Happy New Year to All

Good Afternoon Crafters, I sincerely hope you all enjoyed your Christmas ours was very quiet, just myself, hubby and the dog, who thoroughly enjoyed opening her present we had bought her.
Now I have something I want to share with you, just before Christmas I was inspired to see that Hunkydory had bought out some beautiful stamps and co-ordaining dies and I thought I would give them a go.

They are called edge dies and I find them so useful for quick cards, as you can see I have used each of the stamps twice and then coloured them with a mixture of alcholic pens and polychromos coloured pencils.
After I finished coloured the stamps I used some backing papers from my stash to pop behind the coloured images. For the time being I have left of any sentiment so that I can put that on when I need to used them.
Here are the Stamps and Dies I used

Moonstone Spring Blooms Dies

Moonstone Spring Blooms Stamps

Im really pleased at how well they stamp and are really easy to use, if you click on the links below each of the dies and stamps they will take you directly to the Hunkydory website for you to buy them.
These cards are to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://alwaysfunchallenges.blogspot.com/ 
http://colouringinscrapland.blogspot.com/ 
https://craftingfromtheheartchallengeblog.blogspot.com/ 
https://cutencraftychallengeblog.blogspot.com/ 
http://dreamvalleychallenges.blogspot.com/ 
http://getcreativechallenges.blogspot.com/ 
http://thepapernestdollschallenge.blogspot.com/ 
http://cutedaisymay.blogspot.com/ 

Dr Digi's Birthday Cards

I think this is most likely going to be the last post here on my No.2 Challenge this year, can you image how quickly this year has gone by Im having a problem coming to terms with that fact as its only a matter of 3 weeks now before we start a New Year and big problems with this damn Brixit Im not looking forward to all the discussions that are likely to take place before it actually happens or if it does.
Anyway here are the last two cards I managed to get done, as Im now going to take break till 2019 so you wont find anymore posts here till then. Here is No. 1 and underneath No.2 hope you like the results, not sure who they will eventually go to but I hope they like them and dont get to hung up with the what they stand for.

As you can image this is a right Hangover one

And this one is to mark someone we know though Im not sure I can give it to her, mind you, you need more than the air freshener after she has used the loo, you need to open doors and windows luckily she is only a visitor so not a everyday problem,

I think they are a right laugh and I printed them onto white card and then used two different sets of dies to cut them out. The papers are from Craftwork Cards paper pack and I used a Martha Stewart border punch to give it a bit more definition.

I hope you all have a fabulous Christmas, see you in the New Year.

This Card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-

http://addictedtostamps-challenge.blogspot.com/ 

https://craftingbydesigns.blogspot.com/ 

http://craftycreationschallenges.blogspot.com/

http://carabbiemomentsofcraft.blogspot.com/

https://thatscraftychallenges.blogspot.com/

http://craftysentiments.blogspot.com/

https://digichoosday.blogspot.com/

http://lemonshortbreadchallenge.blogspot.com/

http://ttcrd.blogspot.com/

http://tuesdaythrowdown.blogspot.com/

 

 

Its been 3 weeks now since I posted anything

I dont know about you but I completely forget to update this blog as I do have a lot to do with my other blog No.1 so occasionally I remember that I ought to add a new post, so today I have my second set of letters for you to see for my No.3 great grandson, he will be 1 on January 1st so Im well ahead of myself.

As you can see I have actually used a couple of the letters that I used in my first set of letters but Im pleased with the end result, I hope you are to.

Creating something special for my great grandson

For the last week I have been creating something special for one of my great grandsons, as he was 3 on Saturday, I managed to get a number done for him first and then I went on to create a set of name  plates for him, hope you like them

This was firstly printed from the Karen O'Gorman Flora and Fauna book of ABC and she has a  Number Plates book to, she has created some beautiful colouring images, and I bought some downloads then printed them and coloured them as above.
I used combination of Prismacolour, Karisma and Lyra pencils.

Update on my garden and latest Xmas Card

Good Morning Crafters, I know I know Im so lack at writing up posts for this Challenge Blog I dont know about you but there comes a time when you are not quite so enthusiastic as you used to be at keeping these Blogs up to date, Ive rather lost my mojo on it.
But on the whole I have been busy with my No.l blog as I had to carry on with writing up the Challenge blogs for The Paper Shelter and of course Pink Gem Designs, also I had visitors at the beginning of August and now here we are almost into September, where has the year flown to?
Anyway I promised you a update on my fence and the garden in front and Im thrilled to show you its really going well even my forsythia has decided to grow again so before you can say jack robinson know doubt it will be as tall as the fence.

Even the grass is doing well, though with a lot of water and loads of grass seed, mind you hubby has a nasty habit of clipping the roots if he goes mad with the strimmer, I now prefer to use the shears to clip the long pieces. The slop of the grass is very dangerous to be honest and with us both in our 70s its a real hazard when cutting it. At the top on the left is where we keep our bins and last year I managed to get hubby to agree to create a little path so we dont have to balance on the grass to fill the bins and our dog loves to strut along it like lady muck, not sure why but she does make us laugh, shes patrolling her domain.
Here is a photo of my fushia's which are also my delight, I do love to see all the colours I hope you like them to.

I was rather surprised at how well they survived the very cold winter we had at the beginning of the year but luckily they did so did the front ones to.
I think its time now to show you the latest Xmas cards I created a few weeks ago, I have been busy with others but never got around to actually photoing them.

These are both created with Chloes stamps and I actually coloured them both with my pencils.
These cards are to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://abcchristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/
http://christmasatsweetstampinchallengeblog.blogspot.com/
http://thehollyandivychristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/
https://craftingbydesigns.blogspot.com/
http://craftycreationschallenges.blogspot.com/
http://craftygalscornerchallenges.blogspot.com/
http://carabbiemomentsofcraft.blogspot.com/
https://www.ellibellescorner.com/
https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/
http://craftysentiments.blogspot.com/

 

Happy 1st of July

Can you believe that we have lost another month and here we are on the 1st of July and today Im posting a few Xmas cards I make a few weeks ago, they are all slightly different and I hope you like them,

They are made with Inkalicious and Hobby Art stamps with a ornament mask. I used white inkpad for the background and a white pen for the snow and smoke.
I hope you like the results.
This Card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://52cct.blogspot.com/
https://crafterscastle.blogspot.com/ 
http://craftyhazelnutschristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/ 
http://justusgirlschallenge.blogspot.com/ 

A birthday card for one of my Great Grandsons

Well for the last two days hubby and I have been busy re-instating our garden after we had the local housing association install a brand new fence and yes we did pay for it, and if anyone wants to know it wasn't cheap, it was shy of £400. but luckily he did do a grand job and I'm thrilled with the end result as it not only looks a 100 times better it also keeps my dog from wandering in to one jungle of a garden and onto the road.

As you can see it wasn't the easiest of jobs to do as we have a very bad slope and because both hubby and I are in our 70s we felt installing the fence was better done by a much younger person and he he did a good job to and very quickly but it did leave us to tidy up the borders and for hubby to construct the wooden decking over the drain cover, that does still need to be stained but I'm thrilled it all.
We still got to patch up the grass but need to get some seed so hopefully that will be sometime next week with any luck.
But before I started on the garden I finished of a card Id been creating for one of my great grandsons and he loves anything to do with space.

And this was made by using the Lisa Norton dies, and its mounted on mirri card which you just see through the holes from the Solar die at the back.
I hope you like the result, not sure I like my reflection though, hope it doesn't spoil the effect.
This Card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://cas-ualfridays.blogspot.com/
https://colourcrazychallenge.blogspot.com/
https://crafting-with-friends.blogspot.com/
http://craftycatzweeklychallenge.blogspot.com/
http://creativefingerschallengeblog.blogspot.com/
http://www.josscrapshack.com/
http://alohafridaychallenges.blogspot.com/
http://pattiescreationschallenge.blogspot.com/
https://polkadoodle.blogspot.com/
http://qkrstampede.blogspot.com/
http://simplycreatetoo.blogspot.com/
https://simplypapercraftsforalloccassions.blogspot.com/