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Friday, September 30, 2011

More cutness ...

Hello Everyone,

Well it is now officially the weekend for me...whoo hoo.....Friday 2pm...and I'm home. at my place, for now...both dogs at my feet, too knackered to walk them, so took them for a drive...lol..they think as long as they are not left at home alone, a ride is as good as anything.
We went along the parade today, which is the beach front road...to the ice cream shop, and I bought them a baby cone each. Harry licks his gently[the bigger of the two] Murphy[my daughters] chomped his cone and half my hand in 2 seconds.
Now they are curled up by the computer, waiting while I post this...such good boys.

Well... more cuteness from Stampfairy  and we have.......................................................




Very sweet little Christmas Kids    as usual you get the freebie and this time it is the HO HO HO...



Harry was playing with an old rugby ball and managed to rip the stuffing out of it...as I was heading in that direction to growl, I saw the stuffing and felt how soft it was, I mean really soft and fluffy.
Punishment forgotton, the stuffing went inside with me and became the fluff on this little pets hat and pom pom...lol..



A bit of a close up there.....


Coloured with pencils, added the spots to her tights,  papers from last years Christmas stash and some red almond shaped blings. Very simple easy card. The HO HO HO , I printed it above the main image and just added a touch of glitter.

I just love that fluff...I can feel more fluffy cards coming, but must buy another rugby ball first...

So there you go, head over to Stampfairy  grab your freebie, and some images, and join in the challenges, these are so cute and so easy to play with.

Thanks for stopping by, will catch you tomorrow...

Luv CHRISSYxx

PS....dont ask me what happened to my watermark, it shrunk over night...I know I made it bigger than that, but the darn thing has a mind of its own.

Here come the boys!!

Hello Everyone,

I'm in a better frame of mind today...yesterday turned out so good...it was a beautiful day, played with the dogs and did some gardening at my daughters house....even the bed was welcome last night..hard as it is..watched X factor, had a lovely tea, steak and salad...then ruined my healthy meal with peppermint chocolate....lol..but all was good.

I think the other reason was the wondrful comments on my' Christmas in New Zealand' card...thank you all for those inspiring and fabulous comments...I was thrilled to bits to read them all...thankyou....and welcome to my new follower, thankyou so much for joining me.

I wanted to enter the challenge at Here come the boys  again, as I really like making boy cards and had this sweet 'Precious moments' image to play with.




There he is, sweet little man...



Took a risk with the close up...you can see where I missed bits..lol..their lighting sucks round there..[thats my excuse and I'm sticking to it]


Coloured with pencils..in the dark...papers from MMI glittered pack, ribbon from my hanger and added the metal with a clip...from the bingo board at Here come the boys...and this time I went on the diagonal...die-cut..cute image..metal..

So at least I'm getting things done, while away from home, not the same,but have made two cards to show later that I'm very happy with..............Steampunk.

Will be back later with a new release from 'Stampfairy'...so cute.

Thanks again everyone...finishing work later today, Friday is a heavy one....

Luv CHRISSYxx

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Christmas in New Zealand

Hello Everyone,

Another beautiful day has begun...and I made a card to share which is one of those cards that has a real sentimental tug to it.

I saw a challenge over at Winter Wonderland  and this image popped straight into my head, and I knew exactly what I wanted the achieve with it.

"Across the miles" is the theme and this means so much to me as it is going to my Brother[ for sure]

In New Zealand at Christmas we [hopefully] have sun and hot weather...right in the middle of summer...but be assured that does not stop me cooking the traditional Christmas dinner.

So this card is inspired by the challenge AND our Chrtistmas weather....



I'm so happy how this one turned out...The image is from Whoopsie Daisy...had her for a long time.
Coloured with pencils,and inked the sky and sea..used a post it note to mask to get the horizon.



Used real sand for the beach, and white paint for the sea foam...
Added the sentiment. and a few flowers and ribbon.

I'm going to also enter this card at Simon Says  and it is anything goes.

If I seem very quiet today, it's because I'm exhausted...I've decided I do not like looking after 2 homes, birds,cats,dogs, dealing with mechanics, grumpy clients,and  going between computers, one for comments one for posting, a bed thats it too hard....roll on Friday [tomorrow] for me, as I'm sleeping in my own bed...just for the night, I'm aching everywhere.

Oaky doaky...thats me done, hope you like my card, time to head off to work, sorry for the grump, but I feel better now...

Luv CHRISSYxx

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Autumn colours

Hello Everyone,

Another night over, with animals that want to take over my life, who think I'm going to spoil them with treats, who think they can come inside at night time,they even think I'm going to walk them both at the same time........Ah! well.. anything for peace....at least when its bed time both dogs are so good...to male dogs sharing a bone...amazing to watch....and the phsycotic cat...well for his age [18] he acts like a 3 year old...so funny in the washing basket. Beautiful eyes full of life...but I suppose when you are on special biscuits costing $30 a bag, you should be feeling good...

Made a card for 2 challenges to share with you today...



There's Tilda in all her Autumnal splendour...



A close up of image[ gave up trying to put the writing in the middle]



An open view...

Coloured with Faber Castell pencils, pumpkins were a freebie download from Diane  flowers from stash, and a few Autumn leaves.The papers were a download, from a halloween site....

Challenges I'm going to enter sre:

Scrapbook Sisters   Autumn colours

Just Magnolia   Fall or school..[I chose Fall]

Well, another working day has kicked in, I'm on daylight saving and my brain time is like scrambled egg...normally I'm just fried...lol..

Have a great day/evening and will see you tomorrow...Oh! and a big welcome to a new follower, thankyou so much for joining me.

Luv CHRISSYxx

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

What a weekend

Hello Everyone,

                                                     BLOCK YOUR EARS!!

WHOOOOHOOOO!!!!! I won the Tilda stamp on Bevs blog............I'm so happy!!

AND...I won at Srapbook Sistesr very first blog candy and have waited and waited...really thought someone had pinched it out of my letters box....but it came on Friday...was posted 6/7/2011..that postie must have a rusty bike now...all that time peddaling across the bottom of the ocean...



Gorgeous papers,Prima - Sweetfairy 6x6 pad, and the die cuts perfectly first time....

So to celebrate...I made a card for a challenge at Crafty Creations  and they want Fairies.



Used a sheet of that beautiful flowery paper from my win...



Fairy was a freebie from Jens Designs a long time ago, and I have used her once before.



Coloured with pencils... buttons from 123 shop...Added glitter to her wings...done.

After looking after that wee dog, [his Mum and dad now home].... I'm now round at my daughters, dog and house sitting there for 2 weeks, so I'm trying to make cards there and rushing home in the morning before work to post....but...not being in my own craft space is quite difficult, as I have not got everything there, and keep running home to get stuff....and.. YES...running, as Murphy and his luck follows me everywhere I go, and now my starter motor has gone belly up in my car....so had to borrow my Dads till mine fixed...

So another day has started here, crisp, but beautiful, and it's going to get hot...blaa...

Do have to go now, but before I do, thankyou so much for all your lovely comments, and a big welcome to 4 new followers, thank you, for joining me....

Have a great day/evening and will catch you all up later today with commenting and a new card tomorrow...

Luv CHRISSYxx





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Monday, September 26, 2011

We are off again..

Hello Everyone,

We are on our way again with another  MAKE IT MONDAY 



For my card this week I used a freebie [surprise surprise] this time from Elizabeth Dulemba  very cute, although he did have funny eyes, so I titter-vated them up a bit, they were a bit blank..




                                                                 close up of image


Side view



 
Coloured with Faber Castell pencils, added lot and lots of leaves with different coloured papers, craft card, papers from my stash,some blings, and brown bow...done.




This week we are sponsored by the wonderful Emma at






Emma's store is well worth a visit with a huge variety papers,tools and embellishments

Emma is generously offering a £10 voucher to spend in store (p&p not included). ..



Another very hard time choosing my favourite, I had nearly 230 odd  to gaze at...fabulous work.



And... in the end..it was  BELLA  these cuties captured my eye...and my heart..


Congratualtion to the winners from last week.....everyone does such an awesome job, each and every project is so special.

I think that is it, please visit the main blog where my fabulous teamies projects are, and go have a visit with them, leave some love, they are a wonderful bunch of girls.

Will see you all tomorrow, thanks for stopping by, and all your lovely comments, and a very big welcome to my new follower, thanks ever so much for joining me.....

Luv CHRISSYxx







Friday, September 23, 2011

Sort of New Technique??

Hello Everyone,

Yes I'm back again...this time I'm to show you a new technique for Fussy and Fancy  ...me!! new technique when asked...Oh! dear..I didnt read my instructions too well...why didn't I wait with the pencil shavings bear...

Well this is not really a new technique...but I did make a box with a card...and this time I used a better adhesive...like double sided tape...to make it stick better...AND...I covered the box with papers...didn't do that before....so it is sort of a new technique..



Theres my card with a very cute anniversary couple from Country Companions "lovers lane" and I masked them on the bench seat...FIRST POP...



Open card...



Card sitting in the box....



Closed box...

Very happy with this, and it is going to my neighbours friends for their 50th wedding Anniversary.

Image coloured with pencils,sky with sponged ink...papers 'Prima' Botannical collection.Flowers from WOC..and the heart blings from my stash....and my NEW very strong, double sided tape!!!

So hop over to "Fussy and Fancy"  and show us your new technique.....

Thanks for stopping by and all your wonderful comments you have been leaving...I get so chuffed reading them all....

Luv CHRISSYxx

Night Night Teddy

Hello Everyone,

Tis' Friday...and that means a new release from  STAMP FAIRY 

Total cuteness to show you....



This is Barry Bedtime   so very sweet.

Coloured with pencils, and paper pieced the pillow, the hat rim and duvet...well I gave him a duvet.

And the paper was a 6x6 square from who knows where, but it looked like 'ticking' you know those horrible rough mattresses and pillows the grandma used to have.

The moon and clouds with stars are the freebie you get, and I glittered the cloud up....and here are a few more images.



Look at that face....



There's a little close up of Barry..just added dots behind the images.....ok..I made another one and tried to sponge a night sky...it looked terrifying...even the Halloween bears took off with fright....so I had to start over...lol..this is a bit more gentle.

Thats me done...have walked 3 dogs this arvo....one at a time, the little one was an angel, mine barked and snarled at everything, and my daughters dog.. who is Harrys brother..kept sitting down!!!
Took a load of craft to my daughters, as that is where I am house sitting for 2 weeks.

So..there you go....

Thanks for stopping by....will catch you in a couple of hours...yes indeedy...I'll be back..

Luv CHRISSYxx

Autumn Teddy Bear

Hello Everyone,

Am I in winter...maybe spring....feels like Autumn... and definitely not summer.

Yesyerday I had two sweat ups working and thought..' here we go' summer is here...today..dark,cold,cloudy,cold...did I mention cold.

Have a few pictures for you as well as a card...cause I think I'm going to get lonely...even thought he thought of me time is appealing...



Our last morning crafting before school, as they have left forAustralia for TWO WEEKS..



But 'Harry' didn't think it was anything to worry about...he had sun...so who cares..lol..

I had a bit of fun with this card yesterday...the lovely image was a freebie that popped up yesterday from Disdigidownloads  and I think he is just gorgeous.



Had to ink him up last night and went nuts with my new MS leaf punch.



Close up of image....



Inside done too....



And.. my buttons from my trip to the craft show...

Coloured with pencils, added a tad of glitter to the Pumpkin leaves, some thin red ribbon,papers from my stash and another old manilla folder for the matts.[dont have kraft card] but this works too.
Going to attempt to colour on it...just to see what will happen.

So that me done...going to enter this wee fellow in a challenge at Ready-Teddy-Go  if you love teddy bears this is a great challenge, you can enter up to 4 times a month, any teddy you want...

Right.off out into the cold murky day and do some work...Friday..big day...but goes super fast..coffee twice...scone once..chocolate muffin once...chocolate fish once....I love Friday...lol...

Luv CHRISSYxx

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Doggie prints

Hello Everyone,

Brrr...woke up to a light frosr this morning, hope the weekend gardners who planted there plants covered them last night, even going into spring you can sprung if you're not reafy for it.
Just been over to see the wee dog, had my coffee outside with him...he is such a lark.
He rushed outside through the frosty grass,stopped...looked at me...went flying back in...needed a bit of a biscuit  trail to get him back out for toilet...lol..we went for a walk yesterday and I managed to do 5 windows...he was scared of the squirt bottle....the hissing noise made him take off.

Anyway onto my card for today....



Here come the boys  have a bingo challenge...



I chose the middle row coming down....



A close up of the image...



A side view...

I used the blue papers from my 'boy' drawer and I think they were' my minds eye' not sure.It was once a big thick pad and it slowly lost the pages, they fell out and the cover dissappeared.

The image is from Whoopsi daisy...coloured with pencils,and I tired to make a skateboard ramp, just wish I didn't add the paper and should have left it brown...never mind what's done is done.
Added some hairy string for fibre and shredded the ends.

So, there you go.

I'm cleaning at 'my ladies' house today.She's been up to no good lately, her memory is so short term...but that is another story...another conversation with her that can take 30mins...and dont bring up digital [groan]...

Thank you so much for all your lovely comments you have been sending me, I love to read them all, really makes one so happy at the end of the day...

I'm off soon, just waiting for the g/sons to arrive, last drop off for 2 weeks, as they are off to Australia on Friday morning, so will be 2 houses, 2 dogs, 1 bird, 1 cat...sitting..oh and my fish, widget and blinkie...but they are so quite...lol..dont need walkies....

Luv CHRISSY

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Trick or Treat

Hello Everyone,

I think today is going to be beautiful....the wind has gone, the rain  bursts has stopped...oh! the joy of spring, stuffy noses,sneezing,coughs, hot and cold days, and that is just my clients suffering, I haven't got time...lol...the wee dog I'm looking after keeps me on my toes.

I found out yesterday that my neighbours mother who died was only 2 days from being 100....what a shame eh!...they will br home Saturday, so I'm cleaning the insides of their windows today after work, as I finish early on a Wednesday, no kids to pick up from school, so that should entertain their wee dog.

He is so good, I go over at 5.45 every morn with my coffee, and let him out, and he does his business, runs around a bit....well.. fast walks, as he is old..has a biscuit, then back inside till I get home, let him out again...same routine and again at tea time...then pop over at 8pm for a cuddle and tuck him down for the night.

Have a card to share with you, another Halloween, I know, you would think it was my favourite time of the year, but they are such fun and easy to make...


Pumpkin sitting on a wall.

The spider web and pumpkin I found on the net...more leaves from my new spellbinders dies, and the stripe papers were another freebie, I just googled them as I had nothing in purple or orange left.
The brick papers were from a set that I picked up from our emporium 'Crafty Blitz ' thats the best I can tell you.


I printed the spider web onto white card, then inked it with grey inked,added glitter,then cut it out.
Sentiment was computer generated...this was not fancy photography, the sun popped through the window as I shot it...cool huh!!

Well thats me done, the G/sons are here this morning,I will take them to school, but Dad will pick them up after school.

Welcome to my new followers, thankyou so much for joining  me.

Off to work...catch you all later.

Luv CHRISSYxx

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Cosy Christmas

Hello Everyone,

ALERT.....Temperature drop.....thats what I DONT like about spring....did it rain last night or what...the heavens opened and down it came...and the temp...brrrr...had to put the heater on [big girl] but it really did get chilly...and I'm dog sitting for my neighbours for a few days.

Their dog and my dog do not get on, so their dog stays at their house and I go visiting..he is so cute...15 years old..and very good for me. I do this 4 times a day, but I dont mind, better than the kennels, last time they put him in the kennels they came home to a hairless dog, he fretted so much.

I have a card to share today using a gorgeous image from May Brit  a freebie on her blog.



She's so sweet, a little Norwegian [spelt wrong] girl...so cute.



Papers from last years Christmas box, coloured with pencils,and glittered muff and hat band.
Berries.. I cut out of a Christmas decoration..flowers WOC, lace from my hanger??
Sentiment was from last years LOTV set .It is a  wonderful set...



Little side view there..

I am going to enter 2 challenges.

Crafty Hazel  wants Glitter

Winter Wonderland  Girly Christmas Card

So there we go, all done, off to work, G/sons are here, drop them off too school, big day today....
gotta keep a lot of people happy....

Luv CHRISSYxx

Monday, September 19, 2011

Sticky but Yummy!!

Hello Everyone,

It's Monday again....back to work.....back to the horrid short vaccume poles....back to school runs......

BUT.....at least we have MAKE IT MONDAY STARTING AGAIN!!!

Now thats more like it...no grumbling...no sad faces...we are here to have FUN..FUN..FUN..

This week on MAKE IT MONDAY  we are being sponsered by the lovely Sammi at.....

                                                                    Mad for Markers



                                                           And their amazing prize


A mini magazine/ideas book..chocked full of inspiration. This volume of copicendium is an A5 booklet with 20 pages show casing projects created using copic markers...particulary focusing on colouring digi images with copics.


Congratulations to last weeks winners...and there was indeed a fabulous amount of beautiful entries.

And then...I had to pick a favourite.......................


#187 Jenni's card   isn't it lovely. Lovely colouring, and she cut out and foamed dotted little ladybirds.
Great job Jenni, really lovely.

Now my card this week I found this cute freebie of a bear eating an ice block, and just loved the look on his face...


The freebie was a Dustin Pike image, coloured with pencils, and fabulous papers...aren't they...I forgot where from...lol..sorry. Added some buttons then glued cute strawberry buttons on top.
Made his ice block all shiney with clear glue..



                                                                          Bit of a close up




                                                                              Side view
And...the papers were from Docrafts...the little cake shop...I found my notes..lol..


Cor blimey...that seemed to go on forever...hope you're all ok after that post, I'm exhausted.

So there we have it....... MAKE IT MONDAY LINKY PARTY IS OPEN 

Have a great week, and will probably...or more than likely catch up through the week.


Luv CHRISSYxx













Sunday, September 18, 2011

Purrrfect...

Hello Everyone,

Another gorgeous spring morning, the winds have died down, the weeds are flowering beautifully in my garden!!!.....I must fix that...when I finish another card...lol..I do like gardening and will get out there...it's just that I made fatal mistakes out the front and now I'm suffering for it..

Never rake out bark, onto stones...makes life very difficult...The stones have now gone...the bark has now gone...but the fatal seeds have spread everywhere.What was a parking area, stones, for my husbands car, should now be grass again, and the barked garden which housed cockhroaches, should be flowery and pretty...BUT..I never sprayed first, and when I raked, the weeds that were growing in the bark, spread to the grass...and the garden...terrible...looks shocking...and still I have not talked myself into cleaning it up....think I will spray everything and start again.


Made this card using my new spellbinders leaf die...LOVE the dies......


Another cute image off the net, coloured with Faber castell pencils and blending oil.Added dots  around the image...yay..it worked better this time.
Sentiment is PC made with tiles font.



I love these leaves, cut them out with a green patterned paper and one cream leaf which I inked up.

No DP's, just green card stock, and the back off one of my pads then disstressed the edges.



Bit of a side view...inside is just lined with the pad cardboard.

Will tell you a hint I found when loading up your images on a post.
Sometimes the little turning thing goes round and round drives me crazy....picture wont come up and I wait for ages...well, today I'm in a hurry, and was getting ratty, so I clicked in the turning, thinking, thing, and the blue highlight came around the would be photo and then the photo appeared, so I did that with the other pics, and sure enough it poppped up super quick...

Enetring this card into a  challenge hopefully...

Sentimental Sundays   Autumn colours

Thanks for dropping in, and hope you all have a fabulous weekend....

Luv CHRISSYxx