Craftyplace stash swop

Yet again I had a great stash swop over on CP this month. I was teamed up with Choccy Orange and she was very generous with her goodies that I received this week in the post.

My fav bit is in the little bag at the back where there are a whole bunch of teeny weeny tags, some with sentiments on. They are sooo cute and gorgeous and I cannot wait to use them on a card or two!

Thanks so much Choccy I love my crafty bits and bobs xxx

Pocket cards

The July swop over on the Crafty Place was pocket cards. I had never made a pocket card before but they have been very popular amongst my crafty friends on MSE. Many people on the MSE card thread had made very similar cards as someone (sorry can't remember who!) shared a tutorial.

This is the beautiful card that the talented Gemm made for me it is one of the tutorial style cards . They are very en vogue in the card making world don't you know so I am now very lucky to have received 0ne!!!

This is how it looks when the tag has been taken out really gorgeous, I am sure you will agree.

Well me being me had to try something a bit different and I found an amazing idea on a blog challenge somewhere (think it might have been a magnolia challenge, yet again I can't remember!!) It features a 'brown bag' and as I had a couple I thought I would give it a go!! I was quite pleased with the result....

I hope Gemm liked it!!

It was fairly simple and I really enjoyed decorating it and will give it another go soon I think!

Challenge card

Well I have decided to be really adventurous and enter a couple of challenges with this card....

I made this for the Funky Fairys challenge which was 'girly' and I have combined it with the challenge from Sketch Saturday. It is my first time entering either of these challenges so I am very grateful to both websites for setting them.

I downloaded 2 pink papers from the wonderful Funky Fairys (pop on over and have a look!) One has been used as the background and the other design had circular pattens on it which I cut out and made into homemade flower embellishments, pretty cute and girly me thinks!!

Sketch Saturday is very inspirational as it has great card layout designs to use. If you look at this weeks sketch there is a ribbon with the flowers, mine has been covered up with flowers! Also I couldn't find an image that really worked with the design (I have swopped over the image and the sentiment) so I wasn't completely happy with the finsihed product!

I also continued my desgn inside....

Creating from the heart

Hi I have been a follower of Melissa's blog for a while and she is offering some scrumtious stash as blog candy so get on over to her blog and check it out!! (There's a chance to win a Slice now I would consider cutting off my foot to win one of those!!!). Please read further than just the blog candy as she really is very talented.

Creative card crew challenge polkadots

Well I actually made a really cute ATC this week which would perfectly fit this challenge but seeing as I haven't sent it yet i can't really show it here!

After making the ATC I was inspired to make a couple of very quick cards along the same themes as thank you cards for a couple of people. The first card is my polka dots one though the camera was playing up and it is very blurry, shame I didn't realise the pictures were awful until after I had given the cards away!

This one is very similar but no polka dots this time.

I am sure you will agree the patchwork elephant stamp is sooo cute and these creations (and my as yet unseen ATC) were all inspired by fabulous piggy ATC that I received last month from the talented Debbie. I have not managed to find the 'patchwork pig' stamp but have been able to find this 'patchwork elephant' image. Too cute!!!

MSE thanks/embossed card

I finally found time to create my challenge card......

it looks slightly odd but a lot of thought went into it I promise.....

The printed red area at the bottom is actually a copy of my son's report and it said that the teacher will miss him! Then there is a small portion of really badly spelt words mentioning fruit in a poem my DS. Thought that co-ordinated well with the apple on the pile of books! This is an image I have tried to decoupage and the apple has been covered several times in glossy accents which is easier to see in this piccy..............

the blue paper at the top actually says school days on it twice in different fonts. I got the embossing in if you look carefully you will see 'a b c' on the top piece of red card and 'd e f' on the bottom piece.

Camping, Brunch and Bowling!

This weekend DD turned 11 and we had to celebrate in style in true Molly fashion. Firstly we had to put up a tent, or should I say hubby did it only took about 5 hours then I went and helped!! I interpreted the instructions correctly and the tent was up!

Then Molly was joined by 3 chums and they spent the night under canvass, well after chatting and giggling until after 1am, I even went in just after midnight to wish Molly a happy birthday and take a few pics....

After a few hours sleep I was up preparing food for 15 with hubby for the party Brunch. We were offering a choice of cooked items (sausage, egg, baked beans and bacon), toast (brown or white) croissant or pain au chocolate, muffins (choc chip or blueberry) and warm homemade cookies (oat and oat n white choc chip). We had 2 no shows which was slightly annoying (why can't parents just pick up the phone and say their child will not be there??!!) Then it was time to hit the bowling alley.....we had 3 lanes and as we were short of a couple of players guess who got to play.....

I had the most fun with Molly the day before making up the partybags.....

take one 'just for girls' pink tool box from £land and fill with multiple sweets......

repeat until you have enough for a small army/Molly's mates......

Camping/Brunch/Bowling over guess what I forgot..... a birthday cake!!!!