A very Happy New Year

I would just like to take this chance to wish you all a very happy healthy and crafty new year so here's to 2012 HAPPY NEW YEAR 

Another sugar nellie

Hello well another day and something else had to wrong this time my usb for my internet decides to die on me so all day I have been trying to sort it out to no avail and have have to go out and buy a new one honestly what next (wish I hadn't asked that now) anyway better lte than never got a few more DT cards done last night and one to show you now it's another sugar nellie as I haven't used them in a while I thought I would blow the cob webs from them and show them some day light

I printed the papers and had just change the cartridges in my printer the colour should have been blue but turned out purple and I couldn't be bothered to re print so went with it image is coloured with pm's colours used are
 dusky pink blush and ivory
Sandstone tan and satin
amethyst and violet
papers are from MCS faith hope & charity

anyway there you go hope you like her off to make some now and boy the wind is getting up here now soon be blowing a gale

Back to normal now

Well have all recovered from Christmas didn't it go quickly all that build up just for a few hours boy am I getting old I wish I still felt the magic of Christmas like we did when we were kids and it seemed to last ages to well I ain't peter pan sothat ain't gonna happen anyway did some cards yesterday and boxing day some are DT cards so can't show you those yet but I can show some of the ones I made and here they are

It really felt funny not doing any Christmas cards lol but what a relief to I have used a sugar nellie image I have to get the others too so I know what some of my money I had for Christmas is going on can't wait
so for this card I coloured image with PM's (some of my PM's have run out aaaggghhhhhhh) papers are from MCS papercraft library faith hope and charity I really like these papers as they go with most things and I use them regular

colours used are Dusky pink, blush,ivory, saffron,buttercup, canary,satin, sandstone,tan caramel pastel pink rose pink

Next is another sugar nellie image again coloured with PM's

Papers are from MCS paper flowers cd

Colours used are dusky pink blush and ivory
sandstone and satin berry red pale pink and blossom pink forest green and mint greenedges inked with tattered lace distress ink

so there you have the two I can show you for now I do have some more but will put them on later or tomorrow thanks for stopping by and have a great day

Handy hippo give away

Hello all hope you had a great Christmas day and are having a relaxing boxing day I have just found this great give away from handy hippo and thought you might like the chance to win it

it's the chance to win 20 single pro markers colours are your choice from handy hippo

all you need to do is pop over toJules' blog and find out more

Last challenge before Christmas

Yep one last challenge for me before the big day and comes to you from http://creationsbygillm.blogspot.com/
now as of next year she is changing things slightly and having a monthly challenge instead of a fortnightly one so plenty of time to get your cards in but back to this challenge it's a sketch

and the theme is lilac and blue christmas so here is my card I made it a few weeks ago and used that funny snow stuff on it but I think it has turned out OK

Image is coloured with PM's and papers are from stash yes this post is very early as it's 1:05am and I have just got back from A&E as I have sliced the top of my finger off again this time a bit more than before and I couldn't stop it bleeding so had some dressing strips on it to stop it and then a very large plaster oh and a tetanus jab to go with it roll on 2012 it has to be better than this year lol see you later

A very Merry Christmas

I would just like to take this opportunity to wish al of you my blogging buddies a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy crafty New year

Christmas | Forward this Picture

Song title@ poodles parlour

Hiya hope you are all well and ready for the weekend my turkey is defrosting so I can cook it tomorrow I have always cooked my turkey on Christmas eve. We went shopping last night and I went into a different super market we tried Morrisons it's only a small one but it was busier so that's another thing under my belt I have done
Anyway onto the reason for this post it's time for another challenge over at http://thepoodlesparlour.blogspot.com/  and this week Jacqui has asked us to be inspired by a song so off I went looking through the digi's I have of hers and as soon as I saw this digi I knew exactly what I wanted to do now I bet those of you who know me really well are thinking it's going to be either a Darren Hayes song or Adam Ant song well ha your wrong (I did think about it though lol) here is my card

the image is little diva and the song that screamed at me was Madonna vogue so this is what I came up with and I am reallt pleased with it

here is a close up of image coloured with PM's the papers are a freebie from http://bearlymine.blogspot.com
which I love as they are in my fav colour combo and I have used them many times on cards

now I really hope you can this last pic ok I have a image of some film and thought about putting the poodle image in it so I had a play and this is what I came up with  anyway I hope you like the card and please pop over to to Poodles and join in with our challenge

Last Christmas card for this year

Hello peeps hope you are all ready for the weekend I have finally caught up just about just need to get the booze in although we aren't big drinkers it's nice to have some in anyway this is my last card for thid year I have had enough of making Christmas cards for now it's for Phil

I have gone for another fizzy moon image papers are from stash and mix some are nitwits some not sure (sorry)

Right now onto non Christmas cards
A couple of weeks ago I brought the POTW from C&C it was an embellishment pack as I have said in a previous post I was a little disappointed as the way they were talking there was loads and loads of stuff they showed you some and said you get x amount more well I haven't got it there is quite a bit and it is beautiful anyway here is a card I made using one of the toppers from the oriental pack the original topper was a little small for what I wanted so I scanned it to make it larger and then added the word "with" and then the Chinese symbol for love papers are from red hot bed and I love these and go back to them time and time again

so there it is hope you like it and I will see in a wee while with some more cards

can my luck get any worse

well I hope not after everything that has happened last week let alone the last 12 months what else could possibly go wrong nothing I thought oh well I was wrong now my printer has packed up I think this is the 2nd or 3rd one this year I must work them to hard so now I have to get a new one oh Bugger well at least it's something that is easy to sort out
Posting my cards yesterday I forgot to post a couple so here they are
the first one is for a lady I have got to know quite well over the last year and although we have never met I would class her as a very good friend we email each other as well as sending messages on our blogs anyway this is the card

flowers are from MCS click print go  and the sentiment is a freebie from createwithtlc-
papers are from stash so is ribbon

the next one I have done for my FiL to give to my Mil

image and papers are from the folies disc I used some back coat coated card ran it through the cuttle bug then sanded it back to show the white underneath I then went over this with a versa mark brush and covered with pink embossing powder then heated

added some ribbon and a bow and done so I hope you like them don't know when I will have any more to show I do have a couple to make that I printed before the printer went to the little printing room in the sky so will post those I better be able to get new one quick not good lol

A polka doodle life saver

Last night while going through the cards I had to finish off I was ASKED by his Lordship if I had made cards for lovely ladies at the PO damn knew there was some I had to make, so need 3 cards and quick so I got out my Polka doodles christmas boutique mag out for some inspiration regulars will know I have used the papers quite a lot making my cards this year they are beautiful and would you believe it 3 cards just called out to me so here they are

the topper is taken from the freebie pack of this mag as well then I put a piece of card through the cuttle bug and matted the topper to it  then on the paper you just find a large snow flake and glitter it add ribbon to the opposite  corner and I added a large snow flake with a smaller one on top then added a blue flat back gem added all this to a cream DL card and 1 down 2 to go

so on to number 2
I think this is my favourite out of the 3 and although there looks a lot going on in it it was really quick to do

I used a piece of nitwits paper for the background on this one then took some og the snow man papers and cut out 3 pieces making sure each one had a snowman on matted onto gold mirri then gut 3 smaller gold mirri pieces and this time added ribbon and buttons to then stuck them all to the card and done

and finally this one was very quick just printed of the topper I needed as I wanted it smaller than the original then I matted it to a piece of light brown card and added some faux stitches, a piece of the brown paper with a small piece of the pink polka paper

added a ribbon and bow before sticking to card then added flower made from MCS click print go paper flowers expert

Nearly there

Hi Every one and a BIG hello to all my new followers I actually have some cards for you today,  feeling a lot better although voice is still a bit gruff.
How is the weather your way we have had no snow yet well Amy said she saw a bit this morning about 6am (don't do that time especially on a sunday lol)
so I will get on with the cards as there are a few to show

first up is the card Amy asked me to make for Anton as you may know from previous posts they have this Tatty Ted thing going she always wants a TT on the card papers are from Nitwits and I used blue mirri for the other one ran it through cuttle bug and sanded back the top layer over the dots to reveal the underneath

Glittered the topper well it is Christmas!!

This is one I have done for her to send to her Nan Granddad image and paper are from MCS crystal sparkles the central piece is made by taking a coloured shape(rectangle) and then went into the NSR (NO STAMP REQUIRED) section and found a couple of digi stamps snowflakes copied and paste a few time and placed the randomly round the page I knew ther was no point putting any in the centre as the image was going there

Now for this one I didn't have the right shade of purple I wanted in my ribbon (typical all the colours you could wish for but not the one you want) so out came the white satin ribbon and the pro markers the snow flakes where cover silver but I covered them in glue and dipped in glitter