It's all peachy.....and a bit blue

Hello there,

I hope you're well today.

I had a spare hour before I dinner prep this evening, so I headed to my craft room to make some cards. There is something so therapeutic about being creative and playing with colours - I blast my (country) music up loud, sing badly and get my craft on!

So tonight I decided to play with some colours that I don't use together very often....a bit of peach and a bit of blue....

I have used a combination of pretty papers, ribbon, a digi stamp birthday cake and a die-cut notelet that looks like a doilie. The notelet is part of a new set that I have, there are six different designs in the pack, but I think this is my favourite - its so pretty!

I have used two ribbons, they have been stitched to each other to keep them in place (which meant I got to use my sewing machine - woo hoo). At first I thought the blue ribbon was a little too dark, but I think I have balanced it out well with the blue cake plate in the image. I have coloured my image with my Promarkers, using an ivory colour for the cake, an orange and green for the flowers and a blue for the place. 

Finally I added a little glitter to my flowers with my Stickles.

All in all I am pretty pleased with this card. I think the colours give a delicate look to the card, which matches my fake doilie. 

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

Allsorts - ribbon and lace

Fab n Funky - something new - the diecut notelet

Cute Card Thursday - hey what's new - the diecut notelet

Pop by all these fab challenge blogs for more DT card inspiration.

Thank you for popping by today,

Wedgie xxx

Bring on the cake!

Hello there,

Happy Saturday! I hope you've had a lovely week!

Today I back with a fabulous new challenge from Sweet Stampin....a challenge is that very dear to my heart! If you have popped by this blog before or seen my afternoon tea blog you'll know that I am rather partial to cake! I love it all...Victoria sponge, coffee, lemon, chocolate...you name it and I'll try it. My sister recently made a gin and tonic cake....how good does that sound??

Anyway, if you hadn't already guessed...our challenge at Sweet Stampin is....CAKE!

So, you might not be able to tell from this picture....but this little cutie is literally little...measuring just 9cm x 9cm. Normally when I create dinky cards like this I keep it simple, I tend to just stamp, colour and add some faux stitching....so this time I decided to challenge myself to adding a little more.

I have to say I am really pleased with how this turned out, its still not overly complicated with just two papers and a little faux stitching, but there is definitely more elements on there than my usual dinky creations!

For more cake inspiration pop by the Sweet Stampin challenge blog to see the scrummy cards that my fellow teamies have created! While you're there you can read all about our lovely sponsor this week...

If you fancy drooling over some more cards, why not pop by our afternoon tea blog....guilt free reading guaranteed!

Tea With Me and Friends

We have a lovely new logo - let me know what you think!

Thanks for popping by today,

Wedgie xxx

Woo hoo.....it's time to celebrate!

Hello there,

I hope you are well and having a good week.

This week it's celebration time over at Sweet Stampin as we are celebrating our 5th Birthday! I have been part of this wonderful DT for several years now and I love every minute of it - such a lovely and talented bunch of crafters!

So, let's get celebrating - we want to see your Happy Birthday cards to help us celebrate! We want to see a reference to birthdays on the front of the card and of course there has to be some stamping on the card (can be a digi stamp). It probably won't surprise you that my card features the odd cake or two.....

I opted for a pink and blue colour combo, featuring my cupcake trio and a lot of cherries! My cupcakes are coloured with my Promarkers and I have added a tiny bit of sparkle with my Stickles. 

For more Birthday card inspiration pop by the Sweet Stampin challenge blog. While you are there you can read all about our lovely sponsors this week....

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Papertake Weekly - soooo girlie

I also just wanted to tell you about the UK Blog Awards 2015 - you may know that I write a little afternoon tea blog with my sister Lorna, which features reviews and rather a lot of scrummy afternoon tea photos! We entered the UK Blog Awards 2014 and we so pleased to make it to the finals - this year we want to try again...but we need your help!

Tea with Me and Friends at the UK Blog Awards 2014

The public vote is currently open....and we need your vote to get us back to the judged round again! All you need to vote is access to the Internet and an email address....each email address can be used to vote once in each category (any multiple votes are not counted). We have entered in two categories this year, if you would like to vote please click the links below....

Food & Drink

Most Innovative

We'd really appreciate your vote!

Thanks for popping by today,

Wedgie xxx

Sketch Time!

Hello there!

Happy Saturday! I hope you are well and had a lovely week!

I'm here today with a fab sketch challenge from Sweet Stampin. Here is the sketch that we would like you to follow on your cards....

This is a lovely sketch to use....the only other thing you need to include is some kind of stamping!

This week was Joe's sister's Birthday....so I used this sketch to make her a card.....

I wanted the card to be bright and cheerful.....and of course include some cake!

I love these backing papers, the colours are so cute together. I've stamped my birthday cake image, added a little bit of colour with my Promarkers and a tiny bit of sparkle with my Stickles!

I am sorry for the wonky photo....I took the photo and then completely forgot to check it before I popped the card in the post to Jade! Whoops!

For more inspiration pop by the Sweet Stampin challenge blog....while you're there taking a peek at the gorgeous DT cards that have been created this week you can also read about our fab sponsors....

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

Make it Monday

Thank you for popping by today,

Wedgie xxx

Something a little bit different....

Hellooeee!

How are you? I hope you are well and have had a fab week.

Soooo...I'm back today with our new challenge from My Time to Craft....and this one is something I haven't tried before. We'd like to see your "triptic" cards...what's that I hear you cry...well basically we'd like to see you cut your image into three before sticking it onto your card.

Here is my card for you.....

 

Rather typically for me I've gone with a cake theme for this card! One of the reasons for this is because this is a lovely new stamp I have and its quite big...so I thought it would  look ok when I cut it up!

 

My image has been coloured with my Promarkers, I then cut it into three and attached it to the card, finally I added some sparkle with my Stickles. To compliment the pretty cake I went with a really girlie flowery backing paper and a simple Happy Birthday sentiment. I'm really pleased with this card.

 

Pop by the My Time to Craft challenge blog to see how the other fab DT members used this theme on their cards.

 

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

Make it Monday

Fab 'n' Funky - Happy Birthday

 

I thought I'd also share a couple of photos with you from my foodie trip to Clapham Common last weekend. Becca and I spent a wonderful Saturday at the Foodie Festival...eating, drinking and listening to fab live music.

 

Here we are on our deck chairs...

 

We ate some wonderful pulled pork from the new Jamie Oliver restuarant Barbecoa....

 

Plus we might have had the odd cocktail or two....these were rather large and wonderful Mojitos!

 

Thanks for popping by today,

Wedgie xxx



Calling all book worms!

Hello there!

Me again! So....has the the Easter Bunny paid you a visit yet??

Soooo...I'm back with the fab challenge from My Time to Craft....and this is another one that I love! We'd like to see you use either a book or a newspaper in your project somewhere.

So I decided to have a think about what kind of text I'd like on my card...then it came to me....a recipe book! As some of you know I love my recipe books rather too much and so I decided to photocopy a page for this card rather than tear a page out!

 

I really like this card and thoroughly enjoyed making it.

 

The recipe is for some brownies, and I think it goes really well with my super cute image and sweet Birthday sentiment. The image has been coloured with my Promarkers and I've used some gorgeous baking themed backing paper that I discovered recently. The prefect Birthday card for the baker in your life!

 

Pop by the My Time to Craft to see the other gorgeous DT cards that have been created this week!

 

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

 

Make it Monday

Simon Says Stamp - anything goes

 

Thanks for popping by today,

Wedgie xxx

Birthday Fun!

Hello folks!

Happy Tuesday! Hope you're keeping well.

So we have another new challenge for you over at Celebrate the Occasion and this week we are celebrating birthdays......with a twist....your card needs to be for a child's birthday.

We are sponsored this month by  the wonderful Digi Doodle and I am lucky enough to have one of their fab images to play with this week....its called anticipation....isn't it cute.....

 

I've coloured the cute image with my Promarkers....all the time thinking to myself that the cake in the image must taste wonderful!!

 

I've then used some cute polka dot backing paper, along with some plain yellow and blue for the background. I made the sentiment on my computer.

 

I'd like to enter this card at Make it Monday.

 

Pop by the Celebrate the Occasion challenge blog to see all the gorgeous DT cards that have been created this week.

 

Thanks for popping by today,

Wedgie xxx

 

Spring is in the air....

...well maybe not today....not sure about you, but the weather today in Aldershot has been on the grey and damp side!

I hope you've had a lovely Easter weekend, whatever you've been up to. Mine has sped by...I've fitted so much in and I can't believe its time for work again tomorrow! Never mind....its only a four day week...and then I have a week off! Woo hoo!

Anyway, the theme for this weeks challenge over at Cupcake Craft Challenge this week is "spring is in the air" so I ignored the weather outside my window and came up with this sweet creation....

I've used a selection of plain and flowery backing papers, along with a pretty white border stamped by my Martha Stewart stamp. I've coloured my image using my Promarkers.

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

Make it Monday - my first time joining in here!

Anything Goes - anything goes challenge - my first time here too!

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

As well as the Easter afternoon tea that I made for mum and my sister I've also been in the kitchen baking a birthday cake for my boyfriend's brother-in-laws Birthday! He is a keen meat eater and so we decided he might like a cow cake for his Birthday....I think this was probably a bit too cute for a 33 year old man....but I was really pleased with it!!

Talking of Birthdays...don't forget about my birthday candy...you can still join in until 16th April...just leave a comment on the post to be entered into the draw!

Thanks for popping by today,
Wedgie xxx

Going Dotty...for Hot Cross Buns!

Hello campers!

Hope you're well this evening and had a fab weekend. Mine was brilliant - I had the cake decorating exhibtion with Rafina (where I learnt a lot) and the pamper day with Becca (where I relaxed a lot!).

This week Cupcake Craft Challenge has a fab challenge for us....they want us to "go dotty!"...lots and lots of spots please! Pop by the Cupcake blog to see all the gorgeous DT cards.

I decided I wanted a fresh zingy card this evening, so I used this fab colour combo of purple, lime green and sky blue....soooo pretty! I added a stand full of cupcakes and a scrumptious sentiment!

Now I really wish you could smell my flat this evening...it smells truely scrumptious! I've tried my hand at baking Hot Cross Buns tonight....and I have to say that I am really pleased with the end results...not only do they smell amazing and look like Hot Cross Buns...they also taste pretty good too (even if I do say so myself!!).

I believe that some lovely ladies have been popping by and leaving me some really nice comments.....I will be popping by your blogs this week to investigate further, but just wanted to say a HUGE thank you!

Thanks for popping by this evening,
Wedgie xxx

No card, just cake!

Evening All,

Hope you're all keeping well. I haven't posted in a week now....not sure whats happened to time, but I can't keep up! So, I thought I'd post something....but I haven't been crafting....instead I've been baking! This is a Meister Tyre birthday cake that I made for my friend this week.

I can't tell you how pleased I was with this cake....its the best I've made so far. I was also rather pleased when someone at the Birthday party asked me if I'd helped pick the cake!

Have you popped by the Sweet Stampin blog this week? We've got a fab theme this week....on the farm! Pop by and see all the gorgeous DT cards for inspiration.

Right, I'd better get going....I'm off to see Brad Paisely in concert tomorrow night at the O2....he's a country star and my sister loves him!! I'll be back later this week, hopefully with some cards!!

Thanks for popping by,

Wedgie xxx

White on White with some tails!

Evening All, hope you're all keeping well and had a lovely weekend.

Anyway, I have a little card for you this evening...yes, I seem to be obsessed with my mini 4x4 cards at the moment!

I've created this mini card for the "White on white" challenge over at Allsorts this week...they want to see white backgrounds with a coloured image. I decided to add a little faux stitching to the background and a mini doily (I can't spell that!!) for extra detail. The cute little fish are for the "something with tails" challenge over at Cupcake Craft Challenge this week...aren't they fab? This is a fab Pink Petticoat stamp that I got free with a craft magazine recently! I've added some sparkle to the fish and the hearts using my stickles.

Pop over to both blogs to see all the gorgeous DT cards there - they're fab!

I also wanted to share my recently bakes with you...I helped Becca and Jim celebrate their Birthdays this weekend (it was a very busy weekend!) and decided to practice my cake making on them!

Here is Becca's cow cake...

I messed up the icing on the cake and had to raid my craft stash for ribbon to hide it!!

And here is Jim's I-Pod cake...

I was really pleased with this one...I finally managed to get the icing right!

Right, I'm off to bed...I'm exhausted and its only Monday!!

Thanks for popping by today,

Wedgie xxx