WHERE DID TODAY GO?

Hi Everyone

I hope your Saturday has been a good one .. .. not sure where mine went!  I think I blinked and missed it.

The plan was to tie lots of ribbons .. .. but I haven't tied anywhere near enough!!  Never mind tomorrow is another day.

Here is my share for today using another of the lovely images from a retiring set over at Pink Petticoat .. .. and even the papers are retiring.  One of my favourite backing paper collections too!!  

This used:

Image and Sentiment:  Pink Petticoat "Diva Doodles"

Backing Paper:  Pink Petticoat "Perfect Papers"

ProMarkers

Ribbon, charm, cord and gems from my stash box

and that is me for today.

Time for a relax now!!

Catch you tomorrow with my snippets.

Love

SKETCH AND STASH - CHALLENGE 130

Hi Everyone

Woo hoo!!!

Happy Friday .. .. the weekend is in touching distance!!

I hope you have all had a good day and the weather hasn't been too awful for you.  It was actually quite nice here today until tea-time and since then we have had constant rain :-(

I have had an order collected today (which means a bare area in the production line) and then made a small batch of cards for my lovely Sis to take to her salon .. .. and then decided I deserved a little play with my new stamp set which I bought with my Christmas money from my Mum.  I saw it on the WOW! Embossing Powder website .. .. and when a set sticks in your brain and won't leave it you know it is right for your collection.  Plus I thought the price was amazing for a whole set of stamp and sentiments!

So here we go, my new stamp set used for the Sketch and Stash Challenge:

This used:

Image and Sentiment:  "Stampset 2" Gratitude

Backing Papers:  Nitwits "FQB Petal Fresh Collection"

Distress Ink Pad:  Tumbled Glass

ProMarkers

Josy Rose:  Nail Heads

My Trusty Sewing Machine

ProMarkers

Glamour Dust

and if you fancy playing along then here is the sketch I followed.  I saw it over on lovely Debs' blog and just knew I would enjoy playing with it:

I wish you all a lovely rest of Friday evening and a great weekend.  (I can smell my fish and chips are about ready .. .. I love Friday's when I am spoilt and have my meal cooked for me .. .. but I don't enjoy the mess that is left behind . .. but you can't have everything in life can you!!  LOL!!!)

Love

I RAN OUT OUT TIME !

Hi Everyone

Happy Thursday!!

Sorry for the "no show" yesterday.  I ran out of time LOL!!  I am on a mega catch-up in the old craft pod following the Christmas/New Year break.  Good job my batteries got well charged up so I feel nice and hyper!

It was a busy, busy manic day yesterday and then hubby got the treat of a bottle of red wine out for us to have with our evening meal (though to be honest it was so late by then you couldn't even call it evening any more!!).  I am so lucky not to be married to a man that expects his dinner to be on the table as he walks through the front door!!

I didn't even find time to release all the lovely comments you left me on my lovely new die!!  Can't wait to use it!!

But here is the card I was going to share with you yesterday .. .. had time allowed  (yes, more of those gorgeous hedgies!!:

This used:

Image:  Penny Black "2074J" Mighty Wishes!

Sentiment:  Pink Petticoat (sadly no longer available)

Backing Papers:  Fancy Pants "Swagger"

X-Cut Punch:  Corner Rounder

ProMarkers

A nice simple make but using one of my favourite new images that I bought in a sale just before Christmas. I just love colouring it and it is great for those pesky male cards .. .. which is always a bonus.

So that is me .. .. late for yesterday and early for today!!  LOL!!!

Hope you have a good day.

Love

SOOOOO EXCITED !!!

Hi Everyone

Happy Tuesday!!  I hope your day has been a good one.

The post lady today delivered the goodies I bought with the Christmas money my lovely Mum kindly gave me.

Not sure when I am going to get chance to play with everything because that "do list" is growing at a fair old rate of knots!!  But you know what it's like.  You get a new die and you just have to cut with it don't you! Well .. .. it would be rude not to!

I ordered this little beauty from Impression Obsessions .. .. called "Heart of Hearts".  I have had my eye on it for a while and have lots of plans in my head for it .. .. but I had never even considered all the hearts that would fall out of the die once cut. Just look at them all !!!!

Tee hee .. .. there are some super tiny ones there for me to torture you all with at a later stage aren't there? LOL!!!

They will sit in a special little box all of their own ready for action and if the box gets too full then I will be able to sprinkle them on the table at our next wedding fayre won't I.

I need to have a clear up campaign now and set everything up ready for hitting the ground running tomorrow so I will love and leave you!

Have a lovely evening everyone.  Hope you are dry, safe and warm.

Love

LOLA ROSE IS RETIRING (AND SHE DOESN'T LOOK OLD ENOUGH)

Hi Everyone

Happy Monday!!!

Hubby was back at work today after his break and I have dropped back into my old routine as if we never even had a Christmas.  Certainly the 6.00am alarm was a bit of a shock to the system.  

Tonight's share is using up some of an old paper stack. I love the colours in it.

This used:

Image:  Pink Petticoat "Lola Rose Big Birthday Wishes" (it just took me ages to find this image over at Pink Petticoat and I was shocked to see that it is being retired along with lots of other images).  Best check there aren't any I "need" before they disappear!!!  Eeekkk!!

Sentiment: Pink Petticoat "Tiny Celebration Sentiments" .. .. which was stamped with the plain label from the LOTV Christmas Tag set.

Backing Papers:  DCWV "Latte Stack"

Martha Stewart Punch:   Traditional Scallop

Woodware Punches:  Daisy

Josy Rose:  Nail Heads

ProMarkers

Glamour Dust

Ribbon, Brad and Eyelet from the Stash Box

and that is me for today.

Must go and check out those retiring Pink Petticoat images now before I regret it.

Love

SUNDAY SNIPPETS

Hi Everyone

Happy Sunday!

I hope you are having a lovely day.

I am being super brave and sharing a New Year Resolution here today in the hope that writing it down will make it happen!

Every year I regret not having made enough Christmas cards in the build up to Christmas, and I end up making them in a mad rush (or not at all).  So I am starting really early and this year Sunday snippets "have to consist of at least two makes" and a least one of them has to be a Christmas card.  Those are my new self inflicted rules. 

So it will mean I am using up double the number of snippets and getting my Christmas card collection growing too .. .. win, win!!!  I know it will feel strange come the height of summer .. .. but hopefully by then it will just be a habit I am into.

So here we go with my first two snippet makes for 2014 .. .. all ready for taking over to share with my lovely snippet playmates in Pixie's Snippet Playground Challenge:

I am still going to be lazy on a Sunday though and not list my ingredients.  It saves me having to work out and list where all my paper snippets originated from LOL!!  

Rather a lot to do today here in the House of Hearts so I am going to fly .. .. ..  but hopefully I will be able to have a bit of a blog catch up this evening.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Love

T.L.C.

Hi Everyone

I hope your weekend has gone well so far.

Thank you for all your lovely comments on my share of yesterday.  It sounds like quite a few of you would like to have a go at making a similar card.  If you do, and you fancy sharing, I know the magazine would love to see what you make.  You can send a photograph in by email.  (And yes, there are hearts on my commissions too, there were lots on the ribbon).

Can you believe I took our tree down today and when checking which lights no longer worked .. .. they all did!!!  Then they didn't, then they did!!  Typical!!

A speedy post sharing my make tonight:

This used:

Image:  Penny Black "3924K" T.L.C,
Sentiment:  Inkadinkado "96070-M" Kathy Davis Happy Anniversary (without the flower)
Backing Paper:  Nitwits Collections "Always and Forever FQB"
My Trusty Sewing Machine
ProMarkers
Diamond Stickles

Catch you again tomorrow with my snippets .. .. and one of my new year resolutions!!

Enjoy the rest of today.

Love

POP UP BOOK FOLD

Hi Everyone

I hope you are all safe, dry and warm!!!

The floods on the news look awful.  So many homes and belongings spoilt :-(

Scary times!!

All is good here thankfully.  Lots of rain but luckily the drains seem to be handling it.

I thought I would share with you one of the cards I made for the Quick Cards Made Easy magazine which is currently on sale. I was pleased to be offered the "Card School" commission which is where you show readers how to make the basic card base and then make a few samples .. .. decorating them in different ways.

I loved this commission and the papers I worked with were gorgeous too.  Well pleased with the finished job and I think this one was my favourite (but ask me again tomorrow and I might choose a different one from the set  LOL!!!).

INSIDE

OUTSIDE

The shape makes for a lovely finished card and I think it would look gorgeous all boxed up for someone special.

Now round to last night's heart.  A few of you struggled a little.. .. tee hee!!  Naughty me!!

Here it was .. .. nestling on the carrot top:

Did you spot it?

Enjoy the rest of the evening and have a good weekend.

My Christmas is being packed away tomorrow ..  though it isn't quite as sad as it normally is because one of the sets of lights broke on the tree on Tuesday .. .. so my normally bright and beautiful Christmas tree looks a bit sorry for itself.

Perhaps I will be able to get some new ones in the sales now Christmas has come and gone :-(

Love

HAPPY HARVEST

Hi Everyone

Happy Thursday .. .. it is Thursday isn't it?  Is anyone else super confused as to what day it is?!?!?

All the wedding work and orders were shown the light of day again come Sunday evening and reviewing everything it looks like I am super busy until towards the end of February!!  Then just plain busy after that LOL!!

My fingers were well itchy over the Christmas break and it is lovely to be playing with my crafty stash again.

No new crafting goodies came via Santa.  I am guessing from what I did receive that the world thinks I need to sit back and "chill" a bit more .. .. so I will try .. .. but it isn't easy when you are hyper all the time with a brain buzzing with ideas you want to try!! 

I did have a few Santa pennies from my Mum and managed to spend those on-line in the sales last night .. .. so watch this space for a lovely new stamp set and a gorgeous die or two that will be perfect for Valentine makes and the Christmas cards that I have vowed to make all year this year in readiness for Christmas 2014!!!   Eeeekkkk!!!

So round to today's share:

This used:

Image:  Trimcraft Cling Stamp "Basil Bunny - Happy Harvest"

Sentiment:  Hobby Art "GR1833B" Happy Birthday

Backing Paper:  Fancy Pants "Swagger"

Josy Rose:  Nail Heads

Pinking Shears

ProMarkers & Chalks

Diamond Stickles

and that is me for today.

I hope the bad weather and floods that are being predicted for the country tonight and tomorrow don't turn out to be as bad as they are talking about.  All very scary for lots of folk :-(

Take care and catch you again soon.

Love

TIME TO CELEBRATE!

Hi Everyone

Happy New Year!!!

Time to wave the old year goodbye and welcome the new year .. .. whatever it may hold!

I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas.

Lots of germs took residence in the House of Hearts .. .. but we are slowly recovering.  Just lovely hacking coughs left now.

The germs didn't stop us having a lovely time though and we enjoyed having the family all together.   I even started to learn what some of those buttons mean on the PlayStation controllers .. .. but no doubt I will have forgotten by the next time they get picked up!!!  LOL!!!

So at last a card to share .. .. especially to celebrate the arrival of 2014.

This used:

Image:  Penny Black "2098H" Bubble of Joy!

Sentiment:  Pink Petticoat .. .. but sadly no longer available

Backing Papers:  Docrafts "Wellington"

Nestabilities:  Classic Circle Large and Scalloped Circle Large

ProMarkers

Distress Ink:  Tumbled Glass

Josy Rose:  Nail Heads

Glamour Dust

Twine from my stash box

So that is me for today.  

I hope that 2014 is going to be a good year for everyone and that you enjoy the happy and exciting times it will bring .. .. and that you find strength, good friends and family to help you through the not so happy times.

Take care everyone.

Love