WOYWW #749???

 Morning WOYWW-ERS! What's On Your Work top this Wednesday? Hope you're all doing, so much more exciting things than I am! I'm still in the kitchen. Above I'm adding things to my little filos  (Video last week) and I've almost finished the 'Secret Garden' (papers by Graphic45 a magazine freebie from decades ago!)

 Secret Garden flippy book

 A peek inside

The note book seen here, came with other goodies from Temu, I just 'ruffed' it up a bit more.

 Little pocket freebie seen in the pocket on the right is from VectoriaDesigns. (It's the wrong colour, coz my printer was printing pink!) Small tip....if you use those little die-cut tabs that I've used on the side, they are fine, but if you use them where the pages fold right out, as this does on some of the pages as it turns and goes round the back of the booklet, it would be best to only fix them on just one side, and not the folding side because when you open the page up they do the splits, and they don't like that!

I'm counting this as my Bargain of the week...  12x12 from The Works, £3. Spooky tissue paper from Tesco, £1.50 (will be cheaper next month after Halloween I didn't think she was well, and the heat gun found at the bottom of a large bag filled with crafty stash. Hardly used, given to me by my daughter, Emma as they were moving house last week and decided to have a clear out of some of her's and Niamh's crafty stash. It's so much better than mine. Two speeds, a stand and it's so CLEAN! I will probably give it back once they've settled in.

 Who can spy John?

Yesterday I mowed the lawn to help fill up my green garden bags because I thought it was collection day Tuesday, it wasn't!! That was last week, you mophead! Sigh. I forgot to put the bottle box out...a monthly collection, but that didn't matter, because there wasn't even a jam jar in there. Now, if John was still here, both boxes would've been filled to over flowing, but to be fair, we would've had more visitors to help add to the pile!

  This week, Frances (the Airedale man) who is helping with the bikes popped in to put the blue bike on charge as it's being advertised in the same magazine that John wrote an actical all about when he rebuilt the it from scratch...yes, a bit like Trevor's Broom really, (See, only fools and horses for those who have no idea what that means) Hope that's the right clip...I've had no sound on youtube for ages even though all the volume dials are up full blast! Keep thinking I've gone deaf! And speaking of deaf, because she was; the little hissy-scratchy pussy cat passed away. I took her round to her owner because I just knew she wasn't doing too well, (and the fact that she didn't scratch my arms off as I picked her up, proved that) and a few days later her owner let me know.. So I expect she's now playing with Mr Jinx... Well, I've gone on far longer than I was going to! So that's it from me. Must get on with some card making! Don't forget to pop over to Stamping Ground and join in!  Happy WOYWW! Thanks for stopping by.

Blast From The Past!

 Every Monday I'm going to (or try to!) add a card, or creation that I made waaay back, as I've noticed a lot of my pictures from years ago have disappeared. So...here we go with something from either the 1st of the month, first time I'd used or done something or... made on a Monday or made in the same month as now! This card was posted 12th June 2013. Not sure what this fold is called, if anyone knows, please let me know!

 Wednesday, 12 June 2013

Birthday Darling Hubby, John!

Well, he is my rock, only far better than a rock. (he does the cooking!) He was up so early this morning he didn't have time to open any of his cards... never mind, he'll be too busy to sneak in here and peek! This is the card I made him. Both of us had motorbikes and we used to have a motor-bike shop.
When the girls  were babies, we lived over it, but the need for a garden and smell of engine oil drifting up into all the rooms soon made us jump onto the mortgage boat, and buy our own little home, with a tiny garden and a little later to where we are now. No more bikes, but John's only got to sniff the sight of one, and I know he misses them!

 Back to the card. KennyK image. (Yes I bought this one back in March BUT It's now the June Freebie HERE! left sidebar when you get there) First I was going to do that acetate thing I did with the seahorses, but it didn't quite work out, (Flip the digi and then stick the two together, and print it out on acetate too, and then fix that together ~but I forgot to put a cord/thread through the middle to attach it to the card~ so did this version of a sort of gate fold instead, but not. 

It's a bit top heavy as it's an 8x8 card, with a 5 and a half x 5 and a half  card used as the topper (Why isn't there a half sign on the keyboard?) so I've added acetate to the bottom of the smaller card topper to help stabilise it.
We used to go and watch bike scrambling, (more skilful!) not Dirt Bike racing, but never mind!

I couldn't think of what papers to use, so didn't! Just black, yellow and red card, and a bit of embossing, and die cutting (only my old Bigshot wasted loads of scraps of card, by not cutting! Grrrr)  One of the inside embossing was made using a freebie folder, which came in this months Simply Cards and Papercraft, which also came with some stamps too! 

Of course I've coloured up with ProMarkers (with the tiny tip addition...the metal tip ones work far better, the others didn't work at all, but Letraset kindly send me replacements awhile back!) Did hunt the internet for a coloured picture of this, to give me some idea of what was what, but could only find a very small one, in mostly grey, so, went with yellow and red instead.

There's a little D attachment, to the side of the top card, which I bought in a gardening store, 3p each, can't be bad! and the 'manly' cord ribbon came off a bosh carrier bag! 

Freebie Fonts: I've used Cool Dots and Smarty Pants BTN  there's the link to download, or just google the names. That's it I think! Happy Birthday John, see you later! Hope to add this to same...

Challenges

Kennykskraftykrew-Father's day (*WINNER)

613 Avenue Create - anything goes/celebrations
 Fab n funky challenges-birthday.
Pin and tack -anything goes

Challenges4everybody-anything-goes.

Aud Sentiments - anything goes
Created with love-anything goes
 Simon says stamps challenge-transport.

Anything goes - for the boys

Crafts 4 Eternity - for the boys
Cards for men-boys will be boys

Milk Coffee - Father's day

Kaboodledoodles-for your favourite guy
Ladybugcrafts-for the men in your life.
 City Crafter.All About Him
The kraft journal-just for him
 The artistic stamper creative team-makes for men
 Get inky challenge.-creations for boys and/or men
 Crafty Sentiments-card/project for male (*Top Three)

Sister Act - anything goes
Inspire me fridays-anything goes
Digidarlas-fancy-folds or no square cards
 Alphabet challenge blog- i is for Image