Challenge ATC's

I made these two ATC's for the sheer joy of crafting, and decided, although it's a bit late - to put them in two challenges -- Ice Blue Indian for TMTA and the Beeswax Valentine, which I had enormous fun making, for the Arty Girls challenge, which was just to make an ATC. The lady on the red ATC is a Crafty Individuals image and the Indian was a Joanna Sheen image - the metal tag saying is from Senti-Metals.
Find Artygirlz here.

Cards ..

I made these cards for friend's birthdays, one is horse mad and the other loves oriental stuff - so I used a Laura Ashley stamp for both backgrounds, stippling them both with a hard bristle brush and backing the Hero Arts butterfly collage with a cuttlebug embossed piece of toning card. I also painted the butterfly with Twinkling H20's and finished it off with a tiny, hand tied bow. The horse is a Joanna Sheen image from one of her cd's. I printed the sheet of toppers off on photo paper - it's come up quite well..

Another Award WooHoooo !!!

Hope this month is the start of a brilliant year for me and mine, and you and yours too, whoever is reading this little post. I have been given another lovely award by my SBS sister Stevie over at ..Create with Stevie..

I have to nominate at least 7 others, and unlike my previous award, which had no 'must do's ' and where I was lazy and awarded it to everyone simply because I love everyone, this time I have thought long and hard about it, as is normal in this life, you can't choose everyone, so here goes for my 7 nominees ....

1.Lynn
2.Judy
3.Kirsten
4.Ginger
5.Kristen
6.Sandie R
7.Sue

New Award

My friend Sue has awarded me this lovely cup - no notes, or instructions or lists to go with it, so it must be a 'No strings attached' award - I like those ones - I normally end up leaving someone out who I wanted to include - so, like my SBS sister Christina, I will just say to everyone who visits my blog, take this award with my love and blessings ...

Pink Saturday

Today's little treasure is shared with the blessings of her Nanna Kristen, her name is Peyton, -- look at those tresses, such a beautiful colour!!
and a perfect pink post for Pink Saturday, over at How Sweet the Sound go and visit Beverley and see all the other lovely pink things. I also wanted to share with you some home truths that a friend of mine emailed to me, asome of these are so true and since my posts mostly consist of beautiful little girls dressed in pink, I thought these sayings were just perfect!

GREAT TRUTHS THAT LITTLE CHILDREN HAVE LEARNED:


1) No matter how hard you try, you can't baptize cats.


2) When your mom is mad at your dad, don't let her brush your hair.


3) If your sister hits you, don't hit her back. They always catch the second person


4) Never ask your 3-year old brother to hold a tomato.


5) You can't trust dogs to watch your food.


6) Don't sneeze when someone is cutting your hair.


7) Never hold a dust-buster and a cat at the same time.


8) You can't hide a piece of broccoli in a glass of milk.


9) Don't wear polka-dot underwear under white shorts.


10) The best place to be when you're sad is Grandpa's lap.

Happy Pink Saturday everyone xx

Forever..

The stamp I used for this card is a huge Elusive Images stamp, which I stamped twice and cut out the lovers from the second image. This is for an engagement card with a difference, and was coloured with watercolour pencils ..

Magic Moments

For some reason, the background hasn't shown up on the scan - it's like a cross hatched pattern in pale blue - which is a shame because it sets the whole thing off.
These two cheeky chappies are painted with Twinkling H20's

Pink Saturday

I haven't had time to do any blogging for a couple of weeks now, so I must apologise to all who visit me. Beverly over at How Sweet the Sound is hosting Pink Saturday again so you must all visit the lovely pink things on so many lovely people's blogs ......my post this week is another pink little girl. I think her eyes captivated me underneath that little bonnet... I have had a hectic time over Christmas and New Year, but now, everything is back to normal again and I am starting to feel hyper again -- need to get back to making cards and challenges. I have a lot of cards ready to go over to Spain for a friend's animal charity, and here, in UK, we have several charities for children with cancer, Hope House and Claire House to name two of them - so next I will start making a bunch of cards to donate to them, I normally do around 20 for each charity shop ......busy, busy, busy - back to normal. Happy Pink Saturday everyone.

Happy New Year

I am greeting the new year with a picture taken from a magazine produced by a small animal charity, Freshfields, whose main aim is to rescue ponies, sheep, dogs, cats, pot-bellied pigs and anything else four legged that is thrown out, particularly at this time of year, when people still persist in buying cuddly baby animals for Christmas presents, they have too many of everything, from rabbits upwards and run two or three small shops selling donated goods towards the cost of feedstuff, bedding etc......
I am also using this picture for my Pink Saturday entry, because I feel that charity is something that touches all our lives somtimes, So to Beverley at How Sweet the Sound, and to everyone who visits, Happy Pink Saturday, and Happy New Year xxx

It's Nearly Christmas..

Thank goodness I have finished all my cards now, these are the last three to go out - famous last words, because there is always somebody who sends you a card and you forgot to put them on your list, so it's a quick New Year card ......one of these is for the bungalow across the road from us, the people only moved in over the last couple of days, and I don't even know their names yet, but hey - a card pushed through the letterbox welcoming them costs nothing but a bit of time ...

TMTA - Lamps

here's my ATC with a lamp in it's a Magenta stamp. The shame is that the scan doesn't pick up the glitter, which really sparkles on the snowy foreground ..
Here's the Link for TMTA to go and see lots of lovely Lamps.

Pink Saturday

Couple of different photos for you today for Pink Saturday. I found another sweet little pink baby for you and a photo of a rug I made a few years ago. It is photographed in our last house, and is almost 6ft long by 3.5ft wide - took me ages to make it. I call it my Thoughts rug, because apart from the sun in the centre, the other colours were laid because I thought they blended together ok.. Please pop over to Bev at HowSweettheSound to see lots more lovely pink things :-)
Here's the Link

Warm and Cozy and Bows

I made two ATC's for the challenge at One Powerful House (link over on the left) one with a chipboard tag and stamps to match it, and the other with a tiny House Mouse stamp which I shall also enter in Wednesday Stamper, Bows. (The Link for this challenge is also on the left hand side of my blog.

TMTA - Red

Third time trying to get Blogger to load my atc's, my computer nearly winged it's way through the window tonight :-( I made two atc's for this challenge, a Santa tag ATC using Joanna Sheens Victoria Christmas and a naughty girls ATC using images from Craft Individuals. Please pop over to TMTA and follow the links to all the red ATC's out there ....enjoy !!

EDIT - for some reason the atc's have come up really small, please double click on them to enlarge and see the details.

Pink Saturday

Beverley over at HowSweettheSound is hosting our Pink Saturday again, please call in and see all the lovely pink posts. I wanted to find something a bit different for this week, so I am posting just one picture, it's a joke a friend sent to me through the internet, I thought it was so funny and hope you do too !!

Before I actually finish this post, I wanted to share something with you all........

To be content with everything around you, you first have to be content within yourself.
Happy Pink Saturday my friends xx