Thursday, 13 May 2010

ooooooooops...

Completely forgot to put this on my blog last week and I do know Irene wanted to see the flowers as she very kindly stepped in and ordered the die for me and then posted it on.
Why did she have to do that?  
Well, some companies insist on making you register to buy in their online store.  Hmmm, okay in theory, but dipsticks like me create a password and weeks later can't get order anything cause they can't remember their password!
The 'forgot password' button gives no response and even a message on their contact button got me nowhere so much as I like their products I'll order elsewhere in future.
Anyway less moaning.  I love the die used to create the flower on my box.  It's one of the Marianne Ribbon Flower Sets and cuts beautifully.  Two flowers and the swirl in the set.  Just gorgeous.  When I used the flower I didn't even realise that you could put ribbon through it.  Silly me!  I will be doing that next time.  The gem brad in the middle is one of a set I bought at the NEC - yikes only four left now.  Hmmmmmm, will anyone else get one on a card/box?  They will have to be very special to qualify.  Think I like these brads more than tassels!
The box was made to hold the set of cards I made here and was a present for a non card making friend.  She was really over the moon with the gift.
Have a fab day everyone and hope to see you back for the new Bah! Humbug! challenge which starts tomorrow.

Wednesday, 12 May 2010

Happy Nurse's Day...

to nurses and carers everywhere. 
Just a short post as I'm off to Leeds today shopping with my daughters.  After making the Christmas tag card last week I decided to use the same idea for a card for Laura to celebrate Nurse's day.  The concertina tag made it a great working space to add quotes and I do know that Laura loves some of the ones I've added, especially the one about nurses being angels in comfy shoes.
The stamp is a digi by C.C. Designs and is called Nurse Nora - hmmmmmm reminds of Nitty Nora, the bug explorer, who used to visit schools when I was little.
Here's the other side of the tag... 


Have fun everyone, especially nurses and carers on your special day.
Ann xxx

Tuesday, 11 May 2010

Grrrrrrrrrrrrr...

I really wanted to support friends on the DT at CD Sunday, but oh my goodness I'm really not so keen on using CDs anymore and this card is sadly a 'bugging me' one.  It nearly hit the bin several times and may do yet!
The theme this week at CD Sunday is 'Country Charm' so I chose this image from Joanna Sheen's Card Makers Year CD.  I didn't feel in the mood for a country cottage and thought the dog taking a stroll and finding a new friend was a fun take on the theme.
Sadly fun it was not as I could not get the sketch from Stamptacular quite as it should be and of course now I've realised that I can't enter it for their challenge anyway as there is nothing 'stamptacular' about my card.  Ho hum don't think the brain was working yesterday.  Putting it down to the lack of brain cells after the meal out I had with Laura.   She's a very bad influence!!

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