Nothing to do with craft

Hi all, we have just had some more visitors, this time Edward's nephew, wife and baby son Oscar, pictured with Rosanna and Morgan (how cute is he), they have had a fantastic time playing with their second cousin, especially Rosanna a real baby to baby to play with and Morgan got his cousin on board to watch some Star Wars with him, so everyone happy all round. Hopefully back to crafting soon, but got paper work to do first (sad face), thanks for looking, happy hols, take care X:)

Kellies Sketch #3 and SSCC#5

Hi all,

Last night I combined two challenges Kellie's Sketch #3 and Stampin' Sisters In Christ Challenge #5, which was to make a creation using the colours of Fall. In England hubby lived on a farm so there were plenty of hedges and in the Autumn the hawthorn bush had sloes on them, not ready for picking till Winter (great for making Sloe Gin). This image was inspired by my love of purple LOL and my flower Fairies of the Autumn book by Cicely Mary Barker, now I did spend quite some time trying to draw this beautiful fairy without any success, though hubby did stifle few giggles at each attempt! I used my SU Touch of Nature Stamp Set with all Stampin Up cardstock and most of the ribbon, will have to have a better technique at sticking ribbon down.

How cute is she?

This is the song that accompanies the picture.

Thanks for looking, happy crafting, take care AnnetteX:)

MDUC22 and Creatalicious Challenge 2

Hi all again, finally got a chance to do these challenges today, must say the idea of a jigsaw came from my son, we were sat having our evening meal, discussing school etc and I said I needed to create anything but a card, Morgan pipes up a jigsaw (which we used to do when they were little), so a jigsaw it is, so have used this beautiful Magnolia stamp (lent to me by Emma).

This first challenge is the Magnolia Down Under Challenge #22, anything but a card and the second challenge is the Creatalicious Challenge #2 which is a colour combination, using pink or plum with burgundy and green and add, lace, ribbon or fibre.

So coloured our Magnolia image in Pefect Plum, Pale Plum, Bravo Burgundy and Handsome Hunter, used crystal effects on the boots, my new kindyglitz for the wings and hat. The used some Very Vanilla and stamped the flower image from my Stampin Up Good Egg set. Used dimensional to put the magnolia on the background.

Morgan then scanned the image and made it bigger, I then glued it to some very vanilla cardstock and cut into jigsaw shape pieces.

Not sure what to call the box as I made this up, using Stampin Up Cardstock, Handsome Hunter and Bravo Burgundy, with some organza ribbon I had. I have made the box so it could be hung on a Christmas tree as a decoration.

Thanks for looking, happy crafting, take care, Annette X:)

SSCC4 & Paige

Hi all, finally got a little crafting done today, been trying to make a card for Paige for sometime but not really sure what to do, she is a 13 year old girl who has lost her arm in a boating incident, Erin has set up a challenge for crafters to send well wishes to this young girl, read all about it on Erin's blog, she has also a blog candy going too! Secondly I wanted to try the Stampin Sisters in Christ Challenge #4, which was to use the sketch below:
Thanks for looking, happy crafting, take care AnnetteX:)

New addition to the family

Hi all, boy what a busy week, definately getting crafting and blogging withdrawal systems!

Finally gave in and said yes lets get a dog, to join the two rabbits and a cockatiel, mind you we were only going to look last weekend at the RSPCA Centre, and what do you know came away with this beautiful fella!

Unfortunately, he was a stray so we had to rename him, so he is now called Rusty. He is a German Shepherd X nobody seems to know what with, we think possible Labrador, any experts out there care to take a guess? They think he is possibly ten and half months, he has a beautiful nature and behaves well when treats are around LOL. We had to take him back yesterday as he kept scratting his ears, they think it is a Yeast Infection, but not ruling out earmites or could possibly be an allergy to something, so the poor thing is on two lots of ointments for his ears and two lots of tablets, so we are keeping our fingers crossed that this will cure him.

Here is Rosanna with him, been the best thing we did as she used to avoid dogs and he helped get over her fear of dogs as you can see! Just a tad bigger than the bunnies.

Hope to get some crafting done over the weekend, after the washing, ironing, cleaning, rehousing the rabbits further down the garden, so I can have the alfresco area back, we have some more visitors next week, and then more the week after so hoping to have some bbq's outside. Hope you are all well, have a fantastic weekend and happy holidays with the kids, take care, AnnetteX:)

MMSC18 and Winter Wonderland

Hi all, this has took far longer than I expected as I kept swapping papers etc, I had it in my head I had to make a shaker creation with the digital image I got from Teri's Card and Toppers, shop Delicious Doodles, great opportunity when Winter Wonderland Challenge was to have a snowman in your creation, (which I have just found out finished today, when loading this entry) I thought this could fit in with the Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge #18, this I finally achieved but just not quite what I had in mind but just can't think what else to do with it.
Struggled getting a good photo, behind the snowball pom pom are dazzling diamond snowflakes.

This is a close up of the snowman and cottage, the snowman is 3D, I used Dazzling diamonds for the snow when colouring etc and then used flock for the snow effect, when shaking.

Thanks for looking, happy crafting, take care, AnnetteX:)

Delicious Diva's last sketch

Hi all, just a quickie, had a busy day, been to the RSPCA and we now have a new addition to the family will post some pics soon, never got this one posted in time, unfortunately Delicious Divas are venturing on a new adventure, but their last sketch inspired me to create a scrapbooking page and this is it! Only started scrapbooking at the end of last year and must say card making has took over! Anyway this photo is over ten years old, but I love it! Kellie and Kristy's sketch just suited it. Kellie has a new challenge so pay her a visit. Good Luck girls in your new venture. Bye for Now,

thanks for looking, take care, AnnetteX:)

Stamp Something Challenge

Hi again, Final card for the Stamp Something Challenge, you had to use your favourate stamp set and at the moment it is fifth avenue, check their blog out there are some beautiful creations. Just realised my sentiment is from another stamp set, oh bother!

Really struggled getting a good photograph, the bottom photo shows the colour better Stampin Up Lavender Lace, then I decided to add an extra leaf and some crystal effects, not sure now if I should have done that, so thought you could see both. Must say I am very pleased with the colours in the Rose, especially being my fav colour, wasn't sure if it was going to work. Thanks to Debbie again for my embossed background.

Tried to get photos side by side and kept deleting one or the other, so decided to leave it as it is!

Thanks for looking, have a great day, take care, AnnetteX:)

Danni's Dream: Flutter By Wednesday #74 Challenge

Hi all, this card is for Danni's Dream: Flutter By Wednesday #74, you have to create a card with a fairy or butterfly on, using Danni's favourate colour pink, and I have a friends birthday coming up soon who just loves pink too! Must say a big thankyou to Debbie for being so generous at stamp camp and taught me how to use her cuttlebug or one of those machines and I came away with several embossed Flower images, sorry can't remember the name, LOL, what am I like! For those who haven't visited her blog check it out, she has some fantastic creations.
Thanks for looking, Happy Crafting, Take Care, AnnetteX:)

Fifth Avenue watercolouring practice

Hi all, this will be the first of three posts, being having a play the last couple of weeks with water colouring, using my Fifth Avenue set, then tried to put them together as cards challenging myself to use ribbon and dsp, still got a lot to learn.

This is for a friends 80th who loves to garden.

and thought I would show you some of the disasters, but, I was always taught if you don't succeed at first try and try again, I am sure many of you have been told this LOL.
Really would like to get the bright orange on a card next, originally wanted to use it with my purple (think the purple needs to be deeper) as I love these two colours together but just didn't work, so will come back to that another time.
Thanks for looking, Happy Crafting, Take Care, AnnetteX:)