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Thursday, May 31, 2012

'My Lady's" Birthday

Hello Everyone.......well a sad day on Tuesday, as it was 'My Lady's' Birthday, and I forced myself to go see her in the rest home....so very sad. She turned 94, and still wants to go home...

I cannot understand how they can put someone in a situation like that, where she is so obviously deppresed and unhappy, and do assessments, and say she is unfit to go home, if she was home, she would be such a different person, then they could assess her...

It took her a wee while to realise who I was...then the tears came and the " I want to go home started"...so sad.

Anyhoo....have another card to share today....using a digi from CRAFTY SENTIMENTS DESIGNS 

This is KAYE SPRINGTIME 



She is very sweet and so easy to colour, which I did with Faber Castell pencils...
Thee is no sentiment as it was personalised later on and sent away...



A close up of the image......




And a side view, and as you can see it was the days of the old fence for the photograph..that is how long ago I did this..but once the card is sent I'm inclined to forget they are on file..

The lovely papesr are from 'Papermania' and the white border is a 'Magnolia Doo Hickey' die.that I won in a candy from Kylie..

So there you go...bit chilly here this morning as our winter has now arrived... after a freakish hot day 23o on Tuesday, I think, then the next day we nearly reached 12o...brrr...I dont mind the cold...but the sudden changes can get you...

Thanks for dropping in, and all your lovely commnets you leave me, must away and get ready for work, the boys will be here soon, and all the peace will be shattered...lol...love it though..

Entering these challenges at...... Divas by design  [anything goes]
                                                    Penny's Paper Crafty challenge  [anything goes]
                                                    Scrapbook Sisters [anything goes]
                                                    Truly Scrumptious [Pink]
                                                   


Luv CHRISSYxx


Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Innocence

Hello Everyone....I have another gorgeous image from CRAFTY SENTIMENTS DESIGNS to share with ...

This is INNOCENCE  and she is available now...just click on the link..



Coloured with Faber Castell pencils and glittered wings...the beautiful papers are from.Lena Scrap and are freebies...added feathers behind the image for more softness...



Close up of image....so lovely to colour...and the tiny flower and leaves are crystals..so pretty.



A side view...and the inside is decorated too...


This image is another from the Mini release at Crafty Sentiments Designs 



Thanks for stopping by...and did you see that I won a WOC Candy...a surprise candy...so excited.
and only 9 more sleeps till I go on holiday to Australia and the Scrapbook and Papercraft Fair...in Brisbane....

The excitement may become too much at this rate.....

Luv CHRISSYxx






Monday, May 28, 2012

MIM - and too warm

Hello Everyone........Monday is here again, and hope you all had a wonderful weekend or still having it in some places  and even a longer one with Memorial day.

I was going to have a quiet weekend, but ended up cooking at my sons house on Sunday night for 14...but went to the markets in the morning and bought all the vegetables, and it was so cheap down there compared to the supermarket, fresh and lovely....so we had a lovely dinner, but it just takes so much time out of your day prepping etc...was glad to get home last night...then did not feel like doing anything...and it so warm for May...uncanny!

But...a new MAKE IT MONDAY has started and another sponsor.....


                                   
The  Digi Doodle Shop is giving away a $10.00 Store Gift Certificate to the lucky random winner!

And....I was lucky enough to get an image to play with.....surprise...it's a Bear...



This little cutie is called Fascination 



Coloured with Faber Castell pencils and the sky is done with sponges and ink...a pearl added onto the glittered flower...



I love these pretty papers from Papercraft magazine freebie downloads..

A spellbinders lacy square, ribbon and tiny resin butterflies from my stash..

Now at this stage, I was to show you my favourite pick for the week....but have not been able to get onto any sites most of the weekend...blogger tells me I'm not following anyone........

So this is the link to my favourites....MY FAVOURITES  this will take you to Make it Monday, as you are all my favourites......and thank you so much for sharing your lovely projects with us...

If I can get on to your blogs later, I will find my ultimate favourite and share with you...

Thanks for stopping by...have a wonderful new week....and nearly half way to Christmas..eeek...

Luv CHRISSYxx


Friday, May 25, 2012

Mini release from Crafty Sentiments Designs

Hello Everyone.......Have a real cutie to share with from Crafty Sentiments Designs  a new rubber stamp release...

Meet Tobey - Lets Pray..



Coloured with Faber Castell pencils...papers, ribbon, filigree corner, all from my stash..and the little cross...



Close up of image....



And a side view, decorated inside too...and these photos were not this pale...not sure whats happening here...

Gorgeous image and so lovely to colour, great for communion cards, sympathy etc..

Please pop over to the main blog at Crafty Sentiments Designs and see all my teamies fabulous projects, this is only one image, and I'm sure you will see more over there...

Next Friday, we will have a digi mini release, so love to see you back for that...

Now I must go...have cooked onions and the house smells like onions, and my eyes are stinging with the fumes...need fresh air...rather quickly....have a wonderful weekend...and will see you Monday..

Luv CHRISSYxx


Tis' Friday and Stampfairy day

Hello Everyone....First I would like to thank you all so very much for your encouraging comments on my last post, they gave me the incentive to keep going with those images, as they are so beautiful...and it will get easier...


Now...Tis' Friday...and would like to share a new release from STAMPFAIRY 

                                                               Meet HERB ....


Herb Basketball...the basketball is your freebie, and I used it as my design paper...just copied and pasted  for a few rows, and there it is...the stripe papers from my stash, so is the ribbon....



Herb is coloured with Faber Castell pencils..glossy accents on his nose.. the sentiment is from Inspired Stamps  and the wee buttons were those wooden ones, and I inked them up with SU 'Pumpkin Pie'




There is a side view...decorated inside too...




And here is the whole sheet of images....so cute.

Hope you like Herb, and thanks so much for stopping by....have a wonderful weekend..will see you soon...

Would like to enter into the Ready Teddy Go Challenge  [Bingo] ribbons-buttons-punches/dies
Luv CHRISSYxx





Thursday, May 24, 2012

Fifth Try!!

Hello Everyone.....

You all know this image..and I coloured her 4 times and binned her, even now I post this card under protest...I dont usually have a lot of trouble, but every now and then an image ...no matter how gorgeous it is, I struggle with the colouring...putting the colours in tte right place, getting the colours right, I dont know...just found this so hard, but here she is...Kirsta Smiths image 'Canary Love'


I love the flower, it was off a headband in the 123$ shop...and the beautiful papers were a freebie download from Lenas scrapbooking  ...



Close up of image...coloured with pencils...glitter on her socks and the bird...



Side view..and decorated inside too...

I have had this card sitting in my box for ages..everyone was popping their cards up with this image and mine just sat..[I still dont like it]...but will do her again one day...and I got the new freebie from Krista yesterday...and boobie love, but cant show that one yet...

Anyway, there she is, it is done..posted.

Big day at work today...and very frosty and chilly this morning...will need socks today...

Oh!...did you see...I won a $25 Whimsey Stamps voucher...from  a Birthday bloghop..so lucky..

See you tomorrow...and thank you so much for all the lovely comments you leave...

Luv CHRISSYxx



Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Stampfairy and Creative Cards

[Please scroll down for my Crafty Sentiments new Challenge card]

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Hello Everyone...I'm back.."so soon".. I hear you say...Yes, I am..and this time I'm here supporting

                                                        Creative Card  Crew

Stampfairy  is sponsoring  Creative card Crew this week and the theme is Dimension.. 



For my card, I just had to use sweet little Barry Bee  ...from Stampfairy.

Coloured with pencils, glossy accents on his nose and loads of glitter on his wings..I tell you..this wee guy will not fly with all that glitter, but he sure does sparkle...I did his wings twice,and popped them on foam dots for dimension..



Theres my boy!



A side view...the little daisys are stickers off a scrapbook strip...love them, and I just cut them up..
The inside is decorated as well...

Thanks for stopping by..

Luv CHRISSYxx




               

Challenge time for CSD

Hello Everyone....

A new challenge for Crafty Sentiments Designs  and this fortnight we have a sketch.....



Super sketch, even I followed it...



I used this very cute image from CSD..My best friend 



Coloured with pencils...papers Crafters choice...[the never ending pad]..Country Basics.
Brads,dog embellishment and dragonfly out of my stash...and the great sentiment stamp from Ladybug crafts ink..and punched stars...



Inside decorated too....

Hope you can come and join in with our sketch challenge, would love to see you there...and please pop over to the Challenge Blog  and see my teamies gorgeous creations...

See you later on today [ seems funny saying that when it is night time here...]..lol..

Luv CHRISSYxx



Couldn't do it!

Hello Everyone....................Thank you all so much for the well wishes yesterday....
When I finished putting my post up, and finished getting ready for work, I did not feel any better...but pushed on, drove half way to work, an realised I just couldn't do it....turned the car around and came home...rang work, they rang my clients, and I stayed home for the day....and I must say, I do feel better this morning...can't even explain what the trouble was yesterday..probably too much rubbish food...

Anyway, a new day has started...and have a card to share with you and for the challenge at ........

READY- TEDDY- GO  ...................

Still the bingo board..and I have chosen this time [again]..Flowers - Tag - Glitter..


There should be a photo before this but it was rejected...fine then...this shows the tag out of the card, with a simple 'Hello' done with stickers...

The little fence,birdhouse and bird, are my die from my local craft shop from 'Marianne Creatables'
and papers are from 'Papercraft downloads'called 'Floral Fanfare'..



Close up of  image, coloured with Faber Castell pencils...and very glittery clouds..and the image is from Stampfairy  'Linda sitting' from the spring collection...very cute..





A side view...



Oh! and here is the card that would not pop up before...the clouds I made myself, and glittered them up....then put them on dimensionals..

So, there you go...welcome to my new follower, thank you so much for joining me, and you have put me on 300 followers...whoo hoo..and of course I'm not organised for anything special....but I'm off to Australia in 16 sleeps time...and if all goes well there may be a candy up when I get back, as the Scrapbook and papercraft expo is on in Brisbane while I'm there and you never know...right.

Time to take myself off, have a good stretch and a shake, get ready for work, picking up boys today, so going to be a long one.....hope I last...

Luv CHRISSYxx









Monday, May 21, 2012

Frosty morning for MIM

Hello Everyone....Another Monday has rolled around at MAKE IT MONDAY  ...Wow! time is going so fast....

This week we are being sponsored by................








Prize - 5 Digis as a prize for each sponsorship.

And, the DT's were lucky to have some gorgeous images to play with......

For my card I chose this young lady, shopping her heart out.....

From artist Gayle Bond, this is
Girl with presents

 




Paper pieced her coat, and added flower soft to her fur trim on her boots,hat,and cuffs...

Papers are from Simply cards and papercraft magazine, but I've covered most of them....brocade trim that fell off my kitchen roller blind [with a wee bit of help..lol..]...



The tiny flowers from a new small craft shop I found on my journey around to clients houses, and they are "My Moments", and already sticky backed.



And there's the inside....

Well, I'm floundering today...I dont feel the best for some reason...but will get to work and sweat it out whatever it is..

Thanks for stopping by and please pop over to the main blog of MAKE IT MONDAY  and check out my teamies wonderful projects, then link up and play....anything you want, old or new, as long as it is paper....

See you tomorrow...

Luv CHRISSYxx



For my favoutite pick this week I picked this beauty....#31 Chrizette 


Gorgeous colours, one I find difficult to use, but Chrizette has used the lavenders and purples beautifully...


Saturday, May 19, 2012

Daa Dum....Daa Dum

Hello Everyone....If I had a french horn I would be blowing that too, to the theme of Jaws, as that's what has been going around in my head while making this card...BUT...this is not Jaws ....this is .....

                                                                             SPUD  ..

.a friendly [cute] shark....and a freebie from Crafty Creations to use in their challenge a Birthday card for a male..I have not added my sentiment yet, as this is going to my Father next Wednesday, and the sentiment was a bit personnal...so will pop it on later...

Anyway....here is SPUD..



I coloured Spud with pencils, and cut him out...and the seaweed that came with him....but wanted some more interest, so found this ball of wool in my cupboard and it was so much like the colours that I had already used..perfect for more seaweed..



That was in a ball, but I could not find the end, so pulled it, then used it  to show you, all the colours in the wool...



Theres a close up of Spud!!



And a side view...added hessian for sand, and shells, buttons and pearls..

Going to enter into the challenge at MAWTT  [Keep it real] as well...

My Dad used to fish for sharks in his day, and I wanted to get away from Golf cards....so this and a couple of bottles of red [which will annoy my stepmother].and .a lotto ticket, should see him through another year....

Thanks for sropping by...Saturday morning here...and have a few things to do before I can play, so must away and get started...welcome to my new follower, thankyou so much for joiming me..

See you tomorrow.....daa dum...daa dum..da.da.da.da.da.da.da.da.......

Luv CHRISSYxx



Friday, May 18, 2012

Poor Teddy

Hello Everyone....another Teddy, but a real awwww..Teddy...

This is Donny, [ Donny Doc ] a new release at STAMPFAIRY   



Coloured with Faber Castell pencils...paper from Crafters Choice- Country Basics...have added a gem on his nose, muslin behind, a silver charm..and there is your free sentiment...



A close up of image....and did some faux stitching around the image too...



Theres a side view, and also decorated inside...


There's the full sheet of images and your freebie....great for those get well cards, or sorry you are down cards...


Pretty short post for me today, as I'm so tired...had such a big day, and pushed as many as I could through to cut down working on Saturday morning...only have one client tomorrow and must get a wof for my car...then I can come home and play...

Hope you all have a fabulous weekend...mine started....now...

Luv CHRISSYxxx


Tag and a Teddy

Hello Everyone....well, yesterday was awful...my PC started screaming at me and said "I wont,I wont start...and it wouldn't...an alarm beeping thing was going off, and I panicked, and turned it off...rang the PC doctor and he came at lunchtime and fixed it..for free...then I had to go back to work..1 1/2 hrs behind, but got it all done, so I'm back up this morning..phew...nerve racking.

Have a cute card to share with you for the Ready-Teddy-Go Challenge 



Using the bingo board, this time we have...flowers [one behind her back]...glitter [on the flower] and a tag....



And there's the tag..with puff stickers...



A close up of Linda - spring collection...from Stampfairy  

Coloured with pencils...and a paper pieced dress...paer are 'Crafters Choice -country basics..lace from my stash and so is the metal butterfly...



Inside decorated too...

There we are..so good to be back up and running, felt terrible yesterday...thinking how much was this going to cost...how long will I be off line..but it all turned out good....

going to enter this one in a challenge at Cute card Thursday  [glitter/sparkle] as well...
Thanks for popping in and all your wonderful comments you leave....better get going, back to work then it will be the weekend..whoo hoo...mine starts at 2.30pm today, that's when I finish work on my Friday...

Luv CHRISSYxx



Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Under the Sea

Hello Everyone......another day has dawned, and it is dark and a bit chilly.

I just let Harry out for his morning tinkle, and there was a scuffled and rustled of Autumn leaves, no barking...as he knows better early in the morning, so I took off around the side of the house, and he had cornered a little hedgehog....bit late in the season for those to be out, but the season is so whacky, I dont think he knew he should be sleeping, or he maybe unwell...but, Harry was standing over him, an the wee thing never moved a muscle....I called the dog back, in a quiet but firm voice, and he ignored me...then the hedgie twitched..now visualise a 2lb hedgehog..and an 90 lb dog...hedgie twitched, the dog yelped and ran like a girl..lol...looked so funny....he was straight back inside on his couch...

Made a card to share for a challenge at Moving along with the times  and the theme is Nautical..



Love mermaids and this wee girl is Arial, from 'Littlest Mermaid' freebie from the net...



Coloured with pencils and loaded up with glitter......the sparkly netting is off a bunch of flowers..
and no DP's...just used corrugated card and some turquoise scraps...



A Cheery lyn flourish leaf die, cut up.and beads and pearls put into sets of three...

So there you go....going to have a bit of a blogging session before work, starting later today, and early finish...then picking up the boys after school and then the ususal routine...

Welcome to my new follower, thank you so much for joining  me, and thanks everyone for all your fabulous comments you leave me...will see you tomorrow...

Luv CHRISSYxx