Exciting news...

Hi all,
wow how quickly did last week fly by? I can't believe it's Monday already.
My exciting news is that I have been asked to be Godmother to my friends' daughter. I've never been a Godmother before so it's something new to me! I have been out shopping for a present but as usual have nothing to wear!!! Anyway, here is a picture of my beautiful Godaughter, Athena...


She's 8 weeks old now and a happy little lady as you can see.

I finally got the adoption cards finished for my work friend, all 12 are here in this picture. I'm really pleased at how they all turned out and not one is the same which I am quite chuffed about too...Unfortunately I've not had time to do any challenge cards but hopefully this week I will, I have a couple of orders to do and of course my Christening card for Athena!

Bye for now

H xxxxx

Challenge Cards

Hi Bloggers

thank goodness I'm off today, not only do I hate Mondays but yesterday was such a busy day I needed today to get things done!


I went to the Gateshead Flower Show with my Grandad yesterday morning. The displays were beautiful and the prize winners were perfect! The picture above is the Gateshead Council entry to the Chelsea Flower Show earlier this year which won a silver award. My Dad's guys built the bridge structure which shows the Tyne bridge with the flowers representing the 40,000 runners of the Great North Run.

There were loads of tasty treats on offer and I just couldn't resist and bought us some spicy pork pies, a wild boar & mushroom pie and some yummy cupcakes all of which were devoured by tea time!!

I spent the afternoon catching with with a friend and her hubby-to-be at my parents house before popping round for some baby snuggles with Athena. I can't believe how quickly she's growing, she's smiling all the time now which is so sweet.

So, on to my challenge cards. The first one is for my Dad to give to my Mum for their 36th wedding anniversary tomorrow.


I'm entering this into the Meljen's Challenge which is a sketch:

http://meljensdesignsdt.blogspot.com/2010/07/challenge-18-and-new-release.html

I have used one of Melissa's gorgeous designs (her blog has a freebie download file!) which is also my first attempt at a digital image. I've coloured it with Promarkers (thanks Lou!!) and used papers from the Dovecraft "Eastern Promise" collection with ribbon, paper flowers, brads and fairy dust from my stash. Yu can't reallysee on the picture but I have chalked the backgroundof the image as I thought the white was a bit too harsh.

My second card is the one I am going to give to my parents tomorrow and I'm going to enter this one into the Papertake Weekly challenge which is also a sketch:


http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/

The image is a Dandelion and Daisy sticker of "Hawthorn and Bramble" which I have mounted on silver mirri card and then on an embossed mat (done through my Sizzix Texture Boutique) and then papers, gems and sticky borders from my stash.

Ok I'm off to link these up and then I think it's time for some lunch, later xxxx

Not sure about this one?

Morning, happy Friday everyone!

How I wish I worked normal Monday to Friday hours, I work most Saturdays and there's just no excitement to the week when you get days off here and there :o( Well that's my moan for the day lol on to my card... I'm not sure about this one, it certainly doesn't look like it did in my head when I started it!

I'm entering it into the Colour Create Challenge # 50 which is to use hot pink, warm orange and saffron with an optional extra of adding butterflies.

http://colourcreatechallenge.blogspot.com/2010/07/challenge-50-hot-pink-warm-orange-and.html
The papers are freebies from a magazine, I love them and the colours and to make tham stand out a bit more I inked the edges of the darker pink strips with green ink. The butterfly has been inked (was originally white) with a hot pink ink pad, attached with glosy accents and then sticky gems added to the body. I then added some little orange butterfly gems and a sentiment from my stash. I don't know what I was expecting but there's just something I'm not happy with.

Hmm, let me know what you think
Have a good day, Hayley x

Back to the grind :o(

Oh I had such a lovely day off yesterday. I had a lovely chilled out morning, got all my chores done, sorted out the craft room and even made a card!

I was going to enter it into the Forever Friends Challenge which was a sketch....

it wasn't until I went to upload it this morning that I realised the challenge closed on Monday! I really need to get up to date and keep track of time lol

Oh well, I'll put it into the gallery on the Facebook Group, someone might want to buy it

Laters xx

3 New Cards - busy busy busy!

Morning all

can you believe I have managed another 3 cards this week? What is going on, I'm never normally this productive lol

I have made another adoption announcement and had my first go of my new circle cutter (I need 12 in all so there will be a few more!)...

... a 50th for my friend which was an order from the Facebook group ...

... and my nephews 1st birthday card. Phew!!

I used the sketch from the Card Patterns Challenge again as I liked the way the first one looked. I chose the colours for this hoping it would stand out on the mantelpiece!

All for now xxx