bumble bees

Hello, hello.......

first card to show you was a real
labour of love.
A friend from work
wanted a special card for her Mam.
The names are as she wanted them.
Only request....
daffodils.

I have never worked with paper
flowers like this before....

since it was a special card
I made a box to case it in.

It was my good friends Birthday today,
we are always joking that it is
"not all about you."

To end with two brown eyed beauties
who it is always all about.

my Blondie baby will be one next week.
Can not believe it has come round so soon.

Quick question....
anyone have top tips
for securing paper onto canvas?

Hope you are all well.

much love Teen xx

Saturday stuff

Was out having a wee galavant today.
Took myself to lunch,
and after I convinved myself
in this day and age
it was no big deal to go and
eat all by myself,
I was asked twice was I eating
all by myself,
and the waitress then shouted out
"Table for one only...."
to which her boss asked her to clarify...
"Just one? She is eating by herself...?"

So yeah....anyway.....

Had lunch then went to Debbi's
Promarker class at Simply Create.
It was really lovely to meet Debbi & Anne
face to face in real life!

And lovely to see a few face's I have come to know
from going through to Alford.

I have still to finish my two cards off,
so just a wee sneaky peek at something.

I did part with two jars of my
home made beet root chutney.
And have been asked for the recipe.....
If I tell you,
do you promise not to tell anyone???

I will tell you however....
there were two miss doggies
who were not best pleased
at having to spending a wee while
at home, by them selves!

oh and Bella Boo was a wee star at doggy class
on Wednesday!
I was so proud of her......
It's not that she can't do what I ask her to there....
she just chooses not most of the time!

Hope you are well.
Much love
Teen xxx

brown bags and birds.

I can't believe it is Wednesday
again all ready!!!
I was going to join in with WOYWW
but all you would see is a pile of stuff
that I have abandoned in a half hearted
clean up session this morning,
before I left it all to go and meet a
friend for lunch!

I bought a pack of brown bags
to decorate and use instead of wrapping
for gifts, so with only 6 or so used so far
and 100 in the pack....
you will be seeing a lot more of
these babies!

The junior at my hair salon
is moving into her first home,
so I made a card and decorated the
bag with some mugs, tea bag, coffee
and a few other goodies.

I am enetering the card in the
following challenges ~
Papertake weekly want anything goes
with optional extra of flowers.
Penny black at allsorts want flowers as well.
Penny Black want you to follow a sketch.

I flipped the sketch round.

I made the edge of the tag to match the mugs.

Hope you are well.
Am off to dog class with Bella Boo.....
her report card might say
"Must try harder..."

Sweet!

I have two cards from Tuesday's card
class to show you this evening.
The third one is for someone
who reads my blog and I don't
want them to see the pic before they
get their cards.

I love acetate cards!
Blue and white is such a lovely
colour combo.
The white stayzone ink
doesn't show up so well.

The stamp was such a beautiful script.

Creative Card Crew want colours of your country,
well blue & white are colours of the Scottish flag.
My Time to Craft want some embossing.

~~~~~T~~~~~

Next is a twisted easel card.
I am going to turn it into a birthday card.
I quite liked this fold,
but it was a real faff to try to
get a good clear picture of it.

~~~~~T~~~~~

Next using a sugar nellie
cotton rabbits stamp to make
a wee pen holder using a recyled syrup tin.

Allsorts want us to recycle something.
Well this was a syrup tin once upon a time,
Totally Gorjuss want us to do something
as you like it.
This had my fave Sugar Nellie stamps,
gingham ribbon, home made
flowers that I love to make & involves recycling
and pink and purple are a fave colour combo of mine...
so that is just how I like it.

Talking of sweet.....

hope you are grand
Love Teen xxx

Happy Birthday Becca,

Our niece Becca celebrated turning
20 this week.
We spent a lovely day with her in Aberdeen
where she is in her second year
of training to be a sick kids nurse.
I am so very proud of Becca
and can not believe how
grown up my baby niece is....



Anyway......

I stamped the brown bag
and popped loads of goodies in it.
This is the wee photo book I made her.

and inside.....

these are four of her fave pictures just now.

hope you are grand
Love Auntie Teen xxx

Happy Birthday Debbi!!!

Happy Birthday Debbi!
The promarker pro is 21
cough *again*
Happy Birthday !!!!

Even though you are meant to receive gifts
on your birthday.....
Debbi is giving this amazing blog candy away
to celebrate her special day!
Pop on over before it closes
on the 31st of Jan.
Have a good look around and
take some time to look at the
tutorials Debbi does on promarkers.

love teen xx

baby boys and girls.

Two quite busy cards today.
The first one is for a dear friend
who had a baby girl called
Willow.
I love the beautiful photo
of her precious wee girl.

The crafty pad want something girlie.

~~~~~T~~~~~

The second one is for a girl at work
to give to her son who will
be one this week.
She asked for an A4 card,
and this is my first card this big.

I loved the backing paper but tried
to keep the rest of the card simple
so it wasn't too fussy,
the mum loved it,
but I am not sure about it at all.

I am entering it at Allsorts
who want a card for the boys this week.

Hope you are all grand.
Will leave you with a puppy cuddle.