I've Got Some Birthday Candy!

It's my 50th Birthday next week & to celebrate I am giving away some candy!

                                                                                                                                                                           

My first candy is a Gift Certificate for Craftystash (kindly donated by my dear friend Deborah Lauder who owns the site)

I will email the winner with the code to validate it!

Pop on over & checkout Debbies fab designs! Lots of freebies around the website too!

My second candy is a Gift Certificate for Cardmaking Downloads. This website is owned by the lovely Sammy Murphy pop on over & check out her wonderful designs, along with many other fantastic designers! Again I will email the winner with the code to validate!

Many freebies & specail offers around here too!

Finally a bundle of goodies from here there and everywhere, some chrismassy stuff & some general bits n pieces! I might well add some more!

As I haven't done this before you'll have to bear with me!

Rules:

I would like the candy to go to my followers but you don't have to follow if you don't want to!!!

It would be nice if you linked to it in your side bar but you don't have to!

Leave your link below & please leave a comment if but you don't have to!

Please share with as many people as you can!
Click on the blue froggy & add you link!

I will do the draw on the 4th December so don't hang about!!! lol!!!

Retirement Cake!

Just had to share this pic I found on my phone. Some of you will remember I went to Mum's friends house for a crafty evening a week or so back! She had just retired from a career caring for the elderly.
Someone at work made her a cake but she can't bring herself to cut into it! I can't blame her, can you???

All those little cakes & teacups, how wonderful is that??? Well done to the lady who had the patience to make all these tiny little things!! Wish I could do something like that!!!

Birthday Card for a Dear Friend

Made this card last weekend & forgot I had taken pics of it! It was sealed on the mantlepiece ready for posting off then I found out I had the date wrong! Eeek!!! Hopefully she has it now & I do soo apologise for it being late!!!

 It's the same digi stamp as I used for my Birthday invites coloured with promarkers but cut out with my Nesties labels 1 as are the DP matts. I printed the greeting straight from the pc onto the card added some paper flowers & some gems and that was it!

I took a close up of the flowers but I see a big blob of Pinflair glue! Too late to do anything about it now!!!

November ATCs For CMD Swap

 

Took part in the November swap over at Cardmaking Downloads Forum. The theme this month was Hello Cupcake! At first I didn't think I could do it but eventually came up with some little easel ATCs  made using a download from the Cardmaking Download Website.

I have seen some swaps where the ATCs are all the same, decided I'd make them all the same but different!!!

The backing papers used for the base cards are all designed for using with this pyramage. They pyramage has been inked at the edges using different coloured promarkers.

The stoppers were punched at the bottom using 2 different types of punch! I did have a third pic but it's gone AWOL but I'm sure you have the general idea by now!!!

Whilst I'm here I'd like to welcome my latest follower Happy Days! Nice to see you & thanks for following!

That's it for now I'm afraid! I do have another card & perhaps something else to share with you tomorrow!

Until then.........

Wooo Hooo I've Won Candy!!!

Just popped over to Dawn's Craft Place to check on how her Progressive Giveaway is getting on & found I had won something!!!!

These little Pumpkin Stamps are my prize!
If you haven't joined in already, get yourself over there & do it now!
There are more prizes being added as time goes on! It runs until 25th November & if you follow the rules you get lots of chances to win!!!
The link is on my side bar!
Have fun!!!

Birthday Invitation

I have a special birthday approaching fast & we had a slight change of plan so I had to get some invitations done quick sharpish!

I chose a freebie digi image (I can't remember where I picked her up) & printed several of them onto matt photo paper. Coloured with my Promarkers, matted onto different colours of mirror card & added a ribbon. The wording was printed straight onto the card for speed & I included all the info on the insert! I am quite pleased with the speedy results and they are all ready to pop into the post in the morning!

An Award For Blogs With Attitude!!!

Whoop Whoop!!!!

Ohhhh I'm just a big kid at heart!!! I've just been given another blog award & I'm soo excited!!! This one is from young Carly over at Carly's Cards Pop on over & see her blog. She's fairly new to it but her work is very good! She's also just passed her driving test! Congratulations Carly!!!

Apparently there's a gift attached to it too!!!

To qualify for the gift, a $5.00 Digi’s With Attitude! Gift Certificate! I need to tell you 3 things about myself and then pass this on to 5 other lucky bloggers  .
Lastly, you must display the Blog Award Badge (above) in your sidebar and link it back to the Digi’s With Attitude! Challenge Blog

Here goes!!!

1) I'm working on a little surprise!!!
2) I can juggle with three balls (or apples or oranges)
3) I hate to be late for things!!

Now for the recipients of the award
Leigh
Ali
Claire
Mary
Maria

Off to post in my side bar now!!!!

Retirement Card for Mums Friend

Mum's Friend, Frances, has finally seen sense & retired from her job in a care home.

She has devoted her life to looking after other people but it's now time to look after herself & we wish her a very long & happy retirement!!!

This is the card I made for her!

Not a typical image for a retirement card but Frances had a Flapper Party to celebrate her big day!
The party was originally arranged for her 60th Birthday but had to be postponed as sadly, she lost her mother that week!

I picked up the shaped card at the Hobbycrafts show in the SECC, Glasgow.
The image is printed onto Super Smooth Decoupage Paper and matted onto some self adhesive Vellum from my stash.


The image is once again Charlston Daisy from Di's Digi Downloads, coloured with my Promarkers!
I think I'm improving but still have a long way to go!

The stopper is made from some card again from my stash which I cut with a scalloped square die then cut in half, added some ribbon & a computer generated sentiment.The paper flower came from the show at the SECC too!

I have scheduled this post so hopefully as you read this I'm at Frances' house for a crafty evening with her, Mum and a friend!

Update:- We had a lovely evening & Frances was delighted with her card! Promarker sales will be well on the up!!!

I promised I would find some challenges to enter so here goes!

Have entered this card in the Remember Remember Challenge over at Oh La La Challenge blog.

Hope it fits the bill, they sure had fun remembering the 20's & 30's at the party!

I Have also entered Our Creative Corner Attitude of Gratitude Challenge. We certainly are grateful for all the care Frances has given to the elderly over the years in her working life. As well as just being a lovely caring person in general!

Have also entered the Raise the Bar Challenge Lets See Those Curves The Card is curved, the corners are rounded and the stopper is scalloped! Hope it fits the bill here too!!!

Massive Candy Giveaway!

My name sake is giving away massive candy over at Dawn's Craft Place here is a pic of the first prize!

This is the first of many prizes I believe and she has made it possible to have 11 entries if you follow all the rules! I'm posting about it as this is one of the rules!!! I have also posted a link in my side bar, another of the rules! See how easy it is!!!
She is obviously trying to generate lots more followers but you don't have to be a follower to enter!
Pop on over & see for yourself! Dawn's blog is well worth a visit candy or no candy anyway!!!

Card For A QS

My husband gave me one of my biggest cardmaking challenges yet!!! His friend from work is about to do his RICS APC and he wanted a Best of Luck card featuring several specific items!
Here's what I came up with!

I used a Stepper Card Template by Debbie Lauder, available from both Craftystash and Cardmaking downloads. This one is for personal use but there's also a Commercial Use Version available.
The rest of the card was made from pics I poached from the www. The metre stick is to scale & I made the greeting on the pc. The gold corregated card was from my christmas stash but I just thought it went well here!
OH seemed pleased with the result!