......and back to normal!

Hi all!

At last it feels like normality has somewhat resumed.
Jane has gone off to that there London area to visit her son, then her Mum and lots of other family I expect so I have managed to spend a little time back in my craftroom.
I decided to get back into the swing of things by entering the online challenges over at Cardmaking and Papercraft.

I already had a little card made for the October online challenge as it's one which I made for Papercraft Inspirations magazine a couple of months ago. I decided it would suit the challenge beautifully!

Then I did become creative!
This Christmas card has been entered into the Festive Feast challenge (same link as above).
I had to purchase the lovely Christmas Recipes from Lili of the valley stamps and I wanted to use a Christmas pudding on the front of the card so I found an image online, kinda copied it (rubbish at drawing sometimes!) then coloured it with my "NEW" spectrum noir markers!
( I treated myself to a set of new pens for my birthday!!!)

And there you have it! My first card of the week with a little Christmas sparkle thrown in too!

Hope you all have a lovely weekend. I'm just about to tuck into a selection of veggie curries and sides, courtesy of my veggie son-in-law! Yum :)

TTFN

Lesley

xxx

Shocks and surprises!

Hi all!
Well, this weekend was a huge success after all!
I had the most amazing surprise when, on Saturday afternoon, my bezzie pal from Greece walked into my room with no warning she was coming!
I was so shocked I couldn't speak for ages (which is uber strange for me!) and finally, when I did, it was a stream of curse words aimed at my family for keeping her visit a secret!!!
Apparently, this surprise had been planned since August and, even when I went to Zante to visit her in September, not a single hint, tip, word was spoken about her coming to the UK and EVERYBODY knew!!! Amazing!
So, we had a fabulous party night out on saturday night and she didn't leave until last night. We've been out for dinner, coffee, breakfasts.....yadeyadeyada!!!
Now, I'm coming back down to earth and I miss her already. She does make me laugh so much!

(I've added a lovely pic of us both on our "woodland adventure" walk yesterday :) )

I haven't had any time whatsoever to create anything at all for the last few days and today is no exception as I'm going out for a birthday lunch with another friend in a short while!
I hope to be back in the craftroom creating and making very soon.


Til then, have a nice day!

TTFN
Lesley xxx

Happy Saturday folks!

Hi all.

At last it's the weekend and the fun begins!
I had a birthday during the week and the festivities will commence this evening as I'm off out with my loved ones and bezzie pals for a cocktail night at a swanky bar in a nearby town.
So looking forward to it! Get the hair done this morning, glad rags and lippy on later and off out to paint the town red, blue, pink and all the other cocktail colours I can think of!

For now though, I've just got time to add this little card to my collection.

I used  Tiddly Inks Clumsy elves which is available for you to grab in the shop at only $6.00 (which is about £5) and it includes other images too - so useful.

Along with the digi stamp, I used :-
white and green cardstock
Generic tag shaped die
acetate
sequin mix
gold pearls
Spectrum Noir marker pens

Here's hoping you have a fantastic weekend :)

TTFN

Lesley 

xxx

Bird-day card

Hi all.

Here's a quick post just to show you my friends bird-day card!
I love these stamps and dies by Elizabeth craft designs which I bought from hixxysoft.com.
They're just really cute and the stamp "fits" the die perfectly. I've noticed that some die and stamp sets don't quite line up right and it can be really annoying but these are good.
My pal has her birthday the day after mine so it's quite amusing making her card every year as I think I ought to make myself one too!!!

So, apart for ECD dies and stamps for this, I used :
spectrum noir marker pens
generic patterned paper
white card stock and vellum by Crafters Companion
sequins

Have a great day and don't forget to join in with the Tiddly Inks challenge and Fab Friday (see earlier posts!)

TTFN
Lesley
xxx

Good crafty morning all!

Hi there!
This is just a quick post to let you all know it's Fab Friday over at the Tiddly Inks Challenge blog.
Every month, we have a special Friday where we show some uber cute and super gorgeous Tiddlies all made by our talented design team and hope that we can inspire you to join us and have fun just creating!
This month, I've used Poppy Wryn for my quite "cross-Atlantic" coloured card! the red, white and blues on here could be UK or USA inspired but, either way, I thought she'd look lovely in those colours.

And, don't forget, we are still holding our Spookaboo challenge so do join in for your chance to win a $10 gift certificate to the store!

Have fun peeps :)

TTFN

Lesley

xxx

You're 'avin a giraffe!

Hi all!
Well, just an update, as I've banged on about our moving home business but..........drum-roll please......we did it!
Yaaaay!
I am finally moved.
It was hell on earth and I AM NEVER DOING IT AGAIN - EVER!!!
I cannot believe how stressful it all was! I moved only 3 years ago but this time it seemed completely manic and different for some reason!
I had less to shift this time around as I did get rid of loads of "baggage" the last time but ....anyhoo, it was hellish!
However, here we are all "settling in" and getting used to living as a larger family again.
If you weren't aware, we (me. the OH and my son) have moved in with my daughter and her hubby.
A new home has been bought between us all (6 bedrooms tho we've converted one into my craftroom) so they have one wing and we have another!!! It all sounds very grand but, in reality, it's all about having space to live without crashing into one another all the time.
Apart from the weekends, we hardly see one another much at all - except for yesterday (18th) as it was my birthday and my daughter worked from home then we all went out for dinner.
Had a great day to be honest even though yet another number has been added to my existence on this planet!

Here's a little pic of the new gaff! (although the ends and the gardens are missing off this photo!!!)

As far as my crafting goes, I was really inspired to create this little card when I saw Christy's new creations over at Tiddly Inks store.
Luckily, as part of the design team, I was able to create before they were advertised in the shop, and that felt quite nice!

I coloured the baby and the mama with spectrum noir blendable pencils and fussy cut around them to make them part of the frame, which I die cut from Sizzix pierced rectangles.

Brown and green patterned cardstock were used for the base papers.

I hope you like these cuties. 

I'll be back soon with some more Tiddly makes and maybe some Christmas stuff at last!!!

TTFN

Lesley

xxx

Spooktacular with Tiddly Inks!

It's time for another fun challenge over on the Tiddly Inks challenge blog and it's time get your ghoul on!!! the Tiddly Inkers want you to think.....

Spookaboo!!

 So think spooky fun!!

 (**remember...We love to see any new creation, a card, 3D project, journal page etc 

but you must use a Tiddly Inks stamp or image **)

Yes, it's challenge time again and It would be great if you could all join in by adding your lovely Tiddly creations using the inlinkz tool at the bottom of the challenge post, so head on over for some spooky fun!

Here's mine to inspire you :

I've used Spooky Birthday - which (WITCH-lol) is available in the store at a bargain price of $3.00

She's so freakin' cute! Also, the web image is added to your order - FOR FREE!

Have fun creating :)

TTFN

L x

Winner winner chicken dinner!

Hi all!
I recently (Friday) entered a card comp on the Crafstash Facebook page with the theme NATURE and the #thinkingofyouweek #sendacarddeliverasmile tags.
Well, I'm pleased to say I won the Sara Davies (Crafters Companion) goody bag which looks really lovely!

This is the card I entered :

Louise at CraftStash got in touch with me to tell me I'd won and she said they'd fallen in love with the wiggly worm!

Well, who wouldn't? He's part of the image I purchased from Sassy Cheryl's stamps and it's all super cute :).

So, I'm in a happy place right now - even tho' I'm surrounded by boxes, boxes and a mess!

TTFN

L xxx