Katharina's 10,000 hits Blog Candy

Katharina has the most amazing blog candy on offer to celebrate reaching 10,000 hits ( not surprising as her work is amazing & so inspirational) Whizz on over to her blog & find out, you'll be amazed!!!

Made My Day

I've been a really bad blogger recently, but have found I've had alot less time than I thought I would once the children broke up from school. I've hardly made any cards & in fact have done very little of anything crafty!!

So I was absolutely delighted to get this award from Karen especially when I saw the company I was in.

The rules are:

1. The winner can put the logo on her blog

2. Link the person you received your award from

3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs

4. Put links of those blogs on yours

5. Leave a message on the blogs of the girls you’ve nominated

I've had a quick scout about & a few of the people I was going to nominate have already got this award so that shortened my list. I have loads of blogs set up on Google Reader but don't always get to read everything but there are some that I MUST visit when I see they've posted a new comment. They are

Katharina - I know I won't be the only one to nominate her blog as it's fab.

Nessy - She makes some fab cards & ATC's & always makes me smile when I visit her blog.

Marlene - I know she's aready been nominated but wanted to pass this on from me as well. Her cards are awesome & she's such a lovely person.

Emma - Emma doesn't only make lovely cards she also takes time to visit & leave lovely comments on my blog, I really appreciate it Emma & it's lovely having you as a friend.

Han - Again great cards & I love visiting her blog.

Natalie - More great cards & a lovely blog to spend some time.

Jules - My new friend Jules. For being a great hostess the other night & I'll be visiting her blog for lots of Stampin Up inspiration when my goodies arrive.

Diane - Who makes gorgeous cards & is such a kind person & I look forward to meeting her one day.

Crafters Are So Kind

Look what I got in the post today from my friend Diane, all these lovely images I can't wait to colour.

Thankyou so much Diane you're so kind & a great friend.

Sorry you won't be there tomorrow night but hopefully we'll meet up soon.

Cute Card Thursday - Challenge 21 In the house

Challenge 21In The HouseThe challenge this week is to make a card with the theme of 'In The House', anything which can be found in the home is fine and we are looking forward to seeing what you come up with.We have a fabulous prize of 2 stamps this week to give to 1 randomly chosen winner. The stamps have been kindly donated by Katharina from Whiff of Joy Stamps.Whiff of Joy is a new online store and they have gorgeous stamps, so don't forget to pop over and have a look here.

I've used a Sarah Kay colouring book image coloured with Whispers pens. This is mounted on a tag cut from pink Bassill & run through the cuttlebug. I've used Retro Floral DP & Bassill Bling green cardstock. The flower is from Poppicraft & the beads & charm are once again from Marlene's bead shop. The bling in the middle of the flower is a Papermania jewel brad.

Tilda & Co - Bugs

Tilda & Co are taking a summer holiday this week so the 'Bugs' challenge has been extended by a week. This gave me a chance to catch up with some challenges. I've found I have alot less time for card making with the children off school so used a Tilda image I had already coloured & decided to make the card using the yellow & green colour scheme. I've used Retro Floral DP & Bassill yellow & Bassill Bling green cardstock. The flower, ribbon & best wishes brad are from Poppicraft & the beads & dragon fly (the bugs part!!) charm I bought from Marlene's bead shop.

You Have To Be In It To Win It - Blog Candy

Maria is offering the cutest stamp as blog candy. I've just been for a nosey around her blog & her cards are lovely. Go on . . . . . . . go & have a look!!! ends 1/8/08

Jacqui has some very generous candy on offer for reaching 10,000 hits (not surprising as her cards are awesome!!) wizz on over & have a go ends 2/8/08.

Bev has some fab blog candy including some Hanglar images & some of her gorgeous crochet flowers. Her cards are absolutely fab so head on over & take a look.

Funky Fairy are giving away an incredible Blog Candy of free Funky Fairty products for a whole year WOW!! ends 31/7/08

Janet is offering some fab blog candy to celebrate 15,000 hits but more importantly the launch of her Max & Millie stamps . . . . well done Janet.

Gill has some blog candy with a twist . . . . you have to answer a maths question first !! so get out your calculator lol!! & head on over.

Good News From Whiff Of Joy

Message from Katharina

Good news! The Whiff of Joy website is almost finished (Thanks to my team - my lovely husband Marcel, the best catch a stamp company founding girl could have made...hehe Loooove you!!). So i will launch the site and start taking pre orders for the Charlotte and Charlie winter collection, designed by Alison Acton, on Wednesday, 30th July 2008. And as a special opening feature we will take NO SHIPPING COSTS for all preorders. This is a small Thank You to all my lovely blog readers :) The expected shipping of your stamps will be the 11th of August.Note: Whiff of Joy ships internationally

OMG - I'm Reviewing A Film . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . for Richard & Judy!!!!!

I was taking a well deserved break this afternoon & doing a bit of blog hopping while watching Deal or No Deal & then Richard & Judy. Richard (I can call him that now we're on first name terms lol!!!) asked for people living in Leeds to email in to review The X-Files film next week, so, as I had my laptop on my knee, I emailed straight away . . . . . . . . . and . . . . . . . . one of their researchers phoned me this evening & asked me if I would do a review YAH!!!

I used to watch the X-Files years ago & love anything like that so at least it's a film I'll enjoy. I'm not allowed to wear any logo'd clothes & will be interviewd after the film of which a snippet (hopefully) will be shown on Richard & Judy next week (I think it's Friday)

My mum's told me NOT to talk with a Yorkshire accent lol!! a bit difficult having being born & brought up in Leeds but I'll try & 'talk posh' lol!!

Cute Card Thursday - Challenge 20 Things that grow

So here is the challenge at Cute Card Thursday this week.
Things that grow!
The obvious things would be plants etc but really there are lots more things that grow, we look forward to seeing your own interpretation

Well I went for the obvious & chose flowers . . . . .

This 'oh so cute' image was sent to me by Jacqui after I commented that I didn't have any Sarah Kay images. Thank you again Jacqui, I've really enjoyed colouring them.

The pink card is Bazzill Bling (my favourite) & the DP is Kay & Co matted on blue card. The seed packet was a free download from Mad About Cards & the gardening tools are Quickutz. I had great fun (NOT!!!) trying to stick down the resin flower beads as I only have a glue gun or Anitas Sticky so I chose the glue gun so you can imagine what a mess I got in to as the beads are so tiny lol!! I managed to get rid of most of the excess glue from the card!!

The image is coloured using watercolour pencils & the ribbon was in the blog candy I won from Jennifer.

Hope you are all enjoying the sunshine, we've had another scorcher here in Leeds. Long may it continue !!

ABC challenge - C is for charms

I've made my own little charm on this card using alphabet beads & some pink & white accent beads in different sizes.

The image is Pink Petticoat , the ribbon & DP are Papermania, the flowers & brad are from Poppicraft & the round sentiments are Cuddly Buddly.