Cupcake decorating class!

Mmmmmm I went to a cupcake decorating class at our library last night!  And these are what I made!  No really, I made them...I did the swirly icing, made the roses and leaves and flowers!  How cool are these?  And how cool is the lady who managed to teach us how to do these - you should have seen what the other ladies did!

And this is what the cupcakes looked like 34 seconds after I walked through the door with them.....

And the culprit!

All that work gone in seconds!!!!

Thanks for popping over - and Julie thanks for the "heads up" about the challenge over at Craft Us Crazy - all entered up!

Rx

Aud Sentiments - Get Well

Wow we had alot of entries last week - over 100!  Phew, this challenge is really catching on with people!


This challenge we are being sponsored by Sassy Studios again - they sponsored us last year for a challenge called Relax, and this year they are sponsoring us for our Get Well challenge!




I love finding out why people do what they do - so here is a little bit about why Lindsay started Sassy Studios...

 I started designing images shortly after I started stamping, reason being...I didn't hardly like anything else out there I was a young adult woman at the time I was engaged, had no kids, I wanted fun sexy images that I would enjoy using and my friends and hubby would enjoy receiving. I designed images for 2 other digi stamp companies when my wonderful hubby kept trying to get me to go out on my own. So in June 2009 thanks to the few faithful followers I had, Sassy Studio Designs was born! It has been a wonderful journey starting my own store. We have just grown so much these past months.I still try to keep Lindsay Dyer: keep with my original philosophy and reason for designing stamps, make them fun and keep them sassy...and yes sometimes even sexy! Lindsay"

They are giving the winner 4 digi images of your choice.

And, a quick heads up.....we have been joined on the team by Catherine Pooler. 

Catherine will be doing some video tutorials for us so why not pop over to Aud Sentiments (link in the sidebar) and check out her first one for us!

 Oh - nearly forgot - there's my card!  Just thought it would be good to have a male get well card!

Have a great day, thanks for popping over and why not have a go at this challenge!

Rx

Just a quickie...house rules!

Have seen this sort of thing around and kept smiling at it... so thought I would knock one together quickly!  The corner is available over at Delicious Doodles (link in sidebar!), I just mirrored it vertically and horizontally to get the matching corner.

Kind of have a hankering to hang it on the back of our bathroom door...you know, light reading whilst otherwise....ermmmm occupied!!!

Thanks for popping over!

Rx

Delicious Doodles - Ruthie's Reminder!

Hee hee - every Sunday over at Delicious Doodles (link in sidebar) I do a quick post to remind people about the current challenge.  Normally, I have already shown my card over here when I do my challenge post - but not this time!  I didnt post a card this week.  Its just been a bit frantic over here - and Teri is so fabby that she really doesnt mind if we skip the odd one or two challenges.  Anyway, this week's challenge is to use Green - for St Patrick's Day!

I did have a card in mind though - and I really wanted to make it!  So here it is!

And of course, a close up on the image!

I really love some of Teri's stuff!  And I love that the darker stuff, and the new steampunk stuff, doesnt need to be used in the "normal" way and that I can "pretty" them up! 

Oh my.....how did those pictures of Josh get on there???  Tee hee - he passed his wing chun grading - and is now a green sash!  Phew - he was so nervous!

Thanks for popping by - am hoping to do a bit of blog hopping later on!

Delicious Doodles - Make the card YOU would like to receive!

Ok - I actually suggested this...but when it came to it, I realised I didnt know what sort of card I would like to receive!  Butterfly Brain me, so I never sit still with an idea for long!

After a whole lot of thinking, I realised the card I would really like to get would be one made by my son Josh.  You will know about Josh by now, but in case you don't - he is my little nutter!  As they put it - he is doubly gifted - ADD and "gifted and talented" - so brilliant fun to have around.  Caring, loving - sticks up for his friends (even to the point of getting himself in trouble!) - and very funny!  BUT he doesnt do crafting - you may have seen a previous post where I showed you the painting he did - that was quite an achievement to get him to do that - doesnt DO sitting still either!

Anyway, enough waffle - I did get him to make the card!  From choosing the image - "she is gorgeous" - picking the coloured paper - "sunshiney bright, like you" (me!) - and the flower "everyone has to have flowers!". BUT the bit that really made me chuckle is when he insisted on putting the image on wonky (after colouring her with blue lips????) - because "everyone knows that to make it artistic it has to be wonky".....go figure!

Well, if you would like to join in the fun with us this week, why not pop on over to Delicious Doodles Challenges - link in the sidebar!

Rx

Aud Sentiments - Happy Birthday or a Birthday Present

Oooo - how quickly did this come round again?  Time just seems to be flying....and talking about Time Flying...we are so lucky to have My Time Made Easy as our sponsor for this challenge.  If you haven't had a chance to use any of her products you should definitely try them out. She has some freebies on the site. Here is the link.
Here is a little bit about the company...
" My Time Made Easy provides you with the basics for creating your own
coordinating handmade cards, tags, and gift packaging in no time. It is fun,
affordable, and we made it easier than ever! I have always said that it
really is all about the TOTAL package. Now you can afford to create and
dress up the simplest of gifts on your own, and make them appear to be that
much more special. Nothing says love like something handmade."


For this challenge we would like to see Birthday cards, gift packaging or gifts.  Cant wait to see what everyone comes up with!  Pop on over to Aud Sentiments (link in sidebar) to join in!

 

 

Peek-a-boo

Oooo I love this Karen's Doodles image!  So cute!  And, I got to use it twice for two different cards!  One of them was for a friend who has just had a baby boy - they are not into the cutsie cutsie images so I thought this would work well.  The other is for another friend who I havent seen in ages!  Just seemed apt.   BUT I couldnt decide which looked better - the wonky image or the straight one!  Pop back on Friday and see what Josh has to say about wonky images!

Not been too well last couple of days so am gonna hop off now and resume my position on the sofa!

Have a great day

Rx

Delicious Doodles - Make your own buttons

EEEEEKKKK - ok that was my first thought!  

We have reorganised the teams into just one team over at DD - all fine and dandy up until that.  I had looked at this challenge and thought "Phew, at least I dont need to try that one!" ... hee hee.  Then I realised that, with the shuffle around, I did indeed need to "try that one!"  

Terri (boss lady) is very cool and wonderful with us all and had already said that we could do the ones we wanted to etc.  BUT I thought I should just get on with it and have a go - remember this mindset from the sketch challenge? (and I ended up loving the card I made that time!).  

Hmmm, said I (not unlike Pooh Bear in fact)....I will google it.  "Cut out shape, punch out two or four holes, cover with glossy accents".....NO (said I) there must be more to it than that!  NO, there really isnt!  How funny...all that fuss and procrastination for nothing!

OK - have been quite busy at work, so coloured the image using inkscape (always feel I am cheating a bit doing this!).

AND - take a peek at these beauties.......

I just won them in a facebook competition - a lovely lady does classes locally to me and was offering these as a prize for sharing her page!

I have to say, that we are all watching our weight - but we really couldnt say no...so we had the top three (one for each of us) and we gave our friends the bottom three!

Sorry for the little distraction there .... back to business....if you would like to join in with our challenge this week (and get some digis if you win) then pop on over to Delicious Doodles Challenges (in the sidebar).

Thanks for stopping by today

Rx

New bit on my blog!

I have just added a "books" page to my blog - see, at the top? 

Just thought I would let you know....please feel free to comment here, if you have anything to add re diairies!

Rx

Few Commission Cards - New Home, 18th and birthday

Is it just me, or is it really scary doing commission cards?  Well, you can see what this one was for!  I chatted to the lady who wanted it made and found an image of a plain house.  I then inkscaped it to within an inch of its life!  Hee hee - I made a row of them and then set to work with adding a filter to the middle house to give it an interesting finish.  Little bit of glitter and a doily later and the card was finished.  Gave it to the lady who had ordered it on Friday and she was really pleased with it.  Phew!

 Second card was from my son - "I dont really want to send another shop card to my friends now you can make them!"  Hee hee!  I suspected this might have been so that he didnt have to stand there and choose one..so of course, I made him sit with me and choose an image.  I used glossy accents on the icing and put some little bugle beads on there for good measure.  He really liked the finished result...phew number two!

Birthday - For Fun Challenges...
Birthday Card with cake - One stop craft challenge....
Birthdays - Tellens Place....
Happy Birthday - If the Shoe fits...
Happy Birthday - card makin mamas....
Add shine - Paper Play Challenges....

This was commissioned for Cat who is turning 18.  Her birthday party theme is "dress to impress" so I thought I would use this as a basis for the card.  This card has been fiddled with sooooo much!  The trusty ecraft cut out the bodice and letters etc.  Then it was fiddling to make a skirt.  Initially I planned to use pleated paper...but then started playing with a little piece of crepe paper...and then I found some purple silk netting stuff...and then the teeny weeny heart diamonds .... it all came together in the end.  Phew number 3.  Actually, make that half a phew...the lady who ordered is hasnt seen it yet!

Make your own embellishment - Simon Says Stamps....
Make your own embellishment - Fab n Funky....
Dont be square - Pixie Dust Studios...
Sparkle Glitter and Bling - Dutchdare Card challenges....
Putting on the glitz - papertake weekly....
Use a die-cut - Digital Tuesday...
Use felt or fabric (the dress overskirt) - Belli Challenge
Special Birthday - Pollycrafts .....
For someone special - Ooh la la creations.....

Well, thanks for sharing in my 2.5 phews today!  Hope you have had a great day too!

Rx

Delicious Doodles - Bling it on!

Phew - am absolutely exhausted.  We run a book award in Havering and we had the voting day yesterday!  Just in case you are interested (if not just skip along down to the next bit!), we had three events!  We did the KS3 award in the morning....that's the secondary school children (12 years +) and they had a shortlist of 10 books to consider.  All of the books in the award are already prize winners so the award is called "Best of the Best" - or BOB to us!  The winner of this award was Malice by Chris Wooding.  Some of the schools had prepared presentations and we showed them and also had a quiz.  The hilight for me was having the truely fabby Sam Enthoven come and talk to the kids at both the morning and afternoon events.  He was so funny and the kids just loved him.  He has written three books so far, but he does want to go for world domination so there are more to come!  His books are very scary!

In the afternoon, we had the KS2 award event - similar to the morning, presentations, quiz and Sam but with younger kids - aged between 9-11.  The winner of this award was Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Rodrick Returns.  Very funny books and no one was surprised by this one!

THEN>>>> in the evening, we had the adult event.  The adults only had 5 books to consider as we decided to focus on just the really big awards - for the children we use every award we know about and this gives us an initial list of about 60-70 for each one - 150 ish books to read between April and August as we get the list down to 10 for each!  I didnt read the adult books - time etc - but found out that we needed to do a presentation on one of the books (adults are much more shy than kids when it comes to this sort of thing!) - so about 10 days to read the book and get the presentation done!  I only get to read just before bed and kept falling asleep!  Finished the book at 12.05 AM on the morning of the event!  I decided the day before that I wouldnt talk at the event (I host the other two during the day and am quite bubbly and energetic so knew I would be flagging by then) so I just did a powerpoint presentation and that worked really well.

  The winner of the adult award was Wolf Hall - brilliant book that I didnt get through but am going to go on and finish now that I have seen the presentation!

Ho Hum - sorry for the diversion!

OK IF YOU SKIPPED THE BIT ABOVE>>>>THIS IS WHERE THE CRAFTING BEGINS AGAIN!

Delicious Doodles Challenge this week is to show your bling, glitter, glamour, shine etc....

I just couldnt get a good pic of all that bling!  Its a bag!  In case you hadnt guessed!

Well, gotta go to work in a minute - am running a meeting about our book festival...never stops!

Please pop over to Delicious Doodles Challenges (link in my sidebar...just seen the time and I am late!) and join in the fun with us!

Rx

Aud Sentiments - Whateva!

For this challenge we have Kenny K as our sponsor. If you haven't seen their digis you need to go and check them out! They are amazing and super fun!  We were so lucky to get to play with some of their images.  I already had quite a few of them so this was fabby for me!

For this challenge we want to see some of those trendy sayings that we are always hearing our kids say.  

I made some background paper quickly in inkscape - was really very quick and easy!  Had to be....I did it!

So - the pic above shows the little box thing - and then I made lots of notecards to go in the box - cards are all 5 x 5 so I had to work out how to make the box and the measurements from scratch.  Ended up piling the cards and envelopes up and measuring how tall the pile was!

I took the little aquare of background paper and used it in different ways on the cards - so they looked the same, but different!

 

Phew - and thats the lot!

I really cant wait to see what sentiments everyone comes up with - think it will be really funny!

SO - pop on over to Aud Sentiments and check out the rest of the team's work - loving it all!  

Rx

Valentines in the Gedalovitch Household

SECOND POST TODAY - PLEASE SCROLL DOWN AND CHECK OUT THE OTHER ONE IF YOU HAVE TIME!

I have decided that I will try and decorate our mantelplace for high days and holidays.  I made a banner for Christmas and that is safely packed away with the other decs.  

So here is the valentine's banner!  Needed to do it fairly quickly so it isnt very intricate!

This is my painting!  OK Tesco had the canvasses reduced price so I thought I would grab a couple for Josh and I to play with!

So - the big hearts are Tony and I, with the medium heart between us  being Josh!  The green hearts are mothers and the purple hearts brothers.  The silver hearts are the dads, who have passed.  Three other hearts are friends (we have more than 3 friends, but decided to have a group heart for each of us!) and the other silver heart is Josh's wife to be!!!  So funny! It was Josh's idea to add hearts for friends and his wife to be!  He is 10 so I am guessing it will be a while yet before we find out who that heart is for!

PROUD MUM ALERT!  

Yep, the one above is the one Josh did!  He detests doing crafty stuff - really hates it!  But we chatted about it and I kept telling him that he couldnt "do it wrong" which was his big fear!  And this is what he created - the big heart is dad, medium heart is me and little heart right in the middle is him! When he had finished he said it "wasnt too painful"!!

I just know we will treasure this painting for years to come!  We forgot to sign them, so we are going to do that (and date them) when we are sure they are dry.

Little heart ornament thingies - wanted to make something like this at Christmas but just ran out of time - this year though!  All the hearts were cut using my ecraft - so most of it was really quick - instant gratification!

Something to represent all the animals!  We have two cats (one of whom sat on my canvas and left a bum bump in it, luckily before I had painted it!), two guinea pigs, a rabbit, a lizard, a hamster and some fish!  We borrow the dog over the road for walks sometimes too!

And this is the finished mantlepiece....YAY!

Hope you have a fabby Valentines Day!  

Rx