HAPPY NEW HOME

Hi Everyone

Happy Thursday!  Well I think it is Thursday!  To be honest it has been such a topsy turvy week that I am not really sure what day it is anymore!  LOL!! 

Just a quick post today to share a card I made for pushing through the door of our new neighbours .. .. such a lovely young couple with a sweet little girl.  They have been excited about moving in for months but needed to wait for work to be done on the property first.  So we have got to know them slowly when they would come for a peep at how things were progressing.

This week they have finally taken up residence.  Yay!!

This used:

Sentiment:  Inkylicious Clear Stamp "New Home"
Backing Paper:  The English Paper Company (very, very, very old but very loved)
Gold Embossing Powder
Ribbon
ProMarker
White Gel Pen
My Trusty Sewing Machine

and for those who struggled finding the heart on the card from my last blog post .. .. .. there were at least two .. ..  .. thank you for still looking for them ..  .. .. mwah!!!!

Enjoy the rest of your day.

HAPPY NEW HOME?

Hi Everyone

Hope Thursday has gone well for you.

Has anyone signed up to go and look around a new house yet then?

I find it quite intriguing that house viewing and buying in England is one of the first things we are allowed to do as we start to take slow baby steps towards coming out of lock-down.  

But the house viewing has to be done without touching anything and of course abiding by social distancing rules .. .. and I suppose you can't view as a couple because there will be too many people.

The social distancing aspect itself could be interesting .. .. especially on landings and in "the smallest room in the house".

But you certainly wouldn't get a true feeling for the outside surroundings would you with all the reduced traffic and all the children confined to their homes doing their school lessons.  We live on a busy main road  .. .. but you wouldn't know it at the moment.  

Anyway, with new homes on my mind I decided to made a "new home" card using an old Woodware stamp set.  I am on a mission to try and get at least "one of every kind" of card I can imagine into my stock box (within reason of course .. .. nothing too obscure!  LOL!!)

This used:

Image and Sentiments:  Woodware Clear Stamp Set "FRCL 194" (so old it may not be available to buy any longer)
Backing Papers:  Mish mash of snippets (trying really hard to blitz these at the moment)
ProMarkers
Nail Heads
Die Cut Butterflies
Glossy Accents
Pearls
My Trusty Sewing Machine

I stamped this creation up whilst waiting for dinner to cook, and putting the world to rights with Mum yesterday,  She enjoyed watching how I did the masking and how it all came together.

But sadly we weren't able to put the world to rights, it was still in a mess even when we had finished.

Take care everyone.

GUEST DESIGNER POST - DIGISTAMP BOUTIQUE

Hi Everyone

Happy Thursday!

Time once more for me to post to the Digistamp Boutique Blog .. .. gosh these weeks are flying by.

This week I chose to work with a digi image set called A4 - Simply Moving Home.  The download consists of three A4 sheets of images.  Some with sentiments and some without.

Here is my creation:

This used:

Image and Sentiment:  DigiStamp Boutique "A4 - Simply Moving Home"

Backing Papers:  Docrafts Forever Friends "Kraft Notes"

Memory Box Die Set:  Marshmallow Clouds

ProMarkers

My Trusty Sewing Machine

Glamour Dust

Ribbon and Charm from my crafty stash box

You can simply cut the images straight from the A4 sheets but instead of doing that I did a bit of cropping and enlarging.

To begin with I worked with the sheet with no sentiments, copied the images to a blank sheet in "Word" and cropped them to just leave the house image I wanted to work with.  I then re-sized the cropped image and printed it.  I did the same with the car image and the sentiment I wanted to use and then enjoyed having a little colouring session.   

The car image was added using dimension pads to raise it up and give a 3D look .. .. but I was secretly wishing I had one of those springy backed things to make the car wobble when it was touched.  But there was no point in me searching my little craft pod to try and find one because I know I have never owned one LOL!!

So that is me for another week.

Don't forget to enter Sally-Ann's free clear stamp giveaway on Facebook.  You can find all the details here.

Enjoy your day.  I am pleased to report we haven't seen much of the snow they were threatening us with .. .. let's hope it stays that way.

TEENY, TINY TUESDAY

Hi Everyone

I hope you all had a happy Tuesday! (which feels like a Monday).

I hope those of you who were treated to one, had a good bank holiday weekend.  Wasn't the weather just perfect?!

Mr Heart and I really enjoyed ours.  Lots of chores and lots of chilling crammed in .. .. .. and today we have been back into the normal routine of work again and what better way to get going than to make a teeny tiny 3.5" square creation .. .. .. shame it didn't arrive here on my blog until late though:

This used:

Backing Papers:  First Edition Papers "Bella Rose"
Sentiment:  Computer generated using font "Aracne Condensed Regular"
X-Cut Dinky Die "House"
Kaisercraft Clear Stamp Set "Fine & Sunny"
My Trusty Sewing Machine
A little piece of organza ribbon stuck behind the windows along with some pink card.

.. .. and that is me for today.

So sorry for being late in posting .. .. I have needed to work extra hard today to make up for some of the bank  holiday chilling!   I have a feeling that is going to be the theme for the whole week ahead the wedding fayre on Sunday. LOL!!!

Catch you again soon.

HAPPY NEW HOME TO THE LONDON KIDS

Hi Everyone

I hope your week has been progressing well.

My life is still busy and was extra complicated by the boiler deciding to throw a wobbly (along with the Christmas tree lights!!).  But always looking for a silver lining to every dark cloud I consoled myself with the fact that it was better these things went wrong now than in two week's time!!

So the London Kids are finally installed in their new home and the keys to their old flat have been returned to the landlord.

Now it is time for them to sort out all the important things .. .. like internet connection LOL!!!

They have just been in touch to say thank you for their new home card which arrived with them today .. .. so I can now share it with you.  They had great difficulty getting a sofa bed out of their flat so this image made them smile as it reminded them of the hassle they had

This used:

Image:  Lili of the Valley "Moving Day"
Sentiment:  Computer Generated using font "2 Peas Barefoot Professor"
X-Cut Flower Punch
Woodware Heart Punch
Josy Rose Nail Heads
ProMarkers
Ribbon and Key Charm from My Crafty Stash Box

My card was just one of my normal 144 x 144 square ones with the top cut into a roof shape.

They spotted the heart(s) straightaway LOL!!!  Lots of hearts needed though to wish them lots of love and happiness in their new home.

Time now to head off downstairs for The Apprentice - the number of candidates are dwindling now!!

Hope you are all keeping safe and warm!!

Love

DIGISTAMP BOUTIQUE CHALLENGE

Hi Everyone

Well what can I say?

Even when I have cards made and ready for posting I am late with them LOL!!!

It has been another lovely day here today with gorgeous sunshine and blossom falling from the trees like confetti!  What a shame it can't stay on the trees for longer :-(

My share today is for taking over to the Digistamp Boutique Challenge for May. 

This used:  

Image:  Digistamp Boutique "A Little Birdie Told Me"

Sentiment:  Part of the image

Backing Paper:  Digistamp Boutique "Ditsy Rose" 

Go Kreate Dies:  Large Scalloped Squares

Josy Rose:  Nail Heads

My Trusty Sewing Machine

ProMarkers

The birdie download actually comes for you to make your own little scenes along with other cute elements and sentiments - but when time is short I just use the ideas sheet.  Just so quick and cute to colour and the sentiment already sorted for me!!  (Yep, not just Sundays I can be lazy you know LOL!!).

I hope you have had a good Tuesday (which feels like Monday).

Catch you soon with my card for the Penny Black Saturday Challenge.  They want a card made with your favourite Penny Black stamp this month.   Mmmmm... .. .. which one might that be?!?!?  LOL!!!.

Have a lovely evening.

Love

MID-WEEK SNIPPETS

Hi Everyone

Happy Wednesday!!!

A beautiful sunshine filled day here today .. .. I hope you had the same.

Just a quick share today that uses up some more of those ever increasing snippets that seem to enjoy breeding whenever my back is turned.  

This used:

Image:  Bugaboo "AKV Moving-Car"
Sentiment:  Computer Generated using font "Youngsook"
Backing Papers:  Just out of my snippet drawers - not 100% sure of their origin
Josy Rose:  Nail Heads
X-Cut Punch:  Small flower
ProMarkers
Diamond Stickles

and that is it!!

Back to ribbon tying for me.

Another 25 pretty bows to tie and that is another job ticked off the list!  Woo hoo!!!

Have a lovely evening everyone.

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

NEW HOME

Hi Everyone

Happy Tuesday to you .. .. I hope you have all had a good day.

Chances are if your weather has been anything like ours you have got drenched at some point.  I had to time when I ran down to the greenhouse today so I didn't get rained or hailed on .. .. and even then it was touch and go as to whether I was going to make it!!  Thankfully I did.

My share today uses a ribbon I have been dying to use for ages .. .. aren't I sad .. .. making my card to match a ribbon LOL!!!

This used:

Image:  Digistamp boutique
Sentiment:  Computer Generated using two fonts .. .. "Daniel Black" and "Pass the Chex"
Backing Paper:  Nitwits
Distress Ink:  Tumbled Glass
ProMarkers
Ribbon, flower and button from the Stash Box

The felt flower I have used was actually free with a Hero Arts stamp set a couple of years ago.  Today it got to come out and play!!!

To make the circular sky around my image I cut a circle in some scrap card and lay this over my image which I had masked whilst I stippled the sky.

I really wanted to then draw a dotted line all around the edge of the circle but I was worried I would smudge and spoil my card .. .. and I just wouldn't have time to start again .. .. so I took the cowards way out and doodled around the outer edge instead LOL!!!  Perhaps I will be brave enough to do it another day when I have more time to play.

I am also entering this into the Digistamp Boutique Challenge for May.

Right off to link up and then start a printing session.

Have a good evening everyone.

Love