Hallo Chick

I made this card for my mum. She has a cute West Highland Terrier called Millie. This image is from Pink Gem Designs and the sentiment is Stampin up (unfortunately got over inked - why is it I make a card and then at the end I put the sentiment on it and it either smudges, is over inked or doesn't come out properly??). I coloured it all with chalks. The scalloped squares are Nestabilities dies. This photo looks a bit blurred to me, I gotta take better photos!

Millie isn't as snow white as that dog though, oh no! Infact if I'd coloured in the dog all colours apart from white, that would have been more realistic seeing as she gets herself all dirty on a regular basis :)

Ahh, pets, what do they get up to when your back is turned? Miaowski is totally obsessed with paper clips. Ever since she was a kitten she has been fascinated with them and will play with one for hours, batting them up in the air and chasing after them. They have to be coloured ones and she is partial to yellow. My favourite colour is yellow so maybe she takes after me. Anyway the other evening she was restless and trying to get my attention when I suddenly heard this crash behind me. What???

Aha, caught in the act!

Unsurprisingly she didn't pick them back up and put them in their pot!

I'm not sure where Spring has gone as it is icy cold today. It is sunny though so at least it looks cheerful outside.

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It's that dog again!

I know, I've done this dog before but here are two examples that are different. The first stamp is the original of the dog from Pink Gem Designs which has the hearts and his eyes are closed. The eyelet border I've added is a Stampin Up punch

The second one, I've cut him out without the hearts and added a little black bead to make him look like his eyes are open. I've used Stampin Up's tag punch and silver flower brad.


Less than 24 hours to go to watch the UK's QVC's 24 hour card making day. I'm glad there is a schedule on their site otherwise I'd be having to tape the lot, well I will be taping a lot. I hope I have enough room on the dvd recorder. Sharri Carroll from Hero Arts is going to be on at 7 pm - yippee! I'm so looking forward to watching her do her demo.

Anyone not living in the UK can watch this live via the internet on QVCUK.com at 1:00pm CST (that's 7:00pm in London).

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Hoots it's the sweet Westie again!

Awhile ago I bought some lovely tartan paper, I can't remember who makes it. I had it for ages, not sure what I was going to use it for. But since getting this cute westie from Pink Gem Designs, I think it goes really well. I couldn't resist making it a little collar from the paper. I've made another card like this in green but I will show that later as I haven't finished it yet. I'm really liking simple cards that are quick to make.

I was really excited yesterday getting this blog up and running. My day flew by as I was so engrossed trying out new things. My thanks to Kristina from Two Happy Mamas for making this blog look so pretty.

I had such a great day, in fact it wasn't long enough. At one point I wanted to do so many things at once I just didn't know what to do. I wanted to read my book, draw a picture, make more cards, learn all about laying out the blog, learn Photoshop, read all my favourite blogs, read the newspaper, play Spider Solitaire, watch 'The Good Wife', play with Miaowski, and feed my virtual fish in Facebook. Yes that's what I wanted to do, all at the same time ... quite impossible. Why do people get bored?

Dreaming of butterflies

Hallo and welcome. It's taken me ages to get round to blogging but as I read so many other people's blogs I thought I'd give it a go.

And to celebrate my first blog post I want to show you a card I made using the new Cuttlebug embossing folder called 'Jules Jewels' or as I said to someone the other day 'Jules Verne' (who is he?? Is he an author or something? The name rings a bell!). Anyway this is my first attempt with it and I'm sorry to see that the picture is not brilliant but that's what you get when you are using the Nokia N96 phone camera. The colour of the pink of the card is much prettier in real life.

My lovely sister sent the embossing folder to me all the way from Australia - I couldn't get it in the UK and then when it arrived I suddenly saw it was available. See, I'm not the most patient of people and when I saw it I had to have it and I just could not wait to get it.

Anyway it is a beautiful embossing folder with butterfly swirls. This was the first thing I came up with. I used the gorgeous sweet Westie dog from Pink Gem Designs and the butterfly punch from Martha Stewart. And the swirly swirls are from the Baroque set from Stampin Up.

I'm planning on making this blog pretty and gorgeous but at the moment it's all a bit plain jane. Which is my middle name ... no not 'plain' but 'Jane'.