Farewell Dear Bonnie .....

My friends, today is a very sad day.  Majik's friend and fellow Zombiesquad member will be passing over to Heaven and her earthly body will be turned to dust.  Bonnie da Westie passed over the Rainbow Bridge last week at the tender age of 7, I can't tell you how sad this makes me.  She was selfless, always there to offer a kind paw or furry shoulder to cry on when needed, yet in life she was herself very poorly.

This is the card I sent to Hazel her Human Mum.

So, there will be a ceremony at 1.30pm GMT today in Penzance, if I were closer I would have gone, but rest assured my thoughts will be with them.

Over The Threshold

Well hello there everyone!

I have been a VERY bad blogger and indeed blog friend for several months now *slapped wrist*

I have a whole host of reasons why I haven't been around, but I won't bore you all with them on here ~ except maybe one, the house has been decorated ~ finally!  When we moved to this house 14 years ago, the guest room was a psycedelic green (it was a young boy's bedroom previously)!!  Up until a few weeks ago it was still that same green!  It is now a very relaxing 'Egyptian Cotton' which is a Dulux paint colour, in fact almost the whole house is now painted in this colour.  I cannot believe we have subjected our house guests to that 'nightmare inducing' green colour for all that time!!  On the odd occasion I have had to vacate our main bedroom (hubby snoring etc, etc) I have preferred to go and sleep on the sofa in the lounge than it that room ~ now that should have told me something.

Also, my BIG news is we have another fur baby ~ yes I know five dogs is a bit excessive, but if you could see him you would melt as well!  In fact here he is:-

His name is Oswald and he is from Romania!  He is a little street dog that was captured by the awful 'dog catchers' and thrown into one of the even more awful 'Kill Shelters' out there.  There is a truly wonderful man called Mihai Grigorie who has a rescue called M.G. Rescue out in Romania that saved Oswald (and countless others) from that hell hole.  We adopted him and he was transported 1,500 miles to be here with us and we have just had his story published in the current (August) edition of Dogs Today magazine *proud face*.

Right, after that little catch up I do have a card to share today and there is a link to the decorating story above.

This was my first commission to do some Wedding Invitations, we had the decorators come round to see what needed doing and give us a quote.  They are a Husband and Wife team, but at the time were not married, when they found out I make cards their faces lit up and said 'we need to get some Wedding Invitations made', so I asked when the Wedding was and they said 23rd May Bank Holiday weekend at that time it was 12th May, so I asked how many they were going to need and they said about ten ~ whew, I had visions of trying to knock out a couple of hundred in a week and a half!!

Anyway they sent me an image they had found on the tinter web that they liked and I came up with this digi image that I already had which was very similar, but a lot more 'classy'.  Red was chosen because her bouquet had red flowers in it and I coloured their hair to match the couple themselves.  Inside was printed with the details of the day.

Oh and they are potentially the best decorators (well much more than decorators) on the planet ~ highly recommended.

CARD RECIPE

Image: Geeky Love Couple ~ 'Over The Threshold'
Copic Markers
Cardstock: PTI Stampers Select White Cardstock
Sentiment: Computer Generated using font 'Harrington'
Ribbon & Pearls from my stash

Thank you to anyone who is still out there and stops by.

Love

Monochrome Cat

Hi everyone (is there still anyone following this blog)?

Just thought I would stop by and show you a card I made recently for my MIL Birthday which is two days after mine.

I have used a stamp from a set that was purchased from another blog person, but unfortunately there are no details as to what brand or the name of the stamp set, something is saying 'Woodware' to me, so if any one can enlighten me I would be most grateful.

CARD RECIPE

Image: Unknown stamp set ~ can anyone help me identify it?
Backing papers: DCWV All Dressed Up paper pad
Sentiment: Craftwork Cards ~ 'Mini Messages Birthday ~ Black'
Gems from stash

I would like to enter this card into the following challenge:

Fashionable Stamping Challenges ~ Challenge #85 Animals

So that's me for today ~ my hour is up!  You may well ask why only an hour?  Well, one of my friends on the Friendly Beardie club Facebook page posted that she was doing these 'hourglass' challenges 'Interested Ears'.   Basically you get a box or tin or anything really and write loads of different chores and nice things to do in an hour and put each piece of paper in the box/tin.  Each day you pull one of the bits of paper and do that chore/nice thing for an hour.  I have to say it works for me, so far I have done all my paper shredding, cleaned two ovens and have now blogged ~ fantastic idea.

Thank you for visiting and any comments you may leave.

Love

All Aboard The Party Bus!

Hi everyone,

Well it was hubby's Birthday on the 4th September and I had this Penny Black stamp lined up for his card.  He has recently bought a VW Transporter van (a modern one, not a vintage one like this) and I just had to use it.

CARD RECIPE

Image: Penny Black 'Party Bus' ~ 4324K
Copic Markers
Backing Papers: I think this was free with a magazine?
Punch: Martha Stewart 'Embossed Zigzag'
Sentiment: Lakeland Greeting Banners
Stampin' Up 'Candy Dots' ~ Regals
Rafia from stash

Funnily enough, one of my favourite Blog Ladies 'Jules' posted this card on her blog a few days after I had made this ~ Spooky!!

Okay, that's me for today ~ short and sweet.

Thank you for visiting my little blog and for any most welcome comments you may make.

Love

Happy Caravanning!

Hi everyone (if there are still any of you around)!

I have well and truly been MIA for the last month or so, it is always a busy time of year here for me as family and friends descend for annual visits, we are almost in the Cotswolds, so we are very popular with quite a few people ~ lol.  I have had my Mother here who was 80 during her visit, we had a day out in Stratford upon Avon and I was 'taken' round Shakespear's birthplace, I am afraid to say that it just isn't my 'thing' and was shocked at how much it cost, £30 odd for the two of us and my Mother got a concession for her age!!  Personally, I would have rather given the money to an animal charity, but hey ho it was her Birthday.

Right, on to todays 'share', this is a card for a friend who regularly goes caravanning with his wife and Bearded Collies, I thought the little caravan image was perfect.

CARD RECIPE

Image: Hunkydory Clearly Stamps ~ 'A Grand Day Out' coloured with Copics
Banner stamp is from a clear set of stamps (they look like Kanban stamps to me, but there are no labels on the packaging)
Sentiment: From the same Hunkydory set as above

There was another reason why I had not blogged for a while, earlier in the year we found a young wood pigeon in the garden and he was clearly not old enough to look after himself, you never see baby wood pigeons and that is because they are practically fully grown when they leave the nest.  This one had obviously fallen from his nest and we think high winds were to blame, so I googled to try and find someone I could talk to and find out what to do.  I came across a Wildlife Rescue called 'Little Foxes' who claimed to have knowledge of wood pigeon babies, so I phoned and spoke to a really lovely lady called Penny Little, who happens to be the founder of the rescue and she gave me loads of advice and with this advice and hubby's practical skills in building him a little run we managed to save him.  We couldn't return him to the nest, so opted for the run during the day and he was brought in for the night, he was christened Nelson (by Hubby) and was hilarious if you tried to pick him up as he would 'wing slap' you as much to say "get off ~ leave me alone" little did he know we were trying to save his life!

And here he is .....

Nelson

He stayed with us for a couple of weeks, until his little wings were strong enough to fly off into some nearby trees and we still see him in the garden.

I sent a Thank You card to Penny for all her advice with a picture of Nelson enclosed and the card I made had an image of a Fox on the front.  Well, a short time afterwards I received an email off Penny saying how lovely she thought my card was and asking if I would be prepared to make a limited number of cards, around 20, that she could then sell to make money for the charity!  I immediately said yes and in return she will put a little advert in her quarterly newsletter that is sent out to all her members for my cards!  So, fellow bloggers you can imagine what a mammoth task hand colouring 20 Fox images and assembling all the cards was.  They were finally posted out yesterday.

Here is a picture of them all ready to be posted out ....

If you want to know what the image is it is Sugar Nellie's 'Red'.

Well after all that I will now go and tidy up my craft room as it looks as though a bombs hit it ~ lol

Thank you for stopping by and visiting my little blog today ~ I really do appreciate it

Love

90th Birthday Card

Hi everyone,

Well here I am back again with the promised card......

I was asked by a friend for a card for her Mother who will be 90 and is also visually impaired, so the card needed to be a 'sensory' card that she could touch and feel the detail on, it was also requested that it shouldn't be too busy (meaning do not put every kind of embellishment you have on it) as that would have been confusing.

This is what I came up with.

There was no point in doing a coloured image, so I kept it fairly simple, but each element has its own texture ~ whaddya think?

CARD RECIPE

Spellbinders 'Floral Ovals'
The 90 is cut from Hobbycraft self adhesive glitter card using my brand new shiny machine the 'ScanNCut' (I absolutely love this machine)!
Doodlbug Sugar Coated Glitter Brads
Happy Birthday glittered peel-off and paper flowers from my stash

The Birthday is tomorrow, so fingers crossed it meets with approval.

Fabulous Blog Candy!

Hi everyone,

Will have a card to share in a day or so, but in the meantime I wanted to point you all in the direction of Jen Nelson's blog HERE, she has some fabulous Birthday Blog Candy up for grabs.

Be back soon ....