Katie's birthday card!

Hi everyone, just dropping by for a quick share with this little card made using my lovely new Hero Arts cling stamp and an 'old as the hills' shadow stamp.
Very quick and simple - and, for some reason,  much nicer than it looks on the screen!

See you soon, happy crafting everyone!

WOYWW and a five frog challenge!

Happy Wednesday to all you lovely people in Blogland!

If it's Wednesday then it must be time for a nosey around everyone's work desks care of the lovely Ms Dunnit. I've been unable to play along for a while so I'm glad to be able to join the fun once again.


Here's my desk a little earlier... not too untidy I guess.

My five frog challenge began this morning. This is a personal challenge to create five individual cards, with frogs for tomorrow evening.  I'm not sure of the whole story... but if Mom's friend Janet wants five frog cards suitable for men then Mom's friend Janet gets five frog cards suitable for men!

And here they are:

A cute digi frog from Sweet and Sassy sat on a Cuttlebug cut lily pad. Hero Arts Poetic Prints stamped in Versamark creates the background.

Giving Mr Monet a helping hand!

More digi fun from Sweet and Sassy.

And I think these two are my favourites, as I love this leaping frog from All Night Media.

I'm keeping hoptimistic (groan, groan) that Janet will like them.

Happy crafting everyone!

Listen honey...

Hi everyone, and a happy Saturday to you all!

I nearly didn't share this card as the PC has made my grounding look terrible - believe me it's much more subtle IRL.

I made this for Josie, who teaches year 3 where I volunteer. The kids are a lively bunch so it seemed appropriate to add this sentiment to a Bugaboo digital image that caught my eye. A few of the Bugaboo images 'sort of' remind me of the fabulous Emerson Quillan stamps, which sadly seem to have been discontinued.

I coloured with Promarkers and added some Versacolour stamping around the edge of the centre panel. The Stampin' Up card was stamped with Versamark using an old stamp from a beautiful Hero Arts set that I recently picked up as a bargain on eBay. Can't believe nobody bid against me as its a gorgeous set!

I'm linking this one up over at The Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge as it's an 'Anything Goes' challenge week.
Have a great weekend everyone, and enjoy the Jubilee celebrations if you live in the UK.

And the winner is.....

A very big thank you to all you lovely ladies who took part in my Race for Life Blogcandy draw, I'm just sorry that there was only one voucher up for grabs.
So, chosen by the very technical 'names-in-a-bowl' method, it gives me great pleasure to announce that the lovely Gay Peplow, aka Mustavcoffee, from Crafty Musings has won £25.00 of crafting gift vouchers from BunnyZoe's Crafts. Wooohooo for you, and please don't forget to email me so that I can arrange to send you your prize.

Thanks again to everyone who donated to the Grice's Girls Team page or sent their good wishes ahead of the event. So far we've raised £386.00, and I know the totals will rise as individual sponsorship monies are sent in. Anyone still wishing to donate to the Grice's Girl's page to support the work of Cancer Research can click here, but please note that my blogcandy draw is now closed.

Here's a few pictures of our day:

Proving that we know all the words, if not all the moves to YMCA during the warm-up. We can spell but we can't dance!

Grice's Girls Team photo.

And remembering the reason that we were all running today - beautiful Shell.

Heading for the start...

Here we go!

What's pink and looks like a Dalmatian???

Grice's Girl's lookin' good...

 Hurry up you two!

Celebrating with our medals at the finish...

...by pulling funny faces!

Thanks again to everyone who donated/sponsored Grice's Girls.

My Race for Life - for Shell

I'm just dropping by to share a picture from the Telford Race for Life which I 'ran' (LOL!) today in memory of my dear friend Shell. A quick left to right is Emelia, Gay, me and Karen (who did the organising of the Grice's Girls team).
I'll be back tomorrow with more pictures, and to pick the winner of my £25.00 Blogcandy.
If you'd like to donate £2.00 to enter the draw please click here and follow the links.
Thanks to everyone for your donations and good wishes...

In training for the big event...

Hi everyone, it's a glorious morning here in Birmingham - so good to see some sunshine again!

I hope it stays sunny at the weekend as it's the Telford Race for Life on Sunday and as regular visitors will know I'm joining 'Grice's Girls' running in memory of my friend Shell. If anyone would like to donate £2 by clicking here you'll go into my Blogcandy draw for a £25 voucher for BunnyZoe's. Just leave the message 'Jo's friend...' and your name on the donation page.
We were aiming to raise £250 but thanks to the sweet girls of Blogland and the generosity of  Shell's friends and family we have so far raised £326!

Here's a picture of me lookin' good in training...

or is this more accurate???

Anyhoo, here's my card for today, it's one I've been asked to make.

I've had so many commissions recently that no wonder I haven't had time to train (good excuse???).

This card is for my friend's son to send to his sister. I hope they like it as it didn't quite turn out as I'd planned. The image is called Tiny Toby from Some Odd Girl, and I love the fact that you can personalise the card by adding a larger tag to the gift.

I'm entering this card for The I love Promarkers challenge 'Anything Goes' and Challenge #150 at a Passion for Promarkers (Happy Birthday Girls!)

Must get busy now as I've loads to do... I'll be back later with a coffee in hand to do some visiting!