Peacock Stepper xx

Good morning 

Ohhh its a bit chilly here today but still the sun is shining and my flu/cold bugs are almost away!!

What a busy time here we've been having from dentist, to tattooist and then our 10th Wedding Anniversary!! Ekkkk can't  believe its been 10 years since we got married and over 13 years together!! We had a n amazing weekend in Edinburgh, doing touristy things and eating far too much and staying in the Mercure hotel that looks right over to the Castle! Best wee time ohhhh and made better finding Dairy-Free Fudge .......... couldn't believe me eyes and it tasted divine!!

Anyways enough of me, 

Did you catch Fiona last night and again this morning on HOCHANDA with the fabulous Fancy Edge'ables?? I think these are some of my favourites dies from Crafter's Companion and love making a wee card with them!

Here's a fun wee stepper card I made

The Edge'able is the Marseille and the image is a wee Some Odd Girl, Peacock Kaylee all coloured and glittered with my Spectrum Noirs.

The colours I used to colour the image are

Skin - TN2, FS2, FS4, FS6, FS8

Hair - TN3, TN5, TN9, EB4

Purple - PL1, PL2, PL3, PL4, PL5

Blue - BT2, BT4, BT5, BT7

Green - CG1, CG2, DG3

Eyes - DG3, TN5

I would like to enter this into the following Challenges

Die Cut Divas - Happy Birthday

Dragonfly Journeys - Shake Your Tail Feathers

A Gem of a Challenge - Female Birthdays

Fussy and Fancy - Music (Shake Your Tail Feathers)

Simply Papercraft - Anything Goes

Crafty Ribbons - Birthday

Hope you like my wee card as much as I loved making it

Well got loads to finish before I head of with my SWRI ladies this weekend

Take care lovelies

Huggles Mel xx

Just a little Thanks xxx

Afternoon everyone

Hope you are all staying dry today??

Its just horrible here, more like Autumn! Cold and wet and just not nice for our summer! I mean this time last year I'm sure I was sunning myself in the garden with a good book and my crochet! Ack well, fingers crossed Mr Sun puts his hat back on soon!

Now today I wanted to share a wee card I made for a special person to just THANK them for everything they've done for me the past few years!

 

The lovely papers are Basic Grey Fresh Cut and I just love the gorgeous tones in the pad, tho its almost finished now boohoo!

The wee image is another one from Crafts and me, the pretty Ocean Rose coloured with promakers finished with some glitter and lots of mulberry flowers

I would like to play along with some challenges

I (heart) Promarker - 3 or more Layers

Crafty Ribbons - Anything Goes

Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes

Fan-tastic Tuesday - Feminine

Crafty Gals Corner - Anything Goes

Crafts and me - Fantasy

Well thats me for today, time for a quick cuupa before heading out in the wet!

Till next time 

Huggles Mel xxx

a touch of pink xx

Evening all

I do hope you are all well and had a lovely weekend?

We had a fab wee weekend even with me doing to much we managed to have fun! I even got back into the craft room to give it a tidy and make space for my new goodies I have to play with! Hoping I can get my Mother's Day ideas out into paper now

I had some fabby news today to out in blogland

woohoo!

little me won in the fab Crafty Gals Corner!

Here's another wee card using those fabby Crafts and Me images

I used the image Easter Lily coloured with promarkers, some really old Papermania papers, ribbon and mulberry flowers from my stash

oh and not forgetting the glitter!!

I want to enter this into the following Challenges

Crafts and Me - Ribbon

Penny's Paper Crafty - Lots of layers

Simon Says - Anything Goes

In the Pink - Cute

Well thats me for today off to get ready for Call the Midwife!

Take care all

huggles Mel xx

Colouring the rain away xx

Morning everyone

I do hope to find you all well??

I'm doing ok, had a good weekend but over did it a bit and ended up rather sore and feeling run down again! Still can't get used to taking it "extra" easy!! Maybe next weekend I'll be back to my wee self, it is my birthday weekend and want to enjoy it!

I spent most of Saturday colouring and Sunday making a few cards! The hours just disappeared on Saturday while I was colouring, perfect wee day for me and my promarkers and my favourite Crafts and Me digital stamps

I used the gorgeous Hannah Lynn Dee Dee image with the fab sunflower design coloured with promarkers and used an oldie Basic Grey 6x6 paper pad

I would like to enter the following Challenges

Crafts and Me - add ribbon

Chocolate, Coffee and Cards - Sketch

Passion For Promarkers - S is for Sunflowers

Simon Says Monday Challenge - Anything Goes

I loved colouring this wee image as well as the ones below that I'll be turning into wee cards in the next few days as well as working on something special!

Well time for a wonder around blogland

until next time

Huggles Mel xxx

Its almost Birthday Season xx

Afternoon all

Is it pouring where you are??

Its windy, cold and raining here and looks like the whole weekend will be the same! Will I've some cards to attempt with hubbys help (can't stamp yet as no strength lol) and lots of pretty yarn to play with while it pours!

March is a busy month here for us, so many Birthdays including my own which means lots of fun crafty time! It's still taking me days to make one card but at least I'm spending some time getting back into things starting with these 2 wee cards

I used an oldie but a goodie Magnolia Stamp coloured with promarkers and used some Basic Grey papers, ribbon and mulberry flowers from my stash and finished with a Craftwork Card sentiment

I would like to enter the following Challenges

My Time to Craft - Oriental

Crafty Gals - Bingo

Cute Card Thursday - Floral

This is another wee oldie stamp, one of my first ever and I still adore her! I coloured here with promarkers and papers and ribbon from my stash

I would love to enter her into the following Challenges

Papertake Weekly - Bingo

Creative Card Crew - Birthday with a Sentiment

The Sugar Bowl - Anything Goes

Even tho it takes me all my time just to create a simple card, I'm loving getting back into colouring and playing with my papers

Well I'm off out to the supermarket for the first time in exactly 4 weeks ekkk wish me luck

Huggles Mel xxx

Something Different xx

Hello lovely people

I do hope you are all well and enjoy this spot of sunshine we seem to have sneaked in before Autumn hits us! Good days for washing on the line and relaxing with a brew outside!

Today I want to share with you a little card I made for a Retirement! Now before I share, this is what I was asked to make

"some kind of card, maybe like a lock box, you know a Key safe???"

hmmmm as you can see wasn't much for me to go on! But on further discussion and even some pictures from them I figured out what they meant!

So it turns out that the lady is a bit of a stickler for making sure a Key Safe box id always lock or closed at work and she's always telling them off if they don't do it! 

What you think??

Took me a while to figure out what to do but once I got started it was easy!

The box was made by hand and just under an A5 card, the keys and sentiment I cheated with and used my trusty silhouette to cut and the little key pegs are rolled bits of card with a piece of card candi on the end!

I would like to enter the following Challenges

The Crafty Blogger - Anything Goes

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

Ruby's Rainbow - Keys

Fussy and Fancy Friday - More than 1 fold

Robyn's Fetish - Anything Goes

Crafting at the Weekend - Anything Goes

I hope you like my wee key safe as much as the lady did that received it! I do love a challenge and its great when someone asks me to create something different! Can't wait for the next one hee

Well gotta get ready, the old eyes are getting tested at later so gotta walk the dog and have a brew in the sunshine before popping out heee

Huggles Mel xxx

Hello everyone

its Friday which means its time form a post from little me, over on Clare Curds and wanted to share  the stunning summer themed paper Shoreline from American Crafts!

I'm such a paper magpie (as some of you already know) and these papers just needed to be in my stash and I knew they would make the perfect birthday card for a special friend

The wee card is a "Z" fold and is soooo simple to make

Here's how I did it

I used the lush papers, card blanks and some yellow card stock from my stash to make the main card and everything else I used to decorate was in my stash too

Firstly I took 2 to 6x6 card blanks folding them and then taking one and cutting an inch of one edge and then cutting the other card down to 4.5" square

Then I started decorating the inside and front panel of the large card by layer with the yellow card and the Shoreline papers

after that I stuck the small card blank to the inside of the large card with the opening going the opposite way. This forms the "Z" shape of the card, then decorate

I then used my spellbinders to make a small ornate frame for a birthday sentiment, you could use the Nestabilities Labels 25 to get the same effect and even better is they are on sale!

Then using my trusty Silhouette cameo I cut out this layered Bike added gems and flowers to the basket and highlighting with a black marker

and after added some Craftwork Sentiments and more gems the card is finished

I hope you like it as much as I enjoyed making it??
Well its party time here tomorrow with hubbies brother turning 40 and I've still loads to do!
Till next time
Hugges Mel xxx

Let's have some Monochrome xxx

Well hello my lovelies

I do hope you are all well on this rather dull Tuesday??

I've been up and swimming and then giving bloods and then made cupcakes all before 10am, woop go me!

Tho I was lucky it was the "evil serial killer" nurse this time, she normal take a run and jump and 6 times to get blood! Was a lovely new nurse that only needed to attempts to get blood from my non-existent veins! Does anyone else suffer the same problem and have the most evillest nurses that try to dig a whole in your arm just for a small amount of blood?? Ok I'm exaggerating as some nurses are amazing but there are some out there determined to injure you lol

Ok enough of the ramblings inside my head

This fortnight at Dream Valley Challenges we have another fab wee challenge of MONOCHROME

for you all to play along with! Plus the lovely Robyn's Fetish has a prized up for grabs for one lucky winner

Here's my creation

I hope you like my wee "Granny's Sewing" Box? I used the kit from My Time Made Easy and the papers are from My Minds Eye, inkyness with Distress inks and everything else form my stash oh oh oh and the Butterfly die is an oldie

I would like to enter the following Challenges

Crafty Ribbons - Anything Goes with Ribbon

Its all about Vintage - Haberdashery

Paper Crafting Journey - Distress/Vintage

That Craft Place - Monochrome

Flourishes - Autumn Colour

Creative Creations - Monochromatic

Fussy and Fancy - BINGO - flower, free, diecut

My Craft Creations - Ribbons and Bows

Simon Monday Challenge - Die Cut

I do hope you will play along this fortnight with Dream Valley Challenges and please check out what amazing creations the girls have come up with!

Now I'm off to sort emails, pack up parcels then maybe they'll be time to play

Have a fab Tuesday everyone

Huggles Mel xxx

Yeah ...... its a Caravan lol xxx

Well hello everyone

And how are all my lovelies out there in "blogland"? Hope you all have been well? I had a tiresome few days with getting bloods and what not but almost back to my wee cheery self today!

Today I wanted to share with you a little box I made, it was something totally different and soooooo amazing for my to get "my teeth" into so to speak!

So What can we have in the MIDDLE hmmmmm

Can anyone guess??

Its all in the title heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 

Yeah a caravan!

Took me forever to size this right and then hold till the glue set lol!

Here's some wee close ups

I hope you like it! I used some old papers I had in my stash, a old old old rose stamp and an wee Lili Of the Valley stamp to, everything else was from my stash including the flowers and gems

I would like to enter this into the following Challenges

C is for Challenge - Fresh and Bright

The Paper Girls - Glitter, Glitter, Glitter

The Crazy Challenge - Anything Goes

Stamp and Create - Glitter

2 Sisters Challenge - Anything Goes

Stampin' for the Weekend - Shape it Up

Creative Moments - Anything But a Card

Happy Campers - Summer

Well I'm off for now, got food shop to do plus get my hubbies dinner made

Huggles Mel xxx