Keeping it Clean and Simple

Hello there! Happy Saturday!

I hope you're keeping well and have had a good week...I do love four day weeks!

Soooo.....do you remember last weekend I had an easter themed tea with my sister and my friends? Well, here is the feast that we tucked into....

 

I made cute little bunny and chick iced biscuits, some vanilla cupcakes with rabbit ears and some mini chocolate eggs for everyone. Lorna made her fab scones....and what she called her healthy chocolate nests. Instead of cornflakes covered in chocolate to make her nests she used wholegrain shredded wheat!! To be honest I wouldn't have known if she hadn't told us!!

 

We all had a fab time.....making paper chicks and enjoying the easter egg hunt that mum lay for us. She had us chasing around the neighbourhood, it was great fun!

 

I hope you all had lovely Easter weekends too.

 

This week's challenge over at My Time to Craft is one of those that most crafters either love or they hate....that's right...its a clean and simple challenge!

 

 

I've kept it extremly simple with a cute Simon Says stamped image which is colored with my Promarkers, some doodling and a hand written sentiment. I love the image, it makes me smile every time I look at it!

 

Pop by the My Time to Craft challenge blog to see what beautiful creations all the fab DT have made this week!

 

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

 

Make it Monday

Papertake Weekly - anything goes

 

Pop by these fab blogs to see the gorgeous DT cards!

 

Thanks for popping by today,

Wedgie xxx

Time for a quick challenge or two....

Hello there!

How are you today? Its been another really busy week for me....I've hardly had any time to craft! Now thats a sad state of affairs I'm sure you'll agree!!

Soooo, this evening I decided I needed to get crafting!

 

I started off with a quick tag.....

 

I love these cute stamps!

 

Today I've coloured them with my Promarkers, going for fab bright colours. I've used plain backing papers for the main background and then used a pretty patterned paper for the punched flower. Finally I added some faux stitching as a border and a pretty gem to the flower. The last thing I added was the bright and cheerful ribbon.

 

I'd like to enter this tag in the "tag your it" challenge over at Love to Create this week. Pop by the blog to see all the gorgeous tags that have been created by the DT.

 

I then had some more time and so I decided to make a card too....

 

 

I just love this paper...it comes from a set which are all similar....teacups, teapots, flowers, soft colours galore!! I decided to pair the pretty backing paper with this cute tea image and lots of flowers! I've coloured my image with my Promarkers and added gems to the flowers once again. I also added more faux stitching as borders to the image and sentiment. I'm really pleased with how this card turned out.

 

I'd like to enter this card over at the Happy Birthday challenge over at Simon Says Stamp where they are celebrating their 4th Birthday.

 

Pop by Simon Says Stamp to see all the gorgeous DT cards and to see the fab prizes on offer.

 

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

 

Wedgie xxx

Calling all book worms!

Hello there!

Me again! So....has the the Easter Bunny paid you a visit yet??

Soooo...I'm back with the fab challenge from My Time to Craft....and this is another one that I love! We'd like to see you use either a book or a newspaper in your project somewhere.

So I decided to have a think about what kind of text I'd like on my card...then it came to me....a recipe book! As some of you know I love my recipe books rather too much and so I decided to photocopy a page for this card rather than tear a page out!

 

I really like this card and thoroughly enjoyed making it.

 

The recipe is for some brownies, and I think it goes really well with my super cute image and sweet Birthday sentiment. The image has been coloured with my Promarkers and I've used some gorgeous baking themed backing paper that I discovered recently. The prefect Birthday card for the baker in your life!

 

Pop by the My Time to Craft to see the other gorgeous DT cards that have been created this week!

 

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

 

Make it Monday

Simon Says Stamp - anything goes

 

Thanks for popping by today,

Wedgie xxx

Feeling oh so girly

Good Morning! Happy Easter Weekend!

I hope the Easter Bunny has paid you a visit....or maybe he is still to pop by?? I am having an Easter themed crafternoon tea with my lovely girly friends this weekend....Anika, Becca, Sheree and Lorna will all be there. We're going to have lots of Easter treats...we are going to do some Easter crafts....and mum is laying an Easter Egg hunt for us! Yes, we're all grown ladies in our 30s.....no we're not too old to chase around the place hunting for eggs...plus mum does the best riddles!

Anyway, today's challenge over at Sweet Stampin is just up my street....and really rather fabulous! Thats because the challenge is "Girly"! So what are you waiting for...get those girly papers out....lots of glitter....anything that screams "I'm a girl and I love it!!".

I've even purchased a fab new stamp for the occasion.....

 

This fab image is from Digi Stamp Boutique....isn't she a sweetie! After the week I've had I think I'd like to spend the whole weekend in the tub! I've coloured my image with my Promarkers, and I've been trying to experiment with my shading.

 

So....I got all my favourite girly things out for this card...some polka dots, some flowers....lots of glitter and pink! Oh and some bubbles...both the bath tub kind and the drinking kind! I think the only thing I've missed is some chocolate or maybe the odd cupcake??

 

Pop by the Sweet Stampin challenge blog to see all the gorgeous DT cards that have been created this week! While you're there you can also find out about our fab sponsors:

 

 

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

 

Love to Create - pastel colours

Passion for Promarkers - Bingo! I've gone with punches, glitter and blooms

Simon Says Stamp - anything goes

 

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

 

Thanks for popping by today,

Wedgie xxx

Well and truely out of my comfort zone!

Good Morning! Happy Saturday!

I hope you've had a lovely week and are ready to enjoy your weekend!

This is a scheduled post as I am currently on a coach somewhere in the UK travelling back from the Alfie Boe concert that I accompanied my mum to last night! I'm not really a fan, but mum wanted to go and so I said I'd go too!!

So.....I thought last week's challenge at My Time to Craft was difficult because I really don't many Easter images (I bet you are all sick of that cute little bunny now!!)....but when I saw the challenge this week I nearly fell of my chair!!

Our theme for this week is Gothic.....now as you can probably tell just from looking at my blog...I'm really not a gothic girl! I really had to think about what a gothic card would look like and resist the urge to add some pink!!

Here's what I came up with....

 

 

 

I've gone with a different sized/shaped card this week...not sure why...I just fancied a change! When looking through my Pollycraft images I came across this Steampunk image that I thought looked quite "gothic"....I then decided on my black, red and grey colour combo. I've coloured my image with my Promakers and then I decided to keep the background simple...using just plain black paper and that gorgeous red and white flowery paper. I think this hits the spot!

For more gothic inspiration pop by the My Time to Craft challenge blog and take a peek at all the gorgeous DT cards!

I'd also like the enter this card at:

 

Make it Monday

Love to Create - anything goes

I Heart Promarkers - anything goes

 

Pop by all these fab blogs to see the gorgeous DT creations!

 

Thanks for popping by today,

Wedgie xxx