Been busy baking cakes for my order, and made an extra one for Matthew's dad as we are celebrating his birthday tomorrow (a day early!) I did 1 half in a round sponge tin the other half in a square 1 and Matthew cut them to read 70 and he has since iced and decorated it, yes he did it, I told him it would be nice for him to do it as it's for his dad!

Been having a catch up with the CM&PC forum news and various blogs and came accross Han (http://hanscraftycreations.blogspot.com/) offering some fab blog candy, she is celebrating 3 months of blogging, her cards are fab so do pop over and have a look.
Made 1 very quick card (just now in fact) this is for Julie a friend from the CM&PC forum, Kerry passed on the sad news that Julie's mum had passed away earlier this week, I wanted to send a card just to let her know that she is in our thoughts.

Not sure if I'll get on tomorrow or not as we are going to be busy entertaining, but I may be able to sneak a few minutes in the afternoon who knows!!

Black, white and pink

I've been checking the Sweet Sugar blog (see link on the left) since Monday for this weeks challenge, and today it was there at last LOL there had been a mix up! I love the challenges on here, mainly because I love my Sugar Nellie stamps! The challenge was to make a card using the colours -black, white and 1 other colour. I had made a black, white and red card for Matthew as an extra valentine's and adored it to say the least, so I decided to use the same style again with the odd change here and there, mainly using pink this time instead of red! I made it bigger than c6 and it will probably be for mum and dad's wedding anniversary, that or I'll keep it for sis!

That's it just the one card for today, the time seems to have just flown by. Matthew phoned the doctors re the pain he is still getting with his back, so we had to pick up his prescription, so decided to get the shopping out of the way whilst we were out. Lillie is having one of her much loved and longed for sleep overs at nannie and grandads, so we took her over when she came out of school, ended up getting engrossed in Rosemary and Thyme on the tele so didn't get home too early, then tea and now catching up on here!!! Won't get much made again this weekend as I have my cake order to do tomorrow as the in-laws are coming for the day on Sunday, it's FIL's 70th birthday on Monday, as we won't see them on the day we thought we'd invite them for lunch and then have a little tea party for tea, Adam, Joy and the children are coming to (BIL and family) to.

Paper World Sketch

I have come accross yet another challenge type blog, they give you a sketch to work from so all you need to do is put the card together! It's sketch no.5 and it's great so I made the following 2 cards! The image on the 2nd card is from the new download from pink petticoat, it's the first download I have purchased from them, I thought with easter just around the corner it would be ideal for some of my cards, here is another card using another of the images!

Well today has been World Book Day (apparantly!) and the children had the chance to dress up as their favourite character from a book! So ok what to dress Lillie in who insisted she wanted to dress up!? She has 2 new dress up out-fits but both are a bit long and I didn't want them getting ruined at play times, so the only other thing that fitted was a witches out-fit from halloween!! So she went as good witch Glenda from the Wizard of Oz who knows if we have the book, but we have got the dvd LOL...!!!!!

Squares

The challenge over on the PTW blog is 'squares' I messed this card up by cutting my backing squares too small so I'm not really that happy with it, but the card, backing paper, image and matting layers are all square so guess it fits the criteria!! my mojo seems to have taken a bit of a holiday, whether it's because Matthew is home I don't know, I just can't seem to be bothered, it's a shame as there is a lovely prize up for grabs this time, mind you I can't compete with a lot of the fab cards being made!

Hollie was a pain at playgroup this morning, she started off well and dashed to the craft table to make todays creation, but as soon as that was done she came to me and wouldn't leave my side, and when I tried to get her to join in she wouldn't and got upset. They had a photographer there to take black and white un-posed pictures of the children (I have 2 from last year, they are so cute) I did manage to get her back over to the craft table to do a picture and she cheered up a bit, and the lady took a few pictures of her but I think they are going to be a bit 'grumpy' looking! Here are todays masterpieces, the first is a book the 2nd a picture for daddy!!!

I must admit to helping her a teeny tiny bit with the picture but the book was all her own work!! She is 3 bless her, I think she did great!

Magnolia card

Only made 1 card today and that is for the PTW challenge but I haven't uploaded it yet so that will be tomorrow. I've not had any inspiration today, maybe it's the weather!!

Here is the Magnolia Tilda card I have made for their challenge it had to be 'spring' themedI have used papers from my new Dovecraft pack (retro florals) I found it in a shop on Sunday when we were out, so glad I did the papers are lovely! Thanks to Deb for the image, we had an image swap so I could take part in the challenges.

Nothing to report today, Matthew's back has been playing him up a lot today, the physio chap said he had done it bad this time, and I can tell by the way he is it hurts him more than it has before. Got to take him for another physio session tomorrow, hopefully that will help.

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Finally I would like to pay my respects to a couple of youngsters who have passed away in this area recently. Although I did not know them, I knew of them. Charlotte Walker died a couple of weeks ago, the car she was travelling with her mum went off of the road and into a deep water drain, she didn't get out. She was a very talented 9 year old who was in the same ballet show as Lillie back in January (it's going to be sad watching the dvd of the show when we get it). Her mum and the ballet teacher had only days before discussed her application for the Royal Ballet, how very sad. Secondly, Jonathon Barber a 19 year old university student who had come home (here to our town) to be with his mum on Mothers Day, sadly she headed the search for him on that very day. He had gone missing whilst walking back from a party with friends along the river banks in strong winds the night before, sadly his body was found this morning.

Our thoughts are with both families.

Wow another award x3

How lucky did I feel yesterday when I had a quick look at my blog comments, and saw that I had been awarded the same 'you make my day award' from 3 people!!! Thank you soooo.... much to Kerry, Cazzy and Mandy you are all so very kind! Here is my award!

You are supposed to link this and pass it on to 5 people whose blogs inspire you, but there are sooo.... many people with these awards that I don't know who hasn't got one! So if you are on my links list on the left consider yourself awarded the 'you make my day' award to, that's why you are on my list anyways!!

I had a very nice Mother's Day yesterday, I was pounced on by the girls with cards and pressies, I had a 'yummy mummy' ha mug, apron and scrapbook that I had spotted and dropped very non-subtle hints for during the week!! Then whilst getting ready to go to Park Farm, Matthew yawned and streched then went scuttling into the bedroom swearing like a good un, he had put his back out, he hasn't done this for about 3 years. I said we needn't go to the farm but he insisted on it as it was what I wanted to do and he was totally p'd off for messing up the day, we had planned to go to the coast for lunch and maybe waste some money on the slot machines. I was happy I we got to feed a lamb that was all I really wanted to do, I just love them they are so cute, I would love one in the garden as a pet but they don't stay small do they!?! We called in at Tesco on the way back to mum and dad's and bought everything we needed to make a 3 course roast meal and took it to mum and dad's and had it cooking when they got home as a surprise (mum had been at work and dad at my sisters babysitting the boys).

To finish todays post I thought I would show you a couple of cards I actually made on Friday, this Sugar Nellie bunny is sooo... cute, the 2nd card was for the little girl whose party Lillie and Hollie went to on Saturday, they had a lovely time, we left them to play whilst we went into the restaurant and had a very nice bit of lunch!

I have today made my first card for the Tilda Magnolia challenge blog but I will post that on here tomorrow.

Challenge time

Only submitted my first card for 'Daring cardmakers' (link on the left) yesterday and have already made the following card for their next challenge set by Lythan, it was : "I am woman"
As its coming up to Mothers day in the UK here’s a chance to make a card that celebrates women and girls . So I’d like to see a card with at least one feminine image on it . And that's it for rules really.Apart from this one.And it is sneaky. No Tildas, Sugar Nellies or Bellas please. I love them all. But there are loads of great challenges out there using them so for this challenge you can give them a well earned rest! Here is my effort

I have also seen lots of entries for the 'Paper Take Weekly' (link on the left) challenge during my blog travels, the challenge at the moment is "blue and green should never be seen" well from the entries I've seen it most certainly should!!! So thought I'd have a go, and made a boy card for a change using my Sugar Nellie 'Hamish with Tractor' stamp

Hollie and I stayed at school for a while this morning, we had been invited to watch an 'ERR' learning session, I have no idea what ERR stands for but this way of learning is obviously working. Lillie is in the middle class so she is ok, not great, not bad, obviously as a parent you want them to be in the top group but as long as she is learning and taking in what they are teaching it's not so bad I guess. Doubt I'll get any cards made this weekend as I have my cake order to do and also take the girls to yet another party tomorrow, then on Sunday, Matthew says he is taking me to Park Farm as we know they are lambing and I sooooo....... loves little lambs!!!! Also off to the pub for lunch, heh it's Mother's Day so I'm allowed a treat!!!!!!!!!!