A Footie card for my grandaughter

It's my football playing grandaughters birthday at the beginning of March. Lacey is a gorgeous tomboy with beautiful long hair but loves playing for her local junior soccer team in Yorkshire. I've been very MSE and used up some blue Pink Petticoat papers I had and it's also my first coloured image with my brand new Promarkers. Image came with the help of wbr on the MSE forum.

MSE Mothers Day card - Sepia Tones

After the brilliant inspiration from the fab Gemma I thought I'd have a go at the MSE challenge of a Mothers Day card. The paper is from a gorgeous Stampin' Up set I bought from Monica and so is the scallop punch I used on the print flowers. These flowers were an inspired idea by Wendy Smedley and I used loads of sepia and gold ink to give the flowers a lift. The image is from a kit by Hunkydory on Create & Craft.tv. The other cream flowers and ribbon I bought in Canada at a dollar store, 15 flowers for about 60p, a bargain and I had fun inking the edges with the sepia and gold inks. The card is for my wonderful Mother in Law, bless you Mum! I'm going to enter this is in a couple of challenges too. (if I can find them!)

The Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge
Quixotic Paperie Challenges
Magical Crafts Fortnightly Challenge
Creative Inspirations Wednesday Challenge Blog

A big 'Thank You' to Rusty and rainmac on MSE for pointing the way to the challenges.

Just made this quick card for a Red Hat friend, Adele Countess of Serenity. The little picture is just so like her. The script paper is Pink Petticoat and the image is from a kit.

Just finished off this one for a belated birthday. loving the script background at the moment.

A quick make for my grandaughter Lucy over in Canada. The girls love Hannah Montanna so stickers it was. Inspiration from the very talented Dawny P. I love the cards she creates for amongst others Pink Gem who have the most fab stamps.

A Christmas Wedding

Just before Christmas I covered some sweet jars for my friend Penny's daughter's wedding. I was away in Canada when the wedding day came but Penny, Louise and Ian kindly took a photo of the jars and have sent the photo as a greetings card. It's now a special keepsake for me. How fab is that!
'Thank You' Louise and Ian and Penny too! Every happiness wished for you both. It was my pleasure.

I've made a couple of Thank You cards for my Red Hat friends in Canada. I'm quite pleased especially with the one on the right. The flowers are decoupage Kanban kits (I think)

My OH and I flew to Canada on Christmas Day to spend some time with my son, DIL and my three gorgeous grandchildren. I'd had a serious fall on the ice three days before flying but BA were brilliant in getting a wheelchair available for me. Terminal 5 at Heathrow is huge and there is absolutely no way I could have walked through there. Being in a chair and being pushed by Heathrow staff meant we got priority all the way with being first in the queue. Great stuff!!

The faces on my grandchildren when we turned up will stay with me forever as they knew nothing about us coming. We had a fabulous time in Canada, we stayed over in Niagara Falls and had a suite with a view of the Falls whilst we sat up in bed watching the light show. It was -13 degrees during the day we were there. The CN Tower is amazing and it was a cold but beautiful clear day and we could see for miles and I walked acroos the glass floor. Parts of Lake Ontario were frozen, just a wonderful sight.

I met up with some Canadian Red Hatters who took my DIL and myself to 'Hgh Tea at The White House. Wonderful tea rooms owned by an English lady who is a tea master. The White House had a wonderful range of teas and the cake stand was an amazing site with gorgeous sandwiches, cakes and wonderful Devon scones with real Devon cream (checked the label on the jar!!)

It's ages since I updated my blog but, now my general health is better and I have the ability to stand for longer and craft, I'm starting of with huge belated thanks for the fab people on MSE who sent me these gorgeous Christmas cards. Thank You everyone.

More Christmas cards

I love the snowman images I bought from Pccrafter of the snowmen, so sweet. I sprinkled glamour dust over their noses to give the card a little sparkle. I made 16 of these for my card swappers in the US




The second card - sort of easel style made a change with brown and gold, not a Christmas colour combo but I like it. I'm most definitely a card candy freak now, so much easier than brads.

Christmas Card

Its ages since I made a post so here's the first picture of one of my Christmas cards. I do like to take photo's in natural light but the daylight is awful at the moment so flat on my work top will have to do. I didn't have a great deal of ribbon left so made this knot by winding riboon around two fingers of OH's hand, tying a double knot, sliding off and cutting the loop at an angle.