the times.  Have a great day and see you soon x

Supplies from Stampin' Up!

Stamps: a slice of life (hostess), cheer & wishes and four frames.  Ink: whisper white craft ink, early espresso and crumb cake.  Card stock: early espresso and crumb cake.  Accessories: crumb cake seam binding, linen thread and crumb cake flower button.

It might as well be spring!

Morning and I hope you all had a fabby weekend.  Parties galore here at the Fuge household, what with my son's party on Thursday then a bowling party on Saturday and a good old fashioned disco, pass the parcel and jelly and ice cream party on Sunday - yum!

It's a triple spring challenge card by myself today!  Firstly for over at a passion for papertrey, then totally papercrafts and finally creative card crew who ALL have spring themed challenges going on.

Supplies from Stampin' Up!

Ink: peach parfait, pear pizazz, crumb cake and soft suede.  Card stock: whisper white.  Paper: In colour (hostess) designer series paper.  Accessories: pear pizazz seam binding an subtles buttons.  Other: papertreyink boutique buttons stamp set, communique sentiments, everyday button bit stamp set, kraft card stock, button twine and various buttons.

Hey now it's ya birthday!

Howdydoody! friends :D  and can you tell by my upbeat greeting that today is a special day!  Yes it's my son's 7th birthday (see goofy picture below! - awh bless he's lost even more teeth since that pic was taken).  Happy birthday Samuel my crazy little frog!.

Anyway back to normal card making service - are you sick of this embossing folder yet? (Stampin' Up!s exclusive vintage wallpaper) because I'm not! - I absolutely LOVE IT.  This is a little number whipped up for the lovely Sarita (the winner of my blog candy). I shall be entering it over at papertake weekly which has a dimensional theme this week (3 layers there baby - which is  A LOT for me lol!) and an embossing one over at crafty catz.

See you soon x

Supplies from Stampin' Up!

Stamps: Four frames and oval all.  Ink: Basic black.  Card stock: Rose red, whisper white and basic black.  Accessories: silver elastic cord and basic rhinestones.  Tools: Scallop edge border punch, decorative label punch and vintage wallpaper textured impression embossing folder.

Lazy bones

Yes indeed, I have no excuse for my tardiness apart from sheer laziness lol!  We have had such a busy few days, a craft fair all day Saturday and trip to the circus on Sunday.  We were all so tired Sunday evening we cwtched up on the settee and dozed on and off while the golf was on!

Some scrunchy floweriness for you today, combining with some distressed baja breeze seam binding and some seriously lush filigree brads.

Supplies from Stampin' Up!

Stamps: Curly cute, ink: early espresso and crumb cake.  Card stock: Crumb cake, baja breeze and early espresso.  Paper: greenhouse gala, accessories: filigree brad, neutral button and baja breeze seam binding.  Tools: fancy flower punch and eyelet border punch.

Brand new!

Mmm yes indeedy, nearly EVERYTHING on this card is from the NEW Stampin' Up! mini catalogue (see the top of my side bar for a nose).  Happily and most obligingly by myself I think (ha!) I will be entering it over at papertake weekly, where the theme is 'anything goes' and 'new' - gotcha on both counts :D

Have a great day everyone x

Supplies from Stampin' Up!

Stamps: Four frames and trendy trees.  Ink: Crumb cake, early espresso and chocolate chip marker through the colour spritzer tool.  Card stock: Marina mist and and naturals ivory.  Accessories: crumb cake seam binding, bitty buttons and linen thread.  Tools: Exclusive Stampin' Up! only vintage wallpaper textured impressions embossing folder and decorative label punch.

It's a small world

A small square card from me today - I know something different!.  Along with the 'indoor' pictures (only had time to do this as it was a make it and take it birthday card), no time for waiting for nice weather and posing outside shots lol!

I thought it looked a bit like a window box after I had made it.  I used some ruffly loveliness with the new pear pizazz seam binding from Stampin' Up! - yum. 

Have a great day & see you soon x

Supplies from Stampin' Up!

Stamps: Hello again and a bit of birthday cheer (retired).  Ink: Concord crush, poppy parade and pear pizazz.  Card stock: whisper white, concord crush and crumb cake.  Accessories, real red 1/8" taffeta ribbon, wire clip from clip assortment and retired rub-on dots.

The winner takes it all!

Without further a do the winner of my blogaversary candy is SARITA!!! - yeah Sarita.  Please drop me a line with your details and I will pop the goodies in the post for you :D  Thanks to everyone who left well wishes.

Emma x