Doilies & Dies

Hello there, Happy Saturday!

I hope you a well and have had a good week. I don't know about you, but I'm ready for another long weekend! I hope you have a wonderful weekend, whatever you have planned.

I have another trip into London today....this time with my Sister Lorna who has treated me a to a Burlesque afternoon tea for my Birthday! We're quite excited...but I have no idea what to expect...I'll report back soon!

So, this week we have a fab challenge for you at Sweet Stampin...we want to see your projects featuring doilies and dies. I decided to get pretty and sweet with my card....

 

I love this colour combo, I think it looks soooo pretty! This baking image is gorgeous too (although my colouring is a tad bit dodgy!!), thats exactly what I look like when I'm baking - ha, ha! I am of course fibbing here....I am such a messy baker, my hair would be a mess and there would be cake batter all over the place!

 

I've used one of my fab pre-cut doilies, and some die hearts which were cut using my Cuttlebug (which I should use more often!!). My image has been coloured with my Promarkers. I've created my sentiment on the printer (which finally works again) and added some doodling to one of my hearts with a white gel pen. Finally I added a little sparkle to the hearts on the image with my Stickles.

 

Pop by the Sweet Stampin challenge blog to see how the fab Team Abi ladies have used the theme this week. While you're there you can read all about the prizes are fab sponsors have on offer, we are joined this week by

 

 



and our monthly sponsor is

 

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

 

Make it Monday

Passion for Promarkers - Special Anniversary anything goes challenge

I Love Promarkers - anything goes

 

If you get the chance pop over to these fab challenge blogs, there are some great DT cards on display.

 

Thanks for popping by today,

Wedgie xxx

Birthday Bubbles!

Good Morning! Happy Saturday!

Hope you're well today. Well long time no see!! Life has taken over some what this week and I haven't made any cards or posted since last weekend! How terrible!!

Me and my friends celebrated Halloween last weekend with our Halloween themed crafternoon tea...it was so much fun! We had spooky music playing, ate spooky treats and made spooky felties! Later in the evening we watched spooky movies! It was such a fab Saturday....here is our table dressed and full of homemade tasty treats.....

 

As well as little ghost cakes, we had a dead-grass pie (my sister's spooky version of a key-lime pie) and these adrorable ghost biscuits.....

 

 

So its another Saturday and that means its time for a new challenge over at My Time to Craft...and I have to say that I really enjoyed making the card for this challenge! This week we have a little colour combo challenge for you...we'd like to see your pink and brown creations! I love this colour combo....I think its so pretty.

Here is my card....

 

I've teamed my plain brown backing paper with some pretty pink patttenerd papers and a cute mini doilly. I think this gives that card a bit of a shabby chic feel.

 

I've coloured my cute image using my Promarkers and I have added a little sparkle to the Birthday bubbles with my Stickles!

 

Pop by the My Time to Craft challenge blog to see what my fab fellow DT have created for you this week!

 

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

 

Make it Monday

The Pink Elephant - shabby chic

I Heart Promarkers - cute

 

Pop by these blogs to see what the DT have created for you 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

Time to craft!

Hello there! I hope you're enjoying some lovely sunshine where ever you are in the world!

Well, as you know life's been fairly hectic for me recently, but today is Good Friday in the UK and this means a lovely long weekend for me...plus I've taken some time off next week too! This morning I've washed my car and my mum's car and I've finally made some time for some crafting...woo hoo! Here is this morning's effort, which I'm really pleased with:

The sketch is from this week's challenge over at Sweet Sketch Wednesday....don't forget to pop over there all see all their gorgeous DT cards...we're at sketch 98 this week and the lovely SSW ladies will be celebrating 100 sketches with a fab blog hop...I can't wait!

The colour scheme of pink and chocolate brown is for the "any excuse for chocolate" challege this week at Sweet Stampin Challenge. Isn't that brown and pink polka dot paper fab?? I just love this colour combo, it always makes me smile! I've also added a little faux stitching for the Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge and I've embossed the image for the "emboss it" challenge over at Simon Says Stamp challenge. I've never embossed before....my lovely boyfriend bought me a heat tool for my Birthday so I decided to give it a go! I'm really pleased with how it looks...think I'll be embossing lots more!!

Don't forget to visit all blogs mentioned above...all of them feature gorgeous DT cards - perfect inspirtation!

The other thing I've made time for this week was a little baking! I was given so many wonderful baking and cakes books for my Birthday and I can't wait to try out all the recipes! I started off with some delicious mocha macaroons......these look much better than my last attempt when they looked a little like dog turds! I made a big batch, but after taking them to work and sharing them with my family I only have two left!! I'm assuming that meant they're tasty!!

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

Wedgie xxx

Birthday Wishes!

Evening All!

Hope you're all having a fab week...I'm happy...I decided to take a long weekend this weekend, so I am off Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday! Woo hoo! Lots of me time...for crafting and baking!

Well its Wednesday again....I can't believe we're already half way through March...its my Birthday in a month...I'm sure its not suppose to come around so quickly! Anyway...it's Wednesday so that means another fab sketch from Sweet Sketch Wednesday....and Arlana hasn't disappointed this week...

This is a fab sketch to use, pop over to the SWS blog and see all the gorgeous cards the DT have created using this fab sketch. My Birthday theme is inspired by Simon Says Stamp who have a "Happy Birthday" theme this week to celebrate Lorraine's Birthday. Take a peek at their blog too - lots of gorgeous cards here too!

As you know I love pink and couldn't resist using lots of it on this card! I love this pink-brown colour combo so much! The baking paper at the back has lots of lovely cakes on it and I thought it looked fab with my stamped cupcakes, which I'm embellished with lots of lovely glitter!

Just a quick post this evening as I want to try and get an early night...I'm seeing Hairspray at the theatre tomorrow night after work...can't wait!

Thanks for popping by today,

Wedgie xxx

A cute colour combo!

Evening All,

Hope you've all had a good Monday. Mine was the usual....work all day, then home for a bit of baking and card making! I seem to have got into a bit of a pattern of baking on a Monday evening! I've been asked to make a card for a friend and as the Birthday girl is a bit of a shoe-aholic I decided to use on of my favourite designs...

The colour scheme was inspired by a challenge over at Cupcake Craft Challenge this week.....the lovely ladies have asked for projects with a pink and brown theme. Take a peek at the gorgeous DT cards on the blog!

As I said this design will probably be familiar to some of my regular blog friends...I love this sentiment and I often use the same template for the shoes. I've never done it with a pink and brown colour scheme before.....I also haven't used buttons on the shoes before (or at least I don't think I have!).

Do you remember those teapot biscuits from yesterday? They are nearly all gone already thanks to friends and family! However, I managed to do a little decorating before they all went.... I've traced the outline of the biscuits with some fab glitter icing. 

I've also made some fab pina colada cupcakes this evening! You'll see from the photo that I won't be winning any prizes for these ones...they're not exactly the prettiest cakes I've ever made! They are made using coconut milk and pineapple....just what you need to brighten up these grey September days.

Thanks for stopping by today, I'm going to curl up in bed now with a book I think! Yes, I know its early, but I'm freezing cold!!

Wedgie xxx