Whoops!!

Hello there! Yes, I'm a tad bit late with this post!

Well, what can I say? Its been a manic week...most of which was spent delivering training in Cheltenham. This was a new experience to me....I thoroughly enjoyed it (maybe because I got to talk so much!!)...but I was rather tired by the end!

Anyway, four days away from home seems to have thrown me this week!! But I'm here now (better late than never) with the latest challenge from My Time to Craft. This week we'd love to see your gate fold cards.

I do like creating gate folds cards, I feel they can always hide a little surprise inside....

 

So I decided to keep the outside of my card rather simple...with some pretty patterned paper, some gems and my sentiment.

 

Leaving my image for the inside!

 

I've coloured my fab image with my Promarkers and added a little more bling.

 

Pop by the My Time to Craft challenge blog to see the gorgeous cards created by the fab DT.

 

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

 

Make it Monday

Papertake Weekly - anything goes

Di's Digi Challenge - Birthdays

 

If you get the chance pop by these fab challenge blogs to see the gorgeous DT cards.

 

Thanks for popping by today,

Wedgie xxx

More than words.....

Hello there!

Happy Saturday....its a Bank Holiday Weekend in the UK....a lovely long weekend...plus we've had some lovely weather this week! What a lovely combination!

Soooo....we have a lovely challenge for you over at My Time to Craft this week....we want to see you using your sentiment as the main focus of your card. I love the power of words...especially on a card...you really have the ability to make someone smile!

Maybe a bit predictably I've gone with a baking theme to my card.....

 

Now first off....please excuse the hand written sentiment....I have very suddenly run out of ink in my printer!! I thought there would be some kind of warning...but no...I've run out just like that!!

 

Anyone who has popped by my blog before knows that I love baking....making cakes and breads in my kitchen makes me happy (a probably a little bit heavier than I should be!!). Therefore I thought this was the perfect sentiment for a card from me!

 

I've gone with a pink and blue colour combo, some punched flowers with gem stone centres, the tiny cute cupcake image and some faux stitching. I've coloured my image with my Promarkers and added a little bit of colour to the flowers too.

 

Pop by the My Time to Craft challenge blog to see what brilliant cards the DT have created this week!

 

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

 

Make it Monday

Love to Create - punches and or dies

Passion for Promarkers - to die for

Crafty Sentiments - the letter B (bling, blue and baking!)

Simon Says Stamp - Happy Mail

 

NOTE - to all the challenge blogs mentioned above - I had difficulty linking to you on Saturday, but it seems to be working today (Sunday)....I'm not backlinking I promise!!!

 

There is great inspiration on all these challenge blogs this week....pop by if you've got the chance and take a peek!

 

I also wanted to share with you my latest baking creation....I don't usually make cakes for other people, but a good friend of mine asked for cakes for a baby shower she is hosting and I couldn't say no!

 

 

I made twenty cupcakes in total, 10 blue and 10 pink (because they don't know if the baby is going to be a boy or a girl yet!) plus the plain white iced cake. Its the best royal icing I've done so far....I was so pleased with myself!

 

Thanks for popping by today,

Wedgie xxx

Cupcakes, cupcakes everywhere!!

Hello there! Fancy seeing you here!

I hope you are well today!

Well its been another really busy week...I'm lucky enough to have Christmas card orders coming out of my ears this year...my designs have proved really popular!! Plus I've got my large consultant event that I am organising...its finally taking place this Friday at the Savoy in London. Its been so much hard work and I now have 75 people attending the event...fingers crossed it goes well!!

Despite all this I've still managed to make some time for some crafting....well all work and no play makes me a very grumpy girl!!

 

I'm not entirely sure that I'm happy with this card....I think its a bad photo and I rushed the card a little!

 

My clean and simple card features just three colours....black, white and pink!A very elegant colour combo I think! I've used an oldie, but a goodie sentiment...this one always makes me smile! My cupcakes are stamped and coloured with my Promarkers and I've added a lot of sparkle to my icing with some fab glitter glue. Its the shame that the bling hasn't shown up very well!! Finally I added some faux black stitching to one side of the card.

 

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

 

Cupcake Craft Challenge - black, white and one other

Allsorts - bling

Make it Monday

 

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

 

Thanks for popping by todday,

Wedgie xxx

A sweet bribe....

Hello there....well its a bit of a grey Saturday morning here in Aldershot at the moment. The sun is trying to poke through, but the clouds are currently winning! I'm off to a BBQ later so some sunshine would be really nice!

Joe and I live in a block of flats in Aldershot....he's been there several years and I've been there just over a year. We've made friends with a lovely couple in our block called Kirsty and Jake, who live a couple of doors away from Joe's flat. They love my cupcakes and whenever I make a fresh batch I try and take some cakes down to them too. They got engaged recently and are planning to buy a house nearby.....I will miss them and so I decided to bribe them yesterday with some freshly baked cupcakes!

 

These are vanilla cupcakes, with a two coloured vanilla butter cream swirl and a fresh strawberry on top - yummy! I think I've finally mastered the two coloured icing and I'm really pleased with how these look.

 

I tried reasoning with Kirsty and Jake that if they move I won't be able to deliver sweet treats like this anymore! Hee, hee!

 

I'd like to enter these cupcakes in the "it's a gift" challenge over at Allsorts this week.

 

Soooo.....I also have a little card for you today.....

 

 

I love the soft sweet colours of this patterned backing paper and I think it looks fab with the sky blue plain paper, it also has a fab glittered effect to add a little bling factor. My cute LOTV image has been coloured with my Promarkers and I've added some sparkle to her wings with my Stickles. Finally I've added some cute little blue squares and some blue punched flowers, which have glitter centres.

 

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

 

Send a Smile 4 Kids - anything goes

Lili's Little Fairies - spots or stripes

DYSU - fantasy

Cute Card Thursday - bling

Crafty Sentiments - flowers

Tuesday Throwdown - squares

Poodle Palour - things with wings

 

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

 

Thanks for popping by today,

Wedgie xxx

Sew Sweet!

Hello Campers! Happy Saturday!

I hope you're keeping well.

Another week has flown by and its time for another challenge at Sweet Stampin....and this week we want to see you stitching! Whether it be real (you clever people) or faux (like mine)....we want you to get stitching!

This month we are joined by Joanna Sheen....

and this week we are joined by Sew Sweet....

For lots of fab inspiration pop by the Sweet Stampin blog to see all the Team Abi cards this week...here is mine....

Yes, I know.....its soooo girlie! I couldn't help myself, I just love this colour combo and those fab polka dots! I've coloured my image with my Promarkers and added a little bling to my ice-cream cones with my trusty Stickles!

I'd like to enter this card in this month's challenge over at Stampalot Challenge blog. The ladies are having a game of bingo this week....I've opted for pink, brown and bling!

There is also a fab ice-cream colours challenge at Allsorts this week that I'd like also to enter this card in.

Pop by both these blogs to see all the gorgeous DT cards!

Thanks for popping by today,

Wedgie xxx

A little Monday humour

Hello there....Happy Monday!

I hope you've had a good Monday! I'm back with a card to make you smile...whether you've had a bad day or not!!

Hee, hee! I know I've used this digi quite recently, but it does make me laugh!

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

Passion for Promarkers - humour

Papertake Weekly - Buttons, Bows, Bling & Blooms - use as many as you like

(I went for blooms, bling and homemade buttons!)

Simon Says Stamp - Sketch

Thanks for popping by,
Wedgie xxx

A bit of sparkle and bling!

Hello campers, hope you're well today!

Well, I had an amazing start to the week yesterday....my lovely car broke down on the way to work at 7am yesterday morning! I was on the A3 at the time, and luckily managed to pull into a service station...where I waited for 90 minutes to be recovered back to a local garage near my home! I then had to get the train back passed my flat again to work.....my commute took a total of 5 hours from start to finish!!!! It turns out that all I'd done was snap an alternator belt and this was easily fixed by my boyfriend and cost me just £4.50...shame the recovery cost me £78!!! Things can only get better!!!

Anyway, I decided it was time for a little sparkle on my blog and I guess some of the challenge blogs out there felt the need for a little sparkle too (who can blame them!!).

This sparkly little number is for two different challenges....

Isn't she cute and sparkly? I've used pink and blue backing paper, along with some fab sparkly pink paper. I've coloured my image using my Promarkers and I've added a little more sparkle with my yellow Stickle. This card is for the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp - Sparkle and Bling

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge - Anything goes as long as it sparkles (my kind of challenge!!)

I've also added a lot of tiny faux stitches to this card, so it would also be perfect for our fab stitches challenge over at Sweet Stampin this week....check out all the gorgeous Team Fi DT cards on our challenge blog!

Thanks for popping by today, hope to see you again soon!

Wedgie xxx