You are the Best

Oh my giddy aunt - it is absolutely blooming freezing here today.  Before I show you today's card I have some good news for you all - Lynne and Michael have finally found a flat and signed the lease etc at the weekend so we have spent the weekend getting it ready for them by cleaning, gathering furniture etc.  They are moving in on Thursday so it will be a massive wrench for me to see my 'baby' leaving home finally at the age of almost 27  years!!  We are just hoping it all works out for them both with the flat and the baby due in 8 weeks.  Its not the ideal start to a 'family' but hey ho that is the way they have chosen to do it so we have to accept it and support them.  It is a 10 min drive away and about 20 mins on bus so far enough away but close enough for Granny (me) to visit regularly ha ha.

Big empty nest approaching very rapidly - yikes!  The excitement of the baby will lessen that awful feeling for me hopefully - now so bad for Graham as he is Lynne's stepdad but they are very close so expect to have to comfort him too at some point :(

Onto today's card which I made in my freezing craft room - the way the wind is blowing means despite the heating being on it is still cold up here as the window sticks away out in a triangle. Brrrrr.....

 I have coloured my image with my PMs  & FMs.....

 Added a sentiment.....

 Completed card - hopefully you like what you see my friends.....

Ingredients:~
Thank You digi image from Saturated Canary;
PMs :~ Blush, Dusky Pink, Pastel Pink, Buttercup, Mustard, Pastel Yellow & Pastel Blue;
FMs :~ Blue Grey1, Glacier Blue,Cadet Blue, Pink Lavender & Honeydew;
DP I think if from My Mind's Eye;
Pale Pink handcrafted card from The Works;
Sentiment from Personal Impressions;
Doily from pack I bought online;
Flowers and pearl gems from stash.

Challenges:~
Saturated Canary No 12 Use a Doily;
Passion for Promarkers Pastel Colours and
Sketch Saturday (fabulous sketch girls).

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.

Love to You

Looking at various blogs I can see that loads of you have bought Krista's new digis and I have chosen one of my newbies for this wee card ~  I bought Books and Bedhead, Washday & Whispy and have to say they are even prettier in the flesh so to speak.


This circular card shape I made using a Sissix Framelit and then cut several smaller shapes with the smaller dies.  I coloured the digi with my PMs & FMs then mounted her 3D like with glue, added ribbon and a CG sentiment.

Ingredients:~
Whispy digi from Saturated Canary;
PMs ~ Blush, Ivory, Oatmeal, Dusky Pink, Pastel Green, Duck Egg, Spice, Caramel, Cinnamon, Henna and FMs ~ Aquamarine, Surf Blue, Antique White and Honeydew;
DPs are from Melody Ross 12x12pack;
Ribbon from stash.

Challenges:~
Crafty Catz Favourite Things - can you guess mine is Krista's digi at the mo?;
Sketch Saturday Current Sketch;
Saturated Canary Not square or rectangle;
Totally Papercrafts Ribbons and/or Bows and
Sarah Hurley Use Die Cuts.

Thanks so much for visiting today and do come back again very soon. :)X

Using Krista's fab freebie

Many of you are lovers of Saturated Canary images and I managed to get this fab freebie with Krista's newsletter last week - I know some of you had problems getting it but mine came thru ok -

 I coloured her with my Prismas after viewing a fab tutorial (details in a prev post) and I have to say that my colouring has improved now (GAWD My head is getting too big for my neck now!)  Just need to get a rubber ordered for any more wee mistakes I make he he!

The DP is from a cheap pack I bought somewhere around the SE. I am entering this into Willow Sketchie's Sketch Challenge (have to try to get back into the groove of entering challenges - not been having much inclination since Xmas - family problems been getting in the way - but hopefully after my win over at Saturated Canary this will spur me on now.....

Janessa from Krista

Well here we are and another week of 2012 has flown past...I just don't know where my time goes these days.  Lynne and I had a few days up in Scotland with my Mam last weekend and a fab time was had by all. No craft shops visited unfortunately tho - just didn't have the time and it was very cold and wet while we were there.

We are busy trying to take all the bathroom tiles off - not done them since we moved in 12 years ago - and to say we are sick fed up of them already is putting it  mildly - they seem to be cemented on not just grouted:( and it is taking us forever.  And now this morning I feel fluey again - don't know if my immune system is down at the mo but been feeling pretty ill for some time now - just can't put my finger on it but seeing my GP on 14th Fen for something else so will get her to check my bloods etc.

Onto my card for today - I am still loving Krista's digis - which I have made using Janessa and coloured her with my Prismas.  Not quite got the hang of them yet but getting there following this fabulous tutorial for colouring hair and skin.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:~
Saturated Canary Dies and/or punches and
Sketch Saturday.

Hoping all my followers are well and enjoying 2012 so far :)