look what I got today

I have been given this new award by Joolesdesigns thankyou very much.The only rule is you must award it to five people
here are my five

Nicky over at Crafty & Dailey Muses
Nicky was a brick last month,thank you hun for being such a great friend.

Cazz over at The Cazz Bar
my buddy , hope her luck will be better for her too this month.

Loiuse at The Lou-natic Asylum
Just a thank you from me for help with a card.

The Team at colour create
for a fab new challenge blog.

Jackie at days in the life of
amazing work and excellent painting tutorial.

pink ,green and brown challenge

This is a new challenge that started on sunday.
As the title says the colours had to be pink,green and brown. click here to see more about the colour create blog

I used papers from my scrap box, and rubber stamped the butterfly and coloured it with gel pens.flower,butterfly and ribbon from embellishments box.

Sorry not been around

But I have had good reason not to be.A few know why, but for those that don't.
January turned out to be a total sh*t month for myself and my family.
Sadly on the 10Th Jan my dear dad passed away,it was very unexpected.Then on the 14Th Jan our dog ate some stones and 1 got stuck, he had to have a op to remove it. then he got Peritonitis so was rushed into out of hours vets, he had a 5 hr op and 30cm of his intestines removed. He battled for 4 days, but sadly the infection came back. and we just couldn't put him through another op.It was a very hard decision we had to make.so lost oz on the 19Th Jan , he was only 9months old. Then on the 20Th I went out to find out what money we owed our vets, only to have a silly woman reverse into my car. And guess what she had reversing sensors on her car. she thought it was beeping cause she was close to the kerb.as if my car looks like a kerb.
Anyway all in all Jan wasn't a good month for us, and I am now hoping Feb will be better. Just taking each day as it comes,having ups and downs. but plodding along.
For a few days now I have been trying to find my mojo to make a card. it just wasn't happening. but today with the help from Louise(THANK YOU) Click here for her blog. I have made it.


hopefully I will post more cards soon, if I can get my mojo flowing again and take part in challenges again.

sorry for long post but felt I needed to explain why I hadn't been around.

Friday Sketchers challenge

Another challenge card, this on for friday sketchers, another blog I came across while blog hopping.
To make this card I found a making cards mag that I hadn't used the free sheets out of.
this is the sketch we has to follow...

Papertake weekly Challenge

This is the first time I have done a challenge from the papertake weekly challenge blog.
you could make anything as long as it had dots/spots or circles on it.

Secret Crafter saturday challenge 13

I have my nieces 1st birthday coming up this weekend so thought I would kill two bird with 1 stone this week , do the challenge but make a card for Shana with the sketch. I have promised myself to try and take part in more challenges this year.
Anyway here's my card


This is the sketch we had to follow


if you have never had ago at any blog challenges then pop over to secret crafter here
and have ago.

Birthday card for my nephew

He is a huge fan of Sportacus. so I thought I would make him a card with sportacus on. He will be 4 this month.

This is Jake dressed up and posing as Sportacus, this pic was taken on christmas eve.
.he went to his playschool christmas party dressed as him, santa was calling out jake, but jake stood up and said i'm sportacus today not jake and sat down again. he wouldn't go and collect his present until santa called sportacus. had all parents in fits of laughter.


Bless him he is a real little character.