Up in the Air!

Hello there....me again!

This is my second post for today...please scroll down to see my Sweet Stampin DT card.

This time I'm back with the My Time to Craft challenge...and this week our theme is "Up in the Air"....and by this we mean we'd like you to include something on your card that is in the sky. Birds, bees, airplanes, spaceships...the sky's your limit! Plus we'd like to see the item as the main focus of your creation, not just an embellishment.

I decided to aim high...very high.....

 

Hee, hee!

 

I love this backing paper, the colours are just fab and those little stars are a nice extra. Plus I think it goes really well with my fab spaceman image! The image has been coloured with my Promarkers and I tried to go with brighter colours aganist the darker background.

Pop by the My Time to Craft blog to see how the fab DT used the theme this week!

I'd also like to enter this challenge at:
Make it Monday

 

Thanks for popping by today,

Wedgie xxx

Pretty Pastels

Hello there...Happy Saturday!

I hope you are keeping well and had a lovely week. Today my posts are scheduled as its the first round of the British Drifting Championships and I will be spending the day at the side of a race track in Kent watching Joe slide around the track. I have my fingers crossed that the weather is going to be kind to me....a race track is a cold, drafty place to be on a bad weather day!!

I also have something really exciting to show you...well I think its exciting.....this week I have been lucky enough to become the owner of a gorgeous purple Kitchen Aid mixer!!!

 

Sorry ....probably not as exciting to everyone else, but I really love it! I've wanted a Kitchen Aid for ages and so I decided to treat myself using some money that my Dad left me. Its going to last me forever and I will use it a lot.....so I think Dad would approve!! Oh and that's a rather lovely banana cake sitting next to the mixer...my first bake made with the mixer!

 

Anyway, you're not here today to hear about Joe's cars or see my new mixer....no you're to find out about this week's challenge over at Sweet Stampin! Well, this week we have a very pretty challenge for you...we want to see pastels on your project.

 

Inspired by my love of cakes and my new mixer here is my card.....

 

 

Hee, hee....I wish that sentiment was true of all cakes!

 

This is a new Digi Stamp Boutique image that I recently bought which I think is very cute! I've coloured my image with my Promarkers. I've used a combination of pretty pastel papers both plain and floral, along with a doily cut using a new die. Finally I added some punched flowers and some faux stitching. I'm really pleased with how this card turned out...pretty and girlie and full of cupcakes!

 

Pop by the Sweet Stampin blog to see how the rest of the fab DT used pastels on their cards! While there you can also find out about the fab prizes our sponsors have for you this week....

 

 

 

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

 

Digi Stamp Boutique

Simon Says Stamp - April showers and/or spring flowers

 

Pop by these fab blogs if you've got a spare minute to see the gorgeous DT cards that have been created!

 

Thanks for popping by today!

Wedgie xxx

Wishing you a Krafty Christmas!

Hello there!

Happy Wednesday! It's hump day....and that means that after today I only have two days of work left until my week's annual leave is here! Woo hoo! I am so looking forward to having some time off...can you tell?? I'm lucky enough to have lots of plans and so I'm really wishing the days away this week! I'm off to a day spa with Becca, then Joe and I are spending a couple of days on the Isle of Wight...then I'm having a 1950s themed birthday party!

Anyway, I'm not here to bore you with my plans.....no I'm here to tell you about this month's challenge over at Christmas at Sweet Stampin! This month we'd like to celebrate a Krafty Christmas.....with cards or projects featuring kraft paper!

I like using kraft on my projects and so I really enjoyed making this card....

 

I've gone with traditional red and greens to go with my Kraft...which I've used as a card base and a panel in the background. I've coloured my cute image with my Promarkers, adding a little sparkle to the snow with my Stickles. I've added a sentiment and finally some faux white stitches.

 

Pop by the Christmas at Sweet Stampin challenge blog to see all the gorgeous DT cards that have been created this month. While there you can also find out about the fab prize on offer from our sponsor this month....

 

 

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

 

Make it Monday

Stampin Sensations - Special Occasions (a celebration that's not a Birthday!)

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

Thanks for popping by today,
Wedgie xxx

 

Late night inspiration....

Hello there!

A quick late night post from me tonight! I've had a lovely time this evening zipping around blog-land, catching up on all the gorgeous cards that people have been making recently. I wasn't going to make a card tonight, but after spending so much time looking at gorgeous cards I was inspired!!

So, here is my card....

 

Please excuse the slightly odd shape of the card....and the bad lighting...this is what happens when you get too excited and do things in a rush!!!

 

I love this cute little image, which some of you might recognise from older posts. I just think those little kitties are soooo cute! I always wonder what they might be singing and how bad they sound!!

 

I've used fresh spring time colours for this card, coupled with that gorgeous piece of Kraft paper (my new addiction at the moment!!). I've coloured my image with my Promarkers, and added a sentiment and some punched flowers.

 

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

 

Cupcake Craft Challenge - raining cats and dogs

The Pink Elephant - spring colours

 

Pop by both these blogs to see the gorgeous DT cards that have been created this week.

 

Thanks for popping by today,

Wedgie xxx

What a productive day!

Hello there...hope you're keeping well!

Well, I have to say that I've had a rather lovely productive day! Today I have managed to make a batch of rather scrummy lemon and raspberry cupcakes....

 

I took some of these to my friend who has recently moved house....she was quite pleased with my offering! We had a gossip over a cup of tea and a cake! Then I came back home and I've re-strung a bracelet that I made and broke a while ago. I thought I'd managed to find all the beads when it broke, so I just re-strung what I had....but either I've lost a bead or two.....or my wrist has got larger!! I'm kinda hoping I've lost some beads!!

 

I have also managed to pot four blueberry plants and make a lot of DT cards for my blog! Oh and to compensate for all the cake I also managed to fit a quick run in! I'd say that was a good day, wouldn't you?

 

I also managed to make a card for a couple of challenges.....

 

 

I'm really pleased with how this card turned out, I love the pretty colours and papers! The image is a free one that I got with a magazine recently, I coloured it with my Promarkers and added a little sparkle to the buttlerfly with my Stickles. The flowers are punched from plain pink paper and I have added a gem to the centres.

 

The cute layout comes from Sweet Sketch Wednesday....and its a special one because it's Arlana's 200th sketch! How amazing is that?? Here it is....

 

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

 

Allsorts - spring has sprung

Di's Digi Designs - flower frenzy

Top Tip Tuesday - girls and boys come out to play

Sweet Sketch Wednesday

 

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

 

Thanks for popping by today....I'm off to do a little more cross stitch now!

 

Wedgie xxx