spring is in the air

I do love the fact warmer weather
is here at last, for how long....
who knows....

Spring is trying it's best to come.

Warmer walks,
green sprouting everywhere.

Poppy with a small stick
no matter what the weather.

It is a bit blurry,
but is it not easy to get a
Poppy action shot!


The garden is starting to show
signs of life life now too.
These Crocus bulbs always
remind me of someone I loved.
The make me smile when
I see them pop up every spring.

I used the purple and green as inspiration
for a wee card today.
The photo is not great
but the dark shimmery card card
is a dark bottle green
and quite pretty in real life!

iI am entering it for a couple of challenges
My time to craft want Lace this week.
Anyone For Anya want spring cards.
and ABC Challenge want Quotes.

I am not sure who wrote the quote,
I have looked it up online and
it seems to be a mix of a few quotes.
But it says what I need to card to say.

Greeting Farm seems to be
the stamps of the moment,
I like them!

Sunny Saturday Photos.

Today is a beautiful Sunny day in Moray.
I loved sitting in outside with Miss Poppy Dog.


Our garden just now is a cross between a
beautiful assortment of plants of all colours & shapes
all brought out with the sunshine of Spring....

and a construction site where
Miss Poppy is busy digging holes.

Think this one is going to be a pond....

This used to be our herb garden.


It still has a bay bush in it,
which is now used to run round
in a mad doggy circuit!

It amazes me how many different daffodils
there are out & about,
from big single yellow trumpets


To double heads that are cream and yellows.

to wee tiny ones the size of my thumb nail.


And when you are trying to take a photo in my garden.....

There is always a Poppy dog getting involved!!!

Thanks for looking!

More Mumbles

My face is still a wee bit sore after my
root canal treatment ~ not so nice.
I am off to work to do a late shift in
a wee while so will need to go looking to see
what you have all been up to later on this evening.
Anyhoo.
I have managed to finish off these cards,

This one is for The Sugar Bowl # 7
who are looking for Spring Cards.
What says Spring more than
Lambing time with Hamish!

The photo is not so good,
the base card is a beautiful green colour
I have used sukura on his welly boots.


And this one is Penny Black Saturday Challenge
also want us to Think Spring too.


This one I am not so keen on.
I am still getting used to colouring
with H20's & I don't think I have done it very well.
I made a bit of a mess with his feet and tummy.

The flower & bee's are done with sukura pen.
The lovely lime Ribbon is left from my
Crafty Ribbon Challenge stash.

Lastly is Tilda as a
sorry life is crap but hope it gets better soon card.


I tries to make the puddle using three
different heat embossing powders
which look more shimmery in real life.
And inside her wee mulberry paper bag
is a bag of tiny tiny brads from Poppicrafts.
They are just 3mm big!!!

So, best get going and get to work.
Hope April fools day was fool free for you!

Craft Pad # 15

It's Spring time !!!

honest it is!
OK so we have had snow & rain &
the odd sleet shower!
but it is Spring time baby!
(Did you remember to put the clocks forward?!?!)
Anyhooo......


Over at Crafty Pad # 15
we are celebrating Spring!
We are looking for you to use
spring time colours
yellows, oranges, pinks, greens etc.

You can use any stamp you want but if
you want to be entered in the wee prize draw
then you need to use one of the
Crafty Pad stamps please.

So this week I have done two cards.
( can you tell I am off work on leave this week?)

Firstly.....
Here is Ted and the ball


I used my nesties to cut out the front of the card
and the ball is embossed yellow vellum .
( now I am singing they call me mellow yellow
each time I think yellow vellum ....
are you now too?)
Have also punched out green velum leaves.

The next card is more to do with new life
as in starting a new phase in life.




This is for my mate who is starting a new phase
and it is my first ever
Congratulations on your divorce card!
Now I am Happily Married,
and I am not taking divorce lightly,
but this is a good thing for my Mate.

And I hope she finds Happiness and Joy !

I am not sure that when the lovely Debbie
was designing these fab stamps
this is what she had in mind for Faith....

But just shows how versatile
these stamps are eh!!

Crafty Muse ~ change of seasons

Time for a new challenge over at Crafty Muse.
and seeing as we have just had a change of season
Spring or Autumn depending on which side of the world you live on
then we would like you to make a project based on that theme:

Change of Season

So since I am enjoying the start Spring this is what I made
using Angelique holding flowers.

I used the same design from card class on Tuesday.
The image matting overhangs the front page.

Papers are Bo Bunny which I love just now.

I love Spring, The promise of new life in nature.
The warmer weather.
It's all good baby!

spring & xmas

Two cards..........two seasons.....

This one is a spring theme card as asked for on Secret Crafter's Saturday Challenge
using Dawny P's Sketch on Paper take weekly,
which has a new challenge tomorrow
so I am getting this one done by the skin of my teeth!


I have used my alcohol inks again, getting a bit more used to them.
I am quiet please with how this turned out.
It is much better than my last attempt.
I think I put too much on the seems of her jeans.....
Any tips?
Still haven't read up on them , need to do that soon.
Don't have green ink yet, so used water colour pencils and a touch of sukura pens.

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From Spring To Xmas.

And I must say I am glad the snow, well more the ice
has almost gone here, I dont enjoy it when the roads are icey....

This sketch is another one By the Lovely Dawny P.....from Willow Sketchie....
But I didn't read the small print and you need to use one of the products from Willow Designs.
I did see the making sure it wasn't flat. Hedgie is on 3d pads
and just as I was gonna do the doodle bits ......
I saw the use one of our products bit.....POOP! And since I dont have any of their products yet it will just have to one I enjoyed making.
It is a beautiful sketch.

You are a a lovely sketcher Mrs Dawny P!!!
Anyway....My Time to Craft are going for Gold....and thats some thing I did get right!

I haven't put the text bit on yet, as I am gonna do that when I decide who will get it,
and I will leave that till never the time!!


I am trying to be more of a tidy crafter.....I really am!
With less time to craft now I am back to work,
I was hoping not to have to start off each crafting session
by clearing up my mess from the time before.

Not doing a great job but trying my best!!

Hope you all had a lovely weekend....
How did Monday come round so soon?!?!