Midweek Magnolias - Becky's Sketch

Good morning all.  keeping it very brief today as I'm sitting here freezing cold with soaking wet hair!  Bit of a shocker this morning when I took my Isaac down to the bus stop!  My mornings will never be the same again since he started his new school - I just about manage to have a shower before having to whizz off to drop him off so obviously my hair is still wet.  However, this morning I was scraping ice off the windscreen!! Argh!  Where did that come from??  My hair feels frozen now - I need to come up with a new morning plan before the 'real' cold sets in!

Anyway, over at Midweek Magnolias this week, our lovely Becky has made a fab sketch for us:

and here is my take on it:

She kept it lovely and basic so that there was a lot of scope for embellishments so you can really go to town on it!  My fab teamies have created some really special cards, so please pop over there to have a look for yourself!

I'm in Christmas mode now right up to December, so I need to sit and punch out a few more of these pointsettia's I think!

Thank you so much for stopping by - hope you have a great week!  :o) xx

Delicious Doodles - Harvest Moon

Gawd, I've done it again - I completely missed the date for some reason - I'm thinking it's still about the 5th September!!  We're about to go into week 3 of 8 of this first half term,  but it still feels like day 1 to me!  I am absolutely loving my new job, but there is just such a lot to do and so much to remember that the time is whizzing by! LOL!  But you won't hear any complaints from me.

Over at Delicious Doodles this week we are giving thanks for a good harvest with the theme Harvest Moon and I've created this for my entry:

I've used Teri's amazing Mushroom Fairy image and a number of her butterflies which were resized pretty much to tiny size, but how they still work!  I coloured her with pencil's and with the help of my Stickles, added a little sparkle!

We would love to see lots of players this week and there's always the chance of winning some of Teri's gorgeous images as well as the kudos of being put in the spotlight if you use one of her own fab drawings in your project!  She's also been extremely busy creating a whole load of adorable Halloweenie's which you absolutely HAVE to have!  Go check them out!

My lovely teamies have been busy creating away to whet your appetite so please pop over to see their projects and leave a little love for them!

I also want to share something with you that I know will prove very popular.  Lovely Inger who's work I absolutely adore and who is a constant source of inspiration to me has created a brand new paper line and is having a HUGE giveaway with this fantastic kit as the top prize:

There are also lots of other prizes to be won, among them some of her new gorgeous, gorgeous papers and also a handmade card from her own fair hands!  You have got to see them!

That's my lot then for today - thanks for stopping by, and have a great week!  :o) xxx

Christmas in September

Hi Blogland,  I'm a little bit late posting this.  I'm starting to settle down in my new role a bit more but life is a little chaotic at the moment.  I had anticipated I would be busy for a few weeks, but not on this level!  Phew!  LOL!!!  Still, it's all in a day's work.

Over at Midweek Magnolias this week we are celebrating Christmas in September and I made this gorgeous little tealight card that I saw over at Stempelmaleins blog. 

I did have something a little more elaborate in my mind, but time was running out so I kept it pretty simple.  The image is a pretty old one of  Mother Christmas, but I still adore her.  I coloured her in pencils, but I wish I'd had a bit more time to spend on her.  Part of the reason I ran out of time was because I wasted so much of it trying to find my favourite snowflake punch.  I am so sad and so cross with myself.  I have kept it in the same place for the last 6 years that I've owned it, and last year I can't have put it back where it belongs, so it could be absolutely anywhere now!!!  Grrr.....

All the papers are Bearly Mine Designs and the stamp is a 99p one from Hobbycraft!  Here is the inside:

I've used Vanilla Sugar scented candles here, but I am going to buy some lovely warm spiced ones and make a couple more of these for Christmas gifts at school.  It was very simple to make, and if I'd had all the right tools handy, it would have been pretty quick to make too!

Thats my lot for today then!  Thanks for stopping by, and please pop over to Midweek Magnolias to see what wonderful work my lovely teamies have created for this theme!

Delicious Doodles

OMGosh, I made it!!!  YAY!!  Teri has very kindly offered me a place on her fabulous DT over at Delicious Doodles!  To say I was excited is an understatement!  Her offer came on Wednesday when I was at an all-time low, and oh Wow! did it lift my spirits!!  The chance to create with these stunning images again is just so exciting for me.

For my introductory piece I have created this Chocolate wrapper using this super-simple template that was created by the amazingly talented Inger.  As soon as I saw it I just swooned with delight and I was desperate to have a go at making one of my own.  

this is the outside of the box

and the inside looks a lot like this

and here's a close-up of my 'Fae'

Isn't she just stunning, and I had the best time colouring her up with my Faber Castell pencils.

Well that's my all for today - I'm now off to open up the Dark chocolate with sea salt - omgosh it is sooooo scrummy!!!

Please pop by the Delicious Doodles blog regularly to meet my new teamies as we introduce ourselves, and once again, a big THANK YOU to my lovely uber-talented friend Teri for allowing me the honour to represent Delicious Doodles.

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a great BH Weekend if you're in the UK! :o) xx

Pink, Brown and White, with a touch of Kraft!

Happy Wednesday once more blogland.  Now, I'm not normally in the habit of making visitors feel down, but crying out loud, I feel sooo low today!  I have every reason in the world not to but I just do.  I hope it's nothing to do with the fact that today is my 14th Wedding Anniversary (do you get a chainsaw for that one??? LOL!!), or it could be that I'm on the brink of a new decade in my life and I've not had therapy for it yet!  Yes, tomorrow is a biggie and I feel like I'm being led to the gallows!!  Maybe it's the big 'M' kicking in???  I did wake up with wringing wet hair this morning which I thought was really weird - I wondered if Tez had  thrown a celebratory bucket of water over me before he left for work!  Another thing that it could be is the fact that I have been swimming quite a bit over tha last couple of weeks and I'm starting to get withdrawal symptoms!  I used to swim every single day because I love it so much and now when I can't go for a swim I feel down.  I went again yesterday and, just like with Chinese food, within an hour of leaving the pool, I desperately wanted to go back!

Enough, I will do some housework today and cheer myself up! LOL!  Yeah,like that's going to work!  This week over at Midweek Magnolias our theme is a Colour Combo, that being Pink, Brown and White and here is the card I made for it:

Tilda is coloured with pencils and the papers are Bearly Mine Simply Dots in pink and brown, and also a Shabby Chic paper from a digi kit.  I created my card on Karft Card so that I could also show this off in Totally Tilda's challenge blog as they have a Kraft Card theme at the moment.

Please pop over to see us at Midweek Magnolias as our fabulous DT have created some amazing pieces for you to drool over.  There's also the chance of winning a fab prize from Magnolia in Sweden if you play along with us this week - and trust me, these prizes have been magnificent!!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day :o) xx

A PLEA FOR SPONSORSHIP

Next weekend, my youngest will be doing a cycle ride along the Greenway at Stratford Upon Avon.  This is two of his challenges that he has been set by his new school - he has combined his Outdoor Activity challenge with his Fundraising for Charity challenge.  He has chosen to do this activity to raise much needed and greatly appreciated funds for HELP FOR HEROES.  PLEASE could I ask you if you would be generous enough to dontate even £1 to this very worthwhile cause.  Every penny goes towards injured servicemen/women and their families.  I know they would be really grateful, and so would Isaac's doting mum!

The link is here http://www.bmycharity.com/IsaacJones

you can also click on the pic on my sidebar ----------->

Thank you in anticipation.  Mwah Mwah...

Red Velvet Cupcakes



Happy Monday all. And what a grim morning it is!  We had to put the tent back up in the garden yesterday as we dismantled it in the pouring rain on Friday so in order to stop it from growing a culture all over it, it had to be re-asembled at home.  Isaac and I came *this* close to sleeping out there last night, just for the heck of it.  I'm so glad we didn't because it's horrible and wet and muggy!!

Right then, over at Delicious Doodles, Teri is having a DT call and has offered up this delicious cupcake to work with.  Here is what I produced:

First of all I coloured the cupcake with pencils, gave it a glittering with good ol' stickles then I cut it out and scanned it.  The original cake that I did is right here on this card, and the scanned version is my header for this post.

It was meant to be a Red Velvet cupcake but I'm not sure I captured that too well!  Anyway, having scanned my coloured image in, I then imported it into Craft Artist and used Picnic in the Park digi kit to produce this set.  The wine label had to be shown for what it is but unfortunately I'd already made a start on the wine! LOL!!!

and finally I made a gift bag using the same set

So there y'go!  Hope you like it. 

Right then, I think today is a day for buying school uniforms.  Experience has taught me to always leave new uniforms to the last minute then they're sure to still fit when they go back to school, especially with shoes!!

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!  :o) xx