Me on Monday

It's Monday so time to give a wave to Sian over at From High in the Sky.

The weekend was a 12 hour crop going, how many bags do you need?, getting time to do lots of layouts, fish and chip eating, catching up with friends kind of weekend.  Well that was the Saturday, Sunday was a more restful day.

And today, well it's back to the mundane, time to catch up with the laundry and only 11 sleeps till I go to my annual barn trip with a load of craft mad friends, so I am just starting to do a little bit of packing ready for that.

If you want to see what the other Mondayers are up to - head over to Sian's

Me on Tuesday

Yeah I know this should be Me on Monday but yesterday I had a technical glitch - a camera that refused to download to my laptop or Mr Ps PC with a SD card that is too small for the laptop or PC.  But today Mr P came to the rescue and found a laptop that would take a mini card!!!  So that is why I'm a day late, waving to Sian at From High in the Sky.

The weekend was a Valentines exchanging, hotel staying for a family wedding, red roses receiving, Okey Cokey as the bride and grooms first dance, garden centre visiting (hey Mr P look there is a Hobbycraft here!!), menu planning, food shopping online and going in a photo booth for the very first time kind of a weekend!!!!  A really busy one but such good fun!!!!

 

 

 

As described above Monday was a day of trying to get my photos back.  And Tuesday - well today has found me dealing with the delivery of the online shopping, almost three weeks worth - nearly 3 hours to put it all away properly, including a freezer fight with the chest freezer - I won and everything went in!!

 

Happy Valentines Day Mr P!!

This year I couldn't make my mind up about what sort of card to make Mr P for Valentines, so ended up making a couple of small cards.  Then last week a lady in one of my Facebook craft groups shared a beautiful card she had made using a Papermania Wellington Bear stamp and I knew I had found just the inspiration that I was looking for.  It then took a while to actually track down the stamp as it is not a current range.  First I found it on eBay, purchased it, only for two days later the seller refund me as she didn't actually have the stamp - errrrr what's that all about, selling stuff that you don't actually have!!!  In the end I found it on Amazon and it finally arrived on the 12th, giving me just enough time to use it.

For a change I didn't use my trusty Promarkers, I dug out some watercolour card and used my Derwent watercolour pencils.  I haven't used them since I made the switch to Promarkers and I had forgotten how lovely they are.

So thank you Hermine for your inspiration.

I will share the other cards later in the week, we are off to a family wedding later today and staying over in the hotel.  It is a rare treat to actually be doing something on Valentines as usually Mr P is working.

One Photo and Twenty Words

Time to join in with Abi's One Photo and Twenty Words

The first Sunday of the month is crop day.  

A day spent with lovely people, being creative and having fun.

Me on Monday

It's Monday so it is time to give a wave to Sian over at From High in the Sky

The weekend was a kit packing, crop bag sorting, having a great Sunday with the girls and then fish and chips for afters kind of weekend.

Monday is all about laundry - lots and lots of it to catch up with, third load running as I type.  And now I am heading into the kitchen to rustle up cranberry and white chocolate cookies - all for the freezer, ready for our annual weekend in a converted barn with lots of my crafty friends - it is rapidly approaching so I need to get my finger out on the baking front.  With any luck later I can go back to colouring in images - Birthday and Easter cards need to be made this week.

Happy Birthday Dad

Today it is my lovely Dad's birthday and this is the card that I have made for him using Penny Black stamp 'London Calling'

I hadn't thought about it but Mr P asked if I had chosen this image because Dad can now speak on the phone after his successful cochlear implant last year.  The sentiment is also Penny Black, the border punch is Martha Stewart and the star punch is Stampin' Up.  The patterned papers are from the Craftwork Cards 'Love London' pad.

I am entering this card into the Penny Black and More at Allsorts February Challenge - 'Anything Goes'

Beat the Christmas Rush - January

Sorry I know it is only January but it is time for me to start sharing Christmas cards made for December 2015.  I always need at least 100 cards for my own needs plus over another 50 to sell for charity so I have to start early with them.  One thing that helped to keep me on track last year with making such a huge number was Sue's Beat the Christmas Rush

For my first batch of cards I have used some lovely digi-images from Pink Petticoat, I got a bit carried away and made 12 cards!!

I coloured the images with Promarkers and then lightly glittered them with a Wink of Stella pen or Stardust Stickles.

 Then I die cut them with Die-namics stitched rectangle or square die and matted them onto red, green or gold cardstock.

 Finally I embellished them with some sequins from my stash.

 They are lovely and flat so perfect for going in the post.  If you want to get ahead for Christmas, then do think about joining in with Beat the Christmas Rush