Its all about the Doggies!

Evening Folks!

How are you today, happy hump day! I thought I'd share a quick Birthday card with you that I made for my brother-in-law Jim. As you may know Jim and my sister Lorna are the proud owners of two rather lovely Boston Terriers called Barry and Gerty.

 

Inspired by these two fab doggies I made Jim this card for his Birthday....

 

 

I've gone with a masculine brown and blue colour combo, colouring my image with my Promarkers. I've also added a little paw print embellishment from brown paper.

 

I'm really pleased with how this card turned out.

 

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

 

Top Tip Tuesday - Masculine

City Crafter Challenge Blog - All about him

Tuesday Throwdown - You're the man

Papertake Weekly - Hello boys

Crafty Sentiments - Card for a man

Glitter n Sparkle - male card

 

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

 

I thought I'd leave you with one last photo....here is Gerty taking a nap.....

 

 

What a cutie pie!

 

Thanks for popping by today,

its lovely to see you!

Wedgie xxx

Calling all bookworms!

Hello there! Happy Saturday!

I hope you are well and have had a fab week!

I'm here with a new challenge from My Time to Craft...and this one is perfect for all you bookworms out there. We'd like to see you create a bookmark!

I love books....real books made out of paper...not these electronic things that are so popular at the moment. Yes, I know that makes me sound very old fashioned, but I just don't think you can beat a book!

Anyway, thats enough from me....here is my bookmark....

 

I love this cute stamp from Simon Says Stamp, it always makes me smile!

 

I've coloured my image with my Promarkers, and made the base of my bookmark from brown and blue card (fab colour combo!). Finally I added some ribbon.

 

Pop by the My Time to Craft challenge blog to see all the gorgeous bookmarks that the fab DT have made!

 

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

 

Make it Monday

Love to Create - read all about it!

Passion for Promarkers - add ribbon, lace or twine

Simon Says Stamp - anything goes

 

There are fab DT cards on all of these challenge blogs!

 

Finally I thought I'd leave you with a sweet treat that I made for my mum when I visited her this week.....

 

 

Yummy!

 

Thanks for popping by today,

Wedgie xxx

Woof Woof!

Hello there...me again!! This is my second post for today, if you are looking for my Sweet Stampin DT post please scroll down!

Sooo...its mid morning on Saturday...that can only mean one thing.....yes thats right, its time for a new challenge over at My Time to Craft! This week's challenge is domesticated pets.....we'd like to see animals feature on your card...any animal as long as it could be considered a pet that you'd keep at home (so probably no elephants or lions!!).

I went with a faithful friend....

 

I've gone A bit girlie with my papers, but I think that orange, pink and blue colour combo is just fab together! I'm using another fab Pollycraft image which has been coloured with my Promarkers.

 

Pop by the My Time to Craft challenge blog to see which pets the other DT members have featured on their cards!

 

I'd also like to enter this card over at Send a Smile 4 Kids where they have an anything goes challenge at the moment!

 

Thanks for popping by today,

Wedgie xxx

I am sooooo lucky!

Hello Folks! Happy Friday!

Hope you're keeping well today. I'm off drifting with Joe again this weekend....we're off to Lydden Hill race track in a couple of hours for the 4th round of the British Drifting Championships...wish Joe luck!

Anyway....as my post title suggests I think I've already had quick a bit of luck recently. At the end of July I entered the lovely Tracey's candy on her blog...and guess what...I won! Tracey has been extremly generous and I can honestly say that I've never opened such an exciting package before!!

Thank you so much Tracey!

Soooo...I got stuck into my new stash straight away....

I don't usually add a lot of embellishments to my cards, but I always admire how they look on other people's cards. So today I found at Bingo challenge over at Simon Says Stamp and so I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to go a little embellishment mad!

I've used some of the beautitful papers from Tracey's candy, along with that gorgeous image. I've coloured the image with my Promarkers and added a little sparkle to the tiny flowers with my Stickles. I've then added some glittery flowers and some die cut butterflies. I suppose the only thing that I missed was a sentiment....please image it says "Happy Birthday" down in the left hand corner!!

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

Simon Says Stamp - bingo - die cute, free & glitter

Send a Smile 4 Kids - for the girls

DYSY - four legged friend - he's there in the corner!

Digi Doodles - things with wings

Stampalot Challenge - take flight

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

I'm also feeling rather lucky today because my fab Aunty Chris who lives in Bognor has sent me some baking supplies....and when I say some I mean a lot!!

Those are 3kg bags!! Brilliant!

Thanks Aunty Chris!

Thanks for popping by today,

Wedgie xxx

Handmade Gift

Hello everyone, long time no see! It was such a busy week for me last week, and this week isn't much better! Thought I'd pop along for a quick post though....

The challenge over at Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge is a fab one....they want to see our handmade Christmas gifts. I love making things....give me some fabric or some beads and I'll while away a couple of hours no problem! I organised a big meeting for work in a London hotel on Friday, and I took my beading with me! I made some lovely stars to hang on the Christmas tree, my boss couldn't believe I was sat there beading in my hotel room!

The ladies at Secret Crafter have made some gorgeous gifts, check out their blog! I've decided to share with you some of my felt keyrings which are for my sister....

You may remember I've made cute felt items before....there was Dave the Alien who I posted about earlier this year! He was a fridge magnet...well now I've expanded into keyrings too! These cuties are made from felt and are hand-stitched.

Right, I'm off...it's Joe's Birthday today...I think we're off to the garage in a bit! I'll be back tomorrow with some new cards.

Thanks for stopping by today, Wedgie xxx

Puppy Love

Woo hoo - I slept all through the night! I didn't want to get up this morning.....a vast improvement on yesterday! My boss is also joining me in the office today which means that the automatic lights won't be going out every 20 minutes (apparently I don't move around enough!!). Surely thats a health and safety issue??

Anyway, I promised you something pink today and do not fear I am about to deliver...its pink and cute!

So this cute little fella has been put together for another two challenges....firstly the ladies over at Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge wanted to see projects with hearts on. Click here to see the DT cards, they've all used such lovely images. The card also fits in with the Cupcake Craft Challenge as they wanted projects which included ou four-legged furry friends! The DT have come up with some fab examples, they can be seen here.

So, for this one I have used a pink backing paper on a white square card. I have then used a very light pinky-white paper covered in hearts as the second layer (not sure where this one is from!). The cute little doggy comes from a topper that I bought from EBay - he actually sits in a square box, but I decided to cut him out and mount him on two hearts for this card. The hearts sit flush on the card, but I've used 3D foam pads to attach the dog. Finally the sentiment - Puppy Love backed with more pink paper!

Right, happy crafting folks, hope you have a good Tuesday....I'm off to dance with the lights in my office now!

Thanks for stopping by,
Wedgie xxx