Cuteness alert!!

One card and a super cute bag for you tonight. Unfortunately the bag is a no sell as the pattern is from a mag where the patterns are not for commercial use, but the card is!! This one here was for our best mates little boy who just turned 2 and unbeknowns to me, loves dinosaurs (his cake was a dino) but there are a whole bunch of others coming in different colours that are going to be available for order soon - as will this one if requested :-)

Anyway I hope you like them - and can I say a big thank you to the lovely Sarpreet who never fails to leave me a lovely comment. One day I will get around to visiting you guys again (the summer hols are nearly upon us so I will have 6 weeks of blogging and making - YAY!!!) so expect to see a little more of me then.
See you all soon
Sam x

Lots of new bits

Morning guys, one day I will crack this working, making and blogging malarky, it might help if BT actually get me a half decent broadband connection! Anyway, I'm not here to moan, I'm here to show you some of the latest bits and pieces I've made so I'm going to let the pictures do the talking now.

The cards were made for my daughter and my brother and with the exception of the "Lady in Red" - as I don't have that CD yet - and can all be made again. The can/coffee cup cosies are one offs in these particular colours, but I'm sure I can find lots of other yummy colours to use if necessary.
Take care
Sam x

Blog candy shout out and a couple of new bits

Evening all. Sorry I've not been about much, I've been a little preoccupied with other things....mainly my beautiful cousins Order of Service for her wedding this coming Saturday. I'll pop photos of those up this time next week.
Anyway, as you can see by the title I have a blog candy shout out for Sarpreet, who is a very talented lady and I do hope those of you that see this will pop along, follow her her blog and help to spread the word;-
http://worldofsarpreet.blogspot.com/2011/05/my-blog-candy-in-aid-of-cancer-research.html

Now onto the couple of new bits. The first is a baby boy card that my MIL asked me to make for the arrival of her neighbours new baby the other day.

I used Crafters Companion Popcorn kids CD and stamps, I also finally got around to using my cuttlebug and nestabilities....how on earth did I manage without those little babies!

The next bit is another twisty scarf. This one is more suitable for a super stylish young girl as it's a bit shorter as I did it in a tighter tension than the pink one.

Over the next week, I'll be uploading items to my Folksy shop and getting my website back up and running so people can see the sort of things that I have made in the past and order them in their own choice of colours and materials....after all not everyone wants cotton or acrylic :-)
Hope you like them both and please don't forget to check out Sarpreets blog candy.
Take care
Sam x

Latest cards

I'm really getting back into my card making at the minute and thoroughly enjoying myself too. Anyway, these are my latest cards and again they are all CraftsUPrint downloads. I've made 3 Fathers Day cards and one that is suitable either for Easter or as a sympathy card as text for both occasions is included on the sheet.
I've made this one as a sympathy card as our friend lost her nan at the weekend and it is the funeral this Friday.

Download by Vicki Avcin

Downloads by Carol Ann Clarke

Download by Diane Furniss

The last one is my second card uploaded to the CraftsUPrint website. My little clicky thing in the top of the left hand corner of my blog should take you to them I believe.
I hope you like my cards as there will be some smaller versions available soon as well of all of these 4 so keep your eyes peeled for those soon.
Take care everyone and goodnight
Sam x

Happy Mothers Day everyone!

Well I bought myself some flowers yesterday when I bought the mums theirs, just so I didn't miss out. My eldest daughter has just facebooked me to say the card is in the post, but still no volunteers to make me breakfast or cook the dinner later :(
Anyway, last night I finished off the 2 mothers day card downloads I had chosen from CraftsUPrint. I will definitely be making these to sell next year along with some others too. Think I'm getting back into my groove now in all manner of crafting. Anyway enough waffling from me, onto the pictures.

Denise Rhodes

Amanda Mcgee

This cascade one is awaiting validation on my CUP profile thingy and it's my first one on there, only thing is, it's a very difficult card to show off with just one picture as it's not all on one side. Hence there being a few of it here instead.
Next project is Fathers day cards and I've already made a start on those but you'll have to wait for a couple of days to see those as I have a full day of other stuff today sadly.
I hope all you mums have a lovely day out there and are spoilt a lot more than I'm going to be today, maybe one day someone will cook for me......
Take care guys
Sam x

EDIT:- I've just entered the top card in at OSAAT as they are having a 3D challenge this week and the lovely Jo is stepping down as one of the talented DT so I thought I'd enter to mark the occasion.
All the best Jo
Sam x

I'm back after a BAD week

And it was a very bad week I hasten to add. Last Sunday I was told I had pharyngitus and that all I could do was take my painkillers along with some soluble aspirin and that as long as I drank I'd be okay. Well baring in mind it was killing me to swallow in the first place I wasn't amused at this diagnosis. Then on Monday I heard that my Farf (my grandad) had died the previous Wednesday and that the funeral was to be on the Thursday. Well with this emotional pain, as well as the pain in my throat that would not go away and took my voice with it, I really did not feel like crafting at all. I did start and finish a chunky lacy scarf though saying that - picture to follow.
Anyway, after the trauma of Thursday, I suddenly felt that I needed and wanted to craft once again so I have made several pairs of crocheted earrings and finished off loads of brooches that needed finishing (well obviously lol). I also made some cards to display said earrings and brooches off.

Expect to see some cards soon as well as I've got a load printed off and ready to be made up. Anyway, I'm going back to work tomorrow even though I'm not 100% (I'm only about 60% if I'm honest), but I have to take the 2 purple brooches into work as they were orders from my work buddies.
Take care everyone, I'm going to go and drink some more water (cools my throat and makes it feel better) and have a bath. See you all later....
Sam x