Oh My Life I'm Late ........

... cos my puter has been playing silly beggars - grrrr!

Anyway, it's time for another Willow Sketchie Challenge - where does the time go - and this week it's FABULOUS peeps.

So this is the gorge sketch by the very lovely Heidi.

And our twist this week?

Over to Fairy Sharon who says .....

Instead of using a download or stamps for your image..I want you to use a picture, it can be of a family member, pet, food, baby..flower..or if your not sure of that try cutting an image from a magazine.

There is oodles of scope for this so just let your creative spirit run free :))x

So I decided to challenge myself even more and dust off the Bind It All that has been sat on my shelf for ages and has never been used. And I made a little album for Emma to keep her holiday piccies in. I would love to use this as a scrapbook page cos I love this layout, so thank you Heidi xxxx

And here it is.
The papers are Wild Rose Studio - very delish xxx

And of course, there is my favourite little poppet on the front, bless her.


Now I told you yesterday that I got something from Tracey at Dies To Die For that was utterly fabulous. And you probably guessed that it was another Martha Stewart border punch to add to my collection.

I am just loving this punch. It scallops and embosses and you get the prettiest edge with it. If I wasn't late getting this on here, I would probably rattle on about it for ages, so be thankful I'm late peeps, .... be very thankful.

But it is gorge and all I will say is that it was love at first sight!!


The blooms were a RAK and the buttons are Poppicrafts. That beautiful ribbon was in the other parcel that came from the US and I cannot tell you how lovely it is. I keep looking for ways to use it cos it is so nice.

So that's my take on our challenge.
Pop over and see what the other girlies have done and why not have a go yourself :)xx


Hopefully see you tomorrow if this ruddy computer behaves itself!!


Huggiest of hugs xxxxx

Another New Challenge & A Sneakie Peekie xxx

Well it's new for me cos this is my first card for it.

It's the Stamp With Fun challenge and this week the challenge is based on a sketch by my blog bud, the awesomely talented Bev.

I have to just say that I was a bit late taking this pic and by the time I got round to doing it the light was really poor, so the colours don't show as nicely as they really are.

But anyway, here's my take on Bev's beautiful sketch.

The image is Stampasarus - I treated meself to one or three yesterday when I was in Creative Pastimes (Barb, if you are reading this, I hope you are better soon xxxx).

As per usual, I coloured it with the old PM bad boys and did the Glamour Dust thingie - you know how it is lol xxx

And the MSBP was used, not once, not twice but three times!!! It now has company - a rival perhaps - but more of that in a sec. The punched papers are PP and the stripey green and grey one is a 'Dawny P's been fiddling with Paint on the 'puter' one!!

The ribbon is from a past Raspberry Ribbons kit - this pic does not do it justice cos it is just so very pretty. The button was a randomer I found lurking furtively at the bottom of my button box.


I am not really a decoupage fan but I couldn't help adding some dimension to the the image, which you can hopefully see a bit better here.

Now tomorrow is Willow Sketchie time and I can tell you that it is a fabulous challenge, so don't forget to check it out.

In the meantime, here are a couple of them there sneakie peekies ....

Who's that lil pumpkin?
And what's that border punch?

All will be revealed in the morrow xxx

Today, there was knock on the door and there was Mr Postie with 2 parcels for me. One was from a very wonderful pal of mine who will remain nameless (but she knows who she is and she knows how eternally grateful I am to her for the trouble she goes to xxxx), who sent me a box chock full of goodies all the way from the good ol' US of A. There were spools and spools of beautiful ribbons and so fab were they that I just had to use one of them for the challenge tomorrow.

So that was one parcel.

The other parcel came from the very lovely and wonderful Tracey at Dies To Die For and it contained something which nearly made me weep with joy!!! You can see a bit of it in the sneak peek pics and all I'll say for now is you better watch out MSBP in my punch drawer, cos you DO have a rival lol xxx

How very sad that I am now talking to it!!

But it has been giving me the run around off and on since Christmas - fickle thing, just cos I over-work it!!.

Right, I'm off to read a bit more of me book, but before I go, I just have to share this with you. I saw THIS on YouTube and it made me chuckle. And there's a bit of Kaiser Chiefs thrown in as well, so it's all good :)

Mind you, it would have been the best laxative I'd ever had if I'd actually been there.

But enjoy, and I'll see ya tomorrow xxxxx

Papertake Tilda xxx

I'm back to the pink and green again, and this time there's spots and stripes as well, cos that's our challenge this week over at Papertake Weekly. I think this is a fab challenge cos I do love me spots and stripes.

So I have used pink spots, pink stripes, green spots and green stripes lol xxx The papers are Wild Rose Studio Spring CD and PP - I did a mix and match cos they are my 2 faves.

Tilda is coloured with PMs as you would expect from this predictable pink piggy (and a bit of fantastic alliteration chucked in as well :)


BUT ..............


Not a single blingy bit of Glamour Dust to be seen. Oh the shock!!


So not so predictable after all perhaps ;)o


I thought I would be a bit different and use a bit of Glossy Accents to make her shoes look like welly boots. It was one of those things I wished I'd never started (rather like the diets - note the plural there!!)


I have kept the bottle upright, as it tells you to, and I have cleaned the nozzle every time I have used it - which isn't that often to be fair- but it took so long to come out and I had to keep stabbing it with a pin, and even then it just dripped out. So poor Tilda's boots aren't as smooth as they might be.


Any tips peeps for unclogging the flamin' bottle woudl be gratefully received. Otherwise I am gonna have to buy me a new bottle - grrr!!



Meanwhile, back at the challenge, you'll note that there is a bit of sparkle here and it is courtesy of the old Stickles cos I wanted the middle of the flowers to be raised.
Ooops, I slipped a bit with the old doodling - I swear I wasn't drunk when I did this!! The beautiful blooms are from the one and only Poppicrafts and the pearly brad is a Making Memories one which I got from Hobbycraft. The ribbon is from my local florists warehouse.

The flowers look a bit wonky here but I promise you that it is the camera - I'd tell you if it wasn't lol xxx

Well it is the final of HK tonight - don't care who wins cos I like them both. But it means no more MPW for a while - sigh!!! My evenings will not be the same without him, but at least we can get back to eating 'normal' food again cos I think I've been getting a bit carried away with the cooking malarky.

As a result, I dare not get on the scales at the mo - it isn't exactly a public weighbridge job, I know that, but it's all relative and I feel like a right old bloater. I have muffin tops (not the chocolate chip type sadly) when I wear my jeans, which quite frankly is really not a good look.

So I guess it's back to Slimmers World for me soon - cry cry!!

In just a few more days .....

Have a fab evening and don't forget to pop over and have a look at the other DT girlies wonderful work

xxxxxx

Penny Black Saturday Challenge ... On Sunday xxxx

Aww, I do love these Penny Black hedgies :)x

This image was part of my fabbie prezzie from my lovely blog bud, the one and only Kath. So I thought I'd use it for this week's Penny Black Saturday challenge which is 'Anything Goes'

I based the layout of this card on one of the awesomely talented Julies' designs - hope that's OK Julie xxxx I coloured the image with PMs and there is just a teeny smidgen of Glamour Dust!!

The papers are all from Summer's Bubblegum & Liquorice set - thank you Summer xx

That pretty ribbon is from Poppicrafts and I punched the flower (EK Success) and the tab (Stampin' Up). And I seem to have gone a bit eyelet mad here for some reason!!!

Not a doodle in sight but a bit of dimension, and there you have it.


Well I have had a bit of a lazy-ish day today as Emma cooked Sunday lunch for us which was a nice treat. I sat outside in the glorious sunshine and played with Kyla on her new swing thing - she calls it her park, bless her. Then this evening, I saw her pottering around the garden with Richard and she was lugging the watering can with her, so I went out and asked her what she was doing. 'We're making wet flowers' she told me!!!!


So there's the weekend gone, and here's to a wonderful week. It's a bit of a quick post tonight cos I'm in and out watching HK - only one more night to go, sob sob!!!I'll be back tomorrow for another Papertake Weekly.


Huggiest of hugs xxxxx

Tilda In Pink & Green xxx

I got these stamps when I was at the NEC a few weeks ago and this is their first inking!! I actually got them from Mr Magnolia himself - very sweet man, don't know what his name was though, but I just kept on stalking him.

Poor thing :(

This is my first card for the new Just Magnolia challenge . As there are quite a few of my blog buds on the DT, I just wanted to give them my support - not that they need it cos this is one popular challenge for sure.

This week the challenge is Pink & Green.

Well say no more, cos it is one of my very fave ever colour combis.

So this is me card :)x

I used a masking technique with 2 Tilda stamps and coloured her with my fab PMs (I do still sooo love them and will be demo-ing them at Port Sunlight very soon!!) and then added my usual sprinkling of Glamour Dust.

The pink papers are from the Wild Rose Studios Spring CD and the green are PP . And the old MSBP got yet another airing, although I have to say that it has been acting up again today. I know I over-work the poor thing but I wish it wouldn't muck about cos my heart misses a beat when it goes off on one!!!


I added a line of sparkle to the border as well, even though from this angle it does look a bit like a snail has crawled across it lol xxx

I got this ribbon from a local floristry warehouse. It's just so pretty.

So there ya go.


I did start another card for this challenge which I may or may not get finished today, so I may be back later on. But for now, I am going to love you and leave you cos we put up a new swing /slide thing this morning for Miss Kyla and she is having such a good time on it that I want to get back out there and watch her (sad old Granny that I am xx). Then it's off to Next and then I better get to Sainos or we will not eat this evening.


So if I am not back later, have the fabbiest of Saturday eves.

Hugs xxxxx

Pink 'n' Black 'n' 2 Fab Friends xxxx

This takes me back a bit, getting all glammed up, ready for a night on the town!!! Mind you, it was quite a few years back now, but at least I can still remeber them lol xx!

I am slowly getting back into the Blogland swing of things, and I thought I'd do a couple of challenges. I have to say that the old mojo is not playing ball at the mo, the beggar, but I refuse to panic or give in.

The pink piggy will not be beaten!!!

This is my card for this week's Colour Create challenge, which is black, white and pink. Well I didn't need to be told twice cos I love this colour combi - you may have noticed!!! I also love this LO as well, cos I have used it so many times. But being mojo-erly challenged like I am at the mo, I needed all the help I could get lol xx

So I thought I'd use this stamp cos it is just soooo girlie and suited the challeneg so well and apart from that, I just love it. It's the Best Friends stamp from the very wonderful Dulcie at Wild Rose Studios and you can check it out here.

I know I've said it before but these stamps don't half stamp up nicely. Clear and crisp and no feathering at all - marvellous!!

So the good girlies were coloured with the bad boys (PMs!!) and I added some Glamour Dust, cos it's what I always do!!

I used it for the sequins on their dresses - very glam!!

And I also used it on the brads which were from Poppicrafts - I think they look pretty cool with a bit of bling!! The pink ribbon is also Poppicrafts - fab stuff - and the black and white bit is literally the last bit from my stash. The little black dots are peel offs (gasps of horror, ohhhh no !!!) which I had to use in the absence of any little black beads. I so need to get my lardy butt to the shops and get more more more!!!!

The old faithful MSBP came out to play. I have had probs with this little beggar when I have been trying to punch very thin paper. But I found that if you use 2 sheets of thin paper together, it works really well.

On the subject of MSBPs, keep your eyes peeled over at Dies To Die For cos Tracy is expecting some more of these babies verrrry soon.

I have to say a huge thank you to Jenny for giving me this award as well. Thank you chick - it is fabulous and I love it.

OK, you remember I told you that Kyla has dveleoped a bit of thing for the Wizard of Oz (or the Vizabee Foz as she calls it!!!).

Well, she wanted a dress like Glinda (or Cinder, as she calls her!!). So her Aunty Nikkie said she would make her one. So off we went to Hobbycraft, and we found some material and she made her one yesterday,. We then went to Claire's Accessories and got her a wand and a crown.

Result?

One very happy little girl.

Please excuse the pics here - I was messing about with them in Photoshop and clearly I don't know what I am doing with it - still have me 'L' plates on lol !!

And also, please excuse Kyla's messy hair - she literally had just got back from nursery and she is always a bit on the rammy side (well, I think she must have had a good day if she is a bit mucky!!)

But I could bite chunks out of those pudgy little arms - awwww!!!

While we were in Hobbycraft, we found some red sequinned material and it just seemed perfect for ..... yes, you can probably guess lol xx

So I nicked a pair of her pink plazzie ones from her dressing up box and got me hot glue gun out and also some red ribbon. And before you could say 'there's no place like home', she had her very own pair of .... ....

ruby slippers!!

Jimmy Choo, eat yer heart out!!!

Sadly, it means that we will have to watch that sodding film even more now cos she wants to wear her new stuff.

We didn't think this through, did we!!!

Let's just hope she doesn't want to be a munchkin or the 'cowaby lion'!!!

I hopefully will be back later cos I am in the middle of a card for new challenge, so see you then. Have the most fabulous of Fridays xxxxx

Back Again, And I'm Gutted ...

I'll tell ya why in a sec xx

But first, it's time for another Papertake Weekly

This week it's one of my sketches - a simple one with lots of scope I thought.

And not only that, but it has been sponsored by the very wonderful Katharina - Whiff Of Joy - and the lucky girlie gets to pick a stamp of their own choice. What a great prize, and thank you Katharina xxxx

Do bob over and check out the DT work cos as always, those awesome girlies have made some absolute stunners.

So this is my version with all the usual suspects.

The gorgeous image and sentiment are from the CC Designs My Rubber Ducky set which you can get from the wonderful Dies To Die For. It is just the sweetest - I love it. And of course, I coloured it in with the old PM bad boys and then sprinkled a bit of Glamour Dust over for good measure. The paper is PP Really Big Dots and the card blank is from Craftwork Cards .

Guess which punch I used!!!! Yes, the MSBP which seems to be back to normal after it's diva strop lol xxx The yummy ribbon is from my stash - not much of it left now so I am on the mooch for some more.


Some dimension, a bit of doodling et voila xxxx

Well like I said, I am gutted. I only went and fell asleep during HK - can you believe that!!!

I can't, sob sob!!!

I must have been so pooped after my mad few weeks that I zonked out. I got as far as the celebs making dishes for his fabulousness from their childhoods (which was quite touching I thought), and the next thing I knew, the news was on, my specs were skew wifty, the hair was like a Mohican on a very bad day and there was that little tell tale line of dry slobber on the side of my face.

Ruddy well attractive - not!!!

Thank God I hadn't got the sex kitten pjs as well, that's all I can say, cos I would have looked a flamin' treat.

So I have had no Marco fix tonight and have not a clue what has happened, post snooze. So if anyone knows pleeeeeeeeze share!!!

The dentist wasn't so bad but I have to admit that for most of the afternoon, I looked like I'd had a stroke, or so my eldest kept telling me. I had that fat lip feeling where it feels like your mouth is moving in opposite directions when you are speaking. My kids thought it was funny, the sods!!!

Before I go, I will have to share this with you.

Today, I discovered Twinnings Swiss Chocolate drink.

The idea is that you add it to hot milk to make a hot choc drink but I can tell you that if you put a few scoops of plain ice cream into your smoothie maker or blender, add some cold milk and then chuck in a few spoonfuls of the choc mix, you get the most delish choc milk shake EVER. Probably not the most healthy, but what the heck!!!!

The diet is going well then Miss Piggy?????

Honestly, if you try it you will be hooked.

On that yummy note, I'll see you soon lovely peeps. Have a fab evening and huggiest of hugs xxxxx