HAPPY FATHER’S DAY

Hi Everyone

So today is the day all the Dad’s here in the UK get appreciated and spoilt (just a little more than they are every other day of the year LOL!!).

I am sharing a card I made for our youngest to give to his Dad .. .. .. they both love music and vinyl records so I felt this would fit the bill perfectly.

This used:

Digital Image:  "Father's Day Clipart" Sweet Calico Cottage

Sentiment:  Part of the image
Background Digital Paper:  "Vintage Music Sheets"  The Digi Rainbow (sheets in 100 colours)!

Corner Rounding Punch
My Trusty Sewing Machine

and that is my share for today.

It feels like Mother's Day really because we are going out to celebrate .. .. .. so no kitchen duties by me today!  Woo hoo!!!

Have a good day whatever you are doing and I will hopefully catch you again soon.

SUNDAY SNIPPETS

Hi Everyone

I hope your Sunday has been a good one - despite being confined to barracks.

All is good at this end and my days and the even weeks are starting to get a bit of a pattern to them .. .. .. the only problem being that we are going to bed far later than we used to and getting up later too!  Tut tut!!!

As part of my big crafty clear up I am trying hard to cull my snippets .. .. and this is what I made today using just a few of them:

This used:

Image:  LOTV Simply Print - Under the Bonnet
Sentiment:  Digistamp Boutique .. .. sadly no longer trading
Backing Papers:  All from my snippet box
Circle and Scallop Circle Dies
Twine
My Trusty Sewing Machine

Mr Heart seems quite happy with me making rather a mess about the place whilst sorting out all of my wedding and crafty belongings  .. .. .. little does he realise that I am doing this in readiness for moving our bed into the "wedding room" so we can re-decorated our bedroom!!  LOL!!!  Wonder when those DIY shops will be opening again?!?!?!?!?

Anyway, that is me for today.

Catch you again soon.

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY

Hi Everyone

I hope you are all having a good day ... ... ... especially all of those Dad's out there who will be being spoilt (I hope) for Father's Day, which we are celebrating today here in England! 

Our youngest Son requested a card for Mr Heart and this is what I created for him to give - 

This used:

Sentiment Image:  Digistamp Boutique "Special Dad Circle"

Backing Papers:  From my never ending box of off-cuts

Josy Rose:  Nail Heads

ProMarkers

My Trusty Sewing Machine

Twine 

Dimension Pads

I haven't been able to link to the little beer bottle, glass and "cheers" sentiment and that is because it isn't available just yet.  It will be the free image that people will receive who enter the Facebook competition run by Digistamp Boutique (details at the top of the blog).  But don't worry if you don't do Facebook or don't want to enter the competition because it will be on sale come July . .. . ..  I know it is certainly going to come in super useful here that's for sure.  

The label on the bottle comes blank and you write on it whatever you want it to say.

So that is me for today.  It just leaves me to link up to a couple of challenges:

Cardz for Guyz:  Challenge 196 "Father's Day"

and of course .. .. my personal favourite:  Pixie's Snippets Playground Challenge 328 where you simply have to use snippets of leftover card, ribbon, fabric .. .. in fact left over anything .. .. ..to make a project to share.

Have a lovely day everyone.

MONDAY'S MALE

Hi Everyone

Happy Monday!

I hope you are having a good day and the sun is shining nicely for you.

Beautiful here .. .. which means my washing line is groaning under the weight of all the washing .. .. and I will be groaning later about all the ironing I have produced LOL!!

So Monday is my male card day and I have gone for a card which would be suitable for Father's Day which is looming!  But it would also work for a birthday card.

 

This used:

Image and Sentiment:  Digistamp Boutique "Harry and Beer"
Backing Papers:  Scrapberry's "Edge of Town"
Die-namics Die Set:  Blueprints14
ProMarkers
X-Cut Star Punch
My Trusty Sewing Machine

I am also going to enter this into the Digistamp Boutique Challenge for May.

Many thanks for all your lovely comments on yesterday's post.  The sketch was very popular and the stamp too.  The stamp is a very old one which I bought from a craft shop that was closing down many years ago. It had been used in their stamp classes .. ..  and I purchased it .. .. along with lots of other pre-loved stamps that had just been "thrown" into a bargain bin!  It is by Hero Arts "H2817" Garden Flowers Sketch.

So that is me for today .. .. off now to design some save the date tags for a potential new "happy couple" and also to try and get my Teeny, Tiny Tuesday card made and scheduled to see if that makes any difference in the length of time it is taking my posts to appear on my dashboard!  

Have a lovely evening everyone.

Love Jules xx

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY

Hi Everyone

What a dirty old rubbishy day weather-wise .. .. one minute lovely sunshine (but only for a minute) and then rain, rain, rain and more rain.

But at least we are in for a bank holiday weekend which will hopefully bring something a bit nicer.

We need some decent weather to get out into that garden and get some planting out done (and weeds pulled up if the ground isn't too waterlogged!!).

I am here with another quick and easy Father's Day make today.. .. ..

This used:

Image and Sentiment combined:  Pink Petticoat "Mr Moustache"
Backing Paper:  Pink Petticoat Colour Collection "Mr Moustache" and "Little Polka-Dots"
Nestabilities:  Octagons
My Trusty Sewing Machine
Buttons and Twine from my stash box

and that is me for today.

I need to run down the garden to the greenhouse in-between showers but am also waiting for a delivery .. .. I just know that if I try to "run the gaunlet" I will come back to a postcard saying "sorry you were out when we called" LOL!!!

I think I'll stay indoors a little longer .. .. I want the delivery!!

I hope everyone has a lovely Bank Holiday weekend.

We are heading out to IKEA tomorrow to get flat packs for our son's new flat.  Having been there three weeks now he has had chance to move what furniture he currently has countless times.  He has "sort of" decided what he wants so has measured up and made his shopping list .. .. and I will gain some "cast offs" which will hopefully fit in to my craft pod (aka tardis) where nothing matches in the slightest!!  In fact they will be "third hand" by the time I get them .. .. but as they say .. .. beggars can't be choosers.

Catch you soon.

Love

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

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

RACING TED

Hi Everyone

I hope you have had a lovely Saturday and the weather has been beautiful. 

I am particularly hoping it has been warm and sunny for my lovely blog buddy Lesley as her daughter was getting married today.  I really do hope it has been a beautiful and magical day.  I am sure it will be perfect though whatever the weather after all the planning and hard work that has gone into arranging everything.

But no weddings for me today :-(

We gardened, bathed, ate, did a bit of food shopping and now home to post a card here and then we are meeting up with friends for a Chinese.  I think I will sleep tonight!!

Here is my share for today (yet "another" Father's Day card!!)

This used:

Image:  Funstamps "FQ24" Racing Ted
Sentiment:  Pink Petticoat
Backing Papers:  Aimee Asher
ProMarkers and a White Gel Pen

OK - time to get ready to see our friends.

I will catch you again tomorrow with my snippet makes. 

Love

LOVIN' FLOWERS

Hi Everyone

Woo hoo!!!  It's Friday and the weekend starts here!!  Yippee!!

I hope everyone has had a good day .. .. most of mine has been spent in Father's Day mode .. .. and this is one of my fav makes of the day.. .. ..

This used:

Image:  Penny Black "1037K" Lovin' Flowers
Sentiment:  Butterfly Kisses "BK2002D" Father's Day
Backing Papers:  DCWV Retro Prints Paper Stack.
Distress Ink:  Tea Dye
ProMarkers
Josy Rose:  Nail Heads
Cord from the stash box


and that is my share for the day.

We are hoping for some gardening weather over the next couple of days as we want to spend most of the weekend in the garden. 

Most of the seeds are starting to make an appearance and need potting on etc and we still have more weed and bramble infested garden to work on .. .. but it is coming along nicely. 

I hope everyone has a lovely weekend .. .. whatever you are doing.

Love