It's that Sneaky Peaky time again..well actually I'm a bit early, and no, I'm not showing you any more of my DT card for One Stitch at A Time's New Challenge, which starts around about noon on Sunday!! You'll just have to guess! Any Ideas?? Here's a clue...nothing to do with spiders or cars!
Just a few or three ATC's for a swap I've just joined over on Paul's blog. But these aren't the originals. My first set, a set of four were soooo much better. (so where are they??) Lost in the jungle of my craft room! I put them somewhere, ready to send off and guess what? Yep, I can't find them. So, first thing this morning I made three more. (6 o'clock! I had to get up, Frog the cat was purring so loudly in my ear I couldn't hear myself sleep) (Hang on only three??) I coloured three, and then for some reason forgot to fill in the fourth.
d to put in the envelope for Shirley was still on the table!! And then, and only then, did I see the unfinished fourth ATC! Just not my day...and what was soooooooooooo stupid, why did I rush up to the post box at 8'oclock this morning when the flippin' post doesn't go til 5 o'clock tonight??? It's all Frog's fault, waking me up at 6! Where is that cat??? Huh...on my side of the bed....fast asleep...aw bless her!! (I'll just go and poke her!)
I really do wonder where the days go. When I was little, minutes were hours, hours were days and days...well, they took ages! Monday morning at school was groanably slow and Friday seemed to be somewhere half way across the other side of the world!
r than that, I have to take pictures!" Hubby, who has been wondering for some time now, what colour our living room carpet was, thinks it's all very strange as he tunes in to Create and Craft to see what all the fuss is about! So, anyway, here's a few pictures of my crafty space late last night (as this is on timer and I'm most probably wrestling with six chickens, two dogs and a hoover!
y new 'frog' punch and the freebie Laura Ashley calendar I found while tiding up. And my 4th Tesco jar for ribbons! (bargain £1)
were freebies too. There's some shaker toppers, as I want to make a shaker ATC .
Over on the Card Making and Paper Craft forum We had a 'Spyder's April ATC Swap' and seeing it was the first one I'd done, the theme was nice and easy, 'Any Thing Goes' so we had a lovely variety of different makes.
These are the ATC's that have arrived throughout April. (Including mine...who can spot them?) I mixed them up a bit and got Frog the Cat to choose who had what! She's getting really good at choosing things, mind you, five minutes later she had a 'Sun Attack' and spent the rest of the day asleep on the sofa.
Frog snoozing...I'm definitely coming back as a cat!!
He was first seen as a drawing I think, on one of my WOYWW posts. The rabbit is actually stuck on over the back ground so I can peel him off and put another image in later. Yep, I often do that. Some times I don't even stick it, I use blue tac...the white blue -tac.
It's that time again! (and I'm beginning to think there's only two days in a week. Wednesday and Sunday! Where does the week go?
exi's Creations lovely images. Her name is Tessie Turtle if you click the link you'll find where she's hiding in the Stitchy Bear's shop, along with loads of her friends, and I've also used the sketch from Midnight Madness (although you'd never guess!!) Promarkers to colour and all the flowery papers are Pink Petticoat. The flowers are from Daisy Doodles, the pearl studded brads are from my stash and have a sequin behind them. The gems are PaperMania. I did the sentiment on the Computer. (You're The One For Me) The font is a freebie and is called BlackJack, one I've used before but if you missed it you can download it HERE
Yes, Crafty Claire has some amazing Birthday Candy to celebrate her big 0 birthday! (which one?? I'm not telling!)
Well, it's nearly midnight so I thought I'd show you a sneaky peek at my next card for the One Stitch at a Time's Challenge starting at noon tomorrow!! (Sunday, just in case you're reading this upside down) You thought I'd forgotten, didn't you? As if! (shhh I won't mention that the glue hasn't dried yet!) This next challenge is going to smash all other challenges we've had so far, we're going to have sooo many entries Mr Linky won't have time to put his pants on! So, did you spot the clue? Easy! I knew you'd guess. (for those of you who didn't, there's an anagram in the title) Y'mean Sneaky is Snakey?? We're doing snakes?? (No! don't be silly!!)
If you looked in on WOYWW on my Wednesday post (HERE) you would have spied on my workdesk (dining table) that I'd been doodling again. The idea is, to make a few of my own digi backgrounds, which could then be used with other digi's or stamped images.
th, because if she did she'd be taller than the tree! (Giant Tilda!! Don't worry she can't eat you, she has no mouth!! as hubby keeps pointing out!) But we won't mention that! My other idea is, if you print the background out twice you can then cut out the tree and make it 3D. I've done this with another one of my back grounds (Here) The happy birthday sentiment on the front of the card was a freebie from a set of clear stamps from a craft magazine, I'd forgotten I had them, so it's being used for the first 
time, as is the black and white heart brad, which is from Woodware. The black diamond pattern was made by a docrafts xcut punch. First time I've used that too, mainly because it cut the card, where the MS punch didn't. (and it was only about £3.50!) I've also added a smidgen of micro glitter on Tilda's pocket.The black and white gingham paper is a freebie from Activity Village That link will lead you to the 'darks' where you'll find about 16 pages of dark gingham colours. If you change the word 'darks' in the web address to Pastels, you'll get another 16 pages of pastels, and if you change it again to brights, you'll find even more!
A view across the Solent, yesterday 
Here's a quickie. Papers are freebies from PaperCraft Inspirations (Link on side bar) and the wording is printed out on glossy photo paper are also freebies from Mad About Cards. The little Forever Friends bear is a stamped image that I've coloured using my Promarkers...and yes, I've used this same pattern before and someone liked it so I did it again! And because it's a 'boy' card I can remind you about the Quirky Craft's Challenge going on right now, so get your 'man' cards over there!!
Bit of a cheat, because I'm not here, and for those of you who have already spotted the Bailey's, these pictures were taken last night, as I'm not here, I'm working. (working...(?) oh, ok...I'm playing ball with some lovely dogs) My craft room is just too messy, so messy in fact that I've been in the living room all week, hubby's been in the kitchen, finding out all about Digi's for me on his computer, because I'm rubbish at understanding all the gobbledygook, (he's actually making me a spiderweb watermark, how cool is that!!) And me? I've been diddling and doodling.
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I saw this 'Blog Hop' over on Liverpool Lou's (Anne's Blog) who saw it over on Paula's blog who found it over on.... anyway!! I thought I'd join in too. It's a way of finding all sorts of blogs you may never come across so just add your blog below, then go and copy the code in your next post...
Hop over to Littles Creative Corner every month and join in the candy give away. This month the prize is a £10 gift voucher sponsored by JOANNA SHEEN.
I'm quite pleased with this, even tho it isn't brilliant, but it's only my second try at doing a Digi scrap page. I did it in one of the very first editions of My Craft Studio, which I got free with a Crafty Magazine and most of my additional add-ons I received as free downloads from a Create and Craft email. I did have a bit of a problem changing the file into something I could see in another folder. My Craft Studio, seems to be the only thing it would open in. And...I added some flourishes, which had a clear back ground so you could see through them but once saved in another format (Hubby did it, he had something on his laptop that I didn't! apart for ketchup and coffee stains!) showed up with a white back ground, so they had to come out! I ended up making this in a different programme and loaded it straight onto blogger as easy as throwing mud pies!
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We're hoping loads of you will put those thinking caps on and come and join us!!
The 'boxes' I've used on the card can all be made on your computer, and with a bit of fiddling you can easily get the words to fit inside too!
The New Challenge over on One Stitch At A Time has begun!!
Sign of Spring' I've coloured it using my Promakers and have made my own back ground. It's supposed to be a crook of a tree for the little bird box to nestle in. I also coloured in some more of the flowers , cut them out and added them using 3D pads, not as decoupage, but slight screwiff, to make them look a little longer than they actually are. I then mounted the finished picture onto black card to frame it. The papers are Pink Petticoat. They were supposed to be in a very dark 'Chocolate' but the ink is a little low so it's come out slightly greenish, which doesn't look too bad. Sometimes, running out of ink invents a whole new colour, while other times looks as though you've just run out of ink! The font I used is called CK Alis Hand Official, one of my favourites and you can download it free HERE.
Here's my Quirky peak for the new challenge that's starts sometime this (Sunday) evening over on Quirky Craft's Challenge. I'm not giving a lot away here as I'm sure, unless you're a mind reader, very clever, a DT member or have bribed someone who does know with chocolate, you'll never guess what the challenge is.
The New Challenge starts tomorrow, over on One Stitch At A Time, round about noon and here's a sneaky peak of my DT card. What d'think? Any Ideas? Pop back tomorrow and find out. I won't be here so Mr Blogger will be in charge, so I hope he gets the time right this week!! (I think he needs a new watch!)
Friday Freebies from Bugaboo Stamps, don't you just love them! AND!!! The rabbit with the Chicken on his head is from Bee Crafty. A bit late for Easter I know, but that was the swap over on Cardmaking Downloads for April and I know you've seen some of these already, which I think I sent off to Quirky Craft's forum as they too were doing a spring/Easter/animal swap, but I did a few more because you can't have too much of a cute thing! I did the backgrounds again and of course used my Promaker pens, love them sooo much!!
he idea is, they send them to me, I'll shuffle them all up and send them each back a different ATC. I'll post pictures of all the swaps here at the end of the month, just before the new May swap starts. Anyone who wants to join in can do so! 
ere to go! And Mummylade, who has a very tidy crafty space, quite unlike mine! Pop over and say hi!
I used to do all sorts in my garden shed, at one time one half used to house the rabbits and guinea pigs. In the past I've written my 'never ending story' in there, (the silent trek back across the darkened lawn at three in the morning, was only shattered by the sound of crunching snail shells!) I've painted gnomes in there, which was fun, but after painting about two hundred red pointy hats the magic suddenly disappears. Of course we all know that lady gnomes have green hats, but that wasn't much better, and of course, I've crafted in there. But the shed's getting old and well, paper and a lot of cold wintry nights and rainy days do not go well together, even though over the years hubby has doubled its size and lined all the inside. It has all mod cons, Computer, printer, scanner, Telly, heater, swivel chair, kettle...but no
sink! Well you can't have everything! Anyway, that was then and as you may or may not know, I was promoted to the spare room a few years ago. But the shed still holds fond memories.
