Monday, 23 July 2012

A Night Out

Well I had a night off on Sunday and my husband took me out, not far just to a place we used to go every Sunday night, I wasn’t drinking unless you can count 2 diet cokes and a J20.

It was lovely to see old friends as it has been 4 years since I had a proper night out, you sort of get stuck in a rut, forgetting what fun it is to socialise, some of our old friends aren’t with us now and it was strange going in to our local and not seeing them sit in their normal seats, you know a week in week out thing.

Another thing that was strange for me was I wore an on the knee skirt without tights or leggings, being a psoriasis sufferer my legs were always in a terrible state so skirts were generally a no no, since being on my injections most of my psoriasis on my legs has cleared up, yes I have loads of scaring but 90% better and I felt confident enough to show a leg.

We even had a game of bingo ha ha, not so funny really as Chris won a line and a full house, I was surprised they didn’t kick us out. I may even try to get back into the habit of having the occasional night out again, I was wished Happy New Year and Happy Birthday, I had to ask which one as it had been so long.

So i thought I would leave you with my tidy ribbons, much tidier than they were, I am still sorting and adding some of my favourite and most expensive ones onto something special to store them and hopefully I’ll be able to show you that real soon.

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Not colour co-ordinated but type co-ordinated

my others are on spools in colour gradients so I think I’m getting there.

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Sunday, 22 July 2012

Mega Flakes, Pan Pastels, Indigo Blu, Oh My!

It does the soul good to play and see what happens, so I got out the Flitter glue, Mega Flakes, Pan Pastels and Poppy Heart By IndigoBlu and started to play.

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Pearls and Ribbon Buckle are from Mei Flower my favourite embellishment company.

I used the Brighton Pier Mega flakes on the Poppy Heart stamp you can see it has a fabulous effect on the picture below.

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The prayer stamp I’ve had for years and I think it was a Stampendous stamp, I bought at a craft fair.

I had a little hiccup with my making the right choices in food on Saturday, Jack had been baking with his Mam and made both myself and his Grandad a chocolate cornflake cake, I picked the smallest one though and it was simply delishhhhhh.

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Saturday, 21 July 2012

A Ladies Diary

Basically one of the most beautiful paper pads on the market at the moment, it’s is A Ladies Diary by Graphic 45 and I had to have it, I decided to use it entirely for my card and team it with the beautiful laces from Ribbon Carousel 

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Isn’t it gorgeous? the image and postcard elements are also inside the paper pad, what's more there isn’t one single paper that I don’t like, they are all gorgeous.

This is just one of the beautiful ladies that is in the pad.

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The postcard is on the same page.

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this shows 5/8" Natural Crochet Ribbon edging and the 1" Ivory/Light Blue Crochet/Velvet Ribbon

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All in all the perfect paper pad available here

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Friday, 20 July 2012

Day 6 and 7 Blog Candy Winners

Oh my gosh this is the last of the Blog Candy winners all 13 of them.

Day 6

Dr Digis  £5.00 gift voucher - 48. Shelly Schmidt

Letraset Muted Collector's Set of Promarkers - 167. Marjorie Watson

Mei Flower goody bags - 141. Lyn Clark

Mo’s Digital Pencil $5.00 Gift Voucher - 42. Vivi Morais

Just inklined £5.00 gift voucher - 109. Jeanette Rodgers

Fantastic Ribbons £10 Gift Voucher - 65. Emma oliver

Day 7

Letraset Mid Collector's Set of Promarkers171. Andrea Baxter

Ribbon Carousel  $25 gift voucher - 187. alethea

Mei Flower goody bags - 114. Edna

Indigoblu  couple of stamps - 183. Chris

Mo’s Digital Pencil $5.00 Gift Voucher - 147. Elfrieda

Just inklined £5.00 gift voucher - 161. DONNA-M PYBUS

Fantastic Ribbons £10 Gift Voucher101. Kirsty M

All winners have been notified, please reply to the email.

Congratulations to all of the winner and thank you to everyone that took part in this and made it possible.

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Forgive me I have Sinned

Oh my word do I have a problem, I confess that I am a ribbonhollic and I just can't see an end to it.
I am desperately trying to get this organised so I may be some time.

Thursday, 19 July 2012

Dream Team Blog Hop of the Month–Ribbon

Its that time of the month when the Mo’s Dream Team come together and do a special project to give you a little inspiration and hopefully some Oooo’s and Awes along the way.

This Months theme for the Blog Hop is Ribbon and Mina  is our host and that is where the blog hop begins.

 

you should have landed on my blog from Pops if not hop back to the beginning.

blog hop JulyThe Dream Team is made up with some of the most talented ladies so be sure to give them all a visit and leave us all a comment as there is a couple of spot prizes up for grabs.

This month I’m using the 3 different stamps merged into a wintery scene Winter Window, Extra and Christmas Lamp Post from Mo’s Digital pencil

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I used   Memory Box border dies to frame the image which is coloured with all different mediums, Promarker from Letraset, Copic markers, Prisma pencils and some deco paste for snow and snowflakes

My Ribbon is scrumptious white silk from Ribbon Carousel and the snowflake is an embellishment from Mei Flower

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That's me done and you now need to hop on over to the fabulous Gretha who will no doubt have something breath-taking to show you.

Please remember to leave comments as there is a couple spot prize gift vouchers to be chosen from comments left on the Blog Hop.

Big Happy Anniversary to my man Chris, love you loads and here is to the next 26 years x

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Day 4 & Day 5 Blog Candy Winners

11 more winners here from days 4 and 5

Day 4 Winners

Victoria Case  2 digis of your choice. - 152. Susanna

Indigoblu  2 stamps - 21. christina k

Letraset Pastel Collector's Set of Promarkers - 58. Sonja

Mei Flower goody bags - 99. Margaret Schofield

Mo’s Digital Pencil $5.00 Gift Voucher - 15. Leah Ann Gast

Just inklined £5.00 gift voucher - 64. Penny

 

Day 5 Winners

Letraset Neutral Collector's Set of Promarkers - 114. Sandra M

Mei Flower goody bags - 64. Lesley.Timmins

Mo’s Digital Pencil $5.00 Gift Voucher - 101. JennyH

Just inklined £5.00 gift voucher - 83. Wendy Keenan

Fantastic Ribbons £10 Gift Voucher - 199. christine pethers

 

I have sent emails to you all, please reply to them.

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Wednesday, 18 July 2012

Day 3 Winners– 2 million Blog Candy

Here we go with day 3 winners

Saturated Canary 3 digis of your choice. - 69. Eret

Fantastic Ribbons  £10 gift voucher - 119. Tine

Letraset Rich Collector's Set of Promarkers - 88. sarahwrightdesigns

Mei Flower  goody bags - 7. Tracy Foster, UK

Mo’s Digital Pencil $5.00 Gift Voucher - 172. Rachel Macleod

Just inklined £5.00 gift voucher - 138. Grá

An email has been sent to all of the winners, please reply to it.

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