You're the Cream in my Coffee

Hope you are all having a good weekend so far.  The weather here is glorious again today tho I have yet to step outside the house - I have had a terrible night time cough for weeks now and all the coughing has made all my muscles in my chest and back ache, and to top it all today my incisional hernia is giving me pain too.  You nurses and medics out there will know what I am harping on about - they are not sure if it is epigastric or incisional but because its not bothering me too much are leaving it well alone for now.

My card for today I am not entirely happy with - dunno why - just something not quite right about it.

I have followed Sketch Saturday's fab sketch and followed Totally Papercrafts photo inspiration ( I do enjoy these colour challenges as it makes me think out of the box so to speak).

Ingredients:~

Luv a Latte rubber stamp from Sugar Nellie;

PMs~ Ivory, Blush, Oatmeal, Dusky Pink, Caramel, Cinnamon, China Blue, Cornflower, Honeycomb, Spice, Cool Grey 1 & 2;

Gingham DP is Pink Petticoat, Floral DP is Melody Ross, other card from stash;

Sentiment CG and

Sissix Embossing Folder.

Challenges:~

Chocolate Coffee and Cards Drink Up;

Totally Papercrafts Photo Inspiration and

Sketch Saturday No 196 (great sketch girls).

Butterflies for Mam

Isn't it strange how I HATE the commercialism of special days like Xmas, Mothers Day etc but I love making special cards for those days?  I suppose in reality what I actually hate is the fact that many people don't appreciate the people in their lives and they should.  Life is too short for them to be appreciated only on special days - I think I am having a reflective day as I have been thinking about my Dad after reading a buddy's blog yesterday and how I can't send him one of my cards - shame he never saw any of them as I didn't make cards back in 2000.  He would have said what a waste of money those pens are - did you know the £shop has them for 10 for £!?!!  PMs I am talking about here my friends not felt tip pens as he would have seen them.....

On a more positive note, my card for today is made using 3 colours I would never have imagined could work but hey they do I think.  Baby Blue, Orangesicle and Basil - well my take on them I am afraid.  Hard to read my sentiment on first pic but you get the jist...

This next pic is a close up of this older Saturated Canary rubber stamp I bought AGES ago from Funky Kits when they were originally released.

 And finally the completed card - looking at it now on the screen the colours don't really match but in real life they look fab so apologies fro poor quality of pic.

Ingredients:~
Butterfly Girl rubber stamp from Sugar Nellie range at Funky Kits;
Prisma Pencils;
DPs are Pink Petticoat and Papermania Hampstead;
Gems from stash and Die is a Sizzix one I bought recently in a sale.


Challenges:~
Moving Along with the Times Layers;
Paperplay Challenge For a Mother;
Willow Sketchie Anything Goes;
Cute Card Thursday Things with Wings;
The Sugar Bowl Kraft Card plus Sketch and
Play Date Cafe No120 Colour Combo - Baby Blue/ Orangesicle and Basil.

Washday Blues for us....

Well I have been absent fro a very good reason - well not a good reason but a valid one.  Some bas#### had spent thousands of pounds on our credit card - okay I hear you say but the bank will sort it out.  Yes BUT whoever did this dirty also changed the address with the Bank.  The whole matter has been passed to the Fraud Squad at the Bank but this has knocked us for 6 as nobody can tell us how this was done and what other info this fraudster has on us.  We are ultra careful with shredding documents, have up to date internet security and only buy from reputable websites so it is a case of wait and see. So currently we have no access to our Credit card (damn wanted to spend some readies today!!) and limited access to out current account.

Graham and I have been shaken by this horrid episode and have both been sick with worry and not sleeping since the weekend hence my absence from Blogland and crafting.  He was supposed to be in Newcastle on business yesterday and today but had to stay at home and make loads of phone calls to various people.  Oh I long for the days when the only way you could access your money was by going into the bank yourself!!

I have a card to share with you guys today - made it on Saturday before all this was flagged up to us ~

 I used on my new Saturated Canary digis here and coloured her with my PMs - dunno where I am getting this red hair fetish from but I am loving it.  Think the vibrancy cheers me up :)

Ingredients:~
Washday digi image from Saturated Canary;
PMs~ Caramel, Cinnamon, Henna, Spice, Blush, Ivory, Dusky Pink, Pastel Pink, Dusky Rose, Antique Pink, China Blue, Blue Denim, Cool Grey 1 and Marsh Green;
Clouds added by using handmade paper template and blue chalk;
DPs are from Pink Petticoat and ribbons and gems from stash. 


I am entering this into Sketch Saturday's current challenge - don't have the energy to look for any more but may come back later to edit this post.

A Scrapbook page to share with you.....

Some of you already are aware that our daughter Lynne is now 30 weeks pregnant but has had a really poorly pregnancy but now that she is on the home straight so to speak, I am free to let you all see this adorable addition to our family.....I have uploaded it to my 'new' gallery on Daisytrail but don't know how to link that yet so sorry folks.