I've had...

... a lovely morning today, with my boys and my mum - we went off to the local beach (only us on it!) and played Boules, then for a lovely coffee and milkshakes for the boys before spending quite a few pound in the arcades (although I dont count it as spending too much as its from a jug in the kitchen where all loose change goes :-) )   Even my 14 year old said he'd had a good morning and from him thats high praise, with him being a typical teenager - not much impresses him. yay!!

Now that we are home and the boys are straight on the x-box (sigh), I can nip on here and update a couple of makes that I have recently done to kick start my mojo:

The first one is for the Penny Black Saturday floral challenge:

The image came free with a magazine - ages ago.  I have coloured it with promarkers.  The papers where also freebies (from a different magazine)  I have used lilac card stock, die cut the flower and added a lilac gem and added a sentiment from Craftwork Cards.

I would like to enter this into:

Penny Black Saturday Challenge - floral fantasy
I love promarkers - anything goes.

To be continued as I'm having trouble linking a picture with the same URL.

Many Thanks for looking

Ali
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Oh my goodness...

... its been such a long time since my last post!!!  I sort of lost my mojo in a big way, not happy with my colouring, or layouts or papers - generally fed up with it all to be honest. 

Anyhoo, had a kick up the bum from Janine and a sit and colour with her, and then a few days away and busy with the kids - still not 100% back to normal, but getting there.



I've got a few cards photographed, and here's one that I made for my brothers birthday:

The image is a digi stamp boutique, coloured with promarkers and stickles and glossy accents added.  The papers are Hobbycraft matted onto blue card and button and twine from my stash.

I would like to enter this into:

Passion for Promarkers - button it
Without words - use a previous challenge ( Iam using gentlemen only)

Sorry about my moan, and thank you for looking

Ali
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Hellooo...

... how the devil are you all???  Well I've been sent out of the room as hubby wants France to when and whenever I leave the room, someone always scores (I just cant guarantee who - so I hope a French man scores!!)

The weather has been beautiful here lately and I've been taking advantage of it by being out in the garden so crafting seems to have taken a back seat.  I thought when I stopped work I'd get loads of crafting done - but I dont - even when I've done all my jobs I still feel guilty doing something for me and end up looking for more jobs to do!!! weird - I thought it would be the other way round - lol.

July is a busy month for birthdays, so I've tried to make a start on them and get ahead of the game, so here's my first make:

The digi image is from the gorgeous Wee stamps collection, coloured with pro-markers.  The papers are hobbycraft matted onto kraft card and ribbon from my stash, which came free with a magazine.

I would like to enter this into:

Little miss muffet challenge - sketch
aud sentiments challenge - anything goes
I love promarkers - anything goes
Bearly mine challenge - lets go digital
The pink elephant challenge - anything goes
Papertake weekly - anything goes

Right I'll go and see if anyone has scored - its been quiet - so maybe not!

Thanks for looking

Ali
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Oooh...

...fingers crossed blogger might have sorted their dashboard problem out :-) - still showing a funny email address though???  I've done a virus scan and all ok so???

Before the boys get in from school, I'll just quickly blog this card that I made for a friend of the family:

I love this Little Claire image, that I have coloured with promarker and distressed the edge.  The dp's are dovecraft and added twine, flower and sentiment tag from my stash.

I would like to enter this into:

Cutie Pie: cute girls, girls, girls
Simon says stamp - anything goes
Aud sentiments challenge - use a two word sentiment

Thanks for looking

Ali
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Thanks...

... for your comments, glad its not just me xxx

Having problems...

... just wanted to let you know that I'm not ignoring you if I regularly post on your blog, my blogger dashboard is only showing one blog so I'm not getting everyones recent updates :-(, unless I go through all the blogs I'm following 189 of them - lol.  (that cant be right!!)

If this has happened to anyone else or if anyone knows what I can do to get my feed back I would really appreciate any help. I was hoping at was a blip in the system but its been over 24 hours now, and it seems to have added characters to my email address that appears in the top right when I sign in??  Gah, I hate technological problems :-(

Thank you

Ali
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Saying it...

.. with flowers.  Hello all, hope you are having a good weekend.  Busy couple of days here, on Friday me and the hubby went to the BBC Good Food show at Birmingham and hadnt realised Gardeners World Live was there as well - we had a great if tiring day, and it didnt help that the traffic coming home was very busy.  I managed to get a couple of photos of a couple of chefs and the great Monty Don - lol.  I'm not sure I would go again as it was a long way to go, but if I did I'd make notes of times to see the various talks and shows that were going on, rather than focusing on the stalls.

I've been doing some cards for a sneeky peak at Miss Muffet stamps following a little random picking over on facebook so keep your eyes peeled for those. 

This card, though, has been made for a while but I saw the challenge over at Sweet Stampin and thought it would be ideal to blog it:

The image is LOTV coloured with promarkers.  Not sure of the papers, and orange card from stash.  The flower is a newish die with a brad from my stash.

I would like to enter this into:

Sweet Stampin - say it with flowers

Thanks for looking

Ali
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