ATC's made with Spyder's Banner printout

   As promised...(this is a quickie post) here's what I did with the printout of my Spyders Corner banner....Six ATC's. Not finished yet...still want to add something to them! I'm thinking printing out a few of my favourite digis, very small, and adding them to the front. The paper they are on, I called ' Noise ' was also an 'always freebie', a little while back, and that's going to be a small journal cover. Thank you for stopping by! Go careful today....it's Friday The 13th! 

Happy Heavenly Birthday John

Happy Birthday John. You always said, you'd be 'Forever Young'. Miss you sooo much. I wanted to swap 'we' for 'I', because there is no 'we' any more...

 

WOYWW #836 and a Late T for Tuesday

 Evening! And a happy WOYWWednesday to you. And a belated T for Tuesday! I, me, myself have actually been crafting! (yes and covering more boxes, and watering and weeding and cutting hedges...it's all in the picture) but no, real crafting...trying to make a quicky Birthday Card but but BUT! I suddenly had dogs to do. Yay! (get out of the untidy messy crafty house and into the sunshine!!) Above crafty picture is what I've been doing... colouring some Lawn Fawn stamped images ....a bird table with birds and squirrels. Well, that's what's in the garden of where I've been House/dog/sitting, with Remi and Bronte, so I thought that would be a good idea for a card... Just gotta make the background (sky/grass, you know) 

 The Lawn Fawn video of this set, has the bird table hanging from the tree....and the feeder (which in real life should be a lot smaller) on a pole...o....kay... So, I'm trying to make my feeder be in the front and the bird table in the background...anyway! we will see when I've finished it!  I've just gotta go hunt out my 'clouds' stencil...and some blue ink....

 Haven't found my clouds stencil yet, but I did find last years WOYWW ATC cards...(5 left out of nine) I've called them, 'A Walk Through The New Forest' and I can't even remember making them! Odd that I haven't squeezed a New Forest Pony in there somewhere!

 First thing this morning, I had a play with Frankie...He has the biggest mouth ever! Always smiling!! (It's a wonder he doesn't swallow the ball!) 

I haven't forgotten T for Tuesday... here's my drinks...Kombucha, which is green tea, ginger, turmeric and black pepper...The other is my own mix of fruit, spinach, Kefir, Almond Alpro and my fruit and nutty breakfast, which also has Kefir on it and the same almond nutty Alpro. Pop over to  see Bleu Beard and Elizabeth for so much more! Tomorrow my eldest daughter's taking me out because it'll be hubby's heavenly birthday, to stop me, hopefully, having a melt down...So That's it from me! Have a great WOYWW! Bye For Now.

Receipt paper Covered Box and an always freebie

 What I've made so far.....with the Receipt paper masterboard on the post below....I covered this diddy little box....And seeing this paper was a download there's no crinkly bits or peeling corners, plus I die cut a few (unfinished) tickets, with the leftovers. Will add more stuff later.

 

Meanwhile, this popped up on my sceen, an old Spyder's Corner banner.  Added a few other things, so this has become another allways freebie... I'll show you what I did with this in a later post too! Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Saturday! How's about some forever freebies??

 Remember when I was house/dog sitting last month? (no) well, I made a masterboard using shopping receipts on a rough 12x12 (which had fallen down the back of the old oven and had been there for some years!) As you can see, it looked a bit tatty when I'd finished, but once I'd scanned it and saved to my laptop, it didn't look too bad. I've printed the one sheet at different angels as an A5, as I liked the smaller detail. I was going to add things....but then decided to let you do that! So here are my scanned A5 Masterboard Tickets and Recepts. But if you'd like it a little bit bigger, go HERE, where I made my first one.  Just click and save on this page!  Let me know what you do with them and I'll show you...

... what I did with them in the next post!! Have a great weekend. Thank you for stopping by!

It's still Wednesday....#835

   So! It must be WOYWW!? I was up really early this morning and was going to do something very extraordinary, but? Well? I've decided, at long last, to prioritise (That's the first time in my life I've ever used that word!) I did do what I wanted to do, so with every job done, I rewarded myself with a triangle of chocolate from a large bar of Toblerone! Above is my craftroom as it is now. That will take weeks to sort out! But I did find time to cover another box...

I can't tidy the craftroom, it's just too much! I will start fiddling with things I find, and that will be the day gone! So, I did something I could do. I have now cleared the living room, (stuff that hasn't got a home to go to in the new kitchen and has been hanging around for ages, has been moved to the spare bedroom) the carpets are down,  AND I've put the curtains back up. They were taken down  ages ago and the arm chairs shoved forward so I could paint the wall where the hatch used to be....the men had to come back and redo their 'plastering' as it was totally rubbish! (A mouse on stilts could've done better using a spoon!) The only trouble is...getting up on a step ladder. I can manage two steps, maybe three, but with a paint brush and a roller dish in my hands? Only if I can hold onto something other than the step ladder...(which means of course I needed at least three pairs of hands!) Anyway...I've painted as high as I could, and did some of the coving and the skirting board and then stopped...That's it! It's done! No one will notice! If the workmen can get away with unfinished bits... then so can I! I put the curtains back up, the way I used to do the Christmas Decorations...by putting the dining chairs all the way around the room...so I can walk on them, see? No dining chairs now, so in came four garden chairs. (the only trouble there is, snails and slugs might come in too!) By the time I'd done that, I only had half  the Toblerone bar left!

Sue's lovely ATC arrived yesterday, all the way from Austrialia. I love the stamps. I did ask our Post Office for 'nice' stamps, she looked at me as though I'd just 'Blown in from the windy city'. Pop over to see what Mary Anne did with that birdie card. Well, that's enough waffle from me! Nip over to Sarah's Craft Shed and join in! Happy WOYWW!? Thank you for stopping by!

It's Tuesday...

...so it must be T stands for Tuesday T  day. I've only just, yesterday, set up my laptop  after once again, unexpectedly, being away dog/house sitting again last week, when suddenly, it came up on the screen, 'Battery Dangerously Low! Yep....I'd forgotten to plug it in...Anyway! Can't miss T for Tuesday-hosted by Elizabeth and Bleubeard. The 'green' is my own mix of loads a different fruit and spinage with...Coconut water. Different but quite nice! And, the yellow, I showed you last week...not my usual Turmeric and Ginger Tea bag but my own mix...I used the little coffee jug to strain out all the bits!  See how I mangered to get the word 'Tea' in the glass, clever huh?  Short and sweet this week! Thank you for stopping by! 

WOYWW #834-Back in The Sun Room

 

 Happy WOYWWednesday! I'm back with the dogs, and doing a bit of this and that in the sunroom again. Already been out a dozen times around the garden and woods with the dogs, so...a bit of me time. I've brought a few crafty things with me...plus dies, stamps and papers from some happy Mail I went home for yesturday. (Home's not far away) My magazine was waiting for me too. Still haven't managed to find where Die Cutting Essentials latest freebie papers are, or this issue of Simply Cards and Papercraft. It's all changed. You have to go through filling in your address, email, etc, and then either download there or when they send you an email. I liked the old way better, where you just downloaded it and you'd been able to see if you'd already got it as it would have a little note on the side telling you when..(ie, 'you downloaded this May 2018') Change always confuses me! Anyway! Moan over.  I'm covering a detergent box again...well, why not? Just deciding weather whether to match the lid to the bottom, like I usually do, or not bother... ohooo such decisions! I need a pencil, can I find a pencil? No!

 My happy mail yesterday consisted of, a few paper packets of 6x6 and 5x7's, in that really bright wizzy patterned paper... I chose some different ones, plus some dies and stamps, a rubbish bin sticker cover...(I mean a bin you put rubbish in, not that the bin's rubbish **up date, the sticker was!...already in the bin and not on the outside of it!) -which I left at home-and a few things like washi tape and stickers...

Here's this months 'freebie' from Simply Cards and Papercraft #271, as I said above, still haven't found where to download those 'freebie' papers yet! Well, that's what's on the table in the house/dog sitting sunroom this week! Ohoo one more thing! Only I haven't got a picture, so I've 'borrowed' Sarah's! Julia's atc arrived, it's #7of 9... being a Startrek Fan I noticed that! I hope she got mine, as being a bank holiday weekend this weekend gone, the post box looked sadly neglected! Thank you Julia! I did a little happy dance!

Now, that's definitely it from me, until I think of something else to add. Happy WOYWW everyone. Pop over to Sarahs Craft Shed and join in!! Thank you for stopping by! 

Up date, a little later...I've finished covering the box and ended up matching the lid with the  box's bottom (Oho-er!)  and I've made a little note book to match...what d'you think? ('don't give up the day job') Catch you all later!

It's Tuesday, It's Time for T and it's raining!

Happy T for Tuesday! I'm not home. I had a call yesterday wondering if I could house dog/sit til Thursday...Luckily I was feeling a lot better...had a bit of a sicky weekend, so, here I am. Shame the sun's gone and it's raining tho!  The drinks are, not my normal teabag Turmeric and ginger tea but one that I put all the ingredients in that little coffee Jug. That way I can squeeze out all the bits! Then it's what's left of one of my Kombucha drinks, Wild Berry (with black and green tea leaves) then, Almond Oat milk with spinach and Chi seeds I think,which I made yesterday and brought with me. My cereal has my usual mix, plus Kefir (posh yogurt), some extra chopped hazel nuts and some frozen fruit that I found at the back of my freezer.

Here's Bronte wondering where the deer are. She's on the edge of the Ha-Ha, looking across the field. The farmer recently put up a new fence.

And here's Remi, still hunting for that mole! 'It's here somewhere!' Well, apart from nipping out later to to take Dexter for a walk and collect my crafty happy mail parcel, which has just arrived according to my phone, that's it from me! Pop over to Altered Book Lover and join in with some better drinks and more food than me. Happy T Day! Thank you for stopping by.

ps...if ALL the people that popped in and just 'looked,' I'd have thousands of comments every day! werid!

Happy WOYW-Wednesday! #833-atcs

 Happy WOYWW!? Hope you're all having a very crafty week. I'm still trying to orginised everything but made time for WOYWW, so pop over to Sarahs Craft Shed and join in. Now, above is what my ATC's ended up as. There's a larger version of my favourite one at the bottom of last weeks post. Most of these have gone but there are a few left. (they have numbers) I can take a bigger picture  of each one, if you don't want to 'post' swap.

 Last Wednesday Mary Anne's ATC arrived! She must have a magic wand! Then yesterday two more arrived..

Annie's with her fabulous collage and stitching and (Felix The Cat) Angela, sent this lovely book mark which is already in use!

 Angela

If you still haven't recieved mine yet, let me know, my local post box always seems to be already emptied, which means any new letter added may be stuck there for days! (Or of course with my small brain I may have forgotten to post it at all!)  

the unused stamps

 And! if you were charged extra for postage please let me know, it wasn't til much later that I relised I'd used the ordinary 1st class stamps and not the Large letter first class stamps....( the ones sent over the pond will  be okay)

I am still catching up with the painting in the house and out side, but I have taken loads off the tall bushes and dug up others...Most of my pots have been done, still a few more to go and then still more planting and weeding to get on with... but first, today I want to have a second attempt at trying to register my new appliances, not looking forward to that! I haven't even used the oven yet. I'm rubbish with numbers over the phone and even writing this I have to google how to spell most words first. I know I need an invoice, well, a few months back I found something in one of the bushes I was about to saw down...it was a bit wet and snail chewed, with loads of numbers, so I shoved it  into the back of what was the airing cupboard. Luckily!!! This has all the infro they need but I know I'll never get all those numbers right...they said they'd email me...so far, no email. Why? Probably because I didn't smell  spell out my email right! 

One last picture of my fav ATc for those who don't want to postie swap! You can just copy and paste this one. That's it for now....it's just started raining here! Be gone weeds! I WILL pull you up!! Happy WOYWW!? Thank you for stopping by!

Its Time for Tea On Tuesday....

  Well, it was tea time when I started this, it's now....ummm almost midnight! So! Happy T for Tuesday! This mornings breakfast, my usual fruit filled cereal with hot milk, plus Turmeric and Ginger tea, made in the doggie teapot and a new smoothy. I followed a recipe....I mean, it wasn't going anywhere...

 so I didn't actually follow it, I just read it, and thought, ok, I'll try that...It said spinach, but only had curly kale...and oat milk...I had Almond Oat Milk...any berries you had, frozen or fresh...I had blackberries, blueberries, strawberries, raspberries...plus half a banana...milled flax seed and a couple of spoonfuls of some super 

 protein powder that I didn't have, which was just as well, as I had to take some of the kale out, coz the lid wouldn't go on! Anyway...I wizzzzed it all up...and??? It looks yucky doesn't it? but it was very nice. I'll make it with spinage tomorrow!

While I was eating that, Birthday Boy, s-i-l Tom, sent a picture of his breakfast, bacon butty and coffee....ohoo, now I want one of those!! I'll go and make myself some hot chocolate instead...

That's it from me! Pop over to Alterbooklover to see what the others are up to. Have a great day...or should I say, night. Thank you for stopping by!!

  PS>>> I can't let Tom have the last word!!! Or drink!

Happy Birthday Tom!

 I haven't done a birthday card in ages...Tom hinted on my calendar  ...'don't forget to post Son in laws birthday card'. So I hunted out a card I'd done for a design team that wasn't quite finished....saved a lot of time as a lot of the papers I wanted had already been printed out. I have quite a few ring binders, numbered and coded (I'm so sad) so I know where they are on my laptop, if I need to print more...a bit of a rush but managed to catch the post with minutes to spare. Sorry Tom, that it's not men on bikes but monkyes in boats...but there's not a lot of difference...and the moneys are cute. I was thinking, they're off for a beach/camping holiday soon so...in a way, it fits!

The image is 3D-ed by the much missed Bugaboo, and coloured with Promarkers...I made a little envelope to add a birthday treat, which....

tucks into a pocket. There's plenty of room for writing a message. The papers are all by PinkPetticoat, with the theme of the beach. I have three ringbliner files filled with their papers from decades ago, mainly because this laptop has no way of playing the CDs I had bought from them. So glad I did. That's it for now! I'm off to bed! Thank you for stopping by!

Its Challenge time-with an ATC.

 Show us your pussy cats challenge popped up on my screen and I thought, I'll join in with that, as I haven't played along with a challenge in ages! I've chosen my favourite ATC, which I just finished adding 'bit's to a few minutes ago. Hope this matches the challenge's rules! Will look out for more challenges to join.  oh! And hello to my new Follower! I can remeber having my 800th follower give away. and was looking forward to my 900th, so welcome to Nan Bournedeu, but since covid, that's dropped quite a lot!!  Thank you for stopping by!

 Challenges

 Show us your pussy cats -Must have a cat 

craftycatzweeklychallenge-anything goes

WOYWW!? #823-Happy 16th Anniversary! UP DATE

   Happy WOYWW!? #832 and Happy 16th Anniversay! Yes, I have made some ATCs, but as I've been looking after cats and dogs again they're not finished yet!..I also have some ATC's from other years too...(If I can remember where they are!) So, if you want to swap, or not, just let me know....dragonsmoore at googlemail dot com. I sat in the sun room yesterday, where I was dog sitting again, and made a start...the dogs were snoooozzing so they didn't mind as long as everytime they wanted to go out and chase about, we did. (The doors were open but they still like me to go out with them) They have an enormus garden, plus woods, and fields beyond, so there's lots to sniff!

I got home too late to do any thing more to the ATC's and then, gone midnight, decided I really wasn't sure I liked them! Most peple liked the flowery ones best so I'll probably finish them and make more...watch the space at the end of the post for a new picture.

 Anyway, five o'clock this morning, I spread what I'd made so far out onto my  wonky butcher's Bar in my kitchen and took these pictures of what I took with me and all the bits and scraps I had, so I should be able to finish some ATC's today!  Then I started playing with those cats scraps...Mmmm....not sure yet! Below is a picture of Bronte, just before the grass was cut! Love the smell of cut grass!

Bronte

 

 

 

 

 

And Remi having a rest indoors. 

 Remi

 That's it for now...unless I take pictures of the finished ACT's! 

Flowers in waiting

  I have the living room wall to finish painting and flowers to add to my hanging baskets and tubs today...

 I just have to add this Rhododendron, bought from Tescos a few months ago for £7.00 and now, three pots larger...in bloom. Fabulous!

That's really it now! Pop over to Sarahs Craft Shed and join in! You'll be glad you did! Thank you for stopping by!

 UP DATE  

 Here's a picture of all the ATC's (I didn't do the 'map' ones) at least 9 of these have gone off already. I made 12 and then added four more...so I can still make more. They all have numbers, and names...ie 'play', 'create' or just click and save if you don't want to post OR,  the next post is my favourite, with a tiny bit more added and large enough to copy easily!!...BFN!