Lilac & lace and a girl named Tilda!

Morning bloggers, happy Thursday!

Well  I'm ashamed to say the lure of the craft room

was too strong so I didn't get the ironing finished yesterday,

I finished this card instead he he!

The images have been cut out & coloured for far too long

and really needed to be made into something.....how

could I resist? All made (apart from the gems) using bits from 

my bit box as well! So now I really need to go finish

the ironing......hope you all have a lovely day, I'll maybe

see you tomorrow!

Hugs Jo x

challenges i'd like to enter

starting Christmas early at Stampin' for the weekend

lilac & lace at Winter Wonderland

gifts of the season at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown

purple passion at Allsorts

anything goes at lovely hanglar & sweet Magnolia

Christmas presents at Christmas cards all year round

One for the boys!

Morning friends, if all goes to plan it should be Wednesday

morning when you're reading this! Thought I'd schedule

this post so's I can get straight on with the ironing.......eeeek!

Feel free to come help......I'll put the coffee on!

A card for a male today using a fab digi from Kenny K,

 I coloured this ages ago using promarkers

then left it sat in a drawer for far too long! Papers are from

My Memories, scallop circle is cut using a Sizzix die and

the buttons are from my stash! No sentiment yet as I'm not

 sure when & who this card is going to! 

Rightio, that's me done for today, maybe see you

tomorrow........once the ironing's done I'm gonna go play!

 big hugs Jo x

challenges

recipe at Here come the Boys

Autumn colours at The Crafty Pad

cards for men at Hooked on Crafts

spots/stripes at The Crazy Challenge

anything goes at Creative Craft Challenges

boys/men at By the cute & girly

anything goes at Ladybug Crafts

Lexi's Creations - make a gift/ anything but a card!

Morning bloggers, happy Monday! 

Hope you're all well and ready for the new week!

We have a new challenge starting today over at Lexi's Creations

where the theme is "Make a gift/anything but a card".

We're sponsored by the fabulous Fairy Dust Crafts with a prize

 of 5 digis for the lucky winner! You have until 

September 29th to play and as usual you can see some 

fantastic creative makes from the rest of the DT led by our

 lovely Susan over on the main challenge blog!

For my DT project I decided to decorate this giant peg!
I won it in a lovely candy from Debbie (thank you!) about
a year ago and now it's hanging from a shelf in my
lovely new craft room!
So that's it for today, thanks for calling!
Hope to see you at Lexi's!
Jo x

challenges
pink & brown at Penny's Paper Crafty
no stamps allowed at Sisterhood of Crafters
anything but a card at Delightful Challenges
anything goes at Tammy's Scrapin' Corner

Sparkles Challenges.....Away with the fairies!

Morning friends! 

Here I am today with my DT make for the new challenge over
at Sparkles Challenges where the theme is
"Away with the fairies" I'm a day late due to problems
with my camera's memory card but better late
 than never! We're sponsored this time by the fabulous
 Di's digis with a $10 prize!

Don't forget we are a multi crafts blog so we'd love to see all
 kinds of crafty makes just so long as they follow the theme!
And if you're in need of inspiration then look no further than our
 main challenge blog. I'd originally made a card for the challenge
 but due to problems with the cameras memory card I couldn't
get the photo and couldn't re-take it cos I'd already posted
the card! So I made an ATC to go with the
 one Miss Rebecca made.....she wants to make a set
of ATC's using all the LOTV die cut fairies! I used some
dark green card, a fairy named Moss, some ribbon, pearls, a
 flower and lots of glitter!
So that's it for me today....off to watch my boy play rugby!
Thanks for looking........see you at Sparkles!
Jo x

Anya shopping

Morning everyone, hope you're all well & rested after the 

weekend! Haven't managed to get much done in the craft room

 recently but I do have a birthday card to share. I used one of 

my fav Anya stamps coloured with promarkers, a Marianne die, 

some blue card, gems, punched flowers, chipboard letters and

 paper from the new Nitwits/LOTV paper pads!

So that's it for today, got lots to do - washing, ironing, food

shopping.....oh, happy days! 

Thanks for calling......see you soon!

Jo x

challenges

anything goes at Papertake Weekly

anything goes at My Mums Craft Shop

anything goes at Paper Crafting Journey

here come the girls at The Poodles Parlour

anything goes at The Squirrel & the Fox

At last.........

Well, they've gone.....all dressed up and more excited than me lol!

 And don't they scrub up well?

Somehow I don't think they'll come home looking this tidy, do you?

First out the door at 8am sharp..........

my handsome sons, Chris (15) & Nic (13) aka Bert & Ernie, Herb & Sherb

or any other  names that come in two's! They share a room, are always together and are as daft as brushes, the pair of 'em!

followed by Miss Rebecca at 8.35am prompt!

She even managed to talk her Brother, James into buying her

a new school bag........she didn't tell him she'd already got 3!!!!!

So that's my proud Mama Jo moment for today!

Didn't know what to do with myself this morning......craft or iron.........iron

or craft? So I did nowt, had a cup of tea & a biscuit (or two) and decided to blog hop!

Oooo, that's the life!

Hope your days' a good one!

Hugs Jo x

Autumn colours at Lexi's Creations

Morning friends, happy September!!!!

It's coming up to my favourite months of the year.....I love Autumn & Winter......the dark nights, the dark mornings, wearing boots, scarves & huge woolly jumpers. Filling the slow cooker with stew, Halloween, the smell of Bonfire night, crunchy golden leaves! Watching my Nic play rugby on cold frosty mornings.....ooo, I could go on & on & on...........!!

 So bearing that in mind the new challenge over at Lexi's Creations where the theme is

"Autumn Colours" is right up my street!

We have the fabulous My Heart Pieces sponsoring us this time with a prize of  3 digis, you have until

September 15th to play and you can make any craft item you like just so long as it 

fits the theme!

                                                               

As usual, you can see some fantastic inspiration from my lovely teamies over on the main

challenge blog.........do pop over, you won't be disappointed!

I used the sugar & spice paper & chipboard flowers from Dovecraft for my card, some chocolate

 brown card, a cream doily edged with walnut ink, some gingham ribbon,  & that's it!

That's it from me for today......going to get the school uniforms ironed......don't know who's more

excited - me or the kids!

Hope to see you at Lexi's!

Jo x

Buttons & Bows with The Happy Scrappers!

Hi guys, hope you're all well!

We have a new challenge starting over at The Happy Scrappers today and the 

theme is "Buttons & Bows"! We'd love for you to join us, we saw a drop in numbers this

last challenge so hopefully now all the kids are back at school we might have more 

of you joining in.......we'd love to see you! Please feel free to take our badge and help spread the word!

We'd love as many entries as possible this time!

 Now as you know, we're a just for fun challenge

with some fab inspiration on show over on the main blog. You can enter any size layout, digital or

otherwise just as long as it fits the theme!

I was a bit stuck with this one and when I mentioned it to Miss Rebecca inspiration struck

and so we had an impromptu photoshoot featuring hairbands with bows on and oh, did we laugh! 

I didn't realise she had so many.......we could have taken another half a dozen pics all with different 

bows, she's such a poser!!

I created an 8 x 8 digital layout using Serif and a combination of elements from different kits.

If you're unsure about digital scrapbooking it's worth giving it a try. For me, I still prefer real paper, photos & embellies but there's definitely a place for digital in my craftroom and one of these

days I might even have a go at mixing the two!

Rightio, that's me for today. Miss Rebecca and me are gonna go watch a Christmas film

and eat chocolate!!!!

Hugs Jo x

Sparkles Christmas challenges

Morning everyone, hope your'e all well and your weekend's got off to a fantastic start!

Can you believe it's 1st September already - and in our house the countdown to Christmas has begun!!!!! 

So why don't you come join us at Sparkles Christmas challenges where it's Christmas all year long and get yourselves a head start on all those Christmas projects!

 Our theme for this month's challenge is sparkle & bling! We have 2 fantastic sponsors this time................

$10 to spend instore

£10 to spend instore!

 As usual, we welcome any craft project as long as it fits the sparkle & bling theme so come on, we'd love you to join us......we even give you all month to play!

Don't forget, there's some fab inspiration on show over on the main blog!

I used a gorgeous LOTV stamp for my card, coloured with promarkers, paper from Dovecraft, burgundy card & ribbon, some paper flowers, snowflake die cut circle, some red gems and 

lashings of stickles!

Thanks for calling today....see you at Sparkles!

Jo x

challenges

roses & ribbons at Stamptacular Sunday

lots of layers at Tammy's Scrapin' Corner

anything goes at The Crazy Challenge

anything goes at Totally Stampalicious

2 patterned papers at Whoopsi Daisy

Christmas at Creative Card Crew

anything goes at I love promarkers

anything goes at Simon Says Stamp

walking in a winter wonderland at Winter Wonderland