Post 160... how did

I manage that ...

Have I really sat here that many times. !!!

I know I have not made that many cards.... Or have I..

Now you may laugh... you may go wow

or you may even go..that's not many !!

What am I babbling on about !!

Well this morning after doing my post's Hannah wanted to look at all my cards

So we started by putting a few on my desk.. 

NOT enough room

we then put some onto the floor.. but 

the dogs were sniffing them and getting in the way

so I decided that putting them on the bed would be best... 

so hannah took them into her room...

guess what

NOT enough room

mmmm

Our bed it is then

I left her to it for half an hour..and look what I came back to

lol...

it was so funny walking into the bedroom and seeing them all together

and looking at them there seems to be a few that I have not shown on here

so I will have to have a look through and show.

We didn't count how many there was

but I think I have enough to last a while..lol

Had to share this seen as Hannah spent so much time doing it

the Christmas are one side 

and birthday etc the other

Hannah took the pic too. and even manged to line the easel cards up in a row on the back of the bed

Right I think that is is from me for today...

I am going to see which cards I have not blogged

and take some pictures

and also make some

double chocolate brownies.

I will post a pic of them tomorrow..

Yummy

Thanks for stopping by xxx

Lil Christmas Willow ..

Another take two of a image

This time it is my Lil Christmas Willow

from Tinkled Pink

I had previously coloured her black and white..here

but this time she is full colour...

And looking very Christmassy don't you think

I used greens for her dress this time round as I have more shades

then used the traditional red to highlight stripes

here is a close up of her

I know I go on about this, but I really can not wait to colour her with my Spectrum Noir pens

when I get hold of them once were in the UK. so I can do shading better.

(with practice anyway)

Thanks for stopping by xx

Fairy Tales part two

I should have posted this last night

but I got myself comfy on the sofa watching

James Bond with Paul

no contest really, Daniel Craig or blogging !!!!

Well this is not part two just another card using the same image...

a freebie from E.Dulemba, (thanks Judie for the info I should really save images as the designers name)

Anyway I made her different this time round

I coloured her in... 

As you can see by the previous post I did paper piecing

and I have to admit thought she looked rather nice

but I wanted to see if she would look better coloured

so here she is

Now I do like her coloured as well

but I think I like the first one better

here is the card finished...

I am going to colour her again as I am now not so keen on the black

I think it makes the card look a tad dark

I added a touch of glitter to her wings 

Anyway I have a few ideas for another version

so watch this space

thanks for stopping by xx

Fairy Tales..

I have managed to make three cards this afternoon

Paul is home so busy working in the workroom

so I have been quietly sat making cards.

trying my hardest not to talk to much

anyway I have made a Back to school card

Am sure this will come in handy once we are back in the UK

here it is

Now I can not remember were I got the image from

But at the bottom of it there is a website which says

www.dulemba.com ...

I have been over and tried to find but can not

I am entering this into three Challenges so have made it to fit all three (hopefully)

the Challenges are

Catch the bug - Warm colours and Paper piecing

Allsorts - Back to School

Make it Monday - Anything goes

Anyway how its made

I printed the image onto white cardstock

then onto the orange backing paper

I then cut out the sections I wanted to use for the 

Paper piecing

they were then glued into place.

I have not coloured her at all left her black and white

As I think she looks rather nice

Then I layered card and paper and attached her on top

down the left I edge punched the same paper as I used to paper piece so it matched

then I added flowers and the sentiment

I do hope this is ok for the Challenges

thanks for stopping by xx

Christmas.... the dreaded word for

some people, but I have once again made a card

I am well over the amount I need to make !!!

I have used an image from Tickled Pink 

She is called Lil Christmas Willow

and she is so nice to colour

Although for this card she isn't colourful...

But I have made her colourful for another card

which I will make up today

here she is

The backing paper is the inside of an envelope !!

I cut two slit's and put the grey card through 

instead of cutting the paper and layering.

I then added a square of red card 

then on top a die printed with the sentiment.

As you can see I went for grey's when colouring

Then just a splash of colour with the tree

and of course her eyes

It took me a while to get her to look right

Because it seems harder when using pencil's

to get the shading right

(roll on Christmas...lol)

I am rather please with the finished card

and I will be having a go at doing the same

but with a different Digi image from Pink.

Thanks for stopping by x

I am a tad..

Delicate today,,, 

The BBQ went very well last night

Everyone ate and drank lots...well drank more than ate

there wasn't a lot of us, just the 4

but we managed to polish off you ready for this

3 bottles of Vodka

half a bottle of Frangelica

half a bottle of bailey's

so all in all..we are a little hung over...

and to make it worse.. I woke up at 530 this morning

even though it was 1am when I went to bed.

I am now in the mood to make a card,

so I am going to do a little blog hopping

and see if there are any challenges I fancy doing.

If not then I will just see what I can come up with

I may post today..or it may be tomorrow

The car is not well once again, so that has to go to the garage tomorrow

Hope you have all had a lovely weekend so far..

I will be popping over to see.

Thanks for stopping by xx

CDAC entry number two

I have made another card for the challenge over at

Crafters Digital Art Center...

go over and have a look, they supply the images to use

This time I have used 

Whoopsiedaisy digi stamp

she is a cute little ballerina

Now this is the first time I have gone for using Flowers.. 

not handmade ones but bought ones

I found them at a Chinese shop, there wasn't a great selection

but what you see is what they had

Isn't she cute 

I have coloured her with pencil as usual, 

And even did a little bit of shading round her this time.

I used backing paper from humphreys corner, it was a freebie

I then attached the corner of a square doily with the layered image over

then onto the flowers. 

I wasn't sure on how would best work as it's my first time

I played about with them for ages

on a piece of paper

but when it came time to glue them

they ended up different anyway

But I am fairly pleased with the result

The large pin is a hat pin I made a small bow and stuck the pin through 

and then stuck the pin into the flower

the smaller ones are normal sewing pins I just added purple beads

(from Hannah's bead colection... shhhh)

by super glue-ing them on

I think I am going to pop back to the Chinese shop

and buy some more flowers

I noticed silk ones

which I was thinking I could pull apart..

Right I had best get on..

BBQ to sort

Thanks for popping over and hope to see you here again

Claire xx

The weekend is

is here once again... yippee..

Seems over the last couple of weeks I have had no time at the weekend

for crafty time.. Paul has no deadlines, so he isn't working

and we have had friends over in Portugal so we have been going places..

Last weekend we went up into the mountains..

It was lovely, we went rock climbing, paddling in the stream 

and even bumped into these gorgeous animals

 I couldn't believe how tame they are.. even so I didn't try to stroke them

You can just see some of the mountain behind him..

Now this one decided he was hungry and invaded someones picnic

I am so glad it wasn't ours and it was locals...

they just pushed him away.. I certainly wouldn't move him !!

here he is helping him self !!!

Here is Paul with our friends children,Rock hopping through the stream

I am quiet far back here as I have the bag's, shoes to contend with

And it is so slippery, I went in further than planned a couple of times..

Soggy wet sundress and bikini bottoms...

(big grin)

Oh and not forgetting the bottom of the bag!!!

This one is when we first got down to the stream, as you can see shoes off and paddle

Paul will be telling me off for putting this on here..."I look fat" haha

Hannah doesn't look to sure about rock hopping, but after five minutes

she was off.. and I was left behind.

Anyway this weekend is just as mad..

tomorrow we are going to the local market again

then in the afternoon it is our turn to entertain

BBQ time... 

I have lots to do, BBQ marinade to make

and clean the BBQ from last time

why do I leave it.. I really should clean it after the last one

Are you lot the same !!

right I had best get on.

I have another post to do with a card to show

Thanks for stopping by xx

Bag of rubbish

Yes you have read that right....

I will explain...

I am sat here with a coffee, having ten minutes break from cleaning windows..

the job that takes me three hours to do just the downstairs.

anyway onto the bag of rubbish..

It isn't rubbish so to speak it is CANDY

you have to go to Lazy cats and see the post

It made me giggle..

Penni's husband has done a post on her blog !!!!

and is giving what he calls a bag of rubbish away.

Click here and go see the post it will make you smile all day

I thought it was so funny... 

but then thought about it... what if Paul was to do the same....

I would be so upset.. as he doesn't know what I use the most

or what is my favorite thing !!!

doesn't bare thinking about.

Here is the bag of "rubbish"

I just have to say..thankyou Simon for the bag of Penni's rubbish

Simon says Childrens Challenge

It is me again.

I am writing this post for Hannah as she is entering

Simon Says Stamp Childrens Challenge 

While I was making my card 

Hannah decided she wanted to make her own

and has been bugging me all morning to post it into the challenge

The image is from Crafter Digital Arts Center

part of their challenge

so here it is

Hannah has done everything even down to taking the pictures

The only thing I had to do was make sure the dies were the right way up

when she was using my machine

Hannah is nine years old and is hoping you all like it

She is going to give it to Lynne(old neighbor)

 to say hello when we move back to the UK

Thank you for having a look at Hannah's card xx

I have found

a lovely new site that is doing challenges

its called Crafters Digital Art Centre

They are doing a Progressive freebie challenge

so if you join the site and the challenge they send you

Digi images to use to create a project 

to enter into the challenge.

this is the grand prize at the end of all the challenges

Pop over and take a look 

I have chosen  priscillastles digi image

and this is what I have made

I decided to go for mainly black and white

with just a little green

I have left the card without a sentiment for the time being

as I am not sure on what to use it for.

Here is a closer view of my colouring

As you can see it is with pencil

There is also another challenges that this card may fit into

Papertake Weekly - Dies to Die for..

 I have used my multi frame round dies 

I am now going to go and play with one of the other

digi images from CDAC and see what I can make.

Thanks for stopping by xx

Stamping ground number 116

yes its what's on Your Workdesk Wednesday with Julia

were you can go take a sneaky peak at other peoples work desks 

or were ever else they tend to do all things crafty

Well here is mine and I can tell you it isn't that exciting this week

As you can see I have my S.W.AL.K stamp out and some stamping done

although I am not colouring until I get to the UK, 

They are going into the folder on the left which is full 

of lovely things to colour with my new pens

then there is also some flowers and circles

that I have cut using me machine.

See I told you it wasn't very exciting.

Am sure if you go over and take a look

there are some more exciting desk's to look at

which is where I am going now..firstly to Kath's

Thanks for stopping by xx

Less is More... week 29

I have missed a few weeks as I just have not had the time 

But I am back.... for a few weeks, or until we finally move

I don't have much to do now so I can spend more time 

with my craft things hiding away in my room.

so today is the first day of starting to do Challenges again

and were better to start

Less is more with Chrissie and Mandy

this weeks theme is.... Things that move..

so here is what I made this morning...

Sorry the picture isn't brilliant the light over here is not good

As you can see it is a shaped card

I am getting fed up with square

It is actually part of a book card

but I have re sized and added the image

The little buzzy bee is coloured with Pencils

and I have added a verse to the inside

I hope there is enough white space showing

I may even make another for the challenge

as the theme this week has endless possibilities.

Thanks for stopping by xx

A card

Yes I have a card to show you

Sorry I have not been on here much

bad Claire, I do miss blog hopping 

so if I havn't been commenting am sorry 

I will do my best to pop over to you more

I have a card to show..

I've had this decoupage made up for some time

so decided I would make the card up to get it out of the to do tub

here is the decoupage, it's a twisted one

Nice and Christmassy !!!

is that such a word, or have I just made that one up...!!!

I thought these would be quiet hard to make but it was easier than the normal layered ones

here's the full card.. mainly red and green layering with a fewsticky dots in the corners. and then a added sentiment that I got from Bugaroo blog

Quick and easy to make.

I shouldn't be making Christmas cards now as I have far to many !!!

but there fun to make.


I am going to enter this into


Make it Monday were anything goes.

Morning all..

Now I was online over the weekend for a brief moment in between all the going out

and sorting out.. and I noticed that over at a Thousand Sheets of Paper blog

there is an amazing Blog Candy !!

and guess what it is..

1000 sheets of paper

here is what it looks like

then there is also among the give away this

Its unreal..

You HAVE to pop over and have a look at the amazing cards Amy makes,

 I have been following her for a while,

 just missed her blog candy last year.

which was just as good.

Keep up the brilliant work and Thankyou for the opportunity

Please help.. if you want to

I have a huge favor to ask... 

I  received an email from Carolyn on Wednesday which made me sad..

Carolyn's daughter has cancer

and Carolyn is asking for help

After reading it I answered straight away with a yes.

Your now wondering why I answered YES Well here goes

I  am not going to just copy and paste the email but I have chosen part of the email to show..

"If you could find it in your heart to send her a 

"Thinking of You" or "Your in My Prayers" card to boost her moral a little 

I would really appreciate it. 

If you think you could, then just reply to this email 

and I will send you her address here in Canada. 

If you can't send a card.... that's ok too ..... 

just add her to your prays an I will be grateful for that too."

Since the email Carolyn has put a post on her blog

so if you want to know more click Carolyn

Hopefully you have hopped over to have a look !!

I think it is a lovely idea

Although I am British The card will be arriving from Portugal

So if any of you would like to help am sure 

Carolyn, and especially her daughter

will be so very happy.

here is the card I am sending

It is a book easel card

Which I thought would represent a bible !!

and bibles have prayers in them.

I added a cross to the right hand page

not entirely sure why..

I just thought it would be nice.

I added the sentiment on the pc

before printing out and cutting and layering

I added ribbon, stick on dots and

homemade flowers and swirls.

I have also added a message on the back of the book

and of course my signature.

I do hope it gets to Susan in one piece 

and isn't squashed 

lets hope the post men and ladies

are careful

Hannah made a card also.. 

but that one will be a surprise.

Susan and Carolyn, your in our thoughts xx