April sunshine

How lovely has the weather been recently, it makes me want to take on the world and do all those jobs I don't have the inclination for during the winter.
The horses have all had their baths, tootsies done, manes and tails trimmed and are looking fantastic. Eilidh and I hacked out last night, it was a beautiful night and delightful to see all the fields and hedgerows starting to spring into life.
I have decided to have another craft room clear out.................where does all this stuff!!! come from...............is there a craft room fairy who deposits stuff!!! when no body is looking!!!!!!!! The garage, tack room and feed room have also been blitzed and yes I am pooped!!!!! so today I am going to have a couple of hours crafting, WOOOOOHOOOOO!!!!!
I did manage to make a little something over the weekend though. I always wanted a "dates to remember" notebook as my memory is atrocious so I set to........I remembered we did a notebook at one of Kerrys crops  http://ladybugcraftsink.blogspot.com/ and used a template from The Cutting Cafe to create what now has spiralled into, one for Mum, Mum-in-law, Eilidh and various other friends and you name it, so looks like I will be busy for a while..........

 I used BoBunny Jazmyne breeze and Jazmine mist ps, BoBunny back to back coloured ps, mounted it onto chipboard added some paper flowers and die-cuts and this is the result, hope you like it. I am off now to get busy crafting, enjoy your day Annette

Two's company

A good friend asked me to make a card for her daughter who had twins and as I had been considering entering Polka Doodles challenge this week which is NOT to use a patterned paper...... I set to making this cute little card. I used my new spellbinders die (beaded squares) which I absolutely love, added coloured chalk and backing card, stamped this cute little baby baby image from http://www.ladybugcraftsink.co.uk/, the base card is embossed with "That special touch" mask and coloured again with chalks. I love this little card and had great fun making it.
I have also picked up a craft I haven't done for a long time.......Knitting!!!!!!! I am having so much fun with it, I had to search for my pins and patterns, the patterns had to be put in the bin, just a bit too dated!!!! the pins fortunately were still in working order.....now me being me I am not happy with one project, I have completed two and have another four on the go!!!!!!! here's a picture of what's going on in Annettes world, LOL

 It all looks a bit of a jumble, I can assure you it all makes sense. Top right corner is a selection of beautiful light weight scarves, to cover those not so delightful neck lines we seem to attract when we hit a certain age!!!!! if you know what I mean..... and a warm, cosy cardigan to wear when I am crafting, you know those moments when you realise you have been in your craft room for hours and the heating has clicked off..... why do I feel as though I am suddenly turning into my Mother!!!!!!! HELP.....Oh well at least it keeps me out of trouble. So thats me off to enter my card into  Polka Doodles challenge and do a few more rows of knitting!!!!
Happy crafting, whatever it may be....Annette xx

 

Late, Late, Late!!!

This will be a very short post as I am rushing around as usual trying to do a million and one things!!!!

Firstly Hope you Mothers out there had a lovely "Mothers Day" and were totally spoiled. I had a lovely time, the kids and I took my Mum for lunch, David's mum wasn't very well, these are the cards I made for them. The images are taken from a Sharon Duncan CD, I just love this cd as it is full of butterflies.

 I made acetate boxes for them and I was really pleased how they turned out.

It was a lovely day, hope yours was also.

Now it will be Eilidhs birthday in a couple of weeks so I decided to make this card with a Nikki stamp from Ladybug crafts, she is learning to drive at the moment and would love a VW Beetle as her first car!!!! I think this was the perfect choice, no VW Beetle is complete without it's trade mark flower so I set to making one for her, I used my Big Shot and a sizzix die to create this, I love it, the centre was a little tricky though, hope you like it, I think I will enter this into ladybugscraftsinkchallengeblog.blogspot.com hopefully I am not too late, late, late!!!!!!!

  OK that's it I really have to scoot, (note to self, try not to cram so much into a day!!)

Annette