Stockings!

I am determined to use up my paper stash, that has been boxed up for the last few months. If I am totally honest I do get a tad lazy and find it far easier to just print some off rather than go rummaging through boxes looking for something. Naughty I know, but I will try harder before the edges start to fade, like the paper we used to have at school, it would be in the store room for so many years the green paper would turn yellow at the edges. Its funny the things you remember from school - like why were the walls in the sick room painted the colour of sick????Maybe I should have remembered more about the learning, eh...

Poppi is at first speech therapy tomorrow, I hope it goes ok. Apparently most of her words will come as she gets older and are normal, but it is words such as "gog" (dog) that she should have been saying at 2 1/2 that arent so good. Her vocabulary is fantastic for her age (well it would be, she is female after all) its just the pronunciation. Anyway, we will see how it goes.

It is a sad day today, my mums dog had to be put to sleep this morning, after suffering a stroke. Mum, I just want you to know that my thoughts are with you today after losing your little friend, I know what she meant to you.

Card labels are: Papers - American crafts, brads, ribbons and photo hanger - Poppicrafts.

Thanks for popping by,

x

HOORAY!!!!

After months of blood,sweat and tears the extension is complete and I have my new craft room finished. I have to say it was harder than I thought it would be, but thanks to my fantabaroonie parents we got there in the end. Huge thank you to my dad for running the whole thing and a big hug to my mum for helping out and telling me it would all be worth it in the end, when I was knocking down walls,eating dust, constantly hoovering it up and having a 5 minute breakdown on a daily basis. I couldnt have done it without you. x

Anyway, onto the craft room. I sat down last night all pleased with myself and thought I would put a card together. Oh! Where did I put everything????? I decided before the room was complete that I would be super duper tidy and keep it that way - start how you mean to go on, so I put all my stash in their new homes. Well, I tell you it took me forever to make what should be a 5 minute card. So, I have now changed my mind and I shall do what we all do (dont we?) and start with a big desk and then have foam pads, card cutters, scissors, glue etc... all around me and just have a little tiny workspace, at least I will know where everything is. I didnt realise until last night, that actually I am best at organised chaos. It is great to be in blogland again and just have a relaxing evening making cards.

Thanks to everyone who emailed me over the last couple of months, I appreciate that you took the time to see how I was getting on - hugs to you!!!

I made this little pot of flowers to put in my new bedroom, it reminds me when I wake up in the morning, that I love my job and as my mum would say, these are definately my kind of flowers, as they dont need watering. Also, Poppi comes in, in the mornings and either takes them out and rearranges them or brings her dolls in and uses them as umbrellas for them.
Supplies are: brads,ribbon,flowers and photo hanger - poppicrafts. paper - american crafts. Rub-ons - doodlebug.

Thanks for popping by.

x

couple of quick makes

Life has been a bit hectic of late. Riley and Poppi were a bit under the weather last week and we are having a bit of building work done, so I seem to be spending my life hoovering and having that awful dust taste. You hoover up, turn round it seems to have settled again. Oh well, it'l be worth it in the end - cant wait!!

Found the time (and dont pass out in shock) to actually make 2 cards. My card box is empty, so I desperately need to make a few. It is my friends birthday this week, so just had to use the pink petticoat turtle images, for his card. The second one was a joint effort between me and my step daughter, who came to stay at the weekend. She is 11 and was very proud of efforts. I think she enjoyed it, she did make one of her own, but we forgot to take a photo.
Hope you are all enjoying the glorious weather. Mich x

Supplies are: Pink petticoat images and papers. Ribbon, photo hangers, Buttons, blooms and velvet - Poppicrafts. Hand doodling, faux stitching.

OMG! How exciting...

...for me anyway!!! Had a flick through Papercraft Inspirations and found this. Poppicrafts in P. I magazine, how amazing is that??? And its all down to Sharon de Meza for using Poppicrafts products on her fantastic commission work. Loving the cat card - sooo cute!!! So if you pop by Sharon, i'd like to say a HUGE thank you. To say you have made my day, is an understatement.

Mich

xx

FLORAL RIBBON TUTORIAL

A while back a couple of people asked me to do a tutorial for the ribbon flower card that I made. This is my first tutorial so here goes:

1. Cut 8 lengths of ribbon at 8cm. I chose 10mm mini floral satin.

2. Add sticky dots to the bottom end of the ribbon. You could also use a tape runner or double sided tape.

3. Loop the top end of the ribbon round to sit on top of the sticky dots on the bottom end of the ribbon

4. do this to all 8 pieces of ribbon.

5. Punch a 5cm circle from plain cardstock. Alternatively, you could hand cut a circle, as it will be hidden underneath the flower anyway. Cover the circle with glue dots or DST, ready to adhere the ribbon.

6. Arrange the looped ribbons around the edge. I found it best to lay them down lightly first. Then when you are happy with it, push them down to adhere properly. ( sorry about the blurry pic)

7. This is what the reverse side will look like. You can then opt to add more ribbons to this side in the same way if you wanted it to be layered.

8. I chose to add a 2" chipboard flower, 2" spotty bloom and 1" pink bloom to the top and a 3" chipboard flower to the bottom.

9. I made a hole straight through the middle and held it all together using a green jewel brad.

I hope this was of use to some of you and look forward to seeing your interpretations. Supplies are: Ribbon, blooms, chipboard, brad and photo hanger - poppicrafts. Papers - Pink petticoat.
TFL and have a great weekend.
Mich
x

HAPPY 60TH DAD!!!!

My dad is 60 today! So I just wanted to post a huge HAPPY BIRTHDAY to him. He is the best dad in the world, and in the words of Riley "We love him all the way round the world and back again" So, thanks dad for always being there for us all. Enjoy your special day. We are all going out for a meal tomorrow evening to celebrate. Our friends are coming over to babysit. It will be the first evening Ive been out without the children for about 4 years, so I hope they are good for the babysitters?????

Hope you all have a great weekend.

TFL

Ribbons and brads - poppicrafts, Papers and image Pink Petticoat. Faux stitching and a bit of inking.

New Ribbon Kit and competition.

Just to remind you, there are only a few days left to enter the Poppicrafts competition. The rules are to make a card or altered item using ribbon. The winner wil be chosen based on originality for use of the ribbon. The winner will receive 50 yards of mixed ribbons (1 yard of each of the 50 designs, as shown above). Unfortunately, only one person has entered so far - which doesnt really make it a competition does it?? I hope a few of you will have a go!

Also, the new "Sunshine" ribbon kit has been released today. It is the usual kit price of £5.99 if any of you fancy a look. It is a bit different to the usual pink based kits, so I hope you like it.

And last but certainly not least, this was my little girl on Friday, when she came home from pre-school. Usually, as soon as we get in I start getting tea, while Riley and Poppi play together, when I called them both only Riley came into the kitchen. She never ever falls asleep anywhere, except in bed, obviously. She had obviously found her dummy, tigger and towel. We call Poppi and Riley the towlettes in our house, as neither of them will go to bed without there little squares of towels and Poppi has to have "the silky bit" (thats the label by the way) by her face. She must have just been so, so tired - bless her!

And this was Riley after a birthday party at the weekend - and yes there were tears when we had to wash it off, as he would no longer be "the real spiderman".

TFL have a good evening.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MUM!!!!

Well its past midnight, so that makes it my mums birthday - Happy Birthday Mum - Youre the best!!!!!!!!! Have a lovely day! I made these two cards for her, its safe to show them, because she will be in bed now and by the time she hits blogland in the morning she wouldve opened them. I used these stamps, as I know that she loves them and the one from me, is how I see her in few years time, wanderind round her garden with pot plants (dont know about the bunchies though!!) The other one is from my dad and it reminds me of them both when I look at photos of when they were younger. My dad had thick brown hair and my mum was all little and thin, and still is.

For the first one, I had a go at a frame card - turned out ok for a first attempt, added some blooms, inked hearts, and a bit of doodling. Popped a message on the back, to cover up the messy bits.

The second one is just a standard card, with some new ribbon from my shop and some yummy crochet flowers, that should be coming into stock soon. I love texture on cards. I am not a paper stroker, as I know many of you are, I much prefer ribbon, velvet and other materials that are soft to touch.

Poppi had a great time at Pre-school this week - she is very proud of her school uniform and wants to wear it every day now. I picked her up on Friday and she burst into tears. There I was thinking "what have they done to her, why is she so upset?" and the first thing she says to me is "Please my not go home mummy" Children eh? Still I am really happy that she is enjoying spending time with children of her own age. On my way to pick her up I had to pass Rileys school and I knew that the whole school were doing a sponsored run, around the sports field for Sport relief, as I turned the corner in the car, I thought "I bet wont be able to see him" He is only tiny and amongst 100 children, would be difficult to spot. To my joy, he was running right alongside the fence. He didnt see me and Im glad he didnt, because the sheer determination in his little rosie face, to keep up with the older children was overwhelming. It bought tears to my eyes and a lump in my throat. I shall remember that brief moment forever. I am so very proud of them both. When I eventually picked Riley up he was really pleased to tell me that he had managed 8 laps, but apparently he did fall over on lap 6, because his legs stopped working. "Well done" I said, as I looked down at his feet. "In fact really well done" I thought, considering he had his plimsolls on the wrong feet. aaawww!!! What a trooper...

TFL have a great weekend

Buttons, buttons everywhere....

Sorry I havent blogged for a bit, but Im in the middle of sorting out just some of the new poppicrafts stock. Lots of yummy buttons, ribbons and ribbon kits and of course brads, brads and more brads. You know me, I do like a brad or two....

So as a result I havent got any cards to show im afraid.

On thursday Poppi went to Pre-school for a taster day, she will be going a couple of days a week, as of next week. As I left she gave me a kiss and said "see you later mummy" as though it was nothing, but to me it is - I had a lump in my throat, for my little baby has grown up. On the other hand I am so pleased that She absolutely loved it. Me and mum went along to collect her and we were peeking through the window - they had a music lesson, so they were all dancing and Poppi was copying all the other children with her little nervous face but also with the hugest smile from ear to ear. She is the youngest in the group and looked all ikkle, but as soon as we got home, she asked when she would be going back. Where does the time go? It feels like yesterday she was born and already she is telling me she is ready for big school. She is really excited for next week and keeps telling Riley that she is "growed up too." Im glad that I decided to take her, as she really does need to be mixing with children of her own age, but a little piece of me is sad.

Hope your having a great weekend. Who knows I may have some cards to show next week.

TFL x

A few more Daisies!!

Made these yesterday for a little order of get well cards. My stamping is still a little smudgey (is that a word?) but I enjoyed playing. I will keep practising.

Daisy Stamps, brads and blooms - Poppicrafts, Ribbon - Poppicrafts and Ribbon Oasis, Papers - Pink Petticoat and Papermill shop.

Thank you to the wonderful Terrie B for my fantastic "you make my day" award, you are so very kind and always make my day too, I really appreciate that you always make the time to leave me such lovely comments. - big hugs to you!!!!

Unfortunately I just dont have as much time as I would like to blog hop right now, but I do zoom around as much as possible and i dont always have enough time to leave as many comments as I would like to - sorry!!!. So I would just like to thank everyone for leaving such fantabulous comments on my blog, they really are very much appreciated.

TFL xx

Mothers day card

Made this for my mum. It started life as a card, but somehow turned into a little book. I really enjoyed making it for her. She loves simple cards - so I think I achieved that! I hope that everyone had a lovely mothers day. Riley made me a beautiful card and a little painted clay pot at school for me - I was thrilled and he was just so pleased with his efforts. I will of course cherish it forever!!! He offered to do the washing up yesterday too, but the cutest thing of all was Poppi and Riley bringing me breakfast in bed, singing "Happy Birthday" how sweet is that, still in their own way they knew it was a special day for me, even if they did get a bit confused!!! I love them to bits!!!!!

Anyway, back to the card. I thought I would have a go at stamping the acetate cover and backing papers. Hope you like it.

Supplies are: Blooms and brads - Poppicrafts. Ribbon - Poppicrafts and Ribbon Oasis. Flourish stamps - Autumn Leaves

TFL

Card Order

Sorry I havent blogged for a bit, but weve been out and about as Riley has been off school, so I have been making the most of these precious times. Allthough I must say I had forgotten, how much he needs to be entertained. We went over to my friends on Monday, had lunch, went to the park, they both played for hours with my friends children. No sooner had we pulled off the drive to come home and "What are we doing now then mummy? Im bored" Honestly I do envy their energy levels.

Anyway, I have made time in the evenings to plough through a current order of 20 cards. Supplies are: Pink Petticoat, Basic grey and DCWV papers. Brads and eyelets - Poppicrafts. Ribbon - Ribbon Oasis. Thanks to everyone who has added the Poppicrafts banner to their blog roll. I appreciate the time that you have taken to paste it over. Will be back later to post some more of this batch. Hope you all have a great weekend! x

Quick makes...

Made a few quick cards. Makes me feel like ive acheived something when a make a little batch in an evening. Used more Pink Petticoat papers. I love the new sweet cupcake range and will play with them some more. Also the new Henrietta download, how cute is she???? I will be playing with her later too. Shes really versatile, so that you can make her your own. http://www.pinkpetticoat.co.uk/ you must go check her out if you havent already.TFL, must dash, got to go get my little lad from school.

Playing with flourishes

Sorry to everyone who keeps popping over and seeing there hasnt been a posting for while. I have had a few problems with my back and havent really been very inspired to do much at all of late. Anyway enough of that, I have been playing with my new set of stamps. STAMPS? I hear you say. It is true I am not really a stamper and havent stamped for at least 5 years. When, from memory it was only anitas stamps that were readily available. But I have been browsing the net and of course asking my blog buddie, Terrie B and just love the autumn leaves flourishes and swirls. They are more me, so without further ado I gave them a try. All this acrylic stamping is so much easier than guessing where your image may turn out. I have a long way to go before I am a pro, but I enjoyed it anyway - Oh yeah except for running off to the sink every 5 minutes to clean them. Perhaps my next mission in life will be "the self cleaning clear stamp". I also had a play with these new hydrangea blooms that I now have in stock. (A pack of 60 is just £1.65). Who know I may even jump on the Tilda bandwagon next....

So I made these for mum, as her card box is getting a little empty and without a doubt, they are definately her cup of tea.

Thanks for looking, supplies are: Brads, eyelets and blooms - Poppicrafts. Papers - Pink petticoat and basic grey. Ribbon - ribbon oasis.

Oh yeah, nearly forgot - later this week there will be another Poppicrafts competition with more candy to win.