This Time Last Week.............

.................I was in Cardiff watching.................

Take That!

And this time, a week tomorrow, I will be in Wembley watching.....................

Take That!

How greedy am I?

To all of those people who may come back saying

"but I couldn't get tickets and you're going twice."

I say.....

...I sat at the computer for 7 hours solid the day the tickets went on sale, constantly clicking 'Refresh' on the 4 Ticket Sales websites I'd set up - I bullied encouraged my Son and Daughter into getting their Laptops out and set up for an hour or 2 -  I managed to get as far as adding my payment details 6 times only to have it crash on me - I never got dressed (or even washed) till 5pm - I lost a days pay as I was only expecting to be an hour late in!!!!!! - I even had to call my son to take over the clicking of 'refresh' so I could go the loo!

So I think I deserve it ;)

Want to see some more pics from last week???????

We were standing in Cardiff, in Wembley we have seats - so we'll actually be able to see what's happening on the stage! It may look from these photos that we can - but picture me on Tippy Toes with camera held at full arms reach above my head!!! ...and I've got a good zoom too - we weren't as close as it looks!

If you're going soon ...you'll have a BALL!

If you've been, leave me a line so I can pop over to see your pics :)

ABC Christmas, M is for.........................

...............Monochrome!

Good Morning all

...another week over at ABC Christmas Challenge is kicking off with the letter 'M'

~ MONOCHROME ~

"...consisting of or displaying images in black and white

or in varying tones of only one colour."

(taken from Oxford Dictionaries)

This fortnight's challenge is being sponsored by...

4 Digi Images of winners choice

My 'M for Monochrome' card is actually a little predictable - Black with Silver (although that's not really covered in the definition I've included above...Oh dear!!!)

I've used Royal E-Z Rub-On's...Snowflakes and Christmas Trees.

The Rub-Ons weren't the easiest to use - don't look too close or you'll see a few areas that didn't take too well! However, I think this might have been because I laid them out on the card first to get the placing right - under my lights I think they started to stick before I was ready to rub them!!! Lesson learned!

Pop over to ABC Christmas Challenge to see the cards made by the rest of the DT - all gorgeous monotone coloured creations :)

Top Tip Tuesday #39

Good Top Tip Tuesday morning to you all :)

Thank you, once again to each one of you who entered last weeks challenge - we had an amazing amount of participants and we had great fun looking at all of your wonderful work. 

Have you checked out if you're one of our winners yet?

This week we have a fabulous tutorial from one of our new DT members Annette

Annette is showing us how to make a Criss Cross Card - and it's FAB!

This weeks' sponsors...

Stash Books

is offering our featured tipper an amazing book:

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Di's Digi Downloads

1 prize of 5 digi stamps of your choice

 

This week's Challenge is entitled

'Cross It'

You can cross your ribbons, cross your papers, cross your twine or you can follow Annette's Tutorial as I did and make a Criss Cross Card...

I have used papers from First Edition 'Love Letters' and some gorgeous plain Vellum.

The Vellum is fastened to the back panel with some tiny Heart Brads.

A gorgeous Freebie Sentiment Digi from Sentimental Sunday's Week 59's Challenge.

A Ribbon tab eases out the Sentiment Tag which hides a secret 'love message' space on the reverse!

I've used sparkly pins (hope it's enough!) on the band along with some ribbon and some cheapy dismantled  flower spray flowers!

So get CROSSING and join us in this week's fun at Top Tip Tuesday!

Some challenges I'd like to enter my card into...

Sentimental Sundays - Summery or Sparkly- thanks for the gorgeous freebies you give each week :)

Allsorts - 3, 2, 1 - 3 Papers, 2 Ribbons, 1 Flower

Stamp Something - Pretty Papers

Simon Says Stamp - Bingo (Flowers/Brads/Sentiment)

Crafty Catz - Fancy Folds

TTT Welcome New DT

Good Top Tip Tuesday morning to you all :)

Thank you to each one of you who entered last weeks challenge - Wow....all of those folds!!!!!

Have you checked out if you're one of our winners yet?






To welcome our 7 new DT Members proper we are holding an




 'Open Challenge'


with the Top Tip Tuesday DT's Top Tips!




...and each of them have provided a great first samples and Top Tips for us.






As always we have some great sponsors for this week too - and lots of samples from them both in the DT's samples...

Robyns Fetish

is proud to sponsor this challenge, and they are offering our lucky winner 4 stamps of their choice!

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Stitchy Bear Stamps is offering a $10 voucher  

Don't forget we WANT to see your tips - you don't even have to make a project - just post a link to a little write up about your Top Tip (normal rules apply!) and you will be in the running for the Top Tipper Prize!




Please take a moment to read our guidelines on the Top Tip Tuesday Blog when entering the challenge.




My DT Sample this week is using an image 'Rub-a-Dub-Dub' and a digi background 'Spring Blossoms Paper Pack' from Stitchy Bear Stamps...

I coloured the sweet little duck with more muted colours as I wanted to keep the 'outdoorsy' look of the gorgeous backing piece.


Pop over to Top Tip Tuesday to find out what my Top Tip is regarding the sentiment on here!!!

Some Challenges I'd like to enter my card into...

Sentimental Sundays - Masculine 

Stamptacular Sunday - Dads or Grads!


Papertake Weekly - Dad's or Lads

I've Been Asked To Join....................

ABC Christmas Challenge!!!




How COOOOOOOOL is that!




....I'll tell you how cool it is.......................
................it's SNOW cool!




Thank you so much to all of the wonderful DT Members there for liking my work and believing I can live up to the high standards you show each fortnight.
I am really looking forward to being part of such a fab DT and have already been made to feel at home :)




My first Challenge 'proper' with them is for the letter L....


L is for Love!


Make a Christmas card for someone you love!


There is also a Colour Theme for this challenge...

There are some great sponsors too........

Simon Says Stamp

$15 shopping Voucher

&

Stamp Fairy

 3 digital images of the winner's choice.

My Green, Silver & Red card for someone I Love is.....

I decided to go with 'Kindred Spirt' as the sentient,
(mainly cos I've not got a 'To The One I Love' CuttleBug Die!)




Please be sure to pop over to ABC Christmas Challenge to check out the rest of the DT's work - they are awesome!

Some Challenges I'd like to enter this card into...

(will link up once post goes live)

Top Tip Tuesday #37

Good Top Tip Tuesday morning to you all :)

Thank you to each one of you who entered last weeks challenge - You all showed us some fabulous Ribbon creations :)

We have got some VERY exciting news over on Top Tip Tuesday - Our new Teamies have been announced and also last weeks winners - including the DT Call Candy winner.................
Check it out!!!

This week we have a great Tutorial from Heike - she's showing us how to make a T-Bag Booklet....not sure what one of those is........pop over - it's FAB!

This weeks Challenge is

More Than One Fold

This weeks fabby prizes are from......

The Crafty Pad 
Prize - 2 Digi Images

Debbie at The Crafty Pad Stamp Designs said:
The Crafty Pad Stamp Designs is proud to sponsor Top Tip Tuesday.  I own and run The Crafty Pad Stamp Designs.
We offer a variety of both polymer stamps and digi stamps.  Weekly challenges are held at The Crafty Pad Blog. 

Fred She Said

$20 voucher!

Tracey from Fred She Said says: 

Fred She Said Designs offers a wide variety of digital products with a floral flair and cute characters too - Digi's, Pre-coloured images, Papers, Sets, and Fred's Flower Kits.  Have some fun with Fred!

My 'More Than One Fold' offering is....

I've used a LOTV Die Cut image and chalked a sky after masking off a 'moon' - first time I've tried this!!!

The papers are TH.

I've made the 'middle page' a diagonal pocket - but can assure you the contents are only for photographic purposes ;)

The rear section has the insert and verse.

We'd all love to see your 'More Than One Fold' cards - so go get folding ;)

Some challenges I'd like to enter my card.....

Simon Says Stamp - For a Male

Cute Card Thursday - Embellish it!


Craft-Room Challenge - Anything Goes!


Papertake Weekly Challenge - Anything Goes!


Lili Of The Valley - Punch It Up! (The 'candy' is home made - using a hole-punch!)

Look Hoo's......

How fab is this GORGEOUS Graduation Owl - I spent forever trawling the net (!) looking for an owl with a Mortar Board on and ending up buying this fab little Digi from Bugaboo - 'Graduating'

I coloured him with Promarkers and used some recycled Corrugated cardboard box for the backing piece - and those of you that know me know that I just love to use 'junk' on my cards!!!

(The spelling of Garry is correct!)

I've found a couple of challenges for Garry The Graduate too.......

Simon Says Stamp - For a Male

Charisma Cards - Something That Flies

Stamp Something - Digi

Raise The Bar - Teacher's Pet

A Real Quick Post.....

Blogger is really playing up for me tonight - he keeps signing me out - so this will be a really quick post!

I made a card for a few challenges and if I don't post it'll be too late!

Here it is....

I used LOTV die-cut image and gorgeous WOJ Flowers, TH and First Edition papers. The panel and sentiment pieces were plain white card that I inked with Distress Inks.

Some Challenges....

Sketch & Stash - Sketch

Ellephantastic - Birthday

Creative Inspirations - Cute Bears/Animals

Divas by Design - Florals

ABC Challenge - V for Variety... at least 3 Embellishments - Flowers, Pins, Pearls & Lace.