tug of war.

No cards to show you today,
I have actually made four
but they are for Sunday's post.
Two are pink and brown inspired
by my chocolate mallow and strawberry
wafer I had yesterday.....
It's never too cold for some good
local Italian ice cream!

I just wanted to say hello,
and keep my blogging going
now I am back around again.

Thank you for my comments
and emails telling me
what you have been up to,
where you have moved to,
new jobs,
and all your other news!!!

Have had lots of folk asking
about Miss Poppy-dog!

So here she is.....
Chicken tug of war with her new friend
Miss Yo-yo.

Sleeping after a play date,
the cushion fell on here,
and she moaned when we took it off!

And not a Poppy but...
I was clearing out my camera,
and found this....
took it a few weeks ago.....

not as cold this morning
but still had to scrap the car!
I was hoping it was Spring time!!!

sniffs & sneezes

Its snowing thick and fast here today,
and I am full of this blasted cold again!
I don't think it has ever completely gone away.

Anyway, here is a few cards
I have done over the last few days.

This one is one I started last week
following Mada's sketch on JCBC.
It is from a few weeks ago, so too late to enter it.

But I couldn't get round to doing it before
and it is such a pretty sketch I wanted to try it out.

The flower is made of heart stamps
that came free in a magazine.
I really like heart flowers just now!
The text is using my cuttle bug.
I will enter it on arty girlz challenge
Who are looking for " flowers"
Also One Stop Craft Challenge want circles.
The flower is on a circle base, the brads are circles
The button is round & there are wee circles
or dots on the hearts.

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The next one is also from JCBC sketches #18
is by my lovely friend Amanda who has loads of snow!!
It is ment to have a sentiment on it but I
didn't want to add the sentiment I made on the computer cause the person it is for reads my blog!!

I am not sure who sent me the pink cuttlebug card.
I layered it on silver mirror card.
The naughty or nice was also a swap & it is on pink mirror card.
I used silver ink pad to stamp wee
snowflakes on the shimmery card.

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The last card is also a Christmas card.
Part of my plan to get a head start on Xmas cards this year. I have now a grand total of
.....................3!!!

This one is following a sketch by
Laura at 2 sketches 4 you!
They do the most beautiful sketches.

You know I am not that keen on FF bears.
I have real problems getting my shading right.
But I do love the backing papers you get from them,
and this is using one of their Xmas pads.

Andrew is doing much better.
Thank you for all your emails & messages asking how he was.

He is hobbling along, but has been seen by my lovely
therapist friend who did some treatment on him
and that has speeded up his recovery !

He did make our friend a beautiful Birthday cake

We hid it in the cupboard, it was very yummy.

It was all a bit too much for Poppy.
She had a lovely time with Brodie,
but wanted to snuggle in with him and have a sleep.

But he was too busy with a squeaky ball to sleep!

Every time she snuggled closer, he moved away!
He is coming round again this evening.
His mum is going out to a party
and he is having another play date with Poppy dog,
no point in picking up all those toys!


Stay warm!
Be back later with some photos we have taken .

Love Tina xx

Dogs life ( 2nd post)

It's been a beautiful day here today, cold but beautiful.

As you can see Poppy loves the snow.....
she became deaf when I was shouting her to come in....


This card my take on a One Stop Sketch Challenge this week by Nikki


you can't really see it on the photo but there is a wee touch of glitter on the tree.
The photo is one I took last year down the woods we take Poppy-dog.

This card is for Arty Girlz Challenge this week they want frames....
I used a wee picture of Poppy in it and punched out tiny snow flakes from light grey shiny vellum, using a wee trio of punches I got from a supermarket for 97p for all three!!!

This next picture was taken in our garden tonight,
I have bought a dog whistle to try and improve Poppy's refusal to come back
when we let her off the lead down the woods....

SO I blew the whistle a few times and gave her a bickie each time she came running to me,
I found her outside....looks like she was waiting for me to whistle her again!
She loves this new game....lets see if it works when we are on our walks!!


Poppy is tired this evening, snuggled under my fleece with me on the sofa.
It's really cold this evening.....and I am not sure if I am coming down with something again,
so we stayed in and kept cozy.



I told her today her mum and dad and litter mates who are all gun dogs live in kennels....outside Kennels!!!!

well....she just sighed and went to sleep!!
It is a dogs life after all!