Creature Comforts

Hi all hope you are well, we are doing ok

after the loss of Mel the Hamster.

We had a little ceremony in the garden 

under the Apple tree. I was doing ok until the kids 

started to cry and then that set me off.

It's funny how much you can get attached to 

these little bundles of fur. Boo Hoo!
sniff! sniff!

Anyway onto this weeks
Papertake weekly challenge

Our theme this week is 

Creature Comforts

sponsored by Wendy's Digital Delights.

We want to see projects that feature 

animals, cute or anything you like really as long 

as there is an animal involved.

This tied in nicely as i had to make a card for Beth's 

friend at school it was her 11th Birthday and 

she adores Tatty Teddy.

The Tatty Teddy stamp was a freebie with a

magazine i have used promarkers to colour it in,

in shades of Ice grey.

Stamped round the edge with a stars and balloon

stamp off the same freebie set.

The papers are from Bearly Mine.

I made the ribbon strip with matching card and

Dots embossing folder that came with the stamp.

Hearts are from a Martha Stewart punch.

Ribbon is seam binding from The Ribbon Girl.

She really liked he card.

Thanks for stopping by today

Take Care

Tatty Teddy and Tits

Hi all, hope you are well the suns out here today

hurray not see it for a while, it's still windy though

can't have it all lol.

Kids break up for their half term today, it only seems like they have been back at school for five minutes since the last hols, not complaining though 

i don't need to get up so early.

My card today is made for a few challenges

Bearly Mine - Die cuts and Lace

Addicted to stamps - Pink and Brown

Bunny Zoe's - Lace

Crafts and Me - Gems and pearls

The papers are from the fabulous

summer lace range at Bearly mine.

I have used another of those fabby Tatty Teddy

stamps from do crafts, stamped in rich cocoa ink

and coloured with polychromos pencils.

I have stamped the edge with the

feather stamp form clarity, in Vintage photo

distress ink.

The sentiment is from LOTV also stamped in Vintage photo.

The lace i bought a few years ago from John Lewis

it's been in my cupboard never been used, stroked a 

few times, then put back away.

Anyway i have decided to start using everything,

my pile of stroking stash is getting bigger and basically

i need the space, there's always more to buy.

Pearls and gems from stash.

Oval nestability, tag Go create.

I don't know if you remember that i

mentioned that there were some Blue Tits 

showing a bit of interest in my bird box, well

the did nest and on Wednesday they fledged.

I've been trying to take a picture which is 

pretty hard as they stay well hidden but i saw 

one in the apple tree this morn, so with my long lens 

i managed to get a shot

 It's a bit blurry i had to take the picture from

inside the conservatory so i had window glare, then 

it was sat in the middle of the tree so struggled 

to get a good focus, but anyway this is the best piccy. 

This is mum or dad (can't tell the difference), grabbing

food off the feeder to feed it.

I didn't see them leave the nest i think i happened upon 

them just after they left, they were sat in the Elderflower tree next to the nest, tweeting away Feed me Feed me.


Hope you enjoyed that 
thanks for stopping by today
ta ta

Surprise

Good morning all hope you are well,

Thought i would show all you lovely ladies out there

what i made yesterday.

When i was out doing the food shop this week

i was having a browse down the book isle

when my eye caught sight of a pretty

pink book.

So on picking it up to my delight discovered it

was a cookery book.

Even better was the fact that it was a 

cake cookery book.

 So of course it made it's way into my trolley.

Having the kitchen to myself yesterday i had a

play, started simply with the vanilla cupcakes

and change the frosting to a chocolate one.

I did make 12 but as soon as the kids got home from

school, well you can imagine.

I thought i would give one to my Mum so 

Beth and i made this box to put it in.

We used another one of those cute

Tatty Teddy bears with cupcakes.

Beth coloured the image in with Polychromos pencils 

and blended with sansodor.

I made the box using my scor-pal,

put a false bottom in and cut a hole

with a nesti circle for the cake to stand in.

Edged with Spun sugar distress ink.

made the Flowers out of punches and the rose out of 

a Marianne creatables die.

I also used a Martha Stewart

heart scroll deep edge punch.

The sentiment is computer generated and cut

out with a Go Create tag die.

Hope I've not made you dribble on your

keyboard, yumm! they do taste good though.

Thanks for looking today

ta ta 

Tatty Teddy

Hi all hope you are all well.

This is probably the first of many Tatty Teddy

cards. My daughter is absolutely crazy

about this cute little bear and his blue

nose friends, and has quite a few,
she keeps asking her dad to make a shelf for them all.
  So when we where in our local

craft shop last week and saw the new range

that has just been released, well that was it.

We bought 5 of the stamps, then she spent the next few days stamping and colouring the images in.

(Kept her quiet anyway)..lol.

I must say they are really cute so i decided to use

one on my card for the Bearly Mine challenge.

Their theme is Vintage Easel.
So i have used a vintage ted.

The papers i have used are Bearly mine, a mixture

of some freebies, Vintage and summer lace.

I made a patchwork design on the computer and

printed it out.

The flower is made form the flower you get with the
new doily dies from Marianne Creatables.
The dies look a bit pansy shape to me, but when
i layered them up it look more like a Water Lilly.
Used spun sugar distress ink on the flower and then added some stickles and card candy for the centres.

The tad sentiment is also a Marianne creatables die and 
i wrote my own sentiment, 
trying to keep it in the Tatty Teddy style.
I have used a Martha Stewart deep edge punch and a 
bit of lace.
I have discovered my slice again, it's been sat on my shelf 
for a year (or more) gathering dust. I got the tickled pink
version they did and whilst having a play
  with the tickled pink cartridge i found these leaves.
Who new (slap hands).
The great thing is you can make them small or go large.
It's up to you.


Thanks for looking today,
ta ta