Dessert

Hi!

I hope Mr Blogger behaves and posts this for me, it's Friday again so I'm off to see my Aunt.  I don't know where we will end up today but I know we will go somewhere!

This card is very CAS, which I love doing.  I hope you like it.

See you soon.

Hugs

Anne x

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Elements :

Image - Beccy's Place

Sentiment - Elegant WordArt by Bethany

Insert - Pink Petticoat

Challenges :

Addicted to CAS - Summer

Anything Goes - Coffee Break / Food

CASology - Dessert

Creative Belli - Summer

OSAAT - Summer

New Home

Morning all!

I forgot to say the other day that I got my car back, all well again ... that is, except my pocket!  I'll need it this morning as our granddaughter has an appointment at the orthodontist again and is definitely having her braces fitted today.  I hope all goes ok and they don't hurt her too much.

Best get a wriggle on.

Enjoy your day whatever you're up to.

Hugs

Anne x

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Elements :
Image - Pink Petticoat
Sentiment - computer generated
Font - Scribble
Paper - Magnolia : Southfield
Nailheads - JosyRose
Flower Gem - The Hobby House
Insert - from Dandelion Clock collection by Pink Petticoat

Challenges :
Crafty Friends - Anything
Little Miss Muffet - Sketch
OSAAT - Anything
Totally Papercrafts - Anything

Going Round in Circles

Hi everyone!

Hope you've enjoyed your long weekend.  Every weekend's a long weekend for me and I love it.  I love not working and being able to do so many things I didn't have time for when I worked.

It's been a busy day today.  Mr C and I went out for lunch and when we came home he got the lawnmower out and I got the hoover and duster out!  The grass had really grown these past few days between a bit of warmth and plenty rain.  The trees are beginning to get their green coats too so the world is a brighter place even if Mr Sunshine doesn't want to show his face.

I haven't had time to play in the craftroom today but here's a card I made the other day.  

See you soon.

Hugs

Anne x

Insert

Elements :

Images - from Round in Circles collection by Uniko Studio

Sentiment - from Wee Card Making Kit by The Hobby House

Pearls - The Hobby House

Insert - Pink Petticoat

Challenges :

Clean & Simple - Sketch

Crafty Catz - Song (You Spin Me Round)

OSAAT - Anything

Squigglefly - Mono

Tickled Pink

Morning peeps!

Back to winter again ... brrr.  Hope you all had a lovely weekend.  We enjoyed our time with son and DIL yesterday.  My son had a look at laptops with me and I've ordered a new one.  Can't wait as this one is so slow and some of the keys stick which is really annoying.  Will be on the lookout for Mr Delivery Man later in the week.  I'm off out today with my friend.  I haven't seen her for nearly 8 weeks as she's been stateside on holiday so there will be mega chat!

The card I have to share today was made with one of the new collection from Clearly Besotted.  I followed Stephanie long before she had her company and I love her style.  The collection is all about feathers and they stamp so beautifully.  Hope you like!

Off to get ready for my looooong lunch!

Hugs

Anne x

Insert

Elements :

Image & Sentiment - from Fancy Feathers collection by Clearly Besotted

Hearts - from Love & Laughter collection by Stampin Up!

Corner Embellie - The Hobby House

Challenges :

2 Sisters - Anything

Crafty Catz - Anything

OSAAT - Anything

Much Cuteness

Morning peeps!

Hope you are all well this morning and the weather where you are is not too bad.  Here the sun is shining but the grass is white with frost.  I love those kind of days.  

Mr C is having to take his car back to the garage today then we will have to pop down to Dundee to pick up something that I ordered.  I can't tell you what it is just now as it's for my daughter's birthday and she'll see this!

While hopping around the blogs I follow I came across this sketch that the lovely Jules had used and it inspired me to have a go too.  It's ages since I used a Teddy Bea image and I thought this one fitted perfectly.

Take care

Hugs

Anne x

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Elements :

Image - When You Wish Upon A Star - Teddy Bea

Sentiment - Pink Petticoat

Paper - French Script / Tiny Leopard Print / Swiss Dots all by Pink Petticoat

Button - stash

Twine - The Ribbon Girl

Challenges :

Digital Tuesday - Pink & White

Little Red Wagon - Teddies

OSAAT - Digi

Papertake - Buttons & Bling

Sisterhood of Crafters - Thank You

Sketch Saturday - Sketch

Teddy Bo - Anything

Time for Tea

Morning friends!

Firstly I'd like to say a very big thank you to all the lovely crafters to take the time to pop into my wee bit of the worldwide web and leave a comment on my blog, it is so much appreciated.

Hope you are all well today.  We had another lovely day of sunshine yesterday although it was chilly.  Snow is forecast for today but time will tell!

It was mid afternoon when I got back home from town yesterday so I put the shopping away and popped into the craft room for a while.  It was far too late in the day to start housework or ironing!!!  Wasn't that a good excuse?

I've a clean and simple card to share today, hope you like it.

Hugs

Anne x

Elements :

Image - from Fluffy Bunnies topper collection by Lili of the Valley

Sentiment - from Butterfly Wishes collection by Clearly Besotted

Dies - Square Lace Frame by Cheery Lynn / Madera Corner by Memory Box

Pearls - The Hobby House

Challenges :

Lili's Little Fairies - Pearls

OSAAT - Girly

Simply Create Too - Female

On Your Bike

Morning everyone!

Up with the lark this morning as Mr C and I are off to Inverness till Wednesday.  I just hope the snow stays away till we get home.  There's nothing in our little neck of the woods today but it's all around!

Hope you all behave until I get back and I'll be looking at your blogs for inspiration.

Hugs

Anne x

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Elements :
Image & Papers - from Summer collection on Faye Whittaker CD by Joanna Sheen
Sentiment - Pink Petticoat
Dies - Frames 8 by Crafts Too
Edging - Seagull Paper Edger Scissors by Fiskars
Card Candi - Craftwork Cards

Challenges :
CD Sunday - On Your Bike
OSAAT - Anything
Scrappy Frogs - Use Red and/or Pink

Cupcake - DT

Hi! I cannot believe that we are at the beginning of another month.  That means it's time for the challenge in the Cupcake Craftroom.  Mandy has given the DT a fantastic set of papers to work with along with an inspirational photo.  Hope you can play along with us.

Hugs

Anne x

Inspirational Photo 

Last Summer Designer Paper

Challenges :

Crafty Catz - Anything

Cupcake Craftroom - Photo Inspiration

Karens Doodles - Kids

Make it Monday - Anything

OSAAT - Summer

One Stop Card Craft - Recipe

Stars & Stamps - Summer

Elements :

Papers - from Last Summer Collection by Mandy at Cupcake Cards & Crafts

Deco Image & Sentiment - Mmmm Ice Cream

Card Candi - Craftwork Cards

Acceptance

Hi! I'm still not getting into my normal routine.  Yesterday we had our new boiler and central heating installed.  Oh what a mess the house was in but this morning I was up with the lark and got stuck into the kitchen which was the worst, covered in gritty dust, yeuk!  All is clean again for another couple of weeks as we are getting our new kitchen on 14 May and will be in uproar again.  It will be well worth it in the end.  We bought our house as a shell 20 years ago and had to have everything done and we've never replaced either kitchen or heating since then so I don't think we can complain as neither owes us anything.  In fact I'm surprised the boiler lasted so long as latterly it rattled and banged when it went on in the morning - our alarm!

One of my friends is on holiday this week so we had lunch at a lovely farm restaurant then had a look around the farm shop.  She is looking forward to retirement and can join the 'ladies who lunch' brigade.

We have been invited to a golden wedding so I've made this card for our acceptance.  I was at the Sincerely-Yours craft fair at Ingliston on Saturday and bought some Dreamweaver brushes, a poppy die by Memory Box and a dot template by TCW, all of which I've used on this card.  It's fun using new things.

Challenges :

Crafts for Eternity - Something New

Fab n Funky - No DP

Fairy Fun Friday - Anything with Flowers

Fussy and Fancy - Punch / Die

OSAAT - Anything

Paper Pretties - CAS

Simon Says - Anything

Truly Scrumptious - Distress + Die / Punch

Elements :

Template - Mini Swiss Dots by TCW

Dies - MFD009 by Nellie Snellen : Prim Poppy by Memory Box

Colouring Medium - Pine Needles / Worn Lipstick Distress Ink by Tim Holtz

Happy Birthday

Hi everyone! I didn't manage to blog yesterday - it was a busy day.  I had to visit someone about wedding stationery and then I went to see my Aunt.  A lovely day was had although the weather was pants.  It's blowing a hoolie here today and there's rain blowing through, methinks a day in the craftroom is in order but I have to add, I've already had the hoover and duster out and the washing machine is on so I don't feel guilty!!!

Challenges :

Aud Sentiments - use Happy in sentiment

Crafty Ann - Bold & Bright

Clean & Simple - Happy Birthday

Incy Wincy Designs - Birthday

One Stitch at a Time - Digi or No Image

Paper Sundaes - Birthday

Scrappy Frog - Die Cuts

There She Goes - Animals

Elements :

Digi Image - Pink Gem Designs

Paper - ???

Sentiment - Happy - LOTV / Birthday - Tanda Stamps

Ribbon - stash

Pearls - The Hobby House

Dies - Squares by Nellie Snellen

Sewing Bea

Hi! I'm going to use this card for my oldest friend, we've known each other for 43 years!!!  It's her birthday later in the year but I saw this image and thought of her.  We used to make all our clothes when we went dancing in our youth, so you can see where I'm coming from!

It's a lovely day here, sunny and warm so let's hope it stays that way for a few days but according to the weather forecast it's to get cold again at the weekend with the possibility of snow. 

Hugs

Anne

Challenges :

Allsorts - Free & Easy

Digital Tuesday - Anything

I Did It Creations - Square Card

One Stitch at a Time - Anything

Ready Teddy Go - Stitching

Scrappy Frog - Die Cuts

Elements :

Image - Teddy Bea #188 from Teddy Bo

Papers - from New Leaf collection by First Edition

Sentiment - freebie from magazine

Dies - Flower & Leaf Trio by Die-namics : Garden Branch by Marianne Design

Punch - Half Daisy by Martha Stewart

Pearls - The Hobby House

Cupcake DT

Hi!  It's another new month and another new challenge in the Cupcake Craftroom.  I just love the latest designer papers Mandy has created.  You can find this set and lots of other wonderful stuff in the Cupcake Store.

Why don't you come along and join us as one lucky challenger will be chosen to win this set.  Don't forget that we have a DT call running until 29 February at Cupcake.  Pop over and have a look if you're interested.

Hugs

Anne

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Challenges :

Charisma Cards - Pink

Cupake Craftroom - New Beginnings

One Stitch at a Time - use a Digi

Squigglefly - I'm Seeing Red

Elements :

Paper, Paper Piecing & Sentiment - from Live Life in Love collection by Cupcake Cards & Crafts

Image - The Kiss by Mami Doodles

Dies - Ovals / Scalloped Ovals by Spellbinders : Flower & Leaf Trio by Die-namics : Garden Branch by Marianne Design

Pearl - The Hobby House

Insert - created using Paint.NET : Fonts - Eight Fifteen / Bank Gothic Lt BT

OLL - DT

Challenges :

Ooh La La Creations - Seeing Double (use image more than once)

Marks Finest Papers - Happy Birthday

OSAAT - Round and Round

Party Time Tuesday - Happy Birthday

Raise the Bar - Circles

Tuesday Throwdown - Neutral

Elements :

Papers & Image - from Forest Mist collection on Dreams of Tranquility CD by Ooh La La Creations

Dewdrops - Papermania

Dies - Circles / Scalloped Circles by Spellbinders

Punch - Doily Lace by Martha Stewart

Nailheads - stash

Sentiment - computer generated

Anne

Spots n Stripes

An early post as I'm off with my friend to Southfield Stationers to buy some card and crafty supplies.  There's a huge Dobbies near to it so I've no doubt we'll pop in there and partake of some lunch!!!

My granddaughter got on fine at the dentist yesterday.  Four injections and two extractions but she was a star.  It's a lady dentist she has and she thinks she's the bees knees so that makes it easier for her.  I got a text from my daughter about 8 o'clock to say my granddaughter was in bed, sound asleep.  She's not been that early since she was about 6 so it must have taken its toll, bless.  Only thing is, we've to go through it again next week ... aaaah.

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Challenges :

Anything Goes - Anything

Card Mad Fairy - Digi + Thank You

Divas by Design - Thanks

Dream Valley - Anything

Gingerloft - Anything

Marks Finest Paper - Border Punch

OSAAT - Anything

Penny Black - Anything

Totally Papercraft - Spots & Stripes

Elements :

Digi Paper - from Paws for Thought collection by Tinker & Co

Image - from Fair & Bright Stickeroos by Penny Black

Sentiment - from Flower Festival Stickeroos by Penny Black

Punch - Half Daisy by Martha Stewart

Pearls - The Hobby House

Insert - computer generated

Pink Teddy

Hi folks!  I had a lovely day yesterday with my friend.  We hopped on the bus to Dundee and met my friend's sister, had a look round the shops then had lunch.  It was a freezing cold wind and the as the shops were pretty rubbish we headed off to bingo to see if we could win our fortune.  We do that a couple of times a year and yesterday we won - £5 to be shared by the three of us ... WOW!

Challenges :

Cooking It Up With Katie - Pink / Pearls / Flowers

Do You Stack Up - Pink

One Stitch at a Time - Embellishments

Papertake - Die / Cute

Ready Teddy Go - Pink

Totally Gorjuss - Sketch

Elements :

Papers - from Energy collection by Summer Driggs

Image - from Spring Time collection by Forever Friends

Sentiment - The Doodle Pantry

Pearls - The Hobby House

Dies - Ovals / Scalloped Ovals by Spellbinders : Garden Branch by Marianne Design

Calendar

I really am sorry that I've not been around but I've so many other 'projects' on the go - ironing, cleaning, cooking ...

I visited my aunt yesterday and one of her friends sent her a handmade calendar with her Christmas card so I though I'd make one for my friend.  I'm going to meet her tomorrow for coffee and exchange pressies.  I hope she likes it!

Challenges :

Bearly Mine - Anything

Corrosive - Nothing Christmas

Crafty Cardmakers - Use it 3 Times

Delightful - Anything

Die Cut Dreams - Calendar

Everybodys Art - Anything

Simply Create Too - Embossing

One Stitch at a Time - Anything

The Crafty Pad - Nothing Christmas

Elements :

Image - from Girly Afternoons collection by Lili of the Valley

Calendar - Card Factory

Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts

Pearls - stash

Dies - Leaves by CREAlies

Embossing - Daisies by Crafts Too

Vintage Girl

I've scheduled this post because I'm going out with my friend for a little retail therapy.  Don't know where we are going but you can rest assured there will be shops and a restaurant!!!

Challenges :

Charisma Cardz - Snowflakes

Crafts & Me - Vintage

Delightful - Red & Green

Everybody Art - Christmas

One Stitch at a Time - Anything

Pals Paper Arts - Pearls

Paper Sundaes - Beautiful Bow

Sparkles - Vintage Christmas

Truly Scrumptious - Vintage Christmas

Elements :

DP & Image - from Victorian Christmas CD by Joanna Sheen

Dies - Ovals / Scalloped Ovals / Parisian Accents by Spellbinders

Punch - Snowflakes by Woodware

Pearls - The Hobby House

Ribbon - stash

Boo!

Challenges :

Card Mad Fairy - Digi + Flowers

Crafty Catz - Mono

Craft Your Passion - Flowers

CYDA - make Flowers

Delightful - Halloween

Fairy Tale - Flowers & Lace

Incy Wincy Designs - make Flowers

Kaboodle Doodles - Fabric or Ricrac or Lace

Make it Monday - Anything

MAWTT - Handmade Flowers

OSAAT - use Digi

Paper Play - make Flowers

Sew Many Cards - use Freebie

Elements :

BP -  Bats by Jak Heath

Image - Sew Many Cards

Brad & Lace - stash

Sentiment - Azure Alpha Sizzlits by Sizzix

Flower - Layer 1 - Waterlily punch by Martha Stewart : Layers 2 & 3 - Daisy punch in Medium and Small by Woodware

For the Christmas Box

Hi folks!  I'm going to try to get back into challenging and blogging again now that the schools have gone back.  I've had a great time with my granddaughter this summer and we've been around the country a bit.  I hope she enjoyed it as much as I did.  Anyway here's my first challenge in ages, apart from my DT commitments.  Hope my mojo gets itself into gear again cos it's got a bit lazy over the past few weeks too! x

Challenges :
Bah! Humbug! - Christmas Kisses
Forever Friends - Round Card
I Did It Creations - Shaped Card
Make it Monday - Anything
One Stitch at a Time - Anything
Paper Playtime - Anything
Secret Crafter - Christmas
Totally Gorjuss - Round and Round

Elements :
BP & Decoupage - Forever Friends
Charm - stash
Ribbon - courtesy of Primark!  It came on a pair of pjs I bought last winter
Die - Circles by Nellie Snellen

Blue Butterfly

Challenges :

Fab n Funky - Use Template

OSAAT - Tag It!

Scrap-Creations - Anything Goes

Stampavie - Butterflies

Top Tip Tuesday - Open

Try It On Tuesday - Tag & Butterfly

Elements :
BPs - from Tulip collection by Docraft
Butterfly Template - Ellanee Crafts
Ribbon - stash
Flower - Wild Orchid Crafts
Punches - Scrolls & Dots by EK Success : Frond Branch by Martha Stewart
Faux Brads - Card Candy by Craftwork Cards