BOT - FIRE AWAY

Hi Everyone

Happy Friday!

Is anyone else feeling a tad chilly?  Jumpers have been out and in circulation again this last couple of days in the House of Hearts .. .. please don't say summer has gone already!!!  I do hope not - Mr Heart hasn't finished the patio work yet!!!  LOL!!

Anyway, here is my share for today:

This used:

Image:  Funky Hand "Bot - Fire Away"
Sentiment:  Computer generated using font "Chauncy"
Backing Papers:  Grafix Craft Sensations "It's a men's World"
Josy Rose:  Nail Heads
ProMarkers
Diamond and Gold Stickles

Mmm...  I wonder if I find a huge rocket and dig out one of the lad's old skateboards I could whizz through everything on my list a bit quicker?!?!?

OK, off on mega printing duty now.

Enjoy your weekend when it arrives everyone.

Love

GIVING SKETCH THREE A GO

Hi Everyone

Happy Thursday .. .. ..  I don't know about you but I am certainly not happy about how quickly this week is going!!  

Slow down you manic calendar/clock .. .. you are in far too much of a rush for my liking LOL!!

Anyway, a quick airing of sketch three today from my little sketch library:

This used:

Image:  Penny Black "3864F" Bohemian

Sentiment:  Pink Petticoat (sorry can't see them in the boutique any more)

Backing Papers:  First Edition Paper "Paper Flowers"

Spellbinder Dies:  Classic Circle, Scalloped Circle and Tudor Rose Collection

ProMarkers

Glossy Accents
Distress Ink:  Shaded Lilac

My Trusty Sewing Machine

Pearls from My Crafty Stash Box

and here is the sketch I used .. .. but I moved the flower to the opposite side. (As it is my sketch I decided that it was allowed)   LOL!!

Thank you for all your lovely comments and emails about my sketches.  I am pleased that so many of you are enjoying them.  Sketch number six made its way into the collection yesterday and you can find that on the sketch tab at the top.

Enjoy your day everyone.

I am just off to prepare for a new bride who is calling by soon. First job .. .. boil the kettle up ready!!

Love

ONE DAY LATE !

Hi Everyone

Happy Wednesday!

Sorry folks that my Teeny Tiny Creation never hit yesterday.  If I had known how the day was going to disappear (or I had an ounce of common sense) I would have scheduled it.. .. but I didn't so here it is .. .. one day late.  My teeny tiny 3.5" x 3.5" creation for this week:

This used:

Image and Sentiment:  Wow! Stamps "Gratitude"  (Love this let so much)
X-Cut Punch:  Tiny Butterfly
My Trusty Sewing Machine
Button and Teeny Tiny Pearls
We R Memory Keepers Envelope Board

and that is it.  Hope it was worth the wait.

Short and sweet today as I have a huge mountain of projects to get through this week.

Have a good day everyone and I will catch you again soon.

Love

HAPPY MONDAY!

Hi Everyone

I hope your week has got off to a good start.

I love Monday's with the great feeling of having a whole week spreading ahead of me.

Time to share with you my favourite makes from the commissions I did for this month's Quick Cards Made Easy Magazine which should be in the shops this week.

My first commission asked me to be inspired by patchwork quilts and this was my favourite (I feel sure everyone will find the heart on this one LOL!!)

  

The second commission was to use distress inks in lots of different ways .. .. and the following card involved a bit of  paintbrush work and adding ink through a stencil (more easy hearts LOL!!).

When my magazine arrived I saw a brilliant project inside that was created by fellow magazine designer Vicky Sheridan which I really want to try and have a go at myself when time allows.  

Vicky made a gorgeous ribbon tidy and all the instructions are in the magazine to make your own.  I don't have a picture of it to post, but if you click the link here it will take you to the magazine's Facebook page and you can see it in the header and the body of the page and it is also showing on the magazine link at the start of my post, you just need to turn the pages of the magazine a few times.

How fabby is that?  I could make one (or possibly two) for my most frequently used ribbons and that would definitely keep them super tidy.

Anyway, that is me, nearly time to give in for the day and close the door on the old craft pod for another day :-(

Enjoy your evening.

Love 

SUNDAY SNIPPETS

Hi Everyone

I hope your weekend was a good one.

All super busy and super manic this end .. .. but still time to pull in a couple of snippet makes for taking over to Pixie's Snippets Playground this week.

Another Christmas card for the box too.. .. yay!!

So here are my makes:

No ingredients on a Sunday .. .. but I did use Sketch Five for them both, which I added to my little sketch library this morning .. .. and it looks like this:

Sorry for being so late .. .. and it isn't as if I have even done the ironing!!  Shock horror!!

Catch you again soon.

Love

GARDENING NUT

Hi Everyone

Happy Saturday and happy weekend.

I hope you are having a good day.

My happy couple of yesterday will have had a brilliant day.  The weather was gorgeous for them .. yay!!

My card today probably describes Mr Heart .. .. he has got into gardening these last couple of years and most of his spare time at weekends seems to be spent there.  Better late than never!!!

I intended this card to be one that could be sent to a lady or a man .. ..but I asked Mr Heart if he would think it strange if he received a card with a flower on it .. .. and he said he would.  So perhaps it is just a card for the ladies now and I will have to come up with something else for putting on the male version :-(

This used:

Image and Gardening Nut Sentiment:  Bugaboo Digi Stamps "Gardening Nut"

Top Sentiment:  Computer Generated using font "2 Peas Barefoot Professor"

Backing Paper:  Craftwork Cards "The Potting Shed"
Die-namics Die Set:  Blueprints 14

ProMarkers

Twine from My Crafty Stash Box

Many thanks for your lovely comments on my creation of yesterday.  I was asked by a few folk how I had used the embossing folder.  So rather than try and describe it I have done another four squares and taken pictures for you to see:

THE DISTRESS INK WAS RUBBED
 OVER THE SIDE OF THE EMBOSSING FOLDER
WHERE THE FLOWERS ARE INDENTED

CLOSE THE FOLDER AND RUN THROUGH
THE DIE CUTTING MACHINE

INK WILL BE TRANSFERRED TO THE BACKGROUND
AND YOUR FOLDER WILL NOW NEED A WASH

APPLY INK TO THE FLOWERS
USING A SPONGE FINGER DAUBER
.. .. I FIND THESE GREAT FOR INKING SMALL AREAS

AND THERE WE ARE .. .. FOUR MORE SQUARES
FOR MAKING ANOTHER CARD.

I hope my pictures explain things clearly enough and are helpful.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend and I'll catch you again soon.

Love

ESPECIALLY DESIGNED

Hi Everyone

Happy Friday .. .. woo hoo .. .. the weekend is nearly here!!  

I am hoping for good weather today as one of my happy couples gets married this afternoon. Whenever a wedding day arrives the couple are on my mind all day and I imagine them getting ready, making their vows, travelling to their wedding venue, having their photographs taken, making those nerve wracking speeches then celebrating and dancing the night away.  Half of the time I even know what they will be eating at various times of the day, and I joke with them and say that I feel I could even seat all their guests for them after working on all the place names and the table plan. Sometimes I really do think I could!  Especially if it has been a table plan with lots of changes to it.

So "happy wedding day weather" is my wish for today.

There is one particular favour box that I make quite a few of that leaves me with loads, and loads, and loads of 5cm squares of card .. .. and being perfectly square it seems a shame to just ditch them .. .. so today's share uses up a whole five of these pesky squares.  Four for the background and one for the butterfly:

This used:

Sentiment:  Digistamp Boutique "Essential Sentiments Set"

Backing Paper:  First Edition Paper "Desert Blooms"

Cuttlebug Embossing Folder:  "Stylized Flowers"

Die-namics Die Set:  Blueprints 14

Distress Inks:  Crushed Olive and Worn Lipstick

Stampin' Up Punch:  Scalloped Tag Topper

X-Cut Punch:  Corner Rounder

X-Cut Die:  Butterfly (free when I stumbled upon a craft demo at our local garden centre and sat and watched for a while)

My Trusty Sewing Machine

Ribbon, Flower, Wire and Pearls from My Crafty Stash Box

and .. .. tah dah .....

SKETCH FOUR FROM MY LITTLE SKETCH LIBRARY

DESIGNED ESPECIALLY TO USE UP THOSE PESKY SQUARES

There is a tab at the top of my blog 

if you want to look at the rest of the sketches (not that there are many yet!).

I am also entering my card into the Digistamp Boutique Competition for July

So that is me for today.

Enjoy your weekend when it arrives.

Love

PLAYING WITH SKETCH TWO

Hi Everyone

Happy Thursday!

Well yesterday turned into a lovely sunny day eventually (Sally kindly sent the sun over from France) and today started off beautiful and sunny but is now turning decidedly grey .. .. typical after spending precious time watering all the flowers and crops.

Many thanks for your lovely comments on my creations over the last few days. I have really been enjoying being around a little bit more .. .. but I am sure you all know what is around the corner .. .. table plans and table stationery for all those August and September "happy couples" and save the dates for those who are just starting their journey with me  .. .. then a website to finish ahead of an October wedding fayre .. .. phew!!!.

But I have been trying to be more organised and get some cards behind me ready for sharing whilst I am chipping away at all of the above.  It is lovely to have my fingers in lots of pies and be able to jump from one type of crafting to another.  I love the variety.

Anyway, here is my share for today

This used:

Image:  Penny Black "4058J" Yearning

Sentiment:  Tag from Craftwork Cards "Potting Shed" Paper Pad

Backing Papers:  First Edition Paper "New Leaf"

Die-namics Die Set:  Blueprints 14

X-Cut Punch:  Flower

Twine and Dew Drop from My Crafty Stash Box

and .. .. tah dah .....

SKETCH TWO FROM MY LITTLE SKETCH LIBRARY

used at last which means I can now add sketch three into the mix.

It would appear that yesterday's heart wasn't easy for everyone .. .. .. so to put you out of your misery .. .. here it is .. .. nestling under that leaf:

Many thanks for calling by my blog .. and for looking for the hearts LOL!!

Catch you again soon.

Love

RANUNCULUS FIELD

Hi Everyone

Happy Wednesday .. ..  I hope your week is going well.

As promised here is the card I was supposed to have shared on Monday .. .. when I got side-tracked by the "running late" dentist. Thankfully it was only a check up, clean and polish so no sharp intake of breath needed as I didn't need to part with any hard earned cash LOL!  

So here we go with my share of the day .. .. which involved a bit of blending and painting with distress inks.  Very enjoyable!

This used:

Image:  Stampendous "CRR112" Ranunculus Field

Sentiment:  Penny Black "30-176" Sentimental

Distress Inks:  Shabby Shutters, Peeled Paint, Tumbled Glass and Worn Lipstick

My Trusty Sewing Machine

Ribbon from My Crafty Stash Box

and that is me for today. Another "not used enough" stamp gets an airing.

The skies are looking a bit grey here this morning.  I was hopeful of some sunshine to dry a mountain of washing .. .. but the day is young .. .. there is time for improvement!  

Have a good one.

Love

TEENY, TINY TUESDAY

Hi Everyone

Happy Tuesday!!!

Sorry I didn't make an appearance yesterday .. .. I am blaming the dentist!  She was running rather late last night which put the scuppers on me getting round to pictures and blog posts .. .. but never mind, it leaves a card to share another day.

Today's share is one of my teeny, tiny makes .. .. but it is a little bigger than normal .. .. measuring in at a whopping 4 x 4 inches LOL!!

This used:

Backing Papers:  Kaisercraft "Key to my Heart"

Sentiment Die:  Paper Smooches "Birthday Words"

Sentiment Stamp and Punch:  Stampin Up! "Banner Banter" and Banner Punch

Distress Ink:  Worn Lipstick

X-Cut Punch:  Flower and Heart

Josy Rose:  Nail Heads

We R Memory Keepers:  Envelope Board (for the matching envelope)

Mr Trusty Sewing Machine

and there we go.  Another little one for the box.

Many thanks for your lovely comments about my sketch creation on Sunday.  You are all very kind.

I managed to add a tab to the top of my blog yesterday ready for collecting my sketches together .. .. after much faffing around.  I always alter things on my blog with my heart thumping a little.  I am always convinced I am going to wipe everything, and when it comes to publishing the changes I always hold my breath as I click the mouse button .. .. .. as if that is going to make any difference LOL.

I have added another sketch to the collection today but haven't used it myself yet.  I just felt one sketch looked a bit sad sitting there on its own.

Catch you tomorrow with the card I should have posted yesterday.

Have a good day today.

Love