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Monday 25 November 2013

FOSTV100 - Anything Goes

This week at Friends of Speedy TV we are allowing the creative juices to flow as the challenge (Challenge 100) is anything goes.  I decided to use the opportunity to make an old folder look better.  It now co-ordinates with a notebook I did some time back - check this post to see the notebook.  On this folder I stamped all manner of encouraging sentiments and images from various MFP sets onto the punched flowers.






The prize set for one lucky participant this week is great for Birthdays.  It is called Celebrate Mini
I hope you join in the challenge and have a great week.

Sunday 24 November 2013

We meet Oscar

At the end of 2011 Mum had surgery and we looked after her dog Tess for many months, rather than the 6 weeks originally planned.  As we had a holiday booked Russ and Sue came to our aid and took Tess into their Brighton home.  Tess loved her holiday and the family liked having a dog in the house so this summer Oscar arrived.


Last Saturday we took Tess and went to meet Oscar.  We had a lovely drive, delicious lunch and a great walk with the dogs in the autumn countryside.  Tess and Oscar got on well and Tess slept like a baby when we got her back to Mum's.


I sent a card this week and used the VLVNov Week2 sketch.  The puppy image is Inkadinkado and the words are from PaperArtsy and Elzybells.



Thanks for looking and enjoy your Sunday.

Wednesday 20 November 2013

Mark’s Finest Papers Christmas Blog Hop - Ornament Ball



Welcome to the Mark’s Finest Papers a Heinrich Co. Christmas/Holiday Blog Hop. We have some great tutorials for you to make some fun and easy projects for this Holiday Season. We will be giving away two stamps sets during this hop, so two lucky people will go home with both of these fabulous stamp sets. Be sure to comment on all the designers’ blogs. Our hop will run from November 19-22 . Our two winners will be announced on November 23, 2013. 


November 19th - Christmas Crackers

November 20th - Paper Ball Ornaments

November 21st - Countdown Calendar

November 22nd - Pine Cone Frames




I was really worried about getting this ball right but I am pleased with the outcome and just need to find somewhere appropriate to hang it for Christmas.  Adding the sparkly nailvarnish was a great idea but I learned quite quickly to apply it carefully over my images to stop them smudging.




Be sure to check out all of our designers who participated in our hop. The more you comment the more chances you have to win one of these great stamp set give aways! 



Tuesday 19 November 2013

Mark’s Finest Papers Christmas Blog Hop - Christmas Crackers



Welcome to the Mark’s Finest Papers a Heinrich Co. Christmas/Holiday Blog Hop. We have some great tutorials for you to make some fun and easy projects for this Holiday Season. We will be giving away two stamps sets during this hop, so two lucky people will go home with both of these fabulous stamp sets. Be sure to comment on all the designers’ blogs. Our hop will run from November 19-22 . Our two winners will be announced on November 23, 2013. 


November 19th - Christmas Crackers

November 20th - Paper Ball Ornaments

November 21st - Countdown Calendar

November 22nd - Pine Cone Frames



Here is a direct link to today's tutorial, Christmas Crackers.

I have toilet paper tubes in a carrier bag waiting to be turned into more crackers but I have 4 to share with you today.  Each of these have a little chocolate bar inside but I need more bars to make the rest - I gave the other chocs to the witches and ghosts at the door a few weeks back!






Be sure to check out all of our designers who participated in our hop. The more you comment the more chances you have to win one of these great stamp set give aways! 



Monday 18 November 2013

FOSTV99 - Thanksgiving

As I said on Friends Of Speedy TV I am a bystander for this USA holiday but this card will be going to a good home.  We have sampled Thanksgiving Celebrations though and have also been to Plimoth Plantation to find out about the early settlers. 

I hope all those in the USA have a great day celebrating on November 28th with family and friends.  In the meantime the challenge is to make a card or other project for Thanksgiving and enter it in our challenge 99 at Friends of Speedy TV.

Nov 28th is Mum's Birthday and hopefully you saw my screen card I made for her which I posted during the blog hop last week.

Here now is my Thanksgiving Card.  I used MFP set called I am Thankful, Spellbinders dies and my Cricut as well as coloured pencils and Memento ink.



Thank you for looking - have a good week.

Sunday 17 November 2013

Blog Candy - alternative route

Sorry but I have never got round to giving out Blog Candy and now some things saved up for future blog candy have been distributed elsewhere.

Like many people at this time of year I am doing a little stint with Operation Christmas Child - you know the shoe-boxes with goodies that get sent to children who have next to nothing to let them know someone cares about them.

Well that is where my potential blog candy has gone.  I managed to collect together stamp sets and ink pads and now I have packed these with stickers donated by a friend, glue sticks, pencils, white card blanks and coloured card pieces into 10 little bags. 

We are checking boxes for Azerbaijan so I intend to add these to the pile of fillers so some 10 to 14 year old girls will get a nice craft pack to go with their soap, toothbrush etc. etc.  I hope those of you who follow my blog will be happy with this decision.

 Thanks for looking and have a great week.

Friday 15 November 2013

Nov 15th - Chill in the Air



Nov. Blog Hop! 

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

 Featured Nov. 12 - Tigers

Featured Nov. 13 - Duck Hunting

Featured Nov. 14 - Out on the Town

Featured Nov. 15 - Chill in the Air

Please hop along with us! You have a chance to win one of the above stamp sets! Just comment on the following blogs (don't forget this one), each day for more chances to win! (You do NOT have to comment on all the blogs each day! The names are drawn randomly!) All four winners will be announced on Nov. 16, 2013 on the Mark's Finest Papers blog. You can go back and comment if you missed a day. (HINT: The more you comment, the more chances you have to win and comments on the MFP blog count twice!) The deadline for commenting is 10 PM EST on Friday Nov. 15, 2013.





 The special stamp set we have for you this month is:

Calendar






 The mini stamp set we have for you this month is:

Mini New Year
                                                 

My cards today are nothing fancy but this is pretty wintry set.  I have a card on the MFP blog as well as two here so please check that out - it is a really sparkly card.


This one uses the snowflake from the Calendar set



This one uses Spellbinders dies with Christmas Selections


Thanks for joining us on our November Hop.  Please check out the challenges happening most days, our Special Hops and don't forget to come back in December.  See you soon.


Here's the Design Team:

Thursday 14 November 2013

Nov 14th Out on the Town



Nov. Blog Hop! 

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

 Featured Nov. 12 - Tigers

Featured Nov. 13 - Duck Hunting

Featured Nov. 14 - Out on the Town

Featured Nov. 15 - Chill in the Air

Please hop along with us! You have a chance to win one of the above stamp sets! Just comment on the following blogs (don't forget this one), each day for more chances to win! (You do NOT have to comment on all the blogs each day! The names are drawn randomly!) All four winners will be announced on Nov. 16, 2013 on the Mark's Finest Papers blog. You can go back and comment if you missed a day. (HINT: The more you comment, the more chances you have to win and comments on the MFP blog count twice!) The deadline for commenting is 10 PM EST on Friday Nov. 15, 2013.





 The special stamp set we have for you this month is:

Calendar






 The mini stamp set we have for you this month is:

Mini New Year
                                                 


I have just one card to show you but it is for a very special person who has a special Birthday later this month - My Mum.   I tried to make something different for her and I hope she likes it.  The card uses each of the ladies from the "Out on the Town" set plus the flowers from "Works of Art" and several Spellbinders dies.  I have lots of photos of it so I hope you won't be bored.







The reverse

Thanks for looking - please come back for our final day tomorrow.
  
Here's the Design Team: