Another Birthday Card...

Hello,

Just a quick post for me as it's late and I'm tired, but I won't have chance to post this tomorrow as I've got to work late and then go and cheer up one one of my best bud's up as she's having a bit of a poo time at the minute.  I'll take her some cake I think - that always cheers me up!

This card is for Auntie Ruth as she is 60 at the weekend!  I like to put my cards on top of the fireplace for a day or so before sending to decide if I like them or not and I think I'm going to alter it before I send it to add a sentiment.   Anyway, I really love this paper, the picture doesn't do it justice, partly as the photo was taken about 10 minutes ago and 11.30pm isn't known for it's abundance of natural light.  It's from Papermainia but I have no idea what it's called!

I'm also fairly chuffed with myself as I stamped this image myself rather than the digi's I prefer to use.  I freely admit that I SUCK at stamping, as I always end up with parts of the image missing, even following the billion expert tips I've been given - good ink & paper, ink pad to the stamp etc.  So what did I do this time?  I inked up the stamp and then put it on the table and pressed the paper on the stamp.  I'm sure I've made some horrible stamping faux pas however it worked for me!

I'm going to enter this into the following challenges:

• Cupcakecraft - Sketch
• Stamp Something - Pretty Papers
• Southern Girls - Anything Goes

Also hello to my not so new follower who I think I've missed off my hello's - Almondeyez2000!

Anyway I'm off to bed in a min so night night all - thanks for looking! 

Jules x

Father's Day

Morning!

Here's my father day card for my very lovely father-in-law.  He is the original Mr Fix-it, hence the hammer.  The little monkey digi stamp is from Pollycraft and I've done it in 3 layers, although the picture doesn't show it very well.  The sentiment is one I made quickly on the computer last night.

I'm going to enter this card in the following challenge

• Cupcakecraft - Boy, Oh Boy, Oh Boy
• Papertake Weekly - Dads and Lads
• Tuesday Throwdown - 3 Past Challenges (Animal Image, Anything Goes & Sentimentally Yours - which I hope means the card has to have a sentiment on it!!)
• Saturday Challenge - A Male Card
• Creative Inspirations - Fathers Day
• Do It With Digis - Animal Magic
• Simply Create - All About You Dad

Thanks for looking!

Julie

A birthday card..

Morning!

I made this card last night as my friend's little girl is 4 next week.

 I'm going to enter it into the following challenges:

• Cupcake Craft - Orange, Yellow, Green and White (ok so only the little bird and the grass is green - hope it still counts!)
• Papertake Weekly - Sketch
• Do You Stack Up - Orange
• Stamp Something - Anything Digi
• Catch the bug - Anything Goes
• Bee Crafty - Summers Here!

Plus I have two new followers - Laura Jane Quick and Aussie Loz - HELLO!
Check me out - that's 18 followers now!!

Thanks for popping by!

Julie

Coming to a card near you ....

Morning!

I just though I'd take a quick picture of all the stamps I printed and cut ready for colouring.  So far I've managed to colour 13 out of 36! 

Although taking a better look at the photo I suspect my toddler has been poking around with the camera as it looks smudged.  And on closer inspection of the camera I have found one toddler size finger print on the lense!  

Anyway just in case you were interested where they were from:

Little Girl  / Snowman - Heather Ellis.  

Fairies - Card Making and Papercraft free gift.

And the ones below were found via Free Digital Stamps

Little Boy - Sliekje Digital Stamps

Birds - Blackleaf Studios

Giraffe - Limited Runs

Anyway thanks for looking - have a nice day! x

Cake not Cards

Hi,

I've realised I've not posted for ages, years even.  I'm not sure how that happened - but I seem to have had fate conspiring against me (my camera broke so I couldn't take any pictures of the few cards I have made and given to people) and being busy with life in general. 

I've just finished my maternity leave and have returned to work after a massive 14 months off (lots of holidays to use!) and am finding balancing working (even just the three days a week I do!), managing home stuff with a 2.5 year old and a 1 year old and fitting in time to craft challenging to say the least. But I'll get there - after all one of the amazing things about being a woman is the innate ability to do more than one thing at a time!

Anyway in all the time I've been away my baby boy turned one.  So I thought I'd share a picture of his birthday cake with you all.  If nothing more so you can have a chuckle at my feeble attempts. 

It's a lion - just in case you were wondering!

And for those of you out there who need extra laughs, then I though I'd share with you pictures of the cupcakes I made for my little girl's 2nd birthday way back in September.  I'd like to title this collection "Something went wrong at the Zoo."

I'm starting to get back into making cards - and for some fresh inspiration I bought quite a few digital images from Heather Ellis' website here, some were only 50p each which is a bargain - so I recommend you take a look. Last night I printed out lots and lots of digis to colour in so I can make some cards, and tonight I've coloured four little fairies, which in my book is big progress.  I'll take some photos with my fancy new camera later on this week so you can see all my images.

Somehow, while I've been away I've got two new followers, so thanks very much for that and hello to Angels & Diamonds and Sandra!

Also I was wondering if anyone has seen any good deals on Nestabilities Circles and Scalloped Circles?  If so would you be so very kind as to leave me a comment!! 

Cheers for reading!!