I am sooo chuffed and I just sooo had to share xx

Well I never!!!!

Look at this - it's meeeeee (not Hettie obviously, even if my bum is as big as hers!!)

I was a finalist in the PP Lots of Dots comp. As I never win anything, including raffles lol xxx, I was gobsmacked but utterly thrilled. So I have to say a great big thank you to Liz , not only for choosing my card, but also for taking such smashing photos xxx

And congratulations and well done to Sarah and Stephanie who were the winners. And to all the other finalists, as Brucie would say, 'didnt we do well' lol xx If you havent already done so, check them all out HERE

Here's a close up. Papers and image
are the fab PP. Ribbons are the fab
Poppicrafts and there is a bit of Glamour
Dust sprinkled about for good measure.
The flower is from the Cricut
George and Basic Shapes cartridge.

TFS xxx

JUST HAD TO SHARE xx

Just a quickie peeps to tell you about an e-bay shop I found which sells Prisma Pencils really reasonably. I could have got a set of 72 for what I paid for my 24 - booo hoooo sob sob lol xxx

They also sells paper stumps for blending for £2.25 for 6 whic is totally bargain - ous!!! These pencils seem to be getting very popular with the us bloggers and stampers so if you are looking to get some or you need add ons, it might be worth trying HERE before you go elsewhere.

TFS xx

So it's all over - the tennis that is!!!
What a brilliant final it was too. And
as it went on for sooooo long, I only
managed to fit in one card today.

But I did combine 2 challenges, so it
wasn't too bad. This one is based on a sketch from Friday Sketchers sketch 9. I also combined it with the Spoonful of Sugar challenge 6 which was to use circles on your card. Mine are on the paper which is from the Funky Meets Shabby Chic download (Funky Fairy). The ribbons are Poppicrafts and there is also a bit of glitter here and there. I have gone back to my tried and trusted watercolour pencils - like me they are cheap and cheerful lol xx I am perservering with the Prismas and I am starting to get results that I feel happier with.

For added detail, I decoupaged the flower. The sharp eyed bloglies will notice my happy accident which was not at all happy!!!
The second flower managed to get itself underneath some paper I was trimming and I managed to chop off some petals.
Whether this was a direct result of too many Pimms this afternoon (we were trying to recreate the SW19 atmosphere in our lounge lol xx) I wouldn't like to say!!
I'll leave it up to you to decide.

But hey, it's given it a bit of added interest!!

TFS xxx

This is just a quickie cos I am just in the middle of finishing my cards for next Saturday's Christmas card workshop - ho ho ho lol xxx

Fisrtly, I have set up a feed link on here, and I have also disabled that annoying word verification thingie that used to drive me absolutely up the wall trying to decipher the letters - I bet it did the same to you!!!!!. Well I never realised that you could actually shut the damn thing off, but you can, so I have lol xxx And this was all thanks to the lovely Kath who explained to l'il old thicko here what to do. So big hugs to Kath xxxx

Kath has something on her blog which I think is absolutely wonderful - and it is a lovely way to use up any cards you don't want to help her friend who has been diagnosed with breast cancer to raise money for her local Maggie's Centre. Check out the details HERE

Thanks a whole heap you lovely fantabulous bloglies mmmwwwaaahhhh xxxx

Here are some of the cards I did with the latest Raspberry Ribbons
kits, lime and turquoise - what beautiful colours. You can check out the other fabulous DT cards
HERE. The first one is using a stamp
which I got a while back from Mich at Poppicrafts. The stamp is only £2.99 - what value!!!!! And it is lovely and stamps up so nicely. This is Daisy with a cake but there are others there so it is worth checking them out.
The papers are all PP, naturally!!!

This next
one is very similar to one I did a few posts
back and uses the most
gorgeous stamp from Sally Anns
Stamp Boutique. I think the
lemon ribbon in the
kits is fab for when you dont
know what the baby is.
The next one is using a
PP download, Home Sweet Home.
I always seem to struggle with
new home cards so this was a
godsend for me. I love the pink and turquoise
combination as well - quite pretty.

And finally,
I saw this
doodle bird on Jo Kill's
fabulous blog and I just HAD to have it.
You can check these Tigerfrog downloads out HERE

TFS xx

Wimbledon and Blog Candy

Right firstly, the lovely Steph has some fab and yummy blog candy to celebrate her 20000 hits - wowwwwww!!! So pop over to her blog and check it out. A bonus is that as well as the lovely blog candy, she does the most beautiful cards so lots of eye candy as well. No wonder she has just had a double page in one of the mags - go Steph xxxx

Now Wimbledon!! Well I dont know if it was because you all kept your fingers crossed but we had the most glorious sunshine - I got sunburnt on my arms - ouch lol xxx We had a fantastic day and saw Nadal and Safin. I gave you all duff gen cos our seats were right behind the umpire and just to the left so everytime the cameras were on Nadal or Safin during the change rounds, we were on the telly!!! We saw David Mellor in the Pimms bar and literally bumped into Serena Williams' mum. Then as we were walking back to get the train, I side- stepped a very immaculate and tall man and I looked round at him and it was Peter Jones from Dragons Den!!! I wasnt brave enough to speak to him though.

High points were sitting sipping Pimms and eating my strawberries and cream in the sunshine and watching Nadal and low points were leaving our hotel to come home only to discover we had one very flat tyre and there was a docking great nail through one of the others!!!! Oh well - we survived.

We're back!!!! More about SW19 in the next post, but first things first. Look what was waiting for me when I logged on today lol xxx And from 4 different bloglies (new word I made up ie bloggers and lovelies) wow that is just sooo cool xxx I am really chuffed to get this so huge big thank yous to the following for giving me this cos I so do appeciate it lol xxx.

Terrie, whose fabulous work has inspired so many of us and she is just one of the nicest, kindest people out there xxx

Tracie, who also does the most wonderful work and who has her own challenge page now for Penny Black stamps - for those of you who have any of these gorgeous stamps, check it out cos you will just LOVE it xx

Debby who also does some gorgeous stuff, including the most wonderful LOs

And finally to Wheezie who hasn't been blogging for too long but who also has some lovely stuff. Check out all of these blogs peeps cos you will be so inspired by their fab work. Now the rules of this award are -

(1) The winner can put the logo on hers or his blog.
(2) Link the person you received your award from.
(3) Nominate at least 7 other blogs.
(4) Put links of those blogs on yours.
(5) Leave a message on the blogs of the girls you've nominated.

I've done 1, 2 and 4 so now for 3 -this is sooo hard as there are soooo many fab blogs out there, but I am going to give it to the following bloglies who I have never given awards to but whose work is just sooo fabulous. So I am going to give this to the following people -

Beth, Sharon, Sally, Nikkie, Gayle, Jools and finally Mary Dawn. Well done to you all and if anyone is reading this who is new to this blogging malarky and who hasn't got an award, then it is also for you as well xxxx. Now I am off to do number 5. Have a fab day and more later ...... xx