cuddles and cuteness

I am having a great week at home,
to those people who say that
if they won the lottery they would still work....

I say....
NOT ME!!!!
I could easily amuse myself !

I made this card a wee while ago
but it only turned up at the person's house
yesterday so can only post it here now!

An alternative anniversary card.

I have the poem on the computer upstairs
it is all about how love is weird! LOL.

I am entering it in Scrapbook sisters Challenge
who want your make to go over the edge.
Thank you to Julie for suggesting same.


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This is a card I made today,
for a cousin who I lost touch with 22 years ago
and found again online thanks to
facebook!!!

I am entering it in A spoonful of sugar
who say anything goes.
Oldie but a goodie, who need the image
to be more than 6 months old and
want pink & girlie.

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This card was for my hubby's birthday.
I love the sentiment, even though
these older Magnolia's have no mouths!
What is it about stamps that have no mouths?

I am entering it in the first challenge over
at Ribbon girl's blog
who want orange, black & white.
and Creative Inspirations
who want two or more images.

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This is for a fellow witchy mate!
LOL
I found it when looking
for the above Magnolia stamps,
and although I am early for Halloween
I love this stamp!

My time to craft want kids on the card
and this young lass is trick or treating.
Allsorts who want you to use 3 or more punches
well I have used three different punches
for my leaves.
I love this time of year, the pretty colours
as the leaves change is just stunning.

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My fave pixie dust digital download!
*My Edward*
sigh....

The card I entered over there won
their challenge last week!
Wooo hoooo!

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This card was for my Hubby
for our Wedding Anniversary
which is tomorrow!!!

It is my take on the sketch at Cute card Thursday,
Papertake weekly want animals
and Crafty Pad who want embossing.
The wee sheep & bird is a crafty pad stamp.

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Poppy has not been replaced,
Bella has taken to snuggling up with
a huge toy dog called Dudley.

He doesn't seem to mind the smell of wet dog!

book, button hole, bling & babies

I am sorry for all the pictures,
but I seem to be a better blogger
if I blog every few days,
so that means a few cards at once.

Thank you for all my get well wishes,
I am almost there.
The tail end of a summer cold seems to linger...

You know I was talking to some
of the girls at work about the ribbons
that you get inside tops....

well I am now receiving bags of ribbons
in the internal mail at work!
and at tea time,
and when staff come into the department!
It is very sweet of everyone!

If i was to show whats on my work space today...
it would be these....

I made this card for one lady who
gave me heaps of ribbons.
The wee bloom is a brooch
that comes off so you can wear it!
It is made with two bits of ribbon she
gave me this week.

I am entering it in My time to craft
who want a butterfly on the card.
Papertake weekly want in the garden


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This ribbon is also from the above stash!

The big text stamp is penny black,
the sentiment is hobby art.
and the lassie is greeting farm,
which means I can enter the card
on Anyone for Anya ,
who want the colour combo
pink, black and white.
I have decoupaged the brolly,
which is not normally something
I do, but I liked it.

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The blue ribbon is from above collection.
The green and silver is craft ribbons.
I am entering this in Color Throwdown
but I am not happy about how dark the green
and taupe colour turned out.

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I found this a real challenge to colour,
after deciding to make it the one for
one stop craft challenge
who want monochromatic.

This one is for a few other challenges too.
Creative Inspiration want sport related cards.
The boy is from Di's digital downloads.

Passion for promarkers want animals.
well there is a cute wee doggy there.

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This card I am not keen on at all.
It was an order for a lady at work,
for her elderly MIL to give to a friend who
was retiring from teaching.

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And lastly......
Cause if I put the photos
of my two furry babies at the top
of the post, no one reads below it !

My hubby was on night shift last night,
he came upstairs with both girls
to speak to me in the spare room....
and a short while later I
found all three fast asleep!!

But this is how they nomally sleep!

Hope you are well
much love Teen xxx

Blooms & Bags.

I am so glad it is the weekend!
And even more so since I
am on leave
from work next week!
WOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Have a few cards made over the
last few days.

This one is for a lady at work
who has had an operation.

I am entering it at ABC Challenge
who want the weather on the card.

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Paper take weekly want your
card to be done in the colours of
ice cream flavours.
Well mine is strawberry and mint.
The paper is Bo Bunny,
and looked so pretty
I just added the sentiment, image
and some sukura pen to it.

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This one is a wee bit cheeky.
A lady at work wanted a card
for one of the midwives she works with
at the family planning clinic.

The lady is bag daft
and loves Radley bags.
You know the ones with the
wee Scottie dog tag on it.

And because she works in family planning
I decided to add condoms...

to make one into a wee keyring.
As you do......

Lastly ....
the brown eye girls...
Bella is growing fast,
like the many weeds that someone has
left in my once beautiful garden!
Bella is killing many of the plants,
digging holes,
and leaving decapitated toys
all over the place,
it looks like a war zone!
It will all be alright.
It is just a phase....

Hope you are all fine,
have a great weekend.
love teen xx

sparkles

I have a few more cards here,
I seem to have time to craft or blog
but not both.

So I craft for a few days then blog!
Sorted!

You remember this card.......

Well......
it won a challenge
over at Pixie Dust!
Woooooooooooooo hoooooooooooo!

Back to the makes!

This one is for a lady at work
who's daughter got married.

The wall hanging has some
hand made roses.

I need to do some housekeeping
on my printer,
the groom looks a bit stripy.

Next a belated birthday card for
one of my very good mates,
who's Birthday I completely
forgot about!

I think I need to add some flowers to
the bare bit beside Alice's feet.

This one is a request for a lady
at work to give her mate.
They are having a glamorous
party for her Birthday.
Thanks to Tasha for the link to this stamp.

Lastly my Father's day card for my Dad.
We call him Gramps, or Grumps !!
I am a real Daddy's girl.

Lastly.....got to finish off with
a photo of my girls!

They slept like this!

Hope you are all grand!

Love teen xx

Wedded Bliss

Whats on my work space....?
A blinkin mess to be honest,
I dare not show you the rest
of my work area, this needs
a good tidy up as it is.

I had a day off work today,
so I got time to make some cards.

A lady at work asked me to make
her a Wedding card
in a similar style to the invite.

It was in white and pink,
with four diamonds along the
pink ribbon on the side.

I thought it looks an easy enough idea
BUT
It was a real pain in the elbow to do.

I made one and it looked too plain.
The white card looked all wrong.
So I made it again using shimery white
card....but once I stuck down the
second white layer I realsied
that I had not stuck down the ribbon....
The ribbon may have been pink
but the air was blue!

Third time....
I discovered I didnt have
two sheets of the white shimery card.
So it is a sort of oyster colour.
But by this point I really didn't care!


Anyway here is final card.

The pink flower is punched out in the oyster
card and darker pink ribbon is underneath.

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So this was the white card that looked wrong.
I stamped butterflies and dragon flies
and added the Penny Black image.
I think I will go back and add some
more shading to his tummy.
The top layer of the punched out butterfly
is a wee bit of left over vellum.

I am entering it in papertake weekly,
who want Fun, fun, fun!
Creative card crew who want pink & green
Penny Black Sat Challenge want in the garden.
My Time to craft ~ wild thing.

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OK so I had one more base card made
from the wedding card faff from before.
I needed a Thank you card.

I think I got a bit carried away
on the dots and dashes on the edging
but I like the end card.

My pal asked me to do her a
wedding card as well...
to be honest after the morning
I had with the other card
I almost didn't want to do this
card at all......

But I got on with it, and
I quite liked what I ended up with.

I am not keen on fussy wedding cards.
The off white card in this is also
a bit shimmery.
So is the purple ink I used to
smudge the edges of the
hearts and the sentiment.

Lastly.....
I really enjoyed making this one.

Passion for promarker want Books as this weeks theme.
Well you must know by now
I LOVE TWILIGHT!
lol.
So here is Bella & Edward.
I know Bella would not wear
a dress like this.
But she is the best I could do.

This evening Bella-Boo is going
to a puppy party at the vets.
She is being a wee toad.....so
a party is the last place I think she
should be getting to attend today!

Andrew took her and Poppy-dog
into town in the car.
He went into a shop for a short while....
came out and found her in the boot....
eating a slice of bread from
the loaf he had bought in the bakers.

She was quite happy!

Thank with Roses.

For the last 6 weeks
I have been going to the local
college and having massage by a
Complementary Therapy student.
It has been blissful.
The student was such a lovely person.
I made her this thank you card
and gave her an altered tin
with some Rose scented goodies in it.
Since that is one of my favorite
aromatherapy oils.

I am entering the card in a few challenges.
Secret Crafters saturday Challenge ~ Buttons & blooms
Passion for promarkers ~ Anything goes


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I am not sure about the colours in this next card.
I have used my fave set of butterfly stamps
from Crafty Pad.
I used two shades of orange vellum to make
the punched flowers. But not sure about them.
The base vellum has flecks of gold and orange in
it, and the butterflies are coloured using
distressing inks and sukura pen.

I am entering it in crafty pads competition.

My time to craft want vivid cards.

hope you are enjoying the sunshine.
much love Tina xx

flowers in the garden

I love this new stamp of mine.
Dahlia from Greeting Farm.

It was so sunny and cheerful.
I sent it to a friend.
The backing papers are Bo Bunny.
I really love them.


I can not remember where I
found the sentiment.
The in bloom circular stamp is See D.
and the flowers are SU punches.
I used promarkers on to make the right
coloured card.

Now to my own wee flowers......

They love spending time chillin
in their garden.

Poppy had stopped digging,
but Bella ( Bless her.....)
has encouraged Poppy to take it up again......

This was planted out with herbs and shrubs....
Bella looks huge in these photos!

And when you are done....
you snugged up and go to sleep!

This is how they sleep!
The wee one gets too hot,
and moves away.
Just to move back again.
Poppy is so gentle with her!

Been a crappy day. Discovered someone
has hacked into our paypal and stolen £1500
from our bank account, leaving us with nothing!
Pay pal and our bank are investigating.

It's just pants really.

Hope life is better with you all. xxx

Friendship

I have several friends
who have Epilepsy.

Today is
National Epilepsy Awareness day.
So in honor of them
I wear purple.

This is my friend Craig and
his best Friend Cassie.

Today's card is purple and green.
and my Friendship is extended
to many people today.


Do not walk in front of me,
I may not follow.
Do not walk behind me,
I may not lead.
Walk beside me,
And be my friend.

Albert Camus.