My kind of challenge!

Hello there!

How are you today? I hope you've had a lovely week!

This week we have a fabulous challenge for you over at Sweet Stampin.....a challenge that was right up my street and I thoroughly enjoyed preparing for! Anyone who has popped by my blog before might have noticed a couple of things that I love - afternoon tea, girly things, the colour purple and the colour pink! My favourite kind of card is a girly card and this week's challenge really allowed me to embrace my girly side!

This week we would like to see your projects featuring hats, heels or handbags! I opted to use an old favourite sentiment for this card...I used to use this one all the time and I thought it was perfect for this challenge:

What do you think??

Hee, hee! Do you think I could conquer the world in those shoes??

My shoes are stamped onto the pink and white polka dot paper and then cut out. I have used a combination of patterned and plain papers in pink and purple for the background and I have finished the card with my sentiment.

For more inspiration pop by the Sweet Stampin challenge blog and take a peek at all the gorgeous DT cards that Team Abi have created this week! While you're there you can read all about our lovely sponsor this week......

So, a little while ago do you remember me talking about the UK Blog Awards? My afternoon tea blog was shortlisted in the Food and Drink category and in late April we were invited to attend a fancy awards ceremony! It was such a fun night, complete with Oscar statues and red carpet! Unfortunately we didn't win in our category, but we are still amazed that we were finalists and would like to say a HUGE thank everyone who has supported us and read about our afternoon tea adventures!

We may not have won an award on the night......but we did find some cake to enjoy!

Thank you for popping by today,

Wedgie xxx

Lots of pink and purple!

Hello there...Happy Wednesday! Its hump day...the weekend is just around the corner!!

 

Today I have decided to go back to my girlie routes and create a pink and purple sensation for you!

 

What do you think?? Girlie enough??

 

Hee, hee! I've used a selection of pink and purple plain and patterend papers, along with a bright pink envelope (more about that in a bit!)....I've also used some pink ribbon, a super cute digi image (coloured with my Promarkers) and lots of glitter!!

 

So, whats this about an envelope I hear you say....well you see that bright pink layer of paper at the bottom of the card...well thats my pink envelope...I've been recycling! My lovely friend Becca sent me a card recently and it came in this fab envelope....I loved the colour and so decided to keep hold of it, thinking that I'd find a use for it!

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

 

Top Tip Tuesday - Recycle

My Tip - keep hold of coloured envelopes that you get in the post, reuse them on your cards!

 

Love to Create - show us your ribbon or twine

Papertake Weekly - things that make you go awwww!

The Poodles Parlour - here come the girls! 

Try it on Tuesday - anything goes

 

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

 

Thanks for popping by today,

Wedgie xxx

 

Oh my goodness....

....I'm a poorly little crafter at the moment! I've had an awful bug all week and I can't seem to shift it! I am feeling a little better this end of the week, but I have a horrible cough and generally feel really awful! To make matters worse Joe has gone drifting and I'm home alone!

Today has been the first day that I've actually felt like doing anything....so I decided to do a little crafting...and came up with this sweetie....

Pink and purple papers, along with some pretty gingham tape make this cute Pollycraft image look even sweeter I think! I've used my Promarkers to colour the image and added a little sparkle with my pink Stickles.

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

Passion for Promarkers - ice-cream/cupcakes

Tuesday Throwdown - gingham

Sweet Stamps - Summer (don't know about you, but ice cream in cones always makes me think of the summer!)

Celebrate the Occasion - Happy Birthday

Simon Says Stamp - spotty

Digi Doodles - purple & pink (I love this colour combo!)

Chocolate, Coffee and Cards - anything goes

Oldie but a Goodie - Summer Holidays - this image reminds me of my summer holidays as a child when we were taken to Bournemouth or the Witterings - fond memories! My old thing this week is that purple paper in the bottom left hand corner....it came free with a magazine in February 2011!!

Right, I'm going back to my place on the sofa now.....complete with lots of tissues and a hot drink.

Hope you're keeping much better than me!

Thanks for popping by,

Wedgie xxx

A tough challenge!

Hello folks, Happy Saturday!

Well, if you popped by my blog earlier this week you'll know that I am currently in Norfolk watching Joe drift his car around a track!

But I couldn't resist joining Team Fi for this week's challenge over at Sweet Stampin this week! The challenge is a difficult one.....you've got to pick and use your favourite stamp! Soooo....I got thinking....and here is my card....

Bet you're not surprised to see some cupcakes on my card! I love this sweet stamp, I've had it for a while now and it never fails to make me smile. It can also be used for soooo many occasions.

I've also gone with my favourite colours....pink and purple and added some polka dots (I love them!!).

Don't forget to pop by Team Fi's DT blogs to see all the fab cards they've created!

Thanks for popping by today,

Wedgie xxx

I love buttons!!

Hello my fellow crafters....how are you today?

Hope you've had a better Monday than me....I've worked from home this afternoon and I've been plagued by IT issues....included my work laptop screen going completly blank at one point! That was scary!! I'm pleased to say its all fixed now and so I'm a happy bunny again!!

Soooo...its Monday...its time to join in the fun at Make it Monday. I'm so pleased to have discovered this fab linky party blog....you get to see so many great makes each week! Its also time for a new challenge at Cupcake Craft Challenge and this week they have a book lover challenge. You need to feature a book, or maybe a page from a book or stamped text! What a fab challenge!

So, what do you think? I've used lots of pinks and purple today! Plus that fab stamped text and some buttons with thread tied into bows. I always forget how much I love using buttons on projects....as well as my cards I also customise tops and add them to cushions. I love them!!

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

Cupcake Craft Challenge - book lover

Make it Monday - linky party

Allsorts challenge - buttons and bows

Sweet Stamps - my favourite colour (this was tough, I love pink, but I also love purple!!)

The pink elephant - buttons galore!

Thank you to everyone who has popped by my blog recently, its lovely to see you. I always try and pop by your blog too if you've left me a comment to let me know you stopped by!

Hope you have a lovely evening,

Wedgie xxx

I'm getting there....

...hi there...thanks for popping by today. Well, I've been in my new flat a little while now and I'm starting to get things organised. Do you remember I told you about my new craft desk? The fab 1950s bureau...well I've started to organise my stash now and its looking fab! I got home from work nice and early this evening, so its just gone 8pm....I'm munching on my dinner....and I've already created a card...thats a good evening so far me thinks!

I've made this card today to send to my Aunty Maggie, she lives down in Bognor and I send her my cards regularly....just to say hi! I know how lovely it is to find "fun" post on the doormat instead of bills..... think more people should send cards "just because".

Doesn't Kasi look pretty in pink??

I'm entering this card in several different challenges, I'm making up for all those challenges I missed out on!

Sweet Sketch Wednesday - another fab sketch by Arlana

StampFairy Challenge - try a new technique - you can't really see it, but I tried a little paper piercing on the little purple strip behind the sentiment

Passion for Promarkers - include some gingham

Simon Says Stamp - anything goes

Sir Stampalot - anything goes

This would also have been a good card for our challenge at Sweet Stampin this week...our theme is cute and cuddly....have you entered yet?? Go on give it a go!

Don't forget to pop by all these fab blogs to see all the wonderful DT cards that have been created this week.

Lovely to see you, hope you pop back again soon!

Wedgie xxx

Time to Celebrate!

Hello everyone - sorry no blogs from me in ages! Not too sure whats happening...I'm still crafting and making loads of cards, but I always seem to run out of time to actually blog! Obviously there are not enough hours in the day!

I hope everyone has enjoyed Mother's Day - whether you're a mother yourself and being spoilt or a daughter or son or other family member doing the spoiling! We took our Mum for her annual Mother's Day afternoon tea - a tradition which started a number of years ago with a trip to The Savoy. Its tunring out to be a pretty expensive tradition, but hey I love it! I get to drink tea out of bone china and eat delicious sandwiches and cakes in wonderful surroundings....I hope we keep this up for a very long time! Today we went to Browns in London - I'd highly recommend it!

So, over at Cute Card Thursday they are celebrating two years of blogging! Thats a lot of card challenges to come up with! This week's challenge is "Celebrations" and the DT have come up with some lovely designs...take a peek here. In honour of their birthday celebrations, I have decided to create a cute Birthday card.....

So, I've created a cute cupcake out of paper and added a cheeky little sentiment to make people smile. I've kept the colours soft and girlie - you can't go wrong with pinks and purples! I've added three different sized buttons as an added embellishment and to add to the overall girlieness!

I hope the ladies over at Cute Card Thursday like their card!

Right, just a quick post this evening...I've got more cards to create and some personalised bookmarks to make! Watch out for tomorrow's post...it'll feature a card for this week's Allsorts challenge!

Thanks for stopping by

Wedgie Xxx

Wedding Wishes

Morning All, I'm going to be at the boyfriend's all weekend, with no internet access so I thought I'd get another card on my blog this morning before heading into the office. If you scroll down my blog you'll see that yesterday's entry was made quite late at night....I'd promised myself that I'd go to bed once I'd finished.....did I?? No I didn't!! I went shopping!!!

I found this fab blog called Bee Crafty where they have the cutest digi images to buy and download, and I couldn't help myself! You should take a peek at the gorgeous images they have on offer, click here to visit their blog. I got a couple of images and wanted to use one straight away!! What am I like?? Anyway, here is the card I created from my digi image:

I downloaded several images, but this one fits in with their current challenge, they want to see a romantic theme, and I think by using these lovely pastel colours I've given my card a lovely romantic theme. I've used plain and coloured papers, along with some of my gorgeous glitter glue. The DT over at Bee Crafty have used various other images in their cards, all gorgeous....take a peek here.

The gorgeous layout that I've used for this card has actually come from another challenge, over at the Truly Scrumptious blog they have given us this sketch as their current challenge. I've been using a lot of square cards for sketch layouts recently, so it was nice to work with a different shape. Check out the fab DT designs here.

Anyway, I think I better get a wriggle on....work is calling. I've been a bit naughty this morning.....I had sugar on my toast! Ha, ha! An awful habit I picked up in my teens and occassional revisit! Naughty but nice I think is the phrase!!

Thanks for paying me a visit today, hope you have a fab Friday!
Wedgie xxx