Cuppa, Feet Up......

............  and catch up with the papers, and probably have a forty winks and think no one will notice!  Well that's what my Granda does, so this image couldn't have been choice!

I'm so lucky to be at my age, and still have 3 grandparents.  Granda is the eldest, and he reached the Grand old age of 90 back in February.  He is absolutely amazing health wise, and such a lovely man!  So hear is my creation, I just wish I had had a bit more time with his card, but nothing unusual me running at last minute with important cards!

How clever is Digital Stamp Boutique to get such a great picture of my Granda? 

 It is so like him, all the family had a great big smile, and  I was asked several times  if I drew the picture, I wish I could!!   

below is a close up of the picture

Ingredients

Digital Stamp Boutique: Granda Relaxing

Coloured: Prisma Pencils

Background Paper: Pink Petticoat Stripes (Mocha)

Sizzix Number - cut on Pink Petticoat, doodle dots paper

Nestie Star

Cuttlebug Swiss Dots Embossing Folder

Sentiment printed on Computer

Brads

Paper pieced the cushion with stripe, pink petticoat paper.

For his birthday I had the job of arranging the cake for the party,  from all the grandchildren.   I had asked for decoration to be slippers, newspaper and glasses, unfortunately they gave me a cute wee gardening bear - which would have been ideal if the grandchildren were children, the youngest of us is 19 or 20 year old.  So I wasn't happy, I was more annoyed that they didn't phone to tell me, as I had ordered it weeks before and could have bought something myself, but with no time for shopping I printed another one of the image,  cut out using circle nestie, then laminated and cut with circle nestie and placed it on the corner of the cake.

The finished article

And finally, the great man, himself getting ready to cut the cake!  

Happy 90th Birthday Granda!!

Thursday Already, where has the week/month gone?

Good Evening all.

 Well, I'm doing not too bad another Blog so soon after yesterday, 

must admit, I have been feeling guilty of not being around lately.

So today's post is Beading, I so enjoy going to the group, it's such a great 

bunch of girls, we have a laugh, and the beading is so relaxing

 well,  once you grasp the pattern.

Skinny Bracelet II

Ingredients: 

 Around the Beading table

Beads: Seed Beads

4mm Fire-polished beads

4mm bicone crystals

beading thread and clasp 

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Snuggles

Sorry for not posting these past few weeks, real life has taken over, again.

  Have had a busy 2 weeks,  one of which I was off work on holiday, you'd have thought I might have managed to catch up with blog land, but that didn't happen, mind you, nor did half the jobs on my to do list!  Where does time go??  Then last week I had to adapt with being back to work, and it was a busy week of Birthdays, and Anniversaries so that meant some partying and visiting!  I think I need another holiday.  Ha ha, if only :-)

I better get on with the post, this is a Less is More style Anniversary card which I had made last year using another cuty Penny Black Stamp!

Ingredients: 

A4 White Card cut & folded to square card blank.

 Penny Black Stamp - Snuggles

Prisma Pencils

Lacy Square Nestie

Ink and sponge to edge the Nestie frame

Ribbon & Gem to embellish

Computer sentiment

Hopefully you won't have such a 

long wait for the next post, but I can't promise got another busy week ahead  of me!

Misty

Evening!  

Have been on a "mini-break" as one of my friends would say, 

Hubby and I were away for 1 night,  we stayed in lovely Hotel in Broughty Ferry, Dundee

and today we visited St Andrews!  Had a great time, but blimey it was Brrrr.

  I was thankful I had packed my boots, and gloves - but could

have done with woolie hat too!  The joys of Scottish Weather.

Now that I am home, indoors, nice and warm

it's time to give you a post of the day!

This little beauty was my Niece's birthday card from Last year,

she loves Horses!

And a close up photo

of the Rosette I made! 

Ingredients:

Card: - A4 white card, cut & folded to square easel

Image:  Misty from Digital Stamp Boutique

Coloured: Prisma Pencils

Embossing Folder: Flowers by Crafts Too - on green paper

Wording - Typed on PC

Rosette:  hand made by me using paper, folded into fan and joined 2 ends together, 2 offcuts glued to back and cut into ribbon points.  Also used a small Circle Nestie to finish centre.

Scalloped Fiskars scissors to edge image & wording, both matted & layered.

Edge of card inked

Gems to decorate flower centres.

Horse shoe was drawn and hand cut!

One delighted niece!  

And below

The Gift Tag for her present!

Sorry photo not 100% clear :-(

Additional Ingredients

Oval Nestie - used out of box method

Oval Scalloped Nesties

That's all for tonight folks,  take care if your out and about!

Waste not, want not

You maybe remember an earlier post, I think I headed it I'm not square, well that is where I got the inspiration for this card!

Would you believe this card has been made 

using my off cuts.  

Ingredients:

Base card Easel - made using Labels (nestie)

Tim Holts, distressing ink, Antique Linen

Numbers cut from Sizzix Die, 

then embossed using Crafts Too, budding vine embossing folder

Marianne Creatable dies - flowers and leaf

Also punched flowers and leaf 

Sentiment done on computer

Button & Pearls to embellish

Sneak Peak

.............What have I been up too?

I will be back soon to let you see what this was for!!  How Cruel amI???

Golfer

Good Evening Blogland,

A Quick post of a card I made earlier this year!

This was inspired from Papercraft inspirations magazine 

(sorry, not sure which issue - late 2011/early 2012 at a guess)

Ingrdients:

Golfer - template from Papercraft Inspirations Magazine

Golf Flag - drawn freehand by me

Sentiment typed on Computer

The golf bag - Button

Golf ball - white brad

Grass - Green paper, has been embossed using a fiskars embossing folder

Sky - paper from Pink Petticoat