Starting to feel human again!

What a week!
I spent last weekend in Belgium at the Formula One and it was brilliant!

We left late on Wednesday night (last week) and were on the track for the pit walk on Thursday!

I met Lotus driver Jarno Trulli

I was on pole position!

The whole weekend was fantastic - even with the rain! And boy did it rain!

I got to see my 2 favourite drivers race this year (neither of them were there last year)

All time favourite, Michael Schumacher

And current favourite (bordering on obsession!) Felipe Massa

As well as a few other beauties!

This is me and my brother on the run off area at La Source - the first corner, with the start/finish straight in the background and the run down to Eau Rouge behind us

And here's just a bit more rain if you didn't get that it was wet!

We woke up at 6am Belgian time (5am our time) on monday morning and didn't get to bed until 1pm on Tuesday and I couldn't really sleep, even after being awake for 32 hours! So I'm just starting to get into a routine now.

Over-all, a very tiring, wet and noisy weekend, but I enjoyed every minute of it!

Bye for now!

Something A Little Different

Thought I'd better blog this before it gets too old! I keep forgetting if I've blogged something or not, so I'm gonna have a look through and see what I've missed.

This is to start...

You may remember that my cousin got married a couple of weeks ago, well I had in my head that I wanted to make something for wrapping the present so it would match my card - something to attach the tag to rather than just sticking it onto the present. My original idea wouldn't work as the present I ended up buying was too big, so I came up with this...

It's made using a piece of A4 card and papers to match the card. I'm still not sure if I really like it or not, but at least it adds a bit of interest to the plain red wrapping paper!

You can't actually tell from any of the pictures that I took, but it wraps around to the back, folding right over the corner. I attached my previously made tag to it and covered the hole with a wee heart.

Here's the whole set including the box for the card.

I'm entering this into 2 challenges...

The Alphabet Challenge Blog are on P for Punches - I used a scallop edge punch from Stampin' Up!.
And new challenge blog, Craft Your Days Away are looking for your favourite things. Well in this we've got 2 favourite things - Love and pressents!!

I hope you liked it, thanks for dropping by!

Ice Cream Sunday!

It's Sunday evening and that means the weekend is away again! I don't understand why the weekend goes by so quickly, although the weeks go by so quickly too so I suppose the weekend has to as well!

Anyway, I made a card today (well, it was really yesterday!).

I used one of Kenny K's gorgeous digi's - I bought 4 of them a few weeks ago and have coloured a couple of them - this one is Troublemaker. I've since seen his fabulous new ones and I want them all!

Here's my card...

The design paper is from the DCWV Rockstar stack and I embossed the background in my cuttlebug.

I wanted to use some pom-poms on the card to match the ice cream, and I knew I had a basket full of them somewhere, but after searching for ages I discovered that I had none in the right colour. So I used some ribbon and sewed around the edges and pulled the thread tight which sort of made wee scoops of ice cream! I still think pom-poms would've looked better.

I used a Marianne Design swirl on the corners.

I coloured the image with my copics

Skin: E41, E00, E21, R02

Hoodie: R20, RV21, RV11

Jeans: c6, C8, C10

Trainers & Ice Cream: W1, W3, W5, RV34, RV09

Hair: C7, C9, 110

Eyes: YG13

Shading: C2

This is the inside - plain and simple but the embossed paper ties it with the front of the card.

I followed the sketch on The Sweet Stop.

I've been having major diffs getting pictures onto my post. It wouldn't let me resize my images the way I normally do and they were too big, so I had to upload them differently and the quality is terrible! I'm hoping it's just a wee blip and will sort itself out - otherwise I have some homework to do!

ETA, I tried my usual way of adding my pics this morning at work and it worked! Maybe windows 7 doesn't like the way I do things!

I hope you like the card, thanks for dropping by!

Crafty Emma's DT call!

Crafty Emma is having a DT call for her new challenge blog which she is setting up to coincide with her new shop!
Go have a peek

Thanks for dropping by!

Men, so challenging!

I thought I'd better hurry and get this blogged, before I miss the challenge this week on the Alphabet Challenge Blog - it's M for Men. This was my friend Andria's last week as guest designer on the blog - well done Andria!

I hope it's ok to enter this card as I confess I didn't actually make it this week! I made it a few weeks ago for my friends dad who turned 60, but I haven't blogged it yet, so hopfully I'm not breaking any rules!

Here's my card

I couldn't think what to put on the card and after some inspiration from my MAC mates, I thought a wine bottle and glass would suit.
The problem was then that I don't actually have a stamp like that! So I asked my wonderfully talented and artistic brother if he could draw something for me (please note the praise and hopefully he'll do something for me gain sometime!!).
And after a not very good description from me, he drew exactly what I wanted!

I felt really under pressure to get it right as I only had the one image - so no mistakes! My colouring wasn't perfect, but I was happy enough with the result. I used my copics to colour it.

I printed my sentiments onto paper and cut them into strips, distressed them a bit and attached them with a staple and foam pads.

The design papers I used are from my Tim Holtz pad - a nice selection of manly colours!

A few big metal brads and the card was done.

This is the inside

It was delivered with the bottle of Moet, so I'm not sure how much attention the card got!!

I hope you like it, thanks for dropping by!

A nightmare of a day...

I've been having a horrible day today from when I got into my car to go to work, switched on the engine and you would've thought it was a washing machine full of stones!
Thankfully, where I work there is a garage and one of the mechanics was able to come out to look at it and long story short, I wasn't able to drive it.
The next thing I had to think about was getting it fixed - and I only have 3 days left on my warranty, but at least I'm 3 days on the right side of the warranty!
So, even longer story short, I'm now carless with a hire car coming (hopefully) in the next hour or so.

So please wish Bert well!

Anyway, on to a card.
This is the second card I've made for my cousin who's getting married at the end of the month.

I used the lovely sketch, that I think I might use again, from Just Magnolia.

Here's my card

I used this Tilda, who I think is meant to be a princess, but I thought she could get away with being a bride! I coloured her with my Copics.

The hearts are die cuts - a mixture of nesties and Cuttlebug. I glazed the inside of the top heart for a bit of bling! Flowers and ribbon from stash - the wee metal embellishments on the ribbon is from Stampin' Up! and the papers are Basic Grey, Sugar Rush.

And this is the inside

I also made a tag to match the card

Using the same heart dies as on the main card. I did glaze the top heart on the tag too, but not until after I took the photo.

And here's the set

Again, I made a box, but haven't taken a photo, I just added more of the same hearts onto it.

I hope you like it, thanks for dropping by!

I DO still know how to work this thing!

Hello everyone, I'm back!

I can't believe it's been 4 months since I posted anything! All I can say is that I've had the longest case of total crafters block ever! But it's slowly been coming back to me and over the last few weeks I've actually made a few cards! So, I thought I might ease myself back into the blogging world too.

And what better way than with a challenge! My friend Andria is a guest designer for the next couple of weeks on the Alphabet challenge blog, so I thought I'd show my support and enter it this week. The challenge is L for lace.

My cousin is getting married at the end of the month and lace and weddings are meant to be together!

So here's my card

I used the gorgeous stamp from the greeting farm coloured with copics.

Another challenge for me was colouring the darker skin tone, I'm afraid I'm not used to doing that so I'll have to practise a bit more.

I'm afraid I have no idea what brand the papers are - I've had them for ages and there was no name written on them.

This is the inside, complete with a little pocket for the gift (money!)

I have since made a box to go along with it, but haven't taken a picture of it.

I hope you like it, thanks for dropping by!