Scottish Wedding!!

My son and his girlfriend are going to a traditional Scottish wedding next week and asked me to make a special card for it.  I found the perfect blue tartan ribbon and based my card around it,  the photo doesn't do the ribbon justice as the blue is really vibrant and rich, with the weather the way it is at the moment this is the best I can do!!  I have used the thistle stamp from the Hero Arts elegant weed set and stamped and embossed it in silver.

I am going to add this to two challenges "Shopping Our Stash" which is to use two forms of embossing!! and "Simon Says" Wednesday challenge to use rubber or clear stamps.

Hope you are having a great weekend.

A couple of cards!

Another busy week, we are really short staffed at school, there is alot of illness around and because of that I have been too tired to craft in the evenings!!  Here are a couple of cards I made a while back and didn't post!   This first one is an Autumn themed card that I made for a challenge and didn't get round to posting.

This second card is another Christmas card but using a new stamp from The English Stamp Company called Partridge in a Pear Tree.  This is a mini card, only 4x4, I love this new stamp and I am sure you will be seeing more of it!

Off to relax in front of the TV tonight.

A Quick Card!

Just a quick post tonight as I am having another really busy week,  I did have time to make this Christmas card, as you can see another Tag card but I have turned it on its side this time.  I am adding this to the current Hero Arts Challenge and the "Anything Goes " Challenge over at the Simon Says Blog.

Don't you just love this cute snowman!!!

Another Tag Card

I really love my job working in a school, I love working with the children (they are aged 7 to 11) and I am sure working there keeps me young but there is one drawback.  Sickness and colds spread so quickly, well I have had my first cold of the season and have felt rough for a few days now, I have not felt like visiting blogs but I promise I will try and catch up!!

I have got a few cards to share with you, the first is another tag Christmas card using the lovely Peacock Distress ink as a background again. the Holly is an old Hero Arts stamp that I have coloured and coated with Glossy Accents,

I have had two friend ask me to make cards and I though I would share them, as you can see the top one is for a lovely old lady who has reached 100, the request was for a CAS card.

Apologies for the photograph here but it was taken at night.

Hope you are enjoying your weekend and thanks for taking time to visit.

Christmas tag cards

It seems to have been ages since I have had time to make some cards, I have started back to work with a bang, its been exceptionally busy and crafting has taken a back seat.

At last today, I have had a few hours to myself and have set about making a few Christmas cards and entry's for the latest Hero Arts Challenge..  The Postcard stamp from Hero Arts makes a lovely shape card and I have made three using it.  The first two have a distressed background that I have splattered with water, I love this Peacock blue. I was lucky enough to win this older Christmas Flourish Tree stamp and have embossed it in white and also gold for the second card. This card I am going to enter in the Moxie Fab World "All that Glitters is Gold"  Challenge. (Thanks for the heads up Lin.)

The last card is very CAS and I have just added some sparkle with gems and stickles.

I am hoping things have quietened down a bit now and I can get back into my craft room again!

Christmas Snowman

I am now back to work after the summer holidays and it has come very hard this week after 6 glorious 

weeks off.  The weather in the UK has been amazing but now I am thinking about starting my Christmas cards as I usually have to make about 60!!

I love this cute snowman stamp from Hero Arts and as I have the die as well I decided to make my own embossing folder after seeing ones that Cathy had made earlier in the year.

Here is a close up so you can see the effect, I am really pleased with this and will be trying it with other dies!

Hope you are enjoying your weekend

A Day Out in Surrey!!

No cards today, but I wanted to share some photographs of the Watts Chapel, this Chapel is only about 2 miles from where I live in the beautiful Surrey Hills.  Its a stunning Art Nouveau inspired building built by Mary and George Watts and the villagers of Compton.  The art work inside is spectacular!! 

This is the door in, the tiles round the arch were all made by the women of the village under Mary Watts supervision.

Sorry for the picture heavy post but I was so inspired after my visit today that I wanted to share it with you.

My son took most of these photographs, he has a better eye than me!! If you double click the photographs you will get a larger view!

Now that's my cup of tea!

Its been a while since I have had time to play in the Tuesday Trigger Challenge at Moxie Fab World but after seeing lots of amazing cards inspired by this photo I had to play along.

Just a small card only 4x4 but I have managed to use some of my favourite flower stamps. 

Its a long Bank Holiday weekend here in the UK but as usual the weather isn't playing ball and it rained yesterday and today, lets hope it improves tomorrow.

Yippee I have been able to make some cards!

At last my hand is beginning to feel alot better and the swelling has now gone down, which means I have been able to make a couple of cards for the challenge at Hero Arts. I made this first one after spotting the Poste image in the back of my scrap basket.

The second card I made with Barbs Grey challenge in mind, adding a touch of pink!

We are having fabulous weather here at the moment and my garden is looking so pretty I just had to add a photo of my Hibiscus, its been really beautiful this year!

Thanks for visiting.

Back from my Holiday!!

I am back from my two week holiday in the South of France.  This year we stayed in a small town in the Camargue called Ste Maries de la Mer.  It is such a beautiful place that I thought I would share a few photographs with you.

The amazing Roman amphitheater in Nimes, what an incredible building and still used after all these years. 

The ancient Roman temple called Maison Carrée (literally "Square House," named before there was a word for rectangle). The temple rivals Rome's Pantheon as the most complete and beautiful building surviving from the Roman Times

The food was amazing.

In Arles we walked the Vincent Van Gogh trail, here is the hospital garden, the flowers were stunning.

I couldn't resist taking a photograph of this house in Ste Maries, such a beautiful garden!

I have been back for a few days now but unfortunately can't craft at the moment, I have been helping my daughter move some furniture in her classroom and have injured my hand.  Not sure what I have done but its swollen, very sore and I can't grip anything, even typing is painful.  I am still hoping to catch up with a few blogs this week and lets hope my hand heals quickly!!!