Bubble's Birthday!

Evening all,

I hope you're all well?  I had a fab day yesterday, thank you all so much for all your lovely birthday wishes!  Gosh 35 - that seems so old!!  Good job I don't feel it then ay, well not mentally anyway lol!  Hubby and I went to Bluewater and had a delicious lunch in TGI Friday's.  Typically though I didn't find anything that exciting to spend my birthday money on - why is that always the way when you have money to spend?!  But I did buy some gorgeous new PJ's from Marks & Spencer - I do love my PJ's lol!!

Onto my card and this one I made for my Nephew who was 9 years old on Tuesday.  Wow 9 - the years are flying past!!

Close up of the front of the card...

The main front of the card...

Close up of the main front of the card...

Inside of the card...

Side view...

The LOTV stamp was absolutely ideal for Archie as he is completely hooked on his PS3.  We all went round to see him on Tuesday night and he had some of his school friends round too, did we get to see him.....not likely!!  He spent the whole time upstairs in his room with his mates playing the PS3!  He he he, so my card was perfect for him and he loved it!

Take care all and see you tomorrow...

Big Hugs,

 

Challenges I'm entering my card in:

Sketch and Stash ~ Challenge 54 ~ Fabby sketch and my new stash was my LOTV Stamp

Card Ingredients:

Papers & Card ~ Bazzill Bling Crystal Blue, Doodlebug Frosty Dot and Dragonfly Stripe, SEI Happy Day Cake Walk

Stamps & Images ~ LOTV Computer Fun, Elzybells Football Boy and Football and Hero Arts Birthday Sentiment Stamp (inside)

Dies & Punches ~ Nesties Standard Circles, Sizzix Smart Guy Dies and Woodware Circle Punch

Embellishments ~ Ribbon from The Glitter Pot, Craftwork Cards Oh My Words! Birthday Circles

Other ~ Funky Foam from Hobbycraft and Glamour Dust

Colour Mediums ~ Copic Markers;  Skin ~ E01, E00, E000, E0000, R20, R00;  Hair ~ E53, E51, E50;  Clothes ~ (Football Boy) R29, R27, R24, C0  (Computer Boy) BG01, Bg000, BG0000, E27, E25, E34, YG06, YG11;  Other ~ YG06, YG11, C7, C5, C3, C1, C0, 0



My Favourite 5 of 2010...

Morning all,

I hope everyone had a good New Year's Eve whatever you were doing?  Good job I scheduled my Sketch Saturday post yesterday - man my head hurt lol!!  But a very fun evening  :o)

So as I'm feeling human again today I thought I'd join along with Debby's Favourite 5 of 2010.  You just need to choose your favourite 5 cards (or near to 5 if you can't choose 5!) and post them.  So here are mine in no particular order.....all 10 of them!  (sorry Debby!)


February 2010 - This is Hubby's Valentines Card.  I really like the layout of this one and of course the Penny Black stamp!!

March 2010 - I made this card for my God Mum's Hubby.  I love the Doodlebug papers, layout and colouring on this one, and it reminds me of spring!

April 2010 - I made this one for my friend's daughter.  Again I love the Penny Black stamp and the layout of this one.  It was the first time I put ribbon behind the buttons too and I was really happy with how that turned out.

June 2010 - I love the simplicity of this card and I think the colour scheme is really striking.

July 2010 - This was my first commissioned card for a friend of mine to give to her Sister-In-Law on her 50th birthday.  I was so nervous making it but really happy how it turned out and my friend loved it and asked for more cards!!  Charleston Tilda rocks  ;o)

July 2010 - This is my absolute favourite card of 210 that I made for my Dad for his 60th Birthday.  I used 3 8x8 inch cards to make it and decided on a 'This is Your Life' type card which illustrated some of the major (and silly minor!) events in Dad's life.  It took a whole weekend to make but I really love the result and so did Dad  :o)
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September 2010 - This was my 2nd card I made as a Sketch Saturday DT Member.  Sooooo chuffed to be on the Design Team!!  I made it for our best friends who celebrated their 1st Wedding Anniversary and love the layout, papers and Elzybells stamp on this one.

November 2010 - I made this card for another friend's daughter - I love the bunting and especially Pirate Tilda, oo-arrrrrr!

November 2010 - This one I made for my Brother-In-Law, it's a shaker card.  I love 'Fluffy' and was voted a Pollycraft Favourite with this one  :o)

December 2010 - A very recent card of mine and already a favourite!!  I think this stamp is wicked and love these papers (sorry if I've bored you by using them on so many cards - I've even bought more, lol!)

I hope you've enjoyed taking a walk down memory lane with me today.  Looking back at my cards has got me thinking about lighter evenings and warmer weather - roll on spring!  Normally at the start of the year I'm feeling quite down but this year I feel so alive and can't wait for the coming year - I do hope it's a good one...

Lots of love everyone, see you all soon.  I think I'm going to make my first card of 2011!!...

Sketch Saturday Week #132

Morning All,

Well the 'Big Defrost' has begun today and the snow has started to melt.  I don't like the slush, it looks so dirty doesn't it, the snow makes everything look so clean and pretty, lol!  But we had a nice few days with it didn't we - I wonder if we'll have some on Christmas Day?  Actually I'm quite pleased it's started to defrost, we're off on holiday on Monday and I really want to get there!!

Onto my card and this one I've made for a colleague of mine, Westy, who loves his football and supports Liverpool (who play in red, hence the colour scheme of the card!), boooooo!!  He he he!!  I'm a MASSIVE Arsenal fan in case you didn't know, who also play in red so I just pretended it was an Arsenal card I was making, lol!  I used this weeks fabby sketch over on Sketch Saturday for my card and this is what I came up with...

Close up of Elzbells Footballing Boy!...

Side View...

This week it's the wonderfully talented DT Terry's turn to host and this is the fab sketch she's come up with...

We're sponsored by Your Zoap this week with a very generous 25 Euro prize, WOW!  And the sketch is lots of fun to play with too  :o)

I'd better get on, I have lots to do before holiday and will also be taking lots of images to colour with me to finish off my Christmas Cards - sorry that should read start, aagggghhhhh!!  Lol!!

See you soon,

Lots of love

Challenges I'm entering my card in:
Craft Your Days Away ~ Challenge #9 ~ Texture

Card Ingredients:

Papers and Card ~ Core d'inations Heartfelt, Doodlebug Square Dance and Ladybug Swiss Dot

Stamps and Images ~ Elzybells

Dies and Punches ~ Nestabilities Stars, Woodware Circle Punch

Embellishments ~ Craftwork Cards Card Candy, Ribbon by Papermania

Colour Mediums ~ Copics and Derwent Coloursoft Pencils blended with Sansodor

Other ~ Doodling and Glamour Dust

Sketch Saturday Week #129

Morning All,

You must be sooooo bored of me saying it, but I'm going to anyway!...

...YAAAAAAYYYYYY IT'S SATURDAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY!!!

I so love the weekends!!  And this weekend I have some time to craft too, wahoo!!  Well hopefully anyway!!  That's the plan at the moment along with a night out with our best friends tonight and seeing the family tomorrow, oh and a bit of paperwork too, lol!  It's all go isn't it!!

This week has been very busy but also AMAZING for Daemo (hubby) and I and we made a massive step forward with our dream!  If you've read my 'About Me' blurb in the side bar you'll have read that my story into crafting is a very sad one, in that I got into it following our sons stillbirth.  Well the sad times didn't stop there and as it turned out we also discovered due to my very rare blood disorder that Harrison was our one and only chance of having our own child.  And although this was God's will, we still desperately want to become parents!  So our new dream was Adoption which we first investigated and enquired about almost 2 years ago now.  Well this week we made our first step and were invited on a 'Motivation to Adopt' day, which was absolutely BRILLIANT!!  We met some amazing people in similar situations to ours and for once felt relatively normal, lol!  We learnt so much and it really confirmed our thoughts not to give up, that this was most definitely the way forward for us.  Soooooo exciting!!  Fingers crossed we get through to the next stage, we can't wait!!...  :o)))

Onto my card and this week I had an order for an Engagement Card so I tied this in with my Sketch Saturday DT Card and this little beauty was created!  What do you think?...

Close up of Digi Stamp Boutique's Cute Love Birds.  I've sticky fixed them up onto the nestie for a 3D effect...

Inside of card, sentiment from Elzybells...

Side view to show the dimension...

My friend Maria who ordered the card wanted it for her brother, she was over the moon with it  :o)

This was the fab sketch we followed this week...

And our very generous sponsor of a $25.00 gift certificate is...

How generous!!  So why not join in the fun too?  And you should definitely check out the DT Cards this week - what a talented bunch they are!!

Ok I'm sure that's quite enough of me going on, lol!  Have a fab weekend everyone and I'll see you all again soon  :o)

Much love,

Challenges I'm entering my card in:

Digi Stamp Boutique - November Challenge

Card Ingredients:

Papers and Card ~ Bazzill Bling Red Carpet and Bo Bunny Love Bandit Nuts 4 U

Stamps and Images ~ Digi Stamp Boutique Cute Love Birds, sentiment by Elzybells and Shabby Chic Hearts by Magnolia

Dies and Punches ~ Nestabilities Lacey Circles

Embellishments ~ Pearl Gems are from Hobbycraft

Colour Mediums ~ Copic Markers and Derwent Coloursoft Pencils blended with Sansodor

Other ~ Glamour Dust

Happy Birthday Tinks!

Morning All,

Hope you're all well?  Yaaaaaaay it's Saturday and that can mean only one thing..........a new sketch over on Sketch Saturday, whoop whooooop!!  This week we're sponsored by The Stamp Shoppe who have offered a fab prize to one luck winner!  Here's my card...

Close up of Magnolia's Flying Tilda...

Inside of card...

Side view...

I made this card for one of my netball team mates, Tinks.  We call her Tinks as she's so ickle like a fairy so I thought this Tilda was perfect!!  And she may be ickle but believe me, she's an absolutely amazing netball player :o)

Hope you all have fab weekends, not much crafting for me as I have the VAT to do - never enough hours are there!!

Take care all,

xxx

Challenges I'm entering my card in

Just Magnolia Week 78 - Think Pink
Totally Gorgeous Challenge 53 - Sparkle

Card Ingredients

Papers and Card ~ Bazzill Bling Sugar Daddy, Craftwork Cards Blossom and Blossom Spots & Stripes

Stamps ~ Magnolia Flying Tilda, sentiment by Elzybells and swirls by Penny Black (it's actually a Christmas Stamp!)

Dies and Punches ~ Nesties Lacey Squares, X-Cut Retro Flowers and Martha Stewart Lattice Border Punch

Embellishments ~ Charm - From Stash, Ribbon - Hobbycraft, Pearl Gems - Basic Grey Opaline and Hobbycraft

Colour Mediums ~ Copic Markers and Derwent Coloursoft Pencils blended with Sansodor

Other ~ Craftwork Cards Oh My Words! and Glamour Dust

Sketch Saturday #124 - And Another Christmas Card, wahoooooooo!!

Hi All,

Hope you're all good and have enjoyed a good week - it's the weekend, yaaaaaaay!!

Quick post from me today as I'm off to a class with the amazingly talented Kay Carley at The Glitter Pot in a mo - WOW I really can't wait!!

So here's my card for this weeks Sketch Saturday Week #124.  This week we're sponsored by Simon Says Stamp so why not join in on the fun too?...

Close up of Elzybells Stamped Image...

Inside of card...

Side View...

Hope you like it?  Think I'm going to give this one to my Sister-In-Law and Brother-In-Law!

Have a good day all

xxx

Card Ingredients:

Papers and Card:  Bazzill Bling Blind Date, My Mind's Eye Colourful Christmas Gumdrop Sparkles and Snowflake Stripes

Stamps:  Elzybells, All sentiments by Penny Black

Dies and Punches:  Martha Stewart Snow Flurry Border Punch, Snowflake Punch from Hobbycraft

Embellishments:  Half Pearls are Basic Grey Opaline

Colour Mediums:  Copics and Derwent Coloursoft Pencils blended with Sansodor

Other:  Glamour Dust!

Happy 1st Anniversary Mr & Mrs Jenner!! (& SS Week #122)

Morning All,

It's Saturday, wahoooooooooooo!!!  Oh how I do love the weekends, can you tell lol!!  I hope you've all had good weeks and enjoy your weekends as much as me  :o)

This week over at Sketch Saturday we're sponsored by The Craft Barn and they have lined up some fantastic festive prizes for one lucky winner, so to be in with a chance of winning all you have to do is make a card following this weeks fab sketch!  Easy, peasy, lemon squeasy (or something like that, lol!)

So here's my card, I do hope you like it?  I have to say I do, soooo cute!!

Close up of Elzybells 'You Complete Me' stamp, coloured with my Copics and Derwent Coloursoft pencils...

Inside of card, sentiment and 'Heart Balloon' is also by Elzybells...

Side view of card...

I made this card for best friends of ours who celebrated their first wedding anniversary last Sunday.  Daemo was best man at their wedding and we all had such an amazing day, Jo looked stunning, Steve looked ever so handsome and the girls all looked beautiful!  Here they are this time last year...

And here's me and Daemo at the Wedding of the Year 2009!

Such a super day - Happy 1st Anniversary Mr and Mrs Jenner and here's to many more! 

Love you lots xxx

That's it from me at the mo, I'm off to the hairdressers now (love going to the hairdressers, my little treat!!) and then out tonight with the netball girlies.  I do have cards to make though so I'll see you all very soon  :o)

xxx

Challenges I'm entering my card in:

Papertake Weekly Challenge - Animal Magic
A Spoonful of Sugar - Challenge 122 Anything Goes

Card Ingredients:

Paper and Card:  Bazzill Bling backing card, Bo Bunny Love Bandit - Tweetheart and Bo Bunny Love Bandit - Stripe
Stamps:  Elzybells 'You Complete Me', 'Happy Anniversay' and 'Heart Balloon'
Dies and Punches:  Spellbinders Nestabilities Classic Rectangle, Martha Stewart Border Punch 'Valentine Lace' and 'Frond' leaf punch, Woodware Big 'Plum' flower punch and X-Cut 'Retro Flower' punches
Ribbon:  Celebrate from Hobbycraft
Embellishments:  Pearls are Basic Grey Opaline and Hearts are from Hobbycraft
Colour Mediums:  Copic Markers and Derwent Coloursoft Pencils blended with Sansodor
Other:  Blank Card and Sentiment from Craftwork Cards, GLAMOUR DUST!!!



Another Baby Boy Card, aaaawwwwwww!

Hi all,

It's Saturday, wahoooooooooooo!! Which can mean only one thing - there's another FAB sketch to follow over on Sketch Saturday, wahoooooooooooo!! This week we are sponsored by the fantastic Simon Says Stamp, a $25.00 gift voucher is up for grabs and believe me, you will NOT have a problem spending it, lol!! So here's my card (week #2 as a DT Member, whoop whoop!). This one I've made for our bestest friends (and sort of cousins - long story, lol!) who had another baby boy at the beginning of August. We went over to see them last Saturday, aaawwwwww lots of new baby cuddles! Welcome to world Ethan Paul Murphy, MWAH!



Close up Elzybells Baby Teddy, coloured with my Copics and Derwent Coloursoft pencils...



Inside of card, sentiment is also by Elzybells...



Side view of card. You can't really see it (thanks to my rubbish photography skills!) but I sticky fixed the image and the star, then sticky fixed the Baby Teddy again, just to add a little dimension...

The papers I've used are Craftwork Cards - Vintage Rose Essentials (loads of fab new Craftwork Cards papers out at the mo!) which I've layered onto Bazzill Bling card. All the stamps I've used are Elzybells, the Grosgrain Ribbon is by Celebrate at Hobbycraft, the Buttons are all from Papermania, the charm was from my stash (sorry can't remember where!) and I've used my Nesties (stars), Martha Stewart Scallop Dot Border Punch and added Glamour Dust for extra bling!

I absolutely love Elzybells stamps and I'm so, so gutted that the amazingly talented Elizabeth has closed it down :o( I think there are still some bargains to be had though so do pop over and try and get yourself some.

I'll be back at some point over the coming week with another Baby Boy card for you, 3 baby boys all born within about 2 weeks of each other!! I'm desperately missing doing something pink, lol!! So until then, join in the fun at Sketch Saturday...

Lots of love

xxx