The Wedding......

At last, I don't have to think of Wedding Stationery 24/7................my niece's wedding was yesterday! It all went perfectly - and even the sun came for the day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've got to sort through the photo's properly to get the right stationery pics but here's a few for tasters!

There are other pieces too! I'll add the details when I show them all properly!

Off to do a bit more H*******K before I start the Nappy Cake I want to take to my sister for my brand new niece tomorrow!!!!!!!

Back from Hols!!!

Hi all,

I've been so lost the last week without my blogging fix! I did take my laptop and a 'Dongle' to keep updated on everything whilst I was away but it didn't work out quite as I'd expected!


The nice man in the phone shop told me £10 pay-as-you-go on a dongle gives 1 Mega-giggle-pixie thingy of Internet and on average, that would give 1 hour of 'normal' web-browsing every day for a month :)

Got to the caravan Sunday evening - set everything up and did some hopping - great. Monday morning I logged on to check out some places to visit and just as I'd finished checking the train times to Barmouth my screen was rudely interrupted with a .....'You have no available data' message!!!!!..... OMG I'd used one months allowance in less that 12 hours! Obviously 'normal' browsing doesn't include blogs with all of those fabulous pictures!!! .....Either that or someone else on the site had hacked into my dongle! I don't think I was 'dongle-hacked' tho - I did do quite a bit of hopping on the Sunday night as I always have the '1st night away insomnia'! As much as I was tempted to 'top-up' my dongle I didn't give in - I would have ended up spending more on Internet whilst on holiday than I did on  Latte's and Mocha's otherwise!!!



I've got a busy week ahead with the last of the Wedding orders ( I've had another enquiry for next year!), so wont be around much - but I promise September will be a 'Carol's Colossal Challenge Card Catch-up'! I'm going to get as many done as I physically can!!!


As a little close I thought I'd share a photo or 2 I took whilst away.....

The view from our caravan

This was taken outside but the huge bay window of the caravan is the best place to spend a few hours!

Friday 20th Aug sunset - I was up to my knees in the water, WITH my trousers on I must add....................
Well I couldn't get the waves crashing into the posts whilst still dry!

Advice Please.........Photo Tents???

Hi All,

Hope your weekend is starting well. I've not got a card today - not had one for quite a few days.......Wedding Number 3 is creeping ever closer so that is taking priority at the moment.



However I am after some advice from all of you wonderful crafters.


Photo Tents!!!!

Photos look so much more professional when they're used that I feel I need one! But, I'm not willing to spend the prices I've found them at!

I've found a few sites with 'DIY tents' the best one so far being......

http://www.mostlycolor.ch/2010/02/cheap-green-diffuse-paper-binder-clip.html



But I just want to know whether any of you have any ideas or links you'd like to share with me?

Risque - or is that 'Risky'!

Cor Blimey Madame! What do you think about this then???

If you've not yet seen this Digi delight her name is 'Allora Von D' and she is from Kenny K's new Gothic Angel range - I saw them a few days ago and had to buy some - I was very good and only got 5!

It was hubby's birthday yesterday so this seemed ideal - and I must be honest, he's never taken as much interest in any other card I've made him before!

I coloured her with my Promarkers rather than WColours as I felt a 'depth' of colour was needed. The black starry backing is some packaging card!

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges....

Kenny K's - On The Dark Side (make sure you pop over and check out the blog hop!)

Simon Says Challenge - 'Sing it Baby' (a song that get's stuck in your head!) "Hot Stuff" from The Full Monty!

Stamptacular Sunday Challenge - Out of This World........something you are not going to see in the real world (and unfortunately my hubby wont be seeing a fishnet clad diva in his world as long as I'm still in it!!!)

I've Been Playing Again :)

....and at last used one if my many unused stamps - why, oh why, do I feel the NEED to buy them as soon as they are released and then don't get around to making a card with them for months!!! tut tut!

This is the gorgeous Charlotte from WOJ - she is a delight to colour. I've used my Promarkers and distressed around the edges with some Dist-inks.

The backing (and larger flower) are a paper that I got from my local craft shop - it's a paper with a sort of 'flocked suede' type coating - it feels like brushed suede (well sort of!).

A few challenges I'd like to enter this card for...


Whiff of Joy - Fuzz!

Craftalicious - Own Flowers (does it count that punched a few petals and made them into a large flower?)

Ellephantastic - Distressing (around the edge of the image)

Dutch Dare  - Anything Goes

Here's Wedding Number 2..........

I was only asked a few weeks ago to do these pieces - the Groom works in the same place as me and didn't realise I did Weddings till he heard me speaking to someone. He told me they were having problems finding a Table Plan. I gave him some samples of my work to take home and they came to see me the following week.


I ended up doing The Table Plan, Menus, Menu Choices (a reminder to guests of what they'd ordered), Name Cards and Table Names. I didn't photograph the Table Names as they were quite simply double-side printed A5.


Please excuse the photo of the Table Plan - they look stunning done on a mirror - but are a nightmare to photograph! It's the happy couple you can see!!!!

They are a big rugby couple and wanted to get a rugby theme in somewhere alongside the butterflies - so decided on calling the tables after rugby positions!

Here's the rest....

Now I can spend a week or 2 'playing', catching up with some challenges and doing some 'lazy' crafting before I have to knuckle down to tackle the last leg of my nieces stationery!!!

At Last......a Card!

At last I managed to sit down last night and 'play'. Don't you just LOVE to 'play' - no customer spec, no dead-line and no-one to please other than yourself! It was a very short playtime, but I had fun!


I used one of the gorgeous Die cut toppers from LOTV and as I have another 20+ on order (well at 50p a sheet at the moment you can't go wrong!) I'm sure I'll be adding a few more cards with them over the next few months!


I worked to the LOTV challenge - which is a fab sketch. I inked and distressed the edges of the topper and used some Papermania paper (Capsule Collection, Sunshine Paper Pack) that I thought matched the image perfectly.
The flowers are of course from WOC!

I'd also like to enter this card for...

Ellephantastic Challenge - 'It's up to you!'

ABC - Y is for 'You & Me'

Cute Card Thursday - School's out for SUMMER

Amazing Candy......

The very talented Jodi is celebrating her birthday in style!

By giving away 5 fantastic candies away on her blog!

Pop over to see her gorgeous work and to enter her very generous give-away!

I have my fingers well and truly crossed ;)


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Andrea also has some gorgeous candy on her blog!

It's her first give-away and it's awesome.

Her blog is gorgeous too - I've not visited before but will be adding it to my roll for sure!




Be sure to visit these 2 talented and very generous ladies soon,

Just a quickie!

Had to tell you about this fab Freebie on offer!!!

(Click on the link below - not this image)

I recently found Kenny K's amazing Digi Images and just have to share them with you.

If I remember who's blog I first saw them on I'll give her a mention too!!!!!

Enjoy :)

...Now a Little bit of Sir Paul!

Look where I went tonight!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm getting to be a right concert junkie - P!nk on Wednesday and Paul McCartney on Saturday!

(This is a pic of one of the large screens)

(and this one is just to show you we weren't quite as close as the above pics make it look!)

(He is on stage - honest!)

Of course, it was amazing - and he played for a full 2 and a half hours!!!!!!!!!

Just a hint of P!nk................

Well what a fab concert that was :)

Just thought I'd show you a piccy or 2 before I'm off to bed - haven't cropped them or anything yet mind!

...and if you're going to the Funhouse Tour don't look at the next ones or they'll spoil the surprise!

I'm off to bed now!

Nite, Nite!

An Upload for a Friend

Just got time to add a card I've made before I have to go and get ready for what promises to be a FAB night tonight! My daughters and myself are off to see P!nk in concert tonight - we've been looking forward to it since I bought the tickets for a Christmas present!
Ceri drove past the venue at 10 this morning and there were already people queuing - gates don't open till 5 so I doubt very much the girls are going to get anywhere near enough for them! I'm happy at the back - you can still see and I'm the wrong side of 40 to worry about getting within eye-contact distance anymore! Loads are going from work so we'll find our own groups of friends there and meet afterwards! I'm sure I'll have some photo's for you tomorrow! (did you see my Take That pics from last year?)



Right, onto business!!!

Very often I take my Promarkers and some stamped images into work to do at lunch-time and sometimes my friend joins in! She coloured this gorgeous Miss Anya image months ago and wanted me to then make it into a card for her to give her best friend.

I'd like to enter this card into 2 challenges that I think it fits perfectly with....

Simon Says Challenge - Friends

Passion for Promarkers - Favorite Things

...and who doesn't love shopping with their Best Friend?

A Challenge or Two!

Happy Saturday everyone :) Hope you're having a good weekend and taking advantage of all of the extra TV the fellas are watching! At least the World Cup gives us crafters a REASON to shut ourselves away ;)

Here's a card that I made at 'stupid O'clock' last night whilst waiting for the kiddie-winks to come home - Ben was the side of the bar that gives the money whilst Ceri was the other side taking it! 

I've used one of my new LOTV stamps that I've had for weeks now but had to mount it last night as I've not even opened them yet! Will sit down tonight and mount the rest I think!

I've used that fantastic invention 'sticky backed cork' for the backing and a few scraps of paper/card. The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts and as they are sponsoring this weeks LOTV challenge I had to use them as my 'flowers' to go with this weeks sketch. I just hope my using them hasn't feminised the card too much - what do you think?

The punch is a new one from Martha Stewart - I REALLY need the other leafy one, I think it's called Branch, but I can never find it in stock anywhere :(

The gorgeous image is coloured with my trusty WC Pencils - I felt a washed out look would suit it better.

Do you like my photo 'backdrop'? Thought I'd try and get the Waterlily in the shot and then a few of our fish made an effort to get in too!

Right then, a couple of challenges to enter this card for....

Lili of the Valley - Sketch & Flowers

Raise the Bar - What a Special Guy!