quick card and gave up in the end card!

ABC challenge is Q for quick cards.
You can take as long as you want colouring your image abut only twenty minuets to put it all together.

I sat one evening colouring in these wee robin peel offs and have similar candle peel offs.


I will use this idea for using up scraps of backing papers & bits of matting card.
I also have a pack of smaller square cards that are a bit small for doing too much on.


This will get me a real boost on catching up with the cards I still have to make.

I have tried for most of the evening to do the sketch on Just Christmas & Birthday Cards but with noooooooooooooo luck.
It is a beautiful sketch and I love the idea of making two cards at the same time using the same sketch.

Go have a try of this sketch and see how you do.


So this was the base of the sketch for the Xmas card and the image I was going to do.
But all I was getting was frustrated!
I love these Sugar Nellie Soft Centres. They are such a beautiful set of stamps.

* yawn *

Got a few cards made yesterday but didn't get them posted on bloggy.
Need to get this one in the post this afternoon ,
after I have been to see the vampires for my weekly blood test.

The ribbon is a beautiful cream colour and I got it at Sally's shop in Elgin when we were at card class.
In fact I went back for a second bit as I think it might join the pile of lovely ribbon I can't bear to use!! LOL

This one is my take on Kazan's sketch in 2 sketches for you challenge.
Both backing papers are from Sally's shop and I have no idea who makes them, but the creamy centre one with the swirlies on it is so pretty!

I also want to enter it for Cute Card Thursday who are looking for green and red this week.


The last card is for an amazing young man who is turning 18 this week.
Craig has a rare Epilepsy syndrome called Dravet that makes his life difficult
and he relys on his family for all his care.
He is such a sweet lad and when he smiles your heart just melts.

Here he is with his best mate his dog Cassie , who lets everyone know when Craig is having a siezure, she then lays beside him while he recovers, licking his hand to reasure him, is his protector and playmate......




and they love nothing better than sitting at the table watching postman pat and eating wotsits!!
She sits upbeside him not touching anything on the table ,
watching him do his puzzles, and watching out the window to keep an eye on everything!


She is the doggy who is on the wee video last week playing with Poppy dog.

For a dog who is only 1 1/2 years old she is so gentle and loyal to this young man!




I don't do well with little sleep just now,
and I must admit I am doing better with less than I was needing before...

But can someone tell Poppy-dog that I need it all together not in broken bits and bobs!!!

Andrew was on night shift last night,
Poppy-dog and I went to dog class and she was shattered,
she worked hard and also played hard with her new boyfriend .....a handsome collie called Blue!

In fact we had to separate them at one point as they were not listening to what we were telling them to do, but lying on the floor , poppy's paw round Blue's neck while he nibbled her ear!!!

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

She was shattered last night but still on guard dog duty......checked the house several times, jumped up on the bed, had a woof at nothing then came to tell me it was ok!

So she is now fast asleep upstairs with Andrew.....and I am downstairs yawning away!

two baubles and a dove

Another good card class again tonight.
One card as always is a bit more work and one is a simple
But although I like both I think the peace stamp & dove card is my fave.

I still have to glue down the bauble inside but I wanted to add some more to the cream insert with the text on it when I got home.

Added to my ever extending list of things to do.



I love the baubles on this card they are circle that have gone through the cuttle bug embossing folder.
The have colour added by using sukra glue on the embossed edges which you leave to dry and then rub with green foils, a bit of wire work for them and they are done.



This is such a beautiful stamp we versa marked and heat embossed.
so pretty and the gold ribbon is just beautiful on it.
I am entering it on This Thursday its all about Challenge.




I really enjoy the classes at Sally's shop.
We always have a right giggle and some of the girls are in their third year of classes so must be good!
It is easy going and I have enjoyed getting to know the girls there.

laptops back!!

Lap top is home! and all fixed! wooooo hooooooo!
So time to up-date what I have been working one the last two days.....

This one is for Magnolia V's Stampavie challenge which this week is clean and simple.
You can use only three colours.

So here is my cream, blue and dark brown.
It is really not my usual style but I think it looks ok.

This one is using a soft centre stamp from Sugar Nellie stamp that I got in an image swap.
The sketch is by Dawny P and is for Papertake Weekly Challenge.

And this one is using the template I bought at card class the other week.
I have used cut out ivy leaves instead of holly and under the yellow post it note is a tiny envelope that has our friends new address on it, obviously I don't want to advertise that here.




And lastly is a wee sneeky peep at a card I have done as DT member for Crafty Muse....
which are safely under wraps for the time being,




but go check out the blog and come and join us on this fortnights challenge. xxx


Am off to go get Emma for card class. Will check out everyones blogs when I get home xxx

Poppies for Remembrance

Poppies for Remembrance

For The Fallen

They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted;
They fell with their faces to the foe.

They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust,
Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain;
As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness,
To the end, to the end, they remain.

Flanders Fields

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

— John McCrae

show two......... hide one.

Well as I suspected Poppy -dog was non guard duty last night
and neither of us got much sleep....
She then woke for her breakie as usual at 7am....
Andrew came home at 8am .....

*yawn*

Anyway, I made three cards today.

Two are being shown and one is not yet out and about as it will be used for something later on!

This one is using a sketch I used before from Sketch Saturday that I liked.



I think it was in September this was used in a challenge....

Anyway the second card is Kim's Sketch on Simply Fairies.

Hope she likes my take on her sketch.

The photo is rubbish, but behind the black layer is vellum that
I have put through the cuttlebug and I love the result you get from that!

Hope you are having a great Sunday and had a lovely weekend.

much love xxxx

highlights of a Saturday!

Been a good day.
Am getting used to the very bright highlights I got done yesterday!

I did like Jennifer's suggestion of blue one's
and have tried purple before but they didn't show up in my hair....

Back to cards.....

I tinkered with this one using Sammi's Angelique.
I straightened the layered image and added the vellum flowers in each corner.

I am going to enter it into Cute Card Thursday which is Angels and Fairies.


Two sketch challenges were done while Andrew slept this afternoon.

This one is for a spoonful of sugar and is a sketch by Trina.



This one is for the secret crafter's Saturday Challenge.
Sketch is by Wendy.


My sentiment is stamped onto the ribbon its self.

Took Poppy-dog into pets at home today to get her some dog treats,
and work on lead work in public places.
She did very well.
There was a lot of commands given, and many times told her "No" "leave"
when she was sniffing at all the doggy treats but she didn't take anything she wasn't ment to.
I picked up three medium raw hide bones and gave her one to carry.

As we were walking to the till an older lady dropped her purse ,
Poppy picked it up and when I said "give" she handed it to me with no hassle!
I wiped off the slavers..... and gave it to the lady!
This is the part in dog class and more so at home she throws whatever she has in her mouth around and try's to run off with it!

The lady and folk watching ( and I must admit myself) were all very impressed!!!

The lady then wanted to buy her a dog sweet as a reward but I said she had plenty, and could give her one of Poppy's own treats that I had in my pocket.

So fun over and she picked up her bone and we went to pay for our items.
The lady at the tills asked how she was behaving , I said very well most of the time ,
and she informed me Labradors are teenagers from 1 to 3 years.....

Only another 18 months or so to go then!

Command "paws up" Poppy stood up at counter and dropped her bone to be scanned!!!
Paws down is to stop her jumping up and she only does paws up when I tell her she can....
as she is a wee pincher!!!
Then she was instructed to collect her bone after the lady at the till gave her a biscuit too!
This shopping lark is much more fun with a Labrador.