Wedding Pictures and Challenges

Hi Everyone I have had a full week of getting the house in order and the usual boring things of doing when one gets back from away ie grocery shopping, cleaning and so forth and I am back to being in my craft room and ready for some challenges.

First I would like to congratulate Papertake Weekly Challenge on being NUMBER ONE in the Crafting Blogs Wooohoooo how fab is that and well deserved, as there challenges are fantastic and very varied.

It also happens to be their 3rd birthday and they are holding a blog hop, go check that out and see what’s its all about. Their challenge for this occasion is to pick a favourite challenge from the last 3 years, now that’s a challenge as their are lots of my favourites in there.

I decided to go with Thank You from December 2009 challenge as I have lots of Thank You cards to make. I used a nessty to cut the image out and embossed round the edges, the flowers on her headband and dress I used a glitter copic pen the rest was coloured with Promarkers, flowers were glittered with Stickles, they are pale purple but they look black so do the gems in the corners and the bottom they are from Prima and the Punch is a MS.

The inside to match

I have entered it into a few challenges:



Papertake – Your choice from the last 3 Years

Die Cut Dreams - Recipe; 4 flowers, Gems, Emboss, I embossed my nesty & use a punch.

Spoonful of Sugar – Sparkle

Incy Wincy– Glitter and Sparkle

Basic Grey – Sparkle

Stamptacular - 5 Layers


Now a couple of wedding pictures, the first is of my hubby Brian and grandson Leandro.

Grandchildren together

Thanks for popping by my place its so good to see you and also read your comments, I do appreciate it. Have a good night all and I shall be round to see you later.

Hugs

Challenges and totally lost without my digital images

Hi everyone well today I tried getting my blog updated and even manage to enter a few candies and visit some of my favorite blogs, to catch up on the gossip in crafting land, don’t like to think I have missed something lol also see what's new in the crafting world and then down to making a card.

It’s funny what you get to like, I left my memento ink pad and some of my stamps in the UK and yes you have guessed those are the ones I wanted to use today aggg
Plus I never brought my laptop back (on my hubbys at the moment) all my digital images are on that one, another aggggggg, onto my card before I explode.

I was lucky with this image as I had a lot of these printed, as it is one of my favorites to use for girlfriends and thank you cards.

The card is for my friend who we stayed with in the UK and who truly deserves a gold medal, and that’s just for going shopping with me lol, well you have to have retail therapy don’t you!! I needed a lot of it heheh.




The inside with matching papers and ribbon.

I did follow a sketch but for the life of me I can not remember the blog site, note to myself MUST write them down, I have found a few challenges to enter it into though.


Simon Says – Dotty ( That’s me right now )

One Stop Craft – Patterns

Prairie Fairy – 3D (do you think layers will cover this?)

Digital Tuesday – Dazzle Me

I am new to this new Mr Linky and I seem to be having trouble it, I fill out the form and wait for my image to show but it never does so I put it in by the direct URL or from my computer then I go to see if it has worked but when I press on the link to take me to my page their is no post there, I need help please my blogging friends as people will get sick of me emailing them or I will have to give upthe challenges and I don't want to do that.

Thanks for popping by my place I do appreciate your comments and visits and I look forward to visiting you too to see your creations.

Hugs

Back in Bahrain

Hi Everyone I hope all is going great with you all, things on my home front, I am back in Bahrain for a little while as I have things to take care of here, unfortunately Brian was not well enough to join me and he has his next specialist appointment soon and then his chemotherapy.
He is progressing very well and getting better everyday that passes, it does feel a little strange not being with him and I do worry but I have left him in my friend’s capable hands and they will look after him well, I could not have got this far without them, they have been a blessing.

So I am back in the house and all is very quiet and I have been very lucky at this end too as my friend here has been looking after my house and it is spotless so I had nothing to do when I got here.

I got straight to work and made her this card today to say thank you and got her some champagne, chocs and some flowers to go with it.

The inside of my card I made pockets so I can add a gift voucher and a message.

OOH I missed my craft room and it all came flooding back to me and so I went in search of some challenges, I have not entered a challenge since April but I soon got back into it, plus I had all my lovely goodies I brought back from the UK to play with.

The challenges

Creative Inspirations - Anything Goes

Character Cafe - Pocket Card

Lili of the Vally - Sketch

CraftCaz - Summer Time

Stamp Something - Flowery

I shall leave you now as I am going to visit a few blogs and check out what you have been up to while I have been away.

Hugs

New Cute Daisy May Challenge

Hi there everyone and today we see a new challenge for Cute Daisy May and we had
a lot of beautiful creations for last weeks challenge, you certainly liked your flowers, thanks for sharing them with us.
This week we have a super sketch drawn by the fabulous and talented Pinky!
Its a lovely sketch and a dream to work with, please pop by here blog and see her amazing creations you will not be disappointed.

The image I used is from sheet 71 which you can find Here I used the colours from the Basic Grey Challenge which are Maroon, Lemon and Pink and also the papers are Basic Grey. I coloured her with water colour pencils mainly in Pink and added Pink flowers so I could enter the One Stop Craft Challenge which is Optimistically Pink and the sentiment is Thank You and done on the computer, I have also entered it into Creative Inspirations Challenge which wants to see a Thank you on your creation.

I hope you will come play with us at Cute Daisy May this week and for some creative inspiration why not check out the other DT cards they are wonderful.

Thank you for popping by my place again and I look forward to seeing your creations.

Hugs

Card Challenge,Thank you card

Card Challenge,Thank you card
I decided to do a challenge today as it seems ages since I entered one and I had to make a thank you card for a friend so I combined them both for My Time to Craft Challenge Blog. I love this 3d decoupe fairies and I know my friend likes them too so this was a bonus, it was a real joy to make and just happens to be one of my favourite colours too, hope you like it.

Decoupage Lady

This card is for a friend to say thank you for all the card goodies she will be bringing with her next week when she arrives here with her husband. So excited she is coming to stay again as she only left a month ago lol, the flight was a good offer not to be missed and besides the weather in the UK is terrible.
Anyway back to the card, because I had no Mojo at all today (had trouble thinking of something to create) I decided to go clean, simple and minimalistic so this is the result.