The Little Chef-Bradley

For the next two weeks at Alphabet Challenge it is the choice of Tammy from the DT who chose KITCHEN. We would like to see any type of project with either food or drink as the main focus on the project. I decided it was time I got back to scrap booking the 8 x 8" scrapbooks I have for each of my 6 grandchildren. this is of Bradley, way back in 2005, tossing the first pancake he had helped Grand dad to make. It landed safely in the pan. I made the Chef's hat by folding white paper, the other small embellishments were acquired from the kitchen in my large dolls house. I look forward to seeing your Kitchen projects over the next few weeks. Have fun.

Ashee Digi Stamp

This week at ATCs  & Cards with Attitude we are being kindly  sponsored by several Digi Stamp providers. The little character you see above is called Ashee from Anita's Digital Stamps. Please see all details and contacts for the sponsors on the main blog.I water coloured the background with mica powders, sadly the shimmer doesn't show well. I used Promarkers to colour with a little Glossy accents on the mushroom spots. I look forward to visiting you to see your creations for our challenge this week which is Anything Goes. Have fun.

Victorian Boot

This week at   Fat Pages with Attitude      I decided to use my digi stamp on a card. The theme  is Anything Goes. The sponsor is Meljens Designs. I love this Victorian boot, I coloured it with Promarkers and a Sakura silver pen. The small greeting stamp "For You" was a recent purchase - Anita's stamp for only 50p., now that's what I call good value. I still have a few to visit who took part in our last challenge, it was a wonderful response, but the terrible storm yesterday, had an effect on my computer, which wasn't working for me to make my final visits, but I will be around to the latter entries to say thanks. I look forward to visiting you to see your entries again over the next two weeks. 

The worst storm imaginable.

"Yesterday was the most unexpected and worst storm I have ever experienced in my life." This is a statement being said by just about everyone today, regardless of their ages. Everyone has a tale to tell. No matter where you lived around the Newcastle area, and beyond, you were in the eye of the storm. Thunder, very regular lightning, torrential rain and hailstones. Flooding in areas which never flood. A canoe down a street in a housing estate, folk literally swimming to get past the worst areas. Cars left, abandoned for safety reasons.
The Gateshead Metro Centre, it used to be the the largest shopping centre in UK , now I think the second largest, was evacuated at 4. 30 pm. water was gushing into the shops. If you can imagine the number of cars which were there, all leaving at the same time, a mass exodus. Some roads were found to be closed, others totally grid locked because of the volume of traffic. A little story I have is of my 17 yr old grandson who was with his girlfriend, her mother and her mother at the Metro Centre, they were amongst those who had to leave. It took them from 4. 30 p.m. to 12. 30 a.m. yes, 8 hours to travel a normal 35 minutes journey. During the return trip, they ate all of the produce they had bought for tea for when they got home. Fortunately the chicken was cooked. The important news is they all arrived home, safe and well. Everything is drying up today, some schools and businesses, traffic systems have had to close for cleaning out the debris from yesterday. Indeed yesterday was a day I don't think many will forget.

A Cute Wedding

Yes, to my followers, I've gone cute again!! I'm really liking these cute bear stamps from Fizzy Moon - this one is called Wedding Bells. I made the card for the challenge Weddings at My Time To Craft I will also be adding to a few more challenges. I dry embossed the background, coloured the stamped image with Promarkers. I added the ribbon and flowers with diamonds in the centre to embellish. The flowers are made from a wonderful little stamp I recently purchased from http://www.dreamees.org.uk it is so easy to make the flowers. I think you'll be seeing a lot of them in various colours on my future cards. 

Added to 

Try It On Tuesdays - Anything goes

heart2heart Challenges - Weddings

Creative Inspiration Paints Weddings

Wimbledon Dessert

Of course your right, what else could it be but Strawberries (Red/Dark Pink), Cream and of course mustn't forget the lawns (Green). We, at Make My Monday, are having a colour challenge, during our June Events, this week it is for Wimbledon and the delicious dessert colours, delicious if your not allergic to them.

RED, CREAM or White and GREEN

Here is my card, just to show how much I love poppies, I have two cards in a row on my blog using poppies, sorry, I didn't realise this would happen, but if you love poppies I'm sure you won't mind. I first stamped the poppies stamp twice -from Sheena Douglas Poppies and Daisies set. I then coloured the remainder of the card with DI Peeled Paint, around the edges a little of Shabby Shutters.  I dried the ink then splattered water over it, leaving it for a short while for the colour to disperse,  dried again with my heat gun. Stamped the sentiment which is from the same set. I coloured in the poppies with Promarkers. Added a shrivelled cream bow and a red button to embellish the card. I edged it with a thick black marker rather than mount onto black card. I am really looking forward to visiting you this next week, I apologise for not being able to visit as many this past week but, I am hoping to put that right this week.

Sketch Time at CD.Sunday

This week at CD. Sunday Challenges it is time for a sketch. It's a nice simple sketch for you to use to make a card or other project,  with at least one product from a CD. This gives you lots of scope. I love poppies, so this became my choice from Sheena Douglass Paint Fusion. Everything, to decorate the white card, except the card candy, the piece of red card and the punched leaf sprig, are from the CD. I find  there are some adorable floral and leaf backing papers as well as monochromatic distressed papers on this CD. I look forward to visiting your blogs, there are always wonderful cards to see and they inspire me, so I hope I can inspire you.