Bears & Tilda's - Addicted To Stamps & Totally Tilda DT's

Good morning peeps,

I had a lovely day pottering in the garden yesterday, it was beautiful, sunny & hot and so nice to be outside, well it was until I had hysterics as I felt something in my hair and it was a flipping spider & I'm not talking a tiddler here neither. As I knocked it out my hair it landed on my shoulder and ran! I wasn't sure where it was heading other than towards my neck but quick as a flash I'd whipped my top off & ran inside shrieking. My god didn't that hurt my shoulder but by then I was far more concerned about where that beast was & I was bent double in the kitchen, hair untied and was frantically running my hands through my hair making sure he hadn't gone back in among my curls. I never did find it so hopefully he is still somewhere in the garden, or better still moved next door to live with one of my neighbours lol.

Today is new challenge day at

ADDICTED TO STAMPS

& this fortnight our challenge is

LOTS OF BLING

The photos aren't the best as it was such a dreary day when I took these and I didn't get around to taking anymore before giving this little card to my mum for her 10th Wedding Anniversary.

Ingredients -

Image - Forever Friends

Medium -Copics

Bling - The Hobby House & The Ribbon Girl

Lace & Seam Binding - stash

Tools - Magnolia Doo Hickey Romantic Lace, Cheery Lynn doily die, MS Eyelet Lace PATP, CC Designs 5 point flowers, Cuttlebug Divine Swirls embossing folder

The Copic colours I've used are -

bear - E55, E53, E51, R20 heart - RV00, RV000, RV0000

The sentiment is computer generated, I've used a new font which I downloaded free from Dafont.Com 

 I'm entering my card in the following challenges -
Inspire Me Fridays - anything goes, Cute Card Thursday - a stitch in time, Crafting For All Seasons - stitching, Divas By Design - celebrate, Stampavie & More - animals, Everybody Art - anything goes, Craft Your Passion - emboss it, Make It Monday - anything goes

Next up I have a midway reminder that our 

BOOKMARK

challenge at

TOTALLY TILDA

is running for one more week.

These little bookmarks are so quick and easy to make all you need is some extra large paperclips, nesties and of course a sweet Tilda or 3 :)

When I made these I realised that not only are they quick and easy peasy bookmarks but they could also be used as embellies on SMASH book pages :)

I'm entering my bookmarks in the following challenges -

Fairytale - anything metal, Frosted Designs - office supplies, Fussy & Fancy - back to school, Just Magnolia - pretty in pink, Tilda's Town - back to school, 4 Crafty Chicks - back to school, Crop Stop - back to school, Crazy Amigo - back to school, Lollipop Crafts - back to school.

That's it for me today peeps, thanks or stopping by

Round & Round - Paper Play DT Card & Easter Tags!

Hello peeps,

I've just realised I've not posted my DT card, oops my bad lol.

We've had a busy day & I was starting to feel myself about to doze off to sleep after lunch but wanted to paint the decking while the weather was so nice, as I was half asleep I went & slapped my face, you know as you do trying to wake yourself up a bit, only it was a teeny bit too hard & it brought tears to my eyes but I couldn't do anything but laugh which did the trick & woke me up lol. About an hour later I'd finished painting & got changed to go for a walk to the park with hubby & Dude (dog) & quickly checked the state of my mass of curls in the mirror before going out & was horrified to see the left side of my face looked like I either actually had stage 2 of "slapped cheek syndrome" or a nasty encounter with a cosmetics sales woman & I'd managed to escape before she'd got to the right side of my face lol. Cold water didn't help much so I ended up wearing Jodie's big sunglasses out & keeping my head down when we saw anyone,  & before you say it I'm an idiot I already know lol.

Anyway waffle over today I have my 

PAPER PLAY  DT card to share and this week our challenge is to make a SHAPED CARD.

I made this little card about 3 weeks ago for Ali's youngest boy Adam & that young man is very lucky he actually got "Adam" on the front of his card as for years we've called him "Sindy" or "Sindy Lou", long story, poor boy! Adam sounds so wrong now so I had to write the card out to Sindy so he didn't escape it lol.

 Ingredients -

Image - Edwin with aeroplane 

Medium - Copics

Papers - Hero Arts kraft, Magnolia & Bazzil Basics

Sentiment - Magnolia, Lily Of The Valley & American Crafts roller date stamp

Twine - The Ribbon Girl

Tools - Cuttlebug, nesties, Tiny Bubbles embossing folder, Magnolia Doo Hickey flags & heart tag, X Cut big squeeze, Memory Box button border, 

 The Copic colours I've used are -

skin - E11, E00, E000, R20, R30, hair, E47, E44, E41, t-shirt & socks - C3, C1, C00, dungarees - B95, B93, B01, plane - W3, W1, W00 / BG 34, BG32, BG000

 I'm entering my card in the following challenges -

Quixotic Paperie - sketch, CCEE1214 - embossing folders, Shelly's Images - plaid, checks, Just Magnolia - anything goes, Divas By Design - anything goes, Just Keep On Creating - anything goes, Scrapbook Sisters - dads / male card, Joanna Sheen - it's a man's world, Anything goes - anything goes, Creative Craft - anything but a card, Papertake - anything goes, Amusing Challenges - buttons

I was in a colouring mood and discovered a set of Forever Friends Easter stamps in my stash that had never seen ink & wanted to use them but I didn't want to make any more Easter cards as I don't have any use for them so they just end up in the bin, so I decided to make some gift tags to attach to everyone's Easter eggs.

In total I made 18 but have delivered most of the eggs before I realised I hadn't taken any piccy's so here are the 5 I had left. The photo isn't the best as it was a rush job but here they are

I'm entering my Easter tags in the following challenges -

My Mum's Craft Shop - Easter/Animals, The Paper Shelter - anything goes with Easter in mind, Penny's Papercrafty - Easter, Ruby's Rainbow - Easter, Everybody Art - Easter, Top Tip Tuesday - Easter / animals, Creative Mondays - anything but a card, Hooked On Crafts - Easter, Lollipop Crafts - no embellies, Make It Monday - anything goes, Totally Stampalicious - anything goes, Inspire Me Fridays - anything goes.

I'd not coloured the Forever Friends bears with Copics before but after a little play I think the colours came out O.K and here they are -

fur - E35, E31, E30, RV83, cakes - E27, E25, E23/ RV00/ BV00/ Y32/ V22/ G40/ R83/ B41, blue cake case - B41, B0000, pink cake case - RV95, RV91

CAN YOU KNIT, CAN YOU HELP?

My lovely teamie Dawny has an appeal on her blog to all knitters asking for help to knit baby's jumpers & beanie hats for African babies. For more info and the knitting patterns hop over to Dawny's blog and read her post HERE.

 That's it from me peeps, thanks for stopping by