Cheeky Monkeys

My good friend Heather made this card tonight at Craft Class and has used the monkey stamp from Fox and friends in place of the little owl that we used in a previous week.
I think that she has done a great job - don't you!! (I am going to make one tomorrow!!

Spiced Cider and Foxy

Hello everyone. Tonight I have been all on my own in my craft room, waiting for inspiration, for a birthday card for my nephew Aaron, who will be 17, so it's not easy. I decided that I would use the retiring Spiced Cider DP as I love the colours, and I used Close to Cocoa cardstock(sadly all gone now - sold out!)and ink for the stamping. I used Foxy from "Fox and Friends" stampset - this set will be in the new catalogue, so don't worry. The ribbon is the beautiful Chocolate Chip 5/8" satin - another retiring item - if you want some, get your order in quickly.
Well I hope that Aaron will like this.

Sweet Pea and Owl

Here is one of the cards that Chris and I made yesterday.
It is called a Buckle card and we made it using instructions from
Jenny Moors Blog

This is what the card looks like with the buckle closed




















And here are two more views showing the buckle open








































We used the Sweet Pea designer papers, the owl from "Fox and Friends" and the sentiment is from the Basis Phrases set.
I can see that i am going to do more of these cards as it turned out beautifully, if somewhat faffy to complete!
Right - off to golf now!
See ya

Open House

Today I have had 20 ladies come visit my Open House, to spend time playing with the fabulous SU stampsets and more importantly, to see and play with the new items from the mini catalogue. I have had quite a few new faces come today and we have all had fun doing two step stamping, rocking and rolling, shimmering painting and generally "monkeying" around.
Here are piccies of the make and takes we did.

More Fox and Friends plus Lenny the lion

Well I promised to upload some more piccies for you so here goes:

Lennie is made from various SU punches - this is not quite the same lion as Julies - I think it's his brother!!












And here is another Step card using Fox and Friends again

More from the Mini Catalogue

Yesterday morning I helped serve hot drinks, cakes and biscuits to the cold and hungry fellas who played in the Club Captain's Drive-In. It was a bitterly cold, albeit sunny morning, and the hot drinks were gratefully welcomed. Donations from this will swell the coffers of my charity this year (thank-you Tony)which is Bethany House Trust, Millhouses, Sheffield.
At 1:16 Barry and I set off for our round of golf, Barry playing in the men's comp, myself playing in the Ladies Summer Stableford. It was still bitterly cold with an icy wind blowing, and we invited Hazel and Ann, who were playing behind us, to join us to save time. Barry gave in to the elements after 9 holes and went home, Ann, Hazel and I plodded on. We didn't have an exceptional game, but the company and conversation made up for both the weather and standard of play! I ended up with 29 points, which is not exceptional, but on checking everyones scores, it turned out to be the best of the day, so I felt a little better.
Went home after a drink in the clubhouse, and prepared a very late dinner for Barry and I, watched my favourite Corrie, then went into the craft room.
Spent an hour or two making cards, was too tired to photo them, so I went to bed, totally shattered!
Today I have taken photos of the cards I made yesterday - here they are





















These two are from the Fox and friends stampset in bashful blue and whisper white, they would make lovely little boys cards.