Mono Madness!

Afternoon everyone - what a lovely sunny day its been - its a shame I've been stuck in the office all day...still the bills have to be paid! I'm on annual leave next week - woo hoo! So I hope the sunshine sticks around for a while! Its my Birthday next Friday and I have rather self-indulgently decided to take the whole week off! Ha., ha! I'm going to Gun Wharfs Keys for a spot of shopping with Sheree and I'll be spending a couple of days in London with my boyfriend....if I can part him from his beloved cars that is!! The rest of the time will be spent crafting...utter bliss!

Today's challenge comes from the Cute Card Thursday blog....yes I actually managed to enter my card on a Thursday...it must be a first!! The theme this week is mono madness, so they want cards that feature shades of just one colour.....now you may think that mine will be pink....but no...I've opted for a lovely sunny yellow!

The DT have created some lovely designs, for some inspiration take a peek here!

Maybe its the lovely sunshine, who knows, but today I decided that yellow would make a lovely Birthday card! I've used a cute little chick stamp from the Hugs and Honey range, which I stamped onto yellow paper and cut out (if you look closely you can see my minor mishap - I nearly cut her leg right off!!). Once cut out I decided to add some googly eyes!

I then raided my paper stash for yellow papers and came up with these, which I think look cute together!

I have to admit my stamping wasn't very good today and I got fed up of stamping the same image over and over again....so I cheated! I took my best image and then coloured in the black with a pen! Hee, hee!

My other fab news is that both Lorna and me passed our leadership qualification last night! We had our books signed and the paper work is being sent off....we can now officially run our own Brownie packs / Guide units if we wanted too! Now thats a scary thought!

Well I hope you have enjoyed some sunshine today and have a lovely evening!

Thanks for stopping by,
Wedgie xx

Buttons and Bows!

Afternoon! Greetings from a very grey New Malden! I've been doing some research at work today about cosmetic procedures and who offers them....I was quite surprised to learn that loads of dentists across the UK offer facial rejunvination in the form of botox and dermal fillers! Now thats what I call diversitising your business!!

Now, I've already told you all about The Creative Cottage Challenge blog, where they host fab weekly challenges, but did you know that they have another fab blog too?!? On the The Creative Cottgae Blog you can see lots of inspirational makes, plus you can buy some fab kits.....they also treat us to lovely monthly freebies...you should go and take a peek...click here to see more!

The challenge this week on The Creative Cottage Challenge Blog is to create something that includes buttons and bows, the DT have created some lovely designs, take a peek here to see them all. I've decided to use the freebie that they have kindly given us this month which features the very cute Holly the Fairy!

I've used the topper, the background paper, the cute little flowers and the lovely sentiment from the freebie for my Birthday card. In fact all I added to my white card blank from my stash was a piece of red backing paper, a little mini bow and two mini red buttons! What a fab freebie - thanks ladies!

I thought Holly looked so cute on her toadstool, so I kept everything else small and cute to match her!

I'm off to a Girl Guide workshop this evening, I'm in the process of getting my leadership qualification and I think I've taken too long....this workshop is to give me a shove in the right direction! So no more cards for me tonight!

I hope you all have a lovely evening, whatever you're up to!

Thanks for stopping by,

Wedgie xx

All things bright and beautiful!

Evening all! I hope you all had a lovely Easter weekend...mine was lovely and relaxing!

I should be watching that Sophie Dahl cookery programme right now, but thanks to my stupid computer I am still sat here desperately trying to post my lastest make! I can't understand why it chooses to be sooooo slow when I want to get things done!!!

Anyway, due to my lack of posts recently I seriously need to catch up on some challenges! So I decided to combine several of my favourite blog challenges into one fab card! I was so inspired by the garden shed cards featured in this month's Papercraft Inspirations magazine that I decided to give it a go myself...and made this green house card.....

Now this is a 3D card, decorated on the inside and out...it was therefore a bit diffcult to photograph...so please excuse the millions of photos!

This card manages to fit in with the challenges on three different blogs....first we have the Allsorts Challenge which called for projects that didn't use ready made design papers. The DT have created some fab designs, take a peek here to see. The Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge wanted projects with garden related images this week, again fab DT designs - take a peek here! Finally Cupcake Craft Challenges wants projects featuring handmade flowers - click here to see the lovely DT projects.

I think this lovely card manges to cover all those challenges - no ready-made patterned papers were used in the making of this card - in fact I used a white card blank, some acetate and some coloured papers! All my flowers are hand made - punched from the cooloured paper! Finally I think this is a lovely garden scene.....I just hope the SCST ladies agree!

For the front of the card I drew out the windows and door using pencil and then cut them out using my fab new pink craft knife (yes I'm easily pleased!!). The door actually opens and has a little door knob! I backed the front of the card with acetate to make it look like there is glass in my windows! I had to remember to cut out the door! Once that was done I could get on with creating my flowers!

I cut out the shapes of vases and pots from coloured paper to use as bases and then I punched out pretty flowers using my mini punches. I used coloured sticky dots for the centres and I cut out little green leaves too. Everything was stuck in place using very, very small sticky dots!

I really enjoyed making this card, although it did take a bit of time...still thats even more staisfying when I had finally finished! I hope you like this card as much as I do!

I also wanted to share some makes from my talented friends! I'm really into making mini felt characters at the moment, and some of my friends seem to have caught the bug too! Here are some little characters that we've made recently....the cow is mine...my lovely sister Lorna made the super cute door mouse and the ever ambitious Becca made the fab Yoda!! I'm so impressed with them - well done girls! Becca has gone out and bought her own felt supplies now and is currently making the whole Star Wars cast...I couldn't be prouder!!

Thanks for stopping by today,

Wedgie xxx

Pretty Pink

Stop the Press! I finally got a chance to look for card challenges and guess what the theme is this week over at The Creative Cottage.....I guess my post title kinda gave it away...but you're right...it's Pretty Pink! Now thats what I like to see....a challenge calling for cards which are pretty and pink! Fab!

The DT have come up with some lovely cards to inspire us...take a peek here.

Without further ado, here is my card for the challenge....

Right please ignore the dodgy camera images, because this card has beads on it I couldn't lay it flat in the scanner and my camera is soooo tempremental!!

I chose a butterfly theme for my pink card as I think butterflies are very pretty! I've used pretty flowered backing paper as a base, with a strip of pink paper on top of that. I've then sewn a purple button onto a strip of brighter pink ribbon and attached that too.

The butterfly wings are made out of paper, with two pink gems attached. The body of the butterfly is made using wire which I've then threaded 4 beads onto. I've attached the body to the wings using lots of glue!

The butterfly was folded in half when I cut out the wings, so along that line I applied glue dots to stick it to the backing paper. I've then used sticky 3D pads to attach the wings, giving the butterfly a fab 3D look, which I hope can be seen more clearly on my second dodgy photo below!

Finally I added my pre-printed sentiment and a line of gliter dots to add some sparkle!

I really enjoyed making this card....of course the colour scheme is right up my street, but I also enjoyed making the butterfly. I do like creating things out of paper....its cool to start with a pile of pretty papers and then after a little hard work you've created something new. I think thats why I like making my car cards.

Right, I'm off to make my pastel coloured turds this morning...fingers crossed they go ok!

Thanks for stopping by today,
Wedgie xxx

Some fashionable baking!

Hello everyone - hope you're all well and had a good week.

I haven't posted in the last week because Dad's been back in hospital and its been a bit difficult to make any new cards or enter any challenges or get to my computer! However, the Easter weekend is here and Dad is back at home, so I have plenty of time to catch up!

No cards today I'm afraid, but I wanted to share a little cookery disaster I've had. I've found a very simple to follow recipe for macaroons which I decided to try out....we had some lovely ones at Browns on Mother's Day and my sister loves them. So I decided to give them a try.

I got the ingredients I needed and opted to make chocolate ones. Mum even took me out to buy a new piping bag....however I didn't look at the ends I got with the piping bag....and this is how my macaroons tunred out....

Yep, thats right...they look like a plate of mini turds!!!! Ha, ha, ha!!

I have to say they make look awful, but they were very tasty...even better if you can wait till day two to eat them as they got nice and chewy then! I can't believe how easy they are to make, especially when they cost so much to buy in the shops!

Apparently these are very popular at the moment....more fashionable than cupcakes! I've now bought some food colouring and flavouring...so I'm going to try again and see if I can make some that don't look like turds!

Wish me luck!

Thanks for stopping by...there will be cards next time I promise!
Wedgie Xxx