Happy Mother's day

Here are a few Mother's day cards I made although they would do for Mum for any occasion.

Blog candy poll

Please complete my blog candy poll, or tell me what you like and don't like about blog candy ideas you have come across.

Still to catch up on: donkey photos, wedding card, birthday card and more.

Dee's Big Birthday fat page

Over on PCJ forum someone had a good idea, to make long standing member Dee a fat book for her 60th from other members in secret.

I decided to make a sort of gatefold card on the front of my page so I could include more detail on the inside than I could on just a flat page.

This is my page which incorporates Dee's amature dramatics, recent ride on a Harley Davidson, love of men in kilts, firemen (and when she had a go with the hose) and the fun that is Dee. To see all the pages hop on over to the feature on the PCJ blog.

Snow

Well lets get it over with, here are some snow pictures.

Do you like my snow boots?

Present from Tassy

Tassy sent me this gorgeous work of art that she made, to say thanks for supporting her, she also sent me some papers and some ATCs, well I think that is what they are.

Thanks so much Tassy, this is beautiful and I am going to hang it on my wall at some point.

Happy St Patrick's Day all

I was going to make St Patrick's day cards, no idea if they would sell but I didn't get round to it, I have green, I have the stamps - what a waste! Ah well there is always next year!

I am trying to restore all my photos and to my dismay I cannot find my back up disk from a few weeks before the old PC went wrong. It isn't where it should be and I am turning everything upside down and inside out trying to find it. Can find April, which is not a lot of good. I have had to search the web for drivers and programs that are Vista compatible and I haven't tried reinstalling Robo yet. Have got the photo software on but where is that backup disk?

I have found out I can put my old hard drive in my new PC without invalidating the warranty, so I may have to try that and hope it is still working. I have cleared out a whole carrier bag full of PC mag cover disks while looking so that is good.

So I will get to posting photos to catch up, snow, cards, donkeys etc, and that blog candy I promised.

Awards and tags catch up

Oh dear, I think I should have done this as they came along, apart from the photo one which requires access to either my old hard drive if it still works or a backup and I was waiting for my new PC which should be arriving this week!

The heart "Friends" award and the Lemonade stall are both from Wulfcen Paula, thanks Paula.


The Ladybug award "Makes my heart Smile" is from Bumblebee Creations Rhonda, thanks Rhonda this is so pretty!

The talented and kind Debbie Moore tagged me with the task of telling 20 random facts about myself, ummmmm:

1. I am a chocoholic but only Green and Blacks Organic Milk (oh alright I will eat any choc when desperate)
2. I like Meatloaf (Bat out of Hell singer not the food)
3. My son is getting married this year
4. My brother is getting remarried this year
5. I have a knitting machine that I haven't used for 10 years
6. I don't eat wheat, or many other things
7. I have two little dogs
8. I love Stephen King books but am worried about his mind
9. I can touch type
10. I just won blog candy
11. I have been published or my cards have in a number of magazines
12. I love taking photos of my garden birds and plants
13. I am a qualified accountant
14. I adore being in the shower, I have to be chucked out of it every morning
15. I am not superstitious
16. When I was a child I had a troop of imaginary bus conductors instead of the usual imaginary friend
17. I love animals
18. I used to have a horse,
19. I gave up school to work with horses but it all went horribly wrong
20. I wanted to be a missionary when I was a child


I hope I haven't missed any awards or tags, apart from the photo one that I still can't do.

I would like to pass these on to all my friends and followers, just help yourself to as many as you fancy all of you!

Blog candy alert

Pink Gem blog candy ends when the hits reach 48000, which is estimated to be around 2nd April.

You can choose stamps from the range if you win.








Then we have this enormous blog candy at Sassy Designs by Susie until 25th March.

Whoo Hooo - I have won blog candy from Justine, thanks very much Justine I have emailed you my details.

My blog candy will be happening soon, the PC is due next week apparently.

I have become a follower of my own blog - help!

I thought I was clicking to follow Littleted and ended up following my own blog, and I can't work out how to undo that - any ideas?

Don't panic - I worked it out and am now not following myself though it would explain a lot of things!

Coughing and sneezing

I just realised why I am coughing, choaking and sneezing, I have been tidying, yes tidying, my craft room that won the award for the messiest craft room not that long ago. Why you might ask? Well if the card turns up we are having a wedding invite workshop at the weekend, now I just had to make some space and I have even vacuumed up some major dust that was lurking, and you can see the rug! Not sure I will find everything again though.

I also need to clean the bathrooms and kitchen before Friday night and after work, and I still have tidying to do in a couple of places or three (like the two chairs - people might actually want to sit on them), and I am supposed to be stamping images for Linda, and making cards......

Also the PC has not arrived or any indication of when it will, that will make it a bit tidier but I will have a lot to do setting it up (catching up and doing blog candy) so it is bound to arrive when I don't have the time.

Elzybells new release of stamps - cards by Elzybells

I didn't make these cards folks!

Elzybells have just released some yummy new stamps, loads of yummy stamps. You can win them all but be quick - it ends tomorrow. Check out Elzybell's blog for details.

These two cards are from the Elzybell's blog and showcase some of the new stamps. Aren't they great?

Waayy behind on posting and tags still but...

here is the card I was making for the Graphicus challenge to use plum and gold, or was it on Elusive Images blog? Well I was much too late to enter, and this isn't the best photo but maybe I will take a better one or edit it better when the new PC arrives.

The Graphicus butterfly is stamped and embossed in gold then coloured (carefully) with metallic Prismacolor pencils, and a touch of glitter. The greeting is embossing paste with a Dreamweaver stencil, the inside of the card is lined with gold paper and white card with plum swirls on it, the edge of the card is punched with a Martha Steward border punch. The butterfly is layered on another stamped butterfly, and mounted on a rectangle cut with Nestabilities, and matted on a scalloped rectangle again Nestabilities.

I know I still have a tag to do, and there are snow photos which you will probably all be sick of by now.

New challenge blog and candy as well

Faerie Song Art Stamps sketch challenge blog.

There is a new challenge blog on the block, and there is already a challenge waiting for you with a sketch to follow here.

You can also win this gorgeous candy:

Something strange is happening in Blogger

I can't leave any comments on blogs with word verfication enabled, the verification letters just do not appear.

I thought this could be a Firefox problem but I Googled and found someone thinking it was an IE problem.

So if you are not getting any much wanted comments on your blog, Tassy you are one, Once Upon a Stamp too, the best thing to do is turn off word verification and turn on moderation for all comments which is what I do now.

This prevents anyone from posting nasty comments or spam, a few have tried it on with my blog but seem to have given up for now as I just reject them in any case so they never get seen by anyone but me.

Happy Birthday to Dee from Paper Craft Junkies, go and visit and see the surprise fat book we all made for her, I will post my photos when I get the new PC.

I've been published twice

Sorry I haven't been blogging much, still don't have that new PC but I am close to ordering it now. (I see I have lost a follower, sorry to disappoint).

I have been very busy sourcing wedding stationery materials, still don't have them but I have started placing orders and hope to do the rest in the next few days.

I was amazed to be told I had been featured in Papercraft Essentials magazine, and the publishers sent me a copy of the magazine and a small prize. When I got the magazine I found that two of my projects were featured and a very nice little write up. The first mag and prize were delayed by the weather and I was sent a second lot, so I had a pad of 10 printed acetate sheets which look interestintg and a pad of glitter papers.

Yesterday I got home to find a thick interesting A4 padded envelope from Origin publishers, and in that I found a prize for having a card published in Beautiful Cards magazine, this is the third or fourth time so maybe I should subscribe to that mag! Thanks for featuring my work, and the mags and prizes.

What did I win - a pile of papers including embossed, vellums, die cut and printed cards, clutter cards, all sorts, and all occasions, a cute clear stamp, two fancy keys in a pack and some Christmas bauble embellishments - wow! Thanks so much Origin.

Back to the wedding stationery - I have ordered green vellum from Handy Hippo, waiting for a decision on the colour of ribbon, but I think I am going to use 38mm organza from Ribbon Oasis. Then I need to know if ivory white pearlescent card or more creamy ivory pearlescent card is preferred so I can order that, and I am trying to find out if I can get it cut to size for maybe a little more or even creased which will save a lot of work on 90 invites.

I have been making up some samples of cards with different corners, and I printed some green vellum but I made the mistake of only ordering one sheet so not much leeway for trying ideas out. The main design and stamping was decided at Christmas but not how the final invites will go together and possible corner finishes.

I printed one piece of vellum and left it as it printed and with another I sprinkled clear embossing powder on it and heat embossed which I think is a very nice look but again the bride to be must make the final decision, and it is more work. I have the ink for the stamping of butterflies in brown, got an extra pad just in case my already opened one dries up.

I think the helpers on this project are planning to visit in March to do this, we need to get those invites finished and out there.

I did promise blog candy and I haven't forgotten, I have some nice ribbons for a start but I am waiting for my new PC then I can do proper photos.

I hope you are all keeping warm and not suffering too much bad weather, I am amazed there is still snow lying about unmelted but the traffic was so much better this morning on the way to work I think the local floods must have subsided!

Just look at the great candy that Craft Coo Lorraine is offering:

There is more gorgeous candy including Smirk at Pink Piggy's blog:

You can also win one of the talented Debbie Moore Faith stamps on her Crafty Pad blog.

Divine butterfly stamp plates from Elusive Images

I had to tell you about these gorgeous stamps over on Elusive Images blog, and the best news is you can win one plate. Yes very sweet blog candy!

You can also say which you like best out of the two or if you like both equally as I do.