7th Wedding Anniversary

Happy Saturday everyone, just had to show you my suprises from hubby for our 7th anniversary!!! This is us on that magical day in Clearwater, Florida, our photographer was amazing, hired about 3 days before the wedding as Virgins photo package was awful, this firm were in Safety Harbour...........v.expensive but it is was our only chance to catch the special memories.........yuk........how soppy do I sound & they were the only firm available at such short notice.....LOL.......good job I had our flexi friend to assist in an emergency!!!!

He suprised me with a hand made card.............yes, no help from at me at all, he designed it all him self, no sketch, no inspiration.........he's a natural don't ya think???? He must get it from his taleted mummy Fiona.

It has an acetate window & everything, he used 3 stamps of mine that have never ever seen ink........LOL. The flower is a Penny Black, the flower is Papermania & the Sentiment is from an SU SAB set. He coloured the flowers in Promarkers.........I think its a fab card don't you?

and a knock at the door........................

I never get flowers as the last time (about 8 years ago) I moaned about how much they had cost so he never bothered again.........until today...........I was a bit more grateful today....LOL, I still think flowers from florists are too expensive but these are beautiful & they sit lovely in my bay window and will hopefully last longer to as it is cool there.

The rest of the day was a bit of a nightmare........we were going shopping this morning & then to the German Market in Birmingham with my Brother & Sis this afternoon but we could not get our hands on OUR cash as Halifax were having technical probs as a result of the bad weather last night so shopping was abandoned. My mom lent us cash to go into Birmingham tho but after walking over a mile to the train station found the trains to Birmingham cancelled as someone had been hit by a train...........how awful!!!!

We ended up getting the bus and just sat in heavy traffic trying to get into Birmingham. Once there we could not move in the German Market........turns out the light switch on on the other side of town had been abandoned as someone had been stabbed and there was a bit of a fight from what I heard........shame as people were looking forward to seeing JLS & Sugababes.......well, all these dissapointed folk must all have been in that market!!!

We left after about 50 mins of being pushed & shoved but then could not get back on public transport......Trains to busy......buses all full......thank goodness for Taxi's that's all I can say!!!!

Anyway enough of my ranting I am off to bed as I still feel a bit poorly!!!

Hugs

Sarah

passion for Promarkers

Another hectic week has flown by & time again for another Passion for Promarkers challenge and this week the lovely Ida has provided us with a fab sketch to follow.

I decided to use my WOJ Henry skating mouse that I bought weeks ago and have neglected to use, poor little mite. I stamped him in Black Impress ink onto whisper white card and coloured him in the following Promarkers:

Cinnamon, Cocoa, Umber, Pine, Forest Green, Tea green, Ice Grey 1, Ice grey 5, Cool grey 1, Artic blue, Duck egg, Oatmeal, Tan, Poppy, Lipstick Red & Blender

The paper is Bo Bunny from Hobbycraft, I have inked the edges with SU real red ink, the sentiment is by Elzybells & the fancy border was created with my new EK Success punch that I got from the NEC on Saturday

Thanks for looking, please feel free to leave a comment as I love reading them.

Hugs

Sarah

Awards

I have been given some awards lately that I am a bit late mentioning, the first is from the fabulous Marlene, thanks hun, this award has rules as follows:

I need to pass this award on to five people, post on their blog to let them know I left this award, and then I need to answer a list of questions in ONE word.

1. Where is your cell phone? Kitchen

2. Your hair? Blonde

3. Your mother? Petite

4. Your father? Heaven

5. Your favorite food? Junk

6. Your dream last night? scary

7. Your favorite drink? Coke

8. Your dream/goal? Health

9. What room are you in? Lounge

10. Your hobby? crafting

11. Your fear? Fire

12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? Alive

13. Where were you last night? Home

14. Something that you aren't? organised

15. Muffins? Yuk

16. Wish list item? Dad

17. Where did you grow up? Birmingham

18. Last thing you did? Facebook

19. What are you wearing? Clothes

20. Your TV? Big

21. Your Pets? Doggies

22. Friends? Many

23. Your life? Manic

24. Your mood? Stressed

25. Missing Someone? Dad

26. Vehicle? Volvo

27. Something your not wearing? Armour

28. Your favorite store? Stampeezee

29. Your favorite color? Black

30. When was the last time you laughed? Today

31. Last time you cried? funeral

32. Your best friend? Hubby

33. One place that I go to over and over? Craftroom

34. Facebook? Yes

35. Favorite place to eat? Nando's

The second is from my wonderful mother in law Fiona & my friend Grace from Stampeezee, thank you both

I will pass these on later, got to run and get my son from Scouts

Hugs

Sarah

Passion for Promarkers

Happy Tuesday to you all, I am sooooo tired this week after our hectic but fun visit to Scotland, we got to see a lot of the family this trip and my MIL and I even managed a craft session at her local craft shop Stampaholics.................back to reality now though and back to work.....still a girl has to earn the pennies to spend at the NEC on Friday and Saturday right?? Woo hoo I am sooooooo excited, let me know if you are gonna be there and I will look out for you.

Anyway onto this weeks Passion for Promarkers challenge & this time we want to see the colours grass & canary on your creations........mmmmm this one got me thinking, i had a look around the digi stamp sites and found this Itty Bitty Bobby Dinosaur costume cutie from Pink cat Studio and thought he was perfect, the sentiment was from the same site and was a freebie.

I coloured Itty Bitty Bobby in the following promarkers:

Grass, meadow green, canary, sunflower, lemon, blush, dusky pink, pastel pink, sandstone & umber.

I cut him out with Small & large oval nesties and made a box sized to fit my label nesties. I was going to put some treats in the box but the postie bought a big box today and I put it on the table on top of my project by accident........oops........its a little on the flat side now!!!!

Anyway have a great week and I hope to see some of you at the NEC

Thanks for looking, please feel free to leave a comment as I love reading them.

Hugs

Sarah

Crafting fun at Stampaholics

As you know I am in Scotland visitings my in-laws & today my mother-in-law and I were booked into a craft class at the fab Stampaholics.

This is one of the cards I made, designed by Siobhan (owner of the shop) I will not be showing you the other as I a managed to make a complete mess of it!!!!

I had to make it with no cutter, just a craft knife and mat................the colour must have drained from my face when I was told that ...LOL. It was pretty easy actually so I have conqured a fear today (I won't be throwing away my cutter tho)

The main image is by Crafty Individuals, the frame is a nestie (which I just had to buy), the sentiment is from an Inkadinkado clear set and the background swirls and snowflakes were created with various wooden stamps that were available for us to play with.

This is not my usual style of card so I really enjoyed doing something a little different, I managed a little bit of shopping at the end of the class but I was being rushed by men to hurry so I had to leave precious stash behind that should now be mine............SOB................still I am going to the NEC next week..........oh I am soooooooooooo excited.

Anyway, my MIL has just purchased the new Magnolia magazine so I am going to curl up on the sofa with it now as I cannot wait until I get hold of mine that Deb from Stampeezee is saving for me.

Thanks for looking, please feel free to leave a comment as I love reading them.

Hugs

Sarah

Frankie's Monsters

Halloween is nearly upon us, but I will miss all the neighbourhood fun as we will be on our way back from Scotland on the night of Halloween so I have made some monster treat boxes for my usual visitors to hand out beforehand!!!!!

The fab Tutorial is here

I have used everything the same although I did not have the Top note die but I did have a nestie die that is more or less exact so I used that.

Anyway, we are off out to visit family today & stopping my Luca's fab ice cream shop in Musselburgh (Scotland)...........best ice cream ever!!!

Thanks for looking, please feel free to leave a comment as I love reading them.

Hugs

Sarah

Passion for Promarkers

Happy Tuesday bloggers, hope you are all well, I am excited today as I am off up to Scotland when I finish work with my hubby & our 3 doggies to see his parents, my son is there already, he flew up on Thursday lunch time for the holidays. My mother -in-law (Lildaff) is a crafter so we have some crafty time planned which includes a class at the fab Stampoholics and a visit to Aberdeen to meet my Passion ForPromarkers DT mate Debbi, it should be a great few days.

Anyway onto this weeks Passion for Promarkers challenge which this week is 'Animals', you can use any colours for this one so I chose to do a Halloween card using 'Bat cat' by Mo Manning, available here . I coloured the puddy cat in the following Promarkers:

Pumpkins: Mandarin, Pumpkin & gold, Umber & cocoa
Mask: Plum, Amethyst & Orchid
Kitty: Cool grey 1, 3, 4 & 5
Ears, nose & mouth: Sunkissed pink
Eyes: Emerald



The DP is DCWV, it's holographic but the pic does not show it!!! The fab sentiment is from an Amy R Halloween collection I got from Sily Monkey crafts, you get loads of sentiments and they stamp perfectly!!!

We are being sponsered by Letraset themselves this week who are giving away a pack of 5 promarkers, so get colouring in to be in with a chance to win!!!!

Have a great week, thanks for looking, please feel free to leave a comment as I love reading them.

Hugs

Sarah