More shaped cards (and some other stuff) ...

Yesterday we went to puppy class again with Haggis and we took the teachers some flowers and cards from Haggis to say thankyou for giving up their time etc. Of course two doggy teachers needed a special type of card so I made two little doggies! They each have a little tag hanging from their collars and I used my new Hero Arts I love my dog stamps to stamp a little doggy inside. I absolutley loved them and sat them on the windowsill in the kitchen all afternoon so that I could see their happy faces. They are my latest entry into the Caardvarks shaped card challenge.

So, what else? We've booked a holiday to Norfolk in the summer with Haggis which we are looking forward to, this afternoon I am going to the optician to have my eyes tested as I'm hoping they'll say I need glasses which will stop the headaches I have been struggling with for the past couple of months. I took my Mam into school with me and together we painted my classroom windows ready for a new 'under the sea' topic when the holidays are over next week and tomorrow we're taking Haggis out to the seaside and hoping to find some shells for school and hopefully ice cream and fish and chips whilst we're out!

I also have a few more cards that never made it onto my blog

This first card is using Kate's new kit, fresh in the store today

This final card is one of my favourites that I've ever made, it just looks so cute!

Does the tooth fairy come to dogs?

My baby lost his first tooth today - well actually he lost two but we could only find one of them - so he's needed extra cuddles and snuggles and I just had to take his photograph when I found him all snuggled up on my bed.

Talking of babies I downloaded Kay Miller's latest kit during the week and I got to play with it today to make my card for the Double Dutch challenge. It's such a cute kit, just perfect for baby boy and baby girl stuff.

Stuff to share...

Oh it's been such a long time since my last blog post but we've been busy enjoying some sunny days, enjoying time spent playing with Haggis, enjoying seeing some friends, making cards and trying to fit all of that in amongst going to work and the usual housey things.

Haggis has been having as ball playing in our garden. We'd been keeping him on our large patio area and only taking him out in the garden on his lead because we live beside a very busy road and were scared he might squeeze under the fence. But Chris came and blocked up any gaps he could see and Dad did a great job of blocking off the back of the deck so he can't get stuck underneath so he can play freely now :)

His favourite 'game' is to climb up onto the top of the rockery and dig under the bushes so he comes out looking very muddy!

I have had some time to make cards and I really enjoyed making these cupcake cards for my cousin and my great aunt who both had birthdays this week and for the current Caardvarks challenge and then, because they looked so yummy I had to make some real cupcakes too :)

Friday Sketchers Challenge ...

My entry for the Friday sketchers challenge for this week. I set myself a mini challenge to make a card using only bits and bobs that were in the scrap folders that I was sorting out during the week. I used to keep all the scraps of paper that I used and I have a Cropper Hopper paper box full, all sorted into colour categories. Looks great but I never use them :lol: So this card was made from scraps and the image is a Magnolia stamp that I think must have come from a friend.

Hero Arts challenge...

This weeks Hero Arts challenge was to create a card or project taking inspiration from some of the entries to their recent win a day on the blog competition. I spotted a gorgeous flower shaped card by Shanna Vineyard on her blog and in the flickr group for the competition which I 'cardlifted' for this weeks challenge

You can't tell from the photograph very well but I outlined all the flowers on the paper with a glitter pen which looks very nice in real life and of course I used some of my Hero Arts stamps for the greeting and the butterfly which I coloured with glitter pens too.

(credits here)

More stuff ...

A few cards that I made with products from Sweet Shoppe Designs (credits are in my gallery at the Sweet Shoppe)

I made the notecard box at the crop I went to last weekend that my friend Debbie did an off the cuff class on. She is so talented and so good at making people realise they need to buy more tools :lol:

Lucky Day ...

Yesterday must have been my lucky day. As well as winning the prize on the Hero Arts blog I got an email from the lottery telling me I had won £10 on Wednesdays lottery draw :)

Hip Hip Hooray - I wonder what today will bring? :lol:

There is another challenge this week on the Hero Arts blog - combining different alphabet or greetings stamps to create a message. Luckily Debbie came up trumps as usual and my new set of HA stamps arrived yesterday morning so of course I had to have a play - I even got out the box of really old stash to rootle through and pulled out some very old papers (one of them was copyright 2004 so practically an antique!!) I also used some of Kates doodles as they went perfectly and I used a greeting stamp but masked off some of the words and replaced them with my favourite Making Memories teeny tiny alphabet stickers.

(Stamps - Hero Arts - Sending Happy Thoughts #CL305, Hero Arts - Elephants #CL280, Ink - Stazon and Memento, Digital toadstool elements - Woodland Whimsy doodle set by Kate Hadfield at The LilyPad, Alphabet Stickers - Making Memories, Papers - K&Company, KI Memories and Lasting Impressions (I really dug deep in my old stash for these!!), Cardstock - Stampin Up, Colour medium - ProMarkers, Black pen - Letraset, Goggle eyes)

Anyway, it's almost 3AM now so I am away to my bed. I will miss my late night crafting session when I go back to work next week

I've won a prize! ...

I am so excited as my lovely friends have just pointed me in the direction of the Hero Arts blog and I have won a prize in last weeks Beyond Paper challenge!!!!!

I made this little sweetie bag and they picked me as the fresh face winner - yipppeeee!!

I am amazed as there are so many fantastic creations in their flickr gallery but I am very pleased with myself and I am grinning!

CPS #111

Today I made a card for the CPS sketch challenge blog.

(Sweet As by Fee Jardine at Sweet Shoppe Designs, Buttons - Autumn Leaves, Ribbon - Beresfords)


Yesterday was a public holiday for us in the UK and we took Haggis for his first visit to the seaside - most of the county seemed to be there too so we didn't stop long (we went home for fish and chips :) )

Another day, another challenge ...

Well actually it was a through the night creation :lol: Does anyone else sometimes have to get out of bed as they are wide awake at 2AM and their head is full of ideas to make?

Anyway, after hopping around a few blogs this week I stumbled on the Double Dutch challenge blog - and it's such an inspirational blog too. This weeks challenge was to make a tea bag!

I used a new kit by Mary Fran over at NitWit Collections and filled it with chocolate mini eggs. I made quite a few to give away to the little people who come to visit us and this was the only one left to photograph.

Yesterday I went to a crop with some friends and did lots of chatting, gossiping and a bit of crafting - oh and I ate quite a few chocolate mini eggs, played with Debbie's Papertrey stamps and ink, shopped in Jean's shop and generally had a lovely day. Debbie showed me how to make one of her boxes (which is finished but needs something to go inside of it before it's ready to photograph) and I came home with a few cards done and my brain whizzing along with an idea for our cyber crop next week.

(Stamp - Stampin Up, Colours - ProMarkers, Papers - Shabby Princess, Cardstock - Coredinations, Punch - Woodware (I think), Ribbon - Stampin Up, Paper lace - not sure where that came from, I found it in my cupboard)

(Paper - Scrapkitchen Designs at the Sweet Shoppe, flowers - Prima, Punch - EK Success, Brad - Autumn Leaves, Ribbon - Beresfords)
(Papers and image stamp - Pink Petticoat, Colours - ProMarkers, Stamp - Melissa Francis, Cardstock - Coredinations, Punch - Woodware, Martha Stewart and Marvy, Ribbon - Beresfords)

(Papers and image stamp - Pink Petticoat, Colours - ProMarkers, Dies - Nestabilities, Ribbon - Stampin Up, Wooden flower - Hobbycraft, Brad - Making Memories)

Lots of cards ...

I am so enjoying having a holiday from work and have spent every evening for the past few days playing in my craft room making cards :)

(Papers - Nancy Kubo ,Stamp - ElzyBells art stamps, Ink - Stazon, Colours - ProMarkers, Font - SP Toby, Punches - Martha Stewart and EK Success, Flower - Prima, Button - Doodlebug, Ribbon - Stampin Up and Beresfords, Brads - Basic Grey)

(Papers - Doodlebug and KI Memories, Stamp - ElzyBells Art Staps, Colours - ProMarkers, Cardstock - Coredinations, Punches - EK Success, Marvy and Nestabilities, Flower - Prima, Embossing Folder - Cuttlebug, Brad - Basic Grey, Ribbon - MayArts, Font - Sp You've Got Mail)


(Happy Place by Fee Jardine at Sweet Shoppe Designs, DJB Lizzy Fizzed Out computer font by Darcy Baldwin at Sweet Shoppe Designs, American Crafts ribbon)

(Paper and image stamp - Pink Petticoat, Colours - ProMarkers, Cardstock - Papermill, Punches - Martha Stewart and Fiskars, Buttons - Autumn Leaves, Thread - DMC, Ribbon - Beresfords)

(Paper and image stamp - Pink Petticoat, Colours - ProMarkers, Cardstock - Papermill, Punch - Stampin Up, Dies - Nestabilities, Stamp - Autumn Leaves, Ink - Stampin Up, Ribbon - Beresfords)

(Paper and image stamp - Pink Petticoat, Colours - ProMarkers, Dies - Nestabilities, Ribbon - Beresfords, Font - Pea Martha)

(Paper - Shabby Princess, Image stamp - Pink Petticoat, Colours - ProMarkers, Dies - Nestabilities, Punch - Stampin Up, Stamp - Autumn Leaves, Ink - Stampin Up, Ribbon - MayArts and Stampin Up, Cardstock - Stampin Up)

(Image stamp - Pink Petticoat, Papers - Bloom and Grow by Zoe Pearn at Sweet Shoppe Designs, Greeting stamp - Melissa Francis, Ink - Stazon, Cardstock - Coredinations, Brads - Papermania, Punches - Woodware, Marvy and Fiskars, Paperstring - IKEA, Colours - ProMarkers)

(Image stamp and paper by Pink Petticoat, Cardstock - Stampin Up, Paper frill - Bazzill, Ribbon - May Arts, Colours - ProMarkers, Glitter)

Phewwww - that was a lot! I also joined in with the Hero Arts blog challenge for the first time, stamping on something other than paper and card. I made this little birthday favour bag by stamping directly onto the bag and colouring with my pens

I'm off to a crop early in the morning so I had better get myself away to bed or I won't be wanting to get up