Last of the yummies for a little while!

Phew - I set myself a challenge to make cupcakes for my mum and mil for Mother's Day!  First, I've already posted my mum's owl card, so here is the card for my mil.

Image is from Pollycraft - I have had it sitting around for ages, just cant believe I havent used it sooner! 

And onto the cakes......

The ones above were for my mum - the one's below were slightly brighter yellow and used gold glitter, they were for my mil.  

I still had some cupcakes left over...enough for another 5 in fact, so I made some more...we went to an animal rescue fundraising evening on Saturday, so took 4 of the 5 to go as a raffle prize.  And the boys ate the spare one!  These are the fundraising ones!  They needed hardly any work as I had already made the flowers etc when I was playing around and I iced them at the same time as the others....so a real quick job!

OK - thats more than enough photos for one day!!!  Have a great day everyone

Rx

Pollycraft Flash Your Freebie! (PFYF!)

Oh Paula, from Pollycraft, is spoiling us now!  She gave us a freebie last week for using a freebie - now, if we use that freebie then we can get another freebie!!!  Eeeee!

This is the image we all received!  How cute?  And the challenge was to "go green" - I really wanted to hit the eco angle on this...but didnt!  LOL x

I couldn't decide what sentiment to use - and also didnt want to over-embellish - so went for a tent card with the sentiment you see!

But wait......

Flip it round and you see my other choice!  Hee hee - thought I could put this on my desk as a "mood monitor"....but - have lost it to my son already!  He has snaffled it for his room - which sounds great, but I just know that I will find it in a coupla weeks squished under a pile of books!

Hmmm - maybe I wait for him to go to bed then sneak in and nick it back off him!

Thanks for looking

Rx

Bit dry in the crafting department!

Yep - not much going on over here lately!  Bit of a dry spell really.

Over at Pollycraft, Paula asked if we could post up something created with one of her freebies.  Well, she is just so generous that I had a few to choose from!  I decided to use Cody though.















And here she is with her cover lifted.  Decided to go pale and interesting - there are just waaaaay too many orange skinned people around here!

Well - gonna hop over and link up my notepad.  Paula said she will send us another freebie for doing that!  See, method in my madness!

There are other freebies on the site, so if you wanna join in just pop on over to Pollycraft!

Thanks for looking

Rx

Emma's Charity Raffle in memory of her dad.

As some of you know, Emma tragically lost her dad in September.  The Yorkshire Air Ambulance did all they could to help and Emma is now fundraising for them.

Please pop over to Emma's blog and enter the raffle (£1 entry).

OR you could buy her Ronnie image via her website - designed by Paula at Pollycraft so I think you can still get it there.

OR how about (if money is tight or you want to support another charity etc) just spread the word on your blog? The latter option won't win you a prize but it will help spread the word and could mean that Emma raises more money in her dad's name - how little effort would that take?  And how good will you feel?

Thanks for looking

Rx-

Josh's Birthday Card!

Hmmmm - this is one of those cards I have to explain!

Sorry for the photos - but it IS difficult to photograph so much shiny stuff!  This is a zig-zag card for our soon to be 10 year old!

Images were from Pollycraft - cogs and critters!  Love them - there were so many fabby ones I could have made a card twice the length!

A couple of other panels!  Am going to enter this into the Cute Card Thursday Challenge which is to make a card for someone special!

And this is the end panel!  You may have seen, on an earlier post, that our cats exercise mind control over us!  Well we thought we had found a way around this......... but Josh has spotted the flaw!  Yes, we were all posing with metal bowls on our heads.....just dont ask!

I would like to also enter this into The Sisterhood of Crafters whose challenge is "You crack me up" and my boy certainly cracks us all up!!!

thanks for looking

Rx

Audsentiments - Thanks a bunch!

Aud has set a fab challenge this time - THANKS A BUNCH.  Now, you have to use this sentiment to qualify for entry to the challenge - but you can do any design, use any image - anything really!

We are very lucky to be sponsored by Pollycraft this week -and even luckier, Paula gave us the chance to pick an image!  I just thought this one was sooooo cute!  The flowers are from Wild Orchid and the papers are Stampin Up (won from a candy yonks ago!).

I coloured his little flowers with sakura glaze and, although you cant see them very well in this pic, they have come out really well and I love the effect.  Oh and his little boots are glaze too!

We had such cool entries for our first challenge, 2 weeks ago, and are really hoping to see some more this time.  And we all had a hand on deciding the winner - its amazing how different our tastes are!  So, if you wanna have a go to win some cool Pollycrafts images just pop on over to Aud Sentiments and join in the challenge!

thanks for looking

Rx

Stupidly Quick Make!

Oh my word....this was just soooo quick - and sooooo cheap!  Don't you love posts that start like that?

This is a tiny little notepad thing (they called them revision cards, I think) from Tesco.  I just replaced the front and end papers with a sturdy card, rounded the corners, added the image and tied on a ribbon! 

And of course, another Pollycraft sneaky peaky!  Look - I'm not going to be ahead of the game with these for long so I have to get them out there now!  LOLx

How sweeeeeet???

This is just to show the size of it - sooooo tiny!

And a final close up of the cutie! 

Thanks for looking!

Rx

Pollycraft pre-release part 2

Hmmmm - two posts in one day!!!

Here is my little footballer dude!  How useful is this?  Now, confession number 1....I have no idea if this is anyone's football strip colours!  I am kinda hoping it isnt so I can use it for a generic card....or at least I hope its no one useless!  I would love to do this for a particular football fan, then I could colour it in the right colours!

....and confession 2 - see that little streak of white on his forelock?  Well, I had no idea it was there until I looked at this pic - its actually the merest littlest bit of glue - have taken it off now!

Would like to enter this into Cute Card Thursday Challenge who wanted a boys or mens card.

Thats it for now - apart from don't forget to check these out at Pollycraft from 10th May! 

thanks for looking

Rx

Pollycraft pre-release!

Oh YES!  as you may remember, or not if you have a memory like mine, I was one of the 5 lucky winners of Pollycraft candy....well the images are fabby - soooo fabby!

Here is my first card using one of the new ones!

Hee hee - she looks like she has no clothes on!!!

Phew - thats better!

And a close up of her in all her glory!

Have no idea why I ended up with orange and yellow!  Was planning on pink!


I would also like to enter this into the Order of the Opus Gluei - they wanted us to use a quote - I really like this one - but will hopefull do a couple more in the next week or so...maybe!

And if you want to buy this image - its released on 10th May! And you need to pop over to Pollycraft! who also have a fabby sale on at the moment!

Thanks for looking

Rx

Busy doing nothing!

No - not me!!!

Inside the card says....you deserve it!  Have just noticed the sentiment is a tad wonky - will whip it off and straighten it now.......

Ok - am back!

This is a design that Paula from Pollycraft designed for Emma's dad who was sadly killed at work.

Emma is raising as much for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance as she can and the proceeds from this image will go towards their funds.  From such sadness comes hope.

http://craftyemma.blogspot.com/2010/04/charity-challenge.html

Please go click, buy and have fun creating.  Also, check out your bras - if they are ok but boring then you can donate them to the YAA too!  Odd but true!

Thanks for looking

Rx