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Happy Easter weekend ........ And a special hello from our little Easter bunny ....... Yes we have wild bunnies in the garden ....... two big ones, and two little baby ones ...... that I think live under the garden shed! I just hope the gardener didn't scare them off when he came to cut the lawn the other day! I hope you're enjoying your Easter weekend.  We're having a nice family Sunday lunch tomorrow .... would you believe it's the first one since we moved into the new house.  We popped into town this morning and did the shopping, stocked up on the wine and ooops! somehow these two found their way home with me too ..... The brand new Fynoderee Spring edition ....... looking forward to trying this one, the Winter one was lovely.  And another new one  ..... the Spring edition of the Rock Rose.  It's going to be a good weekend! No chocolate for me though ..... my Easter egg was a shiny new laptop ...... No calories! Anyway ..... before I go and put on my domestic...

Happy Saturday ....... Let's get the weekend started with a little bit of Blog Hopping fun over on the Uniko Blog   We're having a Design Team Blog Hop and a Giveaway, all centred around the gorgeous Fun Flowers clear stamp set and the pretty co-ordinating Fun Flowers stencil . It's always nice to revisit products from a previous release that go so well with brand new items ...... it makes your stash work even better when things mix and match don't you think! If you've already started hopping then you'll have arrived here from Julie's blog ..... I hope you're enjoying all the inspiration. I've got a card for you here using both the stamps ..... a cute little floral set which is perfect in anyone's craft stash, and the matching stencil ..... The stencil background was a leftover piece from a previous project. I'd used the stencil in the normal way ..... Distress inks through the design .... to create a pretty background (you can see the c...

Happy Friday ........ And relax ......... What a busy week ...... never mind, three weeks today and I'll be sunning myself on the beautiful Amalfi coast, hopefully ........ not that I'm counting! It has been a busy few days in the old craft room but, I've also found time to play along with some of my favourite Blog Challenges this week ....... well it can't be all work and no play, there's no fun in that!!  Today I'm playing along with Darnell's   Twofer Card Challenge  ....... there's still a day left before the deadline The idea is to create TWO different card designs, for TWO different occasions using the same stamps and/or dies ....... sounds like fun doesn't it. I'm also feeling very proud of myself too, as I've used something from Mt. NBUS (Never Before Used Schtuff!!) .... it does happen occasionally! One of the gorgeous dies from the Tim Holtz Mixed Media #5 set has had its first outing ..... and how pretty does this look A birthday ...

Happy Thursday folks ...... It's almost the weekend ..... yeah! March saw the launch of a new Blog Challenge, especially for Christmas Cards.  And, as the brains behind it are two of my lovely blog buddies ...... the talented Loll Thompson and Bonnie Klass , what else could it be for but .........  CAS Christmas Cards ,  one of my favourite styles. The challenge started on the 3rd of the month and runs through to the 24th ...... so I'm a little late joining the party but ..... I made it! As you can see the theme is Holly ....... surprisingly I don't have a lot of Holly stamps in my collection, not ones I wanted to use anyway!!  In the end I decided on this little guy ..... he's got holly He's a little Penny Black hedgie from one of their T for Transparent sets and he's been stamped in the centre of a square card and coloured using ZIG markers A little sentiment underneath (from  Happy Little Stampers ) stamped in gold ink. A few dots of white Enamel A...

Happy Wednesday ...... I can't believe we're in the middle of the week already ...... there's too much to do!!!! It doesn't help when my laptop is running sooooo slowwww ..... I think it's hibernating! It took all day Monday before I could actually log in and do anything. I'm not exaggerating there ...... literally all day. I tried to log on first thing .... nothing.  So I switched it off and re-booted.  Still nothing ....... just the little circle of dots to say it was thinking about doing something.   So ...... after a few choice words I just left it.  Patience is what hubby says I need.   PATIENCE!!!!!  A new flippin' laptop is what I say I need!! Anyway ...... I went out for the day and forgot about the troublesome laptop.  I had a lovely catch up and lunch with a friend, followed by a bit of retail therapy.  We took advantage of the nice weather and ventured up to the north .... to Ramsey!  My favourite shop is up there so I ha...