Who's the fourth??? ... and something new.

Oh Corrie!!! Help me out!!

Wasn't it good this week with the 50th anniversary of Corrie? Wow.. can't believe it's been going that long.. I can remember sitting watching Fred Gee, Betty and Bet ending up in the lake, and good old Ena Sharples and Elsie Tanner. They definatley don't make them like that anymore do they?

But then on friday, I was sat wondering from then until now, who was the fourth?? Four Funerals and a Wedding.. there was the wedding, and there was Molly, Ashley and Charlotte who departed .. but who was the fourth?

And that lovely U2 piece of music at the end.. what a great piece - which is where my 'Something New' comes in.

I often visit other's blogs, people I have known in Blogland for quite a while, and when I saw Marcea's this weekend, I just had to join in and nominate my U2 song for Song of the Week.

So, without further ado... here it is, I'll share it with you today before I go. I'm going to put up some more cards from tomorrow, so check back soon.

Until then... enjoy!

A couple of cards...

How're you doing?

Things this week are slowly getting back to normal after the snowfall last week or so. Post is gradually coming through - and you never know, we may even get a rubbish collection.. whoo hoo.. hold me back with excitement!!

I've made a few more cards this week as I've got a couple of orders, so I thought I'd show you what I've done.

This is an image from LOTV, and is just soooo cute isn't it. The punched flowers are slightly the wrong colour, so I may need to change them before I give them out but all in all, I'm loving the colours.

I cut the shape of the card with a die, and created an easel card. Papers are MME and they're glittered.. rather splendid eh??

Now, this card below is completely Stampin' Up and is one that was created at one of our Craft Workshops.

The style of card was very popular last christmas, so I thought I'd adapt one that I'd done and use the Lovely as a Tree stamp set to create the wreath.

Obviously I had to choose Chocolate Chip and Old Olive cardstock to layer up. I finished it off with the ink spritzer and a chocolate chip stampin' write marker to create the little splatters. Chocolate Chip taffeta ribbon and red gems just add that bit of bling.

Very vintage. What do you think?

Snow time like Christmas....

Brrr... it's not showing any signs of getting any warmer sometime soon.. I'm f-r-e-e-z-i-n-g!!!

As promised yesterday, here is another little Snowman to show you.. or should I say Snowlady??

This one I decided to colour in purple tones (won't my friend Nikki just love this?!)

l decided to use Aqua Promarkers to colour this one so I could get the washed out type of look and I think it's worked quite well.

The background was an embossing folder and brushed over with Almost Amethyst from Stampin' Up to pick out some of the embossing. I used the wonderful taffeta ribbon to tie my bow - luscious or what?!! Have you tried it? It's lurrrrvely!!

In fact, all of Stampin' Up's ribbon is fantastic.. and I do have quite a collection of it too as the price is not to be beaten.

Anyway, onto my sneak peek for my card tomorrow.. and here it is..

Yes. I just had to do it. A cute doggy card. See it in full tomorrow.
Hope to see you then!

Blue Christmas

As promised.. here is a Mr Snowman to go with my Mrs Snow from yesterday.

l layered the topper up in a slightly different way this time. The papers are from last year's demo's, and I had some left over.. I thought the colours were perfect to go with the colouring.

Here's another close up -

The ribbon is from Stampin' Up and is perfect for fraying. Just cut into the ends of the ribbon and fray it a little bit to give it a more distressed look.

I'll be back tomorrow with another snowman - this set is so cute I just had to use them all.. haha.

Pink Christmas

As I said yesterday, I was busy making cards this weekend for Christmas. Because I have a few to make, I thought I would keep them quite simple and given the weather of this last week, opted for a snowman or two from a set of stamps I have never used.

Mrs Snowman was the first one I did.

The papers are a new pack I've just got - all contemporary colours, lime greens, turquoise blue and baby pinks.. lovely.The fantastic satin ribbon is from Stampin' Up and so are the Rhinestones. Honestly, you've never seen anything with such sparkle as these rhinestones. They are just wonderful.

Here's a close up of the stamped image.

l coloured with copics and then added highlights to the cheeks with white gel pen. The glitter (although you can't see it too well) is Dazzling Diamonds from Stampin' Up.

The topper was cut out and layered, three layers in total, to give it a little dimension.

Do you want a blue version?

l will show you this one tomorrow!

Until then.. stay warm.. and happy crafting.

Dingle... dangle... bobbly bits..

Icicles...

Don't you just love them?

Well, I do when they're not hanging from my guttering! Next door had some amazing ones, absolutely loads, hanging down around 12 inches in length.. but this small one was hanging from my Studio roof.

And as for the Bobbly bits? Guess who they belong to?

Yes... you guessed. The Furballs. Here are a few quick shots of the wooflets playing in the snow. (Alas, none of Truly as she loves the snow so much she won't sit to have her piccie taken.. daft dog!)

Oh bless. The top pic is Scooby being a typical cheeky boy.. and the bottom is Holly - look at those lickle bobbles.. Looking more like a Poodle every minute! So cute.

Mummy, I'm camera shy.. tell me when you've finished and I'll pull my head out of the snow... !

Scooby has bobbly bits too - and such affectionate eyes, don't ya think? Beautiful.

And my favouritest photo of the day? This one -

Perfect for a Christmas card (watch this space!) Beautiful, Handsome Mr Scoobs..

Hope you like them. Promise a card or three is next on the agenda.

It's up!

Are you all thawed out?

We've had a grand total of around 16 inches of snow here I'm sure (although I didn't measure it.. it was too damn cold!) and I feel like I've shovelled even more of it - although I didn't even try to dig my car out.. lol.

Over this weekend, we have started to thaw a little, and hopefully by this weekend it will be mostly gone and snow-free. It's freezing cold today though, very frosty and icy, and I think we still have around 6 inches of snow (mm... more ice!) around in places.

So on Friday, mainly because it was snowing and I was feeling all christmassy, I decided to pull the tree from the loft, dust it off and put it up. Martina was blessed (!) with a few days off school as the village basically came to a stand still, so she helped to put the baubles on the tree and I must say, it looks rather nice!!

I was supposed to have been doing a Christmas Fayre on Friday too, but it was cancelled due to the weather, so it gave me a nice relaxing Friday evening.

I did take a couple of photos of the tree, in a whirlygiggy, fuzzy sorta style.. I hope you like 'em.. Christmas is just the perfect time to play with the camera.

See the Star?? That was my first star given to me by my SU mummy, Monica. Lovely, Sparkly and very Gold.

Swirls....

... and random patterns.

I have also spent the last few days making Christmas cards, so will be back to share those over the next few days.

Have fun.. stay warm... and keep safe.

A couple more teddies..

I must admit... I'm not too sure if I am liking these bears or not really. I do have quite a collection of them in my stamp stash, but I do tend to find them a little bit big for my general size cards.

I like to make 4"x4" ones, or sometimes larger square.. but most definately not an A5 card - it's very rarely that I make them that large!!! It's just not me.

So, without further ado, here's the rest of the cards from Stamp Class in Sheffield. Unfortunately, they don't do Stampin' Up lol, and it is quite hard sometimes to revert back to non SU cards at times. But with the collection of lovely stamps I have, it seems a shame not to get stuck in to using them sometimes.

And here's a close up -

The technique I used on these cards is called Spotlighting. Quite a nice technique to do sometimes me thinks... keeps things simple but nice! (and I've just noticed that the images aren't lined up totally straight.. the silicone must have slipped.. sorry!)

And lastly, here are a couple of gift tags that I made that went in a decorative box. They're just sooooo cute!!

and of course, the close up -

So. There you have it. Finally the end of these cute teddies..

Well, that's it for now.. hope you can join me again soon.

What a suprise!

Hello again.. how are we all?

Don't you sometimes put things somewhere, only to unearth them a few years later thinking you'd lost it forever?

That's the thing with my Magic Wand.. Yes, I have a wand. It's one that I used a long, long time ago to put gems onto my youngest daughters Ballroom dress that I made. I had totally forgot that I had it until someone mentioned one last month. I thought to myself 'I've got one of those', so went into my studio to hunt it out.

And I found it!

And it still had some gems left in the box!

So, here's what I did with it. The red gems are placed with the wand, and as they were preglued and set with heat, it is dead easy to do.

The teddy was another one from the Sheffield shop which we did on our stamping class.The ribbon is the new organza in the Stampin' Up catalogue.. rather luscious it is too.

Here's a close up -

So Christmassy.... and until next time, that's it for now... See you soon!

Still snowy...

It's still white over here. What's it like near you? My classes that I do over in Sheffield have been cancelled this week - actually, I'm quite pleased as I don't like driving in bad weather.

Anyway, here is a card that I did in class the other week. I hope you like it.

I used the cute teddy stamps that they had in the store, and decided to keep it quite simple as the focus of the class was just stamping and colouring.

Here's a close up - as you can see, I layered up the ribbon to add a little more dimension.

See you again tomorrow for another card or two. Until then, keep warm and cosy.