Another one bites the dust!...

Morning All!

Happy Monday campers, another week and I wonder what this one has in store for us all?.....Ooooo wouldn't a lottery win be nice?!!  (Yeah I know, keep dreaming Cazza!!)

I hope you all enjoyed your extra hour yesterday (UK clocks went back yesterday), did you do anything good with it?  I slept through mine, probably a bit of a waste but I must've needed it right?  Lol!  

Thank you for all of your lovely messages about my procedure on Friday, I had a bit of a sore throat on Saturday (nothing that a tub of Strawberry Cheesecake Hagen Daaz couldn't sort out!) but I was absolutely fine again yesterday.  I have a very rare blood disorder (I'm medically confirmed as one in a million!) which means my blood clots when it shouldn't.  This has led to me having 2 blood clots, one of which has completely clotted my Portal Vein so my blood has to flow a different way around my body using smaller veins (which weren't meant to carry so much blood) and some of these smaller veins have gone varicose in my throat and stomach.  So that's why I have to have the camera procedure, just to check I'm not getting anymore and the existing ones aren't too bad.  I'm going back to hospital on Thursday for the results but hopefully everything will be the same as last time and they won't need to adjust my meds  :o)

Right, I've probably waffled on too much now so onto my card which today is my Pollycraft Challenge DT card.  And this week my wonderful teamie Marit has chosen the the theme...

ANYTHING GOES

...so I've taken the opportunity to make a Christmas card as I really need to crack on with these now, yikes!  Here's my card...

A close up of Christmas Chester 'Chesters Letter'...

(FYI the Christmas Chester set are on special offer at the moment, 4 digi's for £2.50!!)

Inside of card...

And a side view...

Can you believe this is the first time I've used a Chester!  He was lovely to colour though so I think I will be using him again!  This week we're sponsored by...

Letraset who are giving the winner a 5 pack of promarkers!  So this is a nice and easy challenge for you all to join in on, we hope to see you over at the Pollycraft Challenge  :o)

Oh before I go I want to wish you all Happy Halloween!  Are you doing anything spooky today?  I'm going to be spending the afternoon making creeeeepy cupcakes to take up to my sister-in-laws this evening for my Nephews and Niece (and the adults too lol!).  I've also got the kids loads of sweets and of course their cards too.  I think me and hubby will go home when the kids are all uber hyped lol!!

Have a spooktacular day everyone  :o)

Much love,

Challenges I'm entering my card in:

Papertake Weekly ~ Sketchie Time!

The Ribbon Girl ~ Jingle all the way to Christmas

Totally Papercrafts ~ Challenge #90 ~ Glitter It!

Card Ingredients:

Card / DP's ~ Core d'inations 'Poinsettia', Fancy Pants 'Brrr', MME The Merry Days of Christmas 'Pajama Plaid' and 'Gingerbread Lane'

Stamps / Images ~ Pollycraft Christmas Chester 'Chesters Letter', Magnolia 'Merry Christmas'

Dies / Punches ~ Nesties Lacey Circles, Woodware Snowflake Punches

Embellishments ~ Ribbon from Waitrose, Pearl Gems from Hobbycraft and The Glitter Pot

Other ~ Sizzix Big Shot, Bow Maker, Doodling and Glamour Dust

Colour Mediums ~ Copic Markers:  Fur ~ E27, E25, E23, R20, R00;  Clothes ~ R29, R27, R24, YG93, E25;  Other ~ YG91, E40, BG10, BG000, BG0000, 0.

Happy Halloween!!

Morning Campers!

I hope you're all good and have had good weeks?  Mine was a busy one with paperwork mainly but hopefully after the weekend I'll have a bit more time to be creative!  I need it too, Christmas is just around the corner and I still have plenty of cards to make, yikes!

Onto today's creation which is my final Halloween card, this one is for my 9 year old Nephew.  I've used this weeks fabby Sketch Saturday sketch, here's my card...

A close up of Pollycraft's Lil Spook (how cute is he!!)...

Incy Wincy Spider!...

Inside of card...

And a side view...

You likey?  Here's this weeks sketch which I flipped, well I couldn't cover that Owl up could I?!...

And this week we're sponsored by...

The Craft Barn who are giving the lucky winner 6 Flexmarkers!!  Sound good to you?  Head over to Sketch Saturday and check out all the lushness plus our Guest Designer for October, Donna, is staying on board as a full time Saturday wahoo!!

Right, I'd better get busy.  Yesterday was a bit of a write off for me as I had to go into hospital and have an OGD (non technical term is camera down the throat!).  I've had this done about 6 times now and the last 3 I've woken up mid-way through the procedure and panicked like mad so the docs have had to stop it early before they were able to reach my stomach.  So I was very anxious yesterday but this time my specialist got an anaesthetist in to give me some extra hard-core sedation.....which worked a treat and I didn't wake up, wahoo!!  I'm so pleased it's all over with for (fingers crossed) at least another year and next time I won't be as anxious.....as long as the anaesthetist is there lol!

Have a good day all and I'll see you Monday with my Pollycraft creation  :o)

Much love,

Challenges I'm entering my card in:

ABC Challenges ~ B is for Boo
Simon Says Stamp ~ Anything Goes

Card Ingredients:

Card / DP's ~ Bazzill Bling, MME 'Mischievous'

Stamps / Images ~ Pollycraft Swings and Slides 'Lil Spook', Magnolia 'Spider', Penny Black 'Halloween'

Dies / Punches ~ Nesties Standard Circles, George and Basic Shapes Cricut Cartridge

Embellishments ~ Ribbon from Stash, Pearls and Googly Eyes from Hobbycraft

Other ~ Cricut Create, Sizzix Big Shot, 'Black Soot', 'Bundled Sage' and 'Antique Linen' Distress Inks, Doodling and Glamour Dust

Colour Mediums ~ Copic Markers:  Skin ~ E21, E00, E000, R20, R00;  Hair ~ E50;  Clothes ~ E27, E25, E23, E33, E31, YG06, YG23, YG03, YG00, Y38, V15, C5, C3, C1, 0.  Derwent Coloursoft Pencils blended with Sansodor ~ Brown Earth, Pale Brown, Green, Bright Orange, Royal Purple and Dove Grey

Not so scary Wicked Witch!

Morning All!

I hope you all had fabby weekends?  Ours was ace and we visited friends on Friday and Saturday evening, lots of fun!  :o)  A nice relaxing day yesterday just chilling out and then up to my Sister-In-Law and Brother-In-Laws for dinner, loverly!

Monday morning means another challenge over at Pollycraft and this week my gorgeous teamie Mary J has chosen.....

SPOOKY GOINGS ON!!

Ooooo I'm so excited, I love making Halloween cards as they're so much fun!!  We don't massively celebrate it, but I do make cards for our Niece and Nephews and deliver them with a big bag of ghoulish themed sweets, lol!  Well we're not favourite Uncle Daemo and Auntie Wazza for no reason, lol!!  Here's my card, this one is for our Niece...

A close up of Cherry Kisses 'Witch' ~ told you she's not so scary, what a cutie!...

Inside of card...

And a side view...

This week Pollycraft is sponsoring the Pollycraft Challenge with 10 digi's up for grabs for the winner  :o))  

So head over to the Challenge Blog to see the Spooktacular inspiration, a real imaginative treat for the eyes!

So tonight sees the start of Young Apprentice, do you watch that?  I love The Apprentice and watched the younger version last year, it was really good actually so I shall definitely be tuning in.  Enjoy your Mondays peeps  :o)

Much love,

Challenges I'm entering my card in:

Simon Says Stamp Challenge Blog ~ Be Inspired By a Nursery Rhyme / Fairy Tale (well there's always a Witch involved somewhere!)

Totally Papercrafts Challenge ~ Challenge #89 ~ Layer Upon Layer

Allsorts Challenge Blog ~ Week 126 ~ Halloween

Card Ingredients:

Card / DP's ~ Bazzill Bling, Bo Bunny 'Boo Crew Dot' and 'Boo Crew Ghoul Friends', Doodlebug 'Black Magic'

Stamps / Images ~ Pollycraft Cherry Kisses 'Witch', Penny Black 'Halloween!'

Dies / Punches ~ Nesties Lacey Circles, Cricut George and Basic Shapes cartridge

Embellishments ~ Ribbon from The Glitter Pot, Charm and Bale from Madcow Beads, Craft Candy from Craftwork Cards

Other ~ Cricut Create, Sizzix Big Shot, 'Black Soot' Distress Ink, Doodling and Glamour Dust

Colour Mediums ~ Copic Markers:  Skin ~ E21, E00, E000, R20, R00;  Hair ~ E51, E50;  Clothes ~ YR04, YG06, YG11, V15, C5, C3, C1;  Other ~ Y38, C0, C00, 0.  Derwent Coloursoft Pencils blended with Sansodor ~ Pale Brown, Bright Orange, Green, Light Green, Royal Purple, Black.

Spooky Kitty!

Morning All!

Happy Saturday!  I hope you're all well and have something fun planned this weekend?  Daemo was meant to be home all weekend but is working now today!  He is home tomorrow though so that'll be nice  :o)  I've been really busy this week getting the VAT done, well I still have loads to do but I've made a good start!  So I guess I can get some more of it done today whilst he's at work.....or maybe make a card instead lol!

We have another fabby sketch for you to play with this week over at Sketch Saturday.  I've made a Halloween card for my 4 year old Nephew, here it is...

A close up of Penny Black's 'Kitty Witch'...

Inside of card...

And a side view...

Here's this week's sketch...

And this week we're sponsored by...

Mo's Digital Pencil, fab or what!  :o)  So head over to Sketch Saturday and join in the fun with us this week  :o)

I have a few more Halloween cards to make so you'll be seeing a couple more of them from me!  We don't celebrate Halloween massively, but we do get loads of sweets for our Niece and Nephews!  This year I'm going to make some cupcakes too and bought some fab spooky toppers the other day!  I do love making Halloween cards, they're so much fun!

I hope you all have brilliant weekends - Strictly, X Factor, Downton Abbey, wahoo!!  And not forgetting Spooks, the last ever episode, sob!  I have the whole series on Sky+ and I intend to watch them all over a couple of days next week...I don't want it to end!!

See you all soon,

Much love,

Challenges I'm entering my card in:

Papertake Weekly ~ Spoooooky Hues!
Penny Black Saturday Challenge ~ Week 174 ~ Too Cute To Spook!

Card Ingredients:

Card / DP's ~ Bazzill Bling, Doodlebug 'Midnight Sky' and 'Black Magic'

Stamps / Images ~ Penny Black 'Kitty Witch' and 'Halloween'

Dies / Punches ~ Nesties Standard Ovals and Lacey Ovals, Cricut George and Basic Shapes Cartridge

Embellishments ~ Brads from Doodlebug, Ribbon from stash

Other ~ Cricut Create, Sizzix Bigshot, Dusty Concord Distress Ink, Doodling and Glamour Dust

Colour Mediums ~ Copic Markers:  Fur ~ W5, W3, W1;  Other ~ V17, YR04, YG23, BV00, BV31, C3, C1, 0

Girls, girls, girls!!

Morning all,

Another Monday means another challenge over at Pollycraft and this week it's my turn to host.  Following on from my wonderful teamie Faye's challenge last week I've chosen the very simple...

GIRLS, GIRLS, GIRLS!

theme this week.  Nice and easy for you all, well you all know I don't do difficult lol!  Here's my card...

A close up of the gorgeous Sonny Honeycloud 'Butterflies'...

Inside of card...

And a side view...

This week we're sponsored by...

Sew Sweet who are offering a £10 voucher to our lucky winner  :o))  With so many wonderful Pollycraft Girls to choose from I found myself changing my mind quite a lot but I'm pleased with how my card turned out in the end.  Hope you can play along with us too this week?  You should deffo check out all the girlyness from the DT over at the Pollycraft Challenge, LUSH!!...


Did you see Strictly and X Factor last night?!  Personally I thought Nancy should've gone rather than Dan and either Frankie or Nu Vibe for me from X Factor, I didn't think either acts sung brilliantly over the weekend.....roll on next Saturday night!!  

I hope this week has something nice in store for you all and I'll see you all soon,

Much love,

Challenges I'm entering my card in:

Sketch and Stash ~ Challenge 72 ~ Fabby Sketch!  My new stash is the digi, first time I've used her!

Totally Gorjuss ~ Challenge 102 ~ Bingo!  I've used the Lace, Buttons and Bling line

Card Ingredients:

Card / DP's ~ Kraft Card, MME Quite Contrary 'Beautiful' and Fine and Dandy 'Pretty'

Stamps / Images ~ Pollycraft Sonny Honeycloud 'Butterflies', Stampendous 'So Birthday'

Dies / Punches ~ X-Cut Butterfly

Embellishments ~ Lace from The Ribbon Girl, Buttons from Doodlebug, Pearl Gems from The Hobby House

Other ~ Antique Linen Distress Ink, Doodling, Cotton and Glamour Dust

Colour Mediums ~ Copic Markers:  Skin ~ E00, E000, E0000, R20, R00;  Hair ~ E51, E50;  Clothes ~ R81, BG000, YG23, YG03, YG11, C5, C3, C1;  Other ~ C5, C3, C1, B000, B0000, 0.  Derwent Coloursoft Pencils blended with Sansodor ~ Pale Brown, Black, Deep Fuchsia, Light Green

Happy Mail!!

Morning All,

And Happy Saturday wahoo!!  I hope you're all enjoying your weekends and have something fabby planned?  For me personally I can't wait for Strictly tonight lol!!

Well Saturday means another challenge over at Sketch Saturday and we have another stonking sketch for you to play with this week!  Here it is...

And here's my card...

A close up of Belles n' Whistles 'Happy Mail'...

Inside of card...

And a side view...

You like?!  This week we're sponsored by...

Robyn's Fetish who are offering the winner either 5 digi stamps or 4 digi stamps plus a paper pad!!  So I'll see you over at Sketch Saturday yeah?!  ;o)

I've learnt my lesson and in future I'm not going to say how I plan to have some 'crafty time' in my week, it never works out that way does it!!  And I'm massively behind on commenting too but I'm going to catch up with you all today I promise!  But amongst all the 'stuff' going on this week I did find time to make these...

And yummy they were too!

Much love,

Challenges I'm entering my card in:

B 'n W Challenge Blog ~ Use your favourite Elisabeth Bell Image (this is one of my MANY favourites, lol!)
Papertake Weekly ~ Get in Shape! (I've got a square base layered onto a scalloped square card and rectangles)
CES Challenges ~ Challenge #58 ~ Forever Autumn

Card Ingredients:

Card / DP's ~ Core d'inations Chocolate Mocha, MME Stella and Rose Mabel 'Little Lady', Hattie 'Buddies' and Gertie 'Friends Forever'

Stamps / Images ~ Belles n' Whistles 'Happy Mail', LOTV 'Postcard', Stampendous 'So Birthday'

Dies / Punches ~ X-Cut Retro Flower

Embellishments ~ Pearl Gems are Opaline from Basic Grey

Other ~ 'Antique Linen' Distress Ink, Doodling and Glamour Dust

Colour Mediums ~ Copic Markers: Skin ~ E00, E000, E0000, R20, R11, R00;  Hair ~ E51, E50;  Clothes ~ B97, B95, B93, B21, YR31, Y21, YR04, R02, R05;  Other ~ E41, E40, E25, E33, YG23, YG03, YG11, R81, B000, B0000, 0.  Derwent Coloursoft Pencils blended with Sansodor ~ Indigo, Electric Blue, Deep Cadmium, Rose, Pale Brown, Deep Fuchsia, Green

Dude!!

Morning All!

Another Monday means another challenge over at Pollycraft and today my gorgeous teamie Faye has chosen the theme...

Boys, Boys, Boys

Sounds good huh?!  Nice and simples which is what we like, lol!  I've played with Casper Silvermist for the first time for my card, here he is...

A close up of Casper 'Too Cool for School'...

Inside of card...

And a side view...

He's a pretty cool dude isn't he!  This week we're sponsored by...

Letraset who are offering a 5 pack of Promarkers to our lucky winner  :o))  Wanna play along too?...see you over at Pollycraft!

Well I'm definitely hoping to have some play time this week, lol!  I feel so guilty sitting in my craft room though, I feel like I have to do ALL the chores first and then job hunt for about 5 hours before I'm allowed to play, it's like being in limbo!!  My Dad keeps telling me to stop beating myself up and just enjoy the freedom, he says 'you can't find a job that doesn't exist no matter how much time you spend looking for it' and he's so right!  So I am going to stop beating myself up (if I say it out loud maybe I'll actually do it!!), still do my chores (so as not to feel too guilty and keep Hubby happy, but not ALL of them in one day!) and try and relax a little and make some cards - that's the plan anyway!!  We've got so much going on here at the moment that I should really be enjoying the quiet time while I can, fingers crossed it'll all change soon!!  Hope you all have good weeks and enjoy yourselves whatever you have planned  :o))

Much love,

Challenges I'm entering my card in:

Pink {Ink} Sketch Challenges ~ Sketch #7

Papertake Weekly ~ Happy Birthday Papertake Weekly ~ Anything Goes

Truly Scrumptious ~ Challenge 67 ~ Distressing

Card Ingredients:

Card / DP's ~ Papermania Kraft Card Blank, MME Stella and Rose Gertie 'Friends Forever' and Hattie 'Buddies', MME Six by Six 'Away We Go'

Stamps / Images ~ Pollycraft Casper Silvermist 'Too Cool For School'

Dies / Punches ~ Nesties Standard Circles, Cricut George and Basic Shapes Cartridge

Embellishments ~ Rub-Ons

Other ~ Sizzix Big Shot, Cricut Create, Doodling and Tim Holtz Distressing Tool

Colour Mediums ~ Copic Markers:  Skin ~ E21, E00, E000, R20, R11, R00;  Hair ~ E51, E50;  Clothes ~ C1, C0, C00, R35, Y17, B95, B93, B00, E27, E25, E23, 0.  Derwent Coloursoft Pencils blended with Sansodor ~ Brown Earth, Pale Brown, Indigo and Electric Blue.

Jingle all the way!...

Morning All,

Happy Saturday!!  I hope you're all good?  I know I'm waaaaay behind on my commenting but I'll catch up with you all today I promise!!

My card today is my Sketch Saturday DT card and as my title suggests it's a Christmas card!  I'm really trying to get ahead this year without the mad panic in December.....hmm it may be possible but we'll wait and see ay lol!!  I bought this stamp over at The Glitter Pot ages ago and she's been looking at me waiting to be inked up, so here she is...

A close up of Penny Black's 'Mimi Deer', tooooo cuuuuute!...

Inside of card...

And a side view...

Here's this week's gorgeous sketch...

Thanks Jo!  :o))  And we're sponsored by...

Simon Says Stamp who are offering a fabby prize as always!  Head over to Sketch Saturday and check out the rest of my fabulous teamies cards, we've grown by 2 and the talented Susie and Tracey have joined us too, wahoo!!  Go give them some love!!

Well so much for having some time to play this week ay!  I don't know where the days / weeks go, I don't seem to have any time to do anything lol!!  Oh well, maybe next week...

Much love,

Challenges I'm entering my card in:

The Ribbon Girl ~ Jingle all the way to Christmas challenge

Simon Says Stamp ~ Sparkle and Bling
CES Challenges ~ Challenge #57 ~ Seeing Red

Card Ingredients:

Card / DP's ~ Core d'inations 'Raspberry', Imaginisce Polar Expressions 'Fun Drops' and 'Flannel PJs', Glitter card from stash

Stamps / Images ~ Penny Black 'Mimi Deer' and 'Merry Christmas', Whimsy Stamps 'Holiday Wish List'

Dies / Punches ~ Nesties Standard Rectangles, Woodware Circle and Snowflake Punches

Embellishments ~ Sentiment from Craftwork Cards, Pearl Gems are 'Opaline' from Basic Grey

Other ~ Sizzix Big Shot, Antique Linen Distress Ink, Doodling and Glamour Dust

Colour Mediums ~ Copic Markers:  Skin ~ E21, E00, E000, R20, R11, R00;  Hair ~ E27, E25, E23, E33, E31;  Clothes ~ R37, R35, R24;  Other ~ Y17, BG10, BG000, BG0000, BG01, 0.  Derwent Coloursoft Pencils blended with Sansodor ~ Dark Brown, Deep Red and Electric Blue