Birthdays and Christmas all in one day!

Happy Birthday today to my new cyber space OAP friend Marie...
Hope you have had a good day sweetie..!
Now I must get on with my blogging.
Again today i've been doing Christmas and some are good some are not.
I just love the Snowman card other than a bit too much red under his arm that is holding the parcel.. don't you agree Bev if you are having a peek?
i'm happy with my colouring as I feel it is getting heaps better, and if ever you have the chance to have a class or even see Bev Rochester at work it's a must..if you have the chance but don't go you must be crazy..She is the best teacher I have ever had.. a no nonsense type of lady, just like me.... ;o)...Lol!
The penguin sat on the igloo was my fav christmas stamp last year but i'm not so sure about this card. It may be the flowers that are just not right!!
The Sugar Nellie Santa is coloured just right (I think so) but again the embelishments let the card down..
The Diamond Dust is a must for your snowflakes too.. go on "Get some" you will not regret it.. Bev recommended it at the Harrogate show in March.
I best stop rambling and add the pictures.. but first I best tell you that i have used distress inks on all of these cards.. Not a Copic in site...!

I've had a bit of a christmas thing going on for a couple of days, stamping images cutting paper to size etc...
Some of the papers are a couple of years old and I just need the space...Lol... how many of us are in the same situation....!
I promised myself a 2 month shopping ban and a few hours later I spent £5 on some stamps and i've been spending again today and i'm not even going to say what I've spent but I need to use some papers up to make way for the new ;o). I also need room for the brads the buttons(anyone would think I had no buttons!)oh and the....!
I'm not even going to go there. Yep you guessed it.. hubby is at work!

Any how back to my christmas cards, as you can see its got a blue theme going on and I just love the "Diamond Dust" I bought from The Hobby House. You cut out snow flakes with acetate and cover with glue that dries clear and sprinkle it on and you get a wonderful sparkling effect, although I used clear glitter glue and it has given it an even better effect..The blue flowers and snowflakes are also from T.H.H.. Jill has some wonderful things there. So if you live close to Cleethorpes or Grimsby here in the UK drop by and take a look and tell Jill that Lynn has sent you...!
I have coloured with my whispers pens today and also used a touch of Shimmerz paint for a bit more of a christmas feel...
Hope they don't make you feel too cold.. although a bit of cooling off is nice..

I got to play... It has been far too warm to decorate
anyway, don't you agree.....I knew you would. Lol..!
A woman of my way of thinking!!!
So The pink stripy card I don't like at all, but the strawberry card I do. The only thing wrong with it though is I know I have some strawberry charms..Somewhere ;o) if you know what I mean...I should sort things out.. maybe tomorrow.!!
What do you say??next time I use the strawberry stamp I may just decoupage it to give it some depth..

This is all I have managed to make today....
The papers are from My Minds Eye and I have used my copics to colour...
My charms are always from The Hobby House here in the uk...
Sorry that the photo is not as good as it should be!
Tomorrow it is either decorate the front room or play, so if there is a card or two on here tomorrow at this sort of time 7pm UK time it means I got to play.... If there is nothing, decorating won the day..... and I may get some time to play on sunday...
I was like a 'drowned' rat when I got home today but now the sun is back out to play and is supposed to stay around all weekend.. Yeah!!!

Hope you like the card and hope that you will call by again soooon...!

I have had such a busy day today even though it was my day off...
I was so excited that the postman had delivered me the new summer Magnolia kit and wanted to play... but the phone has not stopped and then the twins (3 year old grandchildren) came to play and my hubby thought it would be fun to play with the garden hose with them... We have not laughed so much for ages (I do every night when I get undressed for bed... Lol). Then the twins found a snail to play with ;o(
Now it's nearly time for bed I get the chance to play a little..
So here is a couple of photos of my day off..
I will get a better chance over the weekend.......

It's now nearly 12 or since I woke up and am tiring fast.I have managed to finish another few of cards. The "Gis a kiss" card is made using card stock that was given to me by a friend of mine and the DP paper was sent to me in an RAK from my wonderful swedish friend Mia as is the dp and images on the other 2 cards. I love the image from the Get Well card it is so so cute and was great to colour too... The RAK from Mia came on a morning that I was going away for the weekend and did not intend to take much in the way of craft stuff (honest>>!) but took the RAK with me and dropped my Lock & Lock storage full of stamps off at my friends and she gave me a bag full of card... so yes I started these cards then. I'm glad I've got around to finishing them though... By don't I ramble on ......!

What do we do best when we can't sleep... Yeah you got it...!
I was wide awake at 4.30am this morning so had a cup of tea with my man before he left for work and then went up to play...1
I had put the orange and basic grey back ground papers on weeks ago and was undecided how to finish it off, I must have had a bit of a foggy brain as I managed to finish it off..
My old work friend from when I had a proper job leaves on friday so I bought her an address book and a pen and have made half a dozen cards to go in a little bag that was sent to me in an RAK from PCP... The small leaving/ birthday card I have made reminds me of the good old days when we worked together and put the work place to rights... Lol.. We had loads of fun and nearly 6 years down the line I still miss the place so baddly (I got made redundant)..
Well I best get ready for work although I could do with an hour in bed now...!
I only have a short day today so may post again later today.