The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year ..... DP2 Challenge #165

"D is for ...." die cuts in my case.  That's the challenge at DP2 this week. 

I used Elf Finn by Mo Manning ...

Sentiment is from Create with TLC

Papers ~ Summer Driggs

Happy Exploring .... DP2 Challenge #157 & Deconstructed Sketch No.74

This weeks DP2 Challenge is ...

"Autumn Fun"

I made a card following the theme above and using the Deconstructed Sketch below ...

I used "Lookin' for Clues" , an image i've not used for 3 years, so I dusted off the cyber cobwebs and printed him out ....

Papers are from Summer Driggs ~ Falling for Fall kit

Sentiment is from Create with TLC

Grandma's Never Run Out Of Hugs & Cakes .... DP2 Challenge #118

Yesterday consisted of another day of feeling  on and off.  Seem OK whilst I eat, but I can't be doing that all day  .... much as I'd like !
 I thought a breathe of fresh air might help, you know blow the  away ... it didn't .  Just left me feeling .  For now the 's have ceased, giving DH's eyes and nose time to heal ... he professed the smell was making them bleed ... he's such a sympathetic soul .  Being such a caring mother  I thought I'd go and visit DD at her new home and have some  snuggles from Malibu ... I was totally  to see the house looking spotless and her sorting out her own laundry to dry.  It amazing what you can do when you have no other  idiot doing it for you .  She'd even managed to walk the  before 11:00am the other day!!!!

You've probably all noticed how much i love Mo Manning's images, so I thought for a change I'd enter into one of her challenges....

Pat is hosting the challenge this week and she has chosen a fun theme ...

"Stitching (real or faux) with a Mo Image"

(use at least one Mo Manning image on your project)

....and this is a challenge?  ....

... I used the new "With Love Boy" and merged the image with "Kai is One" ...

... I used it again on the inside in its raw state ...

I've made this for my grandbabies to give to my Mum on her birthday

To make this card I used:~

DP's ~ from my paper pile

CS ~ Stash

Sentiment ~ Create with TLC

Pearls ~ Stash

Tools ~ Pencil Crayons, Sansodor, Blending Stumps, Sewing Machine, Carla Craft Corner Punch

I Smile When I Think About You .... DP2 Challenge #116

Flippin' heck how windy is out there?    Fortunately, I've not had to venture outside the front door today and have stayed snuggled up inside making cards   trying to replenish my empty card box!  

So, I decided to play along with Mo's Challenge this week which is ....

"Anything Goes w/ a Mo Image"

(Use at least one Mo Manning image on your project)

Now, I made a decision to use the "Soak Up The Joy" image on this card based on 2 things .... 

1. Because I've not used it since 2009, shortly after I first brought it  due to a comment made about it by the person I sent the card too.

2. Because I need to get passed the comment and get the vision out of my head every time I scan through my Mo images when choosing which one to use!  

... I suppose you're all wondering what that comment was .... well, it went something like this .... Auntie Shirley (godmother) .... "Jilli Wick, (my nickname as a kid used by family) how rude of you to send me a card with one of those on"  ...   ...  "do I look like a person who would use one of those?" ...  ... "Look what she's holding in her right hand"  ...  ... "No, not her arm, look closer"  ... OMG    ... I had to admit it did look like she was holding a battery operated pleasurable device   ...

.... and a close up of the image ....

(see what I mean) 

I used her again in her raw state inside.

To make the card I used~

CS & DP's ~ Stash
Sentiment ~ Create with TLC
Buttons & Pearls ~ Stash
Tools ~ Sewing Machine, Pencil Crayons, Blending Stumps, Sansodor, Diamond Stickles

Cocoa and Snow = Happy Glow ..... DP2 Challenge #102 & Card Patterns Sketch #135

Managed to get the card below made yesterday in between making Sunday lunch, delivering "Meals on Wheels" and another night of favourite TV viewing!  :D

Right now I have a Banana & Toffee Loaf in the oven and another 2 ready to go in =P~ ... The toffee has been stolen from the oldies house this morning ;)  I made it for Dad for Father's Day and he's not really fancied eating it since his diagnosis ... he's not really fancied eating anything to be fair.  So I thought I may as well use it up and throw it in with the manky banana's that are festering away in the fruit bowl :-&!  We've (Mum, Sister, Niece and me) sat till 2:00pm waiting for the GP to come out to see him.  He has a nasty chest infection on his right side :( .... the side that isn't affected by the lung cancer!  Not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing at the minute :-S  He's really not very well at all, although we did manage to have a giggle when he took his huge anti-biotic pill and I told him "he was a really good boy"   Once again he looks so frail, helpless and tiny lying in bed it breaks your heart =(( to see him like that. 

BTW, the Banana Creme Caramels where a disaster, far too sweet for one and never really set properly for another ...

This weeks DP2 Challenge is "Furry Friends" ... this is my second entry for this weeks challenge.

Card Patterns have a fab sketch below ...

 

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a close up of the image ...

... and again in B&W on the inside ...

To make this card I used:~

CS ~ Stash

DP's ~ Summer Driggs ~ Winter Wonderland

Image ~ Mo's Digital Pencil ~ Dormouse

Sentiment ~ Create with TLC

Jingle Bells, Pearls, Ribbon & Wire ~ Stash

Tools ~ Sewing Machine, Sizzix Snowflake Border Die, Cuttlebug, Diamond Stickles, Sansodor, Pencil Crayons, Blending Stumps, Glitter Snow

Ho, Ho, Ho, Merry Christmas ... PTW Sketch & DP2 Challenge #102

:-o I slept until 10:02am yesterday morning!!!!  Not quite sure what or how that happened cos normally i'm an incredibly early riser ... however, I must of needed it and I do feel better for it.

Upon my awake I :)] Mum to see how Dad was feeling.  Apparently, he fell over in the night on the way to the bathroom :( ... he was OK, 8-| just couldn't get up and had managed to wedge himself between the wardrobe and chest of drawers ... not a pretty sight ... he was :)) about it though, so it must be all good!

I did think that I'd be able to do loads of things with not having to visit the oldies but it never works that way does it? :|  I plugged the vacuum in upstairs to make a start on the chores and ... :-< ... it died!  DH did a mad dash down to Argos and purchases a new one ... its one of the cylinder ones ...#:-S ... flippin' heck I knew I was using that ... it nearly sucked the floorboards through the carpet.  The suction was that good I could hardly push it! 

I sort of multi-tasked for the rest of the day, doing a bit of baking and made a card ... I had a go at this new recipe using manky old black banana's ... Banana Creme Caramels ... will show the photos of them tomorrow.  I whipped up a batch of meringues too with the egg whites I had left over :D ... oh happy days!

So onto this weeks PTW challenge and as it is the last challenge of the month (September) there's a sketch …

As always, please feel free to resize, flip and rotate the elements - as long as you can still see the sketch, it’s completely fine.

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Also at this weeks DP2 the challenge has been set by Iulia, and she's chosen  Furry Friends! as the challenge theme...

To make this card I used:~

CS ~ Stash

DP's ~ A Freebie from a couple of years back ... no idea of name or designer sorry!

Image ~ Mo Manning ~ 2010 Baby Bella & Bronte

Sentiment ~ Create with TLC

Gems ~ Stash

Tools ~ Pencil Crayons, Blending Stumps, Sansodor, Sewing Machine, Cuttlebug, Nesties, Diamond Stickles

DP2 Challenge #73 ~ A Bit of Green

This weeks hostess Miz Pat, has a great challenge for us. This week it's "A Bit of Green"...perfect for this time of the year... 

I've made this card for my daughter's birthday off of her 2 sons.  I just knew that Mo would have a couple of images that would work perfectly together to make this card.  I used a 'merging' tutorial from here to merge these two little beauties to represent my gorgeous little grandbabies Rylee and Koree!

To make this card I used:~

CS ~ Stash

DP's ~ Raspberry Road Designs ~ Cherry Limeaide

Images ~ Mo's Digital Pencil ~ Bronte & Louis and So Big Baby

Sentiment ~ Create with TLC

Pearls ~ Stash

Tools ~ Sewing Machine, Pencil Crayons, Blending Stumps, Sansodor

Mo's (Bronte & Bella's) Challenge #1

WooHoo this is the very first challenge for Mo's Digital Pencil. Of course, we know that "Perple" is Bella and Bronte's favorite colour. So, the challenge is to make a card using the color purple but we must use a Mo Manning image on our creation but we can use as much or as little purple as we like, it just has to have purple!

Even though i say so myself i'm really pleased with this card.

CS ~ Stash

DP's ~ Lottie, Dottie and Jack Collection

Image ~ Mummu's Bike

Stamps ~ Autumn Leaves Swirls ... i think!

Flowers, Ribbon and Eyelets ~ Stash

Beads ~ Left over from wedding bouquet and posies

Sentiment ~ Free Download Express Yourself Digikit

Tools ~ Woodware Leaf Punch, Whisper Strokes, Woodware Dragonfly Punch, Glamour Dust, Sewing Machine