What A Beautiful Day!!

Hullo, Hullo,
You know what they say about rain..... Nice weather for ducks!
Lets face we had plenty of rain this morning considering it was mean't to be a scorcher!
Well look who visited our garden this afternoon - a duck!
Unfortunately a bit worse for wear duck, she had some feathers missing from her back and some from her neck and seemed a little bit muddy.
At first sight I wondered if she had been run over as she was limping a little, my neighbour Mary said she would ring the Swan Sanctuary as they are local and the man came to collect her and explained that at this time of year Male Ducks do tend to get a bit randy (ooh er!)which results in lots of feather plucking and hence the reason she was walking like John Wayne!!
He did assure us she would make a full recovery so I do feel we have done a good deed for the day which makes you feel great!


I did manage to make a card after the Duck saga and used the fab sketch from Sketch Saturday and just had to use my freshly purchased Nora she just has to be the cutest CC design ever I love her! As soon as I got her I knew I had to use my Magnolia background stamp and I am pleased with the result she looks like she hasn't a care in the world don't you think?
Unfortunately it was late in the day so pic is a little dark

There is lots of stickles on the flowers and butterflies and sparkle on the papermania shimmer dots, I tried to capture this here and as you can see failed miserably!!!

I will also be entering my card for Simon Say's as the challenge this week is Things with wings and I spy 3 butterflies on my card.

Hope you have had a lovely weekend and if you run the marathon you deserve that medal cos you must be stark raving mad!!!

I break out in a sweat just watching I definitely don't have enough puff for that sport!

Enjoy your evening!

Toodle pop

xxxx

Girly Card!

Hullo, Hullo,
Thought I would treat you to a non Crimbo card, I mean we are nearly at the end of January and those lil fleurs will be trying to pop their heads at some point!!
I will still be joining in with the Christmas Challenges so there will be the odd one but generally will be trying to churn out more general cards.
I dug out one of my fave Elzybells today and teamed her up with some Imaginisce twitterpatted papers, I love these bright colours they have a real summery feel to give you a lift - I dare not mention the S word as on last post I mentioned it and the very next day it S'd all day really wasn't expecting so much but luckily it disappeared just as quick. phew!
I have paper pieced her dress and cut around flowers from the papers to use as embellishments,
I even dug out some neglected turquoise and red ribbon to use, something I always tend to leave off as no good at doing bows, I really must practice this!
Hopefully I will get some crafting time this weekend as lots of lovely sketches to choose from, this card was made using the sketch from Sketch and Stash which worked perfectly with the challenge of Layers over at A Spoon Full of Sugar they both have some super DT cards, well worth a look.
Gonna have an early night tonight as decided to get fit (not fat!) this year so will be doing an aerobics class tomorrow morning - ooh I know I am gonna ache and will be sucking on those asthma pumps like a hungry bubba!!
Toodle pop!
xxx

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Hullo, Hullo,
Happy New Year everybody I just can't believe it is 2010, my this year has flown by - where did it go!!!
I hope you all had a fab time celebrating in one way or another we certainly did we went out for a meal with friends and then off to a party to see in the New Year we had a great time , my poor little ankles really ache with all that dancing i was doing and my voice is a little hoarse too with all the singing!!
My other half is still in bed - yes I know it's 2.15pm he must be feeling rough but no sympathy for him, nothing that a berocca won't sort out!!
Anyway enough of my waffling - on with my card, i have followed the sketch above from the Sugar Bowl, they have a fantastic prize for the winner! I really liked this sketch and was determined to use my Perfect Plum SU papers, I am really loving this colour at the moment, I have even bought myself a pair of tights in this colour but not been brave enough to wear them yet!
It also has a theme which is to use "New" in it this could be new year, new baby or simply a new piece of stash, I have used both new stash (my papers) and made a new year card I have also used pale plum SU cardstock and gable green , I am liking these colours together,

I will also be entering my card over at the new challenge blog Fussy and Fancy Friday as they also would like to see something new for there 1st challenge.

Here is a little close up of my flower, I have punched the petals with my Martha Stewart - Doilly Lace punch just to give a pretty lacy edge to them , if you look closely I do believe I have captured the sparkle from the bubbles also.

I do not normally send New Year cards but will give this to my Mum and Dad, my mum will love it she keeps all my cards I make her and when I look back at them - 00h there are some horrors!! lol

I would just like to say Thank you to everyone who has left me comments in 2009 and I hope you will continue to visit me in 2010!

Toodle pop!

xxx

Sketch Saturday Challenge!

Hullo, hullo,

Happy 1st December !

EEK is it reallly here!!!!

Sorry I have been AWOL I don't know where the time goes, it's absolutely whizzing by for me it will be Crimbo soon and I am not in the slightest bit organised!!

Hope to catch up with you all soon.

Yup, another Crimbo card and yes red, cream and Kraft again, I have joined in with the Sketch Saturday Challenge and Charizma Cards which is anything Christmas there really are some very pretty cards on both you must check them out.

I have used my new SU set which has different shaped baubles and I love it they stamp out beautifully, lots of stickles for this card so extra sparkly!!

hope you like!

Thank you for all your lovely comments, I have been given another award by a special lady so just need to sort it out and pass on to others - who knows it could be YOU!!!!

(The only day I manage to capture the sparkle on my card and what a bloomin mess it looks! DOH!)

Toodle pop!

xxxx

Who's a Silly Billy?

Hull, Hullo,
I said I would be back with another Anya and here I am feeling a little silly now!!
I made this card a couple of days ago from a sketch over at Sketch and Stash challenge blog, but when I went to upload to show all you lovelies - Do you think I could remember where I saw the sketch ?
Note to ones self "write down where the sketch is from!"
Ooh how frustrating it was hunting it down as this was the 1st time I had stumbled across this challenge blog, and when I did finally find it they had moved on to the next sketch!!!
Waaaaaaggghhhh :) what a donut I am or as my kids would say "DUFUS !!"
Anyway I hope you like my card I have used my Kohinoor pencils and copics for the fleshy bits!!
Lots of sparkle on my card but alas I am no David Bailey!!!
Oh well hope to be back tomorrow with the new sketch.
Thank you all for my lovely comments on my previous card - you obviously love Anyas as much as me x
Toodle pop!xxx

Penny Black Saturday Challenge

Hullo Hullo,
After doing a lads card yesterday, I thought it would be only fair to do one for the girls!!! So, Had a lil browsie round the challenge blogs and saw this sketch over at Penny Black Saturday Challenge and decide this was to be the chosen one, it's funny how you see a sketch sometimes and straight away you know exactly what you gonna use and the stamps ,papers and so on!

On the downside it doesn't always work out how you wanted but luckily when putting this card together it turned out just Rosie I was pleased with this one.

hope you like and I will leave you with another clematies from my garden, i love it in the summer when all the flowers pop out I wish they were out all year brings a smile to my chops!

It's FFFFFFFriday have a great weekend!

Toodlepop!

xxxx