A Card for Spring ...

We have ahad glorious weather this week, it would have been fabulous for Summer never mind Spring and to top it all I've broken up for the Easter holidays today so I am at home for the next two weeks - yippeeee!!

The challenge over at Just Magnolia and Hanglar Stanglar challenge blog is to create a card for Spring, I'm using Spring colours for my card

Two weeks ago I spent the weekend with 7 of my crafty friends in a cottage in the middle of nowhere playing with paper, eating, laughing and generally having a fabulous time. Jan taught me how to make this card, it folds flat for posting.  I used gorgeous Pion papers from my other friend Jean, ribbon, flowers, crystal swirls, lace, liquid pearls and pins (tinted with a Copic pen to coordinate) all from the Ribbon Girl and it was the perfect card to enter as my Guest Design Team card into the challenge that the Ribbon Girl is sponsoring. Check out the blog for more details

Ribbon Girl Colour Challenge ...

It is the 16th Ribbon Girl Colour Challenge today and the colours are pink, brown and cream.  If you would like to win this selection of loveliness together with a £10 voucher to spend at Lili Of The Valley then pop over to the Ribbon Girl blog and check out the challenge

This is my card, I used a gorgeous, new to me, Magnolia stamp together with lots of lace, silk ribbon, tulle and hat pins all from Ribbon Girl. The paper is Making Memories I think and is old but seemed to work well with this little Tilda

I am also entering this into Deep Ocean (pink and brown) challenge and Die-ing For A Challenge (anything goes with a die cut)

Short and sweet today, have to go and do a stack of school work ready for the new term starting tomorrow

Andrea xx

Ribbon Girl colour challenge ...

This is one of the cards that I made for the colour challenge at the Ribbon Girl blog. The colours for the challenge are pink, brown and cream and I chose to use this lovely pirate Magnolia stamp

The ribbon and lace are from the Ribbon Girl and all of the papers are from this fantastic digital kit from Sweet Shoppe Designs

This card went off through the post to a special little friend who is 11 tomorrow, I lined the envelope and added a plain printed image using the same stamp to the front of the envelope. I also made a gift box for her birthday gift using the same papers and this pillow box template from Sweet Shoppe Designs.

The lovely pink and white pencil stripe ribbon looked just too new and clean for a pirate adventure card so I made it grubby and worn looking by colouring it with a Copic pen - E42 - and fraying the edges

Pretty Shaped Cards ...

I love my new Spellbinders Grand Caliber that Santa brought me - and the new larger sized dies that I have been treating myself to :)  I used both to make this pretty card

The digital papers are from this kit from Sweet Shoppe Designs, the lacey doilie is an ebay purchase, stamp is by Magnolia coloured with Copics and the silk ribbon and lace are from the Ribbon Girl

A couple more ...

A few more cards made with these sweet Magnolia stamps

Just because I can ...

'Just because I can' seems to have become our phrase for the summer and we are enjoying skipping off for the day to have an adventure, sleeping in until late, staying in our pyjamas until lunchtime (or later if I can manage) and generally having a whole lot of fun 'just because we can'.

At the moment our 'just because we can' adventure has led all of us including Haggis off for a caravan holiday in Norfolk (hopefully sunny Norfolk) beside the sea.

And - just because I can - I've set my blog to publish a few posts whilst I am away having fun.

I recently rediscovered Magnolia stamps and have indulged in a few new ones after selling most of my old ones last year because I wasn't using them.

I love these little charms dangling off my flowers, I bought them from The Hobby House

Cards by the bucketload!

Well, not really buckets but a few that I made this morning whilst sitting at my newly arranged and tidied crafting desk with my doggie snoozing - and snoring! - on my feet :lol:

The challenge this week over on the Hero Arts blog was to make monochromatic cards so I set about it this morning making first the crocodile card and then the pink birthday card. After this I made the other pink 'celebrate' card just because I could and I wanted to use one of these new flowers that I bought when I was in Newcastle through the week.

This final card is made with my new watering can stamp that I bought just because I thought it looked like a useful sort of stamp and I had that flowery paper sitting on my desk left over from another card

I'm back!

My goodness I can't believe it's been a month since my last post. The last few weeks have been crazy busy like you wouldn't believe. School finally finished for the year and I passed on the lovelies that I have been teaching this year onto a new teacher (good luck Val :lol: ) and there was such a lot of work to be done to move all my stuff as I am changing classrooms for the new year. Anyway, the holidays have begun and I am enjoying being home, a few days out, a couple of lie ins and more crafting time.

So, back to normal again on this blog :)

These cards are for Sweet Shoppe Designs, the strawberry card was made for my nursery nurse at school which was a bit tongue in cheek as she's single handedly eaten all the strawberries from the school garden and we've had quite a few strawberry jokes during the last couple of weeks. The anniversary card was for my Mam and Dad as they celebrated 38 years of marriage this week

Friday Again...

Creative title huh?

This is a catching up kind of post, I've not been too good at blogging in the last couple of weeks but I can sit at my desk for longer now, so I thought I would get all of these cards photographed, edited and uploaded.

The first card is for this weeks DCM dare - to use a song as inspiration, but the words were not to be seen on the front of the card. I used the Let it snow, Let it snow, Let it snow song for mine and used my new Magnolia and Sugar Nellie stamps to make some more Christmas cards.

Some cards I made for Kate Hadfield's Design Team:

Funky Junky Christmas Kit

Funky Junky Kit:

Vehicle Doodles and Vehicle Doodles II:

Princess Tea Party Doodles:

A Bakers Dozen Doodles

Space Doodles

A Dare...

The dare for this week over at DCM was to use gold on a card. Now I just don't 'do' gold, not on my crafts or in my house or on jewellery or anything really but I've been making an altered wooden tree to go on the hearth during the Christmas season and the living room colours are cream so the tree really needed golden snowflakes. Whilst I was making the golden snowflakes for the tree I pinched one to go on my card and I think it actually looks alright. It's 10:30 and it's dark so I had to take a picture on my desk (obviously I had to clear a space to get a 6 inch card into first!!) so the picture is rather naff but I tried to get the glitter to sparkle.

If anyone can leave me a few hints about taking pictures indoors in the dark please leave me a comment!!

Thank you to the forum friends who have asked after my back. It's a LOT better then it was but still hurts if I move or bend the wrong way or move quickly unexpectedly. I'm getting out for more walks but the weather is so horrible - wet and cold - that I'm worried that I shiver and start it all off again so we are going to try indoor walking in the shopping centre. Hopefully if we go through the day it won't be too busy and I can just walk along at my own pace and sit down when I need too. (My Mam has just read that part over my shoulder and said who was I kidding - not too busy 5 weeks before Christmas!!) Anyway, we'll see tomorrow when we try it out.