Don't Faint!

It's March and this is only my second post in 2011 - so much for the New Years Resolution.

And what a pfaff it's been. How can something that looks so simple be so difficult? First there was the cutting around the image, then I thought I would thread up the full size sewing machine as you need to have bionic eyesight to thread up the mini version I bought for cards - could I remember what to do? - could I heck and about an hour later we were good to go.



Anyhoo I hope it's worth the 'sweatinducingbleepbleeproomlikeashambles' effort. The image and sentiment are from Pink Petticoat, a button and a little fancy punching is all there is to this easy peasy card - not!

I'm entering it into the Less Is More (pastel) and Clean and Simple (sketch) challenges.

Thanks for looking!

Happy New Year!

Just a short post to wish you a Happy New Year if you've stumbled on my blog. I haven't posted in a while - so much to do, so little time - a situation I resolve to improve in 2011. Anyway, even although it's a bit late, I wish you all the following for the coming year:

May the best ye hae ivver seen be the warst ye'll ivver see.
May the moose ne'er lea' yer girnal wi a tear-drap in its ee.
May ye aye keep hail an hertie till ye'r auld eneuch tae dee.
May ye aye juist be sae happie as A wuss ye aye tae be.

And the translation for non-Scots:

May the best you have ever seen be the worst you will ever see.
May the mouse never leave your grain store with a tear drop in its eye.
May you always stay hale and hearty until you are old enough to die.
May you still be as happy as I always wish you to be.

Happy 2011!

You're Tea-rrific!

I've stumbled across a newish challenge this morning. Over on Let's Craft and Create the theme of their third challenge is pink. Here's my little entry - the DP and image are from Pink Petticoat with little else but a lovely pink ribbon. It also fits in nicely with the Allsorts Challenge which is to take inspiration from a song title - mine is Tea for Two.

I've been doing a lot of craft shopping lately and not a lot of crafting - a trend which will need to be reversed.

Thanks for looking!

Tweet and Flutter

I've not posted in a while I just haven't found the time - too many work days and not enough weekends. It's miserable here today cold and wet, winter will be here so soon. Still that gives us all an excuse (as if we needed any) to stay in and craft.

Over on Cute Card Thursday the challenge is 'Tweet and Flutter' and on Pile It On the challenge is layers. My entry is an engagement card with cute little Pink Petticoat birdies.



The DP is Papermania (I think) and I've matched the colours with Pink Petticoat A Little Washed out for the layers.



Thanks for looking!

Cinderella Proved A New Pair of Shoes Can Change Your Life

Over at Allsorts the challenge is dressing up and over on Cute Card Thursday the challenge is to have text on your card. For these challenges I've made a simple card (not that any of mine are particularly difficult!) by cutting a shoe and text using my Cricut. The racy leopard skin print paper is from Pink Petticoat and I've added a little bling to the centre of the flower.




Thanks for looking!

I'm So Excited..I Just Can't Hide It..

I've won the first Craftalicious challenge for Coochie Coo. Admittedly it was the random org thingy which picked me, but I'd like to think it was a reasonable effort.

Anyhoo onto this weekends entry - I did nothing last week because the weather was glorious which is a bit of a rarity in Scotland. I'm entering it into Cardalicious which is green, flowers and polka dots and ABC which is X... extra dimension.



I've printed my cardstock with Pink Petticoat's Big Dots in New Leaf and cut the flower and sentiment using my Cricut with the addition of a Card Candy paper brad..simples.

Thanks for looking!

Coochie Coo

I'm back! I've not posted since April - it's not that I've not been crafting just that I haven't found any challenges I wanted to enter. Anyhoo for my first challenge in two months I'm entering this little number into the ABC Challenge which is vintage, Daring Cardmakers which is pearl and the brand new Craftalicious Challenge whose theme is new.



The vintage style papers are from Cajoline-Scrap, the image is from Squigglefly and I've done a little hand sewing, decoupage and added some pearls. I love the way this turned out - the little baby is too cute!

Need to go now this blogger thingy is playing up big time so before I lose my temper I'll sign off now. Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Thanks for looking!