Emily's birthday card

Evening all!

Hope you're having a good week, and that work isn't too pants.  Luckily for me it's Wednesday and being a part-time it's the end of my working week, and then I can sit back, relax and watch a bit of telly .... what's that ... I've got to do the school run and look after a two year old?... Oh well!

I've realised I didn't share Emily's birthday card with you all when she turned 4 in September, so here it is:

Surprisingly it's a Pollycraft Image!  My papers are from First Edition - Little Owl and the rest is stuff that;s been lurking in my stash for a while.

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

Craft Your Passion - Fairies and Fantasy
Make It Monday - Anything Goes
Cute Card Thursday - Got Glitter (Wings!)
Totally Gorjus - Bling it on
One Stop Craft Challenge - Anything Goes
Ladybug Crafts Ink - The ladybugs need a P - Pink
Natalie and Amy - Birthday Bling
Whimsy Stamps - All things Sparkly

That's all for this evening - thanks for looking!

Julie xx

Grrrr to technology!!

Hello,

I really do hate computers.  My laptop broke again, so I've had very limited access to the internet for the last two weeks - which was a nightmare. I even managed to delete comments on our DT blog trying to use blogger on my mobile, (sorry about that girls!) Every time it goes away to be fixed I hope they'll just tell me I can have a new one - but they never do.  In the mean time I must must must remember to keep my hard drive backed up as we had to make a mad dash over to a friends house to have the hard drive copied before we sent it away for repair.

Anyway I've made loads of cards recently and plan to share them with you all over the next couple of weeks, here's the first one. This card is for my Niece, she was 11 a week or so ago.  I had great fun shopping for her birthday present as I bought her a load of a card making things!

I treated myself to a couple of Lili of the Valley Stamps - I've stayed away from stamping as all my efforts previously have been rubbish.  This is stamped quite nicely, even if I did use a somewhat unorthodox method of stamping.  I even surprised myself with the results.

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

Cupcake Craft - Two's company
The Paper Shelter - Charming (there is a little ladybird, but it's just hiding behind the bow!)
Woopsi Daisy - Birthdays
Lollypop Crafts - Happy Birthday
Creative Craft Challenges - Three - three pearls.
Ladybug Crafts Ink - Flowers and Embossing
Craft Us Crazy - Children / And or Fall
Southern Girls - Tie a ribbon around it

That's for night, tonight I'm planning to catch up on my Design Team commenting - I love seeing what people have made, and then I'm going to catch up with all the lovely blogs I follow over the next couple of days.

Hope you all have a great weekend!

Julie x

Good luck!

Evening!

This weeks hasn't been great for me - hence no posts - but I was thrilled to find out I made the Top 3 in a Nutcrafters Challenge - check me out!!!

I wanted to share with you all a card I made last week for one of my work colleagues who is leaving us.

Just a fairly simple card - but I've used some of my most favourite Heather Ellis digi's and my beautiful Memory Box butterfly dies.

I went to the Creative Stitch and Hobbycrafts show in Manchester a couple of weeks back and bought quite a lot of new things.  I actually went a bit crazy and loads of stuff including some fabric,I don't even use fabric, I don't have a clue what I'm going to do with this fabric - probably just admire it from time to time!

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

Shopping Our Stash - Fur or Feathers
The Paper Shelter - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
Willow Sketchie - Favourite Things (I love Heather Ellis Digis)
Woopsie Daisy - Things with Wings
Craft Us Crazy - Halloween / Anything Goes

Anyway I'm off to bed now - thanks for looking!

Julie x

Stampin' For The Weekend - Feeling Floral

Morning,

Hopefully blogger will play ball and post this for me at the right time, as I'm out being a super proud mum.  My little girl started the nursery year at school this week and I'm taking her to school for the first time today!  She looks so grown up and cute in her uniform.

Edited to say - I am heartbroken - I didn't even get a single glance back, she ran in found something interesting to play with and then looked at me as if to say "why are you still here?"

Anyway I could talk about how lovely she looks all day but I won't, which I'm sure you'll all be pleased to hear.  Today is that start of a new challenge at Stamping for the Weekend!  Yippee...

Our theme for this fortnight is Feeling Floral.  Yes that's right we want to see those flowers, either on the image, on your papers, embellishments,  or why not go for all three!!

We have a fab sponsor this fortnight - it's In2Stamps who have a fabulous prize for our lucky winner!

So here's my card - I decided to go the whole hog and have flowers in my image, on my paper and chucked on a some more flowers to finish it off.  

Really hope you can pop over and join in our challenge - I love seeing what everyone creates!

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

Craft Your Passion - Bingo - (Yellow, Ribbon, Flowers)

Whoopsi Daisy - Make it Girly

Creative Craft Challenges - Anything Goes

Simply Create Too - Anything Goes

Card Crafter's Circle - Ribbon and Roses

Thanks for stopping by - hope you have a great weekend!

Julie x

Halloween Craft Swap

Hi,

Just a quick post from me this morning!

I just wanted to let you know that the lovely Kat from With U in Mind is hosting a Halloween Craft Swap.

Why not check out her blog for the details, if you're interested.

I think she's closing entries this weekend so you'll need to be quick!

Have a great day!

Julie x