Happy Birthday Maria!

It's my youngest daughter's 30th birthday today. It doesn't seem that long ago she was hitting me over the head with her potty at five in the morning! Luckily she hadn't done anything in it, she just couldn't get her babygrow off! Wouldn't wear a nightie, loved her babygrows.... with the feet cut out! Happy Birthday Maria! Love you! Big Hugs! Her big sister Emma, (and Tom) are going over to America next week to spend time with her and her husband Jesse and our grandson, Mason, who will be two at the end of the month. Wish we were going, but alas I'm too big to fit into one of their suitcases.

Today my hunt for a Mariposa paper stack came to an end when I found one at the Range, (thanks to Di for putting that thought of HobbyCraft in my head!) and it jumped into my basket without me noticing...(after asking hubby if he minded living on beans on toast for the next month!) So, not only did I use a sheet of that lovely glitter and foil paper for this card, I'm making a start at covering my two boxes with it as well. (Watch this space!)
Our main trip out was really to visit Toys R Us, to buy a pressie for Grandson Mason, so Emma can take it with her next week. Now... Toys R us, Big American company, yes? No! How come we can't buy something here, (On line or in the shop) which allows our daughter to pop into the Toys R Us over there, and pick it up? They don't do that. How come they have INTERNATIONAL GIFT CARDS that when you ask, "If we buy one of those and send it to our daughter in America, will she be able to use it in the Toys R Us store near her?" after a long wait over a garbled intercom, the answer came back.... NO! So, just thought I'd warn anyone who thought they could do that.
So? Moan over...what did I use? The Mariposa stack paper, already mentioned. On the inside I've used some of My Mind's Eye, from a huge stack I brought back from America when Mason was born, the Tim Holtz Bird cage die, some peel-offs and a little eye-lash wool. There is quite a bit of glitter and foil already on the card, but it doesn't really show up here. The font I've used on the inside is a freebie, it's called A Yummy Apology and you can download it here
New Followers! It keeps going up ad down, but as I type it's now 603! My goodness, thank you all for following, it wasn't that long ago, I was doing a little jig when there was three! (and one of them was me!)
Hi and a big {{{wave}}} to Doing Fine, lovely blog, go and have a look! Kathryn from Paper Matters, great 'how to do' going on right now! Then Joni Nickrent, from pop art minis world Fabulous blog, love your art work! You have to go and see! Out the back and in the dark we find loyaz@wbhsi.net, (no link, but I think that's you!) Megan.ratcliffe@bolto and Lady Editor! Fantastic!
Big thank you's to you all! I'll be drawing an extra freebie for you as soon as I can find my pen. I bought a new ultra fine sharpie today so it must be here somewhere! That's it for now. Thank you for stopping by!

Challenges

Thesisterhoodofcrafters-birds
Crafts4eternity-recipe-leaves, birds, glitter
Papertakeweekly-things with wings
Littlemissmuffet-things with wings

Wednesday, Wednesday, Wednesday

It's Wednesday again... (well, it was when I typed this) and as I've said many times... Wednesday's come around far more times than any other day of the week! Here's what's on my desk this Wednesday... Not very exciting. Some clear stamps that I've just started to cut out ready to add a bit of Kling-on (nothing to do with StarTrek..) it's that sticky rubbery stuff you put on your non-wooden backed stamps. Bit fiddly but has to be done other wise you can't really use them...well you can..but..no, not really, anyway. Here's a YouTube Video on how to do it right. See, told you... very boring worktop this week. So, if yours is better, more exciting, or even more boring than my desk, take a picture, pop over to Julia's Stamping Ground... and join in and we're come round and have a nose.

Watch out for 600 followers freebie coming up soon and this Wednesday's freebie...Thanks for stopping by!

This Weeks Digi: Haunted Tree!

Sorry! This one's closed!!!
Here's this weeksdigi...Haunted Tree! Thinking Halloween this time. Please don't share my digi's, send people here to download them. Clicking the picture should take you to 4shared, and an unmarked tree. Please leave a comment if you can! Look out for the 600 follower freebie!! Don't forget, I love to see anything you make using my digi's. Thanks for stopping by!Had to add this spooooky card from Paula, Scrap Addict's Attic!! Fabulous!

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Armed police raid My Mum and Dad!!

This happened last week. I couldn't believe it when mum told me. They'd just finished their lunch, dad was having a snooze on the sofa, mum had got up to take the plates back out into the kitchen when she noticed 'policemen' coming up the garden path. "Oh Jim!" sez mum, who had a kidney out a few years ago due to cancer,"There's policemen! what on earth can be wrong, quick you go!" Mum, thinking they were bringing bad news, shook dad awake. "You go!" Dad, who still has to wear a catheter after a spell in hospital three months ago, wobbled to his feet a bit puzzled. They are both in their middle eighties and hard of hearing. Luckily they opened the front door before it was bashed down, to armed policemen in full riot gear and tracker dogs! In our sleepy village we never see policemen and never ever with guns anywhere! There were police cars and vans everywhere. Mum said they wanted to search the house, they were all around the house, out the back, in the garden, out in the road. "We just didn't know what was going on! They were looking for someone with guns and knives!" One of the policeman's walkie talkie started buzzing and crackling and they rushed out, spoke to a neighbour then, quickly drove off again! "Wow!" said me, "Luckily you didn't go to adjust your catheter dad, (it's hidden, a tiny thing strapped to his leg) they might have thought you were going for a hidden gun or knife!" Of course, they'd made a mistake. My mum and dad aren't gangsters, although they did go as Al Capone and his moll to Emma's eighteenth birthday years ago! Hopefully someone from the police will apologize, it's a wonder they both didn't keel over with heart attacks!

A Quirky Book Mark

It's that Quirky time again, time to put your knickers on backwards, take your socks off and stand in a bucket of cold custard! Time for the new fortnightly challenge to start over on Quirky Craft's Challenge Blog. And this time round it's Caro's turn to set the theme and she has chosen...

Anything But a Card!

Yep! Definitely out of my comfort zone! We are sponsored this time by lovely Robyn's Fetish and because of the initials of the challenge, abc (called an acronym according to Caro.. but don't ask me, I can't even pronounce it!) I've chosen to use some of the back to school images to make this little.... book mark.
Everything here including the papers Polka Dot Fantasy, (Printed straight onto the card) you'll find over on the Robin's Fetish shop.
I've coloured the images with Promarkers, making two of little Katy reading her books, so I could cut her out and fix her over the first image with some 3D foam pads. These were only suck at the top leaving the bottom half clear. Now she can 'hang' on the page, or peep over the top, letting you know what page you're on, and less likely to slip out of the book. I've left a little space between the other images so a name can be added, or other things like, 'keep out of my book, nosey!' Okay, that's it from me... it's your turn now! You can make anything you like, as long as it isn't a card!! Thanks for stopping by!
Challenges

Incywincydesigns-bookmark
Robynsfetishchallenge-anything goes
c.r.a.f.t.challenge-children
Wagsnwhiskers challenge-anything but a card

Witching You A Hauntingly Fab Birthday!

Here's one of my digi's. Wilma and Wizzy the witch with her cat, flying on her magical broomstick, on a Halloween Birthday card.

I've made at least one Halloween birthday card every year for as long as I've been making cards. Don't really need to make one this year, but, old habits...and all that.

I printed Wilma and her cat straight onto some Pink Petticoat Papers using the PNG image (so no white background...with most of my digi's now you get both JPeg and PNG when purchased from the Digi Store, butI have to put a few more black bits in to make that work) I coloured two more images with Promarkers. The second image was fixed straight onto the first, minus the little spider swinging from Wilma's hat. With the third image, I cut Wilma off her broomstick, along with Wizz the cat and the broomy end of the broom, and Wizzy's tail too, so I could do a bit of 3D-ing.
After that I sprinkled on a bit of micro fine glitter, added those candi card brads, purple and black eye-lash wool and a few tiny die-cuts from some Halloween confetti.
I used a Woodware punch for the flower, and A Martha Steward spider web boarder punch and fern punch. The bats are actually the cut outs from a Martha Steward bat corner punch.

The font a freebie, it's called, of course Halloween. This one is quite hard to find because of it's name, loads of freebie fonts appear on Google if you just type in 'Halloween', but this one is found HERE and loads HERE you'll love even more!
New Followers: Hi and a very big (((wave))) to 505Whimsygirl, Appletonmob, (no link) and Tada! Crafts, no link but this just has to be you at blah-to-tada. all out the back and in the dark!
That's me done for now...weird things happening all week, me got locked in somewhere and had to climb out through a window. My mum and dad (both in their 80's) had an armed police raid one lunch time, with dogs and 'policemen with guns' said my mum! Whatever next! Thanks for stopping by!

Challenges
Craftysentiments-halloween
Palspaperarts-Halloween
Ceschallenges-make it magical or spooky
Onestitchatatime-use a digi
Charismacardz-inspired by song (Bewitched)
Craftybootschallenges.-anything goes

It's another, What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday?

It's Wednesday and another WOYWW!! and time again to scoot around all over the place to see what's on everyone's crafty desk! Here's what's on mine...yes...I know, bigger pictures showing you another mess and almost the same as last week, but not quite. The start of a card, a freebie stamp from a mag and some papers I might use on my box, but I don't think so. Bit busy this week, so a very short post from me! I know... I don't believe it either!! I must be sick.
New Followers: Hi and a big {{wave}}} to Debbie, with a fabulous blog, Fairy Bluebells Craft Adventure and the one and only Max from Max's Craft Creations! and out the back, in the dark with no link is hotchypotch! But, Google has found you, on HotchPotch Ehhh? Hello!! Thank you for following. Soon be time for a 600 followers freebie!
I Don't Believe it!!

This Wednesday's Digi! Gnome On A Swing

Here's this weeks digi, Gnome on a Swing! Hope you like him.
A link is always appreciated! Please leave a comment if you can!
Leafy freebie here


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