Easter cards - at long last, I really feel behind this year, thats with me doing so many Christening invites - did 40 more today so a welcome break to use this cutey free stamp from Quick Cards Made Easy magazine. This card isnt traditional Easter colours bt I am quite pleased with how its turned out...

At the workshop we also made a card, we did use a DoCrafts rose stamp but after I coloured mine using a watercolour I was not at all happy with it! (I had used a paint brush and not a my favoured Koi water brush) so it looked very heavy handed, when I got home I changed the image for a lovely hedgehog by Penny Black and the card is now winging its way to my Aunt for her birthday!

bye for today... Helen xx

Yesterday my friend Karen and I attened a workshop run over at Grafton Crafts, and here is what we made - a ribbon box - now if you could see the jumble my ribbons are in you'd know I did need a storage system! This is fine for the ribbons and I'm quite pleased with it (apparently you can by the box blanks from Woodware), we did a patchwork design and used the Docrafts butterfly punch. It was good fun and a good excuse for a pub lunch afterwards as it finished at 12.30!!!

At long last... it seems to be ages since I blogged, after a weekend away in Devon I just dont seem to have had much time for anything... anyway, on to crafting, I have been very busy making Christening invitations... they want 176!!! Eek! 80 down so nearly half way, phew! Obviously it had to be a very simple design for that quantity, and lucky I have a week off work to get on with them.

Happy Mothers Day to all mums out there! I was spoilt with flowers, chocs and bubble baths... Just one card today, for the challenge on the sugar Bowl... it had to be a Sugar Nellie design and incorporate stars somewhere, I struggled with the stars as the design doesnt lend itself to stars but found the greetings stamp with stars on and the centre of the flower is a sort of flower brad!

Back to work tomorrow so no posts for a few days... so enjoy for now, Helen x

Forgot to mention - I got the image from http://valentines-sharni-clair.blogspot.com/ - the girlies over there are kindly offering 6 freebie images, just for a stamped addressed envelope!!! Isnt that kind!

Me again... card making frenzy this afternoon, made this one for the Spring colours card challenge over on the Penny Black challenge blog... if only the spring would arrive!

Helen x

Hi... another card I've just made with the lovely Newtons-law image - a freebie too, just hop over to Newtons-law.com and click on 'colouring' theres a selection of really cute pics. The wording is perfect too! I think this card will be for my aunts birthday in a few weeks.

Hi to everyone and welcome to my new followers - managed to upload a few piccies today, and next must go and enter them for the various challenges I am joining in with this week. I really am a sucker for a freebie - doing the shopping in Morrisons this morning I spotted the latest edition of Simply Cards and Papercraft with freeie stamp set, 'Fat Cats' by David Parkins - they are great fun and should make good cards for my cat loving friends!

Bye for today, Helen x

Have I bitten off more than I can chew?! Our lovely grandson Kian is to be Baptised in May and I offered to make the invitations - how lovely - until I found out they were inviting 200 guests!!! eek!!! Guess I'm going to be busy, especially as the Baptism is in May! So I have come up with 2 designs for Sam to choose from, very basic and easy as I will be limited on time... I wonder which one she will go for...

Another sketch challenge - this time for Cute Card Thursday. I'm very new to sketch challenges and really like having a 'plan' to work to.... I do tend to get stuck into a rut of doing the same designs over and over!!!! The stamped image was kindly sent to me along with a friendship card via DoCrafts, I think its lovely!