Craft Your Days Away - Shades of Grey + One Other

Morning!

I can't believe I haven't posted for two weeks - how rubbish am I?  I just seem to have been so busy.

Anyway its time for a new challenge over at Craft Your Days Away.

The challenge for this fortnight is Shades of Grey + 1 Other, so why not pop over and join in - there are some amazing creations from my teamies.

We have a fabulous sponsor for this challenge - it's The Pretty Little Ribbon Shop and their fabulous prize is a ribbon and embellishment bundle.

Here's my card for this challenge:

I've realised it's nearly Christmas so I've made a Christmas Card (ok - I know it's not but I do need to get a wiggle on with my Christmas cards). I've used a cute Pollycraft image and the snowflakes are chipboard shapes covered in blue glass embossing powder. The snowflake paper is simply some snowflakes stamped in black ink onto the grey card.

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

Willow Sketchie - Christmas in July
Paper Play Challenges - Christmas in July
Card Crafters Circle - For Children
Cardmadfairy  - Christmas in July
Ladybug Crafts Ink - Christmas in July

Anyway thanks for looking - I need to go and tidy my house now as my sister is coming to stay with us this weekend and my house looks like a bomb has hit it.

Hope you all have a good weekend!

Julie xx

Edited to add challenge entries - as I finally got my house tidy!

Super Secret Valentines Flop ....

I posted yesterday about my Super Secret Valentine Present and how my plans for the afternoon were to finish it off.

The present was a little fold up photo album and all I needed to do was to put in some pictures and write a few notes in it.  Off I went in search of our old photos from when we first got together and I spent ages looking for them - but couldn't find them.

So I started to panic a bit knowing that he would be home soon and I had nothing to give him.

Last week I bought a pack of valentines sweets for us to share in the evening called LUV TXTS, think love hearts but a modern, chewy, gummy, and surprisingly tasty version, and so I thought I'd make a quick box to put the sweets in.  I'd seen this tutorial a couple of weeks earlier and saved it in my favourites for future reference and loosly followed the instructions to make the box.

As I had no patterned card or paper suitable I used some black card and heat embossed some clear and red hearts onto the card.  Then as I had only loosely followed the instructions I had to find something to stop the box and lid coming apart as the lid was too big  /box to small. So a rummage through my craft drawers found some paper wire to tie it up. 

And the end result: pretty poor, I really should have made more effort with the paper wire, perhaps using a double thickness as it's far to thin with the chunky box but by that time it was 6pm he was due home shortly, two darling children were begging for my attention and wanting to be fed. 

Anyway here's the end result of my sorry sob story: 

My school report for this says must try harder.  I'd like to say I'll learn my lesson and not leave things to the last minute in future - but I doubt it.

As for the Super Secret Valentines Present, I need to enlist his help to find the photos, I've shown him the empty album and he was very impressed with my handywork - so once it's finished I'll post a photo.

xx