Summer holidays

… are nearly at an end so I will be able to get back to crafting!!!

New Award

I received this lovely award today from SusieB today.

The rules of the award are:

1. The winner can put the logo on her blog.

2. Link the person you received your award from.

3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs.

4. Put links of those blogs on yours.

5. Leave a message on the blogs of the girls you’ve nominated

So here goes:

• Jackie
  
• Caroline
  
• Adele
• Nicola
• Silvercustard
  
• Icklepickle
  
• & Cambiel .

2½ challenges in one

Ok – I toddled over to Dottie’s World to see what the latest challenge was as I had just coloured two George images ready for my friend’s twins’ birthdays.

This week all you have to do is use one of the Charmed downloads BUT (there’s awlays a but isn’t there!) you have to combine it with one or more challenges from other challenge blogs! I think it’s great to combine challenges and I think it should be encouraged, so there you go, I’m encouraging you!

Right then … having been up at 3.30am I had had a prowl around blogland and spotted the new challenges but couldn’t think what on earth to combine it with! I also had to re-read the challenge blog conditions carefully cos at least one stipulated that it not be combined with any other challenges!!!

Eventually I came up with using sketch 11 from Sketch Saturday for both cards …

I followed the sketch adjusting the sizes to fit my card – I used papermania paper as the backing for the computer George and papermania blue card (which I stamped using the colorbox queues rain forest pigment inks I won recently from the first This Thursday challenge) using two different star stamps for the chef.

The ribbons were from my stash of oddments as was the corrugated card. The other two papers are from Dovecraft’s 6×6 designer paper pack for ‘ Birthday ‘.

Each card has two little terriers (from a Dovecraft punch) as a remembrance of their cairn terrier and this was what led to the ½ in the title above …

Cute Card Thursday this week has

Challenge 22

This week the theme is ‘The two of us’

We would like you to use two of something on your card, it could be 2 people, 2 animals or 1 of each, we love to see your own interpretation as always!

Now as the cards are for twins and they’ve got the two terriers on each then I thought I would cheekily enter both cards in their challenge too

Award

From Cupcakedaft … an award

In order to share this award the rules are

1. Only pass on to 5 fellow bloggers.
2. 4 have to be dedicated followers of your blog.
3. One has to be someone new or recently new to your blog and live in another part of the world.
4. you must link back to whoever gave you the award.

So I hereby award the Blogging Friends Forever Award to…

Tiggertastic

Jane

SusieB (if she’s not too busy!)

Lady Laurence

Freehartz

Blog candy …

Debbie Moore over at A Card is for Life is giving away some blog candy including her new ‘Safari’ stamps that have just gone on sale at Spiral Whisper. Pop over and join in

Back off hols

Had a marvelous time in Tenerife – fabulous hotel and glorious weather and it really was just like this …

Haven’t crafted for nearly a month but have a get well card, twin birthday cards (17 year old boys), a 50th, an 11 year girl birthday and a male card to make before the end of the month – actually before the bamk holiday and that’s just for personal use apart from the church card sales!!!

Then we reach September – nightmare month for birthdays and anniversaries in our family – at least 10 birthdays including one 50th and hubby and MIL and 3 anniversaries including a 35th and a 55th and there are 5 church birthdays too!

Better get stuck in!!!