No Peeking!

Ah Ah ah! I wish i had a pound for every time I've said that. More still for every time I’ve had it said to me, as a child I was terrible I'd shake it, sniff it, feel it, try to see through the wrapping, have a guess on the size of it of all the things I’d like and as an adult I'm not much better.

Santa Kai by Mo’s Digital Pencil 

Coloured and glittered, papers from my stash memory box, Marianne, Cheery Lynn and Whimsey dies.

Silk ribbon (my favourite0 from Ribbon Carousel.

Garden Robin

I just couldn’t resist making this card to show you the new Inky Stamps from Just Inklined This one is the Garden Robin and it’s simply gorgeous.

I used various papers from my stash and a Martha Stewart Punch down the side of the stamped image.

The image is colouring with Copic markers and I added deco Paste for the snow (just love that stuff)

The stamps are available from La Pashe by clicking here and if you order them now we are giving you a 25% discount, how cool is that?

News and Thank You’s

Firstly the thank you’s, I have made an appointment with the doctor for my back again, it has been a long time since i talked to the doctor about it as like many I learned to cope with it. You sort of just learn how to do things differently to manage the pain but I know I need to get it seen to and have the appointment for the 17th of this month to see where to go from here.

You are just like a family to me and always manage to lift my spirits, so many kind words and inspirations in comments and emails so thank you.

Now my News: we at Just inklined are releasing our first lot of Clear stamps which are A6 sized and to celebrate we are offering you the chance to get 25% off the retail price.

just click here or the image to be took to the order page over at La Pashe  these will not be sold online as a digi stamp.

Aren't they fabulous?

Just Inklined to Hop - 2 Papers 3 Buttons

Here we are again with our Monthly Blog Hop for Just Inklined,

 I’m the host this month and I have chosen 2 papers and 3 buttons as the theme.

The blog hop starts here with me then the order is as follows Joyce, Tammy, Karen, Jane, Lori and last but not least is Marcea 

So be beady eyed and make sure all the other girls have at least 2 papers and 3 buttons, no less.

This month I picked the Farmhouse Lane for my image

I love how easy the image was to colour, I used Promarkers from Letraset and used Sandstone Cinnamon, Leaf Green and Holly Green, I also used some warm greys 3 & 4.

Next up on the hop is Joyce so hop over there too, remember to leave comments on all of the blogs as we have spot prizes.

Silly O’Clock

So here I am struggling to go back to bed at 3:40 in the morning, I have battled with my back pain over the last week, in fact ever since I did the demo at Imag-e-nation.

Over the last 3 to 4 years I’ve learned to cope with back pain, finding ways to cope with it learning new ways of picking up from bottom shelves learning to use things like benches to take the strain from my back when ever I bend.

Learning to ask for a chair or stool to perch my bum onto when doing demo’s as pride plays a big part in it. I awake in the morning stiff and grouchy, pushing the pain just to walk to the bathroom, taking an hour to pull myself together just from the psoriatic arthritis and fibromyalgia , getting the ligaments stretched out enough to start the day, so then to the back pain, if I spend too long in bed I suffer, if I spend too little in bed I suffer, so I’m walking a thin line.

I don’t want sympathy, I want solutions, I had a serious chat with myself wondering if a stick would help for walking, not sure I’m ready to go down that route just yet but not sure how long it will be before I have to give in on a bad day.

I get sick of hearing myself moaning and grumbling about pain, it gets you down. I started to take action in healthy eating and have been quite pleased with some weight loss and thought it may help but so far nothing in the pain direction, I’m trying gentle exercise although some morning I just cant do it.

I had wanted to be back in bed most of Sunday and gave in to a deep heat rub around lunch time but I knew by 10pm last night that I was destined to an early night. So hence sitting here typing this at a silly O’ Clock in the morning. I awoke at 02:45 and knew that a cup of tea was needed.

Back to the Doctors I think is the way forward.

Emergency Call Outs, Thunder and Lightning

Well what an afternoon, we had gone shopping in brilliant sunshine and came out to this at 3pm.

I happened to say to Chris if those clouds touch we are in for one heck of a storm.

I looked over the water to this.

The little black dot you can see on the right is a sailing boat.

We got home just as the thunder and lightening started, the heavens opened and it poured, we sat in the car not wanting to brave the rain to take in the shopping but it just kept falling, flashes of lightening from all around us and the thunder cracking just after it.

We sat around 20 minutes then Chris’s alerter for the fire brigade went off, he has just got back and there were two houses struck by the lightening and then another call out to a house that was flooded.

Thankfully it has now calmed down.

Pride and Joy

Another fun character by Dr Digi’s, this one is called Pride and Joy.

Chris (husband) said the sheep should have a worried expression and the farmer should have a glint in his eye but that is him just being naughty ha ha!

I thought this would make a wonderful card for the man in your life with the twist on the words “Love Ewe” Coloured with Promarkers and FlexMarkers by Letraset and teamed with Stampin Up designer papers and Fantastic Ribbons ribbon and buttons.

Home made Ice Lollies

Todays post has me remembering the Ice Lollies my Mam used to make, we had Ice Lolly moulds from Tupperware, they were the juiciest ice-lollies in the land, we used to experiment with flavours.

The only downside to it was when the ice-cream van came round, I was told to get an ice-lolly out of the freezer.

Summer boy is by Mo’s Digital Pencil and I’m figuring that he has a raspberry ice lolly clenched in his hand.

Coloured with Copic markers and teamed with Papertrey Ink dotted paper and DCWV striped paper.

he’s definitely ready to give someone a soaking.

Elegant Slipper Tutorial

I had a day of searching yesterday because I couldn’t remember where I originally got the slipper template from, I had it for such a long time and I made a plastic template from the original so that it didn’t get tattered.

The good news is I found it, so many of you had asked for it and I couldn’t give a link or credit yesterday.

The place I got it from and there is also a video tutorial for it so fill your boots and have fun.

elegant-shoe-tutorial.html

 

Some News that I’ve been itching to tell you

As most of you know I have a bit of a thing for ribbon, basically I love the stuff, it took me a Nano second when I was asked if I would like to join the spotlight tutorial team for Ribbon Carousel and today it is my turn for the spotlight tutorial.

 

Today is my turn for a tutorial so I’d love it if you could pop over to the blog and leave me a comment I’m making ribbon flowers this is the link http://blog.ribboncarousel.com/

I added my flower to a Vintage Slipper.

To see the video on how I made it go to http://blog.ribboncarousel.com/