Oh What A Night... Moonlight Owl (Closed)

Sorry you missed this one!
In the word's of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons...Oh What A Night...! (not meaning anything the song was about at all!) my poor Computer is in total melt down. Hubby has been working hard to save things and has, sort of, through going through 'safe mode' got it going, although some of my programmes aren't up and running, or taking far too long to load, if at all. I'm using John's computer at the moment and it's great, bigger and brainier than mine, but it doesn't automatically help me with my spelling! There's also a BIG problem with PaintNet, the programme I use to tidy up my Digis. (It's sooo easy for my small brain) Their last upgrade, does not open, luckily Hubby's Computer had an older version. So this morning I had to email this freebie to him, and tidy it up the best I could on his computer. It's not as perfect as I would like, as my Wacom doesn't work on his computer, (it's also not working on mine either) and it's really hard drawing with a mouse!! (they bite!) The trouble is, once I close PaintNet on John's computer the new version will automatically download, and therefore, the programme will be useless again, so...hopefully very soon, my computer will be sorted out, PaintNet will get rid of it's glitches, or maybe I'll learn to use Photo Shop by next week!!

I'll try my best to do WOYWW later... just for once my craft room is tidy!!!

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Computer Melt down!

Sorry guys ....Complete Computer melt Down....

Hope to be back soon.

Happy Anniversary Tom and Emma...

I'm a bit late, as Tom and Emma's 3rd wedding anniversary was on the 11th, so with any luck they should have received this card by now. (It was still a bit sticky when I posted it!)

Doesn't seem three years ago that I was wearing my mother of the bride hat! Anyway, the papers are a mixture of Pink Petticoat (inside) and some fairy papers , which I've forgotten the name of, as I've had them for ages and Summer Papers 'quite contrary' by My Minds Eye! (that came free with Cardmaking and PaperCraft Magazine months ago) I used up some of the scraps, which is why the inside patterned panel is a bit short, added more hearts to make it look as though it was supposed to be like that. (No one will know!)
The stamped image is by Sarah Kay, which I won last year. Coloured with Promarkers and covered with lots of Stickles glitter glue.
The flowers I'm sure were a freebie from a Magazine, I've added gems.
The ribbon was from my local (not very crafty) craft shop. The little heart charm I'm sure I won that too, from Sue from one of the House Mouse blog hops. The embossed butterflies came from Create and Craft in a boxed set of cards, which came with their own add on embellishments. I've used, Nesties, Woodware punches and Martha Stewart border and fern punches
The font is a freebie, I've linked it before, it's called Ancestory SF. Download it HERE or Google the name.
New Followers Hi and a big {{Wave)) to Tracey from Stitchinwitchsratcage and Verashka from the Catsbasket, lovely blogs so go and have a peek!!
Well that's it for now, Happy Birthday (Sir) Cliff Richards and Thanks for stopping by! (that's thanks to you, not Cliff, I doubt very much that he blogs!

Challenges

C.R.A.F.T. Recipe-1 ribbon, 2 Shapes and some glitter.

Littlemissmuffet-girly-girl
flutterbywednesdays-(use a fairy/angel or butterfly)
OSATT-anything goes

Another Wednesday WOYWW!

It's WOYWW again, already! Okay, we're back home (from dog sitting) so this is my desk this week...looking just as messy as always. Been a bit busy doing other things (not crafty) so not a lot going on this week, just a few digi's I was doing last night, couldn't decide which one to put on as the freebie.. (scroll down for that)
I did manage to clear a space, (move stuff to the floor) but the rest of my craft room is still knee deep! I really really must tidy up and start doing Christmas cards, but there are a few other things I have to get done first! So, very sorry for not much blogging lately.
If there's anyone out there, who still hasn't found WOYWW yet, just take a pic of where you craft and nip over to Julia's Stamping Ground!! and sign in! A very short post from me, I'm now off to find the 'Tidy-Elf' I need his help with my mess! Catch you all later!!

Puss In Pumpkin! (Closed)

Sorry you missed this weeks freebie! Look out for the latest one!! Please don't share my digi's send people here to download them! Clicking the picture should take you to 4shared, email me if you have any problems. Please leave a comment if you can!
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A Quirky Spooky Challenge!

Here I am, nearly late for adding my card to the Quirky Craft's Challenge, which has started over on the Quirky Craft's Challenge Blog! (I know coz it's my turn to set the theme) And what are we doing this time round?!? Well, I decided it just has to be...

Spooky/Halloween
But of course, I know there's a few of you out there who don't do Halloween, so your challenge for this fortnight will be...
Black, Gold and Glitter!!

Of course we don't mind if you combine the two and make a spooky halloween in black gold and glitter. I've sort of done that! I've made my first centre Step card. Click here to see a tutorial on how to make one. (There are others to chose from! (I had this urge to add huge googly eyes to those boobs!!)
This Challenge is sponsored by Niki from Limited Runs, who has kindly offered 3 digi's to our winner!
Here's my card. Not very spooky at all! My big mistake was using too thinner card, so to compensate I added extra bits in the layering. I also added some gold ink to the edges, which I then covered with sparkly gold embossing powder. I've used Pink Petticoat papers along with a slice from a double sided scrapbook page my eldest daughter, Emma bought back for me, from her trip over to Seattle. (USA really do have so lovely Halloweeny Papers!!)
The digi images and sentiment (which is a set of four and a freebie!) can all be found in Niki's store. I've 3D-ed the pumpkin just to make it pop out a bit and also changed the whole image to a PGN, with clear background, so I could print in over the Pink Petticoat tangerine sky/stars papers, then fixed another image over the top of it. This way I didn't have to cut out all those little twigs, just cut them off . I fixed the bat with a blob of silicone glue. All coloured with ProMarkers.
Nikki also has a Limited Runs Challenge so if you use any of her images for this challenge, go and join in over there too!! (I have!)

Challenges

Limitedrunsstamps-use Limited Runs Digi
Artwithnoboundaries-Halloween
ClearitoutChallenge-Halloween
Tuesdaythrowdown-Halloween
cupcakecraftchallenges-Halloween
Fussyandfancy-Fall or Halloween
Littledarlingschallenges-Fall or Halloween
Craftycalendar-spooky
Abcdtchallenge-pumpkins.
Freshbreweddesigns-pumpkins
onestitchatatime-anything goes
totallypapercrafts-animals

Two Dogs and a bit of a Quirky Sneak Peek

Home from house and dog sitting yesterday afternoon! George and Rufus had their last walk with us and then John nipped home with all our stuff and I stayed with them and had one more 'hunt the toast game!' (They like that!)

I'm now home and have been rushing about in my PJ's all morning hunting down all the things I needed for my DT card this afternoon and guess what?? Could I find anything, no. And everything that could go wrong, did go wrong!! So here's a sneak peek of what I have done so far, not quite finished. The challenge doesn't start til six this evening so I still have a few hours!! Ummm... an hour....a few minutes ....must type faster!!!
New Followers!! Hi and a big ((wave)) to Rachel K (no link) and Lucy Pochedly! Lucy hasn't started a blog yet, but she's sent me an email showing a card she'd made using Witch Hazel! one of my digi's!! You'll get to see it at the end of this month! See you later!!

It's What On Someone Else's Garden Table This Wednesday!

Hi Guys! Happy WOYWW!. Or, in my case, happy WOSEGTW! This is 'what's on someone else's garden table Wednesday', as I'm not home, I'm away, house and dog sitting, as you may have already read.
I'm out in (someone else's) garden this week... and apart from being a lot tidier! there's some gone over Marigolds nothing of course to do with crafting and (at last!!) I've managed to start covering one of my boxes.
I'd already painted it gold some weeks ago. (This is also a clue to the next Quirky Craft Challenge in a round about sort of way, but don't tell anyone! Silence is golden!) Not quite finished it yet as I'd forgotten my 1" circle punch for the 'finger holes' in the draws and my heat gun as I wanted to add gold to the edges and rough them up a bit, so I may try doing that to the papers on the draws. See, I'm so brave, I've cut the lovely papers and now I'll just about do anything with them! (she cries...the first cut is definitely the deepest!) You should've seen me chasing a tiny scrap that the wind took half way up the garden... dogs in tow, thinking it was a great new game! "Don't chew that paper, don't chew that....givme givme!"
And talking about dogs, as you can see, I had a bit of help... Rufus and George! They were very good... although Rufus did run off with my bra, John's socks and also ate my hair brush, again (but I won't mention that) Very guilty about not getting round too many of you last week, owing to being away and the pills, but!! Touch wood, and it is wood! will do my best this week! Would try now, but, typing in the dark... (it's midnight and poor hubby has to be up a 5!)
If you'd like to join in with the biggest blog hop ever, just take a pic of your crafty craftiness and click over to Julia's Stamping Ground and leave your mark!
Thank you for stopping by. Have a great crafty day.