Ice Cream anyone???

Morning....

....just popping by the neglected blog to share an ice cream or three with you :0) It's my attempt to try and pretend we are having a summer!!

This is the card I'm sharing over at Make the Day Special blog today and I've used Lawn Fawn stamps to make an ice cream, .... but Lawn Fawn don't have an ice cream stamp.... yep,  I made one up instead :0)....

I used the gnomes hat from 'Gnome Sweet Gnome' and the top of the pie from 'My Silly Valentine' to make my yummy treats and I really love how stamping with tone on tone ink colours have given them a softer feel :0) 

I'm not so happy with the sentiment, I cut the stamp in half so as to stamp it in the oval and it says 'Keep Cool' but now when I look at it it reads 'Keep Coal'....it looked perfectly fine when read on one line, how strange is that!!!

I haven't forgotten about showing you James's newly decorated bedroom we are still in the process of sorting his stuff out... we are having a toy cull because we are in danger of having more than the local branch of Toys'r'us!!! He will still quite happily play with pre-school toys and we think now is the time to loose some of them whilst redecorating and re-organising his room.

Everything is taking longer though because of the summer hols including crafting and commenting so apologies for not getting round to you all... I'll catch up eventually :0)

Thanks for looking and don't forget, if you live outside the States, you can buy Lawn Fawn stamps along with other American brands at Make the Day Special, too many to list so go check them out :0)

Jenny x

Twinkling Stars!!

Hellooo....

It's time to check out this weeks new challenge at CASual Fridays and being a daydreamer, it's a favourite of mine.... looking to the skies :0)

Yep, we want you to think about what you might see in the sky and join in the fun with us for 'On Cloud 9'....

It's the first challenge of the month so we are searching for a guest designer to join us in September and our sponsor is the well known Simon Says Stamp.

I looked to the sky at night for my card because I wanted to use this sweet sentiment from a MFT stamp set called 'The Great Outdoors'...

I used the bitty texture stamp from Annabelle Stamps Bkgd by design 5 for my galaxy of stars and dotted a few star gems on for the twinkling ones.... I thought the sentiment was quite appropriate with the amazing performances taking place at the Olympics in London at the moment, even without taking home a medal there's a whole lot of twinkling stars there!!
Pretty simple and CAS...I just let the sentiment do the talking :0)

Remember to check out the rest of the Girl Fridays cards not forgetting Sanketi who is Guest designing with us this week :0)

Thanks for looking.

Jenny x

Horsin' Around

Hello hello hello..... I'm here today because it's the first of the month and time for a new challenge at St Luke's Charity Card Challenge ...that's another month chalked off this year!!!

You can't have escaped noticing the Olympics going on in London at the moment so this month we have decided to keep with the theme and challenge you to make a sporty card :0)

My favourite sport is anything equestrian but particularly the cross-country and the Olympics coverage means we get to see it on TV!!!
I've always been horse-mad, I learn't to ride and would often write about, daydream about or draw them as a youngster, I was convinced I would have my own one day but life had other ideas!!!

I found a diagram of a saddle from a book which I made bigger and used as a template then hand cut the saddle blanket and horsey card base to fit the saddle proportions.... it was great fun making the stirrup leathers and running the stirrups up the straps as you do in real life :0)
This card pleases the 'making things in miniature' part of me.... I love playing with card or paper :0)

Our prize this month is generously donated by Waltzingmouse Stamps and is this stamp set called 'Blessed By You'

So what's your favourite sport and is it in the Olympics??? Why not hop over to the St Luke's blog and see how the rest of the DT were inspired by this theme.... all the details can be found there about the challenge.

Thanks for looking :0)

Jenny x