New Baby

Good morning everyone.
I hope you are all well.
Today I have a 'New Baby' card to share.....
I made this card for my neighbours ~ who had a baby girl last week and she is beautiful. I don't normally say that about babies....I much prefer them when they are a few months old and a little more interesting but she is beautiful.....and of course I have to say that my baby was beautiful and still is but then I'm totally biased on that one ~ like any mother would be......
Anyway on to my card....

The New Baby stamp is from Lili Of The Valley ~ I love these stamps and I just had to have this set when I saw it. The papers are my all time favourites from Craft Creations Limited. I stamped with Spun Sugar Distress Ink and the colour was a perfect match for the papers. The flower and leaf die are from Marianne Design and the pearls and pearl medallion at the centre of the flower are from The Hobby House.
And there it is.......job done!
I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:~
Tuesday Throwdown ~ # 211 ~ Sweet Little One Crafting From The Heart ~ # 34 ~ Anything Goes Ooh La La Creations ~ # 164 ~ Clean And Simple Totally Gorjuss  ~ # 251 ~ Pearls

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Elodie In Her Garden

Good morning everyone.
I hope you are all well.
At last I have managed to break out the Copics and have a play.....
I am so out of practice....
But here is a completed image and a completed card to boot.....although my colouring needs more work I think!!!

The image is from Sarah Kay ~ Elodie In Her Garden. I have had this stamp forever and don't use her as much as I should. I have coloured with my Copic Markers and the papers are from Lili Of The Valley. The roses, lace, heart pins and pearls are all from The Hobby House and the Happy Birthday sentiment was printed on my computer. 

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:~
 Creative Inspirations ~ # 278 ~ Flower Power! Divas By Design ~ Happy Birthday Totally Gorjuss ~ # 251 ~ Pearls Dream Valley  ~ #  89 ~ Flowers Crafting From The Heart ~ # 34 ~ Anything Goes

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Toot Toot!

Good morning everyone.
I hope you are all well.
It's the start of a new week and a new month too....I can't believe it's September already. 
I really must make tracks with those Christmas cards....I am so far behind this year.
So today I have another card to share....not a Christmas one though!
I was asked to make this card. This seems to be a popular theme at the moment.....everyone seems to be passing their driving test!!!

The image is called Toot Toot from a Lili Of The Valley ~ Coloured Art Pad 1 ~ Vintage Boys. The papers are also from Lili Of The Valley. I teamed up these fab papers with Kraft card and added some buttons and twine, finishing the card with pearls from The Hobby House and a computer generated sentiment. Nice and simple.....

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In At The Deep End...

Good morning everyone.
I hope you are all well and enjoying the weekend.
I don't have any crafty items to share today but I have got some photos of a recent trip to 'The Deep' in Hull.
At the beginning of the month it was Brogan's birthday and I asked her if there was anything she wanted to do....The reply was (and bear in mind she was 19)....'I want to go to The Deep mum'....strange I thought but we went along. It's been years since we first went and she wasn't very old at the time and it hadn't been opened long but as you can see from the photo's 'the children had a good time'.....even the 46 year olds!!!
Playing On The Interactive Boards

Gareth was quite put out when a 5 year old jumped in front of him and randomly pressed all the buttons on the activity board ~ and he'd spent ages sorting out the correct answers.....grown man ~ bottom lip out ~ not a pretty sight!!!
I think we all wanted to see the new penguins to be honest and we weren't disappointed...
This Chap Was A True Star

As Were His Friends

Feeding Time ~ Not Very Impressed....Fish Again

This Kept Them Entertained For Ages ~ Bless Them....Brogan and Gareth I Mean!!!

Making New Friends With Nigel
(Smiley Pancake Fish)~As Brogan's Friend Becca Called Him

This Guy Spent Ages Starring At Me

Gareth Said It Was Because The Fish Thought He Was Looking In The Mirror!!!
Charming!

 Brogan Found Nemo...

And Just A Reminder That This Was The Day That We'd Also Paid A Visit To The Dentist

All in all we had a really good day out and we were also very impressed with our lunch in The Deep restaurant which was reasonably priced.....also the sun was shining so it made it a perfect day.

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Christmas In August...

Good morning everyone.
I hope you are all well.
Today I have a Christmas card to share....
I thought it was about time to make a start. I normally have the majority of my Christmas cards under wraps by now but I think I have managed about 4 or 5 which I have to say I'm not too impressed with.....I'm not very organised this year but I'm putting it down to stepping down from several Christmas DT posts and the fact Mr Mojo seems to have been absent for much of the year.
Anyway here goes....I'm on a mission now and thought I'd start with something very simple.

When I saw this die I just had to have it. 
It is a Memory Box Grand Merry Christmas Script Die and I just love it. My card is very simple only using red and white card, silver mirri card, some white glitter card and pearls for the snowflakes and a small flat backed pearl medallion from The Hobby House for the centre of the larger snowflake.
And there you go....Job Done!
I think I'll be making a few more cards like this as I quite like the simplicity and the fact it didn't take too long to complete....which is good in my world at the moment!!!!

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:~
Completely Christmas ~ # 27 ~ Anything Goes Polkadoodles  ~ # 35 ~ Get Organised For Christmas ABC Christmas ~ Q For Quick And Easy The Crafter's Cafe Challenge ~ # 79 ~ Use Punches And Dies Penny's Paper~Crafty Challenge ~ # 192 ~ Children And/Or Christmas Crafting From The Heart # # 33 ~ Anything Goes Allsorts ~ # 274 ~ Early Christmas Makes

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A Stitch In Time...

Good morning everyone.
I hope you are all well.
Today I have another card to share....This is part of a set of four cards that I made.

The papers are from my stash. The topper is from a set called Strawberry Tea from The Hobby House. I used some Kraft as my base card and co~ordinating blue card as a mount. I kept the design fairly simple and just added ribbon, a bow and pearls . I also used a Martha Stewart border punch....this is one of my favourites and tends to crop up on a lot of my cards.

I'm sorry but I've just noticed that the photo is a little wonky....Whoops!!!....too late now....

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:~
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge ~ # 192 ~ Children And/Or Christmas Crafting From The Heart ~ # 33 ~ Anything Goes

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A Work In Progress.....

Good morning everyone.
I hope you are all well.
Today I have something slightly different to share.....
This piece of stitching has been a work in progress for quite a long time but after seeing a recent post by the very talented Lynn B over at Happiness Is Cross Stitching I was inspired to share my progress here on my blog in the hope that I might get it finished.....and not leave it on it's frame in the corner of the room any longer.....
So the idea is....that if I post 'regular' updates of my stitching progress.....I may 'someday' complete this project.
Miribilia Autumn Queen 

A Work In Progress

  Sorry this is a rather grainy photo of my pattern/picture but you get the idea.....
I used to cross stitch all the time and have lost count of the pictures I have completed. Mirabilia were some of my favourite designs and I have two or three of these large completed projects hanging on my walls here at home and many more kits in drawers waiting to see the light of day....I remember once when clearing through my kits and projects my Dad pointed out that 'You would have to be a long time retired to complete that lot!.......We'll see......

If Only There Were More Hours In The Day.....

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