ANOTHER SPECIAL VALENTINE

Hi Everyone

I hope you have all had a wonderful weekend.

My day has been spent in Valentine mode .. .. such a difficult theme for me .. .. (NOT!!)  LOL!!!

Here is another special boxed one I have made today and I thought you might like to see this one too.

I decided to try and not go down the normal red route with this one.

This used:

Backing Papers:  Papermania "Rose Garden"  (The tags were part of the stack too)

Embossed Sentiment:  Elusive Iamges

Sizzix Die:  Tattered and "656425" Box and Lid (for Big Shot Pro)

Martha Stewart Corner Punch:  Loop

Silver Embossing Powder

Adirondack Inks:  Pink Sherbert and Cloudy Blue

Lace, Ribbons, Brad, Hearts, Rose and Pearls from the Stash Box

Again there is tissue paper in the box to wrap around the card and tiny little hearts in the base.  LOL!!

I have had a few people asking me about the nail heads I use from Josy Rose and what I attach them with.  Well originally I used to attach them using the glue that is sold on the Josy Rose website .. .. along with the aid of a cocktail stick.

But once I started using them I fell in love and decided that I needed to use the hot fix wand .. .. it makes the job an awful lot quicker.

The reason I am telling you this is because Josy Rose have a sale on at the moment with 20% off everything on their website .. .. yay!!! 

To gain this 20% simply enter the following code at checkout (valid until the 31st January 2011).

JANJR11 

You can find the Josy Rose website here  -- -- -- I love this website and can drool for hours .. .. .. even when I don't need anything!!  LOL!!!

Right that is me for today.

I am back again tomorrow bright and early as it is my turn to post on the Get Funky! Challenge Blog and I have done a little tutorial for sharing.

I will apologise now because I know I will not get to visit any blogs at all this week (apart from DT challenge entries of course)  .. .. ..  I am up to my neck with a mountain of orders and DT work so I need to be getting on top of all of that.  Sorry :-(   

Have a lovely evening everyone.

Love

SUNDAY SCRAP DAY 2

Hi Everyone

Well here I am again continuing on my mission to use up the scrap papers I manage to create!!! 

People seemed surprised last week that I had accumulated so much scrap LOL!!!  .. .. .. but in my defence I would like to say that those scraps have been building up now for 3 years and the drawers I use are not huge big things .. .. they are fairly small in fact - I think the photograph just made them look bigger than they are (well that's my story and I am sticking to it LOL!!!).

So three years of building it up .. .. it had better not take that long to get rid of them again!!!

Anyway, my mission continues by following my Scrap Sunday Rules which I set myself when I started out this quest last week were:

1. No cutting into any new sheet of design paper .. .. only pages that have chunks already taken out of them can be used.

2. No cutting into new sheets of coloured card for matting and layering .. again only those with chunks taken out can be used.

3. No taking ribbon off a reel

4. No stamping or printing off of images and colouring them .. .. only paper-piecing is allowed

5. Embellishments are allowed .. .. but if I am able to make the embellishments from scrap so much the better.

Another rule is being added this week

6.  Printed or stamped sentiments are allowed as I do think I need to include these

This week's Scrap Sunday offering is here

This used:

Image:  Is an Anita's stamp that I have stamped and cut out three times and layered up
Fiskars Punch:  Threading Water
Cuttlebug Embossing Folder:  Stylized Flowers
Leone Em Pty Punch: "CP30" Ash BranchAll papers and card from the scrap drawers.. yay!!!  .. .. .. no whole and complete sheet of paper or card was harmed in the making of this creation -therefore mission accomplished LOL!!!!!
Josy Rose:  Acrylic Stones
Diamond Stickles

 Quite a few of you thought that my self inflicted rules were a good idea for getting scrap used up .. .. it seems to be something that the majority of us has hanging around.

Annmaree .. .. who herself took the challenge on and made a gorgeous Sunday Scrap card which you can find here.  Thanks for sharing Annmaree .. .. I am so pleased you enjoyed yourself .. .. though you don't have quite as much scrap to get rid of as I do LOL!!!

I was also contacted by another lady Mrs Miles who left me a message to say

"HA! You and I think along the same lines. I have "inherited" 99% of my supplies so its always like this for me. Actually, I've taken a 12 x 12 scrapbook album and inserted paper in the seperate pages (turning each page into a pouch)- sorted by colors. So, a page with SOLID red, then the opposite side PATTERNED reds. and so on. Yes, the book is big and bulky but I keep it standing up and its so easy to find what I need.

Mrs Miles emailed me a photograph of her album which she was happy for me to share with you all .. .. I think it is a good way to store your scrap as it is so well organised and colour co-ordinated.  Love it that plain and patterned papers are separated.  Mine are all mixed together in the one drawer.

Anyway .. .. here are the photographs and thank you for the inspiration Mrs Miles.

Good idea don't you think?

My post of last week (you can find it here) also came in useful for making people feel much better about themselves as they didn't have as much scrap as I do (sadly I save the smallest of pieces and hardly anything goes into my bin) .. .. .. in fact one person actually dragged her husband along to see "just how much I actually had !!!".  But I feel no shame .. .. my scrap is a direct result of masses of crafting and thriftiness LOL!!!

So that is me for today.

A little more scrap used up .. ..  LOL!!!

Have a lovely rest of Sunday.

Love

A SPECIAL VALENTINE MAKE

Hi Everyone

I am still chasing my tail a bit but super soppy Jules is here today with a romantic boxed valentine card.  Thankfully a bit earlier than last night.

It has been a little hard to photograph this little arrangement but hopefully you can get the idea.

This used:

Backing Papers:  Pink Petticoat (Just An Old Fashioned Girl)
Sentiment:  Computer Generated using The King and Queen font from Fonts4Free

Nestabilities: Large Labels

Sizzix Dies:  Heart = 655459 Heart Frame and  "656425" Box and Lid (for Big Shot Pro)
Martha Stewart Punch:  Valentine Lace
Josy Rose:  Gems

Diamond Stickles
Ribbons and flowers from Hobbycraft

The card will be wrapped in tissue inside the box and I have sprinkled all little hearts within the folded tissue too.

If this was given to me I would store it inside the box and save it for ever!!

Anyway enough of this soppy talk .. .. .. it is time for my bath ahead of hubby's home made fish and chip supper (with "real" chips mmm... have I ever told you I love Fridays LOL!!!).

Don't forget that tomorrow starts the Penny Black at Allsorts blog hop with lots of prizes up for grabs .. .. .. so I will be here nice and early (provided Mr Blogger loves me). 

Have a lovely evening.

Love

JUST MARRIED

Hi Everyone

A mega quick share and a mega quick post tonight as my time has simply disappeared today.

It doesn't matter what time I get up I can just never fit everything in that I want to.

So it is just a super simple make I have to share today as all my other creations today have been DT ones for you to view another day.

This used:

Image:  Digistamp Boutique "Henry and Zoe Get Wed"
Backing Papers:  Aimee Asher  (this is the pink version of the brown I used yesterday)
Martha Stewart Punch:  Frond
Woodware Punches:  Daisy
Josy Rose:  Nail Heads
Glamour Dust
Diamond Stickles
ProMarkers
Ribbon and Brad from the Stash Box

So that is me for today.

Hopefully tomorrow I will be a little earlier.

I enjoyed your comments yesterday about things you had put into your hairs as teenagers .. .. lemon .. .. vinegar and even olive oil!!!  The olive oil sounding as disasterous as my egg LOL!!!

Catch you soon.

Love

ABSOLUTELY SILLY ABOUT YOU!!!

Hi Everyone

I hope that you are all well and have had a good day.

I spent some of mine being creative in my craft pod and then some with my Mum putting all the inserts into my stock pile.  Surprising how they soon mount up.

So Mum has had great fun going through my cards checking for the hearts.  She made me smile because she would say "No heart on this one!!!" whilst waving it about in the air .. .. .. and I would just laugh and say .. look again!!! 

Tee hee!! She found them all eventually. 

My share for today is another valentine card .. .. but not quite as soppy as usual

This used:

Image:  Penny Black "1578K" Absolutely Silly About You
Backing Papers:  Aimee Asher
Sentiment:  Pink Petticoat
Josy Rose:  Nail Heads
Cuttlebug:  Nested Hearts
Glossy Accents (for the tie)
Diamond Stickles
Cord from the Stash Box

.. .. ..  and if you can't find the heart tonight then I think you should have gone to specsavers LOL!!!

I am pleased so many of you enjoyed my post of last night .. .. with the greatest amusement coming from the fact that I once put egg in my hair to act as a conditioner.

Now I will explain that I was only sweet 16 and my Mum never used to buy hair conditioner .. .. just the ever faithful Loxene shampoo .. .. yuk I can smell it now!!

So I used to do all kinds of things that I had read in magazines to condition my hair.

I would take rainwater from the collection barrel in our next door neighbours garden and rinse my hair with that!!  (Even that doesn't sound a good idea now). 

I would use my Dad's bottles of Double Diamond Beer!!  He used to work at the local brewery and they used to have a beer allowance.  Dad never drank the beer he was given but would give it away .. .. or I would use it as conditioner for my hair.  I dread to think what my hair must have smelt like. 

But of course the best of all had to be the beaten up egg that you massaged into your hair and scalp .. .. .. but I only ever did this once.. .. because when I rinsed my hair the egg all set and it was like having scrambled egg all through your hair.  It took for ever to get it all out using one of those very fine combs and a lot of patience.  I certainly never tried that one again.  LOL!!!

Oh the fun (and stupidity) of being 16.

Anyway, time for off now.  Lots to .. .. dinner to eat .. .. blogs to visit and now a button to sew on hubby's trouser pocket .. .. oh it's all go in the House of Hearts LOL!!!

Hey .. .. don't forget the Penny Black at Allsorts blog hop starts on Saturday .. .. and did you know that anyone who becomes a follower during the month of January will go into a draw for a prize.  So if you aren't a follower click here and get following!!!  Not sure what you will win .. .. but the prizes there are always worth having!!!!

Have a good evening.

Love

A VALENTINE MAKE

Hi Everyone

I am a little earlier this evening. I got carried away last night crafting away and ended up posting very late!!!   Sorry about that!!

Tonight's share is a valentine card .. .. although you wouldn't know it from the outside.

This used:

Image:  Elusive Script Background
Sentiment:  Woodware "FRCL128" Circular Greetings

Josy Rose:  Nail Heads

Gold Embossing Powder

Ribbon and Cord from the stash box
Diamond Stickles
Rather a lot of photographs tonight but I just had to add a close up of  the little label .. .. I lurve it!!!   I went randomly around the edge of the label with a versamark ink pen and embossed it with gold powder .. .. I love how little bits of it stuck to the lettering too!!  Doesn't take much to please me does it!!!

Some of you might want to sign off now!!!  I understand if you do .. .. but I have a mission to complete that I should have done ages ago.  It is to answer loads of questions passed to me by my lovely blog buddy Annmaree.  I feel it is rude not to do these things if someone has been kind enough to think of you.

The idea behind it is that you learn a little bit more about the cyber person you visit LOL!!

Well here goes..........................


4 shows that I watch:

Take Me Out
Coronation Street

The last two are my all time favourites - but they have finished at the mo

Love .. X-Factor
The Apprentice

4 things I'm passionate about:

crafting
family
friends
my Penny Black stamps

4 words/phrases I use alot:

Oh Dear
Love you
LOL!!!
Thank You

4 things I have learned from the past:

That babies grow up far too quickly
That I was very lucky to find and marry my Mr Right when I was young
Not to use egg as a hair conditioner if you are going to rinse your hair with hot water!!!
Not to do outdoor craft fayres in the depths of Winter LOL!!!

4 things you are looking forward to:

Tomorrow
Hopefully one day seeing my work in a craft magazine
The next time I have all my family together at home again
Christmas (I know I am mad .. .. but I love Christmas)

4 things I did yesterday:

Cooked and cleaned .. .. the same as every other day!!!
Didn't stop crafting until nearly bedtime as hubby was out and about
Met my new teamies over at Funky Hand
Missed out on a good blog hopping session :-(

4 things I love about Winter:

Christmas trees
Going out into the cold so that I can go back into the warm
Making stew with dumplings (and eating it)
Snowflakes and icicles

4 Places I would like to visit:

The Penny Black Factory to see a stamp grow from design to the finished article
The big craft stores in America
The future
The past

So there you go Annmaree .. .. .. I no longer feel guilty for not sharing more about myself with you and my fellow bloggers. 

I am not going to pass it on to anyone (though I know I am supposed to) .. .. if you would like to have a go though take the questions and let me know you answered them .. .. then I can come and have a nosey at your answers.

I still have yet another mission to complete from my buddy Lesley .. .. I will save that one for another day as I think I have bored you for long enough now.  LOL!!!

Have a lovely evening.

Love

MOJO MONDAY .. .. THIS WEEK ON MONDAY !!!

Hi Everyone

Here at last!!

Where has my day gone?!?!?  Someone is stealing my precious time .. .. .. that or I am enjoying myself too much!!  They say time flies when you are having fun!!  LOL!!!

Tonight's share is for Mojo Monday using another of their fantastic sketches .. .. 

This used:

Sentiment:  Penny Black "3849E" Birthday Dreams

All Backing Papers:  Hot Off The Press "7235" Classic Creative Pack

Woodware Punches:  Scalloped Oval, Small and Tiny Daisy

Josy Rose:  Nail Heads
Adirondack Ink Pad:  Pebble

Brad and Ribbon from the Stash Box

Here is the sketch:

I really love this sketch and feel certain that it will be used again.

Right, that is me for tonight, short and sweet .. .. as there is another make I want to get done before I give in for the day.

Hope your Monday was good.

Love

SUNDAY SCRAP DAY 1

Hi Everyone

I hope you are all having a lovely Sunday.  It is quite cold here but the sun is shining .. .. which is lovely to see.

I have decided to set myself my own challenge .. .. which I am going to follow every Sunday in an attempt to reduce my craft pod of clutter.

Sunday is going to be my Sunday scrap day!!!  I am sure I can't be the only one who has loads and loads and loads of bits of paper that just cannot be thrown away .. .. .. and ribbon too for that matter .. .. .. and I need to use some of it up!!!

So my Sunday rules are .. ..

1.  No cutting into any new sheet of design paper .. .. only pages that have chunks already taken out of them can be used.

2.  No cutting into new sheets of coloured card for matting and layering .. again only those with chunks taken out can be used.

3.  No taking ribbon off a reel

4.  No stamping or printing off of images and colouring them .. .. only paper-piecing is allowed

5.  Embellishments are allowed .. .. but if I am able to make the embellishments from scrap so much the better.

So every Sunday I will be posting a card (perhaps sometime more than one if things go well) which have been made from craft pod scraps. 

When you see my scrap bits below you will realise why.. .. LOL!!!

So here is Sunday Scrap Day Project No. 1

I won't be going to go through what papers I have used because there will be lots of mixing and matching going on over the weeks .. .. but if there is a particular paper you like you can always ask and I will try and tell you where it originally came from.

So today I have used:

Papers:  From the Scrap Drawers
Ribbon:  From the Scrap Bag
Josy Rose:  Nail Heads
Martha Stewart Punch:  Traditional Scallop
X-Cut Punch:  Butterfly
Button and sticky pearls
So that is this Sunday's creation.. it didn't use much paper up did it LOL!!!

Here are the reasons for me going down this route

Two sets of overflowing plastic drawers from ASDA
Each draw is colour co-ordinated to hold
Black, Pink, Purple, Blue, Green, Brown, Yellow and Red paper

Elsewhere there are similar drawers that hold gold, silver and white
(Yes I even save stupid bits of white card too!!  LOL!!)

One large plastic drawer that is just full of offcuts.
But sadly this is not colour co-ordinated and ideally would
fit in the little drawers above.

One plastic bag full of the smallest bits of ribbon you could
possibly imagine.  Some are as small as 2" long!!!

As you can tell I have a long way to go if I am going to make a hole in this lot .. .. but if I don't start it can only get worse and I just cannot bear to throw any of it away because with a bit of thought it is all useable LOL!!!

If anyone else wants to play along then please let me know you have made something following these rules and I can come and see what you have made .. .. or if anyone has any great ideas of how to use up some of these offcuts then all suggestions are gratefully received. 

I could perhaps even do some links showing good ways to use up our scrap using your inspiration. 

Have a great rest of the day.

Love

PENNY BLACK SATURDAY - CHALLENGE 133

Hi Everyone

Back again after our fun of earlier today .. ..

Tonight I am here with a make for the Penny Black Saturday Challenge where they have a theme of "New Beginnings".

Mine is a special make which I have made for mine and hubby's use .. .. .. every Monday evening!!!!!

 

This used:

Images:  Penny Black "1753H" Fluffy and "2861F" In Love
Sentiments:  Computer Generated with Font "Disgusting Behaviour"  (LOL!!!  Love the name of this font as much as the font itself !!)
Backing Paper:  Dovecraft "DCDP98" Piece of Cake

ProMarkers

Cord from the Stash Box

Inside will be the sheets on which we will be recording our weights each week (hoping that they reduce)!!  At the moment our sheets are just stuffed inside the cupboard .. .. this year we will be being mega posh with our special wallet!!

I hope everyone has had a good Saturday.

Love

TEE HEE .. .. ... NAUGHTY ME!!!

Hi Everyone

Hadn't realised that last night's heart was so hard to find!!!

I didn't plan it to be so difficult .. .. .. in fact an email plinged onto my phone just as I went to bed from a blog buddy saying "She could find the heart!!" and I had a comment earlier from another buddy saying she hadn't managed to find it either.

I did wonder whether it had perhaps got detached or something so snook out of bed to check it was still on the card .. .. and yes it was!!!  So I snuggled back under the covers with a cheeky little grin on my face, chuckling to myself and  picturing folk looking for it!!  (I can be a bit wicked like that sometimes LOL!!).

I wonder if it is the most difficult one yet?!?!?  LOL!!

Oh well .. .. I will leave you struggling until I post later and then I will reveal where the little blighter is .. .. tee hee!!!

In fact .. .. .. if anyone has / or can find it leave me a comment here.  The first one to correctly let me know where it is will get a little pack of goodies from me (nothing major .. .. .. but it will be filled with love).

Have a lovely day.  The sun is shining beautifully here.

Edit:  Just thought I would check my photograph out on my lovely hubby.  Without any help from me it took him just under a minute to find the heart .. .. he asked if that meant he could have the prize .. .. but then said "It's OK .. it can go to the next person to find it".  (Between you an me he wouldn't have the foggiest idea what to do with anything crafty anyway LOL!!).

THE HEART IS FOUND!!! 

My lovely blog buddy Shell was the first to "finally" find the heart Tee Hee .. well done Shell.  Let me have your addy and I will send you a little pack of goodies!!  Thanks for playing along.

IT WAS HERE ALL OF THE TIME

Oh dear .. .. just notice I have lost a follower during the course of this little bit of fun!!  Sorry if I have offended someone.

Catch you all later

Love

VICTORIAN LADY AND SOME VERY GOOD NEWS

Hi Everyone

Did you think I wasn't playing tonight?

Busy, busy day in the House of Hearts with lots happening .. .. including snow!!

Some of the happenings have been very serious stuff .. .. which I feel happy to share now because it had a happy ending today.  I won't bore you with all the details but in brief we having been living the last 6 months with hubby under threat of redundancy.

It has been a very long and drawn out thing but thankfully today we have heard that he is safe and will be kept on .. .. but sadly not all of his work colleagues are going to be.  He is going to have to say goodbye to some good workchums  :-(

So we are very, very happy today and breathing huge sighs of relief .. .. .. but feel so sorry for those that are not so fortunate.

It has been a very scary time and has put life into perspective for us.  The thought of thousands and thousands of people going through what we have .. .. ..  but not coming out of it with a happy ending is just  heartbreaking.  What is the country coming to?

We do realise we are very, very lucky.

I haven't mentioned it before because I want to keep my blog a happy place for people to visit .. .. and hopefully I managed to do this.  A few of my blog buddies have known what has been happening and I want to thank them very much for their support and friendship (thank you so much xx).

So tonight has involved lots of talking that has made me late.  Sorry!!

But at last here is my share:

This used:

Image:  Woodware "JRCL312" Victorian Lady

All Backing Papers:  Funky Hand Papercraft Factory "Dreams Come True"Josy Rose:  Nail Heads and Acrylic Stones

Glossy Accents
ProMarkers
Lace, flowers, feathers, pearls and wire from the Stash Box
I am entering this card into a couple of challenges:

The Papertake Weekly Challenge:  Where anything goes .. .. but with the added option of adding lace to your creation

and

Woodware USA Weekly Challenge:  Where something "new" has to be used .. .. .. well my something new cannot actually be seen .. .. it is something I used.  A Tim Holtz paper distresser!!  Blimey - don't they make a mess!!  Never used one before until today .. .. I think it will only get used when I am due to vacuum the craft pod!!!  LOL!!

OK then.  That is me for tonight.

Hubby's lovely supper is ready (yes, he cooked .. .. even though he is poorly LOL!!)  and then tomorrow we are going to have a little celebration with a special little bottle we having been saving for an occasion worth celebrating.  We feel the occasion has come. 

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Love

GOSSAMER

Hi Everyone

I hope you have all had a good day .. .. .. the weekend is nearly here .. .. .. yay!!!

Don't know about you but it seems to have been a very long week this week!!

Today has been a bit of dashing about out there in the "big outside world" so not too much time spent in the craft pod today!!  Never mind hopefully I will make up for it tomorrow.

Speaking of "tomorrow" .. .. they mentioned the "snow" word again on the radio for tomorrow!!  What's that all about .. .. we don't need any more!!!

My lovely hubby is full of this nasty cold and cough thing that is going round.  I think he realises I don't expect him to share everything because I certainly don't want it. 

There was a discussion on the radio as to how people know whether they have actually got a cold or whether it is flu.. .. .. .. .. the explanation as to the difference was .. .. .. if there was a £50 note going free and it was just lying on your lawn -   if you have a cold you would go and pick it up.  If you have flu you just wouldn't care less and just leave it there.

So I thought I would just test hubby (who hadn't heard the radio discussion) and asked him whether he thought he might have "this flu thing that is going round".  He said that he didn't think so (which I must admit did surpise me .. .. he isn't a very brave soldier when it comes to being poorly and I thoroughly expected him to think he did have flu with at least a touch of pneumonia LOL!!). 

So, to test him I then asked him what he would do if there was a £50 sitting on the lawn going free and his reply ..........................

wait for it ................................

he would send "me" out to pick it up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cheeky monkey!!!

Anyway, perhaps you would like to see my favourite creation of the day  .. ..

This used:

Image:  Penny Black "3865K" Gossamer

Sentiment:  Elzybells

Backing Papers:  All Aimee Asher

Fiskars Punch:  Threading Water

Koh-I-Noor Blending Pencils

Small Beads and thread from the Stash Box

I did have a close up of the flowers and beads but for some reason it decided to have a yukky cream background instead of the white so I am ditching that one and just posting one photo tonight.  I think you can see them anyway.

Have a great evening and thank you for calling by and if you are looking for the heart Mo .. .. I tried to make it a bit less obvious today.. .. .. just for you.  I know that you like looking for them xx.

Love

BEE CRAFTY'S CHALLENGE 10

Hi Everyone

Has everyone had a miserable day weather wise today?  It was really dark this morning here when the alarm went off and never really brightened up at all.

It seems really weird to have to have the light on all day!!!!

Anyway, my share today is for the Bee Crafty's Tuesday Challenge.  They have been busy relocating their premises and are now up and running again .. .. and so are the challenges.

This week the theme is "What's New".  This can be some new stash or a new technique .. .. but you will get the idea of it if you visit the challenge.

My creation uses a "new stamp" and a set of new charms that I received in the post yesterday from Clare as my prize from the last "Oldie but a Goodie Challenge".  Thank you Clare xx.  I just had to get it all inked up and have a play.

This used:

Image:  Elusive Images "Men's Mandala Set"

Backing Papers:  Cuddly Buddly

Josy Rose:  Nail Heads

Charm from my prize

ProMarkers

Cord from the Stash Box

So that is me for today.

Nothing much to report other than being a really good girl and defrosting the freezer in the garage .. .. ..and having a lovely time in my little craft pod of course.

So who is watching Corrie?  Who is your number one suspect for bashing Tracy over the head?  My money is on Claire!!

I have also had some awards and tasks to complete from some of my lovely blog buddies.  I haven't forgotten ladies and promise to get round to this.  It is just that I am struggling to come up with some interesting answers LOL!!! 

Have a good evening everyone. 

Love

MOJO MONDAY (DONE ON A TUESDAY LOL!!)

Hi Everyone

What a  strange day it has been.

Up super early with the alarm .. .. it was still dark!!!  Saw hubby off to work and got cracking on getting the world back to how it used to be before the excitement of Christmas.

It has been very quiet .. .. but lots of tasks and a few creations done and dusted.  The quiet will soon be broken though as hubby should be back home very soon .. ..   yay!!!.

Today I thought I would have a go at another sketch challenge.  I am quite into my sketches at the moment.  This time the sketch is from "Mojo Monday".

Here is my creation:

This used: 

Image:  Whiff of Joy "Henry Mouse Hugging Heart"

Sentiment:  Computer Generated

Backing Papers:  All Funky Hand CD "It's Funky Too"

Nestabilities:  Standard Circles Large, Classic Scalloped Circles Large, Classic Rectangles Small

Josy Rose:  Nail Heads
ProMarkers
Glamour Dust
Diamond Stickles

Here is the sketch

So talking of Funky Hand Goodies you may remember that I told you yesterday that Anice is looking to find additional playmates to join our lovely Funky Gang.

If you pop here you can read all about what is involved and what lovely goodies we get to play with and the opportunities we get as a member of the DT. 

I will catch you all again tomorrow.

Have a good evening.

Love

SKETCH AND STASH - CHALLENGE 52

Hi Everyone

Well Christmas has been packed away.  Boo hoo!!!  Everywhere looks dull and boring again without all my little fairy lights!!

All the boxes are all stacked up on the landing waiting to be stashed away.

To soften the blow of all this sadness I have had a little crafting session and decided to join in a new challenge for me .. .. .. Sketch and Stash.

Here is what I made:

This used:

Image:  The Greeting Farm "Geisha Anya"

Backing Paper:  Hot Off The Press "7235" Classic Creative Pack

Nestabilities:  Classic Circle and Scalloped Circle

Martha Stewart Punch:  Doily Lace

Josy Rose:  Nail Heads

Diamond Stickles

Ribbon and charm from the stash box

Here is the sketch I followed.

The idea of the challenge is to use new or neglected stash and say what on your creation is the new or neglected item and if possible where you bought it from.

Not sure which category my lovely Geisha Girl falls into.  She was new a while ago .. .. but has sat unused (shame on me) so she is sort of "new and neglected"  .. ..  oh I feel really sorry for her now and she looks so lovely now she has been put to use!!!

I bought her from Dies to Die For quite a few months ago.

My next task is to go and seek out the ironing that I hid over Christmas.  I need to get some done ready for hubby returning to work tomorrow.  Back to earth with a bang now after all the Christmas chill .. .. .. and to add insult to injury it will also mean setting the alarm clock tonight ready for tomorrow morning!!!   Eekkk!!!

A bit up to my neck at the moment so may not get to your blogs until later tonight.  Sorry!!  Ironing and kitchen duties are calling.

Also, I would like to share some exciting news.  The lovely Anice over at Funky Hand is looking for some additional DT members.  So if you fancy being part of the friendliest DT "EVER" pop over to here tomorrow where Anice will be explaining how to apply.

There are lots of exciting things happening at Funky Hand this year .. .. if you fancy being part of it all then why not apply .. .. you never know .. .. we could end up being DT buddies as well as blog buddies.  Woo hoo!!

Have a good evening everyone.

Catch you later, later.

Love