Happy New Year!

Here's hoping that 2014 brings you happiness... and lots of crafty fun!

See you soon...

Merry Christmas everyone!

What could be better than this cute little Purple Onion Design bunny to wish all my lovely blogland buddies a very merry Christmas.

 

 

I hope you all have loads of wonderful Christmas fun!



Lollypie loveliness

Hi there, I'm here to share another card made using a lovely Lollypie digital image by Maria.

This time I've gone with non-traditional colours for my Christmas card using 'Special Delivery'. I did a little digital paper piecing for the present and coloured the image with Promarkers. I love the versatility of this image as she can be used for both Christmas and birthday cards alike.

Must dash... its the staff do tonight and I need several hours to tackle my crazy hair with the straighteners!

Happy crafting everyone!

Snowflakes glisten!

Hi everyone, we are getting closer and closer to Christmas!
I had quite a shock today when the children at school told me that I had forgotten to change my 'Christmas countdown'... so suddenly I lost another precious day!

Here is a quick and simple card inspired by some current 'snowflake' themed challenges.

I had a happy time making about eight of these cards and getting all inky in the process. I love the look of Distress Inks and Glimmer Mist on water colour paper. The sentiment is from a set I bought years ago and I've lost the original packaging, so if anyone recognises it please let me know and I can add the details.

I'm linking up with:

CAS-ual Fridays CFC123 Let it Snow

Addicted to CAS Challenge #28 Code Word: Snowflakes

The DT cards on both sites are fabulous and so inspiring!

I'll leave you with a few snippets of conversation from the past week, all of which perfectly express why I love working in a Primary School at Christmas.

Nursery Teacher: 'Now where are my Reindeer? Reindeer, all please come to me now'.

Another Nursery Teacher: 'Could you stall for a minute please, one of my icicles has had a little tinkle and needs changing'.

Librarian: 'Now can anyone tell me anything special that has been happening at home because its Christmas?
Child 1 'We put the tree up'
Child 2 'I'm having a bike from Santa'
Child 3 'We've got lights on our tree'
Librarian: 'How lovely, and anything else anyone wants to share?'
Child 4 'My sisters bin grounded miss'

Happy crafting everyone!

Just a little bit posh!

Last Sunday I joined the girls at the Chateau Impney, near Droitwich, to celebrate my friend Jacquie's 50th birthday with an afternoon tea.

 

We had a great time chatting and laughing, and eating far too many delicious sandwiches and lovely cakes.

And here's the card I sent to the birthday girl: a super-sexy Saturated Canary image coloured in Promarkers and pencils. Well, every girl should feel she's got ooooodles of  'Va va vooooom' left when she reaches her half-century!

Happy crafting everyone!

Let's dance!

There's only one thing better than one dancing Santa... and that's two dancing Santas!!!

I love this little Birdie Brown fellah drawn by the super-talented Torico, he's such fun! And because he is a digital stamp I could flip him to create a mirror-image. CUTE!

 

Happy crafting everyone!