So easy, its almost naughty!

Josh only has a few more weeks to go before he leaves primary school.  Seems incredible that he is ready for secondary school - but he is - he has his two days of induction next week!

So, I have been all organised and sorted out the choccy bars for his friends.  And - it was so quick I almost feel guilty!  ALMOST!

So - a nice little step-by-step!.....yes - it is tongue in cheek!

Step One - go to Tesco and find the best deal you can on 30 choc bars - CLUBs won the day for me - pack of 24 - half price - Two packs for under £4....and plenty left over!

Step Two - remove the wrappers, measure and make replacements!  This is actually really easy - I used inkscape to pre-colour the image that Josh chose, then pasted it into word to do the actual covers.  I find it easier to get these done in word - not sure why really as I use inkscape for just about everything else!

Step Three....print, cut out and replace the wrappers - glue stick does a great job and is cheaper than my double sided runner thingy.

Step Four - take the beauty shot!  Lol!  These took about 15 mins to get them all re-wrapped again - an absolute breeze!  

Step Five - errrr, there isnt one - thats it!  Oh no, hang on - STEP FIVE!>.... make sure you remember to give them to your child on the right day and that he remembers to give them out!  Sounds daft, but last summer we made lots of sweetie bags and he forgot to hand them out!

Well, thanks for popping over - hope you are having the lovely weather we are today!

Rx

Cute and Cuddly - Delicious Doodles

Our challenge over at Delicious Doodles this week is cute and cuddly.  I saw this image a while ago and have been waiting to use it, so this seemed the perfect opportunity....

.... at least it seemed the perfect opportunity until Josh piped up...."you do know they've probably just finished ripping a seal apart don't you?".  Then it got better "....and they probably have bits of seal and blood all round their teeth!".  Gotta love these 11 year olds!

Well, lets hope the other DT have tackled this one better than I have!  LMBO!

Rx

Aud Sentiments - Food or Drink

You know when you have had a card waiting to be made?  I saw this idea ages ago and didnt make it!  But then I saw this challenge over at Aud Sentiments...and then Robyn's Fetish gave us some images...and this idea was just perfect!  

 This is inside the card - think I have been a little understated again!!!

 When you open it up, there is a teabag!  How simple is that?

Hope you can get the chance to join in over at Aud Sentiments!  Have a great day!  Rx

Delicious Doodles Flutterings

Hey ho - you will see that I havent got a card today!  Heaps sorry - but time ran away with me this week.  Josh has been in a show of Throughly Modern Millie so we have been to see that (it will be 3 times by the time today is done!).  I then get to walk down with the choir to our local Salvation Army as they are doing a performance of it there too - how lovely!

So - off to work now - am going to cover a class visit for a colleague today and then get on with ..... paperwork!!!  Grrrrrr!  Need to write a literacy strategy....errrr yeah!  Anyone got any tips????  Oh well, off for school run, then the class visit!

Have a great day and I hope you get the chance to join in with the DD Flutterings challenge!

Rx

Quickie 18th with the ecraft!

Oh - so quick, so easy!  Love it!

We had forgotten a relative's birthday so I just did this up really quickly! 

Cut everything out on my ecraft - so easy!  I just love this machine - no sticky mats - and I never use tabs, its a risk, but it means the bits just drop out!  I did dry embossing on the paper at the back - its a fiskars pattern I think!

Gotta dash - thanks for checking in with me

Rx

Ps Am entering this into the following challenges:

Birthday Sundaes wanted to see embossing
There She Goes challenged us to show our milestones, Charizma Cards want to see ages on cards and Little Miss Muffet want to see numbers.
Creative Cards want to see things with wings.
Shelley's Images have an anything goes challenge running
Crafty Sentiments want to see sparkle
Stamp Something want to see die-cuts/punches - hope this qualifies!

Delicious Doodles - One for Dad

You know when you spot an image and just know you need to use it...and who its for?  Well, this was most certainly one of THOSE images.  

DH has always loved old planes and stuff - so, as soon as Teri did this one, I just knew who it was for!  Looking down the upcoming challenge list (get us...organised or what?) I spotted the perfect challenge - ONE FOR DAD!  This has got to be a bit of a gift of a challenge - lots of people (I appreciate not all) need to do Father's Day cards, so why not enter them into the challenge?

 

 

 There we go then, short and sweet today!  Please take time to pop on over to Delicious Doodles and see the fabby DT work - and, why not chuck a card into the challenge!

Rx

Aud Sentiments - ReviDevi

When I saw the images from ReviDevi, they just cried out to be used with felt.  Then I didnt!  But, it got me going on doing something to a bag - so I did!

My Mum was the model as long as I didnt show her face!  Aw bless!  I put some of the images together and then went and did battle with the printer...which decided it would screw the transfer paper up (twice) and leave a black line across the bird and butterfly at the top of the image....so I did what every good crafter does and cut them off!  

I used the full image for the card which goes with it!  And see the little flower in the corner - well this was a Top Tip Tuesday suggestion from my pal Samantha at Penrith Crafts - it involved using the paper candy to make a little flower - toooooo cute - why not pop over and see the other things they are doing over there?

And here are the two together - I cut the butterflies from felt using a Stampin Up embosslit and then just glued them on.  Ok, well the challenge theme may not be completely obvious from this - but its Summertime!  YAY!  Gotta love that theme!  Almost as good as an "Anything goes" theme!

With a theme this easy, why not take a chance and have a go at the challenge over at AudSentiments!

Thanks for popping by today

Rx

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:
Creative Cowgirls wanted Summertime Fun
Corrosive Challenges wanted Summer Colours
Pile it on wanted Summertime Heaven
Crafter's Companion said "Here comes Summer!"
Tuesday Throwdown wanted to see an animal in our creation
Crafty Ho's wanted Summer:Let the fun begin
Craft your passions have an Anything goes theme as do Papertake Weekly
Pear Tree Delights want to see Summer Delights
Digital Tuesday wanted to see In the Garden  and Scrapbook Sisters wanted an English Country Garden
Paper Pretties wanted to see Summer as our inspiration
Digistamps 4 Joy - wanted WINGS

Phew - stick a fork in me, I'm done!

Delicious Doodles - lots of texture

Good morning!  The challenge over at Delicious Doodles this week is to use lots of texture.  I had absolutely came to a stop on this one until I saw a new home notelet set that CG had on her site.  She had embossed the box the set was in...so, I left a message to say thanks for the inspiration and happily ran off to errrr nick the idea!  Then I sat down and altered a notebook!!!

I ran it through the big shot with a Stampin Up embossing folder, chalked the raised bits, added glossy accents.  I then looked at my table and spotted the felt butterflies - happy days!  A bit of glitter later and I ended up with this.  Oooo the felt butterflies were a Stampin Up embosslit.  Felt works wonderfully with these (the embossing doesnt show up, but I really just wanted the shape).  I than sat down feeling virtuous that I had done the challenge (been a bit dry for challenges lately) - and noticed I hadnt even included a Delicious Doodles image!  Sorry Teri!!!  Lolx

I would also like to enter this in the following challenges:
Tuesday Throwdown wanted us to make our own embellishments
Flutterby Wednesdays wanted to see butterflies
Truly Scrumptious wanted to see some summer sparkle (it is on there, honest! the centres of the flowers and on the butterflies!)
Charisma Cardz want to see things with wings
Pixie Dust Studios want to see home-made embellies
Fairy Tale Challenges are looking for anything but a card 
Allsorts Challenges also want to see things with wings


Can I just add a little thank you to all the DT members who come round and look at challenge entries - I do this for a couple of teams too and I know it can take absolutely ages - so thanks for your time and your encouraging comments!


Rx

Organisor - diddy!

You must have seen those tiny coin envelopes, right?  Well, I was going to make a little brag book or something out of them and then I decided on a teeny organisor - kind of a to-do list!

My friend at work, is also branching out into wedding organising and has asked me to help out with a couple of things - so I thought this might be something really nice to give to the bride-to-be so that she can keep pertinent details in it from her wedding - dress fittings, colour swatches etc etc.  She could then store it with her wedding album etc as a memory of the run-up to a wedding!

I didnt get very good pics of it - but the stamp is from Stampin Up and I embossed it in gold.  It doesnt show up very well, but it does shine nicely!  I then laminated the front and back covers, to make them durable!

I then just used the Stampin Up scallop punch on the inserts

Thought the whole thing could be matched to the bride's wedding colours.  But for now, its mine, all mine!

thanks for popping by - hope you are having a fabby bank holiday!

Rx

PS I am entering this in the following challenges:
Dream Valley Challenges just wanted us to stamp something!
Fresh Brewed wanted us to make anything but a card!
Crafty Emma's Store Challenge wanted to see embossing.

Max Baby Card!

I was asked to put together a little babycard - for MAX (bet you didnt see that one coming!).  Cut out the letters and rosette using my e-craft - delight!

Sorry it was so quick - really seems to be no time lately!

Rx

Ps - just come back on to link it up for the following challenges....
Papertake Weekly wanted Pale, Pretty Pastels
My Time to Craft want to see a die-cut.

Aud Sentiments - Sentiment for a man

Well, we had lots of fun with this one in our house!  We were very lucky to pick an image from Digis with Attitude and I picked this lion!  He just made me chuckle!  We then sat round trying to think up sentiments for him (that were suitable for a man!).

 I had 3 sheets of this old Stampin Up paper (just little sheets) and wanted to use the same paper and layout for all the cards.  The image on the one above is "Happy Father's Day to the MANE man"...believe me, they get worse!

 

This one says "Someone just tickled me behind my ears, and I'm still meant to wish you Happy Birthday??"

and this one says "King of the Jungle and they want to call me Tiddles!  Happy Birthday anyway....errr roar!"

 ...and then I ran out of paper - only had those 3 sheets to start with - so I just used the offcuts for this final card - think this sentiment was the most cringy..."No, no, no.  I said I wanted a lie-in for my Birthday!"

Yes, they are all corny - but we had a giggle sitting around making them up!

Thanks for popping by today - I really look forward to seeing what you come up with! 

Rx

Josh's other birthday cards!

Well, I showed Josh's card with the Kenny K image on...so here are another couple I had to make him....

the first was from my mum - I used a Dustin Pike image for this one - had it in mind to use for a while!

I then remembered this image from Bugaboo and thought I had to use that one too! - I didnt have another person to make the card from - so I made it from....Pickles and Popcorn (the cats), Gramarian and Yoda (the guinea pigs), Gwim Weaper (the lizard - say it out loud, it works better!), Da Beast (really cute and fluffy hamster), Cat Treat (a rescued hamster), Mina (rescue bunny) and Pleco and pals (fish).

I really enjoyed colouring in both of these images - they took a bit of doing, but they were great fun!

Thanks for popping by today

Rx

Couple of Kenny K cards!

I love that I can use Kenny K for my "men's cards".  Talk about the two extremes today....I made one for a 60 year old and one for an 11 year old (my son!), both using the same image.  

Quite funny really - neither of them would be able to have her (if she were real!) - one too old and one waaaaay too young (my baby dont forget!).  

Thanks for popping by

Rx

Delicious Doodles - Let the sun shine!

When Teri did this image I really loved it! - and I love it even more now it is coloured! 

The wooden frame is a separate image - so I just shoved the two together so I did some incredibly difficult combining in inkscape and ended up with the pic in a frame!

I then got to thinking how like a picture on a wall it looked - so thats what I did with it!  Well, in card form!  Talk about make do and mend...my son had bought a toy dart gun and the "string" came from that - knew it would come in handy!!!

Oh - and sorry this post was late up today - I usually either schedule them or put them up in the morning before work - but Josh had a Tudor day today and he was the jester ... typecast!  Obviously, this meant a bit of faffing - spraying hair red, facepaints etc.....

Oooo - forgot to say that our theme over at Delicious Doodles is "Let the sun shine", so anything summery!

Thanks for popping by today!

Rx

Get Well Soon

I used this image a few weeks ago for an Aud Sentiments Challenge, so when a friend asked me to do a get well card for a male friend of hers I knew exactly which image to reach for....

I did lots of faux stitching on the card, although this doesnt show up in the photo very well.  Also, in case you cant read it...the sentiment says...."Heard you'd damaged your achilles - thought she could help with your limp..."...yes, its cheeky, but you should have heard some of the other options we came up with!

Thanks for popping by

Rx

Aud Sentiments - NO sentiment

Well, I waited and waited - but it didnt arrive - the post I was missing of course (there is another one missing too, but this was most important).  Aud Sentiments Challenge this fortnight is to produce something with NO Sentiment.  This was a reasonably easy for me - its actually harder for me to put a sentiment onto things!

We got to pick whatever we wanted from Digi Chick they do a great mix of things including templates...so this is what I picked!

The Stamps are from Stampin Up - and, of course, I had to "stage" the photo with the addition of sweeties.  Which were swiftly dealt with as soon as the photo was taken!  I now have a very pretty, but very empty, sweetie dispenser!

Thanks for popping by today - I hope to get to see some of your entries over at Aud's Sentiments

Rx

I thought it was all meant to be restored....

Funny how people see you differently isnt it?  Most people say I am really patient and tolerate alot of messing about....my family and I know that I am most definitely NOT....but I was doing so well the last few days with Blogger.  

I read the information about the system rollback and thought it wasnt a big deal at all - well, not for me personally (might have thought differently if I had some sort of commercial need!).  I am very much in the "oh well, these things happen" brigade.  

I saw people's concerns and, in some cases, panic.  I stayed calm and patient....they say they are going to restore all the deleted posts, so no need to worry!  Then, this morning, I read that they had restored all deleted posts and it was business as usual....what???  The only sites they said would take longer were those with heavy content (mine is most certainly not one of those sites!lol).  

I am still being patient...although now I am having to work at it! 

I really appreciate Blogger - it's free, it works great (most of the time!) and I get on well with it.  I STILL really appreciate Blogger - these things happen.  I am going to hang on a couple more days to see if the posts I had up will suddenly reappear...if not, I will redo them - and I will still love Blogger (just perhaps not quite as much!).

Just thought I would post this up quickly in case you were wondering why I hadnt posted anything new recently!

Thanks for popping over and I hope your blogs all restored ok!

Rx

40th Card on my ecraft

This was a real last second make!  I was going away and suddenly remembered a birthday while I was away, so set to quickly make a card.

I used the ecraft to cut out the numbers, bit of glitter, some scalloped paper and bling.  It was quick, but sufficient!

Thanks for looking

Rx

Another sympathy card

My colleague at work lost a very close friend last week.  I didnt want to do her a "normal" sympathy card as I didnt know the lady who died and didnt want to appear insincere - so I did her this card.  Used Stampin Up (still playing!) and really like how it came out - these are so quick to put together!

The sentiment says "If nothing ever changed there would be no butterflies".  Hope she likes it.

thanks for popping by today!

Rx

Delicious Doodles - Fantasy and a little special for a lucky winner

Our challenge this week at Delicious Doodles is to create something with a fantasy theme.  This is ideal for Teri's images as she does such beautiful fairies, dragons etc.  

Here is my card....

And here is what you might win if you win the challenge....

I am sponsoring this challenge, so put together a little selection of bits and bobs - some paper, glittery things, rubber etc.   Then I decided that I would like my followers to get something out of it too....so if the winner of the challenge is also a follower of my blog then I will add a few more bits to the package!  So, if you want to be up for a chance to win this little package, hop on over to Delicious Doodles and join in their challenge today!

Rx

I am also entering this into a few challenges:-
Paper Sundaes wanted us to show our fave hair colours - mine, for fairies etc, is grey - I used promarkers, Cool Grey 1, 2, 3
Kaboodle Doodles want to see embellishments that begin  with B - so I had a butterfly and some faux brads
Claudia and company want to see butterflies on their challenge

Delicious Doodles meets Kenny K!

How good does life get???  Two faves of mine....Kenny K is sponsoring Delicious Doodles' Challenge this week!  And the challenge is to make a card for a teen.  Kenny K's images are just perfect for teens (and men, men, men!).

While I was away, I got the chance to meet up with Samantha from Penrith Crafts - great gal and we got on so great, chatted like we'd been friends for years!  Samantha has lots of cute beasties too - we nearly came home with 3 chickens and a rabbit...but then I imagined hubby's face and managed to show some restraint!  

Samantha gave me a beautiful Easter card - how sweet was that...so I decided to CASE the card, the result of which is above!  YAY!  Thanks Samantha!  AND, while I was at Penrith Crafts I found the little paper candy thingies that are on the card....oooooo I am loving these!  They are really good value too! 

Enough of the waffle already!  Please take the time to pop over and see what the other girls have done for the challenge - link is in the sidebar!

Rx