Merry Christmas!

Hi all!

Just wanted to pop on and wish you all a very

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Hope that Santa treats you and your family to lots of lovely things, and that you all have a fab time eating lots and relaxing!  I have got Pop over for Christmas, he arrived tonight and we have just been looking at all the food we have bought for the next few days LOL……OMG we are never gonna eat it all he might be taking a rather large doggie bag back to North Wales with him LOL.

Doubt I will be blogging again now until the New Year, gonna have a good old break with the family, and hopefully reboot the crafty mojo ready for 2010!  Can’t wait to see what the New Year brings, lets hope for health, wealth and prosperity for one and all!

Much love to all my dear dear friends, love you all lots!

Hugs Tab xxx

Magnolia Santa!

Morning all! Yes I am still alive LOL….just had a manic week with no time to blog until now. What with crimbo preps, work and a few other bits and bobs going, I have just not had time to take pics and upload my photos of the projects that I have been working on….typical LOL

Anyway, here is a card that I have done for this weeks Simon Say Stamp Challenge, which is Christmas and Create4Fun Challenge, which is a Easel Card. This card is for Leigh, so not gone over board with the embellies cos no way does Leigh “do flowers” LOL, some men do, but Leigh definitely does not LOL. The image is a gorgeous Magnolia Santa, from the So Jolly Collection, deffo one to fetch out year after year, me thinks! The snowy fence behind Santa is another Magnolia image from a previous collection, and I thought it worked so well.......my lovely friend Jay Jay sent the stamp to me, thanks hun, :o)!

All of the papers and images are by Magnolia and the sentiment is Catslife Press. The snowflakes are made using a punch by Woodware.

I adore this image, he is such a sweet Santa, love his chubby cheeks, hee hee!

Ooooh and look at this basket of pressies, I wonder what’s in them LOL….oh I do love the the Magnolia accessories!

Right well that’s all from me today, got to get back on with the crimbo jobs, not wrapped a single things yet, still got cards to deliver and I have about a billion and one mince pies to make this weekend, plus a barrer load of fudge, fairy cakes, biscuits too……….oh joy! LOL Gonna put my festive tunes on me iPod and get cracking, me thinks! I can not believe how fast Christmas has come round, a week today and we will be getting ready to tuck into some delish turkey………woooohooo!

Going out with my pals this weekend end for a delish meal, Chinese buffet…..yum-o, we thought that instead of a traditional meal we thought we would do something a little different and I can not wait, been ages since I had a Chinese meal…….ooooh bring on the Prawn Crackers LOL

Enjoy your weekend, whatever you up to, hope that you all get to finish off your crimbo shopping if you have not already!

Much love and wrap up warm…..brrrrrrrr!

Tab xxx

Sketch Saturday Meets Christmas Tilda

Afternoon! Well I hope that you are all well today!

Got another Magnolia Easel card to show you today, really enjoying making these and they are perfect for my special cards too. Now for this one I have used non traditional colours, and some Magnolia papers from the Yummy Collection. The 2 stamps that I have used are both Christmas ones, Tilda is from this years collection and the present is from last years collection. Don’t you think though that both of these work well together for, say perhaps a birthday card too, I will most deffo be using them through the year for birthdays and other occasions…..oooh I do love it when you can use your Crimbo stamps for other occasions too, hee hee!

The sketch I have used is from Sketch Saturday Challenge, moved the flowers over, hope it still counts ;o)!

Materials -
Images – All Magnolia coloured with Polychromos Pencils
Sentiment – Magnolia and Elybells
Large Rose and Cherry Blossoms – In Stock HERE
Small Roses – Stash
Butterfly – Anna Griffin Punch

Here is a close up of the images, just too cute for words!

Above is a close up of the sentiment, now I used the Holly Merry Christmas Sentiment from Magnolia, and I masked off the holly from the centre and dug deep in my Magnolia Box and found a little mini pressie. I was so pleased that it fit perfectly in the middle, could have been made for it…….bonus! :o)

Well hope that you all have a fab weekend, I still have more Crimbo shopping to do, can not believe that I have not finished it, with being poorly over these last few weeks I kinda got behind with it all, fingers crossed I get it finished this weekend :o)

Have fun what ever your doing, and don’t forget X Factor final this weekend too, oooooooh I am sooooo excited………Joe to WIN!!!!!!

Thanks for stopping by, so lovely to see you!

Much love

Tab xxx

Magnolia Easel Card

Good Morning one and all! Well I hope that you are all well today!

Well I can’t believe how long it has been since I posted a Magnolia card………shock horror…..I am ashamed of myself LOL, especially when I still have some uninked Xmas Magnolia to use……I have been colouring Magnolia images, but just not had chance till yesterday to get them mounted up on a card. Anyway, I have been seeing so many of these easel cards around blog land, and I just had to have a go, and I loved making it! So nice to do something a little different!

Materials -
Images and Sentiment – All Magnolia coloured with Polychromos Pencils
Papers – Magnolia
Flowers – Green ones and small cream ones Magnolia, Cream Gardenia in stock HERE
Lace – Stash
Ribbon and Bead Trim – In Stock Here
Pin – In stock HERE

I just love these Magnolia papers, the texture is just fabulous, nice and thick so they are easy to distress to match the already distressed sides of the paper. This sweet Tilda is one of my faves, so pretty, just love her hair.



Well that’s all from me today, thanks so much for stopping by lovely to see you all :o)

Have a great day!

Hugs Tab xxx

New Release Pink Gem Design Stamps!

Evening all! Hope that you are all well!

Just wanted to let you know that there are 10 new release stamps over at Pink Gem Designs!!!!
Aren't they all gorgeous,............ sooooooo cute!

Why not pop over to Pink Gem now and take a proper look! You might want to fetch your purse first LOL.........

Whilst your there don't forget to check out the Xmas/Winter Stamps too, as there is 10% off them all this month, if you have finished your cards for this year why not stock up ready for next year, be quick though, would hate for you to miss out on a bargain!

Enjoy the rest of your evening, I will be back tomorrow with a card to share with you!

Much love

Tab xxx

Altered Christmas Tin

Afternoon all, hope that you are all well! Apologies for my absence again, still struggling with my asthma, but it is getting better :o), plus I have been doing some Xmas preps too.

Today I want to share with you an altered tin that I have done, using one of the Xmas Pink Gem Design stamps. The little boy stamp is called Holly Jumper Max and he is on special offer at the moment over at Pink Gem, with 10% off him along with all the other Winter/Christmas stamps, so if you want him or any of the others you better be quick LOL! I have teamed him up with little spot, just too cute! I have coloured my images with Polychromos pencils which I have blended with Sansador {OMS}

Materials -
Images – Spot and Holly Jumper Max both by Pink Gem coloured with Poly Pencils
Papers – Doodlebug in stock HERE
Flowers, Ribbon and Buttons – Stash
Dew Drops – In Stock HERE
Tulle – In Stock HERE
Sentiment - Catslife Press and Elybells

Above is the top of the tin, the camera has not picked it up very well, but the whole thing is rather sparkly. The tin was one that Leigh got last Xmas with a hipflask and little bottle of Whisky in, so I thought that I would give it to him again this Xmas, with lots of his fave choccies in LOL…….its a fairly big tin, so it will probably cost a bomb to fill, Leigh likes Liquor Chocolates, and not the cheap ones either LOL, oh well he’s worth it having to put up with me 24/7 LOL

Well thanks for stopping by today, your lovely comments mean so much to me and I am very grateful for each and everyone.

Much love

Tab xxx

Motivet DT Card

Morning all! Happy Saturday, hope that you are all well today!

I thought that I pop on today to share a card that I made using one of the Motivet Xmas images, I love this image reminds me so much of my childhood days LOL…….One Xmas me and my bro got sledges, mine was orange and Christian’s was blue…….gosh, that was when we used to get lots of snow each year…..guaranteed LOL! Now we just get sprinklings, and then it turns to ice or slush and its no fun…..just dangerous! One December, we got up on the Saturday and were supposed to be going Xmas shopping with Mum and Pop, and the snow was that deep you could hardly walk. I was mortified, cos I so wanted to do my Xmas shopping LOL…….even as a child I liked to be organised when it came to my Xmas shopping LOL. I begged my Pop to see if he could try to get the car off the drive LOL, and at the time we had a Siarra {it was the 80’s} and Pop couldn’t get it through to me that the next door neighbour couldn’t get their 4x4 off the drive so how on earth was he supposed to get our car off the drive LOL {the drive was a steep slope too LOL}…….so out came the sledges and off we went up the fields at the back of our house, we would be gone for hours, and would come back wet through, very cold, but we just didn’t care……you wouldn’t catch me doing it now LOL……I would be whinging ever 5 minutes that I was cold and want to go home LOL…….so weak LOL……

Anyway, here’s the card………the sketch I have used is from this weeks Motivet sketch challenge, there is a chance to win some stamps, so why not pop over and check it out :o)…..ya got to be in it to win it!

Materails:
Image – Motivet – Children Riding Kick-Sled coloured with Polychromos Pencils
Papers – All Magnolia….ooooh I love um!
Flowers – Retro Flower Punch
Sentiment – Whiff of Joy
Tulle – HERE
Brads – Stash
Pin – HERE
Heart Border – Martha Stewart Punch

Here is a close up of the adorable image, just loving these traditional images from Motivet, they work well with my style of card making :o)

Right well hope that you all have a fabulous weekend, what ever your doing! Tomorrow I am off to do some more Xmas shopping, fingers crossed I get it finished……

Thanks for stopping by, much love to you all!

Tab xxx