Two weeks running!

I am on a roll! I have made a card for the second week running for The Moving Along With The Times challenge!

How clever am I?

Well I hope you are all enjoying the lovely weather. We have been out on our new motorbike a couple of times and poor Fever is wishing I had a job to go to lol. I can't believe it was this time last year that we were motorbiking across America! Where did the time go?

Anyway onto my card for this weeks 'Easter Wishes' challenge over at MAWTT

I coloured the digi image from Digistampboutique in Paint and after printing it I used Glossy Accents to make the flowers 3D. I printed and cut the sentiment on y new Silhouette Cameo and also designed and cut the little flowers on it too.

Unfortunately the photograph doesn't do the cards lovely bright colours justice. I never seem to take good photos even with a descent camera :-( Never mind you get the juist of it.

off to my bed now ready for another busy day tomorrow....off out for a picnic ride on the bike :-)
Take care
xx

Busy day!

Evening peeps! What a busy day I have had today....my poor back and legs are killing me!
Our eldest son has moved home today after his house sale fell through and he was left having handed his notice in at his apartment. So he has come home until he finds another house! Today was spent back and forth to a storage lockup with all his furniture and cleaning his apartment.

I have to say I was most impressed with how clean it was considering he is a young lad on his own. Nonetheless it was hard work, but he is home now and snuggled up in his bed! Strange having all the boys home again!

I am desperate to get my crafting things out though...seems ages since I got to play! :-( I haven't even taken my goodies from Harrogate out of the bag yet!! Sheeesh!

This is a card I made a couple of weeks ago though that I have yet to show you:

It was a Ruby anniversary card for the Yard owner where I keep my horse.

Well off to my bed as I am pooped and need my beauty sleep. Happy crafting to you all...I hope I get a chance to play tomorrow!
xx

Moving house...Not!

I thought I had better be true to my word and blog today :-)
I have been so busy the past couple of days, creosoting the decking in the garden and painting our two huge sheds, then I decided the garage door needed a freshen up and under the kitchen window too. In amongst all that I have had my horse to sort out and I cleaned all my UPVC, washed the patio windows in and out, shopped, cooked and put a picture up. Then tonight I went dancing, talk about bushed lol. My poor craft things from Harrogate are still in the bag :-( Tomorrow I am going to have to iron as I have a three baskets full! Oh yuk! Anyone fancy popping by to do it for me? No.... thought not :-P

Never mind, as soon as I can get my jobs out of the way I will be hitting that bag of goodies and not coming up for air. Woe betide anyone that disturbs me to make tea or any other such mundane job!

I was rather annoyed and saddened yesterday when my eldest son came to say that his house sale had fallen through exactly one week to his moving in date! How can they do that? He has handed his notice in at his rented apartment, meaning he has to move out at the weekend and paid nearly £800 in fees, searches etc and they pull out one week to the day that they are suppoed to be moving out! Scandulous! So he is coming home for a while :-) Which will be lovely...although he had better not think I am moving any crafty items to make room for him! The gym yes but not the crafts! lol

So anyway here is my Mother's day card, made with lots of love for my wonderful mum. I have been hugely blessed to have her in my life.

What a disgrace!

I hardly dare show my face in here *blushes* after all this time! How do the months go by so fast? I have to say that I have still been crafting but life has been so busy and there just doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day to keep up with blogging. I shall try my very best though to get back into it and not be so lapse in the future!


So what have I been up to in all that time! We have had a couple of winter holidays to Cyprus and Egypt! Both were absolutely lovely and of course there was Christmas.


Then on Saturday I went to Harrogate with my lovely parents (Mau and Den) to the GNPE craftfair. What a righteous day we had and I am so dying to use my new goodies.


Talking of my mum, she has made me very proud by being asked onto the DT for Moving Along With The Times ! So I decided to get back to this blogging lark and join in the challenge over there. It is a lovely blog and their new team have really done them proud this week with their cards I think. Why not pop over and have a look!


This is the project that I am entering into this weeks challenge. It is a 'box of scriptures' made it for my MIL's 71st Birthday because I knew she would love it as she really loves her scriptures. I had seen one on another blog and I apologise as I can't remember whose it was, so I decided to make my own. It took me ages to find the eighty or so scriptures but I have to say that they really lifted my spirits with their promises of God's love and forgiveness. She was overwhelmed when I gave it to her which was very moving.

The box lid

The inside of the box

I am entering this into the  MAWTT 'Special lady' challenge as that is certainly what my MIL is!

Sincere apologies!

Where does the time go! I am soo sorry that I have not been about to post this month. Hubby and I were away for a long weekend , all expenses paid to Thorseby Hall in Nottingham. It was his 'works do' and what a fab time we had!
The Friday evening was a murder Mystery night with A la carte dinner and 1920's theme.

Then Saturday the ladies had a spa session (including ice cave, aromatherapy room, spa, Sauna, etc etc) and then men went dirt biking. Hubby came first and won £100 and a trophy, talk about chuffed, it has taken pride of place in the living room cabinet.
Then it was a lovely dinner and entertainment (Frankie Valli and the four seasons tribute band).
Sunday was a local market and a trip to Sherwood forest, then dinner and entertainment again. All with a FREE bar for the full weekend! Hard life eh?
Then we came home and I got the flu and have been in bed for a week :-( Never mind I managed to get up today and go to the Harrogate Papercraft show :-))
I shall put a photo of  my goodies on as soon as I get one. It was lovely to meet some of the DC ladies there too, although I was sad not to be able to greet them properly with a hug. I just didn't want to share my germs with them all!
So unfortunately with such a busy time I haven't got round to making many cards. I have made one for a friend who got married last week but that has been it. Never mind I have lots of lovely stash to play with now so hopefully normal service will resume soon!
Tom and Staceys wedding card!

How fab is that!

I was chosen as one of the top three over at Send a smile 4 kids challenge! I am so pleased they liked my card enough to chose it and it is the first thing I have ever won! *Add a large cheesy grin here!*

Why not pop over and have a look at their super blog and if you can why not send a donation of cards for kids in hospital! http://sendasmile4kidschallenge.blogspot.com/

While the cats away :-))

And all that!
My mum and dad have gone for a few days away and boy have I missed them. Saturday is the day my mum and I 'waste paper' as my husband calls it (darn cheek!) and instead I had to iron cause I had no one to play with :-( Ususally we spend the first half an hour arguing over who has more of the table than the other and then the tape measure comes out and we eventually settle down to play...I mean...work!
Today I thought I know I'll go and get them a few bits of groceries to come home to and check the house....and take some craft things ;-)
So there I was in  their empty house with the whole table to myself!!! ooops I think me may be going to get into bother (tee hee) Well only if you lot tell her of course!

Me with the Whole table all to myself! lol

Mum's things neatly 'dumped' on the floor :-)))

As Promised

Unfortunately we had a sad loss on our lovely DoCrafts forum when one of our members, LizG, died very suddenly. It really brought it home that you never know your moment :-(

However I was pleased with the card that I made for her hubby and daughter. I hope it brought them some comfort knowing how much we would all miss Liz.

I think I will have to get hubby to look at the whitebalance on my camera as the colours on these photos don't really do it justice. It was a lovely grey/blue and lilac card.

Apologies!

Just thought I had better pop by and apologise for the lack of posts recently. Life seems to have got in my way and before I realised it has been ages since I posted. I will try my very best to get on later and post a card or two. My mum has gone on holiday for  few days so I shall be playing on my own :-( I hope I have some inspiration as it's not the same without my playmate. Saying that they so deserve a holiday so I hope they have fun. She will soon be back to fight over the table again lol.
Anyway off to feed the horse and I promise to be back later. xx

Dressing up!

This week I have spent more time than enough taking my clothes off and trying on dresses! We have a family wedding next Monday (1st) and then at the end of August hubby and I are off to a stately home for the weekend with his work. So of course I NEED new frocks :-))

The little LOTV image on this card reminded me of myself looking this way and that in the mirror, thinking 'does my bum look big in this!' lol

I am entering this card into the LOTV challenge 'Fun and Games' as I used to love dressing up in my grannies clothes and shoes when I was little. The challenge finishes on Wed 28th July so hurry and get you entry in too!

Mini Mania

What lousy weather! Can you believe this in July, I am sat in a jumper with the lights on :-( Seems like the perfect day for some crafting but my house is full of lads so probably not much chance of any peace lol.

This week was my youngest sons' birthday (19) and also mine (46!) so we had a really busy but fun week. He is into Mini's and has restored and built his own as a first car. It really is lovely. He has totally rebuilt the engine himself , done all the welding and a total respray. I am very proud of him.
So when I recently bought the John Byers Classic car stamps I was over the moon with the Mini one. I decided it had to be a slider card and it was great fun to make.

I am pleased to report that he was dead chuffed with it :-)

I am going to enter it into the following challenges:

Stampin Sisters in Christ #98 - A card with something that moves on it (Ends Sunday 24th)

Send a smile 4 Kids - A card for a teenage boy (Ends 5th August)

Sweet stampin - One for the boys (ends 23rd July)

Simon says Stamp - Anything goes (ends 20th July)

Love is in the air!

Sorry for the lack of posts folks. What a week we have had. I swear I have put half a stone on...I really dare not go to SW tomorrow! It was my youngest sons 19th birthday last Thursday and I was 46 on Friday so we have done nothing but celebrate all week! We certainly know how to party...we just don't know how to stop lol. I was sooo spoilt too as I got a new car and a really good exercise bike (I should really be on it now but you know...tee hee!)

Amongst our birthdays we also had a friend's 40th wedding anniversary celebrations. What a lovely family they have and we really enjoyed a lovely night with them all.

I actually loved making this card for them and even liked the card once it was made, which as many of you will appreciate we are seldom that happy with our creations...I wonder why?

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Stampin' Sisters in Christ - Whatever works for you! Ends Sunday 17th July (No 52)

Stamp N Doodle - Love &/or Romance Ends Sunday 17th July (No 6)

Thank you for popping over and I hope life is being kind to you.

Amanda

xx

Oooo I had a little sale!

Yesterday we had my husband's sister and all her little ones come to visit. They live in Scotland so we don't get to see them very often. It was lovely to catch up with them and my husbands aunty came along too.

After tea his aunty asked me if I still did cards and if so did I have an anniversary card? So of course I grabbed my box of cards and showed her what I had. She bought FIVE and gave me £10! I was so pleased she felt them worth buying, although I did put one on the side which I had made for my MIL's anniversary and she picked it up and bought it. I didn't have the heart to tell her it was one I wanted :-O Shame...now I will have to make more cards to replace them all!

Where does the time go?

I can't believe that I haven't posted since the 17th June....where did the time go? I don't think I have done anything exciting either lol. My days are taken up with looking after Fever at the moment. The poor thing is going stir crazy having to stay in her stable all the time. What a nightmare it is.

Never mind the weather has improved so I have been out in the garden potting up my vertical herb garden. I shall try and take some photos later for you all to see. My clever hubby designed it and it is fab. Now I just have to keep them alive...I am reknowned for killing plants :( So I will try my very best!

This is a card I made at the weekend just to add to my collection of everyday cards. The stamp is a Stampavie one. I am afraid I am not sure of the name of it as it says Wedding squirrels on the back of the packet but this little image looks like a sleeping mouse to me lol! Maybe I need my specs on!

I am entering it into the follwoing challenge:
PollyCraft Monday Challenge - Make a Splash! Ends 3rd July

The dreaded men's cards!

Well things have settled down with Fever a little this week and I am getting back into the swing of mucking out twice a day again :-( Her wound is going in the right direction so we just plod on and hope for the best.

In between looking after her it's been a busy week as usual and today I took my MIL shopping for clothes which was nice. Of course we had to stop off at M&S for an obligatory peice of Lemon Drizzle cake :-P oh the hardships I have to endure lol.

Crafting wise, I have a number of men's birthdays coming up soon so this week has been spent doing those...not so bad when you get the first one out of the way but boy that first one is always a nightmare! So here it is...

I am entering it into the following challenges:

Splendiferous Creations - 'It's manly baby' ending Friday 24th June

Papertake Weekly Challenge - 'Dads & Lads' ending Tuesday 21st June

Simon says Stamp and Show - 'Distressed/Torn edges' ending Sunday 19th June

Thanks to those who leave comments..it is lovely to know that people do pop by occasionally :-) Thank you! x

Windmills of your mind!

Recently I was looking through some of my mum's old magazines for inspiration and I came across some windmills in issue 56 of 'Papercraft Essentials'. I think it was an issue from last summer. So today after deciding to make a card for my neice's 7th birthday we looked the issue out again.

I perhaps got a little carried away with this card lol. It has cost a fortune in brads and flowers :-) and had my mum in stitches when she saw the back of the card and all the brads showing through!

So here it is...

I used Paper Cellar Easter/Spring collection papers. Flowers are some that I bought at Hobbeycraft but I am afraid I can't remember the name of them and then lots of brads!

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Prairie Fairy Fridays 'Summer Fun' challenge finishes on Friday 17th June

A Spoon Full Of Sugar 'Here comes Summer' challenge finishes on Tues 14th June

Totally Papercrafts challenge 'Summer' finishes on Friday 17th June

Time out!

Sorry for the week without posts but I have had a rather busy week with one thing and another. On Saturday I went to Bramham Horse trials. My friend and I go every year but to be honest this was my last as it is proving to be too traumatic!
I have only been six times and out of those, three times I have had to dash home for an emergency :-(
This time my horse was found 'bleeding profusely' from her foot in the field. The vet was called and I flew home to find she had sliced her heel off down to the bone, leaving a huge and very nasty wound. So she was at the vets for 5 days! She is home now but on 8 weeks box rest which means she is not allowed out of her stable in all that time. I am not sure who will crack first to be honest...her or me! That's horses for you though...never a dull moment!
On Sunday hubby and I drove over the the Lake District and enjoyed a day of kayaking and a day of shopping. It was nice just to chill together although Fever was never far from my thoughts.
This weekend the boys and their dad are all off for a boys adventure weekend so I think I shall be going to play with my mum...so watch this space lol!
I hope everyone else is managing some crafting and that life is being kind to you all xx

New baby!

Sorry for the delay in showing you my latest card but I have been busy decorating three rooms! I am so tired I could sleep on a washing line lol. However we had some lovely news this week. My best friend from school has become a Grandma, so I really enjoyed making this card for her.

I bet you can't guess what her daughter had? ;-))

I absolutely adore this Princess Tilda stamp and she is so versatile. I coloured her with Promarkers and punched a lovely insert for the card using my Martha Stewart around the Page punch 'Loops heart'.

I am really looking forward to seeing my friend for lunch and taking her a little pressy to celebrate. It will be good to catch up with all her news and if she doesn't bring little 'Libby-rose' in person then I am sure she will bring some photos :-))

I am entering this card into the Crafts and Me challenges 'Punch it out'

also the Simon says stamp and show challenge 'favourite stamp'

So organised!

This is a card for my cousin's wedding. He is getting married in August and I have a card made already! How good am I? ;-) Shame I don't have one for my friends birthday in June! Lol
I really enjoyed making this card....I could let all my girly influences go!



I used: Papermania - Henbury lane papers 'Perfect Summer Days'
Papermania - Birdsong sentiment
Brads/Charms/Spacers and Flowers from my stash
Lace from Boyes Stores
Martha Stewart Punch around the page 'Loops heart'

I am entering it into the following challenges:

Bunny Zoes Crafts - Lace

Crafty Emma's - Embellish it!

Sew Many Challenges - Flowers and Lace

Get well soon Bill

This is a card I made for my uncle who recently had a nasty fall.



I used the following products:

Oval Scallop Nesty

Rachelle Anne Miller - Lilly and Milo 'Rainy days' stamp

Distress inks - Victorian Velvet/Faded jeans/Antique Linen/Wild honey to watercolour the image

Anita's 3D Clear Gloss finish - for the wellingtons/puddle and Umbrella Papermania 'Perfect summer days' paper

Cuttlebug 'Get Well Soon' sentiment

Martha Stewart around the page cutter 'Loops Heart' for the insert

Ribbon from my stash

I am entering this card into some challenges! Truly Scrumptious - Anything goes!

Papercraftingjourney - Get well soon!

Totally Gorjuss - Challenge 81 Water Water