Bright…but soft…lol

Im in by the skin of me teeth wi this one for the Shabby Tea Room and Let’s craft and create. The Shabby tea room wanted ‘ruffles’ and craft and create wanted ‘sewing’….Soooo what did i do??? I sewed me ruffle hehe! The pics are rather crappy as i have taken them tonight, so it’s electric light i’m afraid.

I used a new My minds eye doily stamp set (Stella and Rose) that i got last week! LOVE it! and it was only £5.99..absolute bargain!! I also used me new embossing folder again(I LOVE it sooo much) And of course i used me PTI button boutique stamp set…hehe, ya just already know that i love this ! I stull haven’t really created much with it yet though. I SO WISH pti would reduce their shipping costs to the uk. There are lots of things that i would like to get and would prob order every month, but it’s simply way to expensive, as if it’s only a small order the shipping is like 2x or 4 x the cost of your order, then another daft anount at this end by customs. And if you place a large order to get the most from the shipping then customs here really do get ya! The whole thing just really isn’t worth it. Every month i look on at the new realeases and im like…OOh i’d love to have that…and that…ooh i need that…i want that! lol

The postage really doesn’t have to be that high at all, it’s ridiculous. (I reckon it’s just a ploy to keep all that pti goodness in the states, they just don’t want us brits to have it! that’s what i reckon)

A couple of weeks ago i placed on order with My time made easy for some stamps. The shipping only worked out at about £3 or less, in fact im sure it was less…lol Anyhows, i ordered on a saturday…and on thursday , just 5 DAYS later my stamps dropped through my letterbox! Now that IS cheap postage and 1st class service! When the postage is that price you can afford to make small regular orders, that way it keeps customs away…lol

TFL

Shaz xxx

MTME PP # 9

I can’t believe that we are already onto week 9 of the MTMEPPC , the time is going sooooo quick. I go away on holiday in 3 weeks and in september me li’l Chloe monster will be starting full time school!!!

Anyhows back to the point of me post..lol  Here is the pretty palette that we have for you to work with this week.

Now a few years ago this was my fave colour combo ever! Now i have done a complete U-turn and switched to pastels…lol Here is what i created using this weeks colours.

I used the cake image from the ‘ON DISPLAY digi set’. There’s some great images and sentiments in this set for lot’s of different occasions.

I used me new embossing folder again…LOVE IT! I wanted the cake to be THE focal point, with no other pp etc on the card. Soooo…a few times i have seen creations where ppl have just embossed using the nesties as apposed to cutting things out.Anyhows i decided to try it out as i thought it would go great ! So i tried it and voila! LOVE it! Why did i never try this before??? Right now iam thinking to cut some more cb this size, emboss with the folder, then the nestie. Then they are there ready for when ya want a quickie card , cos all you gotta do then is pop an image in the centre and ya done! (unless ya just can’t help yourself from adding in a bit of ribbon….lol)

TFL

Shaz xxx

Over at mo’s they are going….

……Monochromatic! That’s the challenge over at Mo’s right now. I was lucky enough to win last weeks challenge over at Mo’s last week, so this week i have used me prize image

Now when it comes to Monochromatic everything HAS to be the same colour, but just different shades of it. So when i started to create a card i just couldn’t

 

I made sure everything was blue, but then i got to thinking that even if all the papers, embellies etc that i used were blue, it still wouldn’t be Monochromatic. It stopped being Monochromatic the minute i added the skin colours. So instead i decided for black/grey. Here’s what i made…very simple.

Even the cb is grey. The paper i printed ontp however is white, although i did chalk all the bacground in light grey.

I just got these 2 new embossing folders. i don’t usually bother much with embossing folders but i adore these, they are def at the top of me ‘FAVE’ list.

The embossing folder below reminded me of the ‘photo card mounts’ that you get with photographs, so i thought it would be a cute idea to pop this cute little chappie in there. A simple idea for a baby anouncement card!

I LOVED colouring in just greys, it is the first time i have ever done it and i must say that i did get a bit carried away…lol

TFL

Shaz xxx

OUR CREATIVE CORNER GUEST DT

This week iam ‘thrilled’ to be the guest DT over at OUR CREATIVE CORNER. This week the challenge is : The wonder of weaving!

When i was first told what the challenge was i just thought ’OH MY…lol I didn’t have a clue what to do. In the end i thought that it should be simple enough to weave a handle (Hehehe…i took the easy route )

I used a cute free basket template from Waltzing mouse you can find it HERE

The handle was simple enough to do. I just weaved one long piece of ribbon through 3 pieces of cs. This pretty little basket is now home to some of me flowers. It’s a lovely little basket to give as a gift too, with a little gift/chocolates etc inside.

Many thanks OCC for having me this week.

TFL

Shaz xxx

MTME Pretty palette challenge # 8

Here is this weeks MTME pretty palette colours for this week.

Here is what i came up with.

All images and the sentiment are from ‘A spot of tea’ dig set

With this being a digi set i actually ‘paper pieced’ and coloured the images digitally, so all i had to do was print and cut

Why not POP OVER and join us this week.

TFL

Shaz xxx