Candy Alert - Again!!!

Maria has a fabulous candy on offer after reaching 5,000 hits - to be in with a chance to win hop over to her blog, leave her a comment telling her what your next item on your wish list is.... and post her link on your blog! easy!!! just look at what's on offer, ooooh so many goodies!
http://mariascards.blogspot.com/2008/07/5000-hits-blog-candy.html

Magnolia Candy :-)

Just came across this on Andrea's blog for a chance to win go to andrea's blog http://andreabrownjohn.blogspot.com/2008/07/magnolia-blog-candy-pauline-from.html and leave her a message

More Candy :-)

I want to say congratulations to Frances on reaching 25,000 hits. In celebration Frances is offering some great blog candy so go and check out her blog and take a look at her cards, but remember I want the candy hehehehe http://franmade.blogspot.com/2008/07/blog-candy-alert.html

Maya's blog candy

http://mayas-hobbyblogg.blogspot.com/ Maya is offering a fabulous candy as she reached 10,000 hits - on offer is 140 hanglar stamped images in the cutest little bag she made. There's some amazing cards on there so go and take a look - but remember I want the candy lololol
Congratulations maya on 10,000 hits, you're blog is truly inspirational

An award

I meant to post this a couple of days ago but got tied up doing other things so never got round to doing it.

Imagine my surprise when I received this from Chrissy http://chrissymaries.blogspot.com/. Thank you hun for giving me this award - and thank you for all your support and encouragement, you're a wonderful lady and a fabulous friend - oh and very talented too!!

I'm supposed to now nominate more people to receive this award but find it difficult to choose, so will just give it to all my blogging friends - each and every one of you deserves it for your fantastic inspirational blogs

Hazel's card to Laura

Thought this one should be posted on its own lol. This is the card Hazel my eldest daughter made for Laura's birthday.
She pinched one of my nellie images (again from ebay hehe) coloured with distress ink for jeans & tunic and some pink & purple ink for the stripy top. everything else is from her stash. She's only 11 so I think she's done a great job with this - and no help from mum!!!

Laura's birthday cards

Well, I don't know where the years have gone but my little princess is 9 today, so happy birthday sweetie :-)

These are the cards I made for her..... the first one is from her baby brother Declan, using an image from Sheila (http://www.kippercraft.blogspot.com/) I received as part of the SBS 16 image swap - so thanks Sheila, I love this little guy he's so cute..... and as Laura keeps saying Declan's a little monkey it was perfect

The 2nd one is from mummy and daddy using an hanglar image I bought from ebay and backing paper from my stash

The last one is from Alisha my youngest daughter, image is another ebay one lol from the new tilda flower girl range (I think!) Backing papers were printed out from canon scrapbook and the flowers are made with 2 different size daisy punches, and held together with a gold brad

Been colouring again :-)

I was chatting with a girl in one of my yahoo groups last week and asked her how she stamped/coloured her Thomas Kinkade stamped images as I'd had a few problems with mine - turns out that one of my stamps is known for being a s@@@ to get a decent image from lolol Anyway imagine my surprise when just 3 days later an envelope dropped through the letterbox all the way from the USA with a mix of about 12 Kinkade images inside - and only 1 is the same as my stamp!!!!!
Decided to bravely attempt colouring them but wasn't sure if I could do them the justice the artwork deserves - and here's the results so far. The first one, Open Gate is just coloured with cheapo coloured pencils and the second is same cheap pencils but with a 3d glaze over the

finished image! I'm astounded when looking at the before and after pictures how different they look coloured in.

Thank you - and an atc :-)

Just a quick thank you to everyone who left me such lovely encouraging messages after my flip out Monday:-) I really appreciate all your kindness and decided not to let whoever it was win - I'm better than that!!!!

Also wanted to share an atc I made for a swap. The pattern is one I found on the internet, but I reduced it to make it fit an atc, stitched it (without any instructions so made it up as I went along lol) and decided to combine my two current addictions - colouring and stitching :-) I'm really pleased with how it came out, think its one of the best atc's I made so far

Feeling sad :-(

Discovered today that someone in my yahoo group has been sending snippets of messages from the group to the owner of another group I'm in along with a couple other members. This has ended up looking as though myself and my friend Jo have been slating the group and its members and making derogatory comments -which we haven't but we've not been allowed to defend ourselves and show the messages in full so the owner can see the context....... I now feel as though I'm ready to give it all up - groups, crafting, the internet........ all of it. I feel so hurt that someone who I thought was a friend could go behind my back and do this when neither Jo or myself had done or said anything wrong...... so now I've got the group owner on my case and had a few of the members giving their opinions too..... even though they only got one side of the story. Instead of having the decency to send private mails to either of us it got broadcast in the group and so now we're the bad ones..... talk about witch trials - they've got us found guilty and ready for execution without a trial I'm getting blamed for all the bickering etc on the group now and told I started it when it wasn't even me who posted the message in the first place!
Why do people have to be so cruel and go out of their way to hurt people?? I could understand if I'd upset anyone but this is just so horrible. I'm now in a position where I've to watch everything I do or say in my own group!!!!! The person behind it hasn't even got the courage to own up and the group owner says I should go to them over it all not her group - yet she's refusing to tell me who it is but I do have a couple of possibles - after all, there's only 11 in the group so shouldn't be too hard to pinpoint
Going to have to think long and hard over this one but maybe its time just to give it all up...... either bang everything on ebay or maybe just bin the lot and say to hell with it