House Mouse Anniversary cards

Two wedding anniversaries to send cards for this month and thought these House Mouse images were perfect for such an occasion. I had a non stop morning with various things, taking the garden rubbish to the tip, stopping off at a shop for a couple of things, filling the car with fuel (expensive or what!!), and a visit to the docs to sort out this deaf ear of mine and get prescription from chemist....home to wash feet (what do I hear you say) well I had to head off to the Podiatrist and after all the running around didn't want to go with smelly feet Ha ha ha, so put the dogs in the car, got the feet sorted, walked the dogs, and went to do my duty and vote. Soooo I thought I deserved a bit of play time and made these cards.

I hope you like them.

Easel card

I've made this card for my niece's birthday at the weekend. It's actually an easel card but as I can't photograph it you will just have to imagine it standing up ha ha ha. I've used Distress inks to 'watercolour' the image

I know it's late

Ok, I know Easter has been and gone....I've made this card for my son to give to his eldest daughter (who doesn't live with him...sadly...he will be seeing her next week) Instead of an egg I am sending some money over which at 14 I think she will appreciate more.....I believe she had rather a lot of eggs anyway.

Tilda Challenge

Here is my latest Tilda Challenge, I made another of the treat holders and will pop some money inside for my grand daugher's holday. I enjoyed making these holders, so much so that I made 7 for easter and popped some mini eggs and a chicken inside the bag and gave them to my grand children and other ladies that were together over Easter. I have to say they all loved them, in fact I think the children were happier with them than the actual Easter eggs we gave them.

What a glorious Easter break we had with the lovely weather, certainly makes a change to have a bright and sunny bank holiday.

Treat holder Challenge

This month's challenge is to make a treat holder, and the theme.....can you guess....yes, black and white.

This started off as a plain piece of white card, I stamped it with the Tim Holtz butterfly stamp and floral flourish, as well as a spotty background and a scribbled stamp too...the scribbled stamp has some foil over it but it doesn't show up on the scan. Inside you had to put a bag with some flower 'treats' inside. All I have to do is get to the post office and post it off!!!

Not today though as one of my dogs, Bennie, (the dog made up of all the bits God had left over) is in the vets having his teeth cleaned and a dew claw removed, so I am bit lost today and waiting to hear from the vets as to when I can collect my baby......Monster dog (Chester) is being very quiet, so I guess he is missing his pal too.

Money'gift holder

I made this money/gift holder for a challenge, it had to be pink and grey and have at least three tags inside.

Tilda time again!

Running late again with this challenge, but managed to sit and craft for a while today, mainly because I got up at 2.30 this morning with a headache and neck ache and haven't been to sleep since, so decided it was a good day to take it easy ha ha ha. (good excuse anyway)

Little boy blue

Ok not quite the little boy blue in the nursery rhyme as this one is holding his toy sailing boat!!!!!

Not had much time to craft for what seems an age as we were away for a long weekend, and didn't we pick a fabulous time to go with all the gorgeous sunshine.

Still it's back to 'normal' again for the time being.

Seem to have had a busy day today and have done nothing I planned to, but I really had to get at least one card made to get in the post tomorrow, and I think it will arrive too late for the birthday boy (well man actually)I used my promarkers to colour the image and the sea and sky, not too sure about the sea and sky, but the best I could do!

Not much time to craft!

I don't seem to have had very much time to craft recently. Saturday was busy with some housework and helping Neil paint the bathroom walls, and Sunday we were out at Bournemouth for a Music by the Sea lunch, and very nice it was too. We met up with our group of friends there so was great to have lots of company. Monday Neil was home, so another coat of paint on the bathroom and generally doing things non-crafty, just not good enough in my book, ha ha ha.

Yesterday was doctors appointment, today shopping and the vet's with one of the dogs, and tomorrow the rear brakes on the car are to be replaced (poor chap always seems to work on our car in the rain, his fault this time as I told him the choose the day he wanted to come and the forecast doesn't look good) and the piano is being tuned too. Phew worn out just thinking about it all.

Anyway, enough waffle. I seem to swing between grunge and cute at the moment, and it's that time for another Tilda Challenge this time using Tilda and a gift, and generally was meant to be a Christmas Theme, Yikes, Christmas thoughts already....not me, so have gone sort of dark pinks so I could use it for a birthday. I made the flowers out of copier paper and added some pink foil to liven them up a bit, as well as on the circle behind Tilda. Quite liking this foil thing at the moment, I expect the novelty will wear off soon, but for now it seems to get onto nearly everything ha ha ha.

Diary cover

I bought one of those really cheap diaries (even cheaper as it was in a sale!!!) with a nasty plastic cover and a removable inner section, so decided I could make it look a bit nicer to have in my handbag. I used some grungepaper, and inked it with Tim's distress inks, then stamped all over it with various different stamps, two swirls and dots, added some gilding flakes and made a flower from grungepaper too.

Now when I have a 'date to write in it' I don't feel embarrassed at bringing it out to use.

I stuck the new cover onto the nasty plastic one, so I should be able to take the plain inner diary section out and slip a new one in next year. Hopefully I should get lots of use out of it, and might even consider making a few as Christmas gifts next Christmas....If I remember to do them.