I Don't Believe It.....

I read the other day in the Daily Rag of the governments intention to build solar farms in Scotland. If you have ever been to Scotland you will realise that we must be the most sunshine starved nation in the world - we've practically all got rickets. Honestly have you ever heard anything so ridiculous? How about harnessing rain power then we'll be the richest and most energy efficient country in the world.

Anyway rant over - my week off work is coming to an end boo-hoo. I've had the time time to get things done around the house and do some of my favourite things - crafting, cooking and baking. Apart from chocolate orange cupcakes earlier in the week I made 'diggers' which featured in the Hairy Bikers Mums Know Best programme. You have to try them - they are fantastic - you will find the recipe here.

A little card today is for the Get Sketchy challenge and features a lovely simple sketch. The digi-stamp is from Bugaboo stamps (Night Night), the papers are all from Pink Petticoat and the sentiment is computer generated.




That's all for now have a great weekend.

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Birthday Gift

No crafting yesterday I spent the day catching up on some jobs you can't bring yourself to do in the precious little time you have off work - cleaning the oven, defrosting the freezer (let me tell you there was no sign of global warming in there - there was enough ice to sink the Titanic). Today I've been a little more creative making chocolate orange cupcakes and this little gift project which fits in nicely with the Shabby Tea Room challenge (love that name).

I made this necklace using some foiled hearts and the gift handbag box I cut with my Cricut. The paper is from Pink Petticoat in Rose adorned with a little flower made using the George Cartridge and some Card Candy.



I made a matching gift tag but forgot to put it in the photo and I'm too lazy to do it all over again. Right off to do something useful - I can't bear to watch any more Midsomer Murders.

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Doh!

I must admit I was a bit offended. I shared my trials and tribulations with blog land on my last post and not one bloomin' bloggette left me a comment - not even the hosts of the challenge! What had I done to offend you all? Then this morning I had a light bulb moment I remembered I had turned off the verification thingy. Maybe I had one measly comment trapped somewhere in hyperspace begging to get released. Hooray - I had 32, yes a whopping 32, for my last card. Thank you!

So I decided to have another go in the Less is More challenge. This week the challenge is a one layer card with the theme off the edge. Here is my little entry.




I stamped directly onto the card using Penny Black Portrait stamp. I then embossed it and coloured with Whispers watercolour pens and a water brush. The sentiment is computer generated.

For the rest of the day I'll be building myself up for 'The Game' - Scotland are playing England in the Calcutta Cup rugby match. Things are not looking good for Scotland - we haven't won a match in the whole Six Nations tournament - however we live in hope. If we even look like winning you'll hear me (wherever you are in the world) screaming like a banshee. Whatever you're doing enjoy the rest of your weekend.

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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.

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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.

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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.



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