just another card

A very quick one today as back to work today and house is a tip due to the fact we have just used it as a dos house all weekend. So a quick tidy around, a dog walk then workies. Todays card is using Pink Paislee 360 degrees think it a bit of a mixture of 6x6 pad and 12x12, not much too it really just a few strips of pp, kraft stars and some thickers. I struggle a bit with male cards................anyone got any more ideas?????

Father's Day

Here is the start of this years Father's Day card, hopefully I'll have a different one to share with you every day this week. For this one I kept it fairly simple, using image from "lilli of the valley", its so cute, coloured with promarkers. Add some gingham paper and a scalloped circle cut from a nestability die. 

~Progress

I've had an exciting weekend, and most of it quite spontaneous. But best of all was Take That on Friday night they were awesome, although the show wasn't as spectacular as "the circus".........the boys were amazing and Robbie well do I need to say more. I'll leave you with a few pictures of the night.

totally awesome 

Sketchy Thursday

Two layouts in one day...................it's a while since that's happen. When I spotted the new Sketchy Thursday Sketch, I had this layout in mind. Photograph shows my puppy (not so small now) running ahead on our morning walks, love when shes the only dog on the path, she reminds me of the littlest hobo (can you remember that program?) it had a fab theme tune. Well she runs ahead and sing to myself the theme tune...........people must think I'm mad singing as I walk along. I have used old stash with this layout, more old crate papers, rub ons and fabby flowers from an old kit...................mixed with sparkly thickers and some journalling. 

I'm uber excited about my day today......................I'm off to spend some time with a friend, a bite to eat and a few drinks, then we off to see "Take That" Its their first date of the tour..............whoop whoop, me a bit excited. Bring you "Take That" news tomorrow.

Another Shimelle Sketch of the Week

Today my lovely friend Amanda came over to scrap and have a little lunch. We caught up on the gossip and ate cake. I chose the sketch from Shimelles blog here. I had the perfect photos of Mable with her ball on a walk, but I did struggle with the construction of layout, after three attempts..........I eventually got there. I used more old paper from Crate think some bits are from "prudence" and other bits from "mia" ranges. Once I sorted the journalling panel and title the rest just fell into place...................how do you put your pages together?? 

This page with constructed in this order

1. the sketch

 2. the photos

                           3. the papers and die cut sheet

  4. then the title 

5. journalling

            6. added the little bits 

Heres some of the details

what on your Workdesk Wednesday.

Today's desk is my a messy one, busy with Father's Day cards......oooh and the list in the bottom right of the photo.

new home

Happy Tuesday to you...................just a quick one this morning, a new home card featuring Lily bee designs "happily lost"  6x6 pad and I used some tando creative as a template for the house. Simple but quite funky.

Still extremely windy here but the sun is shining so great drying day if your washing doesnt blow away.......haha even better as no ironing if it does :) :)

one blustery day

Its sooo windy here on the North East coast............was blown off my feet taking Mable for her walkies this morning and its a tad chilly too. Today is the kinda day when you should stay inside and craft all day, but unfortunately I had to go to work. Its a short week for me as its a bank holiday weekend again.......just three afternoons then off for 5 days, hopefully in those five days I'll get all my Father's Days cards complete. This looks at these gorgeously cute stamps that arrived today, I have stamped all three images out ready to colour this evening. These are from Lilli of the Valley designs......and I'll use these for some of my Fathers Day cards, so watch this space

Right must get off to work, Have a lovely Monday x

shimelles sotw

As I said in previous post, yes I've posted twice today, Thursday is my day off......so this afternoon after doing a few chores and having bloods done, I had some me time scrapping. I used a lovely sketch from Shimelle, she posts a sketch to play with every Wednesday....play along here. I wasnt sure where it was going but I love the finished page. I was a bit extravagant using a whole zva crystal swirl, normally I would chop it and only use a little bit at a time. The papers are from a 6x6 pad from Lily Bee Designs, the collection is "happily lost" very nice papers and gorgeous colours.......been using them a bit lately (will share another time). The large size butterfly is a die from Tim Holtz and the other is the old faithful punch from Martha Stewart.

Here is some details

Taaadaaa........... heres the finished layout 

Thanks for looking x

what on your desk Wednesday..........on a Thursday

Heres what was on my desk last night........I bought those little cute jar yesterday morning 4 for £2.00 bit of a bargain so last night I set about sorting my button box out, filling each jars with various colours so wish I had bought a few more as could do the same with blooms and other bits and bobs. Oh a sneaky peak at a plaque I'm busy with and some letters that are waiting to be painted, its a bit of a mess but organised choas is good, right?  Heres the link to other desks

Today is my day off so hoping to get a bit scrapping done, a nosey at other peeps desks and maybe a few cards.............................gorgeous day here so will have to fit in a long dog walk too. 

Have a lovely day and I'll share a few bits later xx