Huge Computer Problems...

Dreadful - horrible - totally dire week.

My computer has been playing at Silly Billys and has done the strangest things, but I've had it confirmed by a lovely man from Comet that there are no viruses and nothing wrong!

Ha! So why wouldn't it let me type anything?

So why couldn't I access anything in Blogland?

Then as suddenly as it stopped working everything was okay again.

So strange -sheeeeeeeeesh!

Anyway I'm back - although even though working it threw another wobbly last night and after commenting on only 3 friend's blog Google accused me of me a spammer and locked me out! Oh my!

Hopefully this time everything will be okay for a while anyway.

Have a fantastic weekend everyone.

Messy in Cow costume...

Here are the last two of my Joanna Sheen samples. I thought this was a really fun stamp - Messy Rabbit in his 'cow' costume with a look on his face that says 'I wanted to be one of the Kings!'

I decided (after being given an idea by my daughter) to go for using the stamp for a birthday card. Let's face it, even though I love Christmas, there is a limit to how many Christmas cards you can make and it's nice to be able to find more that one use for the stamps we buy.

Luckily I had some amazing cow print card in my craft stash (got zebra and tiger in there too) and so the background was easy to create. Everytime I looked at the stamp the nursery rhyme about the cow jumping over the moon came in my head so I decided to go with that.

The moon and hat were cut on my Cricut and the fabulous black glitter peel offs are by Anitas.

When Shelley, my younger daughter, saw the card she loved it, but went on to say that it would make a good get well card for somebody who has had a tumble. We have an elderly Aunt, who falls quite often and would really appreciate the fun look of this card.

Well she may be 91, but she still has a lovely sense of humour and this would be just the thing for her or maybe younger kiddies, who end up in plaster.

Thank you for looking and especially for leaving such lovely comments. I've done another batch of samples for Joanna, but I can't show those until after the show on the 23rd, but oh my watch out for this programme, because Joanna has really excelled herself this time.

Baby's First Christmas...

This is another of the samples I did for Joanna Sheen's new range of Messy Rabbit Nativity stamps. It was the one they held up right at the beginning of the show on Create and Craft. I was so excited I nearly fell off the end of the chair!

I had sort of prepared myself for the fact that my cards probably wouldn't be shown and it came as a shock to see one right at the very beginning like that. The best kind of shock and I do wonder if Joanna fixed it knowing how excited I would be. I wouldn't be surprised as she is such a warm hearted, caring person.

The card is a large 8" x8" with the Messy Rabbit in his sheep costume in the middle and surrounded by a sparkly ribbon frame, which if I remember rightly was a technique I picked up at the Next Level. Such a shame that the Next Level has stopped - it was an amazing challenge blog.

Messy was coloured using Promarkers and I added a touch of bling to the corners.