Mother's Day...

Well it's not actually Mother's Day here in England, but my daughter came back from a short break holiday in London last night and just look what she bought me.  I love it!  It's a little book full of the most wonderful quotes about Mums and Motherhood.  Both of us love quotes and so she knew how perfect this would be for me. 

These are some of my favourites from inside the book...

'You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool Mum.'

Anonymous.

'No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle aged children for signs of improvement'.

Florida Scott Maxwell.

'The quickest way for a mother to get her children's attention is to sit down and look comfortable'.

On that note Happy Mother's Day to everyone celebrating today and hoping everyone has a fantastic day.

Thank you Teddy...

A card for my box, but one that I really ought to send to Paula at Pollycraft who is sooooooooooo very generous and each Friday gives a free digi to her followers. This week sees us all treated to Cuthbert who is one of the bears in a new range being released on Monday.  I've got my eyes on quite a few of these as they are just so cute.

Materials used...

• Cuthbert image from Pollycraft
• Swirl stamp by Autumn Leaves (stamped using Versemark and then embossed with fine clear embossing powder)
• Thankyou sentement stamp from stash
• Swiss Dots cuttlebug folder
• Two shades of pink card
• Ribbon and buttons from stash
• Promarkers for colouring

Challenges I had in mind when creating this card...

• Magical Crafts - the sketch
• Just Cute Bears - buttons and bows
• ABC Challenge - Thank you
• Rainbow Lady - Create your own backing paper - hope my swirls count
• Crafty Ann's Challenges - Anything goes

Have a brilliant weekend everyone and if you like the image do pop straight over to Pollycraft as this week the image is only free for one day.  Sheeeeeeeeeesh thank goodness I got my mitts on it!  Will be buying the others on Monday.

Bah! Humbug! Day and it's Food glorious food...

Oh dear me - which silly person left doing her DT card till the very last minute and then got home from work after doing a long shift and sleep over to find I had a card to create with my eyes only half open and brain fully asleep.  The latter being fairly normal for me these days.  Anyway all that waffling is my excuse for there being no glitter on Messy Rabbit's Christmas pudding or his tail.  There will be when the card gets sent out, but at the moment a touch of imagination is required.
For this week's theme I decided to do a tag shaped card and used the large traditional scallop tag die by Sizzix to cut out my card.  Messy Rabbit with his Christmas pudding is on the front fold of the tags and on the other two tags there is a 'real' recipe for Christmas Carrot Pudding.  I've not tried this yet, but I love carrot cake so I'm sure it will be gorgeous.

Have a fabulous weekend everyone.  Do remember to check out Bah! Humbug! and hopefully join in.  Whoops - nearly forgot to mention that as it's the 1st week of the new month of challenges there's a fantastic prize been pulled out of Santa's sack and is just waiting to be won by one of our entrants.  

Hmmmmmmmmm wonder if I could get away with entering - nah think Max and Irene would spot me!!
Ann xxx