YEARNING

Hi Everyone

Tuesday evening already .. .. .. I can just tell this week is going to fly by in the blink of an eye!!!

Mega stuff to get through this week .. .. and quite a bit to do this evening so I am flying in and out tonight with this little creation:

This used:

Image:  Penny Black "4058J" Yearning
Sentiment:  Lili of the Valley
Backing Papers:  Docraft "Wellington" .. .. what makes you think these papers are my favourites for Father's Day makes at the moment LOL!!!
Nestabilities:  Classic Square and Lacey Square
Button Twine from my stash box

and there we go!!!

I don't think this little hedgie needs to be worrying about being turfed out of that watering can for a while do you?  We have had enough rain over the last week to last a month .. .. and yet the mornings have been starting off lovely and sunny!!!

Having said that the greenhouse has needed watering a little .. .. and can you believe we have the first flowers on our tomato plants!  The earliest we have ever had them!!  I hope that means we aren't going to be left with so many green ones come Autumn.

Have a lovely evening everyone.  

Love

GARDENING SHELF

Hi Everyone

I hope your week has started well.

A very mixed bag of weather here today that's for sure.  One minute it is beautiful and the next horrendous!!  I think we have had a bit of everything except fog and snow!!

Well Father's Day is looming around the corner so I need to get a few suitable cards made .. .. not as easy as Mother's Day ones that's for sure!!  But we all love a challenge don't we. LOL!!!

So here is today's share:

This used:

Image:  Funstamps "FM197" Gardening Shelf
Sentiment:  Those Digistamp Boutique Tags again to which I added my own sentiment using font Mister Sirloin
Backing Papers:  DoCrafts "Wellington"
ProMarkers
Eyelets and Twine from my Stash Box

and that is me for today!

Super short and sweet.

Enjoy what is left of your evening.

Love

SUNDAY SNIPPETS

Hi Everyone

Have you had a good Sunday?  I hope so!!  Ours has been nice and productive .. .. but not productive enough of course!!

We were woken up nice and early (as per usual) by the wood pigeon that enjoys sitting on our chimney pots and calling down our chimney stack!!

There seem to be lots of birds around our garden at the moment which is lovely to see and hear.  In fact I hear one most days but have no idea what type of bird makes the very distinctive call.  It sounds like someone jumping up and down very fast on a trampoline that has a squeaky spring!!  LOL!!

Must research my bird call noises as I would love to be able to recognise them.

Anyway, round to my share for today which apart from the backing paper uses nothing but snippets of that cream card that haunts my craft pod!!  So I will be running over to the playground to do a "show and tell" with it over at  Pixie's Crafty Snippet Challenge.

After my lovely find of the digital tag set I told you about here yesterday I just had to play with it again today .. .. but this time no sentiments .. .. I re-sized, stamped and embossed and used my inks on the tags instead.  Once I know what sentiment I need for this card I will simply be able to tie a sentiment tag onto the ribbon .. .. magic!!!

So here is my share for today:

As usual I am lazy on a Sunday and don't list my ingredients .. .. buy if there is anything you want to know just ask away and I will try my best to help.

All I will say Eve is that not a drop of Glossy Accents made an appearance .. .. except to stick the flowers under the knot of my ribbon bow!!  LOL!!!

I hope you have all had a lovely day.  We have made quiches for England to go in the freezer and just because I could .. ..  a few chocolate chip muffins.  The kitchen had a lovely smell about it .. .. and I have had to eat just one of the muffins .. .. ..  to check they were OK! Thankfully they were .. .. .. without me having to eat another to be sure!!

Hope everyone has a good evening followed by a good week.

Mine is going to be a manic one!!!   But hopefully I will still find time to share something crafty!!

Love

SKETCH SATURDAY - AND AN EXCITING FIND !!!

Hi Everyone

Happy Saturday!!!

Our weather has been so changeable today it has been unbelievable.  I eventually gave up with the washing .. .. there are only so many times you can peg it out and bring it in again LOL!!!

I am playing along with the lovely sketch from over at Sketch Saturday again .. .. but also I have been playing with an exciting new download from Digistamp Boutique .. .. but more about that later.

Here is my share for today:

This used:

Image:  Digistamp Boutique "Stan With Beer"
Sentiment:  Tag from Digistamp Boutique "Simple Tags" .. .. but with my own sentiments typed in font Mister Sirloin
Backing Papers:  DoCrafts "Wellington"
ProMarkers and Chalk
Distress Ink:  Tea Die
Twine, brad and eyelet from my stash box

So how about those cute little tags!!!

I am so excited about them because although I have a couple of punches and dies that I can use for cutting out tags, I have very limited sentiments that fit onto what I have punched out.

With these little beauties I can re-size them to any size I want and either type into a text box to add my own words or cut the tag out and use a stamp on them!!  Brilliant!!  They don't even have to have words on them!!

There are lots of different shapes in the set with different borders too, as well as some great sentiments  .. .. I didn't know which to play with first!!  LOL!!!  What a fabby Saturday find.

Prepare to see lots of these on my blog because I lurve them!!!  Can you tell LOL!!!  My tiny little brain is on overdrive already.

Well at the beginning of this post I said I was entering my card into the Sketch Saturday Challenge .. .. if you fancy playing along this is the sketch I followed .. .. though I have turned and tweaked it about a bit.

Have a great Saturday evening and I'll catch you again tomorrow with my snippet make for this week. 

Love

FUNTIME DAN

Hi Everyone

Happy Friday!!

The weekend is here already!!

I am so pleased that it isn't this time last week .. .. and that the move is behind us.

This weekend is definitely going to be a "chill to your boots" one!!

My share today uses a fabby image from the Digistamp Boutique.  I really enjoyed colouring this little chappie!

This used:

Image: Digistamp Boutique "Funtime Dan"
Sentiment:  Computer generated using font "Mister Sirloin"
Backing Papers:  Nitwits "Land Ho Too"
ProMarkers
My Trusty Sewing Machine
Nestabilities:  Classic Circle and Eyelet Circle
Josy Rose:  Nail Heads

and I entering this into the Digistamp Boutique challenge for May.

Time now for my fish and chip supper!!!  Mmmmm....  I love Friday evenings.

Oh and I keep forgetting to share my news!!  For those who have been asking me how I am doing with the "Fast Diet" .. .. I have now lost exactly ONE STONE!!!  Woo hoo!!  It has taken me three months but I am well chuffed.  A little further to go but not too far.

Have a brilliant weekend everyone.

Love

BUBBLES 'N SQUEAK

Hi Everyone

Well we have just had the  most horrendous rain storm .. .. with the water flowing down the gutters like a mini river!!!  Glad I am snug and warm indoors!!!!

I wasn't sure I was going to make it today.  It has been a full on wedding work day .. .. but I just couldn't give in without a touch of image colouring!!  LOL!!!

So here is my little share for today:

This used:

Image:  Penny Black "1684K" Bubbles n Squeak
Sentiment:  Computer generated using font Zipty Do
Backing Papers:  Pink Petticoat "Gingham" and "Bubbles"
My Trust Sewing Machine
ProMarkes
Dew Drops (stuck on with Glossy Accents)
Glamour Dust
Diamond Stickles
Ribbon from my stash box

and that is it!!

I am toddling over to enter this into the Penny Black Saturday Challenge where this month "Anything Goes"!! (As long as it fits in with the rules of the challenge of course).

Have a great rest of the evening.

Off to the bath now.  Hope there aren't any mice in there floating around in my soap dish!!  LOL!!!

Love

A NEW PRE-LOVED PUNCH

Hi Everyone

I hope you have all had a good Wednesday.  Bank Holidays always make me have to stop and think what day it is!!!

Mrs Postlady called by with a fabby envelope containing this gorgeous pre-loved MS punch today.  I have been looking forward to playing with it all day whilst I have been keeping brides happy.

This is what I made .. ..

Image:  Woodware Clear Magic "JGS290" Bubble Bloom "Felicity"
Sentiment:  Pink Petticoat "Happy Birthday Sentiments"
Martha Stewart Punch:  Deep Edge Flower Bed
My Trusty Sewing Machine
ProMarkers
Glossy Accents
Josy Rose:  Nail Heads
Ribbon from my stash box

and that is me for today.

Thanks for the get well wishes everyone .. .. I felt guilty (and mardy) for mentioning it .. .. the symptoms are now morphing into a good cough and cold and my voice is turning very husky.  I wonder if it will disappear altogether.  I bet hubby would like that LOL!!!

I promise not to mention it again LOL!!

Have a good rest of the evening everyone.

Love

BIG BIRTHDAY WISHES

Hi Everyone

Happy Tuesday (that feels like a Monday LOL!!).

I hope your weather has been beautiful today.  It has been here .. .. this would do me for Summer.  No need to be any hotter .. today was perfect.

There were also several mountains of washing done as we are threatened with the weather breaking up tomorrow (which now means I have mountains of ironing grrrr!!!).  

I managed to wake up this morning with a huge sore throat .. .. I was thinking about offering it out as a "giveaway" but I doubt anyone will want it!!  But on the bright side I am thankful I am not a giraffe.  Just think how painful it must be if they get a sore throat!!!

Anyway, round to my rather late share for today:

This used:

Image:  Magenta "Deco Vase"

Sentiment:  Pink Petticoat "Happy Birthday Sentiments"

Backing Papers:  Echo Park "Happy Days"

Josy Rose:  Nail Heads

and that is it!!  A very short ingredient list from me today.

Well my favourite TV programme has made its way back to the screen today .. .. The Apprentice!!  Sadly the football is running on longer than expected so I am going to have to watch all those budding entrepreneurs behind time.  

I'll catch you again tomorrow.

Enjoy what is left of this evening.

Love

SKETCH SATURDAY (ON A MONDAY)

Hi Everyone

Well after three days of doing far too much I finally got chance to sit down and play with my crafty goodies.

I have missed my little craft pod, so make up for no creating for three days I played this evening with the lovely sketch from the Sketch Saturday Challenge and came up with the following:

This used:

Image:  Penny Black "3347H" Duckling
Sentiment:  Anita's Stamps (Sorry No Codes or Name)
Backing Papers:  DCWV "Kidlet Stack"
My Trust Sewing Machine
Josy Rose:  Nail Heads
WOW! Embossing Powder:  Bright White
Nestabilities: Labels Two
ProMarkers
Ribbon from my stash box

and if you fancy playing along here is the lovely sketch I had fun with (which I rotated 180 degrees):

Thank you for all your lovely comments on the card I posted yesterday.  For those that wanted to know where the stamp and backing papers came from:

The image is Penny Black "3474K" Spinning a Yarn

Backing Papers:  Cuddly Buddly "Silent Night" (who would have thought they were Christmas backing papers).

Well all back to normal (or as normal ever gets) in the House of Hearts tomorrow.  Lots of catching up to do  after being awol for three days .. .. but hopefully I will get chance to make something I can share.

I hope everyone has had a brilliant bank holiday weekend.  Our weather has been lovely today!!

Catch you soon

Love

SUNDAY SNIPPETS

Hi Everyone

Well everything got moved yesterday .. .. with rain stopping play on a few occasions!!  Typical!!!

Some belongings that we have been storing here in the House of Hearts have even made their way from our house today .. .. so we are slowly getting back to normal.  

My snippet share for taking to Pixie's Crafty Snippet Playground this week is a card I made for my lovely DIL's birthday .. .. .. which she will be celebrating today.  Happy Birthday Cat!!!  Although I did cheat and made this little creation earlier in the week as it needed to be posted off to London.  It was opened early this morning and my DIL "lurved it".  (She is a very clever and prolific knitter .. .. hence the theme .. .. though she doesn't look anything like a chicken I hasten to add LOL!!!).

As always I am lazy on a Sunday and do not list my ingredients but as you know you can always ask if you want to know anything about it.

Do you like my little knitting pins?  I made them from two cocktail sticks and beads.  

I was wanting to do a longer strip of knitting but sadly my "real" knitting pins were buried at the back of the pantry behind lots of items we were storing ahead of the move, so instead I had to physically knit on cocktail sticks!! LOL!!!  Not easy as they were a bit rough and kept snagging the wool.  But never mind .. .. the result looked OK.

Well I think my batter mix is ready for pouring into the oven now ready to make a Yorkshire Pudding to have with our evening meal  and if my eyes stay open long enough I am hoping for a saunter around blogland later.

Hope your are all enjoying your Bank Holiday break.

Love

BEE HAPPY

Hi Everyone

Well if Mr Blogger is happy and not taking a Bank Holiday break he will have posted this scheduled post for  me .. .. ..  and "the move of the year" will be underway!!

We finished around 8.00 last night and should have reported for duty around 8.30 this morning!!

The main part of the fun being that we have to go "down" three floors worth of steps to get out of where our Son currently lives and then go up another three floors worth of steps at the other end.  There is a lift though at the new place so hopefully some trips can be made in that .. .. though the big stuff isn't going to fit in   it (hence getting the heavy mob involved to do that part up all those steps LOL!!!).

We should be fit by the end of the Bank Holiday.  Hopefully not just "fit to drop".

So here is the card I have made for us to give our Son once we have placed the furniture somewhere that he can display it:

This used:

Image:  Pink Petticoat "Little Bee Cuties"
Sentiment:  Part comes with the image and the remainder was computer generated using font "Zipty Do"
Backing Paper:  Pink Petticoat "Honeycomb"
Glamour Dust
ProMarkers
Black and White Gel Pens
Button and Twine from my stash box

I printed the bee image twice, cutting the second out and sticking the body down on top of the first.. .. leaving the wings free (and smothered with a good helping of glamour dust).

So that is me for today

I am hoping to find a few crafty minutes somewhere to play with my snippets tomorrow .. .. but we will have to wait and see.

Have a great Bank Holiday weekend everyone.

I'll let you know what time the flat warming party begins!!

Love

HAVE A HAPPY DAY

Hi Everyone

Earlier than ever today with a make I made at the crack of dawn today.

I normally try to start my day with a quick catch up of your lovely blogs because I know once the day starts the visiting gets pretty much impossible to do.  But today I needed to hit the ground running so that meant no blog visiting .. . .. sorry :-(

Lots of makes needed in record time today and here is one of them.

This used:

Sentiment:  Pink Petticoat "Tiny Everyday Sentiments"
Backing Papers:  Papermania "Rose Garden"
Nestabilities:  Classic Squares and Mega Squares
Sizzix Die:  "654901" Flower Daisies #2
My Trusty Sewing Machine
Adironkack Lights:  Pink Sherbet
Brad, ribbon and charm from my stash box

I had to smile to myself making this little creation.  I don't know about you but I always find that within pretty much every paper stack there is what I class as the odd "ugly paper".  Well believe it or not the pink background paper here was the "ugly paper" in this pad .. .. until I used it.  Now I quite like it!!  LOL!!  Just goes to show you don't know until you try to use it.

Baby boy is sleeping at ours tonight so that we can dismantle his bed and get all the remaining things packed up tonight ready for a 9.00am collection of the "big stuff" from his flat tomorrow and the final clean up.  Nearly there!!!  Can't wait for him to be settled in his new place and for all the things we have been storing here to make their way back to him.

So back to the makes for me.

Tomorrow I will do a scheduled post of the new home card I have made for us to give and can only say .. .. I'll see you when I see you.

Love