Blog Candy !!

Four Stamp Give Away - Pink Gem Candy

Over on Pink Gem Designs thay are celebrating approaching a massive 20,000 hits since they launched Pink Gem Designs on November 7th 2008!
To celebrate this achievement and as a thank you to all thier wonderful customers and visitors they have four stamps of your choice to give away in a blog candy draw.
All you have to do to enter the draw is leave a comment here, post about us on your blog with a link to the Pink Gem Designs blog.
The draw will take place when the blog counter reaches 20,000.....

Have you seen these sweet wee stamps??

He loves me......

Happy Valentines Day to you !

Roses are from my beloved Hubby!

Thank you my lovely!
I love you xxxx

I made My Beloveds Valentines card using
one of photos I took of the roses he gave me.

Saturday sneaky peaks

Put your best foot forward and have a sneaky peak at my DT card for The Crafty Pad.

DT with Ice

I am a terrible DT'r!!
I got it into my head that my Crafty Muse card was due tomorrow,
and it was due.....yesterday!
Sorry Sammi!

Ok so here it is.
It's a nice and easy one this week....
We want you to use your favourite colour on a creation.
Now a lot of the time I say my fave colour is Purple.
But just now I think it is Green.
I wear a lot of green, in this bleak time of year
I can't wait till the new growth is showing back on the plants and trees.

Anyway, here is my card.

It is using Princess Amber holding a chain of stars,
I always see her in green, and with reddish hair,
an Irish Fairy Princess.

I was going to stamp some small stars on the green base card,
I have a slightly smaller star stamp than the one I used to emboss
olive green on the cream square.
I can not find that stamp in the chaos known as my crafting area!
Will add them on tomorrow.

Come on over and join us at Crafty Muse.
You can use any image you would like,
but we would be delighted if you use one of Sammi's images.

Also * If you would like to join us in a Guest Design spot please
put a GD in your comment this fortnight! :) *

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The snow is almost gone,
but there is a lot of slush & the ice is slippy.


Poppy too ages to get this lump of ice out of a pot in the garden.

So she started off by licking the ice lump.....

Pushed it round the garden a bit....

Then lay down and started nibbling it!!!

And started chewing pieces off the side of it!!!!!

I must admit.....that makes me shiver !!!

Puppy Love?

Brodie is over while his Mum goes out for the evening.
Poppy is delighted, Brodie's mum brought raw hide bones for both doggies!!!
Only problem is Poppy wants the bit Brodie has,
Brodie wants the bit Poppy has,
and so it goes on...........and on.....and on...

It is actually doing Poppy the world of good!
Saying that.....as I type this, she is getting carried away & being a bit
too boisterous.
She has just nipped him as he was gnawing her foot!
He gives as good as he gets and always had the last nip!
She corners him and rugby tackles him!
He stands underneath her and bites her feet!


Sue, Brodie's mum has a new job in a new office,
so I altered this cube note holder for her.





I am not happy with the rub on paw prints.
I think I may have had them too long.
I used my usual tool to apply them, which normally dose the job.
But bits were well & truly stuck to the plastic,
No mater how many I tried they just didn't come off as cleanly as normal.
I settled for the best applied pieces for the holder.


This is from Poppy to Brodie for Valentines.


This was the last of my Valentines Ribbon & it had a crease in it,
Hope it smooths out straight.


And to Archie..who lives with Shirleyanne.


I forgot about the animal brads until I was finished Brodie's card!

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

Blog Candy !!

Over at Crafty Pad, Debbie is giving her beautiful Faith on the window seat
away as a blog candy !

Debbie says.....
"You have until Saturday midday 7th March to enter.
All you have to do is follow The Crafty Pad blog (if you don't already do),
leave a comment here and put a link on your blog to
The Crafty Pad telling everyone all about the candy. :) :)

I will post world wide..:)

Good luck - the winner shall be chosen by random. :)

so what you waiting for!!!
Good luck everyone! xx