Wheelie Good Birthday

This card was made using a Lily-Boo image from the Boy's Toys collection. These are real fun images for the boys and easy to use as they can be resized to whatever you want This is the beauty of digital downloads, you have them forever and they don't take any room storing them.

The papers I have used are from DCWV adhesive paper print stack.

Daring Cardmaker Challenge - Post Pals

Hope you are enjoying the beautiful weather we are getting at the moment. I was a bit fed up last night as someone ploughed into the back of me while I was waiting at a roundabout. Luckily no one was hurt but my poor car is not very pretty now. So while blog hopping to cheer myself up I came across this challenge on Enfys blog where she had made a card for the Daring Carmakers challenge . This week the challenge was to "Make a Child Smile" and involved making a card to send to one of the children at Post Pals an organisation that helps to brighten a sick child's day. Pop over there and have a read, I tell you it puts your own life into perspective. I decided to make this card for a little girl called Amy and will be posted off tonight. The image is one of Sam's from Lilyboo's Boutique and the papers are downloads from Funky Hand (Minty Madness).

Thanks for stopping by.

Birthday Card for my Boss

Here is a card I made for my Boss who's birthday it is tomorrow. This will be the first time she will have seen my handmade cards as I work at a marketing company and she is so good I have always been a bit shy to show her. Silly I know but I have only been there a year and felt a bit embarrassed about showing her as she is so good at what she does and I have never felt that my cards were good enough. I have decided to bite the bullet though and make her one and hope that she likes it as much as I have enjoyed making it. I used the Wedding solutions cartridge to cut the shoe out by welding the shapes together in design studio. I then mounted the shoe onto the front of the card so that the shoe opens to show her name. I then cut out a couple of flourishes, added some bling and a sentiment to the inside and voila.

I thought you may also like to see the scrapbook page I made at my crop today. I know it is using lilac again (can you tell I like Lilac) but I thought they went so well with the colour of Benn's bruise.

Thanks for looking.

3rd Place Winner

Yippee, I have won 3rd place this time over at the Polkadoodle challenge blog. This means I have now been 2nd and 3rd. Will have to try really really hard now to get that 1st place blinkie now (aren't they just so cute).

Two postings in one day . . . .

I know, 2 postings in one day what is going on. Well I have been having fun tonight and managed to get my card done for the Friday Sketcher challenge. I have been wanting to do one of these for a while now but Friday seems to come round so quick that I have never managed it. I also wanted to enter the Cute Daisy May challenge as well and as the challenge is Animals I thought great, I can enter both, ha ha.

All the papers are from My Minds Eye (I have rather a lot of this as you have probably gathered) with one of the Easter 2009 Tilda's. I also covered some chipboard flowers with matching cardstock and finished it off with Liquid Pearls.

Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

Just Magnolia Challenge

Over at the Just Magnolia challenge blog the theme is anything to do with summer so this is what I came up with. I had seen a tutorial for making a little Pizza box over on the splitcoast stampers website and thought how cute it was. I stamped the adorable little Tilda image holding the little ladybird using my promarkers. All the papers were from My Mind's Eye, Bloom & Grow collection.

At present the box is empty but I am going to put some belgium chocolates in it to give as a little present to my brother's girlfriend as it is her birthday on Sunday.

Polkadoodle Challenge 5

Here is a card that I made last night for my Mum's birthday at the beginning of July. I had gone round there to say goodbye to her as she was going off for a fortnight on a cruise around Norway with her sister-in-law while my Dad stays at home. It was only then that I realised that she would be away for her birthday and I hadn't made her card yet. So after rushing home and getting dinner I proceeded to make this card for her.

It was also then that I thought I hadn't yet done my card for the Polkadoodle challenge and thought this would be perfect with having flowers on it (she does like her flowers), so here it is

All the papers are Daisy Bucket (Whimsical Ladies) with a cute magnolia image. I cut the ovals on my cricut by stretching the circle on Mini Monograms and I finally got a chance to use my lovely new Martha Stewart punch. The greetings are computer generated.

Hope you enjoyed looking.

My Black-Eyed Boy

Just thought I would share with you a couple of pictures of Benn with his shiner. I had a phone call on Friday from the school nurse to say that Benn and a friend of his has colided and Benn had got a lovely bump on his eye. She said that she thought they have all been playing this "Bring Down Bulldog" which had in fact been banned due to too many pupils getting hurt - funny that!!!

After questioning him it turns out that they were in fact playing this and couldn't see why it had been banned, "don't worry mum this is what teenage boys always do" is the answer I received.

The first one was taken just after getting home on Friday and the second was yesterday at his football tournament.

Do you sometimes think you are banging your head against a brick wall!!! I think actually he is quite proud of his shiner.