Sugar Rush!

Ivolina (a fellow 365er) is giving away some fabulous blog candy at the moment so make sure you hop on over to her blog for some inspiration, really great cards and a chance to win!

The Cat's Meow!

The challenge at Paper Take Weekly was to create a card based on the above sketch.

Of course I had to use my new Anita's Stamp set and I decided on this rather fluffy cat. I used Deja Views paper and buttons from my stash.

You know, now I have some really good stamps I am starting to like this stamping larky!

Top Dog!

I really enjoy the ad inspired days over at 365 Cards and today was no different.

I was especially excited to see the cute dog at the foot of the bed in the advert, as only yesterday I got some new stamps, and one of them is the spitting image of that little cutie! They are still on sale here if you would like a gander! I have used the othe cat stamps here and also here.

I started with a load of scraps from my stash (DCWV, Sandy Lion and American Crafts) and created a patchwork effect. I then used the stamp (from Anita's Stamps) and stamped the dog in green. This was mounted on white card and matted on the matching DCWV purple paper and the same card as the base card. Next I added the die-cut sentiment (silver, the same as the mirror in the ad) and added the gems on the image and background. You can't quite see it but the four gems surrounding the dog are pale pink, lilac, pale green and pale blue, to match the patchwork colours.

Glad for the grad!

I started with a mat from the DCWV All Dressed Up set (rather appropriately) and mounted this on black glossy card. I then made the mortar board out of the same black glossy card and attached a tassle with a black dovecraft brad. Next I rolled up white card and added the red ribbon and attached this to the card on top of a black satin ribbon from my stash.

The mortar board didn't look right on it's own so I cut out a circle to mount it on and instead decided to use the circle as a person (I think I have seen too many of the Bupa ads!) and added the hat jauntily. Finally I used vellum alphabet stickers to create the sentiment and mounted this on the same white and black card I used for the Graduand and their hat!

Almost forgot, I then added 3 little black gems in the top corner, just to finish it off.

You know, when I first saw this challenge I just knew I would have to do it in one of the University of Manchester colours (pre/post merger). I have to say, I absolutely loved my time at University and I would highly recommend Manchester as the place to be! Class of 2006 rocks!

Taking a tumble!

I'm a bit late posting this little number (number, get it?!), yes I really do need to laugh after what happened to me today!

So, I had my last dental appointment today (yay!). I was full of the joys of no more chair time and a spring was definitely in my step! Well I was a tad too bouncy and right in front of a full bus stop, I trip over absolutely nothing (by that I mean my own feet!) and it isn't one of these graceful lady falls, my lovely boyfriend tells me it was like watching a toddler going down: you can see it is going to happen and then all of a sudden they are in a heap on the floor and you just know the tears are coming! Boo hoo, I was that heap!

Now I have bruises absolutely everywhere (although, so does Simon as he had to practically carry me home!). Although at least I didn't bruise my right leg, the shiner I got from putting my foot through the bath hasn't quite gone from there yet! Don't even ask about that one!

Oooh I look back at what I have just written and it looks like I have been shouting with all those exclamation marks! There I go again! Okay, I will try and stop now.....

Anyway, back to the card, the reason I am late is I was trying to recover from my little trip (with bags of groceries I might add, I managed to break my fall on a Rolo desert). Again, back to the card, it is mostly papers from the sweet stack, which is pretty sweet.

Hopefully tomorrow I will be able to make it home without any incidents....

Purrfect!

After yesterdays challenge when I knew exactly which papers to use, today was rather different! Think pink! I was spoiled for choice! I have made a few cards using these aperture card blanks and I haven't been too keen on them, but this one just works!

I was going to make it a Sorry! card because he looks like he has been naughty! Then I remembered a certain lady at work who absolutely LOVES cats! This is purrfect for her! Remember to click on the photo for a slightly larger view, you can barely see his cheeky smile in this one!

The papers are DCWV and the stamp has no name on it, nor do the kitty stickers, but I think I got it from Woolworths (before it closed). If I remember right the pack had a really scrummy looking ice-cream sundae sticker which I wanted to use in a scrapbook.

Scrappy Work!

Yes, I am still using these DCWV scraps for the 3rd or 4th card this week! It seems to go so far! This one is for the challenge over at Cupcake Craft Challenges, which is to use a number in your design.

Are we there yet?

They really making it hard over at 365 cards this week! Especially when I have an upset tummy (no-one mention sausages please!).

Although I did know straight away that I would use these DCWV Travel papers, so far I have only ever used them in my holiday scrapbooks so it makes a nice change to do something different with them.

Two days ahead!

Well, I really was ahead of myself when I made this Mother's Day card 2 days ago! So this time I made a more generic one that can be used for a birthday or Mother's Day.

I finally got around to uploading some of our pictures from this weekend here. It really was a fun packed weekend, I have to say it has felt like being on holiday! I'm not sure if I'm ready to go back to work tomorrow! Mind you who looks forward to the first day back after a long weekend?!

Did someone say sausages?

So, I still had scraps from this DCWV paper so that's where I started! I then added a chipboard ribbon slider and mounted a matching DCWV sticker onto blue card and then onto this.

It was a quick one today as Simon currently has the barbeque smoking, and there should be sausages soon!

I hope you're all having fab weather for the bank holiday too!

Also, thanks everyone for the lovely comments, I am looking forward to all the blog hopping I have to catch up with as soon as I am in the house for more than 5 minutes, and seeing what you have all done with these challenges!

Oh well, just lop it off!

A very quick post today, as I am on my way to bed, I am so tired! After yesterdays events we ended up going to Chessington's World of Adventures today, so I have had 2 very long non stop days! Not that I am complaining! It was very fun, and I will fill you all in on the details (and photos and videos) tomorrow at a more civilised hour!

Here's my 8+ blooms for the day, the paper, sticker and chipboard are DCWV and the ribbon is from my stash. This did start out as an octagon card but I put the double sided tape on the wrong side! I blame it on the tiredness! So I just chopped the edges off, to make a different but still interesting shape!

Age is just a number!

In this case, the number 6! I used scraps from the card I made 2 days ago, to create this funky little number!

I've got the day off today and I am off to have a trip on the London Eye! We've lived in London now since Christmas, so it is about time we got around to it!

Then we are off to watch a new TV quiz show being recorded, all I know is that Steve Jones is presenting and that Fern Britton is one of the team captains, so that's quite exciting.

But anyway because I'm in a bit of a rush I haven't had chance to let the glitter dry (as you can probably see) so I will take another shot when I get home tonight.

Have a nice day everyone!