There's a Santa loose aboot this hoose!

This isn't the card I was planning to share today, but having spent ages carefully colouring and masking and paper piecing I'm sorry to say that card is an epic fail!
So here instead is a happy dancing Santa from Birdie Brown. For anyone not in the know Torico has decided to close her Etsy shop at the end of November. I love her cute and whimsical style and so had a little spend last week!

 

For some reason I find myself humming the old Maynards Wine Gum Advert tune whenever I see this Santa. As the kids at school would say: 'that's a bit random Miss'. I've discovered that the ad is based on a song called 'There's a moose loose about this hoose'. If you want to hear the original tune AND watch a super cute video of a toy moose in various locations around someone's home click here!

 

Anyhoo, have a lovely weekend, and please wish me luck with my 'epic fail card' as I will try all over again tomorrow!

Lovely Lollypie!

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing a super simple card to showcase my favourite image from Maria's adorable Lollypie collection. She is called 'Special Delivery'.

Isn't she a cutie? I love the sweet simplicity of this digi so decided to keep everything fairly CAS. I think the DPs are from Bittersweet by Basic Grey

 

Just go here to find Maria's sweet stamps, and to see what my far more talented Teamies have created with some of the other images available. Trust me, we are talking serious talent from those ladies.

 

Happy crafting everyone!

Beautiful Hannah hanging out with two weird old women!

My best friend's daughter is 21 today! I know it's a cliche, but it really does seem like only yesterday that she was born.

I CASEd this card and gave the cute Saturated Canary image red hair as Hannah is a red head - only to discover that she is currently blonde!

Isn't she a beauty! And check out that lovely cake - shame the bling hasn't photographed that well.

Here's Hannah flanked by two strange women: that's Mom (Jacquie) on the left and 'Auntie' Jo (me) on the right, at her birthday party yesterday.

 

Believe it or not I'm linking this card to the LIM Challenge to Use Designer Paper in a CAS Way.  It certainly was my intention for this to be a CAS card but it just got a little less CAS as it progressed.

 

So happy birthday darling girl, love you loads. Happy crafting everyone!

The diet starts here!

I wanna be in that LBD at Christmas time!

 

I need a 'sentiment/saying/punch line' for the inside of the card and so would love to hear your ideas and witticisms please.

BTW, this super adorable image is by Torico and it is available from her Etsy Shop until the end of November.

Happy 'humpday' everyone!

My first canvas!

Hi everyone, I hope you are having a good weekend so far!
Everything is very lazy here today as we both feel the need for some serious down time after a busy week.

 

I made this little canvas last weekend, but didn't get time to photograph it until today. I bought the canvas from Dunelm for 99p. I bought some acrylic paints at the same time and have to say that I am delighted at how good they are for the price!

The image is a cute 'Bestie' by Sheri Baldy, coloured with Promarkers and then slathered in Stickles. I created the background by painting several layers of fushia pink acrylic paint onto the canvas and then stamping white paint with a very old stamp that I use on alot of my cards. The texture is amazing IRL and looks as if the canvas has been 'iced' rather than painted.

 

Happy crafting everyone!

She'll make a beautiful bride.

My lovely friend Alex just got engaged, so guess who made a card?

As you can see I left everything pretty simple, just added some glitter and Diamond Glaze plus two little gems in her hair... just like Alex wears!

I love this image from Saturated Canary and was delighted to get an opportunity to use it.
Challenge #192 at I {heart} Promarkers is an Anything goes week so I'm going to link up and play along.

Have a great weekend everyone!