smudges and flutterbys.

Last Tuesday at card class we used chalks to smudge onto embossed images
and they apply to pearly card.
Stamped with chalk inks round the heart shape.

I loved the effect !












I have used same idea to make several cards this week,


























including some baby cards with embossed footprints.

















I love the matt effect of the chalks.

fighting with fairy dust

Thank you to Emma & Chrissy for this!

I will pass it on just shortly.....I only have few people to pass it on to.



After looking at Chrissy's Friday fable, I decided to use up the last glittery fairy I had been saving to make a New Home card for my friend Alison.
I picked the background, the toadstool photo was made into a fairy house, I made the little flowers I wanted to use, so far so good!
I thought finding the fairy after my tidy up would be simple......I have been keeping her for ages for just this card!

could I find it?

nope!

So I have stuff, I will make fairy,....

The glittery sheet I used looked pretty, I got most of the loose stuff on it in my eye!
I made wings out of velum....it so wouldn't stick to the body, her legs fell off!
I tell you I have never had this problems before!
What started as a relaxing job was winding me up.
The pink ribbon I had planned to use, was tucked into a wee tub with gems and tiny buttons....
and as I lifted the ribbon the box was launched and the contents scattered EVERYWHERE!!!


I gave up!



So the best I could do was two little fairy stickers..........

am not so happy with result!

tag

a tag

What were you doing 10 years ago?
I was working in a nursing home, doing IVF,
had two lovely doggies called Tilly & Gizmo.
We were decorating our house and spending a lot of time with nieces and nephews
as a holiday home by the sea!

5 Things on my to do list today -

1. brush dog
   
2. hover
3. put away shopping Andrew bought.
   
4. go to card class tonight
5. tidy garden from dog holes and poo.
6. GET A LIFE! when did i get this old?!?!?

Snacks I enjoy -

• strawberries
• chocolate
• salsa and dotiros
• home made banana or carrot cake
  
• fruit salad and yogurt
  

Things I would do if I were a billionaire - 4 of the copied from Gill!!!

• Give to charity
• Buy my beach house
• get a bigger house and adopt lots of kids!
  
• Go and visit all my far away friends with all my kids! REVENGE!
  
• Not let it go to my head!

Places I have lived -

• Germany
• Liverpool
• Edinburgh
• Inverness
• Moray
  

People I want to know more about-
Anybody who I meet I like to get to know people in general.

the picture is of our local beach that Andrew took.











Whoever hasn't done it! I'm a bit slow doing mine so am probably the last!
If you haven't done it yet then I tag you - let me know though so I can have a nose!!

a bit too much ?

I made a few cards today, including two get well cards, one here is for a work mate for us all to sign, I don't know her that well, and I am worried the card is a bit messy with a bit too much on it.
I am still in my pink and green phase, I don't have many stamps yet, and only have one stamp set that dose get well cards, but no one getting any of them knows anyone else!
they are hobby art stamps from the Rainy Day Set.



The other one can't be shown here, in case a certain sick person is reading it and she hasn't got the card.....so...er....here's a picture of Poppy,

who has dug a hole, and lay in it with her squeeky ball and for some reason a small but heavy concrete dog!













Anyway.................

Emma, has a great blog candy on just now, to celebrate her getting 10k hits! so she offered a voucher from poppicrafts and the lovely Michelle donated it! I have just been to her site and bought some lovely , lovely brads!
oh....and question for anybody.....how do you add on the blog layout a list of blogs I like to visit, showing when they post a new blog?

much love to you

Teen xxx

not in use?

I have started wandering around looking at other folks blogs, mainly from Emma's page, and I discovered Cathy's . She asked on her blog candy this question, " All you have to do is tell me what craft stuff you need to cut down on?"
And I was thinking, what do I need to cut back on?
The answer is not much really, I have stuff I was never sure what to do with, and stuff I got in magazines but was not colors I would usually mix. But the class I go to on a Tuesday and inspiration from other bloggers sites have given me new ideas......
I know I pasted this picture on a post earlier on today but the pinks and greens in this is a combo I would never have used. The flowers & embossing I learned how make at class and the stamping I am loving after giving up on due to many previous rubbish attempts! AGAIN Tuesday's class has shown me all the ways I was going wrong! thank goodness for education!

payment for poppy sitting

The dreaded lurgy is almost passed, regular steaming with Lavender & tea tri oil helped no end.
And I am so thankful it was nothing serious like Man Flu!
Anyway......the need for opal fruits has passed as well.
Just as well, I was seriously eating way too many of them.
Wasn't quiet on first name terms with the shop keeper....

So tomorrow is the last session of the prepare to adopt course our local council runs.
It's an all day session and our lovely friend Fiona is Poppy sitting tomorrow, not sure her
Auld doggy Bailey will be happy having this mad wipper snapper back again!
Bailey was my lovely old Tilly Dog's older brother from the same litter.
He mumbles and moans and is getting old and slow. He is so funny.
We left Pops and Uncle Bailey while we went for a meal last Saturday.
On return we discovered he had opened living room and escaped upstairs,
I was worried about Fiona's three cats, but needn't have!
Brownie was holding her own! Poppy was hiding in the kitchen while Brownie sat and watched her peeping round the corner! Pops was very relieved to see us return!

I decided to give Fiona a wee selection of cards as a thank you for Poppy sitting. Not sure what I did wrong with pasting pics of the cards...but hey ho!

opal friuts, flowers and sneezes

this beautiful card arrived in the post today from the wonderful Gill, thanks my lovely!its hand stitched and just beautiful! It really cheered me up! and reminded me to make more of an effort to post stuff to mates.
Rememebered it was Simon's birthday er,,, Tuesday and Rob's erm...yesterday...did I make cards ....Yes....did I post them ....No.

Ach well i will get them posted with note saying 'sorry it's late' today if I can get going.
I have avoided the lurgy at work for several weeks now....but it found me today!
It may explain how I took so long to make the baby card yesterday!
I have done nothing today but eat opal fruits....I know the packet says starbursts
but they are opal fruits I tell you!

Emma states these are not good for you.......but I don't know...
do they not count as at least one of your 5 a day?? Is this similar to blog candy??

I tried to convince Poppy that sitting in the garden was better than a walk, she had been walked by Andrew before he went on afternoon shift......but all she did was attack the beautiful livingstone daisies .....








I guess if I get going and go know on Ben the collies door, his mum will let him out to play and she will run with him for a bit....

Then after that I will make dinner for myself....
Opal fruits and a side salad anyone??


Love Teen xx