SHARING THE LOVE

Hi Everyone

Hope you are all having a good weekend.

Sharing the love here in the Home of Hearts with a Valentine card I made for Mr Heart!

This used:

Image:   Valentine Bears Clipart and Valentine Frame Heart Borders both from LunaPNGCreations

              Lots of images in both sets and they are great for more than Valentine makes that's for sure

Sentiment:  Computer Generated

Card and Backing Paper:  From Snippet Mountain

Corner Rounding Punch

My Trusty Sewing Machine

Mr Heart managed to find a heart straightaway LOL!!.. .. .. but didn't have the patience to count exactly how many hearts there were .. .. but that didn't matter because there could never be enough hearts anyway for my special someone!

Plus, as you can see my youngest came to my rescue yesterday and spent time yesterday sorting out my IPad so I could add my proper watermark again. YAY!!!

Hope you are having a good weekend.  We actually had a blue sky this morning with sunshine which was a welcome sight after all the rain we have been having.  

Catch you again soon

HAPPY BIRTHDAY WISHES

Hi Everyone

Here at last after having technical nightmares!!

System up-dates to my computer and IPad are causing me so much grief (I would call them far from up-dates .. .. it feels more like "learn how to use your gadgets all over again") .

Hopefully my youngest will be able to press a few magic buttons for me (fingers crossed) so I can add my photographs and watermark exactly as I did before .. .. but in the meantime I have had to make do with the following .. .. and even that had to involve taking a picture on my phone, emailing it to myself and getting my head around a new programme to add a watermark.  Not an ideal finished look, but better than nothing I suppose.

It has taken me longer to get a picture added to my post than it has to make the card in the first place!

This used:

Image:  Woodware Clear Stamp Set "JGS290 - Bubble Bloom Felicity"
Sentiment:  Computer Generated
Backing Papers:  Snippet from an old paper stack from The Works
ProMarkers
Glossy Accents
Corner Rounding Punch
Ribbon
My Trusty Sewing Machine

So that is me for today.  Off to sit with Mum in a bit.

Sadly she is not playing ball at all and is refusing to eat, drink and take her meds most days .. .. naughty girl!  She pulls all the covers over her head and tell people to "go away and leave her alone" :-(

Although she is in a Nursing Home we as a family still take it in turns to go and sit with her every day but we rarely get anything out of her.  She just wants to sleep, bless her.

Anyway, time to get my bits together for visiting today.

Have a good one everyone.

MONDAY SNIPPETS

Hi Everyone

Happy Monday!

Many thanks for the lovely comments on my previous post. You are all so very kind.

Yesterday my crafty playtime mission was to create something for taking over to The Snippets Playground where we are encouraged to use up our offcuts and leftovers.

This is what I have made to share with my playmates .. .. who I sadly haven't hung out with in the treehouse for quite a while .. .. sorry folks.  But don't worry I come armed with treats for stocking up the cake and biscuit tins and fruit for the healthy ones amongst us! LOL!!!

I don't know where the papers came from that I used .. .. they have been lurking in my snippet mountain for ages. 

This was my starting point

I started with two squares of snippets (which originally were part of two different 12 x 12 paper stacks) from which I cut two rectangles.

The two rectangles were then cut diagonally into four and then mixed together to create the background of my cards.  I stick them to thin paper to begin with, trim around the edges and once the glue is dry add my stitching.

Sadly I will still be keeping the wide strips that remain for use on another project further down the line.  So basically I suppose I have only really turned two snippets into two smaller snippets!!  Doh!!!

My sentiments were already good and ready to use out of this box here, which has been put together in the past using snippets of different coloured card. Normally these would be stuck or stitched together ready to be used .. .. but sadly that hasn't been happening recently and the box needs working on.  But it is really useful when in working order, especially when having a batch making session.

The actual box is part of one of the best things I have ever purchased from Lidl.  There are six of these boxes, along with two smaller ones and they all store in a great zippy holdall bag that was being sold for holding fishing tackle .. .. but works perfectly for my crafty needs. 

When the boxes are eventually all topped up again I will share some pictures with you as another snippet project.

Hope everyone has a good week.

                                             

VERY BELATED HAPPY 2026 EVERYONE

Hi Everyone

A very, very belated post from me .. .. I hope you all had a good Christmas (which already feels like a lifetime ago) and I still need to wish everyone a really good 2026.

The world has had other plans for my time these last few months unfortunately.  Not many of which have been particularly enjoyable.

No blog visiting and next to no crafting either unfortunately .. .. ..  in fact the only visiting I have been doing has been travelling to various places to see my Mum, who continues to be on a downward spiral.

Over the last few months she has spent time in two different hospitals, been on numerous wards, and has eventually taken up residence in a lovely nursing home where she is sadly receiving end of life care .. .. which has been the thing I have been dreading the most.  

But the decision was taken out of our hands and is now what Mum needs.  We were told Mum has to have someone looking out for her 24 hours a day, and we as a family are sadly not able to provide what she needs.  Even if we agreed to be with her for the whole 24 hours, one person on their own could not cope.  Sometimes it has taken three people (who know what they are doing) to be able to deal with her needs, so one of us kids on their own would stand no chance.

This has also meant us having to part company with Mum's old home, and along with my siblings we have been busy emptying and cleaning it ready for a new occupant.  It certainly felt sad to leave it for the last time as Mum and Dad moved there together some 35 years ago and I remember moving them in there like it was yesterday.

Visiting Mum still remains the number one priority, even though I am convinced she hasn’t the foggiest idea who I am.  But alongside trying to win the battle I am having with the never ending paperwork I need to sort out for her .. .. a little bit of crafting has been slowly sneaking back into my life again .. .. .. .. yay!!!

No rash crafty new year promises, but I am going to try harder with the one that I make every year, which is to tame my snippets.  I make the same promise every year but always feel like I finish the year with even more snippets than I started with.  Hopefully this will be the year I turn that all around .. .. .. .. and not by just throwing them all out which is what most people suggest I do with them LOL!!

So here we go .. .. the "year of the snippets" is underway and here is my first blog creation of 2026 using a crafty Christmas present that Santa very kindly delivered.  

This used;

Santa's delivery of a beautiful die (one of several) which I think appeared via Amazon  :-)  (love this very much! mwah"")

Snippets of design paper stored in the back of a First Edition Paper Stack called "J'Adore"

Penny Black Sentiment "Sprinkles and Smiles sentiment set 30-297"
My Trusty Sewing Machine

I am taking this over to the Penny Black Saturday Challenge where they would like to see "something new" featured .. .. so this will be my lovely new die .. .. lets face it, my snippets are ancient and nowhere near something new LOL!!!.