Weight loss Update

I have some fabulous news

I went to my Slimming World Club and.....

I have now lost a wonderful ....

1 Stone
Who would have thought it?

I still have a long weigh ha,ha, to go but to say that I am thrilled is an understatement.

I never imagined that I could do it.

Imagine lugging around 1 stone in weight all day long, it doesn't bare thinking about does it?

I'll soon be having to run around in the shower to get wet.

How are you all doing? leave me a comment and let me know.

I thought I would share my find with you all too.

I really struggle with lunch times, I never know what to have to eat that was until I found Mug Shots my favourite is the couscous as it just makes me feel full, 1 of them a mullerlite yoghurt and a piece of fruit and I'm satisfied.

Between Digi Stamp - Digital Pencil Too

This is a digi stamp by Mo Manning of Digital Pencil Too called "Between" isn't she just the sweetest ever?

Pretty papers from Stampin Up, Martha Stewart Doily Punch, Flower and Leaf punches, ribbon and hardware, Promarkers and a bit of love to make this card.

Attention to detail...

One of the many things I'm asked when colouring with Promarkers is what colours do I use for Skin Tones, In this image I used Ivory and Soft Peach.

Tip...

A few of you asked how I managed to get the Martha Stewart Doily Border to go around curves, well all I did was punched the longest side of an A4 piece of card and then cut it into a strip of about 1" then made little snips with my scissors all the way along the straight edge it then allows you to bend the border around a corner.

I finished the card by adding some ribbon hardware and buttons sent to my by my good friend Katie Renz. Then a few floral punch craft blossoms and leaves.

Digi Stamps by Mo manning are available from Digital Pencil Too, they are affordable and whats more they are an instant download.

Jack 5th April

Our precious little man has been so poorly with a rotton cold caught from his Gran and to top it off his eczema is errible at the moment here he is after his bath, he's a slippery little fellow after using all the emollient over his skin, it's like giving him a massage and actually he doesn't mind it one bit.

You can see from this one that even though he is a poorly little man we still get our smiles. he's such a cheeky chap.

Late - Alice in Wonderland

This digi image Late by Mo Manning was just screaming to be made into an Easter Tree decoration.

I coloured the image with Promarkers then cut it out using the Nestabilities Egg Dies.

I used the Nestabilities Egg die again and made a back to the image and used Waltzing Mouse stamps to add the wording and the speckled eggs, then trimmed it useing the Martha Steward Doily border punch, A sheer ribbon to tie the two together.

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Easter Sunday - Paste Eggs

Paste Eggs

The origin of the word is French Pasques for Easter, after the Latin Pasca."Hard boiled eggs at Easter were known as paste eggs instead of pace eggs.

You can tie onion skins around them while they boil, this leaves a pretty pattern in the brown colour, boil in red cabbage leaves gives a reddy purple shade, wrap them in string before adding to the water and you will get a spiral effect.

When the children were small we would use Crepepaper in different colours, wrap the egg in them then spray them with water once they were dry the colour would have tranfered to the egg.

I've silk tie dyed them, made faces and painted them but this time I tried stamping on them,(with rubber stamps and not my feet)

These are my Paste Eggs, the two in the back of the picture were made by using Rubber Stamp Tapestry stamps and the one at the front was made with Glass Glitter and pearls, I don't think the one at the front should be ate ha ha.

True Friend

Petrol Blue quite a lovely shade matched with white, on this card I used Say it with Scallops stamp set and the scalloped square punch by Stampin Up, a pretty paper by Graphic 45 Martha Stewart Flourish border punch, Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder and to finish a white ribbon tied in a bow and a couple of pearls.

Attention to Detail...

I stamped the True Friends from the Stampin up set Say It With Scallops onto a petrol Blue coloured card and heat set the white embossing powder, using the scalloped square punch I punched out the sentiment and 2 more from the same card and arranged them behind the sentiment. 2 pearls were added to finish.

Using a Inkssentials™ White Opaque Pen I picked out some of the lines on the Graphics 45 patterned paper.

The Winner of Flippin Blog Candy

The winner of the Flippin' Marvelous Blog Candy.

The Prize is

16 Flippin' Stamp Sets donated by La Pashe

Thats 8 of the Flippin'Men & 8 of the Flippin 'Women stamp sets.

The Lucky Winner is

Mr Linky

Number 90 Wendy

Hi Jak...I love your blog, your work is inspirational, I also love your baby Grandsons pictures, he is adorable. My favourite colouring medium...thats a hard one, I love colouring...I think it would have to be my polychromo pencils blended with sansador with paper stumps. Thanks for the chance to win these amazing stamps. x x

Congratulations Wendy, please contact me with your details

Say It with Scallops

Firstly and would like to thank you all for the wonderful well wishes before I go on to the card. I'm still suffering with a desperate bad head but it is now at least a bit more manageable with the help of painkillers, so onward to a card.

I used the Scalloped Square punch and the Say it With Scallops stamp set from Stampin Up to create the card,patterned paper pearls and ribbon to finish.

Attention to detail...

I used the Stampin Up Square scallop punch on the stamped sentiment and punched 2 more from patterned paper to sit the sentiment on then punched a hole at each side to thread through the cream satin ribbon.

A scalloped Martha Stewart paper punch was used on the patterned paper to tie in with the square scalloped focal image the a little pearl coloured with copics to match the paper was added under each peak to make the card pop.