It's that time....

Hello there,

Happy Saturday! I hope you are well today.

Wow - so it's the end of August already! Amazing! It's that time of year....the school holidays are over and children are going back to school. Over at Sweet Stampin we are celebrating this time of year with a "back to school" theme for our challenge this week.

Now, without children myself and my own school days being rather a long time ago I found this quite a hard theme to relate to! However, as I was already out of my comfort zone when I sat down to create this card I decided to push myself some more by creating something a little bit different....

Ok, so what is so different I hear you cry....looks like a standard card to us! 

Well let me explain....

I've used a more masculine colour theme than normal,

I've used an image I rarely use

and most importantly...it's a little bit wonky!

Yes, that wonky green backing paper is wonky on purpose! My cards are usually very straight...that's just my style....a square here, a rectangle there etc. etc. Secretly though I've always admired cards that are a little be wonky, with a more thrown together feel to them. That free and easy placing of papers makes me smile....but for some reason I still revert back to straight positioning of my papers. Until this card was born....OK the majority of the papers are still very straight, but that green paper makes me very happy!

For more "back to school" inspiration pop by the Sweet Stampin challenge blog and take a peek at the gorgeous DT cards that Team Abi have created this week. While you're there you can also learn all about our fab sponsor this week...

Last weekend Lorna and I held a Mad Hatter's Tea Party at her house - we provided iced tea and bubbles and lots of homemade treats for our friends and family.....plus we all dressed as characters from Alice in Wonderland. Lorna styled our tea table perfectly with all kinds of objects and beautiful flowers......

Mad Hatter Tea Party
Tea With Me and Friends

Savoury afternoon tea treats
Tea With Me and Friends

If you'd like to see more photos of our scrummy afternoon tea take a peek at our afternoon tea blog - Tea With Me and Friends (although a visit might leave you drooling!)

Thank you for popping by today,

Wedgie xxx

What a lovely weekend!

Hello there! Happy Sunday!

The weather has been suberb this weekend in Aldershot and I've had such a lovely time. My sister Lorna, her hubby Jim and their puppy Barry visited me yesterday and stayed overnight. We had a picnic and played with Barry in the sunshine. Then we had friends over for dinner...then we banished the boys and had a really girlie evening complete with bubbles and giggles! So much fun!

Today I've had a bit of a lazy day, which has been lovely. I spent this afternoon making up some card orders and making some DT....I suddenly feel a bit organised!

Anyway...my last card was a bit different....and so is this one.....

 

Wow...yes I made a masculine card! And double wow...I'm actually quite pleased with it! The fab layout is from the sketch over at Crazy 4 Challenges this week and I really enjoyed using it. My Pollycraft image has been coloured with my Promakers.

 

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:

 

Crafty Sentiments - male card

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge - back to school

Crazy 4 Challenges - sketch

Allsorts - layers

 

Pop by all the blogs mentioned to see the gorgeous DT cards that have been made.

 

I got some more exciting news yesterday...I was featured as one of the spotlight cards of the week over at Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge....thank you so much ladies!!

 

 

Finally I thought I'd share with you the rather scrummy pudding I made for my friends last night....there is only one problem....I forgot to take a photo before we all got stuck in!!!

 

 

It has a wonderful biscuit base and the most decadent chocolate truffle topping. Soooo yummy.....but soooo bad for you!!

 

Thanks for popping by today,

Wedgie xxx

Back to School

Hello there...Happy Wednesday!

I hope you're having a good week so far. I'm a happy bunny today because I've discovered that I won top 3 over at Crafty sentiments last week - thank you for picking me!

So the schools in my area are all back this week...I know mainly because the traffic is worse!

For today's challenges I've made a back to school card....

I love this Pollycraft image.....isn't she cute in those stripey tights and flower in her hair? I've gone with a bright yellow and a blue and white patterned paper background for this card.

I printed this digi image a little larger than I normally would do....she wouldn't fit very well on my usual square cards...so I dug out a tall base card instead and I think it works quite well.

My image has been coloured with my Promarkers and I've added a the sentiment which I created on my computer.

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Cupcake Craft Challenge - colour inspiration photo
Love to Create - back to school
Tuesday Throwdown - back to books
Papertake Weekly - anything goes

Pop by all the blogs mentioned to see the gorgeous DT cards that have been created this week.

Thanks for popping by today,
Wedgie xxx