hi guys. this is my new grandson ry :D he was born via C section on the 30th sept weighing in at 7lb 8oz.
I'm so proud of beth and emden for bringing such a cutie in to this world

hi guy thought i would share some of the cards i've made over the past couple of days

small red card with the snowman topper, i've made this one pretty simple just using peeloffs

large the snowman card

this one took a while to do. i used modelling paste for the snow and covered that with three different sorts of glitter. the digi is one of kenny k's just using promakers to colour her in and added gems for snow falling

the snowman and the snow dog. my wonderful hubby lee bought me the dies and this is what i came up with.

hi guys this is my card for this months challenge over on simply bettys blog. I've used the fortune teller betty coloured in with promarkers, the eyes and crystal ball i've used gloss accent to give a 3d effect, her earings i've used 1mm ab gems and also round the swirls on the table cloth. i've finished the card off using larger gems on the topper and a metal flower with a clear gem in the corner, the finishing bit was the bit of ribbon along the side

hi guys i haven't updated my blog for a few days now , but i have been feeling a little sad over the past few weeks as i've not been able to get to oklahoma ready for my daughter to give birth and i so wanted to be there for her :( 

This week though lee has got to have some pain blocks in his spine to try and help him with his back.

OK the top photo is a stitch i done when my son james was a baby so it's about 25 years old  and still looking good.

The second photo, is a card i started designing tonight. and this is as far as i've got i just loved the paper and yes it is wall paper my daughter works for one of the large companies and this was half a roll that as left over so she brought it home for me to see if i could use it and it makes lovely paper and design for cards.

The third photo is of my puppy odi, wearing a hat, he was so very happy not that he looks it but his 8 so we'll forgive him for that one lol.

my card for the simply betty challege

hi guys well i've designed two cards using the franken betty from simply betty stamps.
the top one is coloured in reds and blacks,for the backing it's a downloaded paper from scrap in the city which i've wrapped in cream ribbon for the wrapped part of the challenge the feather is just another piece of the same ribbon with i dyed with ink, cut stripes up the ribbon up each end leaving a centre piece whole and the took away all the spare fibres. i finished it off with added 3 gems to each side of the card.

the second card is the frankenbetty coloured green this time, the backing papers are plain black and green to go with frenken betty, this time i remembered i had some thick medi tape left over from lee's last op, so used that to wrap this time i added extra bits here and there because it's not meant to be perfect is it? lol. but i was happy with the outcome.

hi guys hope everything is going well for everyone.

I've still been suffering badly with my pain levels but at least the new meds the gp gave me are letting me sleep at night. 

Lee's had a hospital visit and has to have spinal blocks on the 27th sept, if that doesn't work they're going to have to do an op on his spinal to help with his numbness in his legs.

anyways this is what i've been doing over the past couple of days, colouring witch mercedes by simply betty stamps

purple with green hair

pink with blue hair

 green with grey hair

this is one card i've made using one of the coloured images. i found the backing paper on http://simplysumara.com/ they have loads of free downloads on there and this was one of them. i found it went so well with mercedes that i didn;t need to add anything else to the card. the card itself is A5 in size but i'm happy with how it came out :D 

my entry for the simply b challenge for july

Hi guys I've been having a terrible flare up with my spine over the past few days but been keeping myself busy with this stunning image by simply b.(save me getting angry with myself for not been able to move about much) I thought i'd try something a little different this time and made a tag, which is something i've not done before. the image is coloured with promakers and i've got for pale colours on this one. the tag is a white base tag which i've hand cut myself ( i found some measurements online somewhere of all different sized tags so i made up templates for them ) i've used gold mirror card cut with a wave line scissors at the bottom and green glitter card with matched up wave cut. the swirly things are from the cindi loo cricut cart (i went made cutting them out the other day so got loads on hand lol) and the flowers are pink shade out of my flower box stash and i found these flowers made of seed beads in the bottom in pale blue and white so used them just to add a little sparkle there . i didn't cut the stems off the flowers though instead i wound them round a tooth pick which gave this spiral effect that i was able to move about .

anyway i'm now going to go and and work on another one see what i can come up with this time

hugs xx