A Little Bit of Decoupage with Penny Black

I love this Happy Hedgehog by Penny Black. Card was made for a forum buddy. Hope she liked it! I haven't got this stamp, but it's on my wish-list, this was given to me by another forum buddy in a swap as was the mouse with his spider web. I would really love this stamp, but haven't seen it anyway...yet! I just layered different sized squares of Pink Petticoat papers over the top of one another and when round the edges with my black pen. At the time I didn't have the Big Dots so I made theses bigger on the computer but the edges of the dots were a little blurry.

The flower, was punched out with a Woodware punch. I love using acetate, it makes the peel off dots look as if they're floating, so I've added some to where I shaped the card. I printed the insert out on the computer with little pink dots printed on the outside so that it would show at the front of the card when it was closed. The wording was also done on the computer, the font it a freebie. The inside of the card has my usual Loony Lyn! I've decoupaged the Happy Hedgehog and added a bit of Stickles glue to give him a little bit of sparkle.
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Good Night or should I say...Good Morning

It's a bit late but I just wanted to add this card, using The Forever Friends stamp and papers. The 'Happy Birthday' font is from my laptop and when I remember what the font is I'll let you know, as it was a freebie, and we all like freebies...

The topper on the front of the card is also an ATC. (Or was, but it looks as if I've stuck this one down! I've not made many ATC's yet but have been busy making a few for Forum Swaps. This card went off to a forum buddy. I hope she liked it.
Some people say, but most people don't.
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Blue Bear

Penny Black Blue Bear. Don't you think he's cute! I've called him blue because he looks blue in the photo, but I'm sure he was either lavender or lilac. I used whisper water colour pens and also did a bit of embossing on him too, (the swirly bits were free stamps with a magazine!) which made the paper/card bend a little, but I have a huge English dictionary that comes in very handy for flattening things! I used acetate again, to make the little silver peel off dots appear as if they're 'floating'. I still haven't worked out how to make links so the cards can be seen larger, but I have an idea, and will try later....so if I press the wrong button, and it all disappears again, please cover your ears!! ...the language might be a little....blue!


(You can now click on the pictures to make them a little larger....sometimes I surprise myself!)

What A Beautiful Day

I got up this morning half an hour before I went to bed, in a real rush. (No change there then!) Forum birthday card to post (late as usual!) and some Fat-pages to finish -but no time, had to get off to work. Rushed off down the road to post said birthday Card, only to find I'd left it behind! So, a quick U turn and back again to get it, moaning all the time about "Where's all my petrol gone, I'm running on air!" as I listened to Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince. Anyway, at least the card caught this morning's post. Arrived at work, no workmen today. The whole place is being renovated so three quarters of it has been sealed off. (The bit that's left is still three times bigger than my little bungalow!) After saying hi to the cats and puppies (dogs now, they're so big!) I ventured up-stairs up-stairs... (as there's two lots) and gazed out of the bedroom window. Wow...the sea was as calm as a mill pond. Beautiful. There wasn't a ripple to be seen. I quickly whizzed round and did all the things I had to do and then took the puppies down on the beach...it's hard to believe it was raining and snowing last week. There was a little breeze, a bit of mist around the Island, the sound of the Terns and the Oyster Catchers waiting for the tide to go out and the waves rippling further out to sea where the sandbank was just beginning to show. The puppies foraged on the beach looking for shells to chew and crabs to chase and as the sun reflected off the calm sea I thought...what a beautiful day!

Spyder's Corner

Friday 13th....I got through the day without losing anything, (unless you count an earring) or spilling anything, (unless you count the petrol hose burping petrol everywhere) or burning anything (unless you count turning the top oven on instead of the main oven....the grill handle sort of went wonky) or... with even being abducted by aliens. It was quite disappointing really!
I made this card using Pink Petticoat Halloween papers and images all available as a download....
Well, that was short and sweet...don't really want to tempt fate seeing it's Friday the 13th so...time for coffee and a chocolate biscweet! yum!

The 'Bits' Have Arrived

For the past month my car has not only been locking itself whenever possible, it's been squirting water all over me! Any slight turning, either to the left or to the right would cause a deluge of ice cold water to soak me from head to toe! I had visions of fixing an umbrella over the sunroof. Today, nearly two weeks after John put an order in for the 'thingamejig' (I've no idea what it is) it's arrived. So at last it can be fixed!
After a forum swap I found I had a lovely image of a cute little girl with an umbrella...I thought of me and my car, so I made this card!

(sorry...at the moment it won't load!)

In The Beginning and how do I do a link?

 I've been trying to start a blog for ages. I've already accidentally deleted it all and gave up. But I'm back and I'm here to stay! (she says bravely, knowing full well no one is listening, and waving my imaginary sword! 'Take that you dogs!')

I still can't quite work out why some of the pictures are nice and small, while others take over the whole page...like invasion of the body snatchers, little Tilda looms at you like the marsh-mallow man out of Ghost Busters and Merry Christmas over there is very tiny? Aah! They've suddenly got a bit smaller...now...what button did I press!? Oho!! I've found the BIGGER button, oh joy!! (I'll just do a little jig...I'm soooooooo glad you can't see!) Now then....how does one do a link?? Why do I need a link??? Why is the type different sizes? And is this the button to upload pictures to put on here?? I guess these are things I will find out, so watch this space! or...don't, coz it might be a long time before anything, if anything, happens!
First, what does this do...ow!

oh wow....a card!!!! Wish it was bigger though!

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Closed for comments...as they were only silly people asking rubbish questions, which I can't answer coz you're anonymous!   ALL anonymous comments are deleted and are not published unless I know you.... yes I have a secret button that tells me who you are.... and if you are reading this, you're madder than me.

Another Monday Morning

Monday the 2nd of Feb. (saved as draft, so hence the date above, I think)

We woke up to snow...lots of it. We don't get much snow down here, it's nice to see it if you don't have to go to work and can play. I remember taking my girls to school on the sledge, with hot hard boiled eggs in their pockets to keep their fingers warm.
'You can eat your egg at break time.' I'd say.
'Yeah.' said the girls in chorus giving each other knowing looks. It was only last week, more than twenty years on, Emma confessed, they never ate their eggs.
So, Monday morning, late as usual, I quickly throw some wild bird food at the angry blackbird in my garden, lock up and crunch my way past our little red van, looking sad with it's engine in bits, to my car parked in the drive, with a little voice in my head yelling, 'You shouldn't have done that...' I unlock my car, turned the engine on to help melt the thick layer of freezing snow and listened to Harry Potter blaring out, while I scraped away the snow. Did I tell you my central locking is playing up?? and why the little voice in my head was telling me not to lock the house and was now telling me, on no account to close the car door??? You've guessed it. The central locking suddenly went haywire. Click-click-click-click-click-clunk! and the car was locked! Engine running and me with no way of getting into it or back into the house to get the spare key.
'Oh NO! NO!' I yelled, with visions of Basil Fawlty hitting his little red car with a tree branch now in my head...'No you stupid car, no!'
'Is something wrong?' said a voice from the other side of the hedge. My neighbour, from across the road had earlier tried to reverse her car back into her drive but it had slid out again, and lucky for me, there she was with words like, 'Can I help?'
'Er? Any good at breaking in?' Were my first thoughts, which quickly changed to, 'Um...couldn't use your phone, could I?' Of course I didn't have my mobile. Someone from India, (can you believe a phone stalker!) has been ringing me day and night leaving messages, so I'd turned it off and left it in the kitchen. I had a sudden thought of, 'I could poke a stick through the cat flap and get the spare key or even my phone, but then 'neighbour' from across the road said,
'You can use my phone, while I make a cup of tea.' Of course not having my phone meant I couldn't remember Hubby's work number, so after ringing Portsmouth to get the number of the local Office, John finally came on the line.
'Yeah? What? Where you ringing from?'
I could hear the frown...
'Um,' I said slowly...'Remember I told you about the central locking not working properly and locking itself whenever it felt like it? Welllllllll'
'You've locked your keys in the car.'
'Yes...and the engines running...with the heater on and Harry Potter's playing, you can hear it... but at least all the snow's melted now.'
'Damit!' Came back the frowning voice..'I'm coming' and the phone clicked dead.
Twenty minutes later, hubby arrived. So, the moral of my story? Don't trust central locking and... if you have other cars parked in your drive, check to see if they have their keys, because sitting in our broken little red van, not more than a few feet from me all that time was a set of keys.
Shame that little voice in my head didn't tell me this....

Snowy pictures by Emma-Marie, taken near Eastleigh, Winchester.