Festive Friday and Merrry Monday

Hi there I have been very lax with my posts and my commenting lately, but there has been a reason for that I promise you! The change of working hours and a redecorating project upstairs where there has been a switch around of bedrooms (which means I get a bigger crafty room!!!) have meant less time to craft but this weekend I hope to begin moving the computer and my stuff into their new home fingers crossed it all goes smoothly......
Well I started to write this on Wednesday evening and yes the move went smoothly mostly due to my hubby! as on Thursday I tripped over one of the children in my work and fell flat on my face!  but to avoid squishing the poor wee thing I twisted as I fell and have managed to sprain/tear a muscle in my calf  and having great difficulty getting up and down the stairs,so the poor man did most of it himself  - with myself in supervisory mode of course :)

But on to my card, I made this earlier in the week and can now get posted for the Festive Friday challenge which had this inspiration photo....

I took inspiration from the sledge as you can see ,love this wee man a bargain bin buy but have used him loads of times and it just stamps beautifully. I tore some scrap paper to make the snow drifts and then I stamped a few SU snowflakes from their new endless wishes set in baja breeze ink and the sentiment is from Uniko Studios Stunning snowflakes set
I am also going to add it to the Merry Monday challenge which is..

.....and he is wearing a stripey scarf!!!! :)
 Thanks for taking the time to look
xxx

Happy Birthday Bev!!

I might not know Bev as well as some the others that have posted a card for Bev's birthday but what Ido know is that whenever I post a card for a challenge that Bev has joined in with to ,she always has a kind commen for me.So bev this is just to say thanks and hope you had a lovely day!

Festive friday

I'm sorry that i have beeen MIA for a while  but have had infections and antibioticsone after another lately that have had me bedded and fair wabbit (washed out) as they say here in my part of Scotland, and then to top it all my husband decided to make a start on decorating Fraser's room so that Russell could move into the bigger room.....well that has led to a whole slew of things because then I decided that I could have Russell's room for my card making but still needed a room for Fraser for when he stays over so now the computer is moving in with me so that we still have a spare bedroom, keeping up so far :) ? so now the whole of upstairs is in turmoil and  there is boxes every where!!!

But managed to make a path so that I could join in over at the Festive Friday challenge and that picture just is so full of girly bling and sparkle that  I decided to make a sparkly card using simply gems stones and glitter paper (think this one will suit one of my god daughters she loves a bit of bling!)  and then found a SU sentiment that went perfectly and finally mounted it on SU pretty in pink card stock

Thanks for looking 

xxx

Cas on Sunday

I anm sooo excited and kinda nervous with this post ,as this is the week that I get to join in over at the Cas on Sunday challenge blog after winning the challenge for week 39.

I have never done this before and the theme I was told for my week ,was to be black and white and one other color.I had a few ideas (and a good few of them ended up in the bin as you can imagine!!!) but finally came up with one. Originially did it in  this  soft lilac ....

But thought it was too much of the 'other colour' so with a little bit of tweaking, settled on the black and white with yellow at the top of my post.The idea for the colours came from a multitalented friend ,Susan  of Cant Stop Crafting have a scroll through her blog and you will see how talented she is!

Finally I would like to say a huge thank you to the talented ladies over at CAS on Sunday for letting me join in with the fun this week...its been a blast! :-)

Have a great weekend,and thanks for looking

xxx

The Cutting Edge # 8 and Allsorts

 I'm not very good at seeing a card and taking inspiration from it only ever get the inspiration when i see other peoples cards and think 'thats just a perfect take on this challenge why didnt I see that myself!' so I have been challenging myself  by doing more of these type of challenges and it has been challenging I must admit (frustrating too!),but there was something about Kays card at the Cutting Edge challenge blog that got me thinking and so came up with this one ....not sure about it because this is a really bright card by my standards !!

Decided to go with making the flowery panel  first and used a retired SU daisy die and their little leaves die too.Had intended to put it on a white card but it seemed to pop more on the orange card stockcard and finally added a black sentiment hoping it tones it down a bit!

Also as  was browsing through some other peoples blogs foundanother challenge that matches this card the Allsorts challenge is looking for....

Bright sunshiny colours!....well got the bright right and hopefully the sunshine colours too!

:-)

Thanks for taking the time to have a look

xxx

card concept # 17

 I am so  chuffed and if you look at my side bar you will see why ...I was one of the winners for the Wedding card  challenge  here on the Card Concept last week WAHOO!!

And when I saw the photo inspiration on the The Card Concept loved it, the colours are so fresh don't you think ? Then yesterday through the door popped this memory box die (been looking for it for ages.. ever since I saw it on Ardyth's blog  here. ) Its really versatile,which you'll see if you scroll through Ardyths blog!! and for this card I cut it out in the green pearilised card ,I know it is hard to see the shine, and then cut it out in the white and popped out the white petals (heaps of them now for another project) and layered it up over the green a couple of times .Added a white candy dot and the SU sentiment .

I am sooo pleased with this card I love the clean and graphic look, and Ardyth I'm pretty  sure it CASes one of yours and if it does I apologise!!

 Its been a busy week with the schools going back and the changes to how I work my hours ,but the biggest change has been my oldest moving into a flat with a uni friend :-( ....and my youngest who has left school and is working longer hours at his part time job until he can apply to join the police has also turned 18 on Thursday. In Scotland that means he is legally able to drink and he has a weekend of celebrations planned with a few drinks with workmates on the day and as a friend shares the same birthday week , they are planning a joint  birthday do tonight, and somehow he even managed to squeeze in a family meal out last night! 

Think though I'm suffrerng from empty nest syndrome our house is sooo quiet now....but hoping that cardmaking will fill the gap :-) ! 

Thanks for taking the time to look

xxx

Festive Friday

Hi thought I would join in with this weeks Festive Friday challenge and as you can see the inspiration photo is not the traditional Christmas colours ! but the minute I saw it an idea pop into my head  and then as I scrolled down it popped out again as I realised it was too much like Ardyth's card :( 

So went back to the photo and then I noticed the little bird and we all know that there is only one bird (apart from Turkey!)that means Christmas ...a robin of course! so using  a freebie that I love and use quite a bit at Christmas,coloured with promarkers . Then layered up a few snowflakes and stuck them down (forgetting that I was going to put a Merry Christmas sentiment above the robins doh!) Added some glod stickles to the centre of the snowflaked ...and if you look closely you might notice that they are a bit squashed as when the card was drying my husband threw something on top of it!!!! tried to repair it but it didnt look right so took it off again....men!

So a really simple card but hopefully you can see where the inspiration came from!

Thanks for  looking 

xxx