Getting all Nautical!

Hi there - just a quick post to let you know about the current challenge over at Glitter Geeks Blog the theme this week is anything nautical - here is my DT card:

I say card, but its actually an ATC!  I have never really thought about making them before but the lovely Lisa Mason  (her work is fantastic - I will link her blog soon) posted an ATC swap in a FB group that I am in and I had a go now I am hooked! 

I have made lots more and will post some pictures soon, but its time for tea so I better go and feed my hoard :D - thanks for reading and please take a look over on the Glitter Geeks blog and join in with the challenge.  TTFN xx

Easter Holidays

It always surprises me how quickly time seems to pass these days.  I promised to come back to tell you all about my trip to the GNPE in Harrogate but it seems to have passed me by again!!  Kids are off for the easter holidays so trying to keep them entertained is taking up more time too, also the long lie in's while nice, are eating into my day!!  Must do better at getting up when the alarm goes off :D.

Now on to all things crafty.  Well the trip to Harrogate - we had a lovely trip down courtesy of the lovely Tracy and we stopped in at Tebay services on the way for yummy coffee and cake, this travelling is hard work you know :D.  We did oooohh and aahhh over all the lovely villages we passed through when we came off the motorway and into yorkshire.  It is such a lovely part of the country.  I was lucky enough to live in Leeds for 5 years and loved every minute of it.  The people are lovely and the countryside is too. 
Anyhooo we arrived at tea time at a lovely hotel just in time to drop our bags off and go down to the bar for a wee (ok large!!) glass of wine and then on to a scrumptious tea - Starter of whole Camembert with crusty bread to dip into it, followed by garlic king prawns on crusty bread (I like my bread).  It was delish..... After tea we made out way to the bar and there was lots of chat, mainly me as I had a few to many to drink (apologies ladies).

Due to the copious amount of wine I had drunk I fell asleep very, much to my room mates disgust as I was snoring very loudly :(Sorry Gill) but in my defence and much to her delight (but only as I woke up) I woke up at 5am due to pain as I had developed a very bad dose of tonsillitis :( I took some painkillers and had a warm cuppa and eventually fell back asleep, but the rest of the trip was a bit of a wash out as I really was not well :( I was living between painkillers.  But despite being poorly we made it to the GNPE and had a lovely few hours wandering around the various stalls and spending a little bit of cash.  Here is what I bought:

The K and Co kit was a real bargain and I have been tempted to buy the papers on a few occasions :) the usual stamps (as I am addicted) and some marino wool tops for my needle felting.

To be honest we did not stay as long as we could have, but I think Tracy and Gill could see I was struggling and we cut the trip a little short - sorry girls hopefully we can do it again sometime xx

With some of the papers from the K and  Co kit I made my DT card for the April Fools/Humour theme and you can see that below with the House Mouse image.  Last weeks challenge was to make something which represented easter.  I am not a religious person and do not send easter cards, however I set myself a challenge to make a card with an egg shape in it and this is what I came up with:

I cut an egg shape out of a bit of copy paper and inked through the aperture and then stamped through it too.  All the stamps come from Stampin Up.  I was quite pleased with the result, however my OH decided that the egg shape could have been better :D

Well I think this is a long enough post for just now - I will be back later to show you my DT card for the next Glitter Geeks challenge.  TTFN and thanks for reading - Vanessa x

Busy times!

Wow, what a busy few weeks I have had - had a fundraising event for my children's primary school and have been bust making jewellery for that.  I have also had lots of family birthday's and card order too.  I have been so rushed off my feet that I did not have time to blog, but now its all over I am back.  Here are a few of my makes over the last couple of weeks:

All of the above were made for customer orders.  I love the Monster digi stamps on the top card.  I bought these from the Digi Stamp Boutique and you can buy them here .

The middle and bottom card were made using lots of products from Stampin Up - I must admit that I am a Stampin Up addict.  I love their products and find it very hard to resist them, much to my husband's dismay - he knows when that catalogue comes out or the postie knocks at the door that it's more than likely more SU stashcoming my way :D

I have been busy making my DT entries for the Glitter Geeks too - there have been 3 challanges since I last blogged and here are my entries which hopefully inspired our followes to join in :)

This was for the Mother's Day Challange and the image comes from Jelly Park - I really loved this image and reminded me of dressing up in my mum's clothes when I was younger.  I remember her chasing me down the street as I had on one of her good pairs of high heels :D

This was made for the Disney Challange and also fitted in nicely to a customer order too.  I had a message from the customer saying that it was well received and now has pride of place in a frame.  I was really pleased to hear how much it was liked - its so nice to get feedback on my crafty makes.

And the last one for today

This is for the current Glitter Geeks April Fools Challenge which you can join here . The aim is to make a card which is humerous and fun.  I found it difficult chosing an image for this entry, but then what better than House Mouse.  House Mouse images make me smile every time I see them and there is a mischevious element to them.

Well that's it from me for now - I will be back during the week to tell you all about my trip to Harrogate to the GNPE.  Hope I have not bored you with my ramblings and you have enjoyed looking at my cards.  Thanks for taking the time to stop by :)  Vx

Spring Time over at the Glitter Geeks

Well its spring time over at the Glitter Geeks Blog as this is the inspiration for this weeks blog challange.  It was so difficult to judge last weeks entries as they were all so fantastic and so many of them too :) its great to see all the different takes on the theme 'Song Titles' and I was truly inspired by the cards that our members entered into the competition :)

This is my DT card for this weeks challange:

I really love these images from Bugaboo Stamps and you can buy them Here   The papers I have used on this card are from DCWV and HOTP.  They have been sitting around in my craft stash for ages and I thought that they fitted so well with the theme of spring for this challenge. 

The layout for this card with inspired by a stetch challange which is taking place over on The Craft Cupboard - if I am every stuck for ideas or Ms Mojo has gone on her holidays I always find that a sketch will give me the kick start I need.

Well I better get back to the crafting.  Between birthday cards for friends and family and commissions I have over 20 cards to make so I better get busy making.

Thanks for popping by :) 

Vanessa x

Glitter Geeks Challenge - Song Titles

Well the day has arrived - today is my first time ever of providing a card as part of a Design Team.  Excited......erm just a LOT :)  This weeks theme is a card which is inspired by a song title.  I had loads of ideas and found it hard to whittle it down to one, but eventually I went for Madness - I like Driving In My Car!  This is what I came up with:

The image is a digi download from Scrapbook sisters and the backing paper I made using images from the highway code.  I coloured the car digi using promarkers.

Why not pop on over to the http://glittergeeks.blogspot.com/ and see what the other DT members have come up with and then have a go.  It would be great to see your creations.  Now I really must work out how to turn this photo!!  Thanks for popping by x

Whoop Whoop - Exciting News

Just a quick post to tell you my exciting news!!  The lovely Glitter Geeks have given me a place on their design team - I am very excited about it and am going to do my best at giving some inspiration for the weekly challenges.  It also gives me an excuse to make more cards :D 

All I need to do now is really get my head around all the ins and outs of Blogger - might need some help with that one :D 

I am off to have a celebratory drink of Vino (any excuse and I will gladly take it).

So watch this space for my first Glitter Geeks DT creation xx

How time flies between blog posts :-/

I don't know why I get out of the habit of blogging - because to be honest I can chat endlessly about what I have done - shown by the amount of time I spend on Facebook and Twitter (well when my laptop lets me).  I suppose some of the reasons that I have not blogged is that I have not been doing that much crafting recently as I have not been feeling well enough - had a lot of coughs and sneezes which resulted in me hurting my ribs, strong painkillers and a sleepy me.  Glad to say I am finally on the mend and starting to get back into the crafting.

Been making a few cards for some sketch challenges and some for comissions too:

This final one was for my daughters birthday - she loves Monster High so I just had to get the Rock Princess Cricut cartridge to make this card ;) really great cartridge with lots on it so I am really glad that I HAD to buy it. LOL

My other crafty makes include these:

 The top picture is a ruffle scarf - I was inspired by a knitting programme on Create and Craft and luckily the same week was in Hobbycraft (as you do) and the yarn was on offer so I just had to have it :)

The middle picture is a present for my friend who recently had a baby.  After I posted a picture of it on Facebook, someone local to where I live asked me to make a Navy and Orange blanket to go with her new buggy :)

Well I won't bore you for any longer as I think I have put on enough photo's for the moment.  I will be back soon - honest!! :D

Thanks for taking the time to look/read x