Blatent Plug... New CD out

and on my site..... The Ugly Bugly Bunch.   Have taken a bit of a gamble with this one as it is totally different.... 12 folders of fairies and fairy friends, but they are not cutsie cute at all... they are... well  Ugly! (but quite adorable too) LOL  They have wrinkles, droopy bits, pot bellies... most human flaws to be exact...  think you will either love it or hate it.. I love it! xxx

You can buy it here! xxxx

Well, that was a stroke of luck!!

Last Sunday, I was all prepared to enter the CD Sunday colour challenge.. blue, yellow and brown.. printed my papers.. and then as it always seems to.. other "stuff" took over.. so here we are a full week later, and the sheets were still sitting in my printer tray! LOL
Anyway... never mind.. I think, and go off to check this weeks challenge.. and Oh Wow...  It is entitled Wild Thing....  Couldn't have been more perfect!  So I grabbed my papers from last week... cleared the decks and sat and made a card!!!  Yayyyy Me... first card for ages...

I am sure it fits the Wild part of the challenge, I haven't seen many tame ones! LOL  And it fits the CD part as I used Birds, Bees, Bugs and Me  to make it.. lets see if I can make one next week and make it two in a row!  :-)
xxxx

Very Important.....

especially if you are a Parchment Fanatic like me! LOL

Going to be Absolutely Amazing!  Last years was brilliant.. had sooo much fun (and spent sooo much money! LOL)  If you have a chance of making it.. be there!

All the top names will be there, the talented, beautiful and Oh So Luvverly Tina Cox.... (I hope she reads this! LOL)  the very very talented (and patient with newbies) Dorothy Holness...  the wonderful and funny Judith Maslen (and I am gutted I am missing her workshop this month!)  the very lovely Linda Williams... and the extremely talented Kanny.. who I have not had the pleasure of meeting, but I am half way through the second of her Kimonos....  and I want to meet her to tell her how clever she is.. they are beating me! LOL

Also hoping to catch up with Alison Yeates and Pauline Loweth... and very probably give them both lots of money throughout the day

I will have my own stall there with my CDs.. and I will be demonstrating how easy it is to cross between CD crafting and parchment..... using the images from my CDs and (probably Pauline's Gridwork book) grid patterns, I am hoping to make something to tempt the customers! LOL

Oh.. and the wonderful Marilyn who is organising it all... says I can dress as a Bee! ROFL


Hopefully see you there!!! xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Yes.. Managed it!

LOL

Decided I wanted to enter cd sunday swirls and pearls So made a card.. followed the rules.. took a picture.. Broke my camera!  ROFL  Ho Hum!
Anyway.. Camera fixed (I hope) and here is the card!  Phew!

To keep within the rules for CD Sunday.. the main rule being in the title of the blog (ROFL), I used backing papers and toppers from one of my CD.. Autumn Butterflies and lace...  the big swirls were using a much loved Mariannes cutting die.
x

CD Sunday

Really pleased to be typing this!!  I am very proud to have been asked to be the February sponsor for CD Sunday this month, and the blog challenge started today!  The theme is Friendship, and I just love the cards the design team have made using my CDs... check it out.. there is a great prize.. even if I do say so myself!!! :-)
xxxx

Been playing around with my new stamps that turned up yesterday, and having a try at the beautiful new cards that are popping up everywhere.. saw so many of them at Sandown.. they were stunning!  A bit of a culture shock for me though, as I tend to be quite neat and symmetrical with cards, so this style was a step out of my comfort zone, but I really enjoyed it... Have to go shopping, but will be making more when I get back!

Anyway.. I was so pleased with it.. I have decided to enter it into the CD Sunday Blog Challenge... this weeks theme is Love is in the air.....  thought this image fitted the title....

The stamp used is from Lily of the Valley, and for the CD element I have taken the backing paper from one of my CD's, Simply Strolling...  Hope you like it! xxx

Parchment Day

Had a wonderful day yesterday at The Sandown Show.  I was helping on the Parchment stand and chatted to sooo many wonderful people.. some were Parchers, some have tried in the past (and will hopefully try again) some were just starting...   had a wonderful time chatting and chatting and chatting...
Managed to get some Parchment done, but not very much, too busy to concentrate for long, so left the complicated grid work alone, and played with rubber stamps and pencils instead!

Did a bit of shopping too (he he he)  so off to play with my new stamps and pencils and see what else I can come up with!
xxx

update... one of my new stamps... a Belles n Whistles from J and C Crafts and a Pergamano circle pattern grid... and my scrummy collection of pencils!  :-)