Another friend card & a silly story!!!!

Evening all,

Hope you all have had a lovely day so far, 

We've been shopping for school stuff today. 

We got a £5 voucher for spending over £25 on school clothes,

 so I decided to nip back in and get Mac some new undies. 

I could only use this voucher on Kid's clothes if I spent another £25 excluding school wear, 

well as it came to £28 for I handed the voucher over and she kindly told me sorry, I couldn't use it on school wear, I told her it wasn't schoolwear, it was underwear and she said yes but she'd wear it for school!!!

I couldn't believe it, I thought she was joking, anyway after a bit of a discussion, she called for someone higher up, and thankfully she saw sense and let me use it. I mean how petty, 

I know it was only a fiver, But it's the principal of the matter!!!!

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Anyway onto my 2nd creation of the day.

I had another order for a friend card, so here it is!

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I have used:

Magnolia ~ Shopping Tilda (as requested)

Basic Grey ~ Kraft and Out of Print

Nellie ~ Doily Die

Doohickey  ~Antique Lace Border and Leaves

Marianne D ~ English Rose

DieNamics ~ Daisy Die

Whimsy Stamps ~ Sm Postage Stamps and Die

Scrim ~ From Homebase

Tim Holtz ~ DIs and Cardstock

and

My NEW photo corner punch ~ have been after this for ages, it was available as a die but had become discontinued, but thankfully has been made available as a die here

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Thank you so much for looking,

Enjoy the rest of the weekend

Big HUGZ

 

ALLSORTS - Anything but a card.

Hello everyone.

It's time for another fab challenge over at ALLSORTS

This week it's Deb's turn to pick a theme and she wants to see

ANYTHING BUT A CARD

I have been asked to make a surprise mini album

for a couple who have just celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.

I have kept it quite simple, not too many embelishments!

The photos are mainly family & friends who shared their celebrations.

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Just a few pages to share.

I have used Magnolia mini papers in gold & cream ~ Perfect for the album !

Truly Scrumptious - Lace it up

Hello, I can't believe we are already halfway through the summer holidays,

It'll be Christmas soon, and I haven't done 1 card yet!!!

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Moving on ..............

It's challenge time again at Truly Scrumptious, 

and this fornight we want you to 

LACE IT UP

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I have used:

LOTV ~ Wedding couple (yes AGAIN!!!) I love it , and Sentiment

Bo Bunny ~ Gabrielle

Nestabilities ~ Mega Label 4

Doohickey ~ Swirl, Sm Dragonfly

Marianne D ~ English Roses

SU ~ Oval Punch, Jewellery Tag, Sentiment & Button

Tim Holtz ~ DIs & Stickles

Lace & Pearls from stash.

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Our Sponsor this fortnight is

Pop over to the main blog to find out more!

Thank you for looking

I'd like to enter the following :
Papertake Weekly Challenge ~ Grow your own

BIG HUGZ

Finally a winner of my blog candy

Good morning & a happy Monday to you all,

Mackenzie finally got round to picking a winner using random org.

 

True Random Number Generator

  Min: 1

Max: 118

Result: 9  

 

and that means the winner is ..................................

Debbie from Fairy Bluebell's craft adventure

 

CONGRATULATIONS 

Debbie, please contact me at darrenandfleur@aol.com

by Monday 15th august or I will redraw.

Sorry to everyone else!

BIG HUGZ 

 

ALLSORTS ~ Seeing red.

Happy Saturday,

Hope everyone is having fun,

Can I just say a massive THANK YOU to all who entered my candy &

HELLO! to my new followers, I hope you stay around. I will try and get to visit you at some point.

I'll draw the winner later as I promised Mac she could do the random thingy!

Just seem to have been so busy. Hardly done any crafting since Mac's been off school, And  it was lovely to see so many fab entries in our ALLSORTS free & easy month, 

but crikey it did take some time commenting LOL!

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I haven't had time to do my Basic Grey card either & I hate letting the team down, so I'm sorry about that!

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Anyway we're back to normal at ALLSORTS & Helene has set us a theme of 

RED

Now, at first I automatically thought Christmas, 

but then someone wanted a card for their Mum 

& where I can, I try to fit a card with a theme, so I decided to use Red for this.

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I have used:

LOTV ~ Mix it and Make it (I love this sweet image)

Doohickey ~ Swirl and Sm dragonfly

Marianne D ~ English rose and Open leaves

SU ~  Button, Corner & Jewellery punches

Sizzix ~ Number die (Very useful item recently)

Tim Holtz ~ DIs and Stickles.

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I'd like to enter the following:
Cupcake ~ How old?
Papertake Weekly ~ Anything goes
LOTV ~ Roses

Thanks for looking

BIG HUGZ 

2nd Blogoversary Candy

This is a sticky post, 
please scroll down for recent posts.

I'm back, as promised!
I can't believe I have been blogging for 2 years,
I have made some lovely friends and have been lucky
enough to get on some great challenge blogs!
As a thank you I am have a little bit of blog candy

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My candy includes:

• Clear stamp set ~ Flower girls
• 1 pack of felt white ribbon
• 8  lengths of black & white ribbon
• 10 Pearl hat pins
• 6 Diamante hat pins
• Approx 35 silver charms (inc: flowers, pumpkins, hearts & hand made)
• Approx 30 black fabric flowers

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To enter you must:

• Be or become a genuine follower

( I would love my candy to go to someone who loves my blog)

• Put the picture in your sidebar
• Link back to my blog
• Leave your name with Mr Linky

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• Candy is open to bloggers anywhere 
• Will run until 4th of August

I will pick a winner soon after, using random org.

My Craft Stamper card

Hi everyone, hope you are all good, 

I'm really sorry but I can't stand this heat ~ it's sooooo muggy!

Just thought I'd share the card that I made for the Craft Stamper magazine.

I was chuffed to bits to get it published, such an ego booster

& also I came in the top 5 over at TOMIC ~ SO CooooooooL!

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Anyway here's my card

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I have used:

LOTV ~ Mix it and Make it

Basic Grey ~ Kraft basics

MME ~ Hattie

Doohickey ~ Sm dragonfly

Marianne D ~ Leaves

WOC ~ Various roses

SU ~ Kraft seam binding

Flat-backed pearls

Tim Holtz ~ DIs

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Thanks for looking.

BIG HUGZ

ALLSORTS - Free and Easy

Happy weekend everyone.

Over at ALLSORTS it's our last week of 

 

FREE and EASY

Hope you have all enjoyed and will keep taking part.

 

I have done a real quick card this week

I have been asked to make a baby boy card

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I have used 

Sugar Nellie ~ Baby rabbit

Nestabilites ~ Ovals

SU ~ Twine, Tags & Button

Thanks for looking,

sorry for the short post,

Mac's off to a swimming party.

Have a great weekend

HUGZ

Happy Birthday

Good morning, thank you all so much for your kind wishes,

My ECG was still a little high, but my pulse was 70 when done manually. 

Thankfully they have no concerns. but I need to go back again next week to have another ECG and have been told to calm myself down before I go.

How am I supposed to do that if I naturally fear the Dr's!!!

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Anyway I have a card for my next door neighbours little girl,

She's 3, and is having her fairy party later today. 

Mackenzie is really looking forward to it, as because she's a bit older she's in charge of the party games.
Click HERE to see Mac's card

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I have used:

LOTV ~ Rosie with birthday cake (I added 2 more candles)

Nestabilities ~ Labels 18 & butterfly

Sizzix ~ Number die & Hello Kitty daisy

Magnolia ~ Small papers

SU ~ Jewellery tag

Stickles ~Fruit punch

Tim Holtz ~ DIs

Small alphabet stamp

Gems from stash

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Thanks for looking.

I'd like to enter the following:

Cupcake ~ Shabby sparkle

HUGZ

Truly Scrumptious - Buttons & Bows

Good morning to ya,

Hope you are all well, I'm a bit nervous as I've got an ECG this morning.

It all started because my BP was high & they wanted to stop my HRT 

(which I'm still not 100% happy about taking)

when they checked again my BP was perfect, but my pulse was 118, I've had a monitor at home all week & I think it's been fine, so fingers crossed all will be ok.

Anyway it's challenge time at Truly Scrumptious and this week we want to see

BUTTONS and BOWS

Our sponsor this week is

I have used:

Meljen designs ~ Garden bird house, available here

Basic grey ~ Origins

Nellie's ~ Doily die

SU ~ Twine and Buttons

Copics

Thanks for looking and I hope you can join us this fortnight.

BIG HUGZ