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 My long suffering followers will know that I have a rather unhealthy obsession with patterned paper. While having a little sort out last weekend I made a mountain pile of practically finished pads. One of them was  lovely My Minds Eye, The Sweetest Thing (Lavender). Knowing that a project was required for my DT piece for our Non-Birthday Occasion Challenge at

I made a mini album and cover using up pretty much all the remaining paper. One pad down, many,many to go!!

 The album and it's slip cover

It's tri-fold in design so opens out like this.

then the flaps fold down to reveal pockets and single leaves to paste pictures.

Connor and Amelia have a Miniature Poodle x "Lassie" called Maple so I will paste some snaps of her first six months as a record for them.

This will probably be one of them!!

Thank you for your visit xx

Lads and/or Dads

 Well that weekend whooshed by and, as predicted, my waistbands are definitely a little snugger!! Worth it though because we celebrated Martin's birthday in style!! Back to buiness now with my card to tempt you into joining us at 

where we've gone all masculine with a 

Dads and/or Lads theme...cute of course!!

I thought it was about time I aired my pencils and, once again, had a jolly good rummage in my stash. I loved the Molly Blooms range of stamps and used Mischevious George here (you can get the mini version, and many others, at Sir Stampalot). Once colourd up I sat him in a heat embossed splattered circle and found scraps of paper and card to match, risky for me as I normally choose paper first and colour to compliment!! Phew it worked out okay!!

Thank you for stopping by. Looking forward to seeing what you share with us x

Folk Floral Birthday

Happy weekend folks and thank you for sharing yours with me. I am much enjoying preparing my Saturday posts to share my cards for

Our optional theme this week chosen by Dena is Birthday, of course it's also Anything Goes.

 You have probably noticed by now that if I am lacking mojo, I draw on the inspiration vault of Sam Calcott. This card is another one based on one of her brilliant tutorials here.

On a mission to actually use, at least some of my paper mountain,  I chose a Docrafts paper pack called Folk Floral, so pretty and unusual colours and teamed with teal looked lovely. The diamonds are attached to acetate so they really do look like they are floating. Another fab design from Sam.

Our sponsors this month are  Sizzix, AALL and Create, Aldridge Crafts, Lavinia and Ruth Hamilton Design.

We have had celebrations chez Wills this week. Hubby had a significant Birthday (shhhh 60) so I swapped my working week around so we could celebrate. We had a delicious lunch out on the day and have more eating to do this weekend. Thankfully I have some summer dresses that will accomodate a food baby quite comfortably!! I hope you all have a lovely weekend whatever you are up to.

See you on Monday with something cute. Until then take care xx

Dies at Allsorts

Get me, I am in the driving seat over at Allsorts today and I picked "Dies" as the optional theme.

Here is an 18th Birthday card that I made for a member of the family.  

The large star was cut outbefore I embossed the bunting onto craft card and then put the stars in ever decreasing sizes back into the space. Happy and Birthday were from different sets Whimsy and Your Next Stamp, I think and the 18 was from a numbers die set that came free with a magazine many moons ago. I embossed the "th" with silver powder so that it matched. Another different style for me!!

I hope that you will join us, as always there are some great prizes for this month.

See you soon xx

 

Pastels or Brights at AYLI

 
Pastels or Brights is your quest at

I tend to lean towards brights. I have definitely mentioned it before but back in the 80's I joined a group of colleagues from work in having my "colours done". Winter I was, apparently the only season able to wear black successfully, with a touch of Autumn thrown in for good measure. . Anyway, I digress, my colour palette included bright clear colours and, to this day, I still carry my swatches (on the rare occasion when I am looking for anything other than riding gear!!) when clothes shopping. So in a long winded round about way, that is why I choose brights!!

If you are still with me, here is my card

The gorgeous paper (The Range) was the starting point, I just love those bright yellows and blues. I found a stamp in my stash that was an Allsorts win and, using my Stamp Perfect, inked direct to the stamp to achieve the watercoloured look I was after. 

I hope you will take inspiration and join us.

See you again on Saturday xx