Showing posts with label Bellas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bellas. Show all posts

Friday, August 24, 2007

Friday morning and the sun is shining, the birds are tweeting and that squirrel has eaten all the nuts!...

... and I'm off out for the day to the RHS garden at Harrogate. I'm taking my camera and my Mam and we're having a picnic and we're going to have such a fab day :)

So no cardmaking or forum chatting (I seem to do more of that than anything else!!) until later on but I have more cards to share with you all - more Magnolia stamps and the Bella and the Tilda boat are recent Creative World projects.

If anyone has a cricut and would like to recomend any cartridges I would love to hear what you think as I am dithering over buying one.









Monday, August 13, 2007

Happy Monday...

We are having a pyjama day today, well I am anyway - Mam has her comfy clothes on and is wearing the sling on her arm watching television and reading as she can't go to work. Her shoulder is beginning to feel better but she still can't move her arm very far. Whilst she's doing not a lot I'm making cards - again and being her 'reach me fetch me' assisstant.
The first card is for the CPS card sketch (#26)

(Papers from lots of Shabby Princess kits, FooFaLa button, flower cut from Saru's flower ding font, bookplate cut with a sizzix die, CK Tailor Sloppy font, American Crafts ribbon, black chalk ink and black pen)
Then another Bella card - can you tell I'm really loving these stamps?
(Shabby Princess papers, Pink Petticoat papers, Doodlebug paper frill, American Crafts ribbon, Bella stamp, chalk ink)


Sunday, August 12, 2007

A Busy Weekend...

Yesterday we went to the Baltic, a centre for contemporary art at the Quayside to see the Beryl Cook exhibition. The other exhibits were just so off the scale that I would go as far as saying they were appalling and the 'artists' and I call them that loosely must surely need some sort of mental health intervention. Anyway, we enjoyed the Beryl Cook stuff and it meant that I actually left my workbench for a couple of hours!





Last night I had a break too and watched Dante's Peak for about the 40th time - I love love love disaster movies and anything with erupting volcanoes gets my vote any time.


Today I made another Bella card and then some stuff that I can't share because it's for a secret assignment that came out of the blue and made my Friday night! I've had good news in another direction too but that's staying secret for a little while too. Even more good news is the Design Team gallery is up at A Trip Down Memory Lane and I was asked to be guest designer again this month.



I spent the early afternoon at the local hospital walk in unit with my poorly Mommy who has damaged the muscles in her shoulder and came home with a sling, hopefully the pain should ease soon and she is being waited on superbly by yours truly and I even took over chef duties for tea tonight!!


I was on my way to bed but then I started blog hopping and then of course I decided to make another card so this one is for the challenge at DCM:


This week I want you to make a card for any occasion but it must include a photograph somewhere! The photo subject can be people, items, locations, flowers, absolutely anything so get snapping.


I had a quick look in my work in progress drawer and found some photographs from when I went to the RHS garden in Harrogate at half term, used pink petticoat patterned paper, a label holder cut with my sizzix and some ribbon. I had to take the photograph indorrs as it is now 12:20 and obviously very dark outside!!

Friday, August 10, 2007

Oh My Goodness, I love these stamps...

I took delivery of some Bella stamps today. If you haven't seen them yet then look here. I got five stamps and made a couple of cards this afternoon. I love them so much and can see this turning into another obsession!

(Paper from Shabby Princess, paper frills by Doodlebug, EK Success flower punch)

(Paper by Shabby Princess, EK SUccess flower punch, ric rac from John Lewis, bling brad from a primark belt)

I spent most of the day today having a huge sort out in my workshop area in the utility room. It feels like a lifetime since I moved out of my workshop and make a den in the utility room, all my supplies are stored in various rooms around the house and I needed to have a sort out of basics and essentials that I need with me. Anyway, it's done now - not sure how long it will stay this organised for!!