Happy Monday....

Oh wish I was still in Cape Verde having breakfast in the garden area looking out over this beautiful view.  Having said that it wasn't a good idea to leave the table unattended as you can see in the photo below certain visitors were quick to spot an unattended bread basket.  

 Have to be at work for 7 - yikes!  Better get a move on.  Looks like another non crafting day.  I am having huge withdrawal symptoms - work is really disturbing my crafting time at the moment.  

Have a fabulous day everyone.

Ann xxx

Bah! Humbug! Day...

This week our challenge at Bah! Humbug! may have everyone bursting into song as the theme is to create something inspired by a Christmas Carol or Song.

I chose the song 'Frosty the Snowman', mainly because it gave me chance to use one of the oh so cute snowmen on a sheet of Penny Black Stickeroos that have found their way into my stash.  The border across the middle of my card was also part of the set and led to me using the purple and lime green colour theme on my card.  Quite an unusual combination, but it is growing on me - I think!  After using charms for our challenge last week another 'made with love' silver heart found it's way on to the tag again.  I do like these little hearts - they may be appearing on loads of stuff from now on.

As our theme could be either a carol or a song I decided that perhaps I should burst with enthusiasm (oooooooh that doesn't happen often) and do both so (bearing in mind that I'm knee deep in washing and ironing here) I also managed a very quick Kanban kit card to go with the carol 'We Three Kings'.  The card kit was in a 'goodie bag' I bought recently and I wouldn't have normally chose it as I find die cut decoupage so annoying for so many reasons, but I suppose it was okay to create this super fast card.

So if you would like to join in do pop over to Bah! Humbug! and take a look at the fab designs by my team mates Irene and Max.
OOOOOoh nearly forgot to mention that while I was away the team at Bah! Humbug! had their 15 mins (well okay perhaps ony 5 but still) of fame and were featured in  Let's Make Cards magazine. How exciting is that? Click on the link to check out the details.

I'm back...and so is Popcorn...

Two weeks in wonderful Cape Verde - bliss - I will probably bore everyone to death with photos and maybe even some scrapping later, but for now I just want to say...

Anyone wanting to sign my 'Mosquitoes should be an Endangered Species!' petition please leave a comment here!  

Oh so many bites and all in the last three days of the holiday too - such a shame!

Good job I completed my card for my DT spot at Crafter's Companion before I went away.  As it was done in among the packing and shopping for the holiday it had to be quite a quick to make card.  Luckily this month's challenger features yet another superb sketch to use as a starting point.  I also decided to use one of the Popcorn bear Cd's to print off both the decoupage for the central image and the backing paper.  I must admit I really love to do my own stamping and colouring, but sometimes a CD can be just what you need for a quickie card.

How cute is Popcorn with his bag of presents rushing off to the party?  Perfect for a certain little boy I know who is two this weekend.

Well better get back to the huge amount of washing and ironing I have to get done before I go back to work.  I'm sure we didn't take all these clothes.  Maybe someone has sneaked their washing into our cases and just as I finish they will knock on the door wanting their clean clothes! 

Have a fab day everyone - even if it involves work or the dreaded 'h' word.  

Ann xxx